Plop

We fell off the blogging bandwagon. Your regularly scheduled randomness will resume (hopefully) within the next couple days. I got sick, worked this weekend, and David is having major computer drama...Basically we forgot a couple days. Oops.

The only thing worse than Jamie working on a Friday night...

is this...

Fever. Chills. Aches. Pains. Sadness.

On my mind

11:31am- An empty cookie jar is a sad thing.
11:36am- Does it still count as playing with your food if it isn't cooked yet?
12:35pm- Why do I need to go to marriage prep? I am already married!
1:15pm- Why is it so cold?
1:21pm- Woah! that leaf has been up in the air for the whole time this light has been green! (it promptly falls and gets run over by a car.)
4:01pm- My tongue is cold... and red. Yay for celebratory slurpees!
5:47pm- Tantrums are fun. Especially yelling flailing "I DON'T WANT TO STUDY" tantrums. Until my wedding ring hits David in the face. Then he isn't having as much fun. I don't think it bled....
5:52pm- Does beer taste anything like root beer?
6:40pm- Why does my thumb hurt?
7:03pm- Hungry hungry JAMIE! Ah! food!!!! please?
7:05pm- David loves me. He is making Macaroni and Cheese for dinner even though he doesn't like it. Aww, cute.
7:17pm- I don't need school.... Too bad that is a lie...
9:00pm- The cookie jar will be full before I go to bed :) Peanut butter cookies in the oven.

Today I am: A kitchen dancer. A user of the little bowls, just because. A neglectful student. A cheese eater. A dishwasher. Feeling better. Tired of (and because of) textiles. (I dreamed about fabric types). A tantrum-er. A fishy watcher. Hungry. Bored of studying. Ready to move on from College.

Wednesday

Isn't Wednesday a weird day? The "hump day" of the week. You're no closer to the weekend than you are to the week beginning. I remember a time when I could not spell Wednesday to save my life. I broke down during a first grade spelling test and the teacher ended up giving me full points... It would probably be more correct to say that my substitute teacher gave me full points. If I'm remembering clearly my actual teacher had a baby about 2 months into school and I had a substitute for the remainder of the semester. I do remember, however, throwing a party for myteacher when she came back. I made a banner on the computer that read "Welcome Back Mrs. Hummel!" It included what I thought were girl bunnies on the side. They were not baby bunnies. They were Playboy Bunnies. It's a good thing my mom caught that before I printed it off. Ahh the confusion of Wednesdays.

Fishy

We cleaned the fishbowl today. Boring, yes. Needed, YES. Poor little Hiccup was getting more and more sluggish as his water became more and more sludgy. Today was the day! He is now swimming happily in his clean bowl with new water and clean gravel.

Fish in waiting.

Happy in a clean bowl!

Blah.

I don't feel good. Haven't all day. David is out of ideas, as am I. I need to fold laundry. Correction. We need to fold laundry. We just ate milkshakes. Is 10:00 too early to go to bed? Ramble ramble ramble Blah. We call our geranium the Alien. I am not sure why. I can see 13 bottles of Coke from where I am sitting. I'm afraid this is as good of a post as you are going to get today. At least it is something right?

Mormon Media Studies Symposium

As a requirement for one of my classes I have to go to the Mormon Media Studies Symposium on BYU campus this weekend. At first I was only happy because I didn't have to go to class this week in order to make time for going to the symposium. However, after looking at the schedule and doing some research on the speakers and the program I am getting excited. They are covering every topic from Mommy blogs to Internet safety to media coverage of Mormons and prop 8. It's like a dream come true.

The coolest thing about this event may have already been discovered. One of the speakers, Larry Richman, is the author of www.ldsmediatalk.com. This site is awesome. Pretty much everything that anyone would ever want to know about LDS media or the LDS church in the media or really media in general is on this site. My favorite feature is the search by category feature located on the righthand side of the screen in a pull down menu. Richman has categories like: "Family-Friendly Content" and "Internet Statistics" to "Social Media" and "Websites and Blogs of Interest". This guy has done his research. You need to check it out. I'm excited to meet him this week and ask him a few questions in his panel discussion.

What I am most excited about the Mormon Media Studies, however, is the call for papers. Each year they select papers from grad students, undergrad students, professors, and people from all around the country to present at this symposium. Next year I want to submit a paper or two. I'm thinking that with how much blogging to referenced in this years symposium I will be a lead candidate for my paper on blogging I'm currently writing. I'm pretty excited. The next call for papers isn't until the end of next summer, so I have some time. We'll let you know how it goes.