Thoughts pt. 2

This week has been kind of interesting for me.  I feel like I've learned something.  (which would be great if I wasn't DEAD!)*  Sometimes life throws you a curve ball.  Sometimes life gives you lemons.  Sometimes life even kicks you when you're down.  

But you know what?  Life goes on.  When life gives you lemons, throw them back and then punch life in the face.*  Tell life that you are not going to stand for that business.  Then mom sends you and life into separate corners for a time out.  After that, you're friends again, and you go do epic things.

Speaking of epic things, this weekend will be pretty epic.  Ward activity, party, leadership meeting, basketball game, and Divine Comedy, all in the next 36 hours or so.  Wish me luck!  I hope I survive.

*see me afterward if you don't get the movie references.

In other news, check this out.  I'm kind of excited for this summer.

The Return of Gideon

So this one time, I made a 101 list.  Most (all?) of you who read this blog know this.  One of the items on said list was to dye my hair.  Item # 29, to be precise.  I didn't have any specific plans of how or when to go about this, but I had been asking some friends what color they thought would look good on me.  I was debating between dark-ish brown and red-ish.

Anyway, a little over a week ago, I was just watching the Jazz game on a Friday night with some friends.  All of a sudden, the girls (Kellie and Alyssa.  You guys rock, by the way.) were like, "We should dye your hair right NOW!"  After some coaxing, I gave in, and we went to the store to get some hair dye.  I mean, let's be honest; when else am I going to be able to be this random and spontaneous?  I let the girls pick which one would work best, which was an awesome idea.

I ended up compromising and doing a dark-ish red-ish.  I really like how it looks.  It's kind of a subtle change, nothing too ridiculous.  Here's a couple pics.  The first one is kind of dark, so it's hard to tell.  The second one you can see the color better.

Also, sorry about how funky my eye looks in the second one...... I don't know what I was doing.

So that's that.  #29 checked off my list.  Until next time!

Thoughts

So, I'm sitting in one of the many Linux labs on the campus of Brigham Young University, realizing that this is pretty much what my life is going to look like for the next two years.

And on that happy note, here goes a post about nothing in particular.  :)

I'm slowly realizing that this semester is probably going to be my hardest yet.  I have two classes in which I have homework assigned every class period.  These aren't just pansy busy-work assignments either.  Heck, I already have a test in my Linear Algebra class.  3 weeks into the semester.  That's ridiculous.

On top of that, I'm in CS 240, which I've heard from everyone who's ever taken it is simply a beast of a class.  The big project that's due near the end of the semester supposedly takes close to 100 hours of coding time.  And all of that in a brand new programming language that I've never used before.  Bleh..... 

On the other hand, I do have some crazy awesome classes this semester as well.  I have gold level social dance, yet again.  I've enjoyed this class every time I take it, and I'm sure this semester will be no exception.  It's definitely a nice break from the daily grind.  Additionally, I'm in a beginning guitar class.  Now, I haven't played guitar since 8th grade, when I took that for my Jr. High music credit.  However, I find that I've really enjoyed it so far, even though my fingers hurt a bunch after I've been playing for a while.  Hopefully I can get some sweet songs learned.  And then play them.  And be awesome.

In other news, I went to a concert a couple nights ago.  Me and a couple friends went up to Salt Lake to see Chris Carrabba in a solo performance of his first Dashboard album, Swiss Army Romance.  It was an awesome show, but probably the coolest part was one of the opening bands called Lady Danville.  I was completely blown away by their performance.  The drummer was using his bare hands for crying out loud!  Also, they had some really sweet vocal harmonies going on.  Because the venue was so small, they actually came out after their set and just chatted with people by their merch table.  I got to shake their hands and talk with them for a bit.  Turns out, they met at UCLA, in the a cappella group there.  That's why they have such sweet vocals!  Anyway, they're a really sweet band.  Check them out.

On that note, I'd better get some programming done tonight, and I think I'll listen to some Lady Danville as I do so.  Until next time!

3 months

Good thing I posted last Monday.  Tuesday marked 3 months that I've had this blog.  That's kind of weird to me to see how fast time flies.  I mean heck, it's already almost the end of September.  That's like a quarter of the way through Fall semester!

Weird.

Waiting For the End

There just aren't enough hours in the day.... So, these first couple weeks of school have kind of been kicking my trash. I don't really have a whole lot of time to play anymore, which is really sad. There are some things that I'm just making time for, like the ward intramural ultimate team that I'm playing on tonight. I hope we do well. Also, watching the football games on Saturdays. That's another priority. Anyway, I've been listening to Linkin Park's newest CD on repeat for all of yesterday and today, and it's kind of blowing my mind. The whole album has a very different feel from their previous records. I won't give a full review yet, but here is just a section of lyrics from one of my favorite songs, 'Waiting For the End.'




waiting for the end to come,
wishing i had strength to stand
this is not what i had planned
it's out of my control


flying at the speed of light
thoughts were spinning in my head
so many things were left unsaid
it's hard to let you go


i know what it takes to move on
i know how it feels to lie
all i wanna do is trade this life for something new
holding on to what i haven't got


................


picking up the pieces now, where to being
the hardest part of ending is starting again




Until next time, may life be as un-busy as possible. :)

I'd like to say a few words....

These are some of my favorite words to say, in no particular order.

- Excalibur
- paprika
- kukuruza (Russian for corn)
- moist
- endeavor
- whistle
- ennui
- rather
- pulchritudinous
- kerfuffle
- splendid

Apologies for going over the one week mark by a day.  I've been rather busy at work, and all the kerfuffle has left me not a moment to spend on this splendid blog.  I shall endeavor to do better in the future.  Until next time, may your days of ennui be few and far between.