I have a thing for....

...the movie Penelope. I've seen it 2 1/2 times this week. In my defense it's playing at the dollar theater, and I took my chem final today so I think I deserved a break.



Beside the fact that the main character dresses in the most absurdly bright and cartoonish outfits... I think the movie is overall very light and entertaining. I remember the previews for it (it's the one about the girl with the pig nose that has to marry a "blue blood" aka another rich person, in order for her curse-the pig face- to be lifted) but I never planed on seeing it. Believe me, I was kinda wary at first, but I was pleasantly surprised.






It has some famous actors: Reese Witherspoon, James McAvoy (The Atonement, Narnia, Last King of Scotland), and Simon Woods (Pride & Prejudice)... and one of my new personal favorites Peter Drinklage (Death at a Funeral) --- he always makes the funniest expressions


Feel free to read more on Alli's blog as she did see it with me.

updates and sundries

I have two days of school left
Finals start on Friday.
I have less than a month before Bolivia
I bought a Canon camera (and I think it was first lesson in life on how to properly spend money-- I don't think I'll be able to spend money on anything fun for the next 5 yrs)
I get my wisdom teeth out in a couple weeks
I'm almost done reading a book that was due on Thursday (I'm a good student)
The weather is beautiful. I LOVE it!
Lindsey and Bryan had me over for dinner today. They had a barbecue, with a delicious salad w/ cranberries, as well as grilled pineapple. I'm satisfied :D


This is my roomie Sara-- i was taking a lot of pictures, so I think she gave up on posing by this point
This is Alli's shoe.

This is my dorm room in sepia.

reason #37 why I love byu

Many tests at BYU are taken in the testing center. Your professor gives you a set amount of time/days to go in there and take the exam. One nice thing about the testing center is that immediately after you turn in your scantron you can walk downstairs and see your score displayed on a tv screen (shown below).


As you may notice from the picture, next to some of the high scores it says "fantastic!", "way to go!", "well done!", and other positively reinforcing phrases.

I don't often receive grades high enough to see those exclamations next to my score... but tonight I did!! I got a perfect score on my Book of Mormon quiz. I wish I could say it was my chem final or my bio test, but I'll take what I can get.

(mine is the 4th down on the left, id 0-6688)

be on time. every time.

I can't believe gmail would do an April fools joke!! But they did and I love it haha. My sister Ashley gave me the tip.

I especially like being able to mark the message as "read" so that the person receiving the message would actually think they read the message and forgot... haha. And the 4th guy's quote

How come I only get ten?

Our researchers have concluded that allowing each person more than ten pre-dated emails per year would cause people to lose faith in the accuracy of time, thus rendering the feature useless.

Their findings:

N = Total emails sent
P = Probability that user believes the time stamp
φ = The Golden Ratio
L = Average life expectancy