Urban Poly Princess

Russ gave a nice talk today. He is a good speaker. Some RM girl in the ward I don't know gave a talk that was o.k. but she started to read it which got on my nerves. The last speaker Levi was hilarious but he wasn't as focused as Russ. He mentioned how he researched his Pioneer stuff by reading the Work and the Glory-a popular fictional LDS series by now GA Gerald Lund.

My Taiwanese friend Krista asked me where I was sitting during Linger Longer. I told her I could sit by her. She sat by Nick who was sitting by Nathan and Levi the guy who gave the talk. I sat across from Krista and near Levi. I'm sure he has no idea I sat by him because I told Krista I'd sit with her. I asked him if I could sit there and asked Nathan what his name was as well as Levi. They were all nice.

Jonny's grandfather just died and has his viewing tonight. Our schedules are jam-packed next week and we couldn't find time both of us could do sooo I told her I would do it. I asked Sarah after RS if she'd go with me for Jonny. We had a nice visit with Laura and I committed to finish my Thesis by the end of August if she'd complete her dissertation by December. My thesis is going to take 30 pages compared to her 100+ pages BUT she's also getting a PhD.

It's just been nice NOT having homework with several weekly deadlines. I don't want to work for Stevens-Henager College forever though so I definitely need to finish this thing!!!

Tomorrow is my ONLY day of work!!! Wednesday AND Thursday I'll be training at the University of Utah-I don't work Friday AND Saturday I'll just stay there and play B4 returning to the farm Sunday morning in time for church.

Krista is going to Taiwan for 3 weeks. I hope she can take a wedding gift to my friend Amanda with her. I hope they are near each other. Amanda was my roomate. She was a lot of fun and I had a great time with her. I miss her. Her English is 10x better than Krista's. My other friend and roommate from
Taiwan is at BYU now getting her Phd. Her name is Sophia. She had a testimony like a rock. Amanda was a member but I think her testimony did not hold up. However, it would be very difficult without family support or a ward large enough to give her member support either. She left Utah to work on an MBA in England. She works in Taiwan now and married a nice Taiwanese man. I don't think she's active at all. Out of all my roommates at the time I was the closest to her and I did things with her that I didn't with my other roommates.

Tonight after visiting teaching I went with Sarah to an over-31 fireside. Most of the people there looked my mother's age with the exception of our ward members. NOT going there again. A woman spoke about developing characteristics to match marrying an 8-cow wife. The Johnny Lingo reference is there and 8 "cows" or characteristics we should all develop and look for in a spouse were identified. What I remember right off-Cash Cow-Financially sound principles are followed, Holy Cow-Spiritually on Point, Clever Cow-Sense of Humor, Fire Cow-Passionate about life, Cuddle Cow-Romance, Kind Cow-Compassionate, caring. The speaker although interesting seemed like she was doing this long-infomercial for her book. The man who gave the closing prayer also prefaced this by recommending we all go and buy her book.

Sometimes it's just too easy. The speaker is from Cache Valley and writes a book with OVER-DONE cow references. She has a ring Conscious over will or COW-There's also a website. I couldn't have made up a scenario better for feeding my Cache Valley mocking.

Fhe tomorrow is at David's house. It will nice not to have to come home just to change for fhe, AC is ALWAYS nice, NOT being directly in sunlight is also going to be nice. I hope that doesn't keep people away. Sarah told me she'd look out for any good cows for me. I told her I already know what I need to farm.