I thought this was appropriate for my life right now...

Confusion never stops; closing walls and ticking clocks

Mouse over text: "We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named 'linksys'."

I have been dying without internet. It has been a while, but I now have wireless internet in my room, which is why I will actually finish this post. For some reason, I have conditioned myself to only like using computers when I am sitting on a couch/bed/comfy chair. Which is why I can now finish this post as I am sitting on my bed at this time.

It has been an interesting week. I am learning a lot and deciding to try lots of new things this semester. I feel like moving to a new apartment has made me more courageous than I have been before. I am going to try out for Noteworthy next week and I am going to the Women's Rugby Club meeting. I am also sort of looking for jobs, so it looks like it will be a busy year for me.

I am super excited for school to start! I especially can't wait to see my new roommate who has been up at Aspen Grove all week... I get to see her tomorrow! On Saturday she will be done with Aspen and will be all mine!

Wow, I'm a catch!

So, I saw this on a friends blog and I wanted to see how I ranked. Apparently, I am the quintessential 1930s wife. Man, I'm quite a catch, or not...

89 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Superior Take the test!

0-24 - Very Poor (Failure)
25-41 - Poor
42-58 - Average
59-75 - Superior
76+ - Very Superior

I think it is super funny especially because lots of the questions have to do with having a husband and I don't have one so, I don't know that this is really right, but if it is, I guess I was born in the wrong time. I have suspected that i was born in the wrong time for a while, but I guess this is proof.

You took my hand you showed me how...

So, this post is mostly for me. I am just trying to figure out how/where I am going to get the books i am reading for the book challenge. If you have any of these books that you want to let me borrow, let me know. ESPECIALLY the ones i have to "buy." Ciao!

Project Gutenberg:
- Mansfield Park
- Northanger Abbey
- Emma
- Sanditon
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens



BYU Lib:
- The elements of style by William Strunk Jr.
- The Rivan Codex
- Polgara the Sorceress
- Belgarath the Sorcerer
- The Seeress of Kell
- Sorceress of Darshiva
- Demon Lord of Karanda
- Guardians of the West
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- An Acceptable Time
- A Wind in the Door
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Many Waters
- The Arm of the Starfish
- A house like a Lotus
- Dragons in the Water
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- The Jane Austin Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks


Provo Lib:
- American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- King of the Murgos
- The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Brothers Grimm

Buy:
- The Self-Healing Personality by Dr. Howard S. Freidmam
- Mimzy Were the Borogroves by Lewis Padgett

Music's In My Soul

I'm not hugely into politics. What I mean by that is that I have gotten to a point in my life where I realize that as much as we want to believe in a political system that will provide everyone with wonderful lives, it just won't ever happen. I get frustrated with where the American government is today. When I think of the things that are wrong with politics in this world, I yearn for change. I come to a conclusion. Politics just can't do it all.

I find that in general people are unhappy with their lives and feel like they need to blame someone else. I feel like we have reached a point where we don't know how to blame ourselves for mistakes. I mean, why should a woman who is driving her car and accidentally spills McDonald's coffee on herself be able to sue McDonald's? It was not their fault that she spilled on herself.

I feel like people want the government to be the savior/scape goat for all the problems that are things we can fix. It is not the government's responsibility for making sure we have a good life. We make choices that ensure a good life. We are trying to give the government a role it will never be able to fulfill. That will never happen. People are too different. Our needs are filled on an individual level by other people. It is the way we are made.

So, please, stop forcing the government into a position it cannot fill. It will never work.

Remeber when we were such fools and so convinced and just too cool?

BAH HA HA HA HA HA... Nature's dominoes. I want a few nature's dominoes, they would be so fun to play with! I really love Dinosaur Comics, but who doesn't? (don't answer that, if there is someone who doesn't like them, I don't want to know.) This is pretty much what I get paid to do; read dinosaur comics. I think I am actually getting paid to wait around until my boss finds something he wants me to do, and then do it. My life is thrilling, you have no idea.

Speaking of comics, my roommate is hilarious. She writes all these comics while she is at work and posts them on her blog. My favorite so far is when she is asking Utah for advice. Who is Utah's mom? I think that is the question we would all like to know the answer to.

So, on to my life...

I have some good news and some bad news. Good news is, I am leaving for Chicago in 11 DAYS!!! I am SO excited! I have never been to Chicago, or anywhere close. Then it is back to school! I can't wait for school. Not only will I get to live with incredible roommates but I also get to start taking classes for my new major! All this exciting stuff is coming up, but I still have TONS to do before I can leave. I have to pack up my old room, pack for BYU and pack for Chicago. I also have lots of projects i am trying to finish before I leave for school again.

The bad news is that my computer is DEAD. Well, not really dead just severely handicapped. The part on the computer that you plug the cord into is broken which means I have a really hard time getting my computer to charge. Since it is the part inside the computer instead of the cord, it is a non serviceable part which means to fix it I simply have to replace the mother board. Yeah, that totally sucks. Since replacing the mother board costs only a little less then buying a new computer, it looks like I will be buying a new computer. I am pretty excited to get a new computer, but it is quite a bit of a hassle. Although, since I am no longer a Computer engineering major, I don't think I will want a Linux/Windows dual boot, so I won't have to worry about getting that set-up.

I did have fun a few nights ago taking apart my computer. I knew which part had to be fixed, and it could have been a simple soldering problem. Since I have friends who have soldering guns, this COULD have been a quick solution to my problem. So, I found the instructions online, and a few friends and I took apart my laptop. It was crazy! The most exciting part was that we got it all back together and it still works (ish. It works besides it's charging handicap.)

Now, that I have fully exposed my nerd capabilities, I think I will go read some more dinosaur comics. Tune in next time when I discuss the pros and cons of different Rubik's cube solutions. (Actually, I don't think I could hold that discussion, I only know how to solve it one way.)