So since one of my most passionate posts (perhaps) was recently about Doctor Who, I'm sure you all know I love him. I love the Doctor.
Anna, Cameron Asay, and his roommates have all been watching the entire series (since it's return) this last spring semester. I watched 6 seasons within 2 months. I couldn't have wished for a better past time or a better group of people to enjoy it with.
That being said, I went with Diana one day to her Annie rehearsal since afterwards we were going to play a nice round of scary game. Well while I was waiting for rehearsal to be over, a little red-headed girl came over and sat next to me. I had a book and was reading, so she sat there without saying anything for a minute..and then she opened with this questions. "Do you like Doctor Who?"
I just about died. When I looked at her for real, she had bright red curly hair, a TARDIS tee, and three figurines of Doctor Who characters in her hands. Matt Smith as the Doctor, River, and Amy Pond. We talked about Doctor Who for about the next half hour at least, if not more. She knew about as much as I did and she even knew episode names (which I've never done before with any other show, but now I know just about all of them in six seasons of Doctor Who).
I still to this day don't know how she knew I loved Doctor Who. Had she been asking everyone that day or did I really have it written on my face? Either way, I was immediately best friends with that fiery red-haired 13 year old.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Great Basin Wildlife Rescue
I can't believe I haven't actually blogged about Great Basin before now. I've mentioned it a couple of times, but never a blog post about it. So here it goes.
Great Basin Wildlife Rescue is a non-profit organization run completely by volunteers that takes in mostly birds of prey (raptors) and bear cubs. I absolutely adore it.
So what we do in a typical day is feed all the birds, run to get new birds on calls, clean, re-wrap an injury, hand-feed, clean, clean, and perhaps do a bird show while we're at it. I was a part of this organization from January-June, and I'll be returning in the fall for sure.
Here are some of the highlights:
I have attended high class parties on the top of Sundance Resort, got into the Sportsman's Expo for free, talked to numerous people about birds of prey, gotten many strange compliments from strange old men, told kids that owls have ears on their chin, releasing Ravens, Harris Hawks, Barn Owls, doing an MRI on a Golden Eagle, hand-feeding numerous baby birds, taking care of an orphaned baby squirrel, being in numerous local newspaper articles, and so much more.
I can't even explain how much I love this experience. I love working with these people, and working with the birds. Patti Richards, the director, is hilarious and a hippie through and through. The rehab center is in her backyard. Dean is the eagle handler. He's hilarious, and makes fun of me for attending BYU, and tells me all sorts of stories that I really probably shouldn't hear. Janet, Andalyn, Ken, and everyone else make this an amazing experience.
Sorry for the exceptionally boring post, but I needed to journal a little something about such a big part of my life!
Great Basin Wildlife Rescue is a non-profit organization run completely by volunteers that takes in mostly birds of prey (raptors) and bear cubs. I absolutely adore it.
So what we do in a typical day is feed all the birds, run to get new birds on calls, clean, re-wrap an injury, hand-feed, clean, clean, and perhaps do a bird show while we're at it. I was a part of this organization from January-June, and I'll be returning in the fall for sure.
Here are some of the highlights:
I have attended high class parties on the top of Sundance Resort, got into the Sportsman's Expo for free, talked to numerous people about birds of prey, gotten many strange compliments from strange old men, told kids that owls have ears on their chin, releasing Ravens, Harris Hawks, Barn Owls, doing an MRI on a Golden Eagle, hand-feeding numerous baby birds, taking care of an orphaned baby squirrel, being in numerous local newspaper articles, and so much more.
I can't even explain how much I love this experience. I love working with these people, and working with the birds. Patti Richards, the director, is hilarious and a hippie through and through. The rehab center is in her backyard. Dean is the eagle handler. He's hilarious, and makes fun of me for attending BYU, and tells me all sorts of stories that I really probably shouldn't hear. Janet, Andalyn, Ken, and everyone else make this an amazing experience.
Sorry for the exceptionally boring post, but I needed to journal a little something about such a big part of my life!
Friday, July 13, 2012
Mountain Biking
So, about a month or so ago, I went mountain biking for the first time.
A boy in my ward goes quite regularly and said he had a beginners ride going and that I was definitely invited. So I went.
What I didn't know (or perhaps, I didn't quite care when he told me) is that he had a few people from BYU Broadcasting there filming a mini series on cheap things to do in Provo.
Basically, I got made fun of the entire time. Mocked, laughed at, and all the while the cameras were rolling.
Not that I wasn't enjoying it. I actually was loving it. It was hilarious. The team from broadcasting was hilarious. I was just rather terrible at mountain biking. Well, no. I felt terrible, but I think that's just how mountain biking is. Except I should probably try harder to keep my feet on the pedals as we go down the hill, but whenever I'd go over a big bump (which was frequently) I would balance with my feet not on the pedals, making me therefore look ridiculous and be subject to ridicule. In fact, I just found this. Enjoy. I look like an idiot.
A boy in my ward goes quite regularly and said he had a beginners ride going and that I was definitely invited. So I went.
What I didn't know (or perhaps, I didn't quite care when he told me) is that he had a few people from BYU Broadcasting there filming a mini series on cheap things to do in Provo.
Basically, I got made fun of the entire time. Mocked, laughed at, and all the while the cameras were rolling.
Not that I wasn't enjoying it. I actually was loving it. It was hilarious. The team from broadcasting was hilarious. I was just rather terrible at mountain biking. Well, no. I felt terrible, but I think that's just how mountain biking is. Except I should probably try harder to keep my feet on the pedals as we go down the hill, but whenever I'd go over a big bump (which was frequently) I would balance with my feet not on the pedals, making me therefore look ridiculous and be subject to ridicule. In fact, I just found this. Enjoy. I look like an idiot.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)