'Tis Late at Night

Time for a few personal messages.

Julie E. - Do you have Kevin's email address? He said he wanted to be
added. When are we going for Slurpees? Happy Birthday!

Andy, Daniel, Kenny, and presumably Jase, Valerie, Trent, Alex and
maybe others - Good luck with your test in the morning, let me know
how it goes.

Megan, Noel, Jase, Brock, Alex, Trent, and Kyle (and anyone I may have
forgotten) - Good luck tomorrow night. Your show rocks!! I'll be
there for ya. Tell Karl and Kameron good luck too, I don't have their
addresses.

To Megan B. and Jessica - Have a good and safe trip this weekend, it
would be a pity for either of you to not make it. You're cool.

To Meighan - Congratulations again! I'm so excited for you!

To Kat - I promise I'll write you a personal email soon. Real soon, I hope.

And finally, to anyone who knows Nic - Call me if you want to go to
his thing this Sunday. I'm going.

Ok, that's all for personalized messages, if you want one and didn't
get one, tell me and I'll put you in next time. Or whatever.

So today (yes, according to my watch, it's still Friday for another
hour) was Cane Safety Day. Does that mean candy canes? Those things
can be sucked to a brutal point. I have fond memories of poking and
being poked by friends wielding sharpened candy cane swords. Those
are the sweetest smelling weapons ever.

Tomorrow is Sweetest Day, and (drumroll...!) Dictionary Day. Woohoo!!
I really do love dictionaries. I'm still planning on saving up for a
nice copy of the Oxford English Dictionary. It will be sweet! Also,
while I was browsing the OUP website, I found a book entitled, "The
World's Writing Systems" and it's also mad expensive. But it really
sounds like it deserves to be. It's over 900 pages long and it's
gotten good reviews. The cheapest I could find it for so far is $79.
That's a good $100 discount from the original price, but still a
little out of my range. Maybe the price will drop while I'm in
Venezuela.

Oh, I have chosen a winner for my coolest phrase contest. I liked all
of them a lot, but I'm going to have to say that "Cool is the name of
the little dog that jumps from house to house" is the winner. Nice
work Jules!

Did you know that James Garfield (one of our presidents, the 20th to
be precise) could write in Greek with one hand and Latin with the
other hand at the same time? Pretty snazzy if you ask me!

I found on the MSN Encarta website a little segment called "Who Am I?"
It shows a picture and it has a caption describing him. Here is a
link to the picture:
http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t012/T012229A.jsm
The description was thus: "I was born on this day in 1844. A German
philosopher, I was one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th
century." Who was it? First to answer correctly gets a prize! I got
it right, only because of the day that Dr. Foster dressed up as said
guy and drew on a moustache with a dry erase marker. He's one of the
absolute best professors I have ever had! I remember all kinds of
things about logic and philosophy because he made things quite
interesting. He also played some Homestarrunner clips during class
sometimes. Oh, the fond memories of BYU...

That's about all I can stand tonight, I'm pretty tired. I realize
most, if not all of you will be reading this on Saturday, so have a
good day folks! Keep the emails coming, I like hearing from all of
you. Talk to you later!

Brian