I'm sleepy

I woke up at 4 am this morning.  I heard recently that there was a General Authority that used to do that in order to have plenty of pondering time in the mornings.  I don't think I'll adopt that lifestyle until I can make sure to get to bed earlier in general, though.

It has spurred a thought for me, though.  How many days of our lives do we lose if we sleep those extra couple hours until 6, 7 or 8 am each day of our lives?  Is it worth the trade off to have less time awake in life, or will it shorten my life if I sleep less anyway?  I already know my Mother would tell me to sleep.  I suppose that settles it, then.

Now time to get back to writing up my personal statement for the MISM application that is due tomorrow.  Maybe I should take a nap before finishing it...

Notable Quote

"Do you have asthma?"

(A good way to lead into asking someone if they want to come to the Festival of Colors with you)

Clean sound

The piano tuner just came over this morning.  Despite the fact that it added one more thing to my day so far that has kept me from studying as well as I'd like for the GMAT (which I am re-taking next Friday) it is a simply wonderful feeling to have a freshly tuned piano in the apartment.  I feel like I should make some sort of witty comment about spring cleaning, but I can't think of one.

The tuner also tied a string back together that broke a week or so ago; I had been playing one of Chopin's nocturnes, just another day at the piano, and all of the sudden I thought that my world was crashing in on itself and someone was firing a gun at me all at once.  I wish I had a picture of my face at that moment...it probably would have looked something like a mix between Xister when he is practicing his mens' chorus songs and a little boy who has put off using the restroom for just a second too long.  Which I suppose could be very different faces depending on the little boy in question.  That's beside the point, though.

In any case I have a nice set of keys to bang on now, and that horrible experience is past me now.  Maybe I should start studying again before I need to get my laundry out from the dryer.

Notable Quote

"These crackers are up for grabs if anyone wants them"
(TA in the IS lab)
"Is that some kinda racial slur or somethin'?"
(Scott)

Lapsus Lingue

(Latin - a slip of the tongue)

This is what happens in certain situations in life, due to either nervousness, absentmindedness, or even some sort of disconnect between the brain and the mouth.

No matter how much I plan for some things, when it comes right down to it I end up flying by the seat of my pants.  Maybe some of you out there have had the same sort of experiences; you think about what you are going to say, how you are going to say it--and then when there is a pretty girl or a handsome man standing in front of you, and your mind goes blank.  Or maybe you have things all figured out for your public speech of some type, then as you get up to give it, a microscopic leprechaun wipes the chalkboard clean from the back of your mind.

This happened to me again just last night, it seems.  I planned out every step that I was going to take in order to ask someone out for the weekend, then followed none of them in practice.  Somehow it still worked out, though, and I have a date.  Life sure does play some funny tricks sometimes.

Birthday!!

Another year older and wiser, too. It has been a good birthday this year; the only bad thing that has really happened all day is my roommate used all the hot water this morning before church, so I got a cold shower. Other than that, I have had a great day.

As a birthday present of sorts to myself, I have installed the Windows 7 beta on my old laptop hard drive, and I am running it right now. It seems pretty nice so far, besides the fact that there aren't any good drivers for my graphics chipset, so things aren't quite as pretty as they could be. It has been fun for me to explore over the past few days, though. I learned that my hard drive cannot synchronize computers between the xp and vista kernels, though. Oh, well. I am thinking that I will use this Windows 7 beta for the rest of the semester and see how it works out for me.

Birthday season is always a bit interesting. I tend to not like being the center of attention, or at least, I usually end up feeling awkward when I have lots of attention. Most years I have tried to keep my birthday somewhat of a secret from people. This year has been a bit different, though--I didn't go out of my way to tell people it was my birthday, but I certainly didn't hide it either, and I mentioned it when opportunities arose. I think that maybe next year I'll keep it a secret again; a few minutes ago I was captured outside by half the ward singing happy birthday to me in choral fashion. Then they sang the star-spangled banner for some reason; don't ask me why. Maybe I am becoming an American icon or something.

I've had dinner made for me, a cake brought to me, and I've heard the happy birthday song at least half a dozen times. I think that's probably more than enough to tide me over for the next year.

Overall, though, everything is just fine. The sun came out this afternoon and warmed things up a bit, giving us all a touch more of spring fever. I see it as another well-timed present from nature. The only thing I seem to be lacking now is a good night's rest. I'll have to make sure to go to bed early tonight.