Halloween

It seems like this holiday really crept up on me this year. School has kept me extremely busy and between my classes and homework this year October really zoomed by. You see Halloween is more then just a holiday for me, Halloween is my Birthday. I got my first text message around 8 am from Syd. My phone buzzed constantly after that. It was a great reminder on just how much I'm loved!

When I came home between classes this note was on my desk with a cute framed picture of our trip to St. George from Paige. I'm so thankful for my loving roomies who make me smile. It's been a rough couple of weeks and they keep me laughing and smiling. After Metaphor Paige took me out to dinner at TGI Fridays and then we went and saw a movie. It was great to get out on a school night and not worry about doing homework or cooking dinner. I'm excited to go home this weekend and celebrate my birthday with my family!

First Snowfall...

I think I'll take the 65-70 degree weather we had in St. George when we went play! I'm not going to lie it's fun to see the mountains dusted with snow, but the ground is too warm so its slush... I guess this means winter is just around the corner...

St. George or Bust...

we stopped in Ceder City and ate at Cafe Rio for lunch. 

Back in early September Paigie asked me what I was doing for Fall break. When I replied nothing she then asked if I'd like to go to the Tuscahn in St. George to see Aladdin and Hair Spray. Of course I was game. All we had to pay for was food. It was going to be a girls weekend in sunny St. George and two great shows at an outdoor amphitheater. Friday was our Fall break so four of us loaded up in Blue, Paige's car and headed to Southern Utah. Our first show wasn't until 7:30 pm and its only 5.5-6 hours away.

We checked into our hotel around 3:30 pm and relaxed for a little bit. We were all excited for the show that night and a bit hyper. Tay, one of Paigie's friends from Tremonton climbed in the wardrobe and we joked that she was heading to Narnia... After some window shopping went to to dinner and headed to the Tuscahn to see Aladdin!

steps to the theater

Tay, Paigie, Hails, Shany
before Aladdin

The show was amazing and we had such a blast. The weather was perfect. the sun went down before the show started and all we needed was a light jacket. We slept in on Saturday morning and walked over to the Village Inn next to the hotel for breakfast. (Paigie and I's roomie Hails has a gluten allergy so we had to be careful where we ate) After breakfast we got ready for the day then went to see Pitch Perfect. We didn't have to be to the show until 7:30 that night. We went to Red Lobster for dinner then headed to the theater.

Before Hair Spray

round two people!

waiting for the show to start.
Paigie, Tay, Shany, and Hails

Hair Spray was amazing! we laughed so hard and had great seats. afterwards we got pie. It may have been a short weekend but it was worth it!

six months baby...

These are my adorable nieces Abbygail and Charlotte. Sissy sent me this picture last week. I love these two cutie pies with all my heart and can't believe my name sake is six months! Holy cow half way to a year.

Happy six month birthday baby Bee! Hope the next six months are as fun as the first six. Auntie loves you!

Poetry Midterm

Fiend of Anathema

Mid April already, and the wild plums

start to bloom outside her window.

Entranced by the lines longing for

words to jump from her head.

Becoming perpetuated on the fibers,

yet her mind houses a sleeping giant.

From the rise and fall of his nostrils

come befuddling words forming messages.

In its home, a cave of grandeur;

foreboding catatonia for its presence.

A chance to be intertwined, gaining

the courage to be affixed.

 Yet the solitary creature slinks into the abyss.

A fellow of habit, darkness its desire,

a hunt that will never be won.

For this brutish beast flies solo!

Sweet blossoms lull her back to reality.

A sense of awe edges onto her face,

the whole parchment is covered

every single line.

-Shannon Beverley

Philosophy of Literature Midterm

 River Speaks is inspired by the relationship Siddhartha forms with the river in the book Siddhartha. After learning the art of ferrying people across the river, Siddhartha learns to listen to the knowledge the river contains. He spends many days sitting in silence by the river in mediation receiving enlightenment from the source that never stops moving.

River Speaks

The brook babbles and the river rushes

Waterfalls have power as the raging water crushes

Yet it speaks to those who listen clear

A mystical power that provokes extreme fear

But one my learn a great secret

Sit quietly, and listen. The river may allow you to keep it

The seeker must long for a place of insight

A river speaks its mind, and brings forth light

Something so trivial contains such power

Yet has the dominion to make one cower

Give yourself to the raging river

For it sees all and is an eternal giver

Dystopia was written with the book Brave New World in mind. We all would love a world where pain and sorrow didn’t exist, but would we be willing to go as far as the people in these two novels went? Every single action comes with consequences.

Dystopia

Imagine a world free of pain.

Everyone has a place; pure happiness.

Conceived in the lab, and grown in a tube.

A factory for people; assembly line

Ridged training for their place in society

Everyone belongs to everyone

No pain, no love, no burdens

Soma the nectar of the gods

Numbs the emotions, the real you.

Day by day the same life

Free thinking is unacceptable

We do what the magic voice states

Human conditioning your Fordship

Reservations for the savages, and

Islands, for those who think too much

The Taboo of Anathema is written after some deep thought on John, the savage, in Brave New World. When you hear about john’s life you can’t help but feel torn. John belongs in a world where he simply just doesn’t belong. He doesn’t belong on the reservation because he is white and he doesn’t belong in the new world because he’s savage. This is john’s story.

The Taboo of Anathema

Restraint, my life has been spent chained

People come in but I never go out.

I am different, mother is different

Forgotten in this desolate place

Hindrance, I don’t belong. Why?

Mother isn’t understood

They call me savage. I am John.

The fence disappears I’m free

Snag, reservation is never gone.

Allegory there is none

They call me savage, but is it true?

Their life contains paradox

Obstacle, there is no hope.

Living research they scrutinize

No were to hide. I’m enslaved

An anomaly bringing celebration

Bound, I am John.

The noose my true companion

Swaying, swinging, suspended

He is gone, the savage.

Fable of the Grotto is written with inspiration from the allegory of the cave by Plato. Plato speaks to his students about how people are ignorant to the real world. Using his allegory of the cave he allows us to see that most people only believe what’s in their tiny cave.  In order to learn all the world has to offer we must open our minds and be freed from the cave.

Fable of the Grotto

He had never seen the sunlight

Chained in the shadows giving little insight

Naïve, lost and ridged and cold

Unchained and forced to do what he was told

The shadows of the past had a label

Life consisted of much babel

So he made the steps to evolve

He would go back and help many solve

The truth of the dark, scary cave

And so many he would save

But they were frivolous and slow

Fear crept in and they refused to go

His crusade was all in vain

One may not obtain what they don’t wish to gain

We must open our eyes and not be blind

Lift the burrier and open your mind

Midterms

Charlie 5 mo. 

My bff/sissy sent me this picture of little miss Charlotte this week! I decided this picture totally portrays exactly how students feel during midterms. I had today off from my morning classes and spent it editing my piece for workshop. Up late working on my Spanish paper. Ah its going to be a long weekend. I can't wait for Fall Break at the Tuscan! 

Week Seven

I cannot believe that its midterm time! It feels like we just started classes last week. Its been a hectic couple of weeks hence the lack of posts. Loads of reading, writing and critiquing. I feel behind all the time and laugh when my friends ask me what I am doing over the weekend. All in all though I'm doing well in all my classes. Some are far more difficult then others though. I find my photo seminar class making me want to tare my hair out. I'm learning lots but at the same time that class makes me feel so inatiquit.
  On the positive side I'm meeting with the head of creative writing to get all the kinks worked out with my portfolio so I'm on track for graduation in the end of April! I'm excited to be that close to having my bachelors. Then the process for my MFA starts...

Saturday Fun with Paigie...

So me as Chuckie.... Rather creepy. 

 So Paige and I decided to have a fun day today which started with lunch and perusing the mall before our movie. We ended up in one of the Halloween stores and got a good kick out of all the different things they had to offer...

 I got these baby pumpkins at the fruit stands last weekend with mom. So after Paigie and I made dinner we set out to paint our creations....It was fun to get crafty again! Sometimes I get so tied up in school I feel like I forget to have fun. While those dried we watched Avengers! Its nice to have a day just to play!!!!

Problem Solved....

My apartment is an older duplex and is extremely drafty. With the Fall weather here and winter around the corner I was doomed to freezing in my ice box of an apartment. (Yes we have a furnace it's just the windows are old and let in cool air) Any ways remember those jammies we all use to wear when we were little in the winter? Well this chickadee got some to wear around her drafty apartment! its like a warm blanket all over! Which is perfect for our living room when I'm watching stuff with the roomies! Plus I can throw it on over my clothes....