People Are Funny

I just feel a slight need to share my experiences with people in the last few days.

On Wednesday, I had just finished an intramural water polo game and was changing into my jeans in the locker room. I am in the last row of lockers and then I hear this sort of grunting. I look over and this really skinny shirtless guy is flexing in one of the mini mirrors. That was funny on its own, but then gets really into it and starts saying motivating things to himself like "Oh, yeah!", "That's what I'm talkin bout!", and my favorite "This is what we are working for!". Who is "we"? As he is saying this he is hitting his chest and gritting his teeth. This whole time, I am the only other person in the last row of lockers and I am positive that he didn't notice me. I was wishing so hard that he wouldn't because if he looked at me it would have been really really awkward. Also, I wouldn't have been able to hold in my laughter. Thankfully, he stopped and went somewhere else to change or finish his pep talk.

Today I was at the gym and two people just made my day. First, there was a kind of older guy. He wasn't super old, like 40ish, and he was really built. That kind of intimidates me usually to be working out next to a built guy like that, but for some reason I wasn't intimidated because of his shirt. It had a picture of a fetus, literally a fetus, like from an ultrasound, and the words "ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN!" Also, the shirt was pukey olive green color. Not that abortion is funny, but just the fact that this was his workout shirt made my day brighter.

The other person at the gym was this high-school aged girl. She was pretty normal in her attire, workout pants, billabong t-shirt, whatever. But, her hair was crazy! It was in these strange braides (spelling?) that stuck straight out of her head. There were like twenty of them, each coming from a small sqaure of scalp. It looked like Weird Al's "Bad Hair Day" album cover. (See below) However, this girl's hair was way more disorganized than Al's. Again, this wouldn't be that strange to see at the mall, or Denny's, or Wal-Mart, but at the gym it was really funny to see.


What is this?!

132 Films

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. There are 250 films on this list.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
Total: 9

(x) The Princess Bride
(x) Anchorman
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
() Labyrinth
(x) Saw
() Saw III
(x) White Noise
() White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total: 8

( ) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
(x) Scary Movie 4
( ) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total: 4

(X) Harry Potter 1
(X) Harry Potter 2
(X) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( )Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch
Total: 7

(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
(x) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
(x) Robots
Total: 9

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
() Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
( ) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
(x ) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG (2003)
Total: 9

(x) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
(x) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
(x) The Ring
(x) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
Total: 10

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
(x) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
(x) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
Total : 6

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
(x) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
(x) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
(x ) Son Of The Mask
Total: 7

( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Ocean's Thirteen
(x) Bourne Identity
( ) Bourne Supremacy
( ) Bourne Ultimatum
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
(x) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total: 6

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2
Total: 4

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
(x) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3
Total: 10

(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
(x) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Total: 11

( ) Swimfan
( ) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
( ) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
(x) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old Virgin
Total : 3

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total: 6

(x) Baseketball
(x) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Reject
(x) Elf
( ) Highlander
(x) Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
( ) Thr3e
Total: 5

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
Total: 4

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
(x) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
( ) Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
( ) Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
(x) 28 days later
( ) 28 weeks later
(x) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( ) Waterworld
Total: 4

(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
(x) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) The Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
Total: 3

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
( ) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
( ) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total: 4

(x) The Matrix
( ) The Matrix Reloaded
( ) The Matrix Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
( ) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal
Total: 3

(x) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(x) The Fugitive
(x) Seven Pounds
(x) Yes Man
(x) Batman Begins
(x) The Dark Knight
(x) Iron Man
(x) Spider Man
(x) Antwone Fischer
(x) V For Vendetta
( ) Slumdog Millionaire
Total: 10

Now Add them up and...

9+8+4+7+9+9+10+6+7+6+4+10+11+3+6+5+4+4+3+4+3+10=148 Films

Long and Linear Dream

I just woke up. Yeah, its 6:30 PM, but I just woke up. I take long Sunday naps.

Anyways, here was a brief outline of my dream. It was really quite scary. It started out that I was driving home with some people from somewhere. I know, great details. So we were driving and we got to a point where we were driving up a hill, almost to Provo, and there was a ton of super thick fog. I was literally unable to see anything so I turned a quick u-turn. There were people pulled over and taking things out of their cars, and a lot of cars crashing into eachother. It was a very stressful scene. I was like, "we are getting out of here", and did the u-turn. After driving out of the fog safely, we discovered that there were this maniac monkeys that brought the fog down to the valley to kill everyone. I think we learned that from the radio, or my mind, it was my dream.

We start driving north along the mountains and find this supper crickety and abandonned looking house, in Lindon or somewhere. For some reason we decide to try and hide up in it. The logic was that the apes wouldn't look for us in an abandonned looking house. We were trying to climb to the top level, which was about seven stories up and then we noticed a light on in one room. In that room was Ben Affleck and someone else. They were just relaxing on a couch watching TV, like thee was no "end of the world" situation going on. Ben tells us that we can't hide out there. "There is no way they won't destroy the whole building" he told us, so we starting hiking back towards the car. Ben and company came with us.

Then someone decides to take charge and lead us to where we "need to go." Everyone else felt a feeling of creepiness, but no one else had a better idea, so we follow his lead. He takes us to the mouth of a mini canyon that was full of water. There was a little pool at the mouth and it was like a good sized creek going up switchbacks while also going into the canyon. We all start hiking up and in, but before we get too far I realized that the person that had led us there had lit the water on fire! Most of us got out of the firey waters, but four people died, including the guy that led us to the trap. That guy actually voluntarily got in the waters after he lit them on fire. As he burned he was yelling things about how the killer apes were fulfilling signs of armageddon and that he needed to die in this creek/canyon to fulfill prophecy and make it to heaven. It was very disturbing.

We decided that we needed to get as far away from the mountains as we could, because that is where the origional fog came from that precedes the inimate coming of the killer primates. Walking back to the car we came across some other college-aged students and decide to ride with them. Their car holds a lot more people, like a dozen. For just a second I thought to myself "Wow, I sure am glad that those people died up in canyon, so we all can fit semi-comfortably in this van." Horrible, right?! That was the first time during this dream that I thought "is this a dream?" Not when there were killer apes, not when Ben Affleck joined us, not when water was lit on fire, just when I had a really morally degenerate though I thought it was a dream.

We start driving towards Elko and Andrew from my FHE is driving. I look in the rearview mirror and I see the smoke is following us down the freeway. Everyone starts to panic and wonders how the smoke/apes know where we are, we are in the middle of the salt flats! Then Andrew realizes how they work. Everytime we are in the car with the radio on, the smoke follows. The apes have been tracking us through the radio! We turn of the radio and the smoke stops in its tracks. We applaud Andrew for his leadership and knowledge about killer ape strategy. Then...I wake up.

Weird dream, huh? I think maybe this could be a movie. I wonder what the meaning behind it is...

Fever Ray

So it is like three o'clock in the morning so what do I do? Watch trippy music videos of course!

here these are. the filming is soooooooooo good.


When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.






Enjoy the trip!

February February Quite Contrary.

Sorry for the lame title. I just thought I would rant about random things and occurrences.

I was in the basement of the Benson building and this girl asked another girl: "How do you do this?" This was in reference to operating a vending machine. Wow. She was unsure if you put in the money before or after you got the food.

Last week I was grading labs in the physiology lab and the class was doing really well. People were getting 38/40 as the lowest score. The way the lab grades work, this is a perfectly fine score to get an A for the lab, like easily. Anyways, this girl is retaking the class to try and get 100 percent to improve her grade enough to get into the Nursing program. So, she just wrote down her answers from the last time she did the lab and reanswered the ones she got wrong. Is reanswered a word? My auto correct is underlining it... Anyways, this girl gets a 39/40 on her lab and I hand it back to her. I then went around to ask if people had any questions about the lab they were working on, she said no, but she had a question about the one I had just graded. She was obviously bugged. Anyways, she points out a question that she got wrong and tried to explain that she was actually right, but no, she was just wrong. It was for a half point too! I explained that to her and she was persistant in her complaining. Again, I explained that her answer was incorrect. In fact, she just restated the quesiton as her answer. She became flustered and started raising her voice still trying to get this half point. I knew I was right (I had a key) and I had checked with the TA so I wasn't having any of it. Then she packs up her stuff and storms out of the lab. I bet she was a Freshman. An upperclassman wouldn't freak out about a half point in a lab that is really pretty easy. Grades just don't matter enough to freak out about.

Last friday I went to a dance party at the Riviera. It got shut down by the police around 10:45 because someone had made a noise complaint. Who the heck calls the police about noise on a Friday night in a college town on a holiday weekend? Seriously.

Well I don't really have many new youtube videos, but I hadn't even seen this one. I love this one.



That's all for now.

VIDEOS

I Hate Traveling in December/100 Things I Want

Soooo, Happy New Year!

I decided that I didn't want to finish the 100 things I want blog...I think I was feeling materialistic and now I'm not. I just want to be happy. :)

Traveling in December. I don't like it, not one bit.
Here's how it went down.

First of all, Saturday was such a great day. I was sooooo relieved that finals were done and I did pretty well on all of my exams. I went to two weddings and spent the day doing random things around Salt Lake. It was a lot of fun. So after the weddings, I drove up to Farmington and stayed at my Uncle's house. I went to sleep way early (especially for a Saturday) and woke up the next morning ready to fly home.

The next morning, I get a call from Katie saying that some of the flights to Portland had been cancelled. However, we checked online and it looked alright, so we headed to the airport. I check in and everything seems fine. By the way, I am on crutches at this point. I go through security, which took awile because my brace needed to be wiped down for traces of bombs or something. I head to the gate and chill and then they get on the speaker and announce that my flight has been cancelled due to inclimate weather. I call my mom and she gets me on a flight for the next day. I was kind of bummed out, but I thought, "hey, its not a big deal." But then I thought about it and I realized that my uncle and his family had left to drive to Colorado after dropping me off at the airport. Again, I called my mom and she called her best friend from high school and got her to come pick me up and let me stay at her house in Salt Lake up by the zoo.
It was another relaxing, pretty chill, night. A lot of wii tennis, :). However, with my rescheduled flight, we had to leave on that Monday morning around 5:30 AM. So we checked again to make sure the flights were not cancelled before we left for the airport, but they looked alright. Again I checked in and went through security and got to the gate.

So it was getting close to departure time and we hadn't started boarding, so I was getting nervous. They changed the gate board time to a half hour delay. I was thinking "alright, its just a delay. That means we will be leaving." I was wrong. After about being delayed for about an hour, the unholy voice of the woman that announced my cancellation the day before rang out and announced that all the flights to Portland for the day were cancelled. Then she continued to explain that there were no flights available for the next few days. There were only 5 seats left on the Christmas morning flight. There was a rush of people to the customer service desk, like an insane rush. I just watched because I was on crutches and called my mom because she had changed my flight the day before. She apparently is very speedy because she got me one of those spots.

So now I was starting to realize that I needed a way to get somewhere other than the airport. I wasn't about to just chill there for a few days. I also was realizing that I had given my car keys (along with my house key) to my uncle and the keys were also making the drive to Colorado. Uh oh. I searched through my backpack and found a spare key and it was a big relief. Then I started calling people to see if someone could give me a ride to Farmington, or at least to Provo so I could just chill at my place. Thankfully, Maren called me back and she drove me to Farmington, so nice. So the weather in Farmington was getting a little choppy, but around Salt Lake it was just a little rain. However, once I got to around Thanksgiving Point, it was snowing really hard. I had to drive like 15MPH for a good chunk of the drive. I also was really paranoid about crashing. I was driving with my left foot too, which is kinda nerve racking, try it sometime.

I got home and contacted Jeff to get a key to the house. I was glad I had a Utah roommate. Basically, the whole time I was back in Provo I watched a lot of TV and did laundry. I went to Seven Pounds and Yes Man with Mairin and Abbey too. On Christmas Eve I went to the Rytting family party. It was really nice of them to invite me to that.

So Christmas came and I got like 3 hours of sleep. I had to repack my stuff and wake up and be ready by 5:30AM for a shuttle to the airport. I didn't want to worry about driving anywhere, so I got a shuttle. It was a weird experience. First of all, my driver looked exactly like Santa Claus. He was wearing the red hat too. Also, we drove all over Orem trying to find some people's house to pick them up too. I mean ALL OVER. I was way turned around and apparently so was the driver. Lastly, it was suuuuuper snowy at the point of the mountain again. It was really scary. I couldn't see 5 feet ahead of us. We could have been driving perpendicular to the actual road and I wouldn't know it until we hit the divider or went off the shoulder.

Ugh, so I get to the airport finally and I check in and go through security, AGAIN. However, we leave! I get to Portland after stopping in Boise and call my mom. She can't leave the house because we live on a hill and it is still way snowy because Oregon doesn't plow, so I just take a cab from PDX. The cab driver was pretty crabby, but I don't blame him because he was working on Christmas. The roads are totally fine until we get off the freeway and are like a mile from my house. I start to hear the snow/ice scraping against the bottom of the plymouth voyager taxi-van. Then we start slipping and sliding around a bit, but we eventually get to the bottom of my hill. He tries to go up it but makes very little progress. I tell him that I'll just get out there, so he leaves me there. I think it probably looked pretty funny to see me in the snow looking up at the omnimous hill on crutches with a piece of luggage to boot. I called my mom and she sent my brothers to get my bag and I crutched up the hill. My mom thought it was pretty funny looking and took pictures as I hobbled up the icy mess. I was finally home.

Teaser for "I hate traveling in December" Blog

Basically, I am stuck in Utah until X-mas (best situation possible right now.)

Call me if you are bored because I am. Also, you could I-Chat me. :)

I will explain a lot more later. It is way complicated and would take a longer time than my attention span right now to explain it all.

Anyways, yesterday I had dinner at Arnie Ferrin's house. That was fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnie_Ferrin

Ugh, its cold and snowy and I have nothing to do.

I hate traveling in December.

Let me remind you of last December's experience.

"So I get back to London from Portugal and Spain and I am ready and excited to go home. I was both mentally prepared to go home and fincancially (meaning I had no money). I got my bags picked up, after waiting in the cold for over an hour and many tube rides, and got to the place where I was spending the night of the 18th at. My flight was at around 11 on the 19th. So I wake up nice and early enough to get to the airport on time and leave around 7. It was pretty crappy to lug my stuff up and down lots of stairs, but I kind of had to. So I finally get to the train station and I am on schedual. I take a little nap and sprawl my stuff on a few seats. At Victoria station I had checked and I had my passport, wallet, camera, and phone. I was all ready with my valuables.

So our train gets to Gatwick airport and I get in line at the Delta counter. I am feeling good and responsible that I got there on time and with no hitch. Then, the people came up the line doing an initial security check, you know, asking if I packed my own bags and stuff. They also were checking passports. I reach into my left front jeans pocket, which is where I keep my passport, and I dont feel anything. I then check all my other pockets and still nothing. I started to panic and thrash through my backpack, ripping a few papers along the way. My stomach sank and I realized that I didnt have it. I let the man doing the checks know and I asked him what to do. I was speaking in a quiet voice because I was getting pretty worried. He led me out of the line and got a supervisor. She was the nicest lady and I am pretty sure I would have lost it if she wasnt there. She told me to deeply search my luggage, I did even though I knew it was in my pocket at Victoria station and now it wasnt.

I started to realize that I was not going to make my plane without a passport. I got in line to speak with the Delta representatives. The guy I talked to was pretty sassy and he kept answering the phone and had long converstations while I was just standing there panicking. Finally, I explained my situation and he suggested that I change my flight, duh. It cost, but I didnt really have a choice. So he looks to see the next available flight and tells me that there is nothing open. Then he goes, oh wait, heres one....on.....January 2nd. I was thinking the f-word in my head. Then he continued to search and found a flight to Cinncinatti, OH for the next day, but there wasnt a flight to Portland from there till Jan 2nd. I was thinking, okay...that wouldnt be as bad and was thinking that at least I would be in the states. I could maybe stay with Sloan or something...I still was not happy. Then, for some reason, the sassy asian man tried to book me a ticket on a portland flight that was full from OH to OR. It went through! I had a seat~! I didnt know if I had just kicked someone off the flight or what, but I was going home the next day. I was pretty happy.

Then, I remembered that I still didnt have a passport, so it didnt really matter that much that I changed my flight to the next day if I couldnt get a passport by then. I then made my way back to central London to go to the US Embassy. Another train ride and lots more stairs carrying a hundred pounds of crap plus a backpack with a statue that I bought for my mom in it. By the time I got to the square that the embassy is located in, I was taking about ten steps and then having to rest for a whole minute. So I get in line for security and I got to kind of cut in front of a lot of people because A, I was an American and B, I had an Emergency stituation. They kept referring to me as "the Emergency." I kind of liked that. Even though I got to cut, security still took forever. I had to get everything electronic and metallic out of my bags and off of my person. Then, I still beeped, i dont know why. They were nice about it all though, plus, I was an "Emergency." Once I finally got inside, I talked to a guy and he explained that they were going to lunch. He gave me the paperwork and then everyone took off. I was pretty much alone in there, except an American family. They were trying to get a passport for the daughter because hers had expired, but they didnt have all the neccessary documents, like the signiture of the father. The mom didnt know where the father was, she was with a new guy now, and had a pretty big tantrum. That kept me entertained as the Embassy had lunch. She exclaimed that the embassy worker that was dealing with her situation was keeping her from getting a passport for her daughter on purpose. She was screaming that if she was a whore and didnt know who the father was, then she would be okay without the signiture, but she was being punished for being a respectable, classy woman. She wasnt acting too classy.

Anyways, I got the paperwork finished and after a few hours, I had a replacement passport. I was pretty darn happy. I was going home! I am so exhausted that I decided to take the train to the airport again and just get a place to stay by the airport. I think I needed that because I was soooo exhausted. The next morning, I got up even earlier for this flight. There was no way that I was going to miss my flight. Everything went pretty smoothly, with only minor delays on my flights and I got home that night. Well, that sure was an adventure that I hope to not repeat, but thankfully I knew where the Embassy was (thanks DT) and I had a credit card."

This year wasn't as bad because I didn't need a passport, but it would be just too easy to have my travel plans go smoothly, yeah? I'll write more about that later tonight or tomorrow.

Do you feel sufficiently teased?

100 things I want (first half)

After listing 100 thinks I am thankful for, I wondered how much easier it would be to make a list of 100 things that I want. This is a great opportunity to show how materialistic I can be. Also, this may inspire you in your x-mas gift shopping, whether for me or for others. Again these are not in any particular order, just how they spill out of my head.

As I started doing this, a lot of these starting mutating into things that I want to do in my life. I guess that's okay too.

1.) A soft cover shell for my mac
2.) A good night's sleep
3.) The new R.E.M. CD
4.) Tickets to Sundance Film Festival
5.) One of my designs to be printed on Threadless
6.) A vacation to New York City
7.) Warm gloves
8.) An ice scraper for my car
9.) A new right turn signal for my car
10.) People to comment on my blog (haha)
11.) To see Kanye West in concert
12.) To get my wisdom teeth out
13.) My brother to get his life together
14.) Free car insurance
15.) Some new underwear
16.) A beanie
17.) A significant other
18.) Sushi from Sushiland
19.) Yogurberry
20.) A really memorable New Year's
21.) A cool vintage leather jacket
22.) Friends to visit me in Utah
23.) The new Killers CD
24.) The newest Modest Mouse CD
25.) A puppy
26.) A cool summer job
27.) To start a dance craze
28.) To be a one-hit wonder
29.) To interview a celebrity
30.) To audition for a reality TV show
31.) To write a book
32.) To travel to every continent
33.) To live outside the US with my family
34.) To learn another language fluently
35.) To skydive
36.) To bungee jump
37.) To own Louis Vuitton luggage
38.) To live on the East Coast
39.) To get married
40.) To raise a family
41.) To go to the Olympics
42.) A wife with a good sense of style
43.) To perform a stand up comedy routine
44.) To start a band
45.) To do the gallon challenge successfully
46.) To get up on a wakeboard
47.) To ride an elephant
48.) To pet a kangaroo
49.) A massage
50.) My leg to heal quickly!

Ugh, I am tired. I will finish later. Maybe not.

I have found the source of happiness for all life.

And I owe it to LeAnn.

http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.45.swf?cid=317016

Whenever I tell someone about this, they ask "What is this?" Welllllllll....it is a live feed to some puppies. I watch them all day. They run around and fight/play with each other. It brings an instant smile to my face. It also makes me miss dogs. I love animals, especially pandas, polar bears, and puppies. I never really realized that they all start with p.... I love alliteration. (always).

Anyways, I was watching one time and I saw a person on the feed! I don't really know what was happening because I would only see the person from the level of the puppy's eyes, but I think they were bending over to put something in whatever is across from these puppies' home. I saw plumber's crack! So funny. But it makes me wonder, where are these puppies? And why hasn't anyone bought them if they are in a pet store or pound or something? There are thousands of viewers at all times. Come on! I would buy them all if they could live in my condo and also if I had a lot of disposable income. Both circumstances are not likely to change, so I am out of luck.

I think that is all for now.
check out this photo too, if you are bored.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/photo.php?pid=36672880&id=17827202&ref=mf

Matt

Another Bit about Threadless

If you want to buy something from Threadless, use this link so I get points for referring you! Thanks!

http://threadless.com/?from=mgill52

Pre-Finals Surge...of procrastination

Well today wrapped up the semester in terms of class periods. All that really remains is tests, tests, and tests. Oh joy.

I am now taking the time between classes and finals to distract myself as much as possible from studying. I just don't want to get fed up with studying right before I actually take the test. That would suck, right? Great rationalization...(sarcasm).

To fill most of this procrastination time I have been spending a lot of time on www.threadless.com. For those that are unaware, threadless is an awesome website. Basically, it is a funny/artsy/everything-else-that-is-good t-shirt site that makes it's products based on submissions from the public. I have been aware of this site for quite some time, but it wasn't until now that I have very little actual free time that I decided to spend a lot of time scoring design submissions and even trying my own luck. I think this might have something to do with me realizing that if threadless desides to print your design on a shirt, you get $2,000, plus a $500 store credit! I REALLY want to get one of my designs printed.

In addition to making bank from getting printed, I think it would be just as cool, if not cooler, to say that I designed a threadless tee. It's like a validation on one's creativity or humor or artistic ability. That would be so awesome. I think if I got a threadless tee printed, I would get a facial tattoo of the threadless logo.

Last night I finally started making my first design.

Here it is
http://www.threadless.com/critique/32909/Snow_Panda

I realized that I need to get some better software, because that simple thing took sooooooo long to do. I think a lot of people use illustrator or maybe photoshop. I think they have those on campus, so maybe I can procrastinate what I have to do next semester and make some better designs next semester.

Also, if you have any design ideas or if you are way good on some photo editing program and would like to collaborate, let me know~! :)

Matt

100 Things

Taking direction from Rachel, I thought I would share 100 things that I am thankful for given that it is Thanksgiving! Keep in mind that these are not in any particular order. They are just spilling out of my head.

1.) Mom
2.) Dad
3.) Jared
4.) Adam
5.) Cocoa
6.) Princess
7.) Joker
8.) The Gospel
9.) My House
10.) BYU
11.) The Book of Mormon
12.) The Bible
13.) IKEA
14.) The Internet
15.) Modern Sanitation
16.) Medicine
17.) My Car
18.) House M.D.
19.) LOST
20.) Facebook
21.) My Heatlh
22.) Ninja Warrior
23.) London Fall 2007
24.) Grandma
25.) Extended Family
26.) My BYU Friends
27.) My Oregon Ffriends
28.) Dark Chocolate
29.) The Atonement
30.) Recycling
31.) The Food Network
32.) Rock Band
33.) Wii
34.) I-Tunes
35.) Panda Bears
36.) Scholarships
37.) College Football
38.) College Basketball
39.) Andy Warhol
40.) Ryan Air
41.) The Tube
42.) The US Embassy in London
43.) My Guitar
44.) Theater
45.) The Dollar Theater
46.) Sushi
47.) Tucanos
48.) Massages
49.) My Thick Hair
50.) Lasik
51.) Dogs
52.) Arrested Development
53.) Chuck Close
54.) Santa Cruz Organic Lemonade
55.) Vans Shoes
56.) The Office
57.) Sleep
58.) The Beatles
59.) My Sense of Humor
60.) Guacamole
61.) Photography
62.) So You Think You Can Dance
63.) Best of Will Ferrell SNL
64.) Internet Viral Videos
65.) Dimitri Martin
66.) Sarah Silverman
67.) Reality TV
68.) Music Videos
69.) Wikipedia
70.) The Beach
71.) The Mountains
72.) Yoga
73.) Basketball
74.) Tennis
75.) Soccer
76.) My Teeth
77.) Crutches
78.) Netflix
79.) Online Banking
80.) Expensive Things on Sale for Cheap
81.) ChaCha
82.) Cell Phones
83.) Classical Music
84.) My Country
85.) No Sales-Tax in Oregon
86.) Random Facts
87.) The Zoo
88.) Airplanes
89.) Colors
90.) Asian Food
91.) Vaccinations
92.) Ice Cream
93.) The Academy Awards
94.) Costco
95.) Caeser Salad
96.) General Conference
97.) Music
98.) Theme Parks
99.) Small Talk Conversation
100.) Blogs

Dream

I just had a weird dream and actually remember it so I thought I would write it down.

So it started that I was meeting up with my FHE group. However, we were meeting up by Scouter's Mountain in Happy Valley. Anyways, not that many people showed up, but when we had like six of our FHE people and some other people like Kyla and Katie and Amy and Derya and Loren someone is like "we better get going." I agreed and we started heading out to Philidelphia! Haha.

Once we got there we went to a movie/play of a Shakespeare piece. It was in a movie theatre, but people would come out of the screen like six feet towards us. It was done in an elaborate Baz Luhrrman style. It was like a three-d movie but without the glasses...very strange. Anyways, we watch it and its really good. It's really funny in parts and really sad in parts. Sometime towards the end I get a text from my dad. I read it and it just says "How are you?" or something like that. I decide to answer it later and put my phone back in my pocket. Then for some reason I start drawing on the back of the seats with a pen. I drew the whole world (like a map) in a quick sketch and then say to Derya "look" and I circle Canada and Turkey and some of us laugh a little.
A few minutes later a theatre usher comes up to me and says that there was a complaint about us, specifically me. I look confused and ask why. At this point, derya was covering my drawing with her legs. He said that an older couple was very offended that I had opened my phone during the performance or showing of the movie or play, whatever it was. They said they saw the blue light of my screen. He said that they also said we were laughing the whole time and it wasn't appropriate to do so. They would have said something to me themselves but they were intimiated by me and were afraid I would hurt them and their mother.

I was so confused, but I said sorry and said it wouldn't happen again. Then Loren and Derya and Katie all ask me why the usher came to talk to me and I told them. They thought it was funny and laughed. Then a few minutes another employee came to talk to me. He looked more important than the first guy. He handed me a form that he said that I had to fill out after the performance because of the complaints against me. Shortly, the whole thing ended. I had no idea how it ended becuase of this drama, but I think I still liked it. I filled out the form and at the bottom it said I needed to exit out the main entrance and turn in the form and have them take my picture so I wouldn't be allowed in this Philidelpia theatre ever again. I decided that was dumb so I went out the side exit. It was raining. Also, like 5 times between standing up and getting to the parking lot I realized that I was just hopping on one foot instead of using my crutches. In fact, I kept leaving my crutches behind and I had to hop back to get them.

Once I got to the parking lot I started to play on my crutches. I was going really fast and then I decided to try and walk without putting either of my legs on the ground and just use the crutches. I did it for an entire length of the parking lot. This is when I started realizing that it was a dream (haha, yeah, just now). Then I doubled back to get to the car and I was still just using my crutches, except I was twirling in circles too! Then right before opening the car door....I woke up. THE END

HAHA

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I Broke my Leg!

Well midterms are about to start again and what do I do to prepare for them? Break my leg. Smart idea right? I don't really recommend it.


Probably the first question that popped into your head is "How?" Well, last night I had an intramural soccer game. During one of our kickoffs I was dribbling up the middle. I kicked a little too far forward on one touch and the ball got ahead of me pretty close to a defender. I started to run as fast as I could to catch up to it and keep possession. The defender also started running towards the ball. We got there pretty much at the same time and we both took a swift right foot kick towards the ball. I don't know who hit the ball first or even if the ball got hit at all, but our shins definitely collided. From where the injury took place, I think the other guy must have kicked me right under the side edge of my shinguard or right above where it ended on my leg. I took two steps after the collision and let out two or three uncontrollable screams, then I kind of rolled onto the ground. I immediately shut my eyes tight because all I knew about my leg was that it really really really hurt. I even said "It really really really hurts!" I didn't know what it looked like and didn't want to see it if it was graphic. I was thinking that seeing my leg might make me go into shock. If that was one of my first thoughts, that kind of shows you how much I was hurting.

I feel like that last paragraph was getting long, so I'll start a new one. As I laid on the ground, the soccer game got put on hold and the EMS people were called. I did some yoga breathing and got calmed down but my eyes were still tightly shut. Once I finally opened my eyes I saw that I was surrounded by the referees and my teammates. We had to wait like 10 minutes for the EMS to arrive so I just kept still on the field in a sort of fetal position. Eventually, I realized that my shorts were riding way up and I was giving the people on the sidelines, or really anyone within sight of me, a good show. I made a comment about how its not fair to tease all the girls on the sidelines and adjusted to be a little more modest. Then I just tried to talk about other things and not think about my leg. I told Preston that in Environmental Health that day we had talked about hermaphrodite polar bears. There's a long story as to why I felt a need to tell him that. Haha.

Once EMS arrived people started asking me questions. I said my name and address like 4 times. They took my blood pressure and did some tests on my leg to see if they thought it was broken. The first few tests were fine. There was just a little surface pain, but then he did some things to my leg that felt like I was giving birth out of my shin. He advised that I go get an x-ray, which I kind of figured I should do. Then I realized that I was going to have to get up. Uh oh. On try one with assistance from two EMS guys I got a few feet off the ground, but then it hurt so much. Next we tried propping me up from my side to standing. This took like 4 people, but it worked. But then I had to get across the field to the parking lot to drive to the hospital. I tried to hop across with the two EMS guys acting as crutches but it was shooting pain up my leg so I stopped after two hops. Then we had to get 4 people together again to carry me. They did it using the locked arm seat formation. You know, the one you learn in Boy Scouts? haha. I got to the car and I was off to the hospital.

At the hospital, they did the initial exam and the guy that checked me out said that he thought it was just superficial. He seemed kind of annoyed that I came into the ER with a "superficial" injury. However, I knew that the EMS found ways to cause me great pain and I had such difficulty getting off the field, so I was pretty sure it was broken. After several periods of waiting by myself in my exam room I went to get x-rays. In my x-ray I had to lie down on this table. I sat down on the edge of it, but I could not lift my hurt leg onto the table. The x-ray technician had to help me. The first x-ray was fine, but then she wanted me to rotate my leg so that she could get a side shot. I had another baby out of my shin. It took some great self-control to not make a loud noise and keep still. This was probably the time I was closest to tears.

Shortly after the x-rays, it was identified that I indeed had a broken leg, my Tibia to be precise. It looks like my bone is still aligned well, but I have to go back to the hospital on Friday to see if I need surgery or not. They would put a rod in my leg if I did. If I don't, I would get a cast on Friday. I hope I get to choose the color of cast. I am thinking green right now. I got some prescriptions for some drugs and some crutches and headed home. They prescribed Loritab, which is like Vicodin, and also a stool softener. Apparently Loritab can make you constipated. Too much info? haha.

Well that is pretty much the story of my broken leg. I'll post an update in a little bit. If you feel so inclined, come visit me! I am going to be pretty bored while I am immobile. :)

BYU

For no particular reason, I have recently been researching schools. I'm not looking to transfer or anything, but I am fascinated by rankings of colleges, whether it be academically, sports, or anything really. In my research I have decided that I am so glad that I go to BYU.

First of all, this is pretty amazing concerning cost per credit hour.
-USC (or really any Private school that is somewhat difficult to get into)- $1,249
-BYU-$209

BYU is ranked #8 nationally for the number of students who go on to earn PhDs, #1 nationally for students who go on to dental school, #6 nationally for students who go on to law school, and #10 nationally for students who go on to medical school.

From The Princeton Review (2008):

#1 - Stone-Cold Sober Schools

#1 - Students Pray on a Regular Basis

#3 - Best College Library

Plus, we are in the top ten for football right now.

:)

Soccer Team

The event that happened after our soccer game on Saturday made me decide to write an entire post on this. :)

I'll start out with a fun little occurrence that happened during our first game. We only had six players, so we were a man down and pretty darn tired since we hadn't played soccer in a while. I wouldn't be surprised if someone on our team wasn't feeling so hot. However, a player on the other team was the one complaining about feeling sick from running so much, which is quite sad if you think about it. We play on a very shortened field and his team had subs so he hadn't been running the whole time. Anyways, he tries to call on a sub during our throw-in, which you can't do. When the ref tells him he can't get the sub yet, he says that he is going to throw up. I was kind of sassy because we were losing so I said something like "just wait a minute, then you can throw up." Play goes on for a little bit and I score a goal. As I am running back to mid-field I turn to upset stomach kid and say "you can throw up now" and right as I utter the words "throw up" he throws up. I didn't know I had the superpower to make people vomit. Its not the coolest, but I could be an "extra-type" character in an X-Men movie, like the guy who can puff himself up like a puffer fish.

So that was the peculiar event that happened during the first game, but the second game might have topped it. The game itself didn't have anything too unusual, until most of the second half had expired. A guy on the other team got hurt somehow. I was suspicious that he was faking it and trying to waste time, but he was on the ground for a pretty long time so I started to believe him. Anyways, it was unfortunate that he got hurt, but I didn't feel bad at all because when he got hurt he was completely by himself. I was the closest person to him and I was twenty feet away, so I had nothing to do with the injury. Eventually, he got up and walked slowly off the field and spread out on the ground, just resting. The game ended and we started taking off our soccer stuff on the sideline.

Here is where the situation became blog worthy. We (we being our team) were grouped together talking about the game a bit when a guy from the other team approached us. He had some sort of accent, but I couldn't place where it was from. He tells us that he is not making any accusations, but a member of our team pushed the guy that got hurt in the back really hard three times in the first half. This would be a semi-normal thing to say, but he goes on and says that the injured guy has an MBA and kids and is going to get a good job and that was all in jeopardy because he got hurt during this game. He said he could be paralyzed. I start to get a "wtf" look on my face and look around and see similar faces. Then, the guy starts his speech over again since no one confessed and apologized. We were just confused as to why he is talking to us and why he is saying what he is. Again, he says he is not making any accusations, but the guy has an MBA. I continue to be speechless, but then I realize that really he is being pretty rude. He claims that we were being really poor sports, but what he was doing right then was poor sportsmanship. I interject and say "actually, you are making an accusation" and some other sassy comment about being offended that he was talking to us about something that was so ridiculous. By the way, I am somewhat editing what he said because they were not grammatically correct. For example, one of the times he said "I'm not making accusation." I forget the ending lines, but basically that is what happened.

First of all, the guy was not paralyzed. He walked off the field. Secondly, why wait until after the game to say anything. They should have said something to the player who was "playing dirty" in the first half or talked to the officials at the half. C, if his injury was from the roughing he got in the first half, he should not have played in the second half if his back was so sensitive. Also, what does a good job and an MBA have to do with anything? Since he has surpassed undergraduate level education, does that mean he is a superior individual and we should feel so bad for hurting (or not hurting) such a great mind?Psh! Lastly, he got hurt all by himself, so how could they pin the injury to us?! I was pretty incredulous that they even said anything like that to us, and I still am.

Lets see what happens at our next game.


Matt

Movies

I haven't written anything in a while, so I am going to right now.

I have been somewhat busy with school kicking into gear. I can't remember if I already listed what I am taking this semester, but I will do it anyways now. I am taking Infectious Diseases, Environmental Health, Intro to Public Health, Health Behavior Change, Human Physiology, Book of Mormon, and Jogging.

Sorry to write so disjointed between paragraphs, but I am pretty sleepy. I should get more sleep.

Recently, I have reactivated my netflix account so I thought I would give some reviews on movies. First, No Country for Old Men. I thought the whole concept of this movie was brilliant. The killer was so creepy and the way he kills is interesting. Wow, how creepy did that sound...but really, it is pretty cool. I thought that the storyline developed in a mostly predictable fashion and the ending was really disappointing and anticlimactic. How often do I spell anticlimactic correctly? Not very often. Anyways, I would give No Country for Old Men four out of five stars. It really could have been a great movie with some plot twists. Instead it is just cinematic talent with a unique basis.

Next I saw Ray. There are some really good things about this movie, but some things bothered me. The whole flashback thing was very very very well done. This movie has one of the saddest scenes in any movie I have seen in one of the flashbacks. The acting was all very good, especially by Jamie Foxx. However, the film was put together in a strange idiosyncratic way. It didn't flow very well in some spots. For instance, the beginning of the movie wasn't a good place to start in my opinion. Also, there were several montage type sequences that had animated headlines flashing arrossed the screen that just made the whole movie look cheap. I know this seems kind of picky, but it was pretty distracting. I would give Ray three and a half stars out of five because it didnt have the flow of a great Bio-pic like La Vie En Rose, but there are underlying messages that are very strong and worthwhile and are portrayed through good acting.

My most recent netflix movie was There Will Be Blood. Starting off, and really through most of the movie, the film is pretty slow moving. However, now that I think about it, it completely fit the movie because it is set in the California desert, so really not that much was happening. It stayed true to the setting. However, the somewhat monotone pace of the movie is dissapated with extremely unique scenes either involving Daniel Day Lewis' character or the Preacher played by Paul Dano. Then pretty soon, it is back to the tense mundaneness. These sequences create a sort of haunting feeling and uneasiness throughout. Similarly to No Country for Old Men, the ending has some loose ends, but it is preceded by some events that make some sense of it. The one thing that makes this movie so good is Daniel Day Lewis' character's relationships with other people and how they evolve and change, especially with his son. I can't really say too much about that without spoiling, so I'll stop there. I would give There Will Be Blood a four and a half stars out of five because I realize how hard it is to make a film interesting and good without too much happening. It is realistic and human and there are a few characters that are truely memorable.

Last week I also saw House Bunny. Haha. I did not netflix this movie. Anna Farris is very funny in Just Friends and in Lost in Translation, so I figured there had to be some pretty funny parts in this movie, despite what I had heard. It turns out I was fairly correct in this assumption. There were definately about five parts that I was laughing out loud pretty hard about. However, ther rest of the movie fell pretty flat. The red headed girl that is the head of the Sorority is a pretty good actress I think, but she is not funny, just mostly awkward. Rumor Willis, Katherine McPhee and most of the other girls don't really have a chance to be funny either. However, the girl that is Nick and Norah's Infinate Playlist (which I really want to see) and the girl that plays a manly girl from Idaho are both pretty funny with one-liners. One thing that really suprised me was the amount of random people in this movie. As I mentioned Rumor Willis and Katherine McPhee were in it, but the singer for All American Rejects, the guy that was pranked on reality show The Joe Schmoe Show, Hugh Heffner and his girlfriends, and Shaq were also in the movie. Random, well except for Hugh and company. Also, Tom Hanks' son, I think his name is Collin does another movie that requires no acting. I seriously feel like I could have played his character with relative ease. With all that said, I would give House Bunny a disappointing one and three quarters stars out of five.

Well to wrap up this post I think I should make sure that you all have seen some basic youtube videos. If you haven't, find them and watch because they are today's developing pop culture.

-Chocolate Rain
-Charlie the Unicorn
-Muffins
-Shoes
-Charlie Bit Me

later gator

Nick Patera

I randomly discovered this youtube video a while ago with Amy, but I only recently rediscovered it as I started sharing it again here at school. It blows my mind.

So it starts off with this guy, Nick Patera, in a studio or something that looks a lot like a studio. He starts singing "A Whole New World" from Disney's Aladdin. He is pretty darn good. When I first saw it I thought he was pretty good. It was an interesting song choice, and he is really into it in a theatrical way. I thought that was the reason this video had so many views.

But then, it happens. It will blow your mind too. When I showed my mom, she had to leave the room. Haha. I feel like I shouldn't explicitly say why this is so shocking. Its not grotesque or violent, just weird. Check it out!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t9-CS2v8wcc

As to whether its real or not, you can watch him sing out of the recording studio, like in his video for "Bleeding Love."

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GGM53wG9-4E&feature=related

Let me know what you think. :)