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A friend of mine had this posted and it made me laugh.

Invited!

One of my absolute favorite Professors at BYU sent me the following email yesterday:

Dear Jennifer,

forgive me if I wrote you about this already, but I wanted to invite students who had the highest grades in History 202 to consider applying to this programme for Summer 2010:

http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/ip/pkp/

If you are interested, I am available to answer your questions and help you to apply.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Kerry

Absolutely YES I want to go!!! A friend of mine went a few years ago and she said it was beyond amazing.

Well, I saw a few problems with it:
1. I'm married and don't want to be without Derek all summer.
2. Tuition is about $3500 for the summer term (YEOUCH!)
3. I'm married.

Sadly, I sent an apologetic email back to Dr. Kerry, but he fired back almost immediately saying that married students have worked it out! So, Derek and I started talking about it yesterday and I started to fill out the application last night.

Do I want to go? YES!
Do I hope I get in? YES!
Does Derek want me to get it? YES!
Will we actually be able to do it? -------------??

So...here's hoping. I'm going to talk to Dr. Kerry after class today, or sometime this week, and get his input on what he thinks will work. I hope it works out....what an adventure for us!

In other news...it's supposed to Snow Saturday. :D

Things I Love

This one is for Betsy. It was a great idea.

So, I set an online stop watch for one minute, and typed anything I could think of that I love.

One minute of things I love:

1. singing in a choir
2. reading British novels
3. reading about history
4. visiting museums
5. taking walks at sunset
6. going to the Temple
   
7. humming/singing as I clean
   
8. whistling when I walk across campus
9. watching the leaves fall
10. building snowmen
11. playing scrabble with Derek
    
12. talk about the future with Derek
    
13. traveling
    
14. making cookies
15. eating with friends
    

Hmmm, nice. Here are a few more things I love:

1. writing in my journal
2. playing with Derek's hair
3. watching movies with my sisters
4. talking to my brother about life
5. watching BYU football
6. going to soccer games
7. horseback riding
   
8. hiking
9. listing to General Conference (especially when I'm there!)
   
10. listening to someone with an accent
    
11. speaking in Spanish
12. running into someone I haven't seen in a long time
13. writing stories
14. taking pictures
15. hot chocolate
16. galaxy chocolate
17. my primary kids in London
18. looking at Better Homes and Gardens magazine
19. America's Next Top Model
20. pink gel pens
21. decorating for holidays
22. Disneyland
23. warm, fuzzy blankets
24. chicken alfredo
25. eating a whole pizza by myself
26. having lunch at the Creamery
27. talking to friends on the phone
28. writing and receiving letters
29. root beer (especially A&W)
30. good roasts on Sundays
31. naps
32. wandering around Wal-Mart
33. visits to Duchesne
34. buying books
35. looking at Christmas lights

There are a million more things...but I kept it at 50. :-) I agree with Betsy though...maybe I should do this more often.

Did you know

that if you suck on your husband's face, even as a joke, in front of his whole family, for just a few seconds, it leaves a mark?


how embarrassing.

Pause.

Ok, yes. So I'm married. I'm NOT dead and I didn't suddenly become super boring.

Or did I?

I never used to have that awkward pause in conversations when I ran into friends. You know the, "Oh my gosh Hi! It's been forever? How's life?" etc.

But now

that pause

seems to be there

every time.

What happened to me? Am I scary? Do single people not know how to talk to someone who sleeps in the same bed, does their laundry with, and brushes their teeth with a boy? Was I like that when I was single with my married friends? Gosh....I hope not.

Ok, ok, so it doesn't happen with EVERY one of my single friends. But I guess I suddenly stepped into a world they know nothing about. Sort of like Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy coming back from Narnia and try to be normal around and with other people. You just "know" something they don't and they somehow sense that and don't know what to say or do around you.

Or is it that you are suddenly uncool because you don't go on dates with random people? Or when you look at a cute guy you aren't looking for yourself any more (or if you are it's all look and no desire to touch)?

So maybe I AM suddenly boring. Maybe that's why people don't know what to say to me...

Huh. Dunno.