textually speaking

When people send me text messages that I think are funny I save them. Pretty soon my whole inbox gets filled up with locked messages and I have to go through and delete them. Here are some of my favorites of the moment, preserved in all their spelling and typo dignity:

• From: Brendan Hancock—Last night i had a dream where i needed to get some secret information from an intelligent talking globe. So i made a holographic program of princess leia and a silber android lying on a bed. The globe was in an elevator and when the door opened he saw princess leia and the silver android rubbing the sheets seductively and eyeing him. He stood looking at them for a second, then stepped off the elevator into the room. My cd-alarm started waking of up with the theme from "2001", and i said "this guy is seriously messed up."

• From: Dave Buck—You can't just start throwing apostrophes around saying they mean whatever you like

• From: Harold Miller—That is mysterious. Maybe you sleep ran naked through a swarm of them

• From: Erica Martin Ricks—You are the hippest adventurer i know. Thanks for coming to nyc. And im not jst saying that bc you left the wheat thins

• From: Harold Miller—Did i tell you that i successfully pregnated two cows yesterday? It was awesome! But I am very sore today. [...] It's a lot harder to get cows pregnant than i thought.

• From: Jace Wickman—.....can we try and fall and miss the ground

• From: Jace Wickman–Buahahaha Ahahahaha...well thats comeing along nicely
  

There are many more messages I have saved, but lots of them are from Jace Face and they are mushy and I'm not supposed to talk about them. True face. Also fact.

road trip day 1

First of all, last night my friends came over to say good bye and then they stayed to help me pack! I literally could not have done it without them. If Tess and Nate had not packed my car with their amazing Tetris-like skills I would most likely have ended up sitting in the middle of my living room floor in tears instead of on the road at 10 am—my entire life is in there and I honestly have no idea how it all fit. They very truly saved me. Plus Autumn stopped by and helped box (and re-box), Dave helped lift the carrier on top of the roof (then disappeared to find a motorcycle magazine to feed his obession) and Megan cleaned my room. True friends indeed.
This morning I said good bye to Megan. It was a tragic tale of granola and separation.
On our way down south we saw these windmills that I've seen at the base of the hills from campus and I never thought I would see in person. I love alternative energy.
Lots of bugs got stuck on the roofbag. Claire thought they looked delicious. They were not.
We are in Colorado and so are our feet! (Perhaps Aleisha's own feet once trod this very same trail...?)
I was coughing. Coughing out my voice.
...while Claire frolicked and tried to avoid the cacti. 

Today we drove through Utah, Colorado, and Kansas. We left Utah at 10 am and arrived in Hays, Kansas at 1:30 am Kansas time. Driving across the country is the best.

facts about today

1. It is the death anniversary of Helen Keller.
2. It is Clarissa's Plimpton's 20th birthday. (Coincidence? I think not.)
3. I watched Gattaca for the second time in 3 days.
4. We made theater seating for our living room using cinderblocks. It completed me. (Though looking at the pictures I realize that it looks a little ridiculous because our tv screen is so small. Our only defense is that we're girls. Don't hate.)

5. I did not fall asleep in any of my classes.
6. There are new episodes of Pushing Daisies!!!
7. My comparative lit professor knows that I love Pushing Daisies and I'm not sure how he knows.
8. The Vest will soon be returning to Provo!
9. I sold my first book on Amazon.com. It was Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce.
10. My friend Brendan had a strange dream involving an intelligent talking globe, Princess Leia, an android, and the theme song of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
11. Sometimes people fill in blanks where there were none left empty. I won't name names.

i speak in smoke signals and you answer in code

Sometimes I speak in code. Sometimes people answer back. Here is an example, taken from a gchat with my friend Dave:

me: how's business?

Dave: Good. I've sold forty already today.
How about for you?

me: very profitable.
will you be traveling to batman any time soon?

Dave: No, I don't think so.

me: that is unfortunate.
if you were to go, however, you would need to arrive in costume.
but then i suppose you couldn't arrive unless they signaled you with the bat signal in the night sky.
so you'd better wait until you're summoned.
it's very complicated.

Dave: I've been waiting. Nothing yet.

me: be patient, young one.
your day will come
also it is not night time yet so it would be hard to see the signal.

Dave: Maybe they are making the signal when it is dark in turkey, but I can't see it because I'm in the daylight.

me: that could be a problem. you might have to just go there and wait to reveal yourself until they signal you

Dave: Hang on a minute.
Okay, I just bought a plane ticket. I'm going to Turkey, so I wont' see you in class.

me: i will miss you, but i understand that you have a greater mission to fulfill. try not to forget about me as you travel across the sea.

music matt will hate

My friends all like to both listen to and perform different kinds of music. And so do I. Sadly they don't usually agree with each other about what constitutes "good music," but neither do I all of the time. But sometimes I do. So here's some music I've recently found with a little help from my friends. I hope you enjoy the variety...

(from Billy)

(from other William)

(from Sydney)

(from Dave)

(from Jen)

(from Megan)