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  • What did you do today?

    Today…

    sitting sleeping showering eating reading thinking imagining dreaming programming eating sniffling breathing playing sighing reading listening watching talking wondering hugging tickling eating plotting planning checking worrying hoping praying

    being

  • A Just Cause

    Fyodor Dostoyevskiy

    I’ve got to read more Dostoevsky! I think you all might enjoy a few of his quotes. I’ve highlighted a few words here and there to make it a better simulation of a motivational poster!

    • “A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes”
    • “The soul is healed by being with children”€
    • “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love“
    • “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
    • “If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you”€
    • “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid“
    • “Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled“
    • “Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers”€
    • “Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain”
    • “Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic“
    • “There are… things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind”€
    • “If there is no immortality, there is no virtue”
    • “Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad“

  • Perfidia?

    And now she has a boyfriend! Salt in the wound, insult to injury, a slap in the face. But really, it’s not so bad. I hope she finds happiness. I don’t suppose I want to be around her, at all really. There’s a lot of pain tied up in my memories of her. So, may she find joy and peace, but may I never see her again!? That doesn’t seem right. Well, I’ll think about it.

    Meanwhile, there are a lot of great things to do around here. Here’s tonight’s nighttime hike to Stewart Falls up by Sundance:

    Stewart Falls

    Along with the usual suspects, of course: All of my roommates with their dates. We got going a bit later than planned, so by the time we got up to the falls it was pretty much pitch black. That did have the great advantage of allowing us to see the beautiful, clear night sky as we ate Paul’s famous chili with some grilled-cheese sandwiches.

    Tomorrow I’m supposed to be going to Salt Lake with the BYU Interpretation and Translation Training Club. We’re going to take a tour of the Church’s translation and interpretation facilities at the Conference Center. I plan on sleeping on the ride up!

    Also, I did a long phonetic transcription of Bob Vila explaining in Spanish how to prepare for a hurricane. “Estamos en estado de alerta por un huracán….” I listened to that recording many more times than I really wanted to, but hey, it’s Bob! There are worse things.

    Good night!