hindsight is 20/20

2009 was pretty friggin' rad. Just for my sake and sanity, I've decided to list a number of things I did this past year. Some were kind of a big deal, others were just awesome.

I graduated. While I allowed myself to get more and more distracted as I got closer to graduation, and my GPA suffered a bit as a result, I had a great time at BYU.

I finished my Honor's Thesis documentary. Honestly, I didn't think it was going to work out. But it did, and even better than I had hoped. It wasn't until I was sitting in my thesis defense that I realized how much thought I had put into the project. For every question they asked, I had an answer, and I passed without revisions.

Thanks to Hale Centre Theatre, I played a bad guy for the first time ever. Not just any bad guy, but a murderous pirate. And while I know it freaked some people out, I really enjoyed it. Even though I was basically the only one who didn't get to swim.

Thanks to some awesomely talented friends at BYU, I participated in four student film projects. "Spit" by Michael Van Orden, "Night at the Opera" with Joel Ackerman, "Lest We Forget" by Courtney Branning and Coryn Cope, and "Abe and Sasha's Movie Night" by Joseph Reidhead. Both cast and crew, these projects rocked. Watching the "Spit" premiere at the Scera was the first time I have ever seen myself on the big screen.

I participated in the Nauvoo Pageant and loved it all over again.

I gave the finger to law school and never felt better. And finally admitted to myself that I want to be an actor.

I moved to France and made it into an acting school.

I moved back.

I spent time in Provo, Nauvoo, Houston, Moab, Paris, Rome, London, and Woods Cross.

I took loads of pictures. So many that I don't have room on my computer for them, but I will be posting some shortly.

Thank you, 2009. You were good to me.

And on to 2010. Every year I have a motivating slogan that follows a similar theme. Past years' slogans have included:

Get valid for heaven in 2007.
Find a mate in 2008.
It's about time in 2009.

And now, announcing the theme for this year:

If not now, then when? 2010.

apologies

Uncertainty strikes the best of us. And whenever it hits home, I tend to distance myself a bit from the world and avoid questions that touch on what I am doing with my life. This includes being a little distant in internet communications...