laugh a little.

haha, i love BYU...

(taken from the Police Beat website)

Nov. 15: Police found five males on the intramural field while it was locked and closed to the public. Officers told them to leave.

Nov. 12: A suspicious duffel bag was discovered in a landscaped area near the Richards Building. Police discovered that the bag was empty.

Nov. 9: A female student was reported missing for two days. It turned out the student had been staying with a friend and had failed to inform her roommate.

Nov. 9: A group of four or five males were walking through Heritage Halls near Fugal Hall, shouting the words, "Proposition eight."

Nov. 5: Someone entered the shower room in Merrill Hall and cut the shower curtains off the rods, leaving them in the shower stalls.

Nov. 6: Officers responded to a call concerning a disorderly person in the atrium of the HBLL. The subject at issue was wearing a red shirt, a scarf around his neck, a red mask around his eyes and holding several roses. He was holding a sign that read, "Ask me for ... A-Hug, A-Rose, A-Hand, A-Date, A-Nything else." When officers told him he wasn't allowed to solicit in this manner, he continued to argue and told them he wasn't going to stop. Officers then explained that he may be arrested for disorderly conduct but he said he had diplomatic immunity and could not be arrested. When officers told him that it is necessary to receive permission from the dean of student life to demonstrate on campus, he agreed to follow through with the dean and left the area.

Oct. 28: Police received a delayed report about a man claiming to be Joseph Smith reincarnated engaging people in religious conversations. Police are waiting to see if the man shows up again.

Nov. 1: Police received a call concerning screams and pounding coming from a room in the Maeser Building. Police investigated and discovered the screaming man was a custodial worker watching the game between Texas and Texas Tech, and was upset about his team's loss.

Oct. 18: A female resident of Wymount Terrace called in a suspicious phone call in which a man made statements with the intent of hypnotizing the student. The student said she does not remember most of the conversation, but remembers she called him her master. Police say it is virtually impossible to hypnotize someone over the phone.

Sept. 13: Police responded to a call reporting suspicious characters at the OIT construction site on the south end of campus. Upon arrival, the suspects were discovered to be construction workers.




and this

i have a coworker who does this well (speaking of, he had most of us shooting mashed potatoes out our noses yesterday at dinner with his magic show... holy crap)

thanksgiving?

today was long, but i'm really not too tired. just worn out.. haha.
worked a double- 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. with a bunch of... if i could only describe them accurately... teen girls. we sat around and watched movies. we had fun. we had a big catered 'thanksgiving dinner' at 1 p.m. we had a drink run for staff who were losing it after 13 hours. we had a dial 9 at the end of the night for a girl who probably shouldn't have been allowed to have all the sugar she wanted.
i got paid 14 hours of time and a half, with another 8 coming tomorrow... who knew black friday was a real holiday? no complaints here...

i feel blah. maybe because i wasn't with family or derek's family, which is the same, for the holiday. sitting around saying what we're thankful for, making blankets, playing with babies.. or at home, listening to my loud cousins, driving down to get mexican food at midnight, or eating tamales instead of turkey.

maybe because i know what somebody wants and it's something i want too and i'm too scared to be open (and i hate being cliche). maybe because i hold out for no reason. sometimes i get crushed. and they didn't even mean to or think i'd care.

maybe because my heat/hot water is not working and i'm stuck sleeping with a space heater nearby not able to actually sleep cause i think it's going to catch my bed and me on fire.

whatever it is, who cares. it's thanksgiving. i'm thankful
my mom and dad and stepmom and sister and everyone else i'm related to- i seriously have the coolest family.
and my friends
and what i believe
my camera and books and music and ears and eyes to enjoy such things
and you (if you fall in none of the above???)

cute 'lil guy...

monday schmonday...

(don't fall in!)

most people hate mondays... it's my favorite day of the week- the first of my 2-3 days off, my weekend... i love my days off more than anybody ever could ever love days off. i love that i can drive to salt lake just to try out a new restaurant. i love that i can wear my favorite jeans (that are so close to having to be retired until i can make them into shorts for summer, booo!) and one of 20 colors of american apparel tshirts and tennis shoes the whole time and not have to worry about a dress code (we are about to have to wear PCS polo shirts... POLO SHIRTS!!! ps, i look horrible in polo shirts). i love that i can spend time with other people who either don't work or only have an hour of class or work at nights... i take all my pictures on my days off. i love driving and how cheap gas is and going to sonic 2 or more times a day. dear monday, i love you.

yesterday cam and i went up... somewhere? past deer creek. or was it beaver creek? beaver bend? dear beaver? i don't know where we were, i just know it took a long time to get there. we saw some waterfalls that were frozen or in the process of freezing. i got ice shoved down my shirt and pants. i said some dumb things (happens a lot).

i love barne's n noble...

and subway (especially when i'm starving cause all i had so far today was a vanilla dr. pepper and i am starting to get grumpy and if you don't make a decision about where to get food i might shove you out the passenger side door)

we watched jumper. cameron's little brother jeremy is just funny and sweet and they are exactly alike. things were funny. i almost peed my pants.

today i'm finishing noteworthy's traffic and such pictures. and going to see erin and her little baby. and doing some shopping. i want to buy a small turkey. cause i want to learn how to cook a turkey. i work thanksgiving this year- so for the first time i'll be spending it alone. weird... since i was living in texas i've ether spent my thanksgiving with my best friend derek's family or david's family. may try to get up to centerville to hang out with derek and the pando's for a while friday morning or saturday (cause i don't wanna miss making blankets for homeless people, or staying up all night watching movies and playing the sign game and building pyramids, and going to see a movie thanksgiving night and playing at the park in the mornings)... just gonna be a strange year.

i must get productive. things are going to happen today.

saw twilight tonight... (ps if you are in provo and haven't yet seen it, go see it at the scera theater- it's only $6.50 and the theater was about 1/3 full!)

best part of the movie???

this... sexxxxxyyy... gorgeous to (actually) die for Jeep Rubicon


want to see her up close and personal???
hand check!

talk about something to lust after. not to mention all the other cars... seriously, the best scenes were that jeep driving through the mud and the scene when edward saves bella in the dark alley in his volvo s60r.

the rest of the movie was allright (bella's acting was atrocious, but then again, the books totally lean on cheesy cliche's-stammering and breath-stopping moments)

i did love the darkness of the movie-dark scenes, nothing too bright, rich greens of the great northwest... and jacob with his long hair and perfect white teeth? yes please (next movie...)! i'll admit, at first i was disappointed with edward- but as the movie wore on (and on and on), i ended up falling for his intensity.

anywho.... i have to work in the morning. guess i should sleep.

wishful thinking

think i could convince BYU to get in on this ??

i love sweats. especially now that it's gonna get cold (is winter coming or not??)
if BYU doesn't jump on the bandwagon (i'm guessing my chances might be slim) i might hold out for utah to do it. it's only a matter of time before the eewts embrace. and maybe i'll apply for grad school just so i can make the switch official. (hey, i've done it before, i just changed my mind at the last minute and decided not to start classes...)

Life is Life.

and the ups and downs are good. each makes you appreciate the other, doesn't it?
catherine and i were talking out in the middle of center street last night at 2 a.m. i was upset, she was her normal calm and rational and optimist self. she made the point that by always looking forward to something to come, you forget to live in the day (it was late, but i'm pretty sure that was the gist of it). and how always thinking back on the past only makes now go by unnoticed and un... lived? in the way that it should be? and then today i read this talk, from Thomas Monson, and he mentioned the exact same thing...

"This is our one and only chance at mortal life—here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and non-existent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now.
I am what my wife, Frances, calls a “show-a-holic.” I thoroughly enjoy many musicals, and one of my favorites was written by the American composer Meredith Willson and is entitled The Music Man. Professor Harold Hill, one of the principal characters in the show, voices a caution that I share with you. Says he, “You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected a lot of empty yesterdays.”
My brothers and sisters, there is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today."

(so what are you going to do today? tell somebody you care? make a real decision and stop wavering? move forward? stop worrying about what might happen up ahead and be the best person that you can be today?)

been working on some stuff for noteworthy's next album's art... it's got me doing things i haven't done so far- some night shooting, long exposures... pretty fun, i love night painting/light painting pictures, now i understand a little bit better how it technically works, so now i'm excited to get out and do other stuff with it... (thanks cam for helping me figure that stuff out!)

we went to salt lake tonight. i stood on a pole like the one in the middle of the picture with less than a square foot to be on with the tripod and in the middle of the trax tracks... when the traintraxwhateveritis drove by it was less than a foot and a half to each side of me.... kinda fun.

things that are awesome:
that face. spoon me. graffiti. driving around with nowhere to go with her.


things that are ridiculous:
the fact that finishing this dresser has taken me like 2 weeks. the fact that i can't undertake any project without tons of junk food (a ring pop, a bowl of chocolate popcorn, a 2 liter of pomegranate 7-up.


things that are sad:
i can't wear my favorite jeans to work anymore. they got hole'd and we got a dress code. bah.

things that rock:
yeah, he makes that face always when he pictures. i think the camera doesn't work if he doesn't.


things that are funny:
that he tried to make it the whole way and he is a goof...

but then he remembered that if he walks and doesn't hold those up, they fall right down.

(but he really did make it the whole way)


things that are glorious:
there is a beach in utah county.