What is and What Should Never Be...

This was on a note that I found in my scriptures and subsequently hung above my desk.
It was a note I made about ways in which we can "waste the days of our probation" (2 Nephi 9:27) that included things like "worrying about all you can't control," "living in the past," and "watching clocks."

Doctrinal? Largely, no. Valid? Absolutely yes.

Cold Hands (Warm Heart)

Not a bad weekend (as far as weekends in Provo go...maybe it is because we left Provo!) Me and Kaitie went up to Salt Lake, braving both my lovely city driving and the mammoth snowstorm on the way home to see Brendan Benson do a free acoustic show at the Graywhale. I decided a few things:
1. Graywhale is awesome
2. Brendan Benson's solo stuff is nice and light. Even though my favorite band is extremely mellow, I'm not sure that you could call Pink Floyd "easy listening." It is nice to have this in my music library to switch things up.
3. The Raconteurs really, really need to get back together and make more excellent music.
4. Good music makes you appreciate the goodness of life. I have a good life. It rocks, really.

Somebody uploaded all 3 songs he did onto youtube in super high quality. This is probably my favorite one that he did.

Four things you should know

1. It is the weekend.

2. "Community" is the new "The Office." Meaning that it is now a lot more amazing than new episodes of "The Office."
3. I am listening to "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" by Barry White

4. This post started out entitled "Two things you should know," which was then changed to "Three things you should know," and then "Four things you should know," and when I decided to not share the fourth thing I also decided to make this note. And so it remains four things you should (and now do) know.

(They Long to Be) Close to You

Today is a rainy day AND a Monday, and I'm feeling like a Carpenter. Though it is MLK Day, so there is no school.
Even when I'm not in class, I still try my best to learn something new everyday. Today's lesson?

Don't use a plastic fork to cook bacon.

Unless you want a really good laugh at 9:30 AM

The only thing better than one blog...

Is two blogs? For Russian 202 we have to create a Russian blog, so I just created a second one on this profile instead of starting a new profile. In case you are wondering why I have switched all of my profile from a single Pink Floyd lyric to a whole rambly Russian paragraph. Either that, or I am KGB (as my fluent, broad vocabulary would suggest...)
Being back at school isn't too bad. Minus one meltdown on Saturday that resulted in me doing some laundry and staring at the TV for the entire day (neglecting my weekend assignments,) all has been pretty good! I only have four classes, though I feel almost as busy as my 18 hour mega semester last semester. Which I somehow survived with a wonderful GPA (miracles happen!) I'm enjoying my physics class (as it is simple thus far,) trudging through Russian (as I always have,) struggling with calculus (...no comment...) and loving mission prep.
Oh! I started my mission papers last week. Completely stoked about that. I am going to list my availability date as June 15 (so I can meet Baby Jones!) so I can't turn them in until March 15. Yet the night I could start, I spent 2 hours filling in information. I kind of regretted this the next morning, but I was on one of those "EFY/Freshman at BYU" highs I so adamantly try to avoid. That makes me sound a lot worst than I intend, but hopefully you understand...
I am going to start blogging all of the funny/ridiculous things I see and overhear at BYU. This will require a pocket notepad because I am usually so overwhelmed by the end of a day that I forget all of the wonderful things. We are indeed a "peculiar people" (in this case I mean "hilariously odd at times.")
After that set-up, I actually can't think of any good stories right now. So here is a picture I took last week.
Jon out.

The printer then proceeded to sing "Don't Stop Believing" and shoot flames. It was pretty weird AND a reason to beware. Thanks for the heads up, Front Desk Attendant.