Lately I've been wishing that I weren't in school. I love to study, and I love to learn. But this has gone too far. My brain is fried, and I don't know what to do about it. We're memorizing so much vocabulary every night. Tonight it's 55 words. Tomorrow will be another 55 words. And the next day I will sit down and go through three more chapters from the text in one evening of study in an effort to yet again memorize another set of 55 words. Day after day. List after list. Word after word.

I am utterly exhausted.

New Spice

Things like this video make me proud to go to BYU:



Click here to see behind-the-scenes footage!

Hallelujah!

Why I love this video:

- They're Israeli, and the original song "הללויה" is sung in Hebrew

- The song just so happened to win the Eurovision contest in 1979 (remember?)

- The edges of the video are blurred, and there is fog on the ground -- all in an effort to create a dream-like effect

- The choreography is just so well executed. (You can tell they are trying hard not to mess it up.)

- The 2nd guy to appear has a haircut that rivals with my dad's

-There's a key change at every new verse....of course

- Hello 1970's, hello sunshine


Promise me you'll watch it all the way through!

SO THEY SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!

Happy Birthday, Ringo Starr.

Even if I'm a day late.



(He gets by with a little help from his friends!)

Categorization

There are three categories you can put all of the things you need to do at any given moment into:

C-LEVEL ITEMS:
- I want to go on a bike ride today. The sun is shining, and it's just beautiful outside.
- I want to find more Regina Spektor clips and videos on YouTube.
- I want to find a good sushi restaurant in Provo. And by this I mean I want to actually go out to each Japanese restaurant and taste their sushi to see if it is the best. Wouldn't that be a good way to spend an afternoon...and blow a hundred bucks?
- I want to eat something. As is usual.
- I want to check out the "Suburbia" exhibit at BYU's art museum. It looks hilarious.

B-LEVEL ITEMS:
- I need to go grocery shopping some time. I just finished off all of the last of my "emergency" frozen meals in my freezer, so I suppose I'll be going to Macey's soon.
- I need to visit Taylor's Bike Shop and have my bike tuned up.
- I need to talk to certain people about certain peoples' birthdays.
- I need to eat food.


A-LEVEL ITEMS:
- I need to study some more Hebrew and memorize the vocab for today's two chapters
- I need to eat some food. Now. I'm starving my face off.
- I need to get this nasty taste out of my mouth. The drinking fountains in the JKB have disgusting water. So strange.
- I need a hair cut.

You know it's bad when you put the fact that you need a hair cut in your "A-LEVEL ITEMS" category.

And you KNOW it's bad when you are actually contemplating going to get a hair cut before you go get something to eat. What is the world coming to?

Oh! The Irony

Today I got a new bike.

[How sick are those front-wheel shocks???]

When I bought it, I had my friend come with me for a second opinion.


When we were leaving, I had to drive my car home from the bike shop. Because she's cool, my friend said she would ride the bike home for me.


When we were back at my apartment, I was checking out the tires of the bike, and I noticed that there was a HUGE thorn in the front one.


When I pulled it out....

[caught on camera]

...my front tire was completely deflated within a matter of minutes.


OH! THE IRONY

My Name is Moshe

I have written on this blog for over an entire year now. My first post, as I just saw, was on April 8, 2009. It’s a sad day when your blog’s birthday comes and goes and you don’t even notice it. I mean, that should be monumental, should it not? That should be something that you can tell people about, something you can...I don’t know....write out and hang up on your wall.

In other business, it has been a few weeks since I last posted, as a good friend politely mentioned to me over facebook. My humblest apologies. That last semester nearly killed me, especially towards the end there. But I got my A in chemistry, and thus I can say that I have, I feel, won the fight.

As I side note, you should all know that just the other night one of my roommates (I have switched apartments since I last posted) made a comment on how “girly” it is to have a blog. First this made me confused, then it made me laugh, and then it made me seriously question my manliness. I did a few push-ups later that night just to make sure I was keeping my edge. I figured that pretty much settles the score.

This summer is going to be a great one, that’s for sure. I’m volunteering at Wasatch Elementary a few times every week until school gets out on May 28th. Many of you know that this is also my birthday, so I guess this day will be both a plus and a minus because all of “my kids” are no longer “my kids”. I guess I will just have next Fall’s batch to look forward to. They’re adorable. They hug me when I go to leave, and I teach them Hebrew phrases like “shalom” and “ani rotze lelechet lishon”.

I’m taking Hebrew 102, the accelerated Spring Semester course. Pretty much I love the Jews. In this class, everyone is called by a different name, an Israeli name. My name is Moshe, which is Hebrew for Moses. Every morning I walk into class and tell my teacher to “let my people go.” Needless to say, she keeps refusing to listen to the God of Israel. I guess we’ll have to wait and see where this conflict is headed.

I have cleaning checks to take care of now, and I’m not excited. My roommates aren’t exactly what you would call “clean freaks”, which makes this time of the month particularly difficult. And we have ants invading our kitchen in various parts. I am utterly disgusted. And yet the management is in no hurry to call the pest control man. More than once I have picked up the sponge to clean my dishes and I’ve had to free an ant or two that have caught their legs in the fibers of the sponge. And tonight I am cleaning our kitchen with that sponge.

I shall not sleep tonight until our kitchen shines like the top of the Chrysler Building.