Testing...1...2...3..

I think I inadvertently am setting a record. Since our first date exactly a week ago today, Boy (to protect the innocent) and I have seen each other every day this week.

Saturday- He came over to chat.
Sunday- Church
Monday- FHE
Tuesday- Devotional
Wednesday- We watched "Count of Monte Cristo" at his place
Thursday- He came over after taking a test, bearing chocolate!
Today- He cooked dinner for me (hot wings!!) and we watched "Spaceballs"

He is a super sweet guy. Dad, you would approve. = )

As much fun as my weekend should potentially be, I have to take a my first Sensation and Perception test tomorrow. But I am sure at some point fun will be had!!

What a Life

What a week, what a week, what a week.

If I had anything more to say I would.

But I don't.

So this shall have to suffice.

"Neurons Delivered" The Movie

Life is wonderful. Even though you may have lived for years and years you still make discoveries.

Things Emily Discovered Today:
- She is no longer able to pull off all nighters
- Mulan can very easily be turned into a funny movie
- Attempting to write a paper on a book that isn't supposed to be delivered to me until Wednesday at the earliest isn't very easy. It is a good thing this is a rough draft and will be revised throughout the semester.
- Sleeping on the couch makes it so she doesn't have to crawl into a cold bed.
- There are neurons in our brain that fire only when a certain line angle is detected in our line of vision. (tested on cats)
- She enjoys going to FHE.

About A Boy

I think I know why I wasn't upset about my lack of male interaction. Don't get me wrong I had tons of fun Friday night, however everything is just so complicated and confusing. But instead of making a list entitled "Why First Dates Suck" I will make this one instead.

Why Mine Wasn't So Bad:
- He was just as nervous as I was.
- He was just as awkward as I was.
- He was clumsier than me and therefore did most of the falling on the ice.
- He agreed that it would be more fun to sit and watch other people fall.
- He thought watching Ace Ventura was a good way to thaw out our hindquarters.
- He could quote as much of it as I could.
- We laughed.
- We talked.
- He got a hug goodnight.

The date was kinda of long, but it didn't really feel like a date (minus all the I'm incredibly nervous and sweating profusely parts). It felt like just hanging out and having fun.

Dear Readers,
I shan't be boring you with any things that I learned in my classes today. Like how spatial frequency works in our eyes, or the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989, or the difference between Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio scales of measurement, or when to perform a t-test versus ANOVA. For I am much too busy with other things tonight.


Like going to Applebees for a nice steak dinner and then going ice skating...

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with a boy. As in, just me and him. As in, he asked me out. As in, the world probably momentarily stopped turning at some point yesterday, because I, my friends, am going to embark on one of life's greatet journeys. A journey involving a free steak dinner. And I like it!!

My Favorite Transduction

I got home from my Sensation and Perception class yesterday and just could not think anymore. I sat on my couch and played solitaire. After losing 13 games in a row, I finally beat my high score with a whopping 9731!! Then April came home and we watched the last few episodes of Lost season four and finished 5 minutes before season five premiered at 8pm. It finished at ten, I showered and went to bed, unable to do any homework due to having no internet.

So here I am sitting on my favorite couch in the Rick's, with some not-so-favorite-people sitting next to me and talking really loud, acutely aware of the chemical processes which are enabling my eyes to see. Thinking about the transduction of photons going on in every photoreceptor in my eyes rather than what I am reading in Bressler.


If you are ever bored and willing to listen to me talk for ever, just ask me how it is that our eyes can see. It's quite incredible...really.

Accomplishing Lost Potatoes

Accomplishments of the day:
- Talked to boy online for 45min
- Went to FHE and sat through a game of Charades (getting my roommate to take my turn for only $1.50)
- Went out with the roommates to see a movie instead of just saying no (Forever Strong was great!)
- Ate a potato while in Idaho (eagerly awaiting the rest of the bag)
- Spent my whole day watching Lost....wait is that an accomplishment?!?

More Cowbell

uhh...so no real plans actually happened on friday. Emma had to leave town for some family emergency and so we stayed in our apartment (April can't walk anywhere) ordered pizza ate birthday cake for an hour until her boyfriend called and they talked for like 5 hours while both Kristen and I fell asleep while watching What not to Wear. It was about as much fun as it sounds...the pizza was good though.

I am way excited that there aren't any classes tomorrow for "Idaho Civil Rights Day". I however will personally be celebrating Martin Luther King Day. As per tradition growing up I will listen to his I have a Dream speech and "Free at Last".

I think my life needs more excitement.

Revelatory Sock Knocking Plans

I had the most amazing, intense, and depressing thought today while not feeling very well and yet sitting in my Natural Disasters class.

To preface I am not suicidal nor do I approve of any active exploration of means to end life purposefully...

How do people not believe there is anything after death?

What do they think happens after we die?

I was sitting there (quite light headed for some reason) and I recalled how it felt going under when I got my wisdom teeth out. As I described in another post, knowing what was happening and then continuing to think even after being knocked out. But that in between stage, how can anyone see death as an ending? You lay there it gets dark, things spin, then...nothing? There can't be anyway that we just end. That just makes no sense....none at all.

I doubt a lot of things when it come to my faith. But this was just such an intense testifying that I have trouble finding anyway that it could not be true.

On a happier note...it is April's birthday today and we (the roommates) are going to go see a movie and go to dinner!! Yay for having a life on a Friday night.

Interesting Eyes

We began our study of the eye in Sensation and Perception today. I found it quite interesting. Here are a few things I learned.

- The eye color blue means that there actually is no pigment in the iris.
- Our eyesight gets worse as we age because our lens becomes less flexible, having acquired more layers (like an onion) and becoming stiff.
- My nearsightedness mean that I have long eye balls.

Well now you know!!

With large amounts of homework to do I really shouldn't be updating my blog. Or be on Facebook. Or playing solitaire.

Editorial Pants

With the winter weather come the sheer disregard for fashion. Take today, when I didn't feel like getting my pants wet...Talk about tacky!! Never in my life would I roll up my pants, except in Idaho in the middle of winter when I don't want to get my pants wet. And they didn't.

For my Advanced Research and Literature class we will be publishing our own Literary Journals. In class we choose some topics we thought would be interesting and then split up into five Editorial Boards for the most enticing ideas. I chose to be on the Editorial Board for the Popular/Modern Literature Journal (it was my idea after all) and then was elected Editor in Chief. So pretty much until April when I finally turn this in I will respond only to Editor in Chief!

Commonly Added

I officially have 16 credits and finally got into the Research Methods class!! Yay!!
I will undoubtedly now complain about the fact that I am taking it for the rest of the semester. In the interest of time and brain cells I have for you yet another list.

Things Emily Commonly Does When She Doesn't Want To Work: (but also doesn't want to feel guilty about it)
- Wash dishes
- Eat food
- Cook food to eat
- Refill soap in bathroom
- Groom herself
- Rearrange furniture
- Make shopping lists
- Update her blog

True story.

Improv Old Guys

I went to a Comedy Improv show on campus Saturday night, which was insanely fun! It was pretty much a live "Who's Line" show. The picture below shows the four actors participating...yes one of them was Kirby Heyborne.


School really is keeping me too busy. I talked to a bunch of guys from our ward today, only to find out that they were all way over the age of 25. Sorry that's a little bit too old for me. I suppose I shan't get married after all.

Get a Load of This Tag

Cassie tagged me in a "Seven Things You Didn't Want to Know About Me" post.

So here we go...enjoy...

1. To begin, if given the choice between anything pink or purple, I would dive into a vat of boiling pig intestines before choosing either one.

2. I can be amazingly artistic given an edible medium. (Smarties and colored twizzlers)

3. I am an incredible dork. I am the one waving in the wrong direction.

4. There is actually a small growth on the upper left side of my stomach that serves as a second stomach of sorts (similar to a cow). I can therefore digest my food at an extraordinarily fast rate. Just kidding...wouldn't that be awesome though?!?

5. I sometimes pretend to be a guy and lay my head on already syruped pancakes.

6. I could eat for the rest of my life Pancake Sizzli's and Pancake Sizzli's only.

7. Junie B. Jones is my hero.

I am tagging:
1-7. Any one who wants to do it!!

So here are the rules:

link your original tagger and the rules on your blog post

share seven facts about yourself in the post-some random, some weird

tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs

let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs.

Classes Swap Busy

Yesterday was a busy day. Not only preparing myself for classes to begin, but Jitta as well. We did finally get her checked in, I gave her a virtual tour of campus (it was snowing), helped her buy her books, and then sent her off to go shopping with her roommate!!

I also got my books and ventured into the new food area on campus for the first time since they redid it. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. I met my room roommate whose name is Emma and she seems pretty nice, however neither of us really talk. My other two roommates I already knew, Kristen and April.

I went to my first class, Natural Disasters, today at 9am. The professor is pretty funny and keeps things interesting. His wife is in the class...as a student...is that legal?!? At 12:45 I will sit in on a Research Methods class that I hope to add, go to Old Testament, then to Sensations and Perception.
Then I will hang out with Jitta as her last class of the day is in the same building as mine. We can swap horror stories and she can tell me about all the new friends she has made!!

Yay life.

Blah Idaho DONT TALK TO ME!!

Not to be a total and complete killjoy about being back in school, but sitting on the shuttle I over heard a much dreaded conversation from the seats behind me.

Voice 1: Hi I'm Crystal, what's your name?
Voice 2: Cynthia...nice to meet you Crystal.

::Emily shoots self in face::

I am so not looking forward to being forced into several thousand of those over the next few days.

Sigh