I have to write a final paper by tomorrow. And I am sooooo not inspired to write at all. Here is my first draft.
This is my title
This paper is about Antigone. She is a girl that has two dead brothers. One is buried the other is rotting and being eated by animals. She has a fiance named Haimon and a sister named Ismene. Her uncle is a stuck up jerk, and she commits suicide in a cave.
In conclusion, BYU football rules!!!
That's it... I think it's a good start!
Quote of the Day (from a few weeks ago... but I just remembered it...):
Philly: "Johny J is the new alpha male because soon, he will mate."
Just a funny thing... Life is always humorous when you're not very awake.
A while ago I registered at a wedding website, "TheKnot.com" to get picture ideas, and information, and the sort to help plan my wedding. Well, I keep getting emails from them, and I never open them. But seriously, I get one and sometimes two every day. I just delete them, but it's kind of annoying.
So this morning, I opened up my email, and saw that I had one from them. And, in the subject bar, I read, "We won't leave you alone!" I just thought, Tell me about it! And was a little confused about why they would say that. Then I re-read it, and discovered that it actually said, "We won't leave you at the alter!" So that's my funny story of today.
I loved Othello! Mostly, I loved the character Iago. He was soooo evil. Like Satan evil. Sneaky, lying, deceiving, and secretive. A guy one loves to hate.
I want to finish my homework (who knows how long this is going to take...) and then put on a Disney movie and fall asleep on the couch watching it. My motivation is that this is the last homework assignment for my English class besides the final paper.
I am completely addicted to chocolate covered Jordan almonds. Mmm... I'm eating some now... but they're almost gone! I need to make a trip to the candy counter in the bookstore!
Quotes of the Day:
Me: "If Skittles taste like rainbows then rainbows must taste like crap."
and quotes from my English class's discussion about Othello (which then went off topic to talk about Romeo and Juliet). I don't know if you all think that these are funny. I thought they were hilarious. Maybe you have to be there, maybe you have to be an English student to appreciate them. But if you can't tell, Professor Gordon-Smith likes to make fun of us. A lot.
Student One: "It was Desdemona's fault!" Professor: "She deserves to die!! The pillow is a symbol of vindication!!"
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Professor: "He says she deserves to die and all the women's hands go up!"
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Student Two: "The tragedy comes because they were young and impulsive and ruined each others' lives. Not very tragic for emo kids."
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Student Three: "They weren't in love! Sure, they liked each other, but they weren't in love! They were 14!" Professor: "So one of the most respected love stories means nothing...? No, I don't like it, either. I don't know why you would."
It seems like my whole life has turned upside down on my head lately. It seems like I can't get anything right, or like I can even do it all. It seems like my to do list keeps growing, and growing, and growing no matter how much I get done. It seems like time is moving slower than ever, but that I don't have enough of it to finish what I need to do.. It seems like I can't get any peace, and that everything is in disarray. It seems like no matter how much I sleep I still wake up feeling like I've only slept an hour.
The one night I was planning on going to FHE... the one night that Amanda is gone, and John is at work until late and I'm home alone and actually motivated to go... the one night it's a big ward movie party at the Bishop's house...
I get assigned to read all of Othello for my English class and write an analytical paper about it.
Ugh.
Quote of the Day about the Greek tragedy Antigone:
Professor Gordon-Smith: "So, does anyone like this play? Anyone?" Silence Professor: "You all hate it. Great. Well, I guess let's talk about it."
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Student One: "I liked the messengers coming in. Everything happened off stage, and I thought it was kind of fun to see them come in and explain what was happening." Professor: "So you liked it?" Student One: "The play? Um... I liked the messengers..." Professor: "Okay. I get it."
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Student Two: "I didn't like Antigone at all." Professor: "Well, we've pretty much already established no one liked it-" Student Two: "No, I meant the character. It was almost like she wanted to die. Like she wanted to be a martyr. And well, I guess I didn't like the play, either. Sorry."
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Student Three: "The more we talk about it in class, the more I get it, and start to like it." Professor: "Oh, thank goodness."
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Professor: "So, how can we apply Antigone to modern day, in both a religious and political sense?" Student Four: "Well, I've been reading essays about how a lot of people think that America is going to turn Socialist." He goes on about how it compares to the play Student Four: "And I guess you can take the political statement about Creon and Tyranny in Antigone and apply that here." Professor: "So what you're saying is that Obama is like King Creon and going to bring the Socialist downfall of America? That was a joke. Laugh."
We found summer housing! John and I will be living on 700 N and 6-something W during the summer. We are so excited! It was a good price with all utilities included, and it's a good size. I'm so happy we'll be able to stay. I mean, I appreciate the parents agreeing to let us switch back and forth with them during the summer, but I am very happy to have a place that John and I can be a happy newly married couple together in our first home.
Ricky is doing well. He shed his skin this week for the first time! (I know this sounds like gross and annoying proud "pet parent" moment. One I swore I would never have. Man, I sound like an old lady.) But he ate it... he's been eating a lot of crickets. More than I expected. So I'm having to buy more. But they're only a few cents a piece, so it's not like I'm breaking the bank or anything. He's a growing boy!
Good Samaritans still exist. John and I drove to Idaho last weekend for Jake's graduation and endowments. It was later, around 10:30 PM, when I was doing my leg of the trip. My contacts were still in, and they were bothering my eyes. So, I pulled off the freeway at one of the exits so I could take them out and put my glasses on.
Have you seen cheesy, teen horror movies? This scene looked like one from them. There was absolutely nothing there. I don't know to where the exit was leading, but it wasn't anywhere close. I pulled over on a deserted farm road and popped the trunk. Then, a guy in a truck drove by, stopped, backed up and shone his headlights on us. I was a little scared, but not too much, since John was there with me. Then he asked if we needed any help, because everything was shut down for miles around, and he thought we were having car trouble. I thought he was wonderful for stopping to ask. You don't see that much anymore. I would've been incredibly grateful for his help if we really were having car trouble.
Well, I'm taking John on a date tonight! It's a surprise date, so I'll let you know how it goes later :)
Ciao.
Quotes of the Day:
Cody: "If you didn't just feel that swooping feeling come through the room, you need to take your spirit to Jiffy Lube for a tune up."
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Professor Gordon-Smith: "Poetry is fun. But plays are... fun... too..."
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Girl in Class: "My family takes the Freudian slip as a joke. A lot of people do. But I think a lot of people take it very seriously." Professor Gordon-Smith: "Freud is probably the only one."
Meet Ricky. His full name is Alan Rickman, but we call him Ricky, Rick, Ricks, and anything else we come up with.
He's mine and John's new pet.
He's a gecko!
He is the coolest pet ever. And super easy to take care of.
He eats live crickets. We throw in a few at night before bed. He's a nocturnal animal, so he's usually asleep during the day, but we play with him anyway.
We love our Ricky.
Unfortunately we can't take him with us this summer. So Amanda will be babysitting him for a while. I still really want to take him with us...
He really likes John. A few times he's curled up in John's hand and went to sleep. For some reason he likes John more than he likes me. He runs away from me to John when we play with him. It's probably because John is warmer.
It's exactly one month until I'm getting married. It's crazy to think that my life took such a turn so quickly... I sat down (okay, so I'm procrastinating on editing and re-drafting my midterm paper for English) and actually figured out the recent important dates. It was funny how I had things a little (or a lot...) wrong until just now. And it's sad how hard it was to figure out.
Nov. 18: John and I met at my apartment watching The Producers and eating pumpkin chocolate chip cookies that I made for him.
Nov. 19/20: Amanda, Amber, John and I went to the midnight release of Twilight and had Brick Oven Pizza beforehand.
Dec. 13: John picked me up and we went to Amanda's breakfast/Elf Christmas finals party. We frolicked to the Creamery together in the snow.
Dec. 16-18: We studied together in the library everyday for finals.
Dec. 19: Last day of finals, John and I studied and then watched a movie at my apartment and shared our first kiss...es... kisses... I don't remember what movie this was... But it was a good night. We went to Wal-Mart with Amanda and then went to hang out with her at her apartment.
Dec. 20-Jan 1: Christmas break. We talked together... everyday... for hours. And John has the phone bill to prove it... and he said it was totally worth it.
Jan 2: We both returned from break, and John gave me a Three Kings Day gift he made for me.
Jan 3: I went over to John's apartment for pancakes, then we went to the library, then the other library, and the store. We were together the entire day. And it didn't feel long enough.
Jan 4: We spent the whole afternoon together and watched Singing in the Rain. In the middle of the movie, John asked me to be his girlfriend.
Jan 5: Our first date after we started dating. We played in the snow on campus, walked together for hours, talked at the Bell Tower, and threw snowballs at Freshman.
Jan 7: We built a fort in my living room and dubbed it "Fort Adelaide"
Jan 8: John met my dad when he came to visit for the weekend.
Jan 23-25: We took a vacation to Vegas with Tyler and Tristan and stayed with Tristan's dad.
Jan 30-Feb 1: Jake come to visit and I got to meet him.
Feb 4: My mom called and, out of the blue, asked if I was planning on marrying John. To which I admitted I was. And she wasn't surprised, but very excited!
Feb 8: John told his very, very shocked family that he was planning on marrying a strange girl they hadn't really heard about at all. At least they knew my name...
Feb 14-16: We drove to Idaho so I could meet the rest of his family.
Feb 21-23: We flew to Nevada so John could meet the rest of my family.
Mar 6: John proposed to me inside the Draper temple in the sealing room during the open house.
Well, you know what has happened since then :) Now we're just on the last stretch to the temple!
Wow, that happened fast. But not really... we spent every spare moment together, so it didn't feel fast.
31 days... one month... :D
...and I just realized. I've seen John every day since we returned from Christmas break on January 2nd. That is amazing to me... And it's still always hard to say goodnight when we part in the evening.
I woke up yesterday with a sore throat, but ignored it. Sore throats are common, and don't usually mean anything big. Then today, I could hardly swallow. I went to church, then after, I had John look at it. My tonsils are swollen and have big white spots on them.
So, like any girl, I called my mom to ask what to do. She said it was probably strep and told me to go to urgent care to get a throat culture since I don't have a doctor in Utah. Urgent care would be the most efficient way of getting some help. So, I changed out of my church dress, and had John take me to an urgent care in Orem. Let's just say that I'm glad I still have insurance through my parents.
A throat culture, blood test, and an hour later the doctor informed me I have mono.... and no way to treat it. Ugh. Well, that explains why I've had constant headaches and been tired a lot lately.
