Archive for December, 2006

Wishing well

Posted in Writingson Dec 7, 2006

Wishing Well picWishing well, wishing well
cast me a spell
Release me from prison
and release me from hell

help me find beauty
help me rebel
wishing well send me
from this jail cell

someone is out there
someone who cares
help me to find her
and answer my prayers

I’ll donate a penny
I’ll donate a thought
wishing well grant me
the desires I sought

Some of us wonder
and some of us pray
grant us our wishes
while its still today

But while we sit wishing
the opportunities fly
so get off your fanny
and find your sweet pie.

Church CIO has a blog

Posted in Religionon Dec 6, 2006

Joel Dehlin, the Chief Information Officer of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has his own blog at http://www.ldscio.org. In his first post, he explains that he left work at Microsoft for the CIO position at the Church, including some funny reactions he got from others.

I really like being able to read the blogs of various people at the Church. It really provides good insight into the gobalization of the Church and the direction it is headed.

BYU will eat Oregon in Las Vegas

Posted in Sportson Dec 4, 2006

Even duck luck in Las Vegas isn’t going to keep the University of Oregon from being just another course on BYU’s dominating dinner plate this season.  While Oregon has 7 wins, they have been generally pathetic:

They beat Stanford, but so did just about everyone else.

They beat Fresno State, who couldn’t even find a winning record in the WAC.

They didn’t lose to Oklahoma in what is widely regarded as the most controversial officiating of football this year.  It really should have been Oklahoma’s game.

Oregon gains a few cents in the credible wins bank with a win over Arizona State, who did have a 7-5 overall season, but still couldn’t find a winning record in conference play.

The most impressive win maybe was over UCLA, who found Oregon at the beginning of their tough loosing streak.

A win over Portland State, a division I-AA school, hardly even counts as a win.

Oregon’s last win came a month ago over Washington, who by the way, was Stanford’s only victory on the season.

When the bowl game is finally done, Oregon is going to wish that what happened in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Today was a great day. It was a good follow-up to Friday night, which was a great night.

Friday night I wore my mustard colored tie with my dark grey shirt, and while I’m not convinced that it totally went together, it was a unique and bold combination that seemed to empower me for the whole rest of the weekend. I also got to see a good friend whom I haven’t seen in quite a while, and it was really good.

Church was also great today. There were so many good people who shared good things just all day long. It was also great afterwards to be able to eat and socialize with everyone.

I guess nothing spectacular happened, just a number of nice little things that I hope will continue into this week.

Little did he know…

Posted in Reviewson Dec 4, 2006

Stranger than Fiction was a funny, original, and somewhat intelligent film that was mostly refreshing in these days where it seems just about every new film is the same old same old.  The movie stars Will Ferrell as the IRS auditing main character, Maggie Gyllenhaal as the cookie baking Ana Pascal, Dustin Hoffman as an English professor, and Emma Thompson as the narrator.  The premise of the movie is that that a novel writer is unknowingly narrating Harold Crick’s life, from work, to love, and even to death.

The movie is one of the most intelligent films I’ve seen, with many subtleties to be picked up on by intellectuals and smart people.  If you want to see a movie with stupid humor, go see Borat or something, but if you enjoy finding humor in hidden subplots, then you might enjoy this movie.

This film is for the nerdy: math nerds, environmental nerds,  space nerds, and literary nerds can all connect with some of the character traits presented.  This provides for a lot of the humor as you can laugh at just how nerdy we all are as presented by the characters.

This movie, while rated PG-13, is not as uncomfortable as walking across a liberal college campus.  It makes a great date movie, especially if you are going out with a that girl or guy from your English class who knows how to laugh.

You can pick up a copy of Stranger than Fiction in the Square Galaxy Store.

Last day of classes

Posted in Lifeon Dec 1, 2006

Today is the last day of classes for me. After my physics lecture tomorrow, all I have left to do is take my physics final exam on the 7th. This is the first December in about 4 or 5 years where I haven’t been completely stressed out. I’m excited too because I actually feel like I can relax a bit and enjoy the Christmas spirit.

I really don’t like going to wedding receptions. All the old people keep poking me and saying “You’re next,” as if that meant anything. Maybe I should start going to funerals and poking the old people saying, “You’re next.” I swore that the next wedding reception I would go to would be my own (I thought that would get me out of having to go to them for a long time). But tomorrow (which is actually later today) I’m going against my previously stated convictions and I’m going to one. The main reason is because I want to see friends who will be there that I otherwise would be unable to see.

Are people with freckles at higher risk for skin cancer?

Am I really ready to subject myself to extreme mental and social pressures again? Am I ready to go back to Provo? Maybe the question I should be asking inquires if Provo is ready for me.

Do any of my friends need a color ink jet printer? I have a brand new in box printer (Epson C86) that I have little use for and I’m wondering what I should do with it.

I made crepes last night for dinner. I made my usual recipe and a recipe out of my mom’s weight loss recipe book, and I could hardly tell the difference. Living at home has caused me to eat healthier, mainly because I have more time to cook, and more foods available.

I don’t know that I’ve ever told this story on my blog, but at the beginning of the term there was new student convocation where the Portland State president and some other people wanted to give some general pep talks and a few other things like that. But unlike BYU, Portland State’s convocation isn’t a part of their orientation program, so it wasn’t very well attended. To help motivate people to come, they advertised a bunch of door prizes and such. Well, the morning of convocation, my alarm went off and I was debating with myself about whether or not it was actually worth getting out of bed to go, and I decided that all I would get done is some extra sleep if I stayed home, so I went, and I sat through their boring speeches and stuff, and then they did the drawings for the door prizes and I won! I got a $250 gift card to the book store. The problem is that I’m only at PSU for a semester, so it isn’t like I needed a lot of books from the bookstore, so in addition to the one book I had to buy, I bought myself an iPod. Now I still have a little bit left over, and I’m trying to decide what I should buy. I’m thinking about a sweatshirt that says Portland State or something like that. Maybe I’ll also buy some general school supplies since those are always good.


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