Rachel 8

1. The winter snow has captured me into her deathly blues.

Rachel 7

1. Very strong prescription drugs are my best friend.

2. Common misconception- "It's not what you know, it's who you know."
Refutation- "What good is the power without real intelligence and solid knowledge?"  

3. "'The mind or intelligence which man possesses is co-equal with God himself. All the minds and spirits that God ever sent into the world are susceptible of enlargement. God himself, finding he was in the midst of the spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in  knowledge.'Expansion is the theme, and we cannot expand the boundaries unless we first reach those boundaries, which means exerting ourselves to the absolute limit" (Hugh Nibley).

4. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).

It is the way He thinks that is higher than us, not what He thinks, though that is higher also.

5. Sometimes I wish people would read this. I need an audience to which I can epiphanize.

Rachel 6

1. I tried to put my pants on left leg first. It's true; you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Rachel 5

1. When a certain heater in a certain apartment forget how to work, I freeze my fingers off. Good gracious this should not be allowed. I think I may resort to turning the bath on high and sitting in the steam. Truly. I don't even have a giant cheetah blanket to keep my body warm. So perhaps I'll just layerlayerlayer and cuddle under my covers with some of those heavy narcotics that I previously spoke of so warm and cuddly in my tummy. Yes.

2. Church at 8:10 AM is especially great on fast Sundays because I'm not even hungry until I get home at eleven at which point I can, as previously mentioned, cuddle up in my bed and take a nap. When I wake up it's eaty time.

Rachel 4

1. I awoke to an alarm sounding that did not belong to me. Three hours before I was supposed to be, I was wide awake. I could get up and start my day at the deathly hour of six a.m. Instead, I lay in my bed in the heat of a sauna. No apartment should be this hot, even one in subzero temperatures like today. The stairs seemed extra high today as I climbed down in the dark. Morgan slept on the couch again. It seems like someone is always sleeping on that couch. Maybe they somehow spill a box of nails on their beds each night and are too tired to pick up the mess. Their loss. Beds are much more comfortable. Meanwhile, my eyes were lead by the dim microwave light to the thermostat. Did it say 65? I must have a fever or something. There is no way it’s only 65 in here. No, that’s just my blurry morning eyes. 85?! Yes, that’s a bit closer to reality. Who on earth set the thermostat to 85? Luckily, the little devil of heat only had a chance to raise itself to 77 before I caught it. Devil ran out the door chased by Mr. Frost.

2. Upstairs was still boiling and only opening the window to the other extreme. 0 degrees Fahrenheit. The wind chill drops it down to negative 19. That bloody wind that makes this God forsaken town deadly for any unprotected face. It chips off bit of skin from vulnerable faces of college students walking from sociology building on south campus to the music building as far north as possible. Those poor folks will return home to their loved ones without noses. I hoped they are still loved by their shallow partners, for their sake

3. Now here I sit in my bed at seven in the morning and all I can do it write. The wind honestly would take my head clean off it I dared step out that door. So I won’t. Today is a self declared ditch day.Who would really expect me to go to class when the weather website looks like this?