BYU REGISTRATION FRUSTRATION

Well, though I have been trying to convince my little sister that BYU isn't that large of a community and that it doesn't feel like there are 33,000 students... Today there are. I am supposed to be registering for my classes, but am unable because the registration program has surpassed its capacity to facilitate users at the 12:00 am starting line. Ah! is all I have to say. Go to a smaller school Em.

New word

foreignism - means the imitation of of what is foreign.

So basically, when we throw themed parties or I try to make Argentine food, I am encouraging foreignism!

The OED approves!

Lemons

I should repeat the poem on my header. It's a description of my life.


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Hi Dana

I just wanted you to read this because I know that you will. Remember that time when you walked into Ben and Phil's apartment, but it was taken already... haha. Sorry to have taken over the love sacks! Anyways... Hope you have a wonderful morning... I'll see you at the R.S. Luncheon... Much love!

And for everyone else reading this, which is basically no one... Sorry! This is my blog and I wanted to leave a message specifically for Dana. So there.

Goodnight!

Oh how my brain doth wane in intelligence and desire. Methinks I shall quit this act!

Well, it was my half-birthday yesterday. Did I receive a good present. Yes, I did, but I shall not tell.

I am completely frazzled with my Shakespeare midterm. I normally feel smart and confidant, but this time, I feel like I have spent hours working on these essays, and I just don't know how to improve them and make them papers that honestly deserve and earn an "A" from Dr. Siegfried. I'm going to plow ahead, get something on paper, and call it "quits." Sometimes, my brain just can't make everything a priority and mentally, I'm elsewhere engaged.

Nephew quotes

Well, my nephews were talking about what would happen if the world ended in 2012. One of them said that they wouldn't graduate high school because that's his graduation year. The other said, "Man! I'll never get the ironic priesthood!" Yay Tucker.

He also said that buying a new house would be hard. You'd have to buy "paper clips...furniture...a stapler..."

Aimee is only seven, but she is obsessed with babies. She wants another one so badly that she was begging her parents to adopt. She nagged them so much that they are now calling people in their wards to find some baby for her to play with. Aimee said to me however that she wanted "a brown one. Maybe from China." Ha ha. They're moving the old changing table into her bedroom.

FACEBOOK

Facebook is way too public. I have a million comments about my new status, which is hilarious. I would be fine with it, except that I am not the only one to read the comments! How can I be so shy about some things? And so open about others? On this one, I'm a bit shy... Too bad though. There's no mercy with excited friends and social networks!

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CUANDO UNO SUEÑA ALGO, ES SOLO UN SUEÑO, PERO.... CUANDO MUCHOS SUEÑAN LO MISMO, ES EL COMIENZO DE UNA REALIDAD...

-Guillermoq

Gotta love Grandmas

"You're beautiful. All the way. Your mind too." Nana

Happy National Grammar Day!!!

In honor of National Grammar Day, I write this post!

Yesterday, as I was leaving my Shakespeare class, my friend and classmate Jessica,told me that today would be National Grammar Day. I, a fellow English teaching dork,told my roommates with excitement later that night. I probably sounded just as enthusiastic as I would have were I talking about some boy (or maybe a particular one). They stared at me blankly of course,then laughed at the English teacher in me. As far as they were concerned, I was probably one of the only people in the world excited about Grammar day.

But I am not alone. I woke up this morning,went to the gym, wrote a paper, and then headed to class, walking with another friend, Miss Dana Glen. We chatted about many things, and just before entering the JFSB dungeon with no cell-phone service, I exclaimed, "oh yeah! Happy Grammar Day!" She smiled and thanked me, going on her way like a normal English person, not an English teaching freak.

Then! It happened! I walked into my niche at BYU--my teaching grammar class, where sitting on the table were frosted cookies boasting exclamation points, question marks, hanging quotation marks, interrobangs, ellipses, periods, commas, and more! Only there was I at home, laughing with those of "my kind." We all get it! And we love it. L.O.V.E. So... Happy Grammar Day!


A QUOTE FROM A STUDENT IN MY CLASS TODAY (he's a guy, fyi):

"Revising is like getting a face lift. Editing is like putting make-up on."

A FEW SITES FOR FUN:

http://eng329ostenson.pbworks.com/FrontPage
http://savethewords.org/
http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/

Papers or blogging? Blogging.

Well, instead of starting my exam for my Shakespeare class, I am researching for American lit and blogging. Well, you might say, "hey. She loves American Lit!" Though it strikes an occasional interest, as it must for an english major, I really am jsut terrified of beginning the kiss of death--days and days of essay writing, compiling sixteen pages for Shakespeare, three for Teaching Writing, and an Annotated Bibliography for American Lit! All due on March 10th! Yay for English people and their lovely assignments.

What I don't understand is how I can love and hate a subject so much at the same time!

6 year olds more mature in dating than me!

Well, life is just full of lemons!. We'll hear about two right now, starting with the sweet moment, then the bitter-sweet one!

I was volunteering with my friend Alysha last friday at a children's half-way house, where a little girl named Audrey said the funniest things!

"I met the love of my life today. His name is Mark. I like having boyfriends because they are always there for you. Like when Ryan took me straight to the principal's office to fix my boo boo."

I said, "you have more than one boyfriend?"

She responded, "yes. Mark is my favorite because the other ones always follow me around when I need my privacy."

I told her that I only have friends. It's easier, which leads to item # 2:

I'm completely afraid of commitment. Who's have thought? There's a guy who's definitely interested in me, and I like him, but he's really interested, and that's scarier than anything! AH! That's never happened before. Well, we'll see what happens. I just am confused by fear. I like him, but sometimes I wonder why I'm hesitant. It's nice to know that little Audrey is better than dating than me! Haha!