Summer time, and the livin is easy

So now with finals out of the way, graduation complete, and my family back home, summer has officially started!

Here's the proof:
My Schedule Today
- woke up at 8
- fell back asleep until 9:30
- laid in bed until 10
- did crosswords in bed until 10:45
- checked my email and other such business until 11:30
- got out of bed and ate some cereal
- took a shower and got ready for church
- went to Dan's sacrament meeting
- went to Dan's house to watch last week's Lost
- went home to make dinner
-came back to Dan's to eat dinner on the couch
- watched American Psycho while relaxing on the couch
- watched Jeopardy while on the couch
- ate chips and salsa while sitting on the couch
- updated dan's ipod while sitting on the same spot on the couch
- did some more crosswords (same spot)
- it's now almost nine o clock and i have only moved from this position to either get more water or go to the bathroom
- i think Dan and I will go on a bike ride soon; I have had too much relaxation for one day.

Graduation

After three weeks of serious stress I finally took my Contemporary Art final; now I am done...with college. Well I guess not really because I still have bookbinding but that entails just showing up and looking at everyone's projects.

Here are my thoughts on graduating:
- I will miss class discussions
- I will miss the feeling of handing in an assignment you feel proud of
- I will miss my friends, especially those I met this year. As close as we have become, I feel like there is so much more to experience together
- I will miss the joke of a newspaper, The Daily Universe
- I will miss the Monday and Tuesday crossword with Dan
- I will miss the perch
- I will miss the 79 cent cracked wheat and oatmeal breakfast
- I will miss Guru's and Fresh Food Junkies
- I will miss International Cinema
- I will miss the freedom of being a full time student
- I will not miss Belmont
- I will not miss the limited selection of restaurants
- I will not miss scrubbing my roommates dishes
- I will not miss Utah drivers
- I will not miss BYU approved housing
- I will not miss the Cougareat being closed for devotional
- I will not miss buying textbooks

I leave the 6th of May. It's all actually quite surreal, I feel like I just got here.

Cheney

I don't really know enough about current politics to decide one way or another with Cheney's visit. I hear contradicting things from different sources, my dad, who is perhaps the most politically up to date person I know, thinks that Cheney is terrific; while a lot of my friends who seem educated on the subject think he is terrible.

As far as his visit goes, I think that by asking Cheney to speak, BYU becomes partisan; however, despite one's politics, having the Vice President speak is an honor. Although, Cheney seems to be really controversial and so maybe its not such a good idea. Anyway, the point of this blog isn't to express my confusion, but to say how proud I am of my friends and fellow students for being so active: organizing a peaceful protest, arranging alternative commencement speakers, raising money for alternate speakers etc. And despite my uncertainty about commencement, I fully support all those who are actually out doing something, and in turn proving that not all Mormons think alike. Many people think of The Church as being demanding and inhibiting, but through activism we can show that The Church does allow open discourse and communication. I think its important that people fight (peacefully) for what they think is right, even if its on a small scale.

My home teacher said about the Cheney protest, "All I know is that I raised my hand in conference and sustained the first presidency. Therefore I support Cheney." This really upset me because it suggests that those who don't follow Cheney, or those who advocate peace, or even those who are uncertain, are unworthy members of the Church and don't support the First Presidency. Frankly, I don't think choosing the BYU commencement speaker falls in line with Gordon B. Hinckley's priorities. He is president of a world-wide church, with millions of members. Furthermore, Cheney invited himself.


In short, I applaud all those who are actively supporting a cause they feel passionate about.

funny fruit!

Look what I found while making a salad!



Look what happened when I tried to slice it!

goodbye blue monday

I really am saddened by Kurt Vonnegut's death.

long time no blog blog

i have been writing all my other posts in all lowercase, i don't know why i just thought it would be a good idea. now i think it is a dumb idea and so i am going to stop.

I am in Boston right now and having a marvelous time. I packed for summer and it is really cold here, bad luck #1. Bad luck #2- When I got to the SLC airport, I discovered that I did not have my driver's licesnce. Bad luck #3- So they had to do an extra screening for me and the TSA man broke my camera! It is completely broken and so I can't document anything from my trip! Bad luck #4- I was sitting in the hotel room to my edit the paper I am reading this weekend, and I realized I forgot my computer charger. A friend let me borrow hers but the internet in my room was broken so after about an hour of trying to figure it out an IT man finally came and fixed it. I hope my streak of bad luck ends before I present my paper tomorrow.

Besides all that mess, I am having a great time. Yesterday we went to the library John Adams personal library collection, it was incredible! Then we went to this amazing Bulkan restaurant. Today we went to the Museum of Fine Art and then to Harvard to see my pa's old stomping ground. Then we went to the Design School where a friend is in the master's of architecture program. Her group was picked to go to South Africa to design a community center for a group of really impoverished women who have made a living making beaded crafts and selling them here. Donna Karan sells them in her store!

I must apologize for how poorly this post is written, 1) i haven't been back in a while 2) i am really really tired.