One Week More!

I always seem to forget how grueling the last week of the semester is. And mine really is not that bad! The fact that it is my last week as an undergraduate student both motivates me and then takes away all motivation. It's like when you're coming up on that finish line. Do you run at full speed all the way through and then slow down once you've crossed, or do you start slowing down before you've reached that ending? Unfortunately, I have a tendency to be indecisive. But it looks like I'm slowing down, which then makes it so much harder when I need to do a little sprint, write a paper here, read some chapters there, etc.

I haven't been as good this week about staying on top of my word count. I'm much more motivated to do my creative writing, but then the fact that I still have some academic work to do kind of kills my drive. After tonight and tomorrow night, though, pretty much all of my academic paper-writing work should be done! And Saturday is going to be dedicated almost entirely to the creative aspect. 

Also, the Christina Perri and Birdy concert was awesome! I was so excited to see Birdy! But then I found out that they weren't selling any Birdy shirts, and that was a little sad. The music was great though! I even recorded "Skinny Love" live so that I can listen to it and remember being there.

These are some of my favorites:
Birdy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzCDt2eidg - Skinny Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKfy0FwUC8 - Wings

Christina Perri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5yaoMjaAmE - Human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeW0Sl0tNS8 - Arms

General Conference was big too, this weekend. I was in Salt Lake City on Saturday for the concert and then on Sunday to see the last session of General Conference. Phew, busy weekend, but packed with a lot of good things.

I remember now how much creative writing makes me want to write songs too. It might also have to do with the fact that I went to an awesome concert this last weekend. I'm not really pursuing anything with my songwriting, but I do like it. And I want to do a couple of open mic nights, maybe, before I leave for NYC. If I do sign up for any open mic nights, I'll let you know!

One more week! And then no more classes!!!

The Calm Before the Storm

Here I am, the night before Bethany's Novel Writing Month begins. I still haven't thought of a cooler name for that. Shouldn't I be preparing more? Eh, probably. I was going to get a head start on the rest of my homework this weekend so that I would be free to do all of this writing, and then I got a stupid crick in my shoulder/neck area. Why on earth do we get those?

I've basically just been relaxing. What a buzzkill those cricks can be. But I'm not going to let it stop me! I probably won't be posting on here every day, letting you know how many words I've got, but I think I need to write about 2,000 words a day. I'll try to do it often enough, but I'll at least post every Saturday with the updated word count.

On another note, today is the last day in March, which means that in about 25 days and 1.5 hours, I will be graduating! Haha, finally!

Oh, and other news--General Conference is this weekend. I'll be going to the Sunday afternoon session. And I'm going to a Christina Perri concert (Birdy will be there too, which is pretty much why I'm going). It's a packed week! Or weekend, rather.

Oh, and I'm going to see Divergent tomorrow night. I have a feeling that I'll enjoy the film better than the book.

That's all folks! Good night, and happy April Fool's Day tomorrow. By the way, let me know if any of you do some epic April Fool's jokes. I always love a good story.