31 Flavors

Life is McDonalds's because "I'm Lovin' It." Really, Life is great. School is great and I seem to be keeping up. Work is going good, I've been making a lot of new friends. I started reading to preschool children, and I love it. Student Government has been great. We've been working on some really great projects, and LOST season 4 comes out today! Huzzah for Nerdom!
Dating..... Ugh. Dating seems to be the thing I simultaneously love and hate at the same time. Like black jelly beans. This topic interests me so. I seem to talk about it to everyone, and wouldn't ya know it? Everyone has a different perspective! Crazy huh? My friends and I have been in the talk of creating a documentary about it.
But I've been trying to date around. Usually I'm just a one-girl-at-a-time guy, but due to the counsel of friends and I guess the church, I've been trying to date more than one girl. I'm really not in favor of it because I always feel I have my #1 and my #2 and so on.. and if #1 doesn't work out then I move to the next. And in all honesty I don't think that's really treating girls right. But on the other hand, people tell me the "ice-cream" analogy. "You into the ice cream parlor and you have 31 flavors and instead of trying just one try rocky road, and mint-chocolate chip, and a little of moose tracks, etc. When you find one you like get a bowl of it.
The problem with that is what if the ice cream doesn't want you to taste it? And with ice-cream one small bite will tell you what the rest of the gallon bucket tastes like, but with girls you seem to find new things about them everytime. First date it may be like *bam* Mint chocolate ( I like it ). Next date *bam* it gets better by becoming chocolate swirl (Still good). Third date *bam* Rum raisin. (Oh, don't like that so much). See? That little pink spoon is good for dating, but for courting (yes, I still use that word) I prefer to use the scoop. But somedays I feel like the scoop in that cup of warm water, full of murky water with various flavors flotaing at the top. :)

Body Language in 2008

Happy New Year! My it feels good to be busy again. The break was fun, but I'm glad to be back at work, school, and with friends again.
School is underway and it feels great. I'm taking some more General Education classes and a few fun ones e.g. bowling (wink wink)
I've registered for institute, and I love it. I'm taking Doctrine and Covenants. But being a teacher and knowing the difficult task of teaching I often find myself making a lot of comments. I hope their beneficial. I just know how frustrating it is to have asked a question with no response from the class.
Life has been going great. I've been getting back in my scriptures and back into studying Chinese.
Lately I have also been giving a lot of relationship advice. I'm reading this amazing book called, "How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in relationships." The whole first section of the book is about body language. I am amazed how much we communicate without words. I've been getting in this kick of just analyzing people. In fact I was talking to my friend Megan Spyva (I don't think that's spelled right. *sorry Megan if your reading this) and this gentleman came over into our little circle of talking friends and started to talk to her. It was so apparent that he liked her! The way he would smile, the way he would lean, and every time she would ask him a question there was a 2 second delay because he wasn't focused on her words, and his mind was all ajumbled.
Ask me about it sometime. It's such and interesting concept. I've also been giving a lot of relationship advice lately. I really don't know why. I don't have a lot of experience with it. :)
Dating life has been going well. I've been set up a lot lately, and especially with becoming more aware of my body language, I've become more aware of signals I send. The irony is that I give relationship advice to others but I have no idea what I'm doing. There is this girl, Sarah who is a fun person. She's easy to talk to, and isn't tuned off by my nerdy-ness. :)
So life is sweet to eat, and I think I'm going to have seconds!