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I spent all of last night working on my prompts for TMA 395 and my extra credit assignments for TMA 201.

More importantly I filled out my resume and emailed it off to a few more job openings around campus. I even got really fancy and created myself some business cards for myself and created a website to advertise myself in my field. I have high hopes that I will be able to get a job or at the very least showcase my talents and abilities to the world.

Here is the URL: http://web.me.com/pjhayes/CobaltCatalyst/Welcome.html

Testing the waters

This weekend has been an interesting one. I finally manned up and asked Anna out on a date. We went to Divine Comedy’s best of show. It was amazing! Their inception parody was unbelievable, however their Sound of music parody in my opinion was left lacking. After the date we went back to my apartment and had ice cream and cookies. I really like Anna and we seem to hit it off rather well so I’ll see where things go the next couple of dates. My concerns are what to do with our relationship since she will be graduating in two weeks, if we have a relationship in two weeks.

Saturday morning I went to the play card party… everyone in class didn’t really know what to do to fill them out so it will be interesting to see Stephanie’s feedback on them.

Sunday morning was a typical day in the neighborhood. Got up, showered, and went to church. Madelyn was happy to see me finally at church. Unfortunately, this Sunday was my final Sunday in the ward; everyone was sorta sorry to see me go. After speaking with Bishop ______ I’m not sorry to be leaving the ward. I’ not really bitter I just don’t feel the love in the ward, nor do I think he is a good bishop. Although I probably should mention some of the redeeming qualities of the ward, like it’s baking abilities.

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Tattoo party at Kat's house at 1am Sunday morning is never a good idea. Although it was interesting to see people's reactions at church.

All the Worlds a Stage

After two months worth of hard work, Jenny’s MASK club opens. We’ve been preparing for this day for a week now with tech rehearsals and learning new techniques for the dance number.

UPDATE: The MASK Club was a major success, the crowd loved us! We even got a standing ovation during our third performance.

I loved the opportunity I had to work on this project. It was nice to finally work behind the scenes as well as act in the play. My servant character even got to be in an extend role as the servant who helps Colonel Williams carries Mrs. Charming off the stage. I also stored up the knowledge I learned from Jenny and Ali in hopes of applying in when I stage Manage next semester.

It was nice seeing Jenny's concept of Chocolate being represented in the play, through the costumes and on the stage in it's design.

Everyone's a Critic

Partner Evaluation.

I believe that Petra and I worked well with each other. We both put worth effort and tried to understand our scene from each other's respective. This was hard for me since neither Petra nor I have had any training in acting; nor have we acted in anything before this class. Luckily, Petra was really chill with my lack of acting and was able to help me when I struggled with Proof. I'd give Petra full marks for being willing to act and take direction from others.

I felt it a pleasure to work with Paul. He truly is a nice man and a talented actor in training. Like Petra, Paul has not had any formal training so it made it rather difficult to act out our scene. We both struggled with the comedy monologue not really understanding what to do with the direction we were given. It would have been nice to act alongside someone who had had formal training but I am glad for getting to know Paul better; and sometimes not knowing anything about acting allowed for Paul and I to react better to each other’s tactics. However for the record I would like to state that I am frustrated with this class in the area of not being clear enough in the directions that are given. On several occasion I has graded or instructed to correct something in a scene because I had failed at something, like objectives or a tactic. However I was unsure as to why I failed in this area. In the future I would like to see the class build around theory instead of practicum, this might help to eliminate several problem I found in acting. Knowing the theory might help me to act better instead of taking the headfirst approach to acting.

Mov'n On Up to the East Side

I’m love being in my apartment however I dislike my ward. After being in it for almost two full schools years I have grown apart from it in several areas most notable in the area of the leadership and dating pool. Therefore I have come to the decision that I need to relocate to a new apartment complex and thereby will be rolled in to a new ward.

The answer to my prayer came by way of Facebook posting from Andy. Andy’s roommate Andrew is moving out and needs to sell his contract. Robert is looking for a place to live since he is coming to school soon. I sold him my contract and purchased Andrews. Soon I’ll move out and Robert will move in. Problem Solved. Andy tells me that we have church in the CB (Clyde Building) and that our bishop is the church’s top Public Affairs representative; so, he is always jet sitting around the world deal with matters for the church.

Birthday Wishes

Monday Nov. 15, 2010

Today is my birthday! I’m turning 23. The BIG two three. I do not know if my life will be very different now that I am 23 but I do think I need to act a pinch more mature, act my age ya know. In all honesty I am not to concerned with this fact because I know that I am pretty much a good person already.

My dad is in town this week and over the weekend he took me to Outback stake house where we both had a stake. It was nice to have him in town. We spent most of the time talking about religion, politics, religious politics, and women. I finally opened up to my dad regarding my last relationship and just how crazy the girl is. He offered me some wonderful advice regarding how to conduct a relationship, mostly off of the fact that you need to have an open mind and ask a ton of questions. He really stressed communication. On the subject of religion, he instructed me to not worry to much about things and even though I do not like single wards, I need to remember that these things are not permanent.

On Sunday night grandma and the family gathered to celebrate my birthday, the party went well. Grandma is getting to old to bake so she bought a store made German chocolate cake. It was delicious. The presents were nice as well. People have been so nice to me this birthday. I even got a birthday kiss ;-)

Three Days of Rain

Ronnie presented her Mask club play to the school today. It was amazing! She did such a wonderful job. The play was Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg. For todays class Paul and I went over our play several times to discuss and run over our piece before we presented it in class. I felt that the run through helped me a lot and running through the lines with Paul was very helpful as well. Lisa Stoffer helped Paul and I by giving us directions and her critiques were the same as Stephanie's comments. I tried to add her comments into our scene and i think I managed to do that. I dialed up the humor and the dryness of my sarcasm. Hopefully I was able to mange to do that but I wont find out till later.

half full

I have no feelings… I feel rather numb… my drive to do work and school is all but gone. I’d rather hide under a rock and sleep then do anything. The release from the world that I find from acting is one of my few pleasures in the world albeit a dangerous one.

Anchors Away!

Blocked my stalker on Facebook. Wish things had gone differently, unfortunately Corey just wouldn’t see things my way.

Le Sigh

Life at the moment is very stressful. The end to the semester is right around the corner and “the school” seems to know it. With rehearsals, papers, and a social life, I am finding myself squeezed to the bone—rung out with life. Lack of sleep isn’t helping my situation. I was up late last night and the previous night with friends…

Suffering from depression is a problem for us theater students and I’ve found myself at several people’s apartments this past week trying to combat my depression as well as help them to some degree. We each have our own reasons for putting off homework, but we can all share the unity of friendship and theater together and if that unity for only one instance shakes off our chains and allows us to be free then I’d rather choose that path then be consigned to do homework and get the proper amount of sleep.

Happy Halloween

Ended up at Smiths market at 2am in the morning with Shilo, Kat, Dana, Lisa, and Lexi looking for hot cocoa mix. After parties are always better with hot cocoa of course. After shopping we ended up at Kat’s apartment and crashed ther till 4am… big mistake, I found out that I need my eight hours of sleep. I awoke Sunday morning at 11am and proceeded to dress for church. Upon arrival at church I discovered that I had missed church! Apparently our church meeting was stake conference and I had forgotten that it was at 10am instead of its normal time of noon. I was pretty bummed by this revelation because Elder Hales, one of the twelve apostles was the keynote speaker. In repentance for missing church I spent the afternoon in the clerks office working on scheduling and record upkeep.

Twas the Night before...

Spent the majority of the day working on homework in order to free up my evening. Tonight’s the night for Dracula at the castle theater and, of course, Halloween parties. I decided to recycle last year’s Halloween costume; I’m going to go as a catholic priest! I received several negative reviews about it last year however I have high hopes this year will be better. I’m avoiding all LDS dances because of bad experiences last year… should have know better and am sticking to local Halloween parties only. Around 7:30pm Zack, my old mission friend, called me asking for tickets and a ride to the show. I felt troubled since tickets had sold out and my car was already full of people but after some planning we were able to work something out. I pat myself on the back with how well I’m able to organize and plan things out. Basically the new plan was to pick Zack and his friends up at his place at around 10pm and drive them up to the theater so they could get in the standby line and wait for tickets and then I would proceed to head back down the hill and pick up the rest of friends. Good disaster struck half and hour before the show started when Lexi called me asking for a ticket and a ride… luckily enough after picking up Kat and Dana we were able to swing by Lexi’s apartment and drive her up to the castle.

Dracula was an amazing performance. The actors knew it was their last show and have it their all. The vocal output and facial expressions were astounding and added a much needed effect to the show. As always David Morgan did a wonderful job and so did his wife. Because it was the venues last show they packed extra people into the tiny little castle room which although made it cramped added out the thematic element that when one person got scared or startled the rest of the line of people would jump with that person. Being next to Lisa Stoffer made for some interesting encounters.

Paul and I have been working our scene for about a week now and it is progressing rather well. I still need to read the play, Paul says its over at the library so I’ll have to go over there and check it out. For our scene I’ve been working on trying to let my primary object show through my actions instead of having my secondary object overwrite my scene. Unfortunately for me, this is more often the case then not. Gabby had us run through the scene while I picked objects up and rushed around the room preparing for my date which would inevitability not happen over the course of the play from what Paul has told me about it. This exercise worked but yet again I focused too much on the objects instead of having the lines roll fluidly.

This morning also marked the Department’s Conference on depression and suicide as well as how to cope with it. The address was given by Rodger Sorenson and a councilor form the Wilkinson center. Despite the man having good information I felt that the conference missed the real point of why were where all there and that the department was just holding a conference to cover their ass so to speak. It was very impersonal and seemed to reflect an attitude directed to a broad audience. I really should get upset about it since that is what the department is supposed to do—reach as many people as possible instead of focusing on the one but maybe focusing on the needs of all is what got ‘us’ overlooking the problems of the few in the first spot.

On a side note, Stephanie’s play opens tonight. Stage Door!!!! Should be fun fun fun!

bitter sweet

Today was a very hard day. Lelagi’s funeral was this morning. A quarter of the HFAC turned out for it. Never have I had to experience something like that. A funeral for a class mate, never do you think you will ever experience that when you go to college. The numbing feeling never goes away, it sticks to my bones as cold that can never be urged out. Despite my feelings I was happy to see Stephanie, Wade, and Rodger in attendance. My emotions ran high for the rest of the day and still into when I type this. Her ceremony was beautiful and I’m sure she would have loved it. This is really hard to write down. On a lighter note they served funeral potatoes at the funeral.

Passing the Cup

Wade honored Lalegi with the whole class period being a sorta wake in her honor. It was nice, we as students need someone to sit us (students) down and explain to us what happened. Some classmates couldn’t handle the news and removed themselves from the room, others cried and shared their stories about Lalegi.

Found out some of the saddest news I’ve ever heard in my life. A dear friend of mine, a classmate, and fellow student took her life yesterday, Lalegi Klean. She sat behind me in 395. Never again will I see her face and share light conversation with her. Later that day I had class with Stephanie, my appreciation for her knows no bounds, I have never met such a gospel in tuned teacher on campus. She gave a very inspiring and moving speech about what kind of actor you need to be; one that choose to skirt the line, or be a zealot of following the church’s rules while acting. I think I’ll try and ride the line between the two although that is a dangerous path the travel from what Rodger has told me.

I was impressed because her speech was from the heart and you could really feel the weight behind her words. Stephanie is the director for Stage Door and Lalegi was the shows Dramaturge, her and Stephanie where close and her death, you could tell, had impacted her.

My brother’s birthday is today, he is 24 and soon I’ll be 23 and still unmarried. It is odd that both of us are still unmarried at least I’m dating someone. Albeit for how much longer is unknown…

One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go!

Having never performed in front of an audience before can be nerve racking, even if it is not a large one. Performing every night in Tuesdays with Morrie I think gave me a lot of confidence which helped me perform with Petra. I finally mastered the lines this morning and practicing with Petra went the smoothest it had ever gone before. The class enjoyed our performance but I'm not sure if Gabi and Stephanie did... Stephanie had Petra and I run through several exercise to help us react to each others presence and tone of voice. she turned the lights off in the room and had us run through the play but listening to the words and each others ton of voice. This exercise really helped me notice Petra's tone and voice. Never had I thought to react to her voice in this way. Tee next exercise had me change my tactics to be angry and then seduce Petra, these tactics really helped me to break out of my comfort zone and live in the moment of the scene.

por que?

Poor Stephanie, she was sick today so class was cancelled. Petra and I ran our scene with Gabi so we could gain insights from her in order to be ready on thursday when we performed it for Stephanie and the class. Petra and I have really come far with our scene. We are almost completely off book and have come up with actions to match the dialogue of the play. I think it is rather good and matches the script very closely but not having the whole script, I do not know if this is the case.

No mask club this week, alas, but it does give me ample time to work on my play cards and journals that I need to complete for this course.

Round One, Fight!

Presentations are today, Petra and I dodged the bullet on going today which is good since neither of our schedules match very well so we haven't had many opportunities to practice. I hope that I will have ample time this weekend to rehearse with her, in between shows of Tuesdays with Morrie of course. Three groups presented two and each did scenes from a play. Each group did a good job presenting their objectives and tactics. Stephanie gave them critics and insights on how each group could improve their performances, like using better entrances and exits, energy, tone of voice, and movement. from what was covered I hope to use these tactics and knowledge in our scene.

The scene we are going over is the last chapter of the play Proof. I haven't read it but from what little I've read from the script it seems to be an interesting play.

5 Senses, 6 If You See Dead People

Most of the lecture in class today was taken up by Stephanie explaining sensory recall and the class playing memory recall games. Sensory recall is about the brain storing memories of a certain event--taste of a food, smell of smoke at a birthday party, feeling sad when your boyfriend or girlfriend dumped you--and then you recalling those actions and sensations you felt at those hieghtend moments of your life as you perform on stage to bring out a more believable performance. the game we played involved touch and memory recall, eight people sat and closed their eyes while eight other students touched the sitting students to see of they could guess by touch who they where. I found this very challenging since Stephanie and Gabi decided to play a trick on me and both stick one of their hands in the palms of my hands. After the game we did yoga / relaxation exercises which I found rather relieving, I never knew yoga could be so fun.

Are assignment for class, other then work on your scenes / memorize lines, is to feel a blade of grass and look at a sunset - this is to capture the look and feel of the environment in hope of recalling it later.

Grass -- The grass was wet and smooth, almost like silk or butter. The color was a vibrant green and when broken smelled like... well, earth or grass. The grass felt prickly when touched against my hand. The blade wasn't very long, only about two inches in height at most.

Sunset -- bright orange and yellows mixed with red colored the sky as the sun set against the provo skyline late one September evening. The clouds were non existent which helped my view of the skyline. The air was calm and cold. The scene reminded me of the sunsets back home in Florida.

This is Your Captain Speaking...

Let me start off this journal entry by saying how amazing Richie's mask club was. He directed Boeing Boeing, and it was phenomenal. the acting performed by the three actresses was amazing from the way they carried themselves to the mannerisms adopted by each one. Especially the voice inflection adopted by ashley to perform her german speaking character. WoW is all I have to say.

Today is the day in class when Holly and I present our skit if you will of tactics and objectives. We've been practicing for the past couple of days; first we tried to figure out what we would do. We decided to do a piece about a brother and sister fighting but after numerous run throughs and a lot of help from Danielle and Gabi, Holy and I decided to change our scene completely and go with a more fresh and contemporary scene--a creepy man stalking freshman at the Cannon Center.

I played the creepy man and holly the venerable yet determined freshman girl. The scene was a big hit with the class and I thought both of us did a great job without tactics and objectives. my tactics being to touch, seduce, and please; just to name a few. My overall object was love or solace which may or may not have worked. My entrance was a stealthy walk about her and my exit was to see another girl, off stage, and try and hit on her--hence me needing to leave the stage.

This exercise taught me that acting is hard. I did not feel at easy nor comfortable in the role I was given and it was really only 30 minutes before class started did Holly and I get the rhythm of the scene down where both of us felt comfortable. My feelings towards acting did not improve when Stephanie asked me to role play a scene with victory regarding tactics where I was an airplane pilot. the scene didn't go to badly but I didn't feel very good about performing it. towards the end of class the discussion of sensory recall came up and stephanie informed us about storing memories to recall those actions and sensations we felt at those heightened moments of our lives latter when we act.

At the end of class Stephanie handed out assignments on who are partners where to be for our scene assignment. I am paired with Petra, a sweet girl from the Ukraine majoring in animation. It should be interesting to see how we both act and what talents we can learn from each other.

Entrance and Exit

Todays class was build around the idea of entrances and exits. I learned that depending on how you enter the stage, from right to left, or left to right, can mark the tone of the show and infer meaning to the audience. In America we read left to right, therefore when an actor enters the stage from the left wing it is more pleasing to the audience and denotes a heroic character or tells the audience that an action is about to happen. In contrast when a character enters from the right wing of the stage the message sent to the audience is one of danger and confusion.

In order to practice entrance and exits, Stephanie broke each student up into groups of two to practice with a scene partner an exercise to be presented in class next time. I was assigned the lovely Holly M. to practice with. While meeting with her outside of class we each picked our own tactics and objectives we wanted to accomplish for the scene.

Rain or Shine the Mail Always come Through

TOday in class we learned about object exercises, which are exercises that incorporate our physical environment in small pieces while we act so we can learn the specificity that comes with a character's environment. Today I presented my object exercise which was centered around a slice of my life, revealing who I am as an individual. I donned my everyday uniform as a mail character and then presented how I organize the mail in a particular situation.

I thought that I had messed up in sorting the mail yet the class claimed it made it more natural because in every day life mistakes happy. Little did I know that life is messy. I feel like sometimes we have the tendency to slip into the mode of thought where we believe that a performance, because it is a "performance". Yet a true performance reveals human nature and humans are rarely perfect, exception to Jesus. I find it really interesting that what I find to be good acting is being blown away. There is an almost simplicity and organic feeling to just being oneself in a situation that I actually find a particular bit of comfort in.

First Day of Class

I find it funny that I have to resurrect this blog after only using it for a semester to write down my business class assignments, but now my new class, for assignments, has me blogging again. I don't mind it. Its something that I should actually be doing more often, I mean, the prophet tells us to write in our journals at least once a week and I fail terribly at that.

Well, I should probably tell more about my class which is making me blog about my life / class experiences. In order to graduate as quickly as possible from BYU I need to take Fundamentals of Act (TMA 123) although I am neither an actor nor someone that can act but it does fulfill my major so I guess its a necessity. I must say I was rather leery of the idea of taking an acting class but then I met my teach and her TA my fear was swept away. My teacher is a wonderful actress / director at BYU, with a reputation and resumé long enough to shake a stick at. Her name is Stephanie Breinholt and I am quite fascinated with what she has to teach us this semester and how she says she can help us become better actors and actresses. The classes TA is an old friend of mine, Gabriella C. its good to see her healthy and happy.

Todays class being an introduction to the course was short and sweet. Stephanie introduced herself and each student did as well. We then proceeded to play trust games / exercises to build trust. Apparently these games are used to teach us how to trust one another so each member of the class can feel comfortable and trust one another. Our homework for the class is to describe yourself in three minutes or less using three objects. perhaps I will choose objects from work that tell about my life as a mailman.

Finals Week

I'm going crazy trying to get all of my papers written and submitted in time. I had no Idea I had so many papers due! I believe the final count was around 10... I do not know how I'm going to do it in time but I know that I will. I might even have to invent some new hours in the day to complete some of these assignments; either that or take off work the next few days.

Late

On our way to the conference center to attend the last sunday session we swung by the mexican ghetto to pick up Amanda. It was nice to see her after such a long time. I think Randon was a bit more excited to see her then me! If you know what I mean. ^_^ After picking Amanda up from her house we sped up to downtown salt lake city because we were running late. At least we have a parking pass i thought to myself until we arrive at the parking garage beneath the Joseph Smith building and was told that the parking garage was closed for repairs! are you kidding me! i screamed, conference starts in 10 minutes! The man was nice enough and told me that I could find a substitute parking garage at the Energy Solutions Arena. After parking and running to the conference center we barely made it inside before they shut the doors. However we were so late that we couldn't get seats in the section our tickets were for. Although we missed out on the terries we were able to squeeze in and sit on the balcony. Conference was amazing and I really enjoyed Elder Holland's talk, as well as Elder Oaks.

Anti people in front of the conference center make me laugh.

Randon not Random

Crazy morning this weekend with Randon flying in to SLC and going to work this morning. I showed up late but I called ahead to let Brad know that I wasn't going to be there. By all right I shouldn't have gone in to work today. I have so much work that I have little time to enjoy being with Randon, let alone enjoy conference this weekend. For the rest of the day I have a busy schedule mostly because of play rehearsal and Film class. Not to mention my busy evening tonight, I have a bachelor party and maybe watching Clash of the Titans.

Derek who is planning the bachelor party still hasn't given me the address so i don't know if I'll even show up to that.... sad, but what can I say. We'll probably end up playing videogames for three or four hours. For this weekend I will be going to General Conference with Randon, we have tickets to each session, should be fun. I've never been to any sessions at the conference center.

Win of Days Gone BY

I've been worked to the bone the last few days... Play class and MCOM 320 will be the death of me. At least my rehearsals went well and my presentation was better then average. I hope I at least pulled a B... I pray an A.

Today is April 1st which mean April Fools Day! My joke this year was a fake Facebook Engagement. I had to set up for this joke on March 31st a whole day early! My ward back home were convinced that I had actually hooked up with a Utah sweet heart. Ah, like that will actually happen. Anyway, I even fooled some people in my theater class and even managed to trick some people on Facebook.

Maybe next year I'll get a divorce on Facebook, if I'm even married by then.

Alisha and I had a giant DTR which wasn't fun, she cried... so March is starting out to be like February... alas. I'll just have to buck up and move on. I all honesty I probably jumped to far into the situation. Besides the DTR we still remain friends and I hope that we can still enjoy each others company without going over the line.

Blah...

Today starts off the first week in March, I hope March is a better month then February was. I did not like the events that happened in February, The tip of my complaint list is regarding the Testing Center here at BYU. I took my Book of Mormon test and scored the highest grade that I have ever received, a 96! That's an A! Unfortunately the testing center's computer read-out monitors were broken the day i took my test and I was robbed of the "Good Job" message that is displayed next to my score. I felt robed because I know that I will never score that high again on a test. I only found out my grade by going to the school website and personally looking up my grade.

Work

For those of you who don't know, I work at BYU mail service. The job isn't that great but it keeps me active and helps me fight off the calories gained from eating fast food. As a mailman I work from 7am to 11am in the morning. On Monday mornings I pick up the mail at the postal processing plant and deliver the cargo to BYU to be sorted. after the mail is delivers a crack team of BYU employees, mostly students, clammer and fight over pieces of mail to sort the letters and packages into numerous small bins that cover a whole wall at the UPB (University Print Building). after the mail has been sorted into the separate bins, the drivers--a group of six to eight men load up the bins into trucks and deliver the mail to builds all over campus. the routs include red, black, and blue. red Route goes to upper campus and Admin building. Blue route goes to since buildings and museums. Black route does the buildings no one wants to go to, namely MTC, AXMB, AXLB, and other BYU buildings.

After work i normally am beat and want to retire for the day but am unable to do so because of school and homework. When i first took the job I had no hope of living a normal school schedule however after several weeks i was able to find a schedule that i could stick to in which allowed me the freedom to work and to study with a major impact on my social life and sleep patterns.

Valentines Day

My valentines weekend.

Valentines weekend was a rollercoaster of mixed emotion and experiences. For the record I don’t have a girlfriend so I am already am apposed to the holiday; however, Valentines Day does hold a special place in my heart because of experiences over the past years.

Despite my somewhat negative outlook on the holiday I had an enjoyable weekend. On Friday night my date cancelled on me about 30 minutes before the concert was supposed to start. This was a major set back for me because of two reasons, (1) being that I have not been on a date in a very long time and (2) I needed someone to go with me to the concert or else I wasted an unused ticket. Lucky for me my brain went into overdrive thinking about ways to score a date in time.

Plan A was to use my church singles ward directory and start at “A” and go down until someone said yes. Forgoing Plan “A,” I chose to go with Plan B which was the more shallow of the to plans. Plan B was to only call the cute, hot, or sexy chicks in my ward. After locating the select few in the directory I began to call several numbers without any luck. By now the time was nearing 20 minutes until the concert started and I was losing all hope of actually reaching someone, let alone having that person join me on a date. I continued to crawl through the pages of the directory until I came across a picture of a girl who had just moved into the ward. Her name was Alisha and she would be my salvation. Without a moment to lose I dialed her number and waited to hear if someone would answer. To my luck she answered the phone. In a condensed form I proceeded to tell her everything about myself and what I wanted to do on our date. I probably overwhelmed the girl but she said yes. Although I wonder if it was more out of remorse then actually wanting to go on the date.

The date last about four hours, which didn’t seem to drag or carry on longer then necessary. Alisha and I saw the BYU Young Ambassadors concert and then went out to get ice cream afterwards. I really enjoyed the time I sent with her more then I thought I would. In fact I might ask her out again. Time will have to tell that story later.

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Boring

It's the beginning of February and I'm already bored with most of my classes which is not a good thing. Bored will either lead to two actions. One is that i will fail all my classes become they are boring so I wont pay attention or I'll fail become i'm not interested. Secondly I will more then likely succeed in my efforts to triumph over the boredom and succeed in obtaining a good grade in my class. Classes that I'm in jeopardy of failing or loosing interest in, FILM and MCOM 320... not good because i need both classes to pass my major... sigh, such is life.

Blah

After trying to date Alisha we've had a falling out... sad... our DTR (determine the relationship) didn't go as i planned... when dealing with women things that I plan never go, well as planned. why does crying always have to be involved? Besides the DTR my week went well. I picked up a new game for my xbox Mass Effect 2, Hopefully it is a better game then the first one. The previews show it to be so I have high hopes.

In other news my brother gets home from his mission in four months, boy has the time flown. My dad's job my be a risk do to President Obama's view on the military and government projects... I don't understand how Obama says he is creating jobs when his actions actually create fewer jobs... these are great times that we live in.

Here We go Again

I don't have a lot to say for this week other then I went to a play with a wonderful girl who i might ask out again. If things go well between me and her she might be my first girl friend while at BYU.

Two Weeks

The firs two weeks of school are almost over and I am starting to enjoy my classes. I'm taking TMA 101 (intro to theater), TMA 102 ( Intro to cinema), MCOM 320 (Business Writing), Special Effects, Book of Mormon pt 2, New Testament pt 1. Theater class sounds fun, we will be working on a play over the course of the whole semester and our final will be actually presenting the final completed play to the class. Should be fun but i'm nervous since i've never been in a production before.

My book of mormon class is very interesting, my teacher is getting his doctorate in Meso-american studies and teaches the Book of Mormon from a meso-american view. I also think that I am going to enjoy my MCOM 320 class. my teacher is very funny and teaches in a style that i I believe will help me learn more about the subject.

Thought's from the top of my head

Hello Everyone!

I’m new to this whole blogging scene, never have had the desire or the interested to publish my thoughts, feeling, experiences, or options on the web before. To be frank I didn’t ever intend to publish anything online for several reasons but I find myself taking a business communications call which requires me to keep and update a running blog over the course of the whole semester (January – April). I have know I dead whether I’ll keep this blog running after the semester ends, I guess I’ll have to see if I like doing blogging. Who knows what will happen. The blogging bug might just bite me after all, then I’d be like all the other people that have been bitten by the bug.

I guess that it’s costmary to blog about just about anything so I guess I better start of with the basics. I’ll talk about myself. I’m American. I was born into a middle class family and am a addict of videogames. With those statements I probably just described half of the United States’ college age youth… Anyway, I grew up in the south and had a decent education offered to me by the wonderful government run school system. As I grew up I started to understand the world and how downright disturbed it can be. As I continued to broaden my knowledge of history I began to acquire a certain mindset. A mindset that to this day, still makes me think that the whole world or at least certain groups within the world are controlled by an all powerful, all controlling, council. That manipulates and distorts our knowledge of events. (This is starting to sound like the plot to Assassin’s Creed 2 – xbox 360). YES, I know that that sounds like a conspiracy theory and maybe it is, but I invite you to study history and see for yourself if you don’t at least come up with one connection that makes you think. “yeah, wait a minute! JFK was framed,” or “How did the catholic church acquire so much money?”

Now that I have gotten myself off topic, from my assigned topic that is, of writing about school, work, and life. I would like to end this blog by saying that I almost enjoy looking forward to writing in the blog now that I have gotten over my fear or writers block of starting a blog.