I hope I never feel like singing this song.

I'm not the kind of girl 

Who should be rudely barging in 

On a white veil occasion 

But you are not the kind of boy 

Who should be marrying the wrong girl 

I sneak in and see your friends 

And her snotty little family 

All dressed in pastel 

And she is yelling at a bridesmaid 

Somewhere back inside a room 

Wearing a gown shaped like a pastry 

This is surely not

What you thought it would be 

And I lose myself in a daydream 

Where I stand and say 

Don't say yes, run away now 

I'll meet you when you're out 

Of the church at the back door 

Don't wait or say a single vow 

You need to hear me out 

When they said "speak now" 

Fond gestures are exchanged 

And the organ starts to play 

A song that sounds like a death march 

And I am hiding in the curtains 

It seems that I was uninvited 

By your lovely bride-to-be 

She floats down the aisle 

Like a pageant queen. 

But I know you wish it was me 

You wish it was me (Don't cha?) 

Don't say yes, run away now 

I'll meet you when you're out 

Of the church at the back door 

Don't wait or say a single vow 

You need to hear me out 

When they said "speak now" 

Don't say yes, run away now 

I'll meet you when you're out 

Of the church at the back door 

Don't wait or say a single vow 

Your time is running out 

When they said, "speak now" 

Oh Oh Oh! ( said speak now.... ) 

I hear the preacher say 

"Speak now or forever hold your peace 

There's the silence, there's my last chance 

I stand up with shaking hands, all eyes on me.

Horrified looks from 

Everyone in the room 

But I'm only looking at you. 

I am not the kind of girl 

Who should be rudely barging in 

On a white veil occasion 

But you are NOT the kind of boy 

Who should be marrying the wrong girl. 

So don't say yes, run away now 

I'll meet you when you're out 

Of the church at the back door 

Don't wait or say a single vow 

You need to hear me out 

When they, said, "speak, now" 

And you say, 

Let's run away now 

I'll meet you when 

I'm out of my tux at the back door 

Baby, I didn't say my vows 

So glad you were around when they said 

"Speak now"

I love Mormon Boys

And I cannot lie.

Things I will miss.

I am sooo glad Winter Semester is over. Soooo happy. But. There are gonna be some changes when I go back, and I am really going to miss some things.

Michelle's Apartment

I loved that I had a safe haven. I cannot count how many times I have escaped to the safety of Michelle's Barnes 152 residence. Oh my gosh how I counted on the safe powers of those four walls.

I loved that we just had so much fun whenever I was there. Michelle one time said, "Nicole, you're like my puppy." Umm....yes. Yes I am.

Seriously. This girl would always be making me food, scurrying to the kitchen to get me a bowl or bottle water. She was forever and always pampering me. I loved it. She is the bom.com.

Kara lived in Michelle's apartment, and I love that girl. I will miss her soo much next semester. Can you believe that we were scared of her when we all first met? And now I consider her one of my closest friends. We are hugging friends, and high-five friends, and cute skirt friends, and just everything else under the sun. She is so funny.

I loved belting out in my opera every chance I got. Kara and Michelle greatly appreciated it and that is just the truth of the matter.

I even loved Isabelle, their roommate who loves anime and is just....very different than I am. She loves to talk. Like, sometimes I think she think her life depends on her ability to get out her next sentence. She will not stop. Tanks and tear gas will not prevent her from getting those last few words out and that is not a lie in even the remotest sense. She is persistent I will give her that.

International Politics

See previous post :)

Meals with Paige and her roommates in the MC

I loved these girls! They were so welcoming to me and so much fun to talk to. I got along with them so swimmingly :) I think we were just all very appreciate of each other and had similar senses of humor.


One time, we were sitting on one of the platforms eating and this girl walked by. She had obviously worked very hard on her appearance- She was wearing a red shirt with a matching bow, her hair was perfectly styled and I think she even had on heels. She was just having a very exciting day I guess. Anyway, so K.D. saw her and like, let out this indignant snort and was like, "Uh....she just thinks shes so cute with her little....HEADBAND and matching shirt and...." And we all looked at her like, kinda bewildered like, "uhh....K.D.??" And she was like, back to eating her food and she glanced up and saw us gaped at her and she was like, "What? She looks nice! I was complimenting her!" All innocently.


Bwahahhaaaaa :)

I loved reading Paige's book on body language- seriously the best book ever. I learned so much and I only read like, three chapters.


But really, I love those girls. Lindsey, K.D., Sophia, and Paige. Blahhh so much fun <3

Randomly popping into Apartment 264

The home of Kathryn, Jessica, Caylin, and Meagan! I love these girls. I will def be making Jessica and Kathryn's new apartment my 2nd home this semester, and actually, I've spent two nights in Rexburg for Spring Semester and none of them in my new apartment. I had a sleepover with Jessica last Saturday night and one with Kathryn last night :)

But I love these girls. I have no idea how we randomly became friends so fast, but all the sudden I was going to Pirates of the Caribbean parties by Meagan and singing my lovely song about....something with Kathryn :) And all I know is that I feel like I've known them for forever. I'm super comfortable around them it just seems natural that we'd be friends.

Sometimes I'd run into Caylin in the Temple, and that was always nice :) And one time I was sick and she went with me to the MC to seek Sprite so i'd feel better. And she and Brittany are gonna visit me this summer! I'm soooo excited!

Study Sessions for Int Poli with Paige

Okay picture this; You're studying for midterms or finals. You decide you want to be in the Library, the 3rd floor to be specific. You grab something to eat in the MC and then cross over the skywalk. The moment you enter the Library, your nose is hit with an amazing smell.

What is it? What could it be?

It is hot chocolate.

Naturally. Wait, what??

You look around, wondering who in the world brought hot chocolate to the Library. Your eyes land on two girls, studiously arched over laptops and surrounded by books, starburst wrappers, mugs, and pistachios. Behind them, sitting on a chair, is some kind of machine....a coco-motion? Yes. That is what it is. And there is tons of hot chocolate in it.

The two girls smile up at you and offer you some. Their names are Nicole and Paige. You kindly reject them and go to sit at a table in the middle.

Throughout the course of the night, you see several people approach hot chocolate girls. These people all seem different, but somehow they all know each other. They talk and laugh and show each other their laptops, appear to critique, and then leave.

Sometimes Nicole and Paige leave for a few minutes and come back with food or ice cream or blueberry smoothies (because they make you smarter, and Nicole drinks one before each of her tests).

Sometimes Nicole and Paige are really bad at focusing, and they goof off and listen to "Waving Flag" by K'naan a billion times. The multiple language, 9 minute version. Or watch Priesthood session because every boy who has stopped by their table gave a very bad description of what exactly went down there. They threaten to change each other's facebook passwords because they keep signing on, but never take the other's phone away despite the fact that they waste an atrocious amount of time texting.

You notice that their biggest fans are the Library workers, who also kindly reject their hot chocolate (does everyone think we spiked it with beer or something? it's yummy! DRINK IT) but stay and chat with them until their shifts are over.

You can tell that Nicole and Paige adore their lil corner, because they praise it almost constantly, often right before letting out a dramatic sigh about how tough this final is and looking piteously at the other and offering her hot chocolate.

I loved our library study sessions :)

Math Class

I had the best math teacher ever, Brother Snell. Here's my ratemyprofessor on him....

"I absolutely ADORE Brother Snell! Math is def not my forte in any way, shape, or form, but he is the best teacher on Earth for people like that. He is always willing to help and always brings the Spirit to class with stories from his mission and such. I never thought I would use math in "real life," but I am seriously keeping this textbook. Take!!!"

Kinda spazzy, but yes. Good prof.

I had two good friends in this class; Heather and Sarah. Which is funny because I have two sisters named Heather and Sarah! I loved these girls. They distracted me definitely, but I didn't really mind, because we had so much fun! I loved telling them about the crazy things happening my life, and I loved hearing their stories, too. They made this class so much fun :)

Temple Thursdays

Every Thursday I would go straight from Book of Mormon to the Temple with Joanie. Every Thursday it seemed like the wind was the worst, and I swear on Gina's and my friendship that the hill almost definitely stretched itself out an additional 14 miles. But, rain, snow or sleet, every Thursday you could find Joanie and I trekking up that hill to the Temple, and every Thursday I could swear was the best day of my week.

I'm so glad that I had the guts to ask Joanie why she was all dressed up for BOM class, and then when she said it was because she went to the temple every Thursday, ask if I could go along. And i'm so glad she said yes :) And i'm so glad that we became such good friends through that enriching time together. And I'm so glad that this is now a habit, and I can't wait to find my Temple buddy for this semester.

I'm so glad I met Joanie <3

This has been a really wonderful semester for me. I've gotten to know so many great people and I've learned soo much. Spring Semester starts tomorrow and I am kinda nervous (which is weird, because I wasn't nervous at all going into Winter Semester, at least not classes-wise), but hopefully it'll be even better than my first college semester. And actually, I can guarentee that it will be, because JULIE IS COMING TO VISIT ME!! I miss that girl so much my heart hurts :( But yes, she will be visiting me and I plan on making her love BYU-Idaho. I got her some really cute things from the DI pile and actually from the DI too, because I love her so much and I am sooo excited to see her!

Anyway. Good-bye Winter Semester 2011. You were cold and sometimes really obnoxious, but I still have fond memories from you. Here's to Spring Semester 2011, and hopefully it will pay attention to its name and actually get out of the freezing zone. Please and thanks.

An Ode to the best class I have ever taken in my life. Ever ever.

International Relations

Ohmigosh....can I even describe in words how much I loved this class?? It is what sold me on my major. From Day One I was psyched beyond reason to be in that class. I loved it. Even when I was soo sick with food poisoning whatever I dragged myself out of bed and up that effing hill to that class. Early. Oh yeah. I was dedicated.

So many things went into my love for that class. One was the professor.

Brother Adamson is seriously like, the best professor I have ever had in my life. IN MY LIFE. Here is the review I wrote for ratemyprofessor.com....

"This is seriously the best class I have ever taken in my life. Bro Adamson is a wonderful teacher. I was not expecting such an unbiased presentation of the material, I mean, this is a political science class, yes? But he did an excellent job of teaching concepts, not opinion. Attendance isn't mandatory but I went every class bc I loved it so much."

And that is how I felt about the class, in 350 words or less. Even though I am less than thrilled with the grade my final got (an 86%. I am not kidding- my grade has been misplaced. There is no way ever. In fact, *pause* I am going to email him right now. Please hold.)

Okay I couldn't do it. I just couldn't okay? I am a wimp. Even though this brings my grade down to an A-, which makes me so sad I can hardly function. Ughhhh. Okay I'll prolly do it. Dahl says I should, but I think I'll wait for Kelly to come home and encourage me.

Here are some people in Int Poli that I will miss most terribly....

Paige I adore this girl :) I talked to her once at the beginning of the semester and gave her help in prepping for the Map Quiz (I directed her to ilike2learn.com- Holla Mr. Edlowitz!) but we didn't talk after that until a couple days before the midterm and I was walking down the hill after class and she was like, blah blah blah have you studied?! And I was like no :( And so we set up an emergency study session the day of the midterm and we studied for hours and hours and we became friends! And we went to a concert at Sammy's and it was soo much fun :) And we have lunch and dinner sometimes. iiiiii am glad we're friends.

So anyway. Paige is like, this model and she is soo pretty but she is very nice and approachable and I am soo glad we are friends. It is so sad for me that she is on Fall/Winter track :(

Tiffany was in Bampff for the Nations Simulation, and we would get 600 factors if we got a girl to defect us, Libertania. She was a prime candidate, because it looked like Maddie wasn't going to, but it actually turned out that Maddie did and Tiffany didn't. But after that Tiffany and I were friends and I am really glad about that :) And she gave me a ride home in her so cute lime green bug!

James is in my country, Libertania. He was really quiet at first but he warmed up to us after I had drawn all these cute pictures on Cam's paper. Now we're friends!

And then I met this guy who is super into fashion and he says that I always look very nice for class, like my outfits are nicely put together, which I thought was very nice of him! But I get compliments like that kinda often here and it is soo weird bc in my family and groups of friends I am nottt the fashionable one. But I think that since i've come to college I've actually cared so i try to put together cute outfits. Doesn't hurt that Michelle likes to spoil me with hand-me-downs sooo....

Also this guy Tony mentioned that he was from DC and I seriously squealed and burst out, "ME TOO!!" it was kinda embarrassing but paid off bc at the end of class he came up and we chatted for awhile about Maryland turns out he's more from Gaithersburg area but still! It was so nice to see someone from Maryland :) Also, Paige and I agree- he has perfect skin and a beautiful face. Yes.

Anyway. I loved this class. I loved just sitting there listening to him lecture, I loved the Melian Dialogue, but most of all, I LOVED the Nations Simulation. Here are things I loved about it....

The first 15 minutes of class, because that's when the news articles were read aloud. I might just post the articles I wrote for it (cause I was the news specialist/ It was pretty legit I will not lie) because they were so super awesome.

I loved the fact that whenever I would show up next to the McKay Cafe in the dead of night for a secret meeting with like, Pyrote or something, there would always, always always allllways without a doubt be another super sketch meeting going on for some other kids in our class.

I loved the news articles, I loved how other groups would try to bribe the World Counsel with candy and sugar-coated compliments.

I loved the love notes the guys in Spartonia would send to us, their "girlfriends," in Libertania. Seriously, they would like, draw kiss-marks and little hearts and be all, "to our FAVORITE country, they lovely girls in Libertania" and write us funny notes. They were our favorites :) Besides Crock of course.

I loved how spirited some countries got with t-shirts and turbans and suits and (for us) tiaras. Zott even wrote a bible that was alll about Nar. Apparently it's really hilarious. Mine's shoved in some drawer, but I should really find and read it.

I wasn't lying when I said this class sold me on my major. I love political science, and after such a class, wouldn't you?

Quote Wall

Here is my quote wall from hanging out with Ashley these past few days....

"Aren't you gonna get that?"

"Guys, this movie ROCKS."

"Seriously. I'm a freakin' goddess. Like, why do I have such a huge crush on myself?"

"What's your favorite song?"

"My headband."

"Street cred."

"I love this store! What's it called?"

"Umm....Smiths?"

"It's wonder-ful! Can we stay a bit longer?"

"Uh, sure...."

"Seriously. When you wear a purple bra you are invincible."

"NO! When you wear a Victoria Secret bra you're invincible!"

"Okay listen; if there was a card game about bras purple bra would like, trump everything."

"But-"

"EVERYTHING."

"What if it was a purple Victoria Secret bra?"

"...........Ohhhh mann."

"Yeah. Invincible."

I love this girl. I admire her soo much. She is such a good person inside and out. One of my role models for sure! I loved staying with her and playing and just doing whatever we did. She is sooo wonderful! See you in a few weeks Ash! AND IN RUSSIA <3

Goodddd-BYEE BYU-I!

Oh man. I am soooo glad to be out of Idaho!

I love love loveee college do not get me wrong, but I so beyond needed a break from all the snow (it's April. APRIL. Someone please send Idaho the memo), classes, that blasted hill up to the Ricks (and that's the headquarters of Poli Sci, so thanks. Thanks a wholeeee lot. I'm practically gonna live there next semester. Ohhh the things I do for my wonderful major....), my house, MC food or whatever delicious concoction I manage to whip up. Most of all, I'm tired of studying. I'm tired of homework and I'm tired of being a student.

Grades? Well this is a treat. You should know that I never, ever discuss grades. Not even with my best friends. Not even with Julie. I hate hate hateeee discussing grades. This semester I didn't end up doing nearly as wonderful as I wanted to, which just means that I need a freakin 4.0 next semester, bc I refuse to not get one.

And you know what's funny? The class that I got the worst beyond worse grade was my Psych class, the one that I insisted I take as my "fun and relaxing" class.

I was such an idiot. Boy did all that "fun and relaxing" as 7:45am Monday, Wednesday, Friday in the Ricks building bring down my GPA. Blegh. So I guess what I'm trying to say is when you go to college and want to take a class because it looks "fun," shut up and stop being stupid. You don't know fun. You wouldn't know it if it smacked you upside the head. Don't take the class. Ever ever.

So I'm off to Utah for a full week to relax and rejuvenate. Trust me, I deserve it like a mother.