Girls:

When I was in high school, the only thing that girls were good for was for flirting with. Since then, I've stopped flirting with girls. Now girls serve no clear purpose in my life.

Sitting:

A long time ago, when I was in high school, I had to write bio's about myself for the various choir and theater arts productions that I was in. My friends and I always looked forward to making up the most ridiculous things that we could think of to put in the short blurbs about ourselves. We may or may not have always told the truth.

One of my favorite bio writing moments was when I claimed to be a Tetris Grandmaster (which, coincidentally, I am).

Another favorite moment was when I explained that I enjoy recreational sitting, and that I was considering, someday, venturing into competitive sitting.

At the time, anybody who knew me would've known that the first part was true (and frankly, still is). However, very few people truly understood how great of a competitive sitter I could be. Even I had my doubts, though they were marginal.

However, the other day, I proved my mettle. The plan was to go to the Seattle Institute of Religion and sit until I got bored. Then, I figured I'd come up with something else to do and go do it. I arrived at 10:30 am. I sat down on a couch. I stayed on that couch (and in the exact same spot on the couch) for seven hours and thirty-five minutes, getting up only to throw away my gum and a granola bar wrapper in a trash can that was just out of my reach from my seat. I finally abandoned my seat because I needed to go move my car to the other side of the road, and because it was dinner time and I was hungry.

If it weren't for my car and my lack of dinner food, I could have stayed there for days. I may have to seriously look into this competitive sitting thing.

Sick:

I've been sick since Tuesday evening. I'm starting to feel better, but am still a little mucus-y. Being sick is lame.

Photographs:

For a while, I was doing really well with taking pictures whenever I went on adventures. However, over the last few months, I've been failing miserably. It probably has a lot to do with an overall lack of adventures during my last semester at BYU. Now I think I'm just out of the habit, even though I tend to have my camera with me whenever I go do something particularly exciting.

I miss living a well documented life.

Dentists Make My Teeth Hurt:

I went to the dentist last Monday to get a filling. Did my tooth hurt before? No. Did my tooth hurt after? A little. Does my tooth still hurt? Yes.

Say what?

And I get to go back to the dentist on Tuesday so that I can get a couple more fillings, thus making even more teeth hurt that don't currently hurt. And my parent's insurance is paying ridiculous amounts of money for all of this.

Dentists are awesome.

Amazon:

I once had a friend who highly recommended using the Amazon Marketplace to buy used CD's instead of paying full price for them from other stores. I had always intended on looking up used CD's on Amazon the next time I decided to buy some, but I always forgot. Until the other day.

I was in the process of trying to decide which CD's I wanted to get with the last of my Christmas money, and I remembered that I should check and see how good of deals I could get on Amazon. Turns out that I could get good enough deals that I could get all of them. Yes, I bought all of the CD's. At least, all eight of the ones from which I was trying to pick two or three to get.

Three or four of the CD's I got are brand new, one of which cost forty-five cents. Two more cost three and four dollars. One of the used ones that I got cost a penny.

Now, bear in mind, these are eight of the greatest CD's in the world. In this one purchase, I spent more money on shipping than I did on CD's, spent an average of $5.60 per CD (including the shipping in the cost), got about half of them brand new, the other half as good as new condition, and completed my Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World, Tugboat Annie, Sunday's Best, Promise Ring and Early November collections.

For the price of three or four regularly priced CD's, I bought the last of the CD's that I could possibly ever want.

Now, I'll spend the rest of my life buying CD's that I don't actually want, and most definitely don't really need.

Boredom:

I recently decided that I should focus on trying to find a place to live in Seattle and not worry so much about trying to find a job in Whatcom County. As a result, I have nothing of real importance to do, except for when I'm trying to line up trips to Seattle, or going on trips to Seattle or, eventually, actually moving to Seattle. Instead, I spend the majority of my time doing unimportant things liking reading books just for fun, eating candy, and playing Mario Kart on the Gamecube.

Not that I'm complaining. I did kind of kill myself last semester, doing homework all the time, and such. (Though, I did get a 3.94 GPA for the semester out of the deal...I'm just not sure I'll ever sign up for that many credits in a semester again.) And, I find that having nothing to do all of the time makes it really easy to find time to study my scriptures as much as I would like, and to exercise regularly.

In short, boredom is okay. It's just kind of boring.