Harvard protests












Sometimes it feels like academia is so disconnected from the real world. It's cute that Harvard decided to invite a major bad guy to speak on tolerance ha. [Here's] the background story about how the governor decided that taxpayer's money shouldn't be used to cart the guy around. [Here's] someone's blog with pictures of the protest.

the visit



here's the murphy family complete with baby ava. 

Maybe a deep theological message.



Earlier in the summer someone changed the marquee at church. I thought it was funny. As if one of the critics of the early church had something to say about the communion practices but not quite...yes i'm just bored and waiting for it to be 10pm so I can go to the pie for a slice of meatball pizza.

lets just talk about the weather



we filmed this on August 12. The weather has been psychotic. Mostly hot hot heat with bursts of hail.

I think I wasted almost an entire year of work on a paper that the Graduate Committee will not pass. I've very frustrated. I was working on something else but I was advised that this paper I've been slaving over would be much easier and quicker. I wish that I had ignored the advice and the pressure (since I later found out that I was ahead of schedule). yup very frustrated. I only have 2 years of funding left, I need to be working on my dissertation not jumping hoops. By the way I think the paper is pretty good.

life...

I've been a big slacker with blogging but I"ll try to put something up later. I've been busy trying to finish up the summer school classes with endless grading and get things in order for the fall semester class. Daniel and I have both been taking advatage of the insurance with visits to the doctor and the dentist.

Lots of craziness has been going on in Utah. Pretty depressing, apparently we think it's okay to abduct and kill kids. There's just been endless reports of kids being killed by adults. Too depressing.

We watched little miss sunshine and while it is definately an R movie we liked it a lot. It was pretty funny with it's own bizarre creativity and social commentary. Many fun parts but thare was lots of "adult" language if that bugs you.

And a good thing. Ava is now out of Jana's tummy. And from the picture on mark's page she's kinda cute, not the normal super smooshy. Woohoo. I've been so excited to find out what her name would be and what she would look like. COngrats to Shaun and Jana!

Sorry that was so jumpy, that's just how my brain is right now, I guess I won't be getting much done today, oh well.

Video: from last weeks show at Urban



It's time for a little dance. Tonight's show is in Ogden at "Brewski's" should be fun. I bought a salad spinner and I have to say it's an amazing invention. It's SO cool. That is all.

I put some other videos up too at our youtube page. You can get there by clicking "home videos" on the right.

Yesterday, birthday and movie

So yesterday was daniel's birthday. He took off and so he's working "4/ 10's" this week. We went shopping and we went to dinner with his parents and we went to a movie (what else do we do besides shop, eat and watch movies?).

We watched Lady in the water with the Mark and the TOnie and I have to say I LOVED it. Daniel thought it was enjoyable and fun but not his favorite of M. Night Shyamalan's movies. It's kind of different than Shyamalan's other flicks. I think it's fun in the same way that superhero movies are fun. And it reminded me (feeling-wise) of Kungfu Hustle -but I"m not sure the other three guys really saw that when I mentioned it last night so maybe thats just a strange connection. But I thought it was good fun.

Just Painful...be warned if you haven't been tormented yet



I (and daniel) just don't get the hype. I understand that many of you probably loved it but I'll take that as evidence that there is something off in your heads or you suffer from severe peer pressure. I don't relate to the humor okay maybe a line or two were funny, but it was so boring and it was just gross and the bad guys' look was so unbelievable . Yeah i was totally not pulled into the story and the scenes lasted way to long, how long do you need the fools rolling and fighting on a wheel.

We've seen many many movies lately... Nacho Libre, Superman, MI3 (is that the number), now this one. There are others but I cant remember which ones now. Go see nacho its definately worth it. After seeing pirates daniel and I were both sad that it got such hype and good reviews but Nacho (a really good movie) isn't doing so well. End of rant.

Pics: Fourth of July



Fourth of July was jammed pack. After a lazy morning we went for a round of mini golf with Tonie, Mark, and Elektra. After that was a rained in BBQ at Tonie's relatives -yummy. Then to Sugarhouse park where the fireworks to so long to start we weren't sure if some of the ones in the distance were the ones we were looking for and if it was just really pathetic this year. We used Elektra as a peg and tossed her glow rings onto her. Lots of fun.

correction

so if you wanna see the other videos (only one other one right now) go HERE which is also http://www.youtube.com/user/MarissaandDaniel that is all

Just a little dinner video


I"m trying this video thing out. (you might want to let it load completely first)

this is a film from a couple weeks ago. we like the burgers at the bowling alley. the guy who makes them is chinese and really doesn't speak english, he charges 25 cents for ranch but the burgers are yummy and this time they were kinda funny

I'm gonna try and put more up on youtube.com I coded the videos with MarissaandDaniel so if you search those ours should pop up.

blah: Mike and Laura Allred signing


i got my X-Statix #1 signed by mr. Allred himself, now i just need to find mr. Milligan (marissa explains that this is a comic book since only like 2 people in the world will know what daniel is talking about...he says whatever allred is popular...okay) 

Cathy's favorite



I'm too lazy to plug the camera into the computer to get pictures from daniel's last show and whatever pictures we took in in the last week so here are a few more weding pictures 

Another Wedding picture...



This is the picture daniel has at work. 

Picture from last week's show



Tonight...Urban Lounge 

Wedding Pic



This is one of our favorites from the pre-wedding picture fest. We used this for some of the thankyou cards, which hopefully will go out tomorrow or Monday. 

blah: stalling...



I have ALOT to do, my head is all over the place so what do I do? post a picture. Here's a picture from the honeymoon. Before we left the port on the cruise they made us all put on life vests and go to the life boats that we are assigned to. We were on number 12...yup. Well that didn't take up much time... okay I'll try to work again. I'll try to stick one or two of our favorite wedding pictures up sometime soon. 

Assembly line


We created and assembled all the programs and wedding favors. Next shaving the candles so they fit into the vases and sewing covers for all the chairs at the reception. 

Free Ice cream

info about free cone day


Free cone day go now ben and jerry's. I was trying to put a picture but...