The many parts to my life that I have been
working on are the following: dating, socializing, track, ACMS, stake choir,
class work, temple work, personal spiritual welfare, friendships, writer's
support club, and more. These are the topics that I will be writing about.
I have been dating around kind of;
although, I have not officially had a date. I was talking to Jesse about this
last night because I was hanging out with Naomi and her roommates last night.
Girls are pretty outrageous, but they had apartment prayer. I have been in a
funk somewhat the past few days because a combination of things. I missed
scripture study, prayer, and going to the temple the past few days. Before they
have the apartment prayer, the girls say a sweet and a sour of the day. I
thought that they were just saying a bunch of random things that happened in
their day. The sour that I said, which has to do with the topic of this
paragraph, is that a girl that I have become good friends with said she has a
boyfriend. I was hoping to date her, and the thing that confused me is why did
she not tell me earlier because we have been hanging out a lot for about a
week. It doesn't make sense to me. Girls usually say something about their
boyfriends, if they have one. When I said that to the girls, they sympathized,
and Naomi suggested that I date like ten girls at once because that is what she
does. That put me for a loop. This loop did not come full circle until I spoke
to Jesse. I realized that Naomi's advice was immature because it discredited my
dating effort, assuming that I have not already been doing that. Jesse has said
a few times that he has been impressed how I have been meeting many different
girls. I meet a lot of people at the cafeteria, and enjoy lunch with them. The
one thing that I have against Naomi's advice is; if you really like a girl and
you only want to date her, why should I date 9 other girls? It would be
disrespectful to the girl in my opinion. Some guys play with girls minds,
dating so many different people. After telling my parents that I found a super
cool girl that I am interested in, my father advised me to make a good
friendship with her first. I recommend that guys make good personal friendships
with all girls; then, they can choose who to date from every one of them
because you have a personal friendship with them. Most girls would want it to
start that way I would believe. Jesse explained that dating a bunch of girls is
just for a few dates to see if you are really interested in them or something
like that. I have been doing that.
Another thing that put me in a funk is
that I was organizing activities, but they were too spontaneous. I am going to
stop my spontaneous activities because it only worked for the first week or so
of school. For the past couple weeks, we have had activities planned, and the
activities fall apart for odd reasons. That is what I originally said to Naomi,
when she asked about my funk.
Since I have been at Brigham Young
University: Idaho, I joined the track team. I was disappointed to hear that we
will not be racing the two mile. My goal has been to break ten in the 3200. I
still have the 5K, so I plan to try to break 16 minutes in that event. The
track team has somewhat discouraging too. The distance team is not very
competitive. I am already hailed as the fastest runner, which is weird, because
I am not very fast. One runner on the team broke ten for the two mile, but he
is out of shape. There is another big guy somewhat on the team that can be
competition. He looks like he goes to the gym too much, since his upper body is
kind of stiff. He keeps his lanky arms loose though. We have two coaches that I am kind of
disappointed with too because one is way out of shape, and his input is very
little. It is basically an encouraging word once in a while, which I get from
teammates any ways. My second coach runs the whole thing, and his approach is
so universally standard, where the season is going to have runners fall away
because of injuries and whatnot just like most other seasons of track. The
coach loves running half mile repeats and doing random ab exercises. I think
that he really loves to have strong abs because he always wears tight shirts,
and his abs are bulging in his shirt. He says after one week that we will
increase the difficulty of the work outs, and I think that doesn't make any
sense because the out of shape people can't get in shape in one week. They are
going to get injured like me last season. We have a lot of inexperienced
runners, whose interest we may have killed because it is not personal enough.
The BYUI construction management program
advocates ACMS a lot. I was very disappointed in the societies here on campus,
when I first explored them during my first semester here. Many are ineffective,
so we will see how the Architecture and Construction Management Society is. It
has not been to effective. We were supposed to install a new roof on a house
this weekend, but I didn't hear anything about it. We will see.
Everything else is going well somewhat. I
procrastinated my homework this weekend, so I am paying for it. My many
friendships are going well. I feel like I need to continually make new ones
because at least in dating you always need to meet new girls. I am feeling
better now after my funky weekend spiritually.
Wednesdays are very full at least last
week and this week because I was invited to join the writer's support group and
a stake choir, so I go to write my sci fi novel at 5, track at 6, and stake
choir at 7.
The writer's support group is chill. There
were only four people. The people were somewhat shy. It was quiet and a not
very tight environment. 6 long tables or so made a rectangle. We just privately
worked on our personal projects. My goal is to write a novel series for a idea and story summary
that I wrote called DNA turn on. I am writing the first chapter now.
Stake choir is hard because I was
recruited to do tenor, and half of the song is really high. I can't keep up a
good volume after so long. Sister Andrews is the chorister, and she is the
greatest that I ever sang for. She teaches the principles of singing. The
purpose thereof is to inspire people to come unto Christ. I wish that I could
explain the principles that all who read this can sing unto inspiring people to
repent. I believe that the first part of it is that there is something that
blocks the vocal cords, which we have to move out of the way, but we can't do
it directly. We can do it by making weird faces. She compares it to lifting a
Halloween mask off your face. The face of you yawning will make you have a
great voice. I am not qualified to explain it. She says that that your front
skull resonates, giving a greater sound. Singing within your nasal cavity is
good too. A revelation that she received
to help people keep their vocal cords relaxed is to fill your next with air,
trying to make it big. We sang at stake conference last night the 17th
of November. We did very well, and I sang to the best of my abilities.
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