Finals

1. Finals week is great. It's never as bad as the week right before it, the weather (at least winter semester) is perfect, and everyone is a little more cheery because it's all almost over.
2. Due to this blissful schedule, I have been reading my scriptures first thing when I wake up. The difference is incredible. Without even trying, I read twice as much and get four times as much out of it than those squeeze-it-in last thing at night sessions. Why don't I do this more often?
3. Countdown to California: nearly exactly 24 hours
4. Saturday I was priviledged to recieve free Tucanos. My mouth starts drooling at the very thought of it.
5. New term for the refridgerator: The Chirper.
6. Life has finally settled back to normal since the Event of the Century, ie, chopping off my hair. I no longer have the expectation that everyone will be as rocked by it as I was. Still love my hair, though.

My passions, in no particular order.

1. Haagen-Dazs cranberry blueberry sorbet. I just discovered this tonight. I was worried--sounded a little weird. Then I tried it. I was right. It's weird. And amazing.

2. Organ. I really wish I could communicate to the world how incredible it is to play this instrument. Part of the reason why is because it demands so much from you: the precision required is greater than the piano (at least at a basic level), your hands are both going, your feet are flying, and you are manipulating all the stops. And then, when it is done right, the music just fills the room in a way that makes my spine tingle every time.

3. Children's Books. I love reading, and my major has re-awakened in me a love for all those books that made me love reading in the first place. How can you not love Max, king of the Wild Things? Or not cry in Bridge to Terebithia? Or not laugh at Ron Weasley's exploits. If reading enlarges our world, then how important are those books that helped us it explore it first?

4. My family. My mother taught me just about everything, my father taught me the rest. David is the most diligent and guileless person I know. Funny, too. Matthew is everything I wanted to be at his age, except for the boy part. Man oh man, I love them all so much.

More (maybe I'll write the details about them later)

5. Independence/agency

6. The outdoors

7. The proper perspective on dating

8. Frisbee

9. Sight-reading

10. Randy Travis, Aaron Copland, Renee Fleming, and the Beatles.

11. Vermeer.

12. The Old Testament

13. Moroni 7 and 10.

14. The East Coast, and more specifically, Virginia.

15. Fashion