Thoughts from ME

Refer to sideways graph 1. External Stimulus - Something happens externally [The alarm clock goes off] 2. Perception - You perceive the stimuli [You recognize that sound...] 3. Attitude - How do you feel about that stimuli? [Usually bad] 4. Deliberation - Inner debate about possible action [get up or not...this is the question.....is there a debate here?] 5. Choice - You make a decision [One word: SNOOZE] 6. Strategy - And decide how to carry it out [Decision made: Sleep rocks] 7. Direct action - You carry it out [Hand reached and hits the Snooze button] 8. Objective - hopefully your desires are reached [9 minutes of blissful nothingness...]

My graduation pictures were taken here (the first picture) I turn 20 in March. I can put my papers in for a mission in December. Fall semester may or may not mark my third year of college. Depending on my mission, I may or may not graduate in 2011. If I do serve, I will not graduate until 2012 in the Fall or something. I want to get my Master's degree sometime between 2013 and 2014 in English or Psychology. I want to get my Ph.D or Psy.D. a year later. I want to live within twenty minutes of my brothers Matthew and Jay; at some point a choice might need to be made for this decision. Soooo... We have six or so weeks left of this semester and I am excited to be done. My schedule has been nuts this semester. Sometimes, looking back, I wonder how I do it. But then, a small voice tells me. I didn't do it. He did. I'm trying to decide whether to return in the Fall. I will be working over the summer in Moab, Utah at a beautiful place that averages 110 degrees every day. Red C...

I love Sense and Sensibility! Marianne and Elinor's character mesh is interesting and intriguing. I love the music. Especially the song that Marianne plays and sings on the piano forte "Weep You No More Sad Fountains" Lyrics that Marianne sings: "That now lies sleeping, Softly, softly, now softly lies sleeping. Sleep is a reconciling, A rest that Peace begets. Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at e'en he sets Rest you then, rest, sad eyes, Melt not in weeping While she lies sleeping, Softly, softly, now softly lies sleeping."