The stars are blazing like rebel diamonds

Things i'm going to miss more than Biloxi:

Swimming - One of my first and most prolonged loves, and something i've just recently rediscovered. Swimming is so incredibly relaxing and feels so good. Every time i swim after i haven't for a long time i can't imagine why i would ever have stopped. It's not hard to imagine two years without swimming, i've nearly done it before, but i will definitely miss the ability to just dive into the ocean for kicks, and there are only a few forms of exercise i enjoy more.

Music - So much. I was listening to The Killers today, and it's just so perfect. I can't believe that the Killers have been around for so long without me listening to them. I really only discovered them this last year, and that was mostly due to Guitar Hero. I almost bought their original CD, but decided it wasn't quite worth having it for only three weeks. But it really almost was. There's good Mission appropriate music out there, but nothing like the bands I've discovered over the past year or so. (Sufjan Stevens is also amazing)

Google - I'm not going to miss the internet. Having something to constantly waste my time on is not actually something i enjoy. The instant communication is handy, but it somehow cheapens conversation. And Facebook saps productivity like nothing else. I am, however, going to miss Google. I am so used to being able to instantly find whatever i want to know. Soon i'm going to have a question and have no immediate way to have it be answered, i suppose i could ask people, but that's never very reliable.

My Family - It would be insulting if i didn't mention them. This is going to be the first time that I'll be in a place that really doesn't have any family. In Utah i could always fall back on Cami when there were no friends to be had. Even after i had made friends, hanging out with her was generally more fun, but it seems important to make friends. For all the crap i give Isaac, i'm sure i'll miss him. It's also a shame that i'll be missing the 2010 family reunion, i bet this one will be absurdly awesome to reverse the trend. What if it's the last family reunion? Our family is getting too big for these massive weekend getaways to remain feasible.

I've already been missing my friends, but i'm going to miss them in Portugal too. Two years is a long time to go without seeing people. In the last two years though i've already gone at least one year without seeing any given friend, so i think i'll deal.

I don't think other things will be a problem, movies and tv are cool, but i can survive pretty well without them. Sleeping late isn't really something i enjoy, and staying up late doesn't work when there's no computers or tv. So yeah, i think that covers most things. I'm not too worried about going two years without girls, although it will be weird to go two years without close friends that are girls. I've historically become close friends with girls before i've made friends with guys (other than in elementary school). I'm sure that has something to do with having three older sisters but i'm not going to worry about it to much. Normal clothes will be a bit of a bummer to lose, but i'll get to look forward to getting an entire new wardrobe when i come back, so that's exciting.

Speaking of new wardrobe, I got a new face! At least it feels sort of like that. I picked up my two pairs of glasses today.

Retro!

From This way to infinity

And, more normal glasses. I call this one Engineer Ammon (at 1 a.m.)

From This way to infinity

So, it's taken me a little while to get used to them, but i've decided they'll pass. Hopefully my loyal readers will approve, since i care a lot more about what you think about them than what i think (i spend a lot less time looking at myself, contrary to popular belief.) so yeah, feedback away.

Oh, there's also this picture from our stint in the church house, i think it's awesome.

From This way to infinity

One last glasses picture. It was unavoidable:

From This way to infinity

"We wait. We are bored."

August. I go into the MTC in September. I am just a little incredulous that this is actually my life, clearly, I am in the future.

Anyhow, the past week has been considerably entertaining, despite titular evidence to the contrary. On thursday i totally forgot about institute, but got a call on friday that there would be an okatoma trip on saturday, so that had promise. At about 6a.m. saturday i got a call saying that the trip was cancelled, but then my dad and I went kayaking on the Wolf River (which was longer and less exciting than promised, but still cool).

Friday I made the first real progress in teaching Isaac to ride his bike. Rather than keep trying to power through it on the road, which forced us to stop every time a car drove by or isaac cried from chronic falling into the ground, we went down to isaac's school, which has a big, soft, grassy hill with a slight decline. There i could just balance him and push. It was pretty effective, and hilarious to boot. We managed to get to the point where Isaac could get about 50 yards, so that was cool. Monday we went back and managed to get him riding on the concrete without falling too much. he still can't purposely turn, or stop without falling, but if there's a straight line without any obstacles or distractions he can go for days. I spent an hour or so adjusting his seat, fixing up his brakes (they're still essentially useless, but I blame Walmart for that), and taking off the completely pointless pegs (lucky). Now that he can actually reach the ground, i think we'll start making some headway with stopping, and hopefully he won't have to turn often. As proof of this accomplishment, documentation:

there was a lot of this

and a fair amount of this

but eventually he got the hang of it.


So yeah, that's cool. What else?

I go through waves of disbelief that i'm actually going to be on a mission soon, and then the occasional surge of overwhelming shock at how soon it is and how completely unprepared i feel, but generally i'm excited and ready leave. It's weird to think that people are revving up to go back to the U soon, and i'm not. I feel sort of left out, luckily i'm going to Portugal, which, in my book, trumps Salt Lake almost every time. Isaac goes back to school tomorrow, that's a bit of a surprise (the best sort of prize), i'm glad my summer isn't 2.5 months long, although nearly 5 months is a while.

So i think that's about all that's going on down here, at least all the comes to mind.

Random Thought of the Day: I wonder what ever happened to Peter Johnson. He's probably off somewhere on a mission. Weird.



Tchau

"Roses are red, violets are blue. I'm a schizophrenic and so am I."

Today was a good day, except that it started out warm and then got freezing cold, windy, and snowed. Even with that, i'm super happy because i got 60 dollars cash for being in a study which only took me an hour and a half. That's 45 dollars an hour. Word.

Tomorrow looks to be a good day to, although one of these days i'm going to have to buckle down and do some work, making my days less fun but avoiding really terrible days next week. Because as it turns out, i only have 7 more days of class, and only 8 more days of school (all my exams are on or before the first day of finals. Woo?) A short two weeks from now i'll be in mississippi. Absolute madness.

Lets see here, what else is new...

Mohawk!!


So yeah, yesterday my suitemate borrowed some buzzers and so while he had them i decided it was time to be done with long hair. Fyi, this is how long it was 4 hours ago.



so yeah, it's nice to have short hair again. The mohawk is mostly a transition, and won't last long since it looks completely lame when it's not spiked, and i didn't do that outstanding of a job anyway, so i'll need someone to go in and even some spots out. but yeah, fun times. I now have a lot of respect for everyone who's cut my hair, because i have a pretty gnarly cowlick that really doesn't cooperate well.

Other than that my life is pretty much the same as always. Just entirely more hardcore.

And we're not little children, and we know what we want

April is a busy month. My normal calender has like three things on it, but april is jam packed. I dunno how i feel about that.

Today i had a dentist appointment at 9 in the morning, the shuttle was late, (or early, one way or another there wasn't a shuttle when there was supposed to be), and so i missed the bus, and so i had to wait half an hour for the next one, so i was almost an hour late for my appointment, but that was ok, they squeezed me in. All they had to do was take some x-rays and they found a couple tiny cavities in progressed, so i'm going to get that fixed up. All this is part of the ongoing process of doing all my mission stuff. Once my knee is working to my satisfaction, i'll go grab a physical and then i just have to find out a few things and i'm done. If everything goes as it should, i'll be done with it all my the last week i'm here so my Bishop here can send it off and we'll get the letter in Biloxi.

I've decided i like the college scene a lot more than high school, i've said this before, but this is in relation to relationships and dating and stuff. High school is so stupid. That whole casual dating thing just didn't happen there. What a strange place where you can be 'going out' without ever going on a date, and going on a date is practically an engagement. Is it embarrising that i listen to Popular by Nada Surf when i was figuring out how to keep this girl from getting the wrong ideas about how i felt? Probably, but that doesn't change the fact that that song is awesome.

That said, some people in college are way too dramatic. None of it has much to do with me, but yeah, i thought all the petty drama would surely end with graduation, but apparently not, oh well.

What else is going on, I went to a lecture by Stephen Dubner, the guy that wrote The Economist, and that was way cool. i pretty much forgot that today was thursday, so i got all excited for the weekend yesterday and then i had today. Thursday's are way chill, institute and a discussion, but it's no friday.

Friday looks to be awesome, another cheap concert and then watching the Sandlot. And physical therapy, which i've heard nothing but good things about. Well, i need to go to class or i'll be later then i want to be.

Here i lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun.

!XIX!

I think 19 might me one of the more insignificant birthdays, but its roman numberals have a nice symmetry. So far i've had a pretty stellar 15 minutes of birthday, and today i've gotten a few presents so that's cool. This morning i went a cashed the check from Grandparents Perkes, happily there's a zions bank open on saturday (in smiths! It was hard not to spend it all in smiths right then) Then i came back and found two presents in the mail, one from my parents (which wasn't a present at all...well i suppose it was, just not for me, but it comes with 30 dollars being added to my savings account, so that's rad) and one from Katie and Logan. Now i can go under cover and a mustached crime fighter using my Cat Gun.

Like So:


I also managed to finally photograph the elusive family of deer than roam around Utah campus:


Otherwise today was pretty uneventful. I kinda got another present in my roommate getting a cheap as free snowboard and boots that fit me and i imagine i'll be able to borrow from time to time. I have a couple complaints about my current roommate, but i can't deny that he is a super nice guy. Plus i found out last night that he knows Tai Chi, which is pretty cool.

Lets see...in other news, i may be getting a job soon. I had a job interview yesterday at Jamba Juice and it went really well. They probably don't like that i'll only be there for 3 months, but otherwise i think i'm a shoe-in. I actually had a really great day yesterday, i meant to make a blog about it. Orange Juice and 33% Recycled paper and other exciting adventures. I found out yesterday night that i've spent 60 dollars in the past month or so, that was a bit surprising, but with grandparent money, parent money, pain survey money (they're going to electrocute me and i'm going to answer questions about it for $15 an hour), plus the impending job i should be doing ok, which is good because in one month i'm going to have to shell out 50 bucks on Smash Brothers Brawl...it's kinda bad because i'll only have it for threeish months before the mission, i could just play Adam's...whatever. I think if i have a job when it comes out i'll buy it, because i should be finding myself with a little bit of pocket money.

So that's about all that's going on here. I'll probably write sunday night about this past year, but until then, enjoy the sunset picture i took on the way back from my job interview.

Superbe Mardi Gras!

It's interesting how much more productive a day becomes when there's nothing on Tv. I worked out, i put in a job application, i went shopping (bread, hooray), i ate dinner, and then i watched house. Now i'm watching the election results and trying to learn a new pen spinning trick. I should perhaps be doing physics homework, but whatevs.

Utah voted for Obama, good for them/us (i couldn't vote in Utah with the whole residency thing), i'm really hoping he'll win

Otherwise life of late has been pretty usual. It looks like i'm on the verge of having enough money, s that's pretty exciting. I'm getting 60 dollars on Valentines day for a study i'm in, and there's birthday money, and the chance that i get a job, and i think i have a pretty good chance. I have decent restaurant experience, and if they actually call Sal and Mookie's or Backyard Burgers (if there's anyone who still remembers me at BYB) i'll probably be described well. Speaking of Sal and Mookie's, their new bar-lounge where the scoop shop was looks awesome. To all my people's who read this and live in jackson and don't already work at Sal and Mookie's, you should check it out.

I got a sweet birthday letter today, but apparently i'm not allowed to open it until the 10th. It's sitting on my shelf taunting me with it's hidden awesome.

man, this post is boring. sorry, i'll try to have more exciting news in the future. Here's a picture to make it better.

I will always stop the Microwave at 1 second.

That was pretty much the best part of my day. That might sound a little depressing, but the first bit of peanut butter is fairly amazing.

Other than that my day was spent with class, physics homework, and a surprising amount of waiting on hold...oh and some scrabble. You can't forget the scrabble. Anyway, tomorrow looks to be a long but eventful day. So i'm going to go to sleep somewhat soon.

In that category of things instead of which i should be sleeping:

I'm not quite sure if the grammar works out the way i want it to in the title, but you get the gist.

My roommate is still trudging along through his homework, having slept the majority of the evening. I figured i would take the opportunity to update everyone one the events of my life, because it is oh so fascinating.

I hit a snag a couple days ago in Operation Crowded Bear, formerly called Operation something about my roommate. As it turns out, there isn't a single open room anywhere on campus. I find this somewhat impossible to believe, so i'm hoping the system is just wigging out since they just put it back on, but we'll see. I've taken some flack for trying to get rid of my roommate, and i've put quite a bit of thought into it. I don't want to live alone, and having a roommate i was friends with and could talk to would be awesome, but yeah, i dunno, between the smoking and the language barrier and the impressive propensity for getting very drunk despite not have much tolerance and suffering from impressive hangovers, i'm not sure this roommate is entirely for me. Technically his drinking is legal, but having a roommate sleeping and moaning all day is just awkward, but whatevs, we'll see how it unfolds. I could always look around for some room to switch to, but i like my room, and my suitemates for the most part, and it feels all homely now...maybe Chung will happen to find some friend he wants to move in with. I'm 3/3 so far with that happening.


Other than that life has been fairly regular. James and/or Tim popped my inner tube-sled. It was only a matter of time before that happened, so it's good that they did it, cus now they're responsible for the next sled. Tuesday i went a drew the plan for a house. That was a lot more work than i thought it was. And then my partner bailed on me for our presentation today, so i didn't really have anything, but happily i had taken a picture of it before hand, so i could at least show that i'd done it, and my professor was pretty understanding about the whole thing, at least for me, i don't think it'll go well for my partner but whatever...

I've been making good use of my camera, it's continued to be wicked snowy up here, so the picture taking possibilities have abounded. There've also been some deer that have taken up residence in Chapel Glenn and the surrounding area, and earlier today there were five of them just chilling down there but my camera chose that moment to run out of batteries. I love my camera lots and lots, but it sure could do with a battery meter, that was kinda bad planning there Canon. Due to the lack of deer, i'll provide this picture as the constellation prize. I realize that the word is conciliation, but it's one of those things that has become so deeply ingrained* in my thinking that it's very difficult not to say it or in this case type it. Like Zooology and pronounciation.



I like that picture, it makes me think of Big Fish.

well that's all from here. One of these days something of consequence will happen, but i'll be so wrapped up in my exciting life that i'll put off writing about it for weeks. Until that day comes, expect meaningless updates fairly regularly.

Oh, and mad thanks to caitlin for the wicked awesome presents i got. Now i am well equipped to start or stop small fires. Hoorah.

~Ammon

"What kind of a culture would value a twinkie."

People always think they're so clever when they pose the question, "If God foresees our actions, how can we have free will?" That question is well over 2000 years old, and, as it turns out, Boethius proposed a pretty good answer to it some 1500 years ago, which, even then, was not all that new. It's interesting how he forms his argument, since he writes it as though he is an absolute skeptic bordering blasphemy, and has 'Philosophy' rebut his argument, but he was obviously writing both. Shame he was executed for treason, he was a righteous dude, silly early Christian Empires*...

Anyway, other than reading early medieval philosophy, my day has been pretty usual. I bought all my books today, that was good, and didn't end up costing as much as i had feared. Also some of these books i can see myself giving back, since i don't think i'll have that much use for "Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy - Fifth Edition" once i'm done with this, who knows though, i like books, and the money i'd get back for them is barely worth it. I've gotten a pretty consistent gym schedule now, which is good. Working out makes me feel like i've accomplished something, even if i spend the rest of the day doing nothing of consequence. I'm pretty set in the routine of college now, and it feels good. It's been wicked cold lately, and that also feels good. I think a decade and a half in mississippi has made winter my favorite season. Go figure.

I had my first real material culture class yesterday, and that was really cool, i think i'm going to enjoy that class a lot. Just another drop in the bucket of deciding to get out of being a math major. I like math a lot, but shy of teaching, i can't see myself enjoying a math profession. People and Animals are much more interesting. So hooray for 60 credit hours and a 4 year scholarship, giving me pretty remarkable freedom. Speaking of remarkable freedom, i looked over my finances yesterday and it looks like there's a good chance that my entire second semester is payed for and i'll have money to spare. That would be glorious. I still need to find a job, but not having to worry about giving The U any more money would be pretty great.

My dad has now met Oprah. He met the president some time ago, and these aren't like how you might meet some celebrity in California, these were meetings, so huzzhah for my dad. Apparently he's in the audience for tomorrows Oprah, so i guess i'm going to watch a full episode for the first, and possibly the last, time ever.

Also, Operation New/No Roommate officially begins tomorrow. Chung's a nice enough guy, but there are a few little things that culminate in big things, amoung them smoking. I worked very hard to find three roommates that didn't smoke. They may do a lot of things of questionable legality, but none of them make my room smell bad, so yeah. Starting tomorrow we're allowed to make room changes so i'm going to go a looking for an open room. I'd prefer not to move out of my room, so we'll see. I could always just talk to Chung i suppose. Like that'll happen. If i can chase off 3 roommates without even meaning to, just think of what i could achieve when i actually put some effort into it.

Mmm, the sweet scent of my room smelling like cigarettes...yeah, something's definitely going to have to change here. At least i have the excuse of my mom not wanting me rooming with someone who smokes. She was surprisingly adamant about that.

Well that's about all that's been going on out here. Stay tuned for important announcements.

~Zak without a C

Oh, it's become almost traditional for me to have a picture somewhere in each entry, so here's one i took when it was snowing really hard between classes.



*I originally said it was the catholic church that executed him when, as it turns out, it was actually theoderic, king of the Ostrogoths who was, at the time, ruling Italy. He was an Arian (not an Aryan) Christian, which was a branch which had some conflict with the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches due to their rejection of the Trinity.

Anyway, all this is to say it was perhaps a bit foolish of me to assume that anyone executed for religious reasons was executed by the Catholic Church. I apologize to all my Catholic readers...

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

Today i went skiing for the first time, granted it was cross country skiing, but it still counts.

It's been snowing a whole lot in Utah, and the powder was beautiful. Also it was around 4 feet deep, so that was cool.

 

I did pretty well, but whenever we found big hills we were compelled to go down them, and then i fell.

 

This is the waterfall that was our destination, it was pretty much buried in snow, but it still looked cool. I thought that it was the same hike as Cami went on, but i was incorrect.

 

This is the tunnel where waterfalls live.

 

The way back down was a lot of fun, and it felt almost like real skiing, and i only fell twice, when i couldn't turn sharply enough, which is sort of symptomatic of cross country skis. But yeah, really awesome time, and it mostly made up for how boring last night was, but whatever, i need days to hang out and do very little, otherwise i end up feeling a little over stimulated and wanting days to just sit around and do very little.

Now that the feeling has returned to my fingers and toes, i'm wondering what to do tonight. I decided that i'd rather not go to a wedding reception of someone i only sort of know, since i didn't really have anything to do at Katie's wedding reception, and that was with lots of people i knew.

When i get married, my wedding reception is going to have a moon jump. Yeah. It'll be awesome.

Oh, we saw a moose on the way down, ergo the title, but somehow it didn't get uploaded with the others. Anyway, here's the moose, and that's all from me.

~Svenge

Utah is a small world

Today i ran into Brian Cory, who was a missionary in jackson. It was a pretty hugecoincidence, although it still is dwarfed by running into our next door neighbor in utah, that was unexpected in the extreme.

Anyway, I'm back in utah, and it feels good. I like my little world that is my room, it'll be fun to have a slightly larger world someday, but it's good.

Like so.


Anyway, so the flight back was rough. I had to wake up at 4am, and then my mom drove me to new orleans. We got to the air port probably around 5:30. For it being unreasonably early, the airport was packed. The lined to security doubled back and fourth about 5 times, and about 5 minutes after i got there there was a line that stretched all the to inside the door, which was probably like 50 yards. My plane was an hour late because the crew had to sleep, which was probably good since i didn't get through security until a few minutes before my plane was supposed to leave. After about an hour the pilot and crew got there and we took off just as the sun was coming up. The flight itself was fine, we made good time and got into utah more or less as scheduled. I took the public transportation, which was actually pretty great. The bus takes you to within about 3 blocks of the trax, which is actually a lot worse than it sounds. Blocks in salt lake are an eighth of a mile, and so half a mile of dragging my 100 pounds of baggage through the mostly plowed sidewalks turned out to be fairly tiring. Once i got to the trax though it was great, the train goes about as close to the dorms as you could ask. this is where it got hard though, even though it's only a five or so minute walk, it's all up hill, and the university of utah is not as diligent in plowing the sidewalks, so the wheels weren't doing so much. This on top of 1 hour of sleep, no food in 8 hours, and a half mile of dragging my luggage about. So yeah, by the time i got up to my room i pretty much felt like dieing, but oh no. I had a class just 20 minutes away. I had to get some food first though so i was late for my first class, or rather my second class since i completely missed my first class cus i was on a plane. And then i had my third class, and then i went back to my room and unpacked and tried to catch my breath.

The rest of my day was pretty good. I met my new roommate, who is very much korean. He barely speaks english which can get a little awkward at time, but he's a really nice guy, and he has only been in the states for 2 weeks, so if his english improves linearly, he'll be proficient in no time. And if it's exponential, he'll be writing classic literature by february.

Monday night we had fhe, which was fun, and then i watched Doctor who, which freaked me out hard. Small children wearing gas masks and saying mommy...terrifying stuff.

today was nice because i feel like i'm back into the routine again. I set up my printer and the wii, put away all my clothes (yesterday they slept on the hammock) and that's pretty much where i am now, watching the new and unimproved Daily Show and Colbert Report. So chya, good stuff. I need to spend around 30 dollars at the little store at the heritage center to get rid of all my meal plan money before it disappears with my new meal plan, so yeah. Hopefully something will happen tonight other than watching tv, but i haven't watched tv in 3 weeks, so i'd live.

~The Writers Guild of Room 53107

Post Script: I changed my blog to make it a little more cheery. That dark thing was far too emo.

Reason #122 to care about global warming: If the polar ice caps melt, what happens to santa?

I went to the oral surgeon today and it looks like my wisdom tooth experience is winding to a close. On a whole it it's been a pretty chill process. Because they only took out one of my bottom teeth i retained the ability to chew a little, and for some reason i didn't swell up and wallow in my grogginess for days like my sisters did. My mom ascribes it to Advil, but i like to think it's some misogynistic difference between the sexes.

I found out my grades today, and i have a 3.69, which means i still have my scholarship. Woo. I fly back on monday, christmas break has gone really fast, but i'm looking forward to getting back. Life in mississippi feels weird now, it isn't wintery, and i'm not really doing anything, so it's just this surreal, in between time with lots of reading and sleeping. It's been good to be home, but yeah.

Yesterday we went to dauphin island, and i took a bunch of pictures. i also tried to build a snowman out of sand. Sand, as it turns out, is not a very good building material. By the end i had figured out a way to pretty much make it work, but also by then i had pretty much lost motivation, so it ended up a little gimpy.

Today isaac watched the last unicorn, which is probably the worst movie i've seen in my life. It's awful. It has christopher Lee, which was a little shocking, but yeah. I died a little inside. Tonight i think i'll watch doctor who. Yeah.



by the way, tonight mississippi is getting colder than it's been in 5 years. Today i wore a t-shirt.

Happy new Year!

Hm, the numbering is off, which makes it look like i posted this a second before new years. cool. I looked at my livejournal (because my blog doesn't turn 1 for another couple weeks) to see what i said last year, but to my surprise i didn't post on new years. my closest post was on the 4th, and it started off with how i had broken my phone. 1 year ago that phone was broken, and it didn't get replaced until about 3 weeks ago. That tells you something about me. Other than the broken phone, 2007 was one of the best years of my life. It was full of accomplishments, changes, and new exciting developments. I feel much closer to being an adult than i did last year (although the idea that i'm probably within a few years of marriage still blows my mind). I graduated high school, i got my eagle scout, i went to college, i was ordained an elder, and most recently i got my wisdom teeth out, the basic right of passage for leaving adolescence, unless you're michael mcnally, and then it's your basic right of passage for being 16...weird-o.

New years celebrations were great. We got a bunch of fireworks, and over the course of the night i got pretty good at taking pictures of them. We watched star wars earlier tonight, and had gingerale at midnight because isaac likes to make toasts.

As far as 2008 is concerned, i think it'll be another pretty big year in my life, since it's when i head of for two years as a missionary. That'll be an adventure and a half. I'm bad at new years resolutions, so i'm not going to try to think of any right now, but i'll come up with some over the next couple days and write them in my real journal. And with that i begin my foray into the new year by heading towards bed.

~a cup o' kindness

"But then he won't be wise!"

well, i am now short three wisdom teeth. Happily i get to keep one of my lower wisdom teeth, which means about half as much pain and i retain the ability to chew, which is a big plus. I took some photos of the experience, because that's what i can do.




not the greatest day outside, but it was as good a day as any to sit in bed for 24 hours.

I don't remember much of the whole experience. I went in, and they talked to me a bit, i got an IV. They anesthetized it, which seemed pretty unnecessary, especially since it still seemed like it hurt about as much as normal. Then they gave me a shot of something, and about 10 seconds later i was out. It was interesting because usually i don't really remember falling asleep, but this time i actually felt it coming on and losing consciousness. Anyway, sometime later i woke up feeling pretty out of it. I got up and really wanted to walk on my own, but my mom helped me, which was probably good, since about 2 hours later i was still struggling to walk without running into things.

I wish i had asked the doctors to set my camera up on time lapse, because that would have been a sweet video, but alas. Anyway, i took some pictures while i was pretty out of it, i don't really remember taking them, but they're here, so that's cool.

Me being out of it.



Me being more out of it.




I couldn't focus on anything, and somehow i though this would be apparent if i took a picture of my eye.





but it wasn't.

After that my camera's battery died, and i wasn't awake enough to charge it up for a few hours.

At about 7 that night i was awake enough though, and so i took a sweet picture of my eye.




So yeah, i'm feeling a bit better now. The left side of my mouth still hurts a decent bit, but it's getting better, and the whole delirium thing has passed, so that's a plus. My homemade camera case got left in the car i think, it's easy to lose things when you're barely concious, because the whole, "where's the lst place you had it" strategy doesn't work when you can't remember large spans of your day.

I made a pretty awesome video of myself, i'm going to try to post that, and hopefully it'll work. Woo it will, it's going to take a while.



It's sort of hard to tell what i'm saying, but this is the gist:
"well, i just got my wisdom teeth out, and i can't really focus on anything or ???? things. I think i'm biting my lip, but hopefully this will be funny when i'm, you know, cognizant again, so, till then."

So fun times, not being able to spit is a bit of a drag, especially when brushing my teeth, which is also a drag since i can't brush all my teeth. Hopefully i'll be better by new years.

I couldn't sleep at all last night, probably symptomatic of sleeping all day, but it was still a pain. Sometime while i was mostly asleep i had a dream that i made a really good sandwich and then remembered that i couldn't eat it. That was disappointing to the max.

I watched meet the Robinson's the other day, which was a surprisingly good movie. Plus the Danny Elfman and All American Rejects combo is always something worthwhile. That about all for now, i need to finish my made gift.

Christmas!

Christmas has once again come and gone, and twas pretty awesome. I got a Digital Camera and a printer, both are pretty high quality. I also got a game and some clothes and 20 bucks, so not the greatest catch as far as quantity, but i'm vvery happy with it. I just made the obligatory case out duck tape and felt, which is pretty good considering i did it entirely on my own.

So, pictures!


Isaac got some lego, and he's been pretty happy about that. He also got a bike, but he doesn't know how to ride one yet, so i think he's more happy about the lego.



the parents got Dread Pirate, which we played. It's very fun, and the board is awesome. The map is on this canvas type thing, and the dubloons are actually made of medal.



Isaac also got Operation, which he wasn't too happy about at first, but it caught on eventually. It provided a good subject for playing with the macro setting on my camera.

Today has been pretty chill, we had breakfast and have played games and i've spent most of the day fiddling with the camera. Now we're watching planet earth and waiting for my mom to finish this math crossword thing.

Tomorrow i get my wisdom teeth out, that'll be an adventure. So hopefully the anesthesia won't kill me, because that would be a dissapointing way to die. There was a pretty sketchy defibulator in the office when i got my oral exam. Anyway, that's about all for today. Happy Christmas everybody.

This Easter Morn

Ew, i'm updating this from Internet Explorer. It clicks when i click stuff. Anyways, today was a fun easter. There are our happy easter eggs. I worked really hard on one of them, and then the other three were pretty weak. We played King Egg, and i lost. I didn't win a single round. it made me sad, but i live. Lets see, what else.

Cami's in from Utah, that's fun, we're kicking butt and playing games, or watching movies and playing games...either or. I'm getting dangerously behind in my movie reviews, i have the illusionist, Men in Tights, Unbreakable, part of Superman, and some others, anyway, i'll take care of those later.

I already said i got a job i think, but i don't remember how much i talked about it. Orientation is on thursday, and a whole mess of people i know are going to be working there. It's awesome. I have to buy some shoes that don't slip on slippery floor. Here's a list of things i need to buy:
Cell Phone - I think this might be the first thing i get. I'll probably just hit up eBay or something
Cell Phone bill/other parental debt - Yeah, i'm in the hole quite a bit. Between phones bills, prom, and other things, it's a problem.
Watch - My watch is pretty busted up.
Wii - Originally i'd said this would be the first thing i was going to buy, but i think i need to do those things first, or at least the cell phone and some of the bills...
Wii games - that'll probably take care of one full paycheck.
Friendly Debt - I don't like being in debt to my friends, i owe josh 10, caitlin and meghan a few, and probably some others i'm not thinking of right now.
Presents - I know what i have in mind, it's just going to take a bit of Capital. I guess i should take care of this before everyone head stheir seperate ways...how sad.

That's about it. I'll think of more things while i have money, and i'm sure clothes and food will work their way in there. Oh, and part of my wages will be in daily cash tips from a tip pool. I like that.

That's about all i guess.

A Vacation...from my problems

I was feeling like posting a picture, and that one caught my eye for some reason, then i messed with it in Picasa for a while, and so there you go.

I've been reading The Poisonwood Bible for a while, delaying the aweful amount of calculus take-home test i need to do, and generally relaxing. Church today was normal, i wore a suit, which isn't normal at all, and that was fun. I also pissed off my teacher by unintentionally calling him a bad teacher. In truth i was frustrated at the inefficiencies of the Socratic Method for teaching, mostly in the way that i answer a whole bunch of questions. I tried to steer us into a nice socratic debate about what freedom is as penence, and that seemed to cheer him up, so i felt a little better.

After church i came home, meandered around as is my custom, and eventually took a stats test, which wasn't so bad. I studied the stuff i figured would be on the test, so i was ok there, but then i kinda blanked on the process it was testing. Luckily it was mostly multiple choice, so we'll see how that goes.

I'm realizing the inherent inefficiencies of having two seperate blogs. Instead of digressing into happy philosophical thinking, i keep myself talking about my day and stuff like that. I guess i'll consolidate my blogs someday, till then i'll leave them. It does make my other blog a bit more interesting to read perhaps, although i'm really not sure which is more interesting, my emo teenager thoughts or my mundane daily toils. I think i'll just let this turn into a thoughtful blog and stick it on my good blog.

I'm realizing i need a break from my friends. I like my friends, they're fun, but when I need a bit of time to just relax and not do a whole lot. My vacations seem to become very busy. I'm looking forward to camping, and wondering how exclusive i should be. It is one of the last big things we'll do together, but in all honesty, i just don't want to go camping with everyone i'm friends with. And as hard as it is to explain, there is a very noticable and enjoyable difference in hanging out, especially camping, with no girls. I don't want my nice small camp get away to be turned into just a normal day but with nature. The other thing is that guys hanging out with their respective girlfriends and/or crushes just aren't as much fun. It's fun for them, but yeah. Maybe i just need a girlfriend. So i'm debating how this camping this is going to go. I also am wondering how everyone and their mom now knows about the camping thing. From my memory i've only told like 4 or so people. Everybody knowing complicates things.

So i'm realizing this blog is fairly revealing, and although only a few people read my blog, it's pretty thoroughly public. Chances are if you're reading this i'm not talking about you, unless you're spencer, and then i most definitely am. Sorry about that, just the way it goes.

Well, it's 7, so i'm going to start working towards doing my homework, starting with writing a quick review of Ghost Rider. Forsooth.