Monday, October 13, 2008

Music will save your soul...

So I was doing my homework and I listen to this website called Pandora.com It's a music radio site where you type in an artist you like and it plays songs similiar to it. I was listening to Nick Drake radio and this song came up from Josh Ritter (Who i LOVE and have seen in concert and is cool cuz he is from Idaho, anyways..) This song was called Bone of Song. I thought the lyrics were so intersting so I decided to post them.

Bone of Song by Josh Ritter
Just where it now lies I can no longer say
I found it on a cold and November day
In the roots of a sycamore tree where it had hid so long
In a box made out of myrtle lay the bone of song
The bone of song was a jawbone old and bruised
And worn out in the service of the muse
And along its sides and teeth were written words
I ran my palm along them and I heard
Lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness
I am the only unquiet ghost that does not seek rest
The words on the bone of song were close and small
And though their tongues were dead
I found I knew them allIn the hieroglyphs of quills and quatrain lines
Osiris—the fall of Troy—Auld Lang Syne
Kathleen Mauvoreen—Magnificat—Your Cheatin’ Heart
The chords of a covenant king singing for the Ark
Then I saw on a white space that was left
A blessing written older than the rest
It said leave me here I care not for wealth or fame
I’ll remember your song – but I’ll forget your name
The words that I sang blew off like the leaves in the wind
And perched like birds in the branches before landing on the bone again
Then the bone was quiet it said no more to me
so I wrapped it in the ribbons of a sycamore tree
And as night had come I turned around and headed home
With a lightness in my step and a song in my bones
Lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness
I am the only unquiet ghost that does not seek rest

and for those of you who are thinking right now that I am somewhat of a "hippie" too late. I already know ;)

Friday, October 3, 2008

Fall time







This is my most favorite time of the year!!! It seems that something new and exciting always happens to me. Last October (the 29th) was when I started dating DJ. We have been together for almost a year! Crazy I know! It has been an amazing year with him though, I love him a whole lot! I am a junior at Idaho State which means that next year I will be a senior in college, hard to belive. Does that mean I am close to graduating? Alas, not even close. The goal is to be done Spring 2011. Which seems so far away. DJ hopes to be done around the same too which will work just perfect. This semster I am, as always, overloading myself.
I am taking:
Teaching with Technolgy
Afircan History and Culture
Cardio Hip Hop
Child Development
Modern United States
Macroeconomics

Yea, Its a lot. And I am also taking on the role as president at ISU chapter of Business Professionals of America. I did it in high school and one of my education teahcers from last spring convinced me to be apart of. So now I am the president! Its a lot to take in and between that, school, work, and DJ I have little me time. I am hoping this blog will help. AND I joined a gym. Weird I know but it helps get out some stress and frusteration from the day.
I am living in Pocatello and the town is starting to grow on me. Even though after school I will be ready to move on and start another chapter of my life. I am still working at Wingers and I have been there for little over a year. I cut down a lot on hours so I can focus on school. I love a lot of the girls I work with and have made friends through work. Well ok through work I have aquired a boyfriend, a best friend, and a lot of other friends!!



For those of you who don't know DJ and I work together. DJ was a cook when I started and he thought I was cute. I thought he hated me. And I thought he was a goober. In the mornings of my fall semester I would walk to my math class and he would be leaving his geology class. I always passed him but never said anything. I knew I worked with him though. Back then all the cooks were the same to me. OK DJ was one of the few white cooks but you get it. Anyways He noticed me for sure. He wasnt sure if I was the same person at work but he soon realized I was. We talked a lot but I was pretty anti anything at that point so he had to work for it. But after our first date I started to fall for him and fast. The year we have been together has gone sooo fast it is crazy. In Novemeber we went to see Dane Cook in Boise, third row seats! We had a cute little christmas and it was the first christmas in a long time I loved. For New Years DJ had mono so our plans changed a little but that fact that I got to spend it with him was all that mattered. Spring brought a lot of things for me to do for school. For my birthday in June we all went to Salt Lake and Warperd Tour which was a great birthday! Summer was busy for us because we worked a ton. I was pulling well over fourty hours every week. It was also the first summer I did not spend in Swan Valley since I was 14. And now back to Fall where I am ready for another fast paced year.