Things you need to read

For the past couple of days I've been having a hard time motivating myself to study for finals.  Instead, I've been wasting a lot of time reading random blogs that my facebook friends recommend.  But I've found a few blog posts/articles that were not a waste of time, for me at least.

It's very hard as a young adult, and especially (sadly) at BYU, not to compare yourself to others.  I, and almost all of the girls I know, have issues with this.  I'm sure many of the guys do as well, but I don't talk to them as much or as deeply as I do with other girls.  All of these articles are written for both genders, talking about self-confidence, your perception of the people around you, the effect that negative comments can have on those people, and the fallacy of judging the book by its cover, as it were.  I highly recommend that you read them all.

ttp://www.danoah.com/2010/11/worthless-men-and-women-who-make-them.html

http://www.danoah.com/2010/10/worthless-women-and-men-who-make-them.html

http://www.danoah.com/2010/09/disease-called-perfection.html

http://www.danoah.com/2010/12/how-dare-you-be-beautiful.html

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Eliza

Last week of school

The only problem is the mountain of studying/homework/prep I still have to do.  And my inability to get things done on time.

Ah, well.  Yesterday I went grocery shopping and got lots of exotic things: beets, turnips, and cabbage (all for borscht!), fuyu persimmons (the eating kind, not the baking kind), and eggplant (4 of them, and I've already used 3 on baba ghanoush; the last I'm saving for baigan bharta).  Yum......

Also, check this out:

I feel like such a popular cousin.  Can you guess which option I chose?

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Eliza

Thomas Friedman

You need to read this.  It's really nice to have someone put all of my frustrations about the political-ness of world relations out there.  Except for Benjamin Netanyahu.  He deserves his own article.

School

Sorry for the lack of posts lately.  I've been quite busy.

Last week was Thanksgiving.  Sunday night was roommate Thanksgiving, for which I made five pies.  The epic snowstorm that was forecasted for Tuesday night and Wednesday never showed (1/2 an inch?!?).  I watched all three Lord of the Rings movies.  I went to winco, and bought approximately $3 worth of food.  They had also sent out an ad with coupons for free bacon, orange juice, english muffins, cereal, and eggs.  Megan and I shared.  I read books!  (Including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.)  I had no stuffing, all week :(

Mostly, I went to Herriman to spend Thanksgiving with the Woodwards and the Rosses.  (Is that how you pluralize it, or am I making things up?)  I arrived on Wednesday evening, made pies, and slept.  On Thursday morning we ran the Turkey Trot.  It was about 5 degrees outside.  Then we went back to the house, prepared hors d'oeuvres, and finished up the place-setting and side-dish-making.  We ate food, which was awesome.  I particularly liked the yam casserole, which had dried apricots, mango nectar, and a crumb topping.  Mmm...  Kelsey brought an awesome chocolate chip cheesecake.  We also had mom's apple-raspberry-cranberry relish!  It made my day.

That evening, we watched this video, and the second LotR movie.  Friday morning we got up, ate cheesecake and pie for breakfast, and went to the gym (thank goodness!).  I stayed for the afternoon, and Aunt Geniel, Suzannah, and I went Black Friday shopping at Target and Plato's Closet.  It was great :)

I returned to the apartment Friday evening, and watched the Return of the King while eating ice cream and pie.  Lots of it.  Saturday was fairly unproductive; I actually slept in until 12:42 pm, which was amazing.  I also read two pages of my physiology textbook.  Then Heidi came home and we went to Target and spent too much money.  Ah well, there are always returns... :)

Sunday was pretty low-key as well.  All of my roommates returned (it had been just Megan and I previously; we had fun, but it was a little quieter than normal) and we had fun.  I also played the piano for two hours after church.  That was great, but it tensed up my back so much that I couldn't fall asleep because I literally could not relax my muscles.

Monday - work, school, work, study, test, cold, study.

Tuesday - work, school, study.  Went to bed at 8, woke up at 10:30, went back to bed at 1.

Wednesday - study, school, work, blog, study.

Upcoming:
1. I'm giving a presentation on diabetes in my physiology class tomorrow.
2. I have an econ assignment and a politics paper due tomorrow.  I am also going to see Tangled with Heidi.
3. I have my Spanish oral final on Friday.
4. Two econ assignments due next week.  Kill me now.
5. Sleep.  Remember those days when I would sneak about to stay up late?  Now I sneak about to go to bed  early.

Oh, the gray and drab life of a student two weeks before finals.

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Eliza