2012: The Best Of

My "Best Of" list, while it does include many things that debuted in 2012, is not solely comprised of such things. It's a list of the best things I discovered in 2012. Or just things I came to see/love in a new way throughout the year. Or just things I've always loved.

Films:
Wreck It Ralph
Hottie Boomba Lottie
Captain America
Hunger Games
Thor
The Avengers
The Hobbit
Moneyball

Skyfall

YouTube videos:
Inspirational Running
Stay Awake
Stop-motion Excel

Books:
The Fault In Our Stars
Fahrenheit 451
The Race Beat
Wordplay
My Name is Asher Lev
American Jesus

Twitter pages:
Modern Seinfeld
Threadless
Maureen Johnson
John Green

Musical artists:
Imagine Dragons
A Great Big World
Greg Holden
Walk Off The Earth
Watsky
Opus Orange
Julia Nunes

Personal photos: (This one could go on forever but here's a few that never cease to make me smile)

Television shows:
Community
Parks and Recreation
Sherlock
The Mindy Project
Arrow
Doctor Who

Road trips:
Northern California w/ Trent, Phillip, Grant and Emily (Days 1&2, 3, 4)
Southern California w/ Becca
Mid-week Meridian, Idaho w/ the VPLCT

Other events that changed my life:

• Seeing Jordan three times in the spring & then talking every single day (in some form) the entire time I was home
• Lorraine getting her mission call to Paris, France
• SJ's mission farewell
• Longboarding down the canyon (finally)
• Writing for The (Daily) Universe
• Brooke telling me she was having a baby (It's a girl, by the way)
• Seeing Imagine Dragons live
• Spending a great deal of my free time during the second half of the semester with Peter
• Winning 52 free meals to Chick-Fil-A
• Tuesday lunches (and sometimes dinners) in spring term with Trent
• Finally getting a smartphone

It's been one heck of a year. I'm stoked to see how 2013 turns out. Have a great Christmas, my dear friends.

Exciting fall plans

So today I set up an interview for a job in the library on campus. It's going to be on Thursday afternoon. I return to Utah Thursday morning. This will be an interesting interview, that's for sure. I'm sure doing interviews on little sleep always end well, right? I'm excited about the possibility to work in the library, though. I think that would solidify my nerdiness forever, as if I needed more help with that.

Other things that will make fall semester great are as follows:

-A hopefully decent football team.

-Road tripping to California w/ Becca for her birthday (CAN YOU SAY DISNEYLAND?!)

-Becca teaching me how to properly drive stick. She might be more excited about this than I am.

-Longboarding down the canyon. I've missed my longboard a great deal this summer. Literally the last day I was in Utah I went w/ my roommate Stacy and our friends Stopher and Joe. It was the perfect way to end spring term but only made me sadder to leave my board behind. Also, I'll most definitely be getting some shave ice w/ Stoph after a longboarding session. It's now a must.

-Living w/ 3 awesome roommates. For the first time ever I know all the people I'm living with and it's going to be wonderful. We all get along in such a great way. It's basically magical.

It's a shame this post couldn't be longer but on account of how it's one minute to midnight I best be ending it here.

Last YouTube video I watched: Instagram - The Musical