Greg E. McDougle

I've had this irrational thought in my head for the past two days that I was going to get a package in the mail. Mostly because I wanted one. Well, today I remembered why I had the thought in the first place. My dearest Seminary Teacher, and in my opinion the best, Janet Klappoth had promised to send me a recording of my favorite Cantata pieces, per my request. Funny how life works huh XD

Anyways, they are composed by Greg E. McDougle and they come from his 'Eden' soundtrack...some of the songs that is...but he has also compiled a Cantata called "Jesus is the Christ: A Sacred Cantata" and I LOVE IT!!!! I don't know how to put music on here...I don't think I can, but I did a google search and I found this! :D Thank you BYU channel for playing all church music all the time! Sadly I think they only have songs from his Eden soundtrack thing...and personally I like the cantata better...but I might be biased because I sang in the thing...yesh...GLORIOUS! :D

Hyum...

It would seem that for once in my life, google fight has failed me...firstly it didn't work and secondly when I did the search engine thingy myself I didn't get the answer I wanted...

Googlefight:

School
vs.
Work

yeah...the winner was (to me) surprisingly work. (1,240,000,000 hits to 1,830,000,000 hits respectively)

Well, I am sure it's comforting to everyone that I am not going to let googlefight govern my life. I am however seeking...a new horizon if you will...in my life. I gave in...or gave up. Whichever you wish to view it as. I am now a real full time student for I no longer work part-time for one of my jobs. It's a sad day for me because I really enjoyed working lunches at the good ol' catering business...alas it's a healthy adjustment. Or at least I have to keep telling myself that. *sigh*

Divine Comedy!!!!

As soon as my friends heard that I was going to BYU, they became more excited than I was. This was none more evident than when they found a DVD of a BYU comedy troupe and demanded that I see it. It sounded like a good time, as any time with friends does, and went to go see the movie. I was never the same again.

I based a lot of my future BYU experience on that DVD. I knew the community college's name(UVSC) before all my fellow freshman, that BYU had a math lab before I even knew I would be spending most of my time in there, and was taught the art of giving better talks as well ;) Of course now that I am at BYU the jokes make more sense @_@;

Anyways, since I have come to BYU I have not missed a single performance. Now the DVD itself was apparently part of the 'glory days' of Divine Comedy. But I am willing to defend my generation of comedians. :D They are glorious!

*sigh* I was going to upload a video of the most recent performance I went to...but it would seem that I am not quite tech savvy enough to get it on here. So I will at least provide a supplement. Here's a list of my favorites (on youtube).

Oregon Trail
(I haven't seen this one live, but I liked it :D) K.I.L.L.
Nintendo
Baby

:D It makes me oh so happy inside :D

Blah-Blah-Blood~!

:D I got to give blood today! I love giving blood. I've looked forward to it ever since I was finally old enough to. :D Once again I avidly read through the pamphlet the red cross has you read. Albeit it's becoming redundant to reread the thing every time...but that's the relationship I have with paperwork.

For the benefit of those who have never given blood (which you should if you can >:p ) next they poke you're finger to see if you have iron and such, take your pulse, temperature, have you answer questions that you've just read 5 seconds ago (or just me since I reread the thing every time) , and then take your healthy little self over to get your blood taken.

Sadly the nurses don't have name tags...but my nurse was very nice. Whenever I get my blood taken I get somewhat nervous/anxious even though I've done it before. I think it's because I really have to humble myself to let someone poke me with a needle for 5 minutes and take a part of me away. I wasn't very good at hiding my anxiety this time and I noted a panicked look in my nurses eyes as I fidgeted. But as always it all goes away and I then get to sit there awkwardly with no one to talk to...until the nurse tells me that "Wow, you bled in 4 minutes and 49 seconds! Good job!". I morbidly respond "Good for giving blood, bad for bleeding to death" XD I'd like to take all the credit though, my bloodstream had nothing to do with it.

Well, in the end it was another wonderful experience. Though the doctors there are very careful to make it so. Like how they are very attentive to my snacking needs (yogurt trail mix=best trail mix ever) as well as the music playing; they skipped Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love song which caused the bored people waiting to laugh...nervously? XD

Bust my Buttons!

I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain.
And my head I'd be scratchin' while
my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.

With a week full of catch-up work behind me and many weeks ahead of holing myself up somewhere to study, I thought I'd watch the Wizard of Oz. Some do claim that it does have something to do with economics which I will use as one of my excuses for watching it...but I have always loved the song that the scarecrow sings...even if I feel like I am degrading myself somehow by singing it. Because I don't mean it! It's just awkward when I start to whistle/hum it and then I start to think about what I think others are thinking X( But I really like the song...such a paradox.

Anyways...I was in church today sitting next to my friend when the speaker said roughly the following. 'My sister is about to have a kid and how horrible would it be if she didn't teach that kid how to walk! It would be impossible to go through life without that skill.' I then leaned over to my friend and said 'That's when a person in a wheelchair would leave the room'. So we had a laugh and then he told me about this. So informed, and it was so very amusing to me that I had to share it with you. The Chuck that Mr. Biden is referring to is a man who is in a wheelchair if you don't get the reference I am trying to make. Truly the speaker was not trying to make fun of handicapped people, but the irony is rather paramount.

It's the second time a public speaker has said something to that effect whilst I was attending to their address and I have to say it has made me more aware of what I say. Albeit it helps make church a more unique experience. I know I can't have empathy (as of yet) with the physically handicapped and I often wonder how I chanced upon this kind of life. I must need not abuse it then...though I will always want to be jealous of the motorized shopping carts they have at...shopping marts...but it's stupid of me to be so when I have two perfectly good legs. X( anyways...after today I think my ferver will burn anew to take the stairs when I can.

Compy Tails

I don't know how to put this in an exciting-to-read way, so I'mma just go ahead and say it. That is, I got myself my very own laptop. Whoot for me to say the least. So one of the first things I wanted to do was give it a name...mostly I'll just be calling it my compy because I like the word...but I think it's like 'middle name' will be Tails (after Sonic the Hedghogs sidekick if you haven't guessed that by now). Tails has always been my favorite character, especially back when Sonic used to be American. No I have no problem with the Japanese Sonic the Hedghog (besides the plotlines), but the American one always had better...plotlines...and characters...anyways...Why you might ask? Well, whenever my computer tells me to wait it uses a small blue rotating ball instead of an hourglass next to the mouse arrow thing...at first this will annoy me because I am human and small changes are more obnoxious to me for some reason :P But I'll get used to it because I don't want to download a new cursor...:D and who wouldn't like to be reminded of Sonic the Hedghog every time they are waiting for something to load on their computer!?

Another accomplishment of this week is that I finished my Joker picture! It now hangs in my front room creaping out/awe inspiring every person that has the chance to see it. I have to say this isn't going to be good for my vanity XD but I do love it! Lot's of people found it ironic that I drew it during General Conference...but I don't! :(

"I'll admit there is some truth to it. Joker does not induce fear in me, but utter abhorrence. He is an evil that the world can do without...one who enjoys suffering and pain. He is not right. I want to do everything in my power to cease such evil [...] with-in the bounds of agency-upholding."
-My Journal "10/5/08

So that's the best defense I can come up with for my 'ironic' drawing.

Failute

Failure...I looked up the definition of the word just for this post and I have to say my favorite definition would have to be

3. a subnormal quantity or quality; an insufficiency: the failure of crops.

Probably because it is the closest to an econ definition as I can get without it being Econ...but the next best definition was

7. Strawboat on her Econ test.

so yes...I did so insufficiently on that test that I made it into the online dictionary...wouldn't that be spiffy? Maybe I'd fail at tests more often...on purpose those times though. But what I like the most about myself is that I automatically try to find solutions to remedy my current panic or crisis. I shall become good friends with my TA this semester that I am pretty sure I'll be getting him a chouette Christmas present. There shall be no white flag on my door!...That sounds better in the song I got it from. XC *sigh* I'm going to go bury myself in my drawings now...

Imagination

By the end of this week...I SHOULD be able to do this X(. When I look at hard math problems(not that this one is hard...I haven't tried it yet) I like to think to myself, 'Where did this come from?' Usually there is always a big name from history than can be thrown out who can be accredited with such a feat. But it must take some serious imagination to come up with calculations...particularly calculus...that can be used to describe some aspects of life.

And yet I find that the people I consider to be the great minds of our times are not often found in the realms of math and science...and yet it takes so much work to get results from that field. I prefer literary giants to mathematical whizzes...

Anyways, I am just pondering on these things because I am currently burdened with learning how to do these things that historical mathematicians came up with...fun stuff no?