For astronomy class, we have to do certain assignments such as creating our own constellations based off several stars that are randomly placed. With my Mom's advice, I decided to do a church based design, and attempted the classic image of Captain Moroni hoisting the title of Liberty in the sky as he wields a beastly sword. Sorry if you can't read my handwriting, I did it really quick. It basically is just telling the story of Captain Moroni in the book of Alma. The colors don't pop as much in the scanned image - but in the real one they look pretty good. Comments or suggestions welcome!
I said he was placed next to Orion in the Winter Triangle so they could battle each other or Taurus together.
Dude, sorry I am a day late. But seriously, happy 19th birthday! We have been through the works together. All manner of camp outs and hikes (like the one below to that cabin when it was raining for 2 solid hours and we were in the dark trying to pull all of our stuff on sleds), or snowcaving expeditions (my favorite) because we are professional snow cavers, super activities with boats, dune buggies, bikes, beaches, kodiaks (haha), craters that have turned into lakes, mosquito bites, scout camps, waterfall hikes, swimming in tick infested ponds, so on and so forth. I hope you are having a great time at BYU Idaho!
At the last BYU basketball game, lots of people were there to see. One guy walked in who is pretty famous with his son (best mohawk ever btw) and sat down courtside to see the Jimmer dominate once again. This guy:
Deron Williams of the Utah Jazz
I took a picture of the back of his head and called it good!
Also, randomly I saw and said hi to a member of my home ward, Doug Gillespie. He said he flew in for the game and it was incredible to see him here. Then, right before halftime, I look down behind the basket and there is good old Doug, standing there! How the heck did he even get down there....then the half time game that always happens is that a person dribbles and scores a layup at one end, then comes back and tries to hit a 3 to get a $25 gift card to the BYU bookstore. Doug Gillespie was the participant! How funny and random is that?!?! I kept telling everyone, "I know that guy!"...I think they all thought I was crazy.
And then a pillar of light exceeding the brightness of the sun descended...haha just kidding. It was sunset outside and the sun could only shine through one door on the concourse, so for these lucky people they looked like angels with rays of light over them.
L. Tom Perry, much taller in person! (Or at least on camera, spotted across the arena!)
Took these pictures walking to the RB on Saturday. The mountains in the background were great, and just overlooking the whole southeast side of campus and all the athletic buildings was great as I came over the hill.
<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video/?vid=c8a41e32-5995-47a4-aeb0-75279ec6bbbb&from=IV2_en-us_foxsports_videocentral_player" target="_new" title="Wayne Rooney's goal on Fox Soccer">Video: Wayne Rooney's goal on Fox Soccer</a>
This is why I love soccer. This is why I love Wayne Rooney. I could watch this a million times and it would never get old. Soccer is so spontaneous, when a moment like this (a derby match GAME WINNER overhead goal) happens, it is pure gold. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....my mouth is still wide open, aghast because of the pure awesomeness that I have just beheld.
The last view of him just flying through the air is so perfect.
I am having a FANTASTIC day so far. I woke up early, worked out, read my scriptures and wrote in my journal, did all my laundry, deep cleaned the kitchen and my room just for the heck of it, wrote my beautiful Mom a Valentine's day card, met Tiana at the post office, sent a letter, came back, and am currently eating some pistachios and writing this. Nothing is going to get me down.
On top of that, I finished 4 papers this week before the weekend, I only have one class today, the sun is shining, it is GLORIOUS outside, there is a gymnastics meet tonight so I can go support my friend KayCee from back home who is on the team. Today is looking up.
My sister's post today made me smile. Trust me, I am not copying her post! I seriously was gonna write about being happy.
Plus, I love Simon Baker as much as anyone, and that witty "I know you are up to something Patrick Jane" smile he does is just the bezzzt. I love the mentalist.
Best thing I have bought in a long time:
Some random lady named Colette once said, "What a wonderful life I have had, I just wish I would have realized it sooner."
So my buddy Daniel "The Maniel" Pavlakos just came in and taught me about photosynthesis and cellular respiration for his biology class. As a pre-requisite for teaching me, I forced him to teach as I blasted
techno music and he had to bob up and down and dance, and sing to the beat. That just compounded the excellent day I am having.
I realized that the key to happiness is to be yourself. Don't let anyone bring you down, don't let anyone change you - who you are and what you like. If that means listening to that old Bing Crosby song that makes you happy, and your roommates are groaning and questioning your tastes and who "Bing Crosby" even is, so be it!
Like Kris Allen said, we've only got 86400 seconds in a day. Live like you are dying.
So pretty much, I've decided my eyeball kinda looks like honeycomb in this picture. So crazy.
Yesterday around noon I had the desire to go to the top of the JFSB where you can go onto this roof section overlooking campus and take a picture because it was glorious outside. So I got up to the 4th floor, and low and behold the doors to get outside are locked!? What?! I took a picture from inside.
In the JFSB they have all these little "nooks" that people can just sit at and relax and study. I managed to find an empty one overlooking the inner courtyard which was amazing because the sunshine was pouring in on the right side of my face and I felt so good sitting there.
The courtyard of the JFSB is really pretty. They have an awesome fountain that people sometimes put dish soap in to be funny. The snow in the middle looked to me like a deflated marshmallow that was put in the microwave, pumped up to maximum extension, and just left to sit and deflate.
Oh and there is me in the reflection.
Have a great day, everyone. Really, you deserve it.
I've had a pretty good day today. I got to wake up early and start my day off right by going to the temple once again. Today was especially crowded, there were lots more people then normally are there at 5:30 in the AM. I came back and went to sleep for an hour and a half until I woke up at 8:30. Then I realized that I still hadn't completed some of my Book of Mormon reading that was due today so I read 2nd Nephi 2-7. Luckily, there was no quiz in class today. I have been spending lots of my time writing several papers that are due coming up soon, most are due on Valentines day (this coming Monday.) I was about to ask my Political Science paper to be my Valentine, until my teacher graciously extended the due date another week. That guy is so awesome, it made my day. Tonight I am heading over to watch the BYU basketball game at my brother from another mother Justin Green's apartment. Tomorrow I also got invited graciously by my wonderful sister to go see Cinderella at the Di Jong concert hall since she had an extra ticket. I figured, what the heck. A break in the schedule can't hurt! I wanted to go outside and kick a soccer ball around for a bit, it has just frankly been too long since I was able to do that, but my roommate Hunter wasn't home unfortunately. Cleaning checks on Saturday at 10:30 AM. What else is going on....uhh....oh some guys downstairs attempted the "Gallon Challenge". The challenge is to chug a gallon of milk and survive through intense feelings of nausea afterwards. Although I didn't witness it, the random fact of the day board in their window said "Gallon Challenge: 4, Gallon Challengers: 0". I never want to try that.
I thought this was an awesome video.
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Looking through old pictures is lots of fun. I remember doing this with Gemma one time.
I remember on Memorial Day getting to go to the gymnastics gym and mess around for a few hours. Blast. I would do anything to do it again! Here is my best spiderman pose.
If I were a fish...
I believe I can fly.
Do I look like my Dad ?
(Photo taken in 10th grade...)
This is my dog someday.
This is me on the first day of College. I remember because that is the shirt I wore in my ID card picture. Good times.
This post is a result of boredom and a little bit of slacking off. Back to WORK!
Sitting in Astronomy yesterday, learning about the planets. I was really proud of this drawing. I got lots of the cross hatching pretty good the the 3D for the most part looks good, except I botched the angle of the tailwing a little bit, but I can live with that.
Also, this is lower on my paper. I drew a guy, who if he could speak would be saying "IT WAS THIS BIG" in Don Knotts voice from the Ghost of Mr. Chicken. The telescope thing was all random. Here's how it works; the telescope looks into the starry night sky, the computer processes the image and makes it 3D, then the hologram emitter projects it into thin air for your viewing pleasure!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Listen to a nice tune and check out some random drawings.
Now I thought this was hilarious. I was searching through some of the stuff that I brought to college and found an old notebook. As it turns out, this notebook was from 7th GRADE!! I used to draw spaceships and planets and stuff all the time, so I scanned in this galaxy I drew and the page adjacent that outlines what each planet it like and the name of it. Turns out, not much has changed from then to now :)
That film is an hour and a half long, but has some of the best screenplay I have ever seen. If you don't think that civilization is destroying the Earth as we know it, take a look at that video and you will see that things are seriously changing in these modern times. I watched the whole thing this morning because it was so good.
"Humans have shaped the Earth in our image, and we have very little time to change."
"It's too late to be a pessimist."
If anything, go to 1:18:00 and watch from there on, there are some really great stories about things that people are doing to preserve the Earth we live on.
On another note, I love surprises. At 10:50 after class my sister called me as I was walking to Book of Mormon. The conversation went on and she asked what I was up to;
"Oh just walking to Book of Mormon, you?" "Just walking too." "Where are you?" "Right outside the JFSB..." "Did you say the JFSB??" "Yeah, where are you?" "Right outside the JFSB, in front of it, in the courtyard!" "Where are you?!" "I don't see you..." "I'm right in the open!"
Then suddenly, the crowd subsides and there she is standing, looking around for me. I start going towards her and when she finally see's me coming up on here we just both burst out laughing and give each other a bear hug. We just laughed at the coincidental nature of the situation. I was on the phone with her, and on all of campus we end up bumping into each other! I had a big grin on my face all the way to class. That just made my day.
