Waiting.

I am sitting in an orange chair on on a loft in a journalism building watching CNN waiting for my microbiology class to start in 48 minutes, not that I'm counting. It is giving me quite the opportunity to rethink my life. But mostly all I can think about is how the guy on the screen talking about hurricanes has a crooked yellow tie and moves his head lot. Thus, you see a demonstration of my deep thought :)
Also, I am thinking about how the chair I'm sitting in has 4 legs, but the front two have wheels and the back two don't. Which makes sense if you want to swivel the chair around I guess, but it makes it really loud when I scoot backwards, because the floor is concrete, and steel scraping across concrete is not a pretty sound. Also, this building is weirding me out, because half of it is concrete, the other half is painted orange and a brownish-purplish mud color that is not very attractive. I'm wondering if it's supposed to be eco-friendly, because the ceiling looks pretty nast. In other news I discovered a free printer hidden away in a journalism research room that saved my life this morning!! Woohoo!
So I googled the word "waiting" and it came up with some pretty funky stuffs. These two are my favorites, they pretty much describe how I feel right now.

Update On My Life

So in the last few weeks I have:
Started working at a music store where my brother got me a temp job renting out instruments, which has been pretty bomb. And it's pretty much just paying for my textbooks for college, where I started my sophomore year last Thursday.
Also, for my birthday I got a dog!!!! Who is so cute, pictures to come.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand that's about it :) I just read Fahrenheit 451 for the third time, and the Bicentennial Man for the first time, and am currently reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down for my class, and I am going to read either The Tempest or Common Sense or both next. :)

Summer School is OVER!!!

Today was the last day of my summer Chemistry class!! Woohoo!! Now I get a week off before I start a temporary job at the music store my big brother works at, and then I'll start normal classes. So much for summer break :P Oh well. Now that school is over I can get to work hardcore on my reading list :) And then in less that a month I'll be 19! Woohoo!!
In other news I started going to a student ward, which so far has been fun, and I really like the bishop and his counselors and their wives. They are all really nice and so are the members in the ward that I've met so far.
Aaaand that's pretty much it :)

Meet Hamlet: aka My Sister Rocks

This is Hamlet. He was discovered on my ceiling today, and I was just going to set a trap and spend the next week on the couch. But my awesome sister decided he needed to die so he didn't escape and bite her kids, so we moved the book shelves and she and my mom took him down. It was pretty epic.
It was also pretty disgusting.

Wildlife in my Backyard

In the last week I have seen the following things in my backyard:
Ants, lots and lots of ants.

A wasp

Lacewing Flies (These are one of my favorite bugs)

Scorpions, of course

A carpenter bee

A lizard

A ground snake (see previous post)

A kitten (which made its way into our house and attacked my sister-in-law and I when we tried to pick it up to take it outside)

And a Vulture

We see most of these on a regular basis, but I haven't seen a snake or a vulture around here before, so that was pretty cool. There are also a bazillion doves and pigeons and crows that like to sing 24 hours a day, which is kind of obnoxious at 1 in the morning but it's fun to wake up to. :)

Meet Mo:

Yesterday several members of my family were swimming in the pool in our backyard. At one point my nephew shouted, "Hey look Dad, I found a snake!" And in his hands was this little guy:

At first we thought he was dead and we told my nephew to put it down and my mom proceeded to pick it up with the pool net. Then it started wiggling around so we figured he was still alive. My brother went in to Google it to find out what kind of snake he was and my niece and I watched him, and she told me to touch it so I pet his back and named him Mo. Then my brother came out and informed us that he is a slightly toxic ground snake that eats scorpions.

So we put him in the alley behind our house where he has been assigned the task of eradicating our scorpion population.

Summer Reading List

In three days I will take my last final and then I will have finished my freshman year of college!! Woo hoo! So in preparation for a long, hot summer spent largely indoors with air-conditioning, I am compiling a summer reading list. So far, here's what I have:
1. John Adams by David Mccullough
2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
4. The Iron Heel by Jack London
5. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (When it comes out)
6. Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. Dune by Frank Herbert
10. Plato's Republic by Plato
11. Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
13. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
14. Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester
15. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L'Engle
16. Beowulf as translated by Burton Raffel
17. El Leon, la Bruja, y el Ropero by C.S. Lewis
18. Common Sense and other writings by Thomas Paine
19. Rifles for Waite by Harold Keith
20. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
21. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
22. Don Quijote De La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
23. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
24. Standing for Something by Gordon B. Hinkley
25. Tally's Corner by Elliot Liebow

A lot of these are books that I tried to read when I was younger and had no idea what the heck they were talking about, so I guess I'll give them another shot and see what happens :) Any suggestions?