Help Iraqi Refugees

My brother told me that this Sunday at the Wilk there is a meeting for people who want to help volunteer and help Iraqi refugees in Salt Lake. When I was doing my ESL practicum, I was able to help translate for a 12 year old who was new to the school, hadn't been in school for about 9 months because of war. I am interested.

If you want to go to the meeting, all I know is that it is at 5:00 in the wilk. That pretty much is vague. I looked on the BYU website and couldn't find more information than that. So just email me (click above on contact me to get my email address) if you want to go, and I will get back to you with the "where". It sounds cool.

2:00 a.m. text to my brother Joe: "Infestation of molluscs?"

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me: hey Joe

Joseph: hey

what's up?

me: so...that text last night...

Joseph: yeah

what is that?

me: so I had a really weird dream

there was an infestation of shell-less molluscs

in our house - and they had to be transported from one place to another, and they were in dirty, dirty water

and they could talk.

so of course I helped them out. I had to sneak them from one room to another room past an armed guard

and they were really gross, but very friendly and nice

Joseph: weird

me: It was a lot easier to do before I could see them in the dirty water,

but after that, it was kind of nasty and gross, but I already knew they were nice little baby animal things

so when I woke up and told Danny about it

his very first reaction was, "You should text Joe!"

"He would think that's cool!"

Joseph: ?

perhaps

me: Maybe you could write a story about it

Joseph: it sounds like a crazy dream

hehe

or maybe you could

me: FINE maybe I WILL!

Joseph: hehe

(This makes a lot more sense knowing that my brother is a science fiction writer)

Welcome 2008!

Today I read random facts with Danny. The number of combinations a rubik's cube has (somewhere in the quatrillions). The longest word in the English language you can write with only your left hand on the keyboard, "stewardesses." That Bert and Ernie were modeled after the Cop and the Taxi Driver in It's A Wonderful Life. Other things.

I can imagine him in slippers. I can imagine me sipping hot chocolate on a cold, cold morning. I can imagine sprinklers and light switches and lawn-mowers humming outside the window. I love this kind of thinking about my CAPITAL "F" FUTURE! 

I first called it that in a letter to Danny, one day when I was feeling anxious. It's like...I feel a million miles away from that girl now. 

Dot and I watched an incredibly stupid movie last night called A Wedding for Bella. It was very lame. We skipped the sex scene, and ended up skipping the movie. As Joe would say, "Beekh." (He should say "bayeekh" or "baykha" but whatever). 

I tried to take pictures of me with my dog, but honestly, I wasn't too invested in it. I think it was an afterthought of looking through Sarah's three incredible scrapbooks, one devoted entirely to Marshy. 

If I have more than one daughter (the first one will be named 'Jane'), which is pretty likely, there's no way that I would ever name her, "Margie". It sounds too much like a dog.

HAPPPPPPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000000000008!!!!!!!!!