"Time Won't Let Me Go"

One of my all-time favorite songs is called "Time Won't Let Me Go" by a band called The Bravery. If you want to hear this song, you can click here to go to the band's website, and they have a place where you can listen to clips of their songs. Anyway, this is how I'm feeling lately--like time won't let me go. I realized today that time totally controls my life, and it either goes too fast or too slow :-) For instance, it seems like I've been here at school for about 10 years, but at the same time, I can't believe that it's mid-November already and all of our seemingly far-off assignments are due! It seems that there isn't enough time in a day to get done all that needs to be done. Oh well, I realize that everyone probably feels the same way, so I'll just keep going and accept the fact that time really does control my life--but that's okay. There is much to be done before I skip town next Saturday, but it will be good to work towards the goal of seeing my fam and having a little break.

This morning I thought that I was dreaming about a thunderstorm, but then I woke up and realized that there really was quite a hefty thunderstorm going on outside. Of course--it hasn't rained for two weeks, and then the day after I get my car washed, it rains. :-) I went over to feed the kitties this morning and still can't get over how cute they are. Unfortunately today was my last day to take care of them and I returned the key to Dr. Reid this evening. She said I can still come over to visit sometimes since the kitties and I became the best of friends.

After kitty duty, I drove over to church and had a nice time there. People keep giving me copies of last week's newspaper article, and one lady at church today said, "You're like a movie star!" Ha ha ha. Nooooo, not a movie star. One of the speakers in sacrament meeting today never showed up, so Bishop Stowell spoke instead. He offered everyone some suggested steps to surviving life. I can't remember all of them, but two of them were: #1: Don't freak out (meaning realize that life will throw you some curve balls, but it's okay) and #2: Don't wait to be happy--just be happy now. I thought that was good advice--especially the one about not freaking out. Maybe I should share that tip with my classmates. :-) Today in Relief Society we had the lesson about Joseph Smith, and the sister who was teaching it held up the Joseph Smith book by Susan Easton Black with paintings by Liz Lemon Swindle. She was talking about the paintings in the book, and how Sisters Black and Swindle had made calendars and various other things featuring the paintings. This rocket launched me back a couple of years to when I was working for Sister Black at BYU, and we were in charge of finding historical information to go on each day of the year that would correspond with one of Liz Swindle's paintings--that was definitely a lot of work, but it's kind of cool when later on you can see that your work actually made a difference for somebody.

Today I was enlisted to befriend an 18-year-old girl who is thinking of joining the Church. Supposedly she's kind of been hanging with questionable crowds, and since I'm the closest "stable young adult" to her age, everyone thinks I'd be the most likely to be able to get her involved in church stuff. I will do my best, but going back to the time issue, the trouble is that I barely have enough time to deal with my own problems, let alone other people's--but I guess that's what life is all about. The situation sounds a little questionable though--it'll probably make me feel like I'm in high school again. :-)

Today after church Alyson, Kristen, and I went over to the Dudley House to entertain all of the visitors that were supposed to come as a result of the publicity from our article last week. Well, I think the novelty of the Dudley House has already worn off because we had zero visitors from 2:00-4:00 p.m. :-) Oh well, at least the interest lasted as long as it did. Today, in honor of Veterans Day, they draped a huge American flag over the front of Old Main there on campus--it looked really cool! Well, I'm off to do some work. Aly and I have been cleaning the house because we were elected to host Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday--yikes! And Aly volunteered me to make a sweet potato pie for said dinner :-)