Le Club

Le Club Francais...bien sur! It's that time of year!!! According to the posters, it's the hottest club on campus. Mostly it's a bunch of crazy French majors making fools of ourselves in front of the faculty and 101/102 students. A few of us from 456 are considering a performance in this semester's French Idol. We'll see if we can pull it off. We're in 456 after all...that means a lot of reading. Anyway, I'm mostly just avoiding my homework. I'm not really in the mood to study for my Psych 111 exam. Pitiful GE course...well, the course isn't pitiful. It's pitiful that I have to take it...

Friday Night, No Concrete Plans, No Motivation

Now is one of those times I really wish we had a TV. I have no hope of finding the motivation to actually get some work done tonight, Steve is hiking with his dad, my friends and roommates all have plans, and I'm here in my room watching snippets of National Treasure and waiting for inspiration to strike. Nope...nothing yet. I suppose I will think about wedding plans, write in my journal (haven't written in a solid/book form journal in several months), annoy my roommate until she leaves, and wait for Steve to call. Ah, the life of the Pepper begins to slow down...isn't life just a great big crazy cycle anyway?

Frustration Reigns Today

Mostly I'm annoyed with myself. I have not had the tiniest amount of motivation this week. I have a paper due in 451 tomorrow (as well as my "theory toolbox") and I haven't thought much about it. Translation: I haven't started it. Also, I need to finish all my 456 questions and I've finished 6 of the 13 sections. Not a good start. And I have a Portuguese quiz tomorrow...and some workbook assignments to complete. I think I will not be sleeping tonight. Steve's Dad may want to do something tonight...and we have to meet with Bishop Daniels at 8am to talk about the upcoming wedding. ARGH. Why am I such a procrastinator when there is actual work to be done? Why can't I procrastinate the little things instead? Such an obvious answer...

Nothing in Particular

Today was rather interesting. Portuguese went well and I'm sure we learned several new verb conjugations...I was sort of day-dreaming. Oops.

French 451 was...well...different. We discussed Bataille...rather, Prof. Olivier discussed Bataille and we all stared at him with blank faces. the new question is: Would you rather be in a continuous or discontinuous state? That's something I'll have to ponder. According to Bataille, I am a discontinous being with the potential to join with another discontinous being and enjoy a brief moment of continuity. And then my child will be a discontinuous product of that moment of continuity. That's what I got out of the discussion. Feel free to correct me!

French 456 was equally enlightening. We watched a brief clip that Mme. Thompson had filmed in Senegal of children in class. It's a different way of learning/teaching, but the children seem like any other children in school. We then discussed chapter 8 of L'enfant noir and the realities of death as a result of circumcision at the age of 14 in a traditional Senegalese ceremony. Naturally, we discussed female "excision" as well. That particular class discussion ended in a sort of awed/dismayed/alarmed state.

I then spent some time with Steve and generall wasted the last hour or two! I think we'll make tacos for dinner and then get some things for the party tomorrow night. And I probably ought to take a look at those verbs I managed to ignore this morning in class...

Announcement du Jour

Now that it's public knowledge...

Steve and I are officially engaged. We're hoping to be married on December 28th in Medford.

If you're feeling left out...we're sorry! We just didn't want to make a huge deal out of it. And it's not as though any of you are surprised!

Missionary Letters/Updates

I received a letter from Sister Chambers today. She's enjoying her time in Argentina and think it's funny that she alternates city/country every transfer. It's strange to think that I'm old enough to have so many of my youngest roommates on missions. Time flies when you're having fun! Well, at least it does when you've been at BYU this long.

T. Joseph Chambers entered the MTC today and is bound for Georgia Atlanta Spanish speaking. The greatly quoted young man will surely shock us all as he puts aside his Japanese skills and picks up Spanish. Expect great things!!!

Katelyn's "friend", Shawn Schlosser, received his mission call this last week. He's headed for Arizona Phoenix in November.

I still haven't heard where Sister Seegmiller was transferred to...which means I have no idea where to send this package that's been sitting in my room for a couple months now. Neither of her sisters know either. Guess we'll all wait patiently for that weekly e-mail.

Sister Lyman seems to be MIA as well. At least we know she made it to Winnipeg!

Elder Schwanke should be e-mailing tonight. I'm excited to read what he has to say about the secret we shared with him today. I'm sure it will be something like this: "I'm so happy for you! I'm sure things will be great for the two of you. Read your scriptures!" I love my little brother.

Sister Hall returns from South Africa in November, so we can't expect her to find much time to write. Last I heard she was learning a lot from her companion and teaching many children.

If I left anyone out of the update...let me know!

Random Comments

Not much to say...but I guess I ought to write something! I got THE FUNNIEST package yesterday from Kay. She sent me a scarf she knitted...I guess it's a late birthday present, but I can't use it until it gets cold. :) The reason it's so funny is that she sent it in a tampon box. That was a VERY strange thing to see in the mailbox! Leave to Kay to think of re-using a tampon box to mail something.

I just came home from Break-the-Fast. It's going to be an interesting ward...it's mostly people from last year, a few from this summer, and even fewer new people. The clubhouse was locked, so we all crammed into apt. 15 and then spread out onto the front yard. Bishop seemed to enjoy himself.

Friday night we had a little get-together in my apartment to welcome Derek home. It was fun to see some of the most recently-returned guys from freshman year. I was surprised that Ross came. But, he's like that...you never know what his plans are. Derek doesn't seem to have changed too much. Well, he's grown up, but still Derek!

I didn't go to the football game yesterday, but we lost anyway. I suppose I'll have to have a little more school spirit this year and actually go to some of the games. I haven't been to a football game since freshman year!

Classes aren't going to be as scary as I thought. I love my Portuguese class and feel relatively comfortable in French 456. I thought Madame would terrify me, but it's okay so far. 451 will take a lot of thinking, serious thinking. I ended up in Psych 111 with Sarah C. It's a GE, so there are a LOT of freshmen. But, it should be okay once we've finished with all the administrative stuff. MFHD 334 will be enlightening...it's Adult Development and Aging...all the great things we have to look forward to! I'm also taking a "be brave" class...modern dance!

I've got to get some cookies in the oven before Steve finishes with his meetings for the day. It seems that we will always have callings that require multiple meetings on Sundays. It's hard because he always finishes just before I start for the day. Oh well. Somehow we always figure it out without too much harm being done. ;)