Movie Marathon

~Every man's memory is his private literature.

~Aldous Huxley

It's been a while. I'm not doing so hot on blogging this month. But since I just did all but one assignment for Wednesday... in less than two hours (granted, I didn't really read all of the sections in Chicago-it was like 150 pages of rules that I will look up when I need them so I can get practice understanding and applying them) I thought I'd blog some :)

I had a great weekend. Went home-as always. Honestly, I'm home so much lately. And I love it. I almost spend more nights at home than I do in my apartment. One might wonder why I don't just move home... well, there are many reasons that I don't want to get into on the internet. But I'll just say I have a love-hate relationship with my apartment and living in Provo.

I saw the new movie "Thor" on Friday... now, I'm not much for the comics and superheros and all that. It was pretty good though. But then I can't compare to anything... Sometimes it seemed to drag on a little but it was worth seeing. I was also thinking how Harry Potter comes out soon! I'm excited about that. But sad the movies will be over. Which is interesting to me because I am a book person and I hate when the turn books into movies. But I guess they did this early enough in my life that it's how it is. I had only read half the books when I saw the first movie so the characters were shaped around the characters in the movie-if that makes sense. They've just been going on so long it may just be sad.

But then, when all the movies are on DVD I'm going to have a Harry Potter movie marathon. Eight movies all in a row. It's totally on my bucket list. I'm pretty excited.

Chicago

~It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

~Robert Brault

Alright, due to some not-so-fun email issues, I have been unable to get onto blogger. Finally figured them out!

Feeling pretty productive today! Ya, I got nine hours of sleep last night-which I think I needed. I was so freaking tired. I didn't get as much sleep as I normally do the last two nights and have been tired by ten the last two nights... so weird for me. Anyway, I'm almost done with tomorrow's homework and halfway through Monday's!

Is it sad that I'm beginning to love the "Chicago Manual of Style"? No, it's not fun to read. But it is so useful. I'm learning so many things! I really should probably look up if I even wrote the title right, but this is my blog and I'm not going to be a perfectionist here. I did learn this week that there should only be one space after a period. Ya, I've heard people talk about it but I didn't know it was a rule and I despise it. Eww! I like my two spaces :( It's gonna be hard to change...

I did my toe nails today! Silver glitter. Haven't done them in a few months because, well, I've been wearing socks :) Haha, and it was easier to do on my floor at home because it was cement and easy to clean, but I made it work on the kitchen floor in my apartment! I'm getting excited about wearing shorts and Crocs and flip-flops and oh my gosh! I need to stop worrying so much about my writing on here! Judge me all you want if my grammar is wrong! I'm putting all that work into my homework, okay? :)

To Shave or Not to Shave

~I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

I debated taking a break from blogging because I've tried to be so on top of it... cuz that makes sense... but then I decided I have too much to say :) Even though I believe my journal suffers a little because of my blogging.

Alright, facial hair. I do not like it. I guess it looks alright on some people but still... I think it makes people look messy and un-kept. But that's just me. I'm honestly really glad that BYU has standards for facial hair. Though I don't agree with the allowance of mustaches... Haha, it was pretty funny (and sad) when I was actually at a computer testing lab when a guy was told he had to go shave in the restroom or go home and shave because he wasn't going to be able to take his test. Thing is, you could hardly see he had facial hair at all...

I guess I have a strong opinion about it but not tons to say. It's simple to me-I don't like it :)

Homework Homework

~The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

~Sigmund Freud

One last post for April!

Oh my goodness. It's amazing how little one can get done in a day. Haha, or I could just say I have a lot of homework... ugh. My British Romantic Literature class cut back on work for the summer. My Copyediting class just doubled the amount due each day. Which I'm sure I'll be glad when I need the things I'm learning later-when I get a job. But right now... ugh.

I really have enjoyed the reading. Honestly, I really do love learning. I hate having to memorize minuet points to regurgitate on a test. When they make me do that, that's when I have no desire to really care about the subject anymore. Oh, and I really need to get myself a really good dictionary :)

I'm really glad lots of my editing homework is just based on if we do it or not. Sad thing is the only assignment I'm totally lost on is the one that will be graded. Haha, so it goes!

Oh! I got my grades from last semester! Three B's and two C-'s... not wonderful but better than I expected! My GPA goes down each semester... pulling my cumulative with it. But I only have four more to go... hmm, this could be bad.

Laundry Woes

~A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

~Robert Frost

Alright. Laundry shouldn't be that hard. You throw everything in the machine and it washes it. You go back a while later and throw it in the other machine and it dries it... Okay, folding takes forever-but that's expected.

So I go to the laundry room today and start shoving dollar bills into the slot to get quarters. 75% of the time it spit them back out at me. One time I got 3 quarters and two dollars later I got 5-so it all evened out. But it took forever! Haha, I felt kind of stupid sitting there for five minutes shoving dollars into the machine and going through the stack again and again while some other girl was doing her laundry and it was quiet.

I finally got a few quarters and claimed two machines and started loading them. The first machine started no problem. The second though... I put in the money and pushed in the slot thing and nothing happened. It ate my coins. I can always count on laundry costing two or three dollars more than it should. I was kind of freaking out inside. All my clothes were sitting in the machine with the soap and I just wasted my money. Haha, so, logically, I tried the same machine again! It worked.

I got all my dryers. I had to redo one load and, of course, every load had it's random wet spots. I spent an hour and a half folding and hanging everything and putting it away. And now... now I feel like relaxing and I have got to work on homework... and go shopping. Hmm...

Today...

~The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

~Christopher Morley

You're probably gonna hear me ramble a lot this semester-what with all the free time on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Seriously! It's almost eleven and I'm still in my pjs. Though, I have been up for two hours and I've been working on homework :)

Today I must go grocery shopping. And do my laundry. Seems the underwear supply dictates my laundry schedule... I have to do all of tomorrows homework. And Monday's homework. Haha, and maybe even start on next Wednesday's. I get these spurts of motivation. I'll be in class or something and think how I'm going to go home and get everything done! But then I walk into my room and think how nice it would be to change into sweats and get on my computer-listen to music, journal, blog, Facebook, and watch TV. How sad! Not sure I can handle constant school for the next twelve months!

Coming back to my apartment to four new roommates was weird. Still not used to it. I miss my old roommates! Sad day. I think it wouldn't be as weird if I was in a different apartment. But being in the same place with different people is what is so weird. My old roommate finished finals yesterday and we went out for ice cream :) Fun fun.

I'm actually kind of enjoying my homework so far. I'm just worried about how much I have to remember. Like, I don't want to get too far without knowing what kinds of things the teacher is looking for for us to remember... if that makes sense. Like, I have a clean slate and I don't want to start off wrong.

A Few Pics

~The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

~Jon Stewart

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Arizona last week. I took lots but my family there didn't want to be on Facebook... so I figured a blog wouldn't be good either :)

Boz and I on our way to Swap Meet

Bronwen... her favorite past time at home was well :)

The truck my dad and brother saw when we ate lunch outside