I'm sitting in my writing class right now, and we're discussing the space station. It was supposed to fly over the Provo sky between 6:50 and 6:54 tonight, so we decided to leave class at 6:47 to go see it fly over us.
So we ran from the second basement floor (the very bottom) up to the fourth floor to go up to the balcony so there would be less distraction, but then the doors to the balcony were locked. So we went down to the square in front of the building.
And saw several planes, but no space station.
Turns out, it was overcast tonight. And when we looked online to see if we could have seen it, we saw that it had passed seven minutes previous to that time, yet was already over California. It was too fast. Oh well.
PS-I've given up on my other story. I'm terribly sorry to you all, especially Amy Briggs, but I'm no longer in love with that plot line. Turns out, I really didn't know what I was talking about and kind of lost the will to force it to keep going. Besides, you try taking three English classes and a foreign language while working 19 hours a week and trying to plan a wedding and keep your sanity all at once. I dare you. :)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Something to make you think
Today I transcribed a news article by Sidney Rigdon in 1839, in response to an article which accused him of writing the Book of Mormon with someone named Solomon Spalding. He spends the first part of the article assuring the readers that he had never heard of this Spalding guy before, and then continues to discredit the adulterous liars that accused him.
But while he's talking about it, he says this:
"It has always been a matter of no ordinary satisfaction to me, to know that my enemies have no better weapon to use against me, or the cause in which I am engaged, than lies; for if they had any better, they would certainly use them. I must confess, however, that there is some constancy in our persecutors; for as truth can never destroy truth, it would be in vain for our persecutors to use truth against us, for this would only build us up; this they seem to know, and lay hold of the only available means they have, which are lies. And this, indeed, is the only weapon which can be or ever has been used against the truth."
As I was reading that, I was just thinking of the times we live in, where so many people take our beliefs and twist them into the "basest lies that human beings are capable of." Sidney Rigdon had to fight off slanderous attacks about the falseness of his religion, and now we have to fight off attacks that we are persecuting others. I think it is very important that no matter what they say, they cannot use the truth against us, but only lies. We are in a very troubling time, and it is now that we need to stand for what is right and not let any of our persecutors find anything true to use against us.
Those are just my thoughts right now.
But while he's talking about it, he says this:
"It has always been a matter of no ordinary satisfaction to me, to know that my enemies have no better weapon to use against me, or the cause in which I am engaged, than lies; for if they had any better, they would certainly use them. I must confess, however, that there is some constancy in our persecutors; for as truth can never destroy truth, it would be in vain for our persecutors to use truth against us, for this would only build us up; this they seem to know, and lay hold of the only available means they have, which are lies. And this, indeed, is the only weapon which can be or ever has been used against the truth."
As I was reading that, I was just thinking of the times we live in, where so many people take our beliefs and twist them into the "basest lies that human beings are capable of." Sidney Rigdon had to fight off slanderous attacks about the falseness of his religion, and now we have to fight off attacks that we are persecuting others. I think it is very important that no matter what they say, they cannot use the truth against us, but only lies. We are in a very troubling time, and it is now that we need to stand for what is right and not let any of our persecutors find anything true to use against us.
Those are just my thoughts right now.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I just realized I hadn't written anything here recently...
So I'm going to talk about my little sister.
She has her drivers' license. And she went on her first date last week.
My LITTLE sister.
I think I'm getting old. *sigh...*
She has her drivers' license. And she went on her first date last week.
My LITTLE sister.
I think I'm getting old. *sigh...*
Friday, November 7, 2008
MY NEW JOB
I have the COOLEST job ever. Seriously. Mike's jealous.
So I applied for this typist position with the statistics department, because I needed a job on campus and this seemed like something boring where I wouldn't have to wear the purple and green polo shirts and smell like fish all the time (I mean, I love the MTC, but seriously...).
So they called me in for an interview. I was like, okay, whatever, I've got a job interview, which is good.
Until they hired me.
I'm working for Dr. Schaalje (pronounced skall-ya), who was asked by the religion department to do an analysis of the writings of Sidney Rigdon. Unfortunately, all they had were a bunch of original newspapers that were kind of hard to read. So I'm transcribing them. You know what that means? I spend all day reading and typing up the writings of Sidney Rigdon, as he calls out sinners and Campbellite preachers in the LDS Newspaper that Oliver Cowdery was putting out in Kirtland. I'm being serious. He writes these five page long explanations of the organization of the church in the days of Christ, and the doctrine of ongoing revelation...and he calls people stupid that don't read the bible and learn for themselves. Yeah. He does. Okay, so actually he called them stupid for listening to their Campbellite preachers and not learning the stuff for themselves. He thought they weren't thinking or learning for themselves, and was exhorting them to come towards the light. It's the coolest thing ever.
My only question: so far, a lot of his letters have been toward this seemingly anti-mormon guy named Oliver Barr. Anybody know who that is? I don't.
So I applied for this typist position with the statistics department, because I needed a job on campus and this seemed like something boring where I wouldn't have to wear the purple and green polo shirts and smell like fish all the time (I mean, I love the MTC, but seriously...).
So they called me in for an interview. I was like, okay, whatever, I've got a job interview, which is good.
Until they hired me.
I'm working for Dr. Schaalje (pronounced skall-ya), who was asked by the religion department to do an analysis of the writings of Sidney Rigdon. Unfortunately, all they had were a bunch of original newspapers that were kind of hard to read. So I'm transcribing them. You know what that means? I spend all day reading and typing up the writings of Sidney Rigdon, as he calls out sinners and Campbellite preachers in the LDS Newspaper that Oliver Cowdery was putting out in Kirtland. I'm being serious. He writes these five page long explanations of the organization of the church in the days of Christ, and the doctrine of ongoing revelation...and he calls people stupid that don't read the bible and learn for themselves. Yeah. He does. Okay, so actually he called them stupid for listening to their Campbellite preachers and not learning the stuff for themselves. He thought they weren't thinking or learning for themselves, and was exhorting them to come towards the light. It's the coolest thing ever.
My only question: so far, a lot of his letters have been toward this seemingly anti-mormon guy named Oliver Barr. Anybody know who that is? I don't.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Halloween Shenanigans
So, we took forever deciding what to do for Halloween. I knew we had to do something couples themed just for the fun of it, but I couldn't decide between peanut butter and jelly and cookies and milk. Since I couldn't bring myself to represent anything fattening, we ended up being cops and robbers. You can tell who would be the cop. Duh.
And we couldn't find black paint that would stay on his shirt, so I had to color it with marker, and I think I made the entire stairwell high with the fumes...
and ps--those handcuffs were really fun :P
Anyways, there were some really great costumes that day. If any of you know who Dr. Horrible is (you should look him up :), I saw three of them on campus, one in his red coat and two in his white. I saw some good Jack Sparrows and some bad Jack Sparrows, several versions of little red riding hood or biker chicks, and some other interesting ones. During the day we didn't dress up, because we didn't have everything for our costumes yet, but in my efforts to look festive, I wore my orange turtleneck sweater and my hair down with a white headband. As a result, several different people in each of my classes asked if I was Velma. I guess I did dress up...:)
So for the dance, we all dressed up. Mike and I had the best costumes, but there were some pretty cool other ones. I'll put them in who I think the winners were:
Second Runner Up: Kyle and Elisa's group as: The Batman Villains
I only got a picture of Kyle and Elisa, but they and a bunch of people got all the villains. There was Penguin, Cat Woman, Poison Ivy, the Joker, Scarecrow, etc. It was pretty cool.
Note: I left Elisa's red-eye in because I thought it would be more effective...:)
First Runner Up: Brandon and various other people on campus as: Ute Fans
Brandon just wore a Utah shirt as his costume, but I saw an even better one where this guy was dressed in Ute gear, but also made himself up with a black eye, several gaping wounds, blood gushing, and a crutch. I thought it was HILARIOUS.
AND THE WINNER (Besides me and Mike) OF THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN IS:
The HEathen as: Broccoli
I don't need to say anything else. This is just awesome :)
And now, because Halloween is over, it means it's November. Which means...
I'm getting married NEXT MONTH!!!! AAAAAAHHH! I can barely contain my excitement. It's kind of disgusting. Well, Happy Halloween Hangover everybody!
And we couldn't find black paint that would stay on his shirt, so I had to color it with marker, and I think I made the entire stairwell high with the fumes...and ps--those handcuffs were really fun :P
Anyways, there were some really great costumes that day. If any of you know who Dr. Horrible is (you should look him up :), I saw three of them on campus, one in his red coat and two in his white. I saw some good Jack Sparrows and some bad Jack Sparrows, several versions of little red riding hood or biker chicks, and some other interesting ones. During the day we didn't dress up, because we didn't have everything for our costumes yet, but in my efforts to look festive, I wore my orange turtleneck sweater and my hair down with a white headband. As a result, several different people in each of my classes asked if I was Velma. I guess I did dress up...:)
So for the dance, we all dressed up. Mike and I had the best costumes, but there were some pretty cool other ones. I'll put them in who I think the winners were:
Second Runner Up: Kyle and Elisa's group as: The Batman Villains
I only got a picture of Kyle and Elisa, but they and a bunch of people got all the villains. There was Penguin, Cat Woman, Poison Ivy, the Joker, Scarecrow, etc. It was pretty cool.
Note: I left Elisa's red-eye in because I thought it would be more effective...:)First Runner Up: Brandon and various other people on campus as: Ute Fans
Brandon just wore a Utah shirt as his costume, but I saw an even better one where this guy was dressed in Ute gear, but also made himself up with a black eye, several gaping wounds, blood gushing, and a crutch. I thought it was HILARIOUS.
AND THE WINNER (Besides me and Mike) OF THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN IS:
The HEathen as: Broccoli
I don't need to say anything else. This is just awesome :)And now, because Halloween is over, it means it's November. Which means...
I'm getting married NEXT MONTH!!!! AAAAAAHHH! I can barely contain my excitement. It's kind of disgusting. Well, Happy Halloween Hangover everybody!
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