excuses and music of the week

Hi :) So, I've been home this weekend but haven't really seen people, which sucks because that's what I was planning on doing. I ended up just doing a lot of stuff with my family, and taking care of a lot of other things for school. Blah. Hopefully I'll get to stop by Enano's tomorrow morning before I head back, and maybe I'll get to see some people there. That would be nice.

Anyway, that's about all I have to say for today. This past week has sounded like the album "Hopes and Fears" by Keane. Especially "Might as well be strangers" and "untitled 1." If you have them, go listen. I had forgotten how much I loved them.

Love, Jennifer

love/not so much

Here is what I love about college:

• A really relaxed schedule. Three classes a day, max. The ability to choose whether I attend or not, no one forces me to do anything. Professors who don't mind when you show up late or leave early.
• Having to exercise all the time. Walk, walk, walk. Biking back up campus is brutal and wonderful.
  
• MEETING PEOPLE!!! I've been having these random conversations with strangers all over. While eating breakfast, at the bus stop, in the elevator on the bridge, everywhere. Really cool people.
• Being exposed to all kinds of new. New faces and names, new cultures, new music, new ideas. Reading an essay about one student's love of writing as an art, a thing of absolute and eternal beauty.
• Being scared. Because I know it means I am evolving.

Here is what I don't like so much about college:

• TRAX cars that smell really bad. Enough said.
• Not knowing where to find stuff. Haha. But I'm actually figuring it out pretty well, which is a feat for me. I usually have no sense of direction at all.
• Having homework again. Sick. But predictable. Not even busy work.
• Not knowing people. But this is two sided, because it's alternately this opportunity to meet lots and lots of people that are different from me and amazing.
• Not being around people from Heber anymore. I miss you guys a whole freaking lot.

I will be home this weekend; give me a call!

Love, Jennifer

The U

so college.....kind of crazy. And I really, seriously had my doubts but it just takes time I suppose, and things always get better. What a weird adjustment! Anyway, I met a really cool person tonight whom I think I will get to see at some point again, and thought I'd share the good news.

Doesn't change the fact that my heart is fractioned into pieces and spread all over everywhere now. I miss you all. And will see you soon. :) And that is a promise.

Love, Jennifer

From the sketchbook...

Sharpie art.



Love, Jennifer

I Heart Olympics

So I really absolutely love watching the summer Olympics. I could do it for hours, and I'm not even kidding. And this is saying a lot because I don't even watch TV very much! So anyway, I was kind of thinking about this the other day, and then Natalie told me about her dream which was basically the same idea I had. So here is what I think the blog family would compete in if we all made it to the Olympics....

Morgan: marathon running
Hannah: Sailing
Me: Gymnastics
Britta: Rowing
Natalie: Fencing
Erin: Swimming
Randi: Swimming
Tish: Table Tennis
Michael: Beach Volleyball
Neil: Diving
Berto: Archery
Creighton: Water polo


Why do I pick these things? you ask. Haha I don't know. As is the case with most of my thoughts on blog posts/choices in life/clothing worn each day, all I can say is, it just seems right.

Much love, Jennifer

By the way, Ugly is the new Beautiful

sunday.

There's something really intimidating about this blank white blog box, don't you think? I never really know how to start these things. Ha. 270+ posts and you would think I'd have it figured out by now.

So I'm aware that I've been kind of slacking in the bloggage lately, so I apologize for that. I've mostly just been running around all over, trying to postpone the inevitable. Only eleven days until I move away. Fifteen until classes start. Agh, weird. Scary. But anyway, enough of that...

Well, I honestly have nothing to say...usually by now something would have popped out of my brain, but I have nothing at the moment, so I'll just end by providing you, my faithful readers, with a list of my favorite internet time-wasters. A valuable waste of time, I'd say!

www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com Really, ridiculously funny.

www.postsecret.com It kind of changes my life every week...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/ The Week in Pictures. Enough said.

www.runzuzanarun.blogspot.com
A Slovakian athlete and student at the U's blog about the olympics. Hooray!

That's all. See you all soon, I'm sure.

Love, Jennifer