Today was a good day. You might ask why. I shall tell you. The reasons are two. 1. A storm came through Utah today, dumping tons of snow on the benches in Salt Lake City. Enough snow fell that the University of Utah closed at noon. Snow Day! No school today. Instead I was able [...]

Today I learned that Nyquil can suck the ambition right out of a day. I managed to make it to work for tutoring/faculty meeting. And that was close getting there because I took some Nyquil last night before bed as well and had the hardest time waking up. I was going to do several things [...]

I never really thought of myself as a physical person. I had a pretty big personal bubble for a very long time. Most people in Brasil have very small personal bubbles, and that was uncomfortable for me for a long time. It took some real getting used to. I had one companion whose bubble was [...]

Isn’t it interesting that they proved that the earth went around the sun, not by the movements of the sun, but rather through the movements of the other planets in the solar system? That seems like a roundabout way to figure something out. But would there really be another way? It isn’t as if they [...]

The first year that I lived in my apartment, I did not have a car. That meant that everything I did, everywhere I went, had to be within reasonable walking distance (which changed depending on how I felt that day) or accessible by bus. I did my grocery shopping every week, if not more often, [...]

I’m ready. I really think I’m ready. This doesn’t mean I’m not going to have doubts and second thoughts, but I’m ready. And I’m excited. I’m not scared. I know what it’s going to take. I know who I will need to help me get there. I can do this. I can already feel it. [...]

I ended up on the freeway tonight, driving north. It was dark. I had just over a half of a tank of gas. And because of the mood I was in, I was sorely tempted to see just what was that far away, to just drive. I thought I might go out about a quarter [...]

My mom taught us a song when we were little that has a line that says “I love the daffodils.” The song just came to my mind, so I thought I’d look up daffodils on-line. I didn’t know they were poisonous. Botanical.com has some information about them: http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/n/narcis01.html

It is generally accepted that I do not know how to cook. As the Relief Society President in my ward, the bishop was known on much more than one occasion to inform the ward of that as well. And I thought that was just fine. People don’t need to think they need to be excellent [...]

When you go to the doctor because you are in pain, they ask you how you would rank your pain on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being no pain and 10 being the worst pain imaginable. It has recently occurred to me that it is a totally subjective scale. I realized this [...]