today was quite possibly the most unproductive day I've had in my entire life.... and I'm actually afraid of loving that fact.

so much homework, so many tests, so much studying and NONE of it got done today.

with 2 classes cancelled, leaving one 8 am class... add a little dose of a very tired woman.... and you have a college student sleeping until 11:30, getting pizza for lunch, coming home and napping for 3 more hours and drifting in and out of sleep for the rest of the evening.

tomorrow is gonna be so fun. 

life.

Dude... life has kinda been like.... AWESOME these last 2 weeks.
(I feel like the fact that Aerosmith just came up on my iTunes justifies that...)
Classes have been going so well! Well, tests haven't been too great, but I'm actually learning the subjects which is a slight improvement from last year. I don't usually test well (in an American education system.... that's not too good...) and that still holds true but the difference is that I can actually regurgitate information back now... IN MY OWN WORDS.
General Conference was exceptional as always. I left the weekend feeling rejuvenated for life in general. Peace was felt, prayers were answered, revelation received... can't complain about that!
One thing I really felt like I needed to do after listening to this talk was to utilize my time better. Not having parents to really guard how much time you spend on the computer was somewhat of a shock to my system last year... and I'm totally owning up to the fact that I took advantage of the freedom. As a result I developed some time-wasting behaviors such as... intense facebook creeping. I did take a week off of facebook winter semester and while I didn't feel like it made me a lot more productive, I got through the week feeling like I had actually lived; like I had stopped to smell the proverbial roses.
I MISS THAT.
aaannndddd.... I pretty much got some personal chastisement on how much time I waste.
The thing is... I don't really DO a lot on facebook. It's hard to explain, but I feel like our society isn't run on an economy that solely produces goods anymore. We've created an information society and we sell that resources that provide the quickest information. It was a BRILLIANT move to create a social network as extensive and arguably user-friendly such as facebook because it gives us information cheap, fast and easily on the things that we as humans love the most: people. I use facebook to find information and as my roommates were attest to this... I'm REALLY good at it. I think somehow dad passed that ability on to me. (He knew more about Kyle than I did at first because he "googled" him...)
After the talk I began to wonder how much of the information I really needed to know. The idea of "good, better, best" came to mind as I sifted through the type of things I found out through my creeping. Yes I could tell you who was engaged, who knew who, how they knew each other, how long they had known each other, where someone went on vacation, if someone liked someone else, who was addicted to Starbucks drink and what drink that was, who was obsessed with cats, Disney movies or longboarding... but did any of that MATTER? Was that the best thing I could do with my time?
Absolutely not. I find it no coincidence that Elder Bednar spoke about genealogy work just prior to that aforementioned talk. Would not the best thing to do with my free time be to further my own family history? To help find people who could benefit from the knowledge that I have and the resources I have to do what they can not do for themselves?

This essentially is a long-winded way of explaining the fact that I'm going on another facebook fast this week. Yes it's pleasant to find out that someone you grew up with is engaged (ps: WHY does that seem to be happening ALL. THE. TIME?) but stuff like that shouldn't detract from what's really important in life.

now if you'll excuse me... I'll just hop off my soapbox now.... and go eat my sandwhich :)

Pictures of the recent weeks:

true Northwesterners right there.