Optimistic

I realized recently that I've been fairly negative lately. "Whine whine, I don't like my professor, I don't feel good, I have too much homework, I'm not learning to juggle fast enough, my classes are boring," et cetera. Especially now with everyone adding their whining about the results of the election to mine, I've decided I'm going to stop whining and start making a conscious effort to be cheery, starting with my blog.

Starting... right...

....NOW!

Okay, want to know something really funny? In my speech class today, we were voting on something. There were 21 kids in the class, and 11 voted yes. One of the engineering majors spoke up and said, "Well, that settles it. We don't even need the other half of the class to vote."

The professor said, "Yep. It's settled. The answer is no."

Of course, this caused an uproar. "Wait, what? But we voted yes!"

"Yeah. Eleven of you voted yes, and there's 21 in the class, so we're not going to do it."

"But there's only ten other students."

It was great. It took almost five solid minutes for the class to convince the teacher that eleven is more than ten.

Also, the sunrise this morning was especially pretty. The nice thing about having really short days is that I can watch the sun rise on my way to class, and watch it set on the way home. This morning was super-neat because when the sun came up from behind the distant mountains, instead of blasting out a bright yellow or orange light too bright to look at, it blasted out hot pink. I wish I'd had my camera on me, although cameras don't tend to do sunrises justice, usually.

In other good news, I cleaned 53 spyware off my computer last night. Good that they're gone, not so good that they were there, but hey, it happens.

By the way, did I ever mention how air-headed I can be at times? The other day, I got halfway to my first class, which is a ten to fifteen minute walk away, before I realized something wasn't quite right. I started digging through my pockets to make sure I had my pens and pencils and identity card... and after a moment, I realized the problem was that I had forgotten my coat.

Good thing it was warm that day: a whole seven degrees ABOVE zero!

Also, I learned a fantastic new word yesterday: exsanguinate. Five points to the first person who can define it without checking another source (other than Rob, because he's the one who taught it to me--he got an automatic ten for that). Another three points if you can give the derivation, again without looking.

EDIT: One other thing. My friend Tiffany, a girl I edited with at Leading Edge back at BYU, keeps this list on her blog of books she plans to read. I thought it was a really neat idea, so I'm making my own. Also, I'm making a list of movies to watch, since I appear to be sadly lacking in that area as well. If you have any suggestions for books or movies, go ahead and spout them at me and I'll add them to my list, in no particular order. Unless I've already seen/read them, in which case, I appreciate the suggestion anyway, and I may watch/read them again if they were really good.

I like fantasy best, followed by science and science fiction. (Yes, I like non-fiction science, as long as it's interestingly written.) Classics are usually okay. I don't like Edgar Allen Poe very much. I avoid most Jesus books if I can (I liked the Chronicles of Narnia, but I read them as stories and didn't try to read into the symbolism). Pretty much, though, I'll try anything but romance as long as it's well-written.