Homework irony

This semester I am taking a Shakespeare class. For midterms we were assigned to write two four-page papers on a topic of our choice. For the first paper, I started a few days early, thought really hard about original ideas and thought I did a decent job. I got a B+. For the second paper I put it off until the night before, threw random crap together, barely read through it once or twice and handed it in. I got an A. Go figure.

Happy Thanksgiving, back

That's a line from "You've Got Mail" that I say every year around Thanksgiving time. I am thankful for many things this year. The regular things-family, home, faith, and other random things like dental floss, Hulu.com, and BYU. I love this "Mormon Messages" about being thankful. My favorite is the guy who is thankful for future opportunities. That is what I am trying to feel right now in my life.

My Thanksgiving traditions include watching the Macy's parade, eating a huge dinner and being with family. The St. Jude commercials with the sick children made me cry this year. Also the float in the parade with Andrea Boccelli singing "White Christmas" and Emily Hughes ice skating to it. It was very nostalgic of my childhood and Andrea sings beautifully. I am getting ready to head up to my Aunt's house where my parents will be waiting to have a Thanksgiving feast with my whole side of the family. I love Thanksgiving and this time of year. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Love, Meagan

I am thankful for-faith, family, food, good roommates, BYU, graduating, my car, sunshine, coworkers, hulu, the internet, the BOM, President Monson, flowers, shoes, clothes, music, my health, examples of others, pranks, ward members, old friends and new and opportunites to learn new things. (I will keep adding later!). Happy Thanksgiving, back.

"I will love her horribly!"

So I'm taking a Shakespeare class this semester. I don't really like the teacher but I like the fact that I've been reading plays, being literary and being cultured. So far my favorites are Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Henry V. I am a little sad that we didn't read one of my favorites ever, Much Ado About Nothing. I'm not even sure if I've actually read this play, or if it's just because I've seen the movie. It is so stinking hilarious. I think they could make a modern day adaptation and we would relate to it even more.

I want to link you to a youtube video of one of the funniest parts of the play. If you haven't read it: Benedict is a woman-hating army man who takes pride in the fact that he hates women and will be a batchelor forever. Beatrice is a man-hating woman who sticks up for herself and makes witty stabs and combacks. Everyone else thinks they are perfect for each other and tries to get them together. They have to trick them into it though. Benedict overhears his buddies chat about how Beatrice loves him but would rather die than admit it. Beatrice overhears her sister say that Benedict loves her but is too ashamed to tell. Funny things ensue. Watch the whole play to see what happens, but this scene is pretty funny. Kenneth Braunagh plays Benedict, Denzel Washington plays his companion, and Emma Thompson plays Beatrice. The title is something Benedict says when talking about whether he loves Beatrice or not. Kind of like the line from Elf-"I'm in love, I'm in love, and I don't care who knows it!"

Top nine places to eat at BYU

I'm graduating soon. I've gone to BYU for 4 + years and experienced a lot so I thought I'd share my good finds and secret tips with y'all. I've got some good ones. Trust me. For my first post I will share my top nine places to eat at BYU, what's good there or why I like it.

9. Creamery on 9th, Sugar & Spice-BYU ice cream. The end

8. BYU Vending-we all use it, always gone on Sunday nights in the dorms. The best/widest selection is in the JFSB basement

7. Blue Line Deli-hot sandwiches, so large you can't eat it all

6. Scoreboard Grill-service is always slow, but I love the french fries

5. Legends Grille-savory sandwiches, personal pizza, even steak

4. Jamba Juice-sooo good. I miss it when I go home. I love the Razzmataz
3. Cannon Center-All you can eat, chicken cordon bleu and creamery ice cream on Sundays, cereal, now it's all fancy, so many memories-the cup game, theme days, and did I mention it's all you can eat?

2. L & T, I never went here as a freshman, but I really like the BBQ Chicken wrap, so tasty

and...drumroll....

1. The Pendulum Court-located in the Eyring Science Center, provided by the dietetics majors and only open for three hours during lunch. They have the best food-they make it fresh and it's so tasty. My favorite is the beef taco salad. It's available every day. In order to control the crowd they make you do a reservation online, but it's so worth it. My sister, Jillian, and I made it on the last day it is going to be open this semester. It was broadway themed so the place was decorated and they had showtunes playing the whole time. The food is so filling I almost didn't need dinner. I highly recommend it to everyone. I am hungry just thinking about it.

Jillian got the New York pizza

scrumptous food

I love eating at the Pendulum Court!

Pirate Island

I couldn't handle the white. I need color in my life. If you read my blog a long time ago it was orange before I found out about blog templates and started doing all that jazz. Also I googled the three column layout (gracias miss Jenn) and I am very satisfied with it. I hope to come up with other interesting things to put on my blog.

The other weekend my besties from back home (Kameron, Kira and Austin) and I went to Pirate Island. What is Pirate Island you ask? Only the best dinning experience ever invented. It is a pirate themed restaurant known for its pizza. Everthing that could be pirate is. I was wanting to go for about 4 months ever since it opened. We finally had time to go together. I was most pleased that it wasn't too expensive either. I'm not sure what my favorite part was, the pirate hats, balloon animals, or the fact that we actually ran into a guy dressed up like a pirate. We proved you don't have to be six to enjoy that place.

We met a pirate in the mall.

animal balloons

They almost didn't let us have the hats, but we got them anyway. I love Pirate Island!

New style

So I figured out how to do some things and I made some changes to my blog. And yes, it's kind of a boring white but that's how I could get things to work. And over on the right hand side, =>, is a widget where you can make a Jackson Pollock painting. I found it while I was at work. The picture above is me as a baby! I still want my blog to have a three column layout, so let me know if you know. Probably something with HTML, but I am not knowing any of this. I have officially wasted 45 minutes doing this. The end.

New Music!

So two of my favs have recently come out with new music. Michael Buble has a new cd called "Crazy Love." The single is "Haven't Met You Yet." Also, James Morrison (who I met) has a new single called "Get To You." Both are very good. (I'm also secretly tempted to get the music from the show GLEE, it's good stuff. Check out Puck's rendition of "Sweet Caroline", a musical tribute to a Jewish icon.) Anyway, I hope your halloween was good. I went ice skating and dance partying at seven peaks. Good times.