concerning BYU's loss to Utah

I wish I had found this a week ago, please enjoy:

do you feel like laughing?

You can find this screenplay at the following link:
http://www.ericdsnider.com/snide/my-rejected-twilight-screenplay/

It's Eric Snider's rejected screenplay of the all too famous Twilight movie that made 35.7 million last Friday alone. (just fyi it's staring Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson, and isn't good unless you've read the book)

Scene 1
BELLA: I'm sad to leave the hellish, uninhabitable wasteland of Phoenix to live in a rain-soaked town full of rubes. I wish everything about my comfortable and privileged life were completely different!
DAD: Hi, Bella! Welcome to Forks, Washington. I'm glad you've stopped playing mother to your own flighty, irresponsible mom and come here to be my mother instead.
BELLA: It will be my pleasure to cook and clean for you.
DAD: I bought you an old truck from an Indian in a wheelchair!
BELLA: I ... have no response for that.
* * * * *
Scene 2
BELLA: It's tough being the new kid in school! Especially when everyone is so friendly and helpful and interested in me. Why can't they just leave me alone so I can sit in the corner and cut myself?
CLASSMATE: You're awesome, Bella!
BELLA: See what I have to put up with? Hey -- who are those hot people over there
CLASSMATE: Those are the Cullens. They avoid direct sunlight, they don't eat food, they sleep in coffins in a graveyard, and holy water burns them. I think they're Canadians.
BELLA: They sure are spectacularly gorgeous.
CLASSMATE: Yes, they are.
BELLA: I mean seriously, those people are BEAUTIFUL. Especially the one who keeps looking at me. Man alive, that guy is stunning. I mean, wow. He is hot buttered seduction on a stick. I'm not interested in him sexually, of course, because sex is dirty, but wow -- LOOK AT HIM! Yee-ikes! Hubba hubba! If you don't mind, I'd like to spend the next 75 pages talking exclusively about how attractive he is, and then bring it up again every paragraph or so for the remaining 400 pages.
CLASSMATE: Knock yourself out.
* * * * *
Scene 3
EDWARD: Hi, I'm Edward. I'm every girl's fantasy boyfriend: moody, humorless, violent, capable of snapping your spine with my bare hands, liable to do creepy things like watch you while you're sleeping, but also really cute.
BELLA: There is something strange about you.
EDWARD: (recoils at her garlic breath) I don't know what you mean.
BELLA: I just can't put my finger on what it is.
EDWARD: (lifts automobile with one hand) You're imagining things.
BELLA: I feel like you're hiding something from me.
EDWARD: (grabs passing rabbit with lightning speed; drinks rabbit's blood) Don't be silly!
BELLA: It's like you're different somehow.

... to see the rest/original click on the link up top, or right here.

I'm a video game character

On a whim I googled my name and guess what, I'm the heroine of an adventure video game called Natalie Brooks Secrets of Treasure House.

I can now die happy. I will forever be immortalized in an online game.

Here's how the game works: I'm an "intrepid heroine" and my fate is in YOUR hands... apparently one part of the game includes searching my diary for clues that can unlock a secret "so stunning" it's life changing...


... I'm actually impressed that characters in video games are given such depth. I mean, a first and last name? Sweet.


I love google.

Bishop Allen

So Alli and I were feeling lame and were like "we need to go to a concert"... even though NO ONE comes to SLC (but of course they go to Boulder & Denver *ineedtogohome*). She did find a concert for the band Bishop Allen... apparently she has every ep of theirs, but I'm a new fan.



so anyways. I liked them a lot. I bought a shirt.

Some other bands that played were An Horse, The Electric Owls, and this other guy (Drew Danburry?) he had a big beard. (btw I think the electric owls is a funny name, I can't help but imagine an owl flying into a power line. I bought his ep.)

It was a lot of fun. The venue (Kilby Court) was really small though, it was a garage... like really, it was. It was fun to have it be so small, but it sold out fast...

oh and I think Bishop Allen had a lot of fun. After they played a few songs people started warming up and singing along to the lyrics that they knew, the lead singer (Justin) totally started smiling and getting really excited... although at one point the bassist Keith started playing with the lights on the ceiling with his guitar (there were big-bulb Christmas lights hanging all over), so maybe he was a little bored. They closed with Butterfly Nets, I like that song.

My favorite moment of the night:
*we walked in and got our hands stamped... the stamp was smudged but looked something like a globe with writing surrounding it*
Alli: Oh what does the stamp say?
Ticket Girl: It says Peace in 5 language
*I don't know why, but I think it was realy funny and it made my night. Sometimes things are too perfect*


Alli's favorite moment of the night:
Guy: Wait, so this band is An Whore?
Me: Yeah, but it's actually An Horse
Guy: Wait, An Horse, or An Whore?
Me: Horse
Guy: Wow, An Whore, what a funny name.
Me: NO An HORSE, like a pony, Neeeehhhheee. (yes I totally made a horse sound)
*then everyone laughed at me*

this is how I roll

Here's how I've changed majors: nursing> clinical laboratory science> nutritional science> dietetics > political science > dietetics.... > Latin American Studies

So how/why did I make my decision to change to Latin American Studies?

It was the easiest major I could find :) (abt 40hrs...dietetics is 80 and a whole lot of chemistry)

:D college is fun, but lets face it: It is still school, and I don't like school!! I just want to get out of here asap!!

*peace*

20

So Saturday was my birthday and I'm 20 now... I feel just as irresponsible as I did on Friday.

One of my friends covered my window with paper spelling" HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATALIE!" Once I get a camera I'll take a picture and post it here.

brooklyn

Y love the Y? This is reason #14:


I get to take bowling as my physical education GE! (need I say more?)

So twice a week I bowl for approx 1 1/2 hrs. I'm picking up on the lingo such as "BROOKLYN!!!" (crossing pockets either 1-2 or 1-3 depending on what hand you use), or "You can pick 'em up!", or "wow that was a great hook"... I feel kinda retro... and I can't wait until I get my first Turkey.

Really? Yes,I am getting college credit for hanging out and bowling.

(I'm taking this class as a 2nd block (sorta like a quarter class but it's double the time) because I dropped my New Testament class).

byu magazine

If you get the BYU Magazine, this post concerns you.

I'm one of 9 BYU students quoted in the cover article. I sent in a post card that talked about a difference between Provo and Bolivia (how about Provo and anywhere else? Really not that hard to do). I'm student #2, but also make sure to read #4 (earthquake in China! Crazy story).

I wouldn't have spent the time, and $1.50 on postage to mail BYU the postcard, but they said I'd be entered into a drawing for $500. I didn't win the drawing... so now I'm going to try to milk this BYU magazine "fame" for all it's worth because so far only my parents and grandma have read it.

this video made my day, and I'm now unemployed

There are lots of perks to elections. SNL gets better, I have a reason to get up everyday, I can focus on petty banter between candidates instead of depressing world events etc...
Here is one example (and it doesn't matter who you support in the election, it's funny)

... and this year I got a job because of the elections! I got to work for the Utah County Democratic Party since my first day back at school. This last week has been the most fun because I got to call people and tell them where their voting location is and tell them about their state legislature candidate.

But come Tuesday I'm out of a job.

... the hunt begins

COLORADO- don't forget :)

Can I just say I spent more time reading over CO's ballot and looking up the amendments and people than I did on some homework assignments! Thank goodness for mail in ballots...

...I really am curious about the define a person amendment, what will it do to carpool lane laws? Which leads me to my endorsement.

I'd like to endorse Tom Tobiassen for RTD board: http://www.tomforrtd.com/
Be honest, you've got to love his 'stash.