summer drummer

7:30 wake up

8:30 bike to work

9:00 work

12:00 lunch

4:00 bike home, sweat a lot

4:30 lay in my underwear on the floor under the fan

sleep. repeat.

alright. life isn't actually that mundane.

sometimes it seems like it though.

i seriously live for fridays.

the day i don't have to go to bed before 12.

if i'm lucky, saturdays are sunny and i can lay out.

and if i'm lucky, i get to work on the farm.

as opposed to in the lab.

outdoor manual labor.

vs. being stuck in a lab that is so cold i have to wear a hoodie.

i'll take the farm any day.

the other day i convinced myself to buy an iphone.

here are my rationalizations:

parents keep paying $50 a month.

i pay $30 a month for data.

badabing badaboom, iphone. (dream phone)

no problem right?

i guess.

but.

30x24 (2 years) =720 = new lens.

imma save up for a new lens.

new crap phone, here i come.

life update

hey so... haven't blogged in a while. here's the long story short:

finished up my freshman year at college- this was walking out the door to my last class of the semester! It obviously had to be documented.

On April 11 I saw Arcade Fire! Local Natives opened. It was a great show. Very pushy crowd.

During finals week, Rachel and I got a little restless from studying. So to regroup/get our wiggles out...whatever you wanna call it, we recorded our dance/jam sessions. I love my roommate. She was the best. :) This is a screenshot from one of those times.

On the night before I left for Santa Barbara, I stayed up literally all night packing. I also decided it would be a good idea to die a strip of my hair pink.

the next day, I did some hiking with Austin and Alex. It was a lot of fun despite the fact that I was running on 30 minutes of sleep. Please note my monochromatic outfit. I spy my backpack.

That night (after the hike/I finished packing EVERYTHING into my station wagon) I drove to Santa Barbara with Annie's cousins Jordan and Jason. They are hilarious. I slept almost the entire way. And I slept on Jordan's couch when we got there for about 5 hours straight. Dude. I am gooooood at sleeping.

Easter was so much fun! I love Annie's family. They are so loving/welcoming/awesome/insane.

Then my dad flew to SLC to help me drive home. Before we left, we hiked the Y. It was Dad's first time, and my second time (in a week haha!)

the drive back to PA was pretty uneventful. We had some awful mexican food in Nebraska, stayed in a nice hotel somewhere and ate lots of fried chicken, and listened to some Lord of the Rings. In Indiana, we got a hole in the exhaust pipe. It sounded like we were driving a corvette. Dad stalled out after paying a road toll- embarrassing for him, hilarious for me. We made it home though!

Now it's officially SUMMER! I'm going to try to keep this updated, cuz blogging is fun right? right :)

Road Trip!

A few weekends ago we had a 3-day weekend because of President's Day. Annie's birthday was also that weekend, therefore the logical thing was to go to her parent's house in Santa Barbara for the weekend! Annie, Rachel, Kayla and Allie drove together on Thursday night, and I drove with Lisa and Kristy. We got there in a little under 12 hours! It was actually a really nice drive despite only running on three hours of sleep. The twins and I were so happy when we discovered we had pretty much exactly the same exact taste in music! It was a great day. Our weekend was so fun-filled, carefree, and amazing. Here are some things that happened:

going for a run in a full-fledged rain storm

spending saturday in LA/Hollywood

Seeing Kobe Bryant

Going to the beach

Double Dutching

Shopping

Eating our weight's worth at Yogurtland

Celebrating Annie's Birthday!

Needless to say, that was a great weekend. None of us wanted to go back to school. That first week back was painful. At least we got some sun! :)

recent photo shoots

This is an image from my shoot with my friend Scott. He needed missionary pictures.

I helped with an engagement shoot! Mostly I just helped with poses and fixed hair and stuff. Here I am taking some black and white.

Ode to College Students

At BYU, if someone offers you a ride to Walmart, you jump on it. The creamery is convenient, but the prices are insanely high, hence my love of Walmart. Home of the cheap. The other night, I went to Walmart with some buddies, and Bryant bought two bottles of Martinellis to prove that he could chug a whole one. Here is the proof.

Good job Bryant, I always believed in you.

"She doesn't even go here!"

Every tuesday, almost everything on BYU campus shuts down for the weekly devotional or forum held in the Marriot Center (BJC equivalent). Two weeks ago, Condoleeza Rice came to speak to us. Usually, the devotional/forum is broadcast all over campus so that you don't have to go to the Marriot Center. However, due to privacy issues or something, this forum was not allowed to be recorded, so if you wanted to hear Condoleeza speak, you had to actually go in person. So, being the good roommate I am, I went an hour early to save seats for my friends. Everything was going smoothly. I had pretty awesome seats, if I do say so myself, and I was happily doing some homework to pass the time. (wait. happily? weird. maybe contentedly is a better word). Then, an older lady walks to the seats I was saving with a scarf, jacket, and sweater, and I said politely,

"I'm saving those ones." To which she replied, "You can't save seats."

Emma: "Um, yes, I can. "

Lady: "No, you can't save seats in a place this big"

Emma: "My friends are in class, and I am saving them seats."

Lady: "They should have gotten here on time" (there is still half an hour until it was meant to start) *she moves my scarf and sits down*

Emma: (in my brain) "are you even a BYU student? I don't think so, ya old hag. MOVE!"

Lady: "I'm not moving"

So, in order to manage my fury, I took some pictures of her:

Then, the emcee asked that everyone move into the center seats so that the seats on the end would be accessible. So she moved closer to me.

At this point, I was just laughing. Everyone around me had witnessed the craziness, and they were all sympathetic. If I hadn't had the self control, I would have probably used some special words towards her direction. To her face. But I thought that wouldn't really reflect on BYU that well. So I wrote this post. It was fun.

watch me go!

Okay, so maybe this is really cliche. But i'm going to say it anyway. It's that time of year again, full of dreary weather, and post-Christmas blues. But hey, with the new year, comes some resolutions. I love the feeling of wanting to be better, and all around more awesome. Anywho... here are my rezohlooshuns:

Do homework early, and try really hard to do well in school.
Go to the gym at least 3 times a week, and go to every jiu jitsu practice.
Be on top of my church assignment (weekly activity coordinator for the girls in my building)

Despite their few numbers, I think that I can realistically handle these things. I'm excited!