A Brush with Greatness

One of my teachers this semester will always ask us if we've had a brush with greatness.  That's where you've had the opportunity to meet someone great, whether a personal hero, politician, superstar, whoever.  Just someone great.  Well today I got that opportunity.  Patch Adams came to my school and spoke, and afterwords I was able to go up and meet him.  It was pretty cool.  I loved the movie, and cry every time I watch it, because it really is such an inspiring story.  If you haven't seen it, I HIGHLY recommend it. 

He talked a lot about happiness and that we need to decided now to be happy.  We need to notice that we're alive, be glad we were born, and not waste a moment insulting it.  One of my favorite things he said today was,

"The most revolutionary act

a person can commit 

is to be happy."

(This is when I was waiting in line to meet him.  The people before me got pictures with him but he stopped that because there was a huge line. Sad day. Check out his insane outfit!  He said he wears stuff like that because he tries to look in such a way that the person standing next to him can't help but start the conversation.)

 

Also, on a totally unrelated note to Patch Adams, well, maybe it is related because it has to do with medical stuff, and he is a doctor.  Anyways, I work at the library at my school. Yes, I'm a librarian, sorta, technically just a library aide. But that's not the point of this story. So anyways, I'm at the desk and this guy comes up and says a guy is sleeping and making funny noises and that we should probably check on him. One of my co-workers goes over, and then a minute or so later comes back and gets my supervisor because he's not responding. So my sup goes over there and as he's walking tell's me to call campus police. So I get them on the phone and end up going over to where the guy is and he's sitting in his chair and his head is all the way back and he's turing purple.  You can tell he's not getting a lot of air and his pulse is really weak.  I tell all this to the cops, and they're already sending someone over (which took them forever and a day). I'm holding the guys head up to try and open his airway so he can at least get some air, because really that's all I can think to do, (It's amazing how all the C.P.R/health training/what to do information just flees when you need it.)  Finally the police get there and we get the guy on the ground and they have to do rescue breathing and are rubbing his chest to try and get circulation.  They eventually got him on a gurney and wheeled him out.  I felt bad for him because everyone was staring at him, and he was trying to hide his face.  But I guess what happened, at least the rumor of what someone overheard the cops saying was that he had taken codine and alcohol together. Scary stuff. 

So yeah, that was my exciting event of the day.

Also, I just ordered some new books online.  I'm pretty excited.  Got some Steinbeck to add to my collection, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath.  I've read the first two, but want to reread them.  I also got Lord of the Flies, and The Kite Runner.  I'm hoping I have some time to read soon, I still need to finish my current read :)

Ice Ice Baby

So, I don't really know what happened, but I guess one of the sprinklers in our backyard broke, so last night our backyard was turned into an a frozen ice land.  Literally.  It was so cold that the water would almost instantly turn to ice and it's covering almost all of the backyard.

I guess none of the water stayed directly around the sprinkler head so this is the design that was made. So cool!

This is what the ground was covered with, little balls of ice, like it froze in water drops.

Doesn't this just make you cold? Brrrr

Today's 365

 

Isn't that so cute? I saw this couple on the bus today, and I couldn't help put take a picture.  I don't think there's anything more romantic than growing old with someone.  These people look like they've been through everything together.  And it was so cute watching them interact.  They weren't sure what stop they needed, so the wife grabbed her husbands hand and told him to go ask the bus driver (I'm assuming that's what she said, she was speaking Japanese, or something) and he got up and asked and then when he came back he kinda lost his balance and she put her arm up to help him sit down.  It was just cute.

I hope when I get old, me and my hubby can have matching, ugly sunglasses :)

Here Comes the Sun

So I saw the coolest thing this morning. It was kinda cloudy/foggy/mostly foggy, so when you would look at the sun it was a perfect circle, it almost looked like the moon.  And you could look right at it too without being blinded.

This picture really doesn't even do it justice, especially since it was taken on my phone, but it was really cool.

So school has started again.  This semester is my first in the Elementary Education program, and I can already tell it's going to be a crazy, busy semester.  I have seven classes that I'm taking. And yes some of them are 2 credit classes, as opposed to 3 credit classes, but do teachers really care how many credits their class is? No, they don't.  They still assign just as much homework.  But people graduate and become teachers all the time, so there's hope I can make it out alive!

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

So I was riding the bus home from campus the other day and looked out the window and saw this. I thought it was pretty cool. It's a heart :) Needless to say it made my photo of the day.

Mother Nature Doesn't Mess Around When it's the First Day of Winter

Holy Cow! Can you believe the snow? If you live in Utah, or Utah County you'll know what I'm talking about.  I woke up this morning to about 6 inches and it was still snowing.  Last night there was nothing.  It took forever and a day to get to work today.  The bus was 45 minutes late and then it took another 45 minutes to get from Lehi to Orem. 

BUT LOOK AT THE SNOW!! AHH!  This is perfect snowman building, sledding snow!

Taken on my phone at 7am waiting for the bus.

Happy First Day of Winter!

365

I especially love today's 365 picture. To see it in color click here.

Santa drives my bus.

I sneakily took this picture of the bus driver today.  He looks like Santa! I wanted to pull a buddy the elf and yell "SANTA!!!"

like this:



But don't worry. I refrained.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found
that we were one tree and not two.

-- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

(I really just wanted to use this picture for something because I took it today and liked it, but I absolutely love this quote. I've been on a quote kick lately)

Really?

So when I woke up this morning, this is what I saw:








I was not very happy. Don't get me wrong, I love snow. Snow is great. I love the cold. Just not in October.

But don't worry. I gave mother nature the evil eye.

I think that showed her.