m.i.a.

i feel obligated to tell the blogosphere why i have been missing in action for the past few weeks. first of all, i moved back up to rexburg a couple weeks ago for spring semester (while my family went to hawaii for spring break), so i have been mourning my loss by going on strike against technology.

ok, that's not true, but really, hawaii? the day before i start school? (it's really ok, though, i'm having fun in rexburg!)

i am, however, mourning the loss of casey abrams on american idol. why him??? i knew this day would come. i knew he would not be appreciated for his talent. why not jacob, though? or scotty?

the only thing i can do to lessen the pain of casey's exit is to take comfort in the fact that i have a zen master/jedi for a world religions teacher. "what?" you may ask? "at byu-idaho?" it's not often that you have teachers here who are ex-bishops that got the whole congregation to meditate before sacrament meeting. also, he is writing a book and has travelled the world to meditate with famous buddhist monks. and he insists we address him by "master" instead of "brother" or "professor." for real, who is this guy? i love him!

in less fun news, i got a sad rejection letter last week from byu jerusalem for the fall semester. i have been getting my hopes up about it (bad, bad, bad) which made the rejection letter that much more upsetting. but i don't think it's coincidence, so there must be a good reason for it, and i'm trying to be positive about the situation!

before i head off to anatomy lab, i'd like to clarify that, yes, i did watch the royal wedding at 4 am. and i loved every second of it. i wanted to cry of happiness because, you know, i have so much british pride. all i can is....

do i have royal couple mania? yes, yes i absolutely do.

productivity

productivity is...

-swearing on a sunday night that you will clean your room and instead having seriously heated arguments with your brother about the logistics of time travel (it's deep stuff, my friends) and then the perfect ratio of pie to ice cream.

-promising yourself on a monday morning that you will clean your room and start packing for school and instead shopping for sandals you don't need and starting a kitchen fire while making soup (and then putting out/cleaning up said kitchen fire.)

-blogging at work on a monday afternoon when you could be doing laundry.

-my middle name.

no words

casey abrams and harmonica wars

i would say this week was an especially good week. nothing too great, but it was a lot of fun little things, ya know? my family had a fun dinner and a movie night- a long overdue activity! we got red robin take-out and rented megamind. have you seen it? uh, best CG movie since toy story 3, how to train your dragon, and tangled. oh yeah, those were all like, this year (dang, we're having a good streak). anyway, it was super fun to just have the whole family together.

i got together with my favorite kindian (i think her given name is kindra) for the first time in forever. after wandering around downtown looking for new ethnic restaurants, we ended up at thai sawadee on south temple eating pineapple and red curry. so yum! definitely have to go back soon. my dad and i will have to have an indian fix before i go to school because the most exotic food that rexburg has is gringo's, a mexican restaurant....and applebee's, which comes in a close second.

the same night was elton john night on american idol. what? first delicious food, then this? i love casey. if he doesn't win....well, i'll see to it that he does win. i have some personal pull with steven tyler, you know. i am one of those people who either votes for no one during the entire season or votes every week for one person, like, 450 times. (it's true, that's not a mythical number.) this season is of the latter. and i am pro-casey, full tilt. although...while casey is just all around darling, paul also has my heart with his megawatt smile and sexy rasp.

joseph and i had an excellent ski day yesterday. we found some new powdery runs and decided to shake it up by taking off our skis and hiking into a grove of trees to eat lunch. also, we had a sword fight on our last run with our poles. after examining my face last night, i sighed and told joseph this was probably the worst goggle burn i've ever had and he said, outraged, "don't you mean THE BEST?!?!?!"

speaking of joseph, i have to relay a story that makes me sad i can't tell it from a first hand account. this is hands down the best part of my week. so joseph had his first singing gig at a restaurant the other night with his friend, seth. they were driving downtown with all their equipment in the car and stopped at a red light. seth's window was rolled down and this guy pulled up next to them with his window rolled down. this guy sat there for a minute and then whipped out a harmonica and started playing- you know, traffic light boredom, i guess. then he stopped. seth looked over, pulled out his harmonica and started playing "piano man" (it's one of their numbers). the guy looked over, startled, and when seth stopped, he started playing again, which resulted in a full blown, heated harmonica war.

hello...does that make you want to buy a harmonica so you can pull it out of your pocket and play at red lights? because once i stopped shaking uncontrollably after hearing the harmonica incident, joseph and i looked at prices at guitar center and vowed to go back with some money.

what will next week bring? i don't know but.....we we we so excited!