Three years, eh?

Oops. Looks like it's been a while since I've posted.

Here's what you've missed:
- I graduated college (Aggiesss)
- Left for a year and a half on a service mission (LDS)
- Learned to speak Spanish (hola)
- Moved states twice (getting pro at packing)
- Sent my heart to California... (next move?)
- Got a job 666 miles away from said location in California (this is a problem)
- Experienced a year of no winter (Christmas in the sand? What?)
- Realized fall is my favorite season (again)
- Became extremely grateful for all the good things I have in my life (love + family)

Overally, I'm happy. Life is good.

... great! Now you're caught up

T or F

Ever feel like:

- you're trying to walk one way down a street. the sun is starting to set, but you know it'll rise again

- you're having a pretty good time traveling this road. don't mind where it goes, because it's a pretty fun walk for now. don't know where else you would be walking to at this point

- then all of a sudden you notice that you're not making it very far because some annoying unseen force abruptly starts to push you and push you, drifting slightly to the left, and then suddenly slam you sideways into the bushes and off the road instead of just letting you walk where you were walking, down the right street

- you're irritable because you're in the bushes and it's getting dark and you don't know where you're going and you miss the road and you have to pick yourself up before you can get back on the street to start walking again

- and then you hear the loud horn blast by

- and feel the wind from the truck passing by so closely and so fast that it stings your face and whips your hair

- and you suddenly stop.

- and realize

- maybe things aren't always what they seem.

annoyances? or angels

.......maybe the bushes aren't a sidetrack after all.

...........................everything happens for a reason. true... or false?

To infinity and beyond: Graduation Day

Commencement was Saturday, and even though I have a few more credits to finish up, they let me walk. Everyone expect your announcements in August, when I'm really free!

This was a good day... a day full of friends, family, love, and the promise of the future.

















I have the rest of my life in front of me. A blank canvas. The ability to do anything. I can do whatever I please from this point on.

Free to choose whatever I want.

Like I said at the end of a blog post earlier this week: to infinity and beyond

Kill me.

If you don't see me for the next five days, this is probably why:

Monday 8-5: English class, 5:30-10 work
Tuesday 8-5: English class, 4:00-9:30 Ogden law class
Wednesday 8-5: English class, 5:30-10 work
Thursday 8-5: English class, 4:00-9:30 Ogden law class
Friday 8-5: English class, 5-10 in a coma, nearly dead (may or may not resurrect for Robin Hood)

Life is weird

I feel like I'm in a time vacuum where everything else is moving and I'm just watching it all happen in slow motion... at a distance.. and yet I'm going a million miles an hour... but in circles.... and i'm moving fast and they're moving slow.. but i'm moving slow and they're moving fast at the same time! See? That's how confused I am!

It's weird to me that people are excited for the semester to end. Semester ending? What semester? I just started the hardest law class of my life on a completely different college campus two days ago. School ending... What does that mean? Oh, what's that, you say? I'm still in finals week up here at Utah State? I'm doing two different semesters at two different colleges at the same time? Oh... About that.

Also. Why is it that 99% of my friends are suddenly gone? A klepto in a jewelry store run by five year olds could not snatch stuff faster than marriage, summer sales, and moving home is snatching my friends. I'm just doing my thing and all of a sudden, I'm noticing them slowly disappearing like I'm living in some Agatha Christie novel. Good thing Felica and Caitlin are my life here. Caitie, Sam, and Abbey... I better see you soon. This may be somewhat melodramatic, but I THINK I WOULD DIE without my friends. DIE yes jolly roger skull and crossbones poison face withered plant DIE

Okay. That was a bit melodramatic. But on the serious side...

Roadhouse is my life. School is my life. And I want to kind of have friends in my life, too. I'm looking at a 300% capacity of life here... better figure out how to make it all fit... and quick, before I go crazy and my body realizes I have 300% more things going on than can fit in my little Asian body.

Well. For lack of a better thing to say... To infinity and beyond

Autopilot

Do you ever pull out your to-do list and then watch it slowly unravel until it hits the floor? Someone asked me the other day how I took 18 credits, got ready for four final projects, two final papers, three tests, worked two jobs, and still went out with my friends almost every night. At first, the question confused me--what did she mean? Busy? Yeah, I guess I am busy. A lot to do, yes.. but doesn't everyone have a lot to do?

The next day, I was still thinking about it. I realized what the answer was: Autopilot Mode. Autopilot mode consists of functioning through life, inhaling the things that come, and then spitting them back out... over and over and over again. I feel like a machine! Do things even make you blink anymore? No. After you go to school year-round for a few years in a row, I guess you get to that point where homework is just a natural thing. Sleep can be manipulated for a new essay that you have to write. Everything is relative... just get it done.

Autopilot mode allows me to do so many more things than I used to: I just tell autopilot what I want, and then I forget about it. How then does one get such a prolific amount of crap done in just 24 hours?! Autopilot, I say. Autopilot is a gift, and I'm going to treasure it. At least until I forget about it again.

Summer, bring it on!!! Autopilot disengaging in two weeks. bring. it. on.

Wow. I'm behind.

So.. it's been a while since I've posted. Weird.. I used to be so good at blogging. Must have got a job, joined a club or seven, got an internship, picked up a hundred responsibilities, jumped into 18 credits, or decided I wanted a social life... or something. Weird.

So... for updates

• To Caitie: you're one of my very best friends and I think about you daily!!! I hope Brad gets better soon. If you ever need anything, I'm there!!! I love youuu
• To the people hit by the earthquake in Baja and Mexico.. I'm sorry. That would be the crappiest spring break ever, not to mention it would suck to live there and get hit by an earthquake. Wow that was like the most idiotic sentence ever, but it's really what I thought
• To my family: I love holidays. Any reason to get together, to vacation, and to have fun together is an A+ endeavor to me.

In other updates:

• I've decided I really like bulleted lists
• or lists in general
• I also am suddenly and unexpected walking at commencement in about... well, three weeks, and somehow graduating this summer. (Surprise!) I don't even know how it happened. But I'm thrilled. .....I'm going to be freeee at laaaast
• I know, this means I have to get a job. But I don't care. Who says I have to become boring just because I get a job? Stick it to you, society. I can do what I want
• Also, it's official. All of my friends are married, getting married, having a child, or have already had a child. But there are a whopping SIX girls in my high school class that haven't done any of that. (Yes, I researched it.) SIX! That's six more than I thought existed. Too bad I haven't even talked to them since.. well.. high school. Very comforting
• I wish I had an elliptical in my own house
• Dating is boring and stupid, and I am sick of it.
• I'm excited to graduate with Caitie.
• My conference was last week. Very interesting to plan and work with other PR students, but the speakers were awesome. I really learned a lot, and met some awesome people, both professionals and students from other schools. If you have any questions on some awesome PR, marketing, or internal communications people, I can refer you to some people who, in my opinion, are some of the best in the field.
• I'm thinking I might move to SLC or Provo after I finish up the semester in August. And.. I have to take a night class in Ogden at Weber twice a week for six weeks soon, so if you're anywhere close to that, let me know if you want to meet up! I would love to see you.
• Life really is about family and church. When all else is failing you, those two are constants. And friends. Those are good too, just not always around. Apparently people get their own families someday or something like that.

So. That's a little update. Graduating a year early, taking a million credits to get there in time, and then escaping!

Yayyyy

P.S. I really want to buy a motorcycle. But first, I have to get good at riding one. If this interests anyone... let me know :) I'm crazy, I know. But freedom is so close!!!!!! Freeeeeeeedommmmmm!