One of the deepest yearnings of the human soul

...an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.


To read the entire address by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf click here.

How to steal like an artist.

Everyone should go to this website and read this guy's stuff. He's pretty smart and pretty right. Just click on the title of this post and then maybe your life will change and you can make it have just a teeny bit more meaning.

not finals.

Everyone is posting about finals. I will not. I will post about the opposite. No school.

No school is awesome. Here are a list of things you can do during no school.

1. You could do something crafty:
2. Lay in the shiny sun:
3. Ponder-and then record the results of the pondering. Thoughts are always nice to revisit later:

4. Go chat with some friends. That usually makes me feel better.
5. Just relax, it's really not that big of a deal.


Just stop doing the whole panicking thing. It doesn't help you or anyone in your close proximity.

word to the wise

If you have chosen to sit in the "no shh" zone and study, I am perfectly Ok with that (not like you need my approval, I am just stating a fact). More power to all the "no shh"-ers. I personally enjoy being able to study and have the freedom to talk, chat, answer the phone, cough, sneeze, and breathe without any sort of disciplinary action enforced upon me. However, might I make a small suggestion to all you "no shh"-ers: you may not want to have very personal/emotional conversations here in the "no shh" zone. It makes a lot of people, me primarily, really uncomfortable. Here are a few direct quotes from today just so you can gauge yourself next time you feel unsure about whether or not this conversation should be taken elsewhere.

"...I'm not crying yet, but you know how emotional I get when I talk about this with you." (it was a man, or should I say boy)

"I just feel like we really need to talk about us, and our relationship but I have so much homework to do." (yes you could actually hear the emphasis)

"I don't know how I feel about you going out with other girls, did you kiss any of them?" followed by a very long pause

"Well if I don't get this done there is no way I am going to get the grade I want. I just don't know what to do." I have an idea! Hows about you get off the phone and start studying. just a thought.

Please, "no shh"-ers consider my plea. The only thing I ask of you is that you check at the door of this blessed zone your loud personal emotions that distract me from getting anything done.

The reach

Well something I have thought about a lot this week was why it is so hard to form a habit but so very easy at times to get rid of one and vice versa. I think it has something to do with good and bad. Because it seems to me that bad habits stick, and good habits are like trying to catch a bowling ball covered in Crisco. I have been recently worried about my spiritual habits and my worldly habits. Not to say that spiritual=good and worldly=bad, but maybe a little bit. My worldly habits are taking over my life. Like in that horrendously lame movie where the earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, my life is the earth in that movie. So where is my dang Tom Cruise?

It’s like when you set your pen down on the table and it starts rolling off the edge. You reach as fast as your reflexes go and desperately grasp the edge of the table just as the pen drops off that mini-cliff...and it’s gone. I am as of right now, reaching. I set the good habits down for one planck unit, a single planck unit. That is the smallest measurable unit of time. I looked it up. But I did this. I set them on the table for that miniscule amount of time. My good habits go a-rollin' off the table and I am left here, with my hand outstretched in slo-mo time, reaching, hoping that I can get to them before they fall and are gone forever; before I have to reach down to the floor and pick them back up again.

In a way, the reach is a blessing, in a way it's a wake-up call, and in a way it is needed.

I have been found reaching. Have you?