I heart Salt Lake -

It's good to be home!

Productivity

http://www.mensa.org/workout2.php

If you're as bored at work today as I am... I'd suggest this mensa quiz as a way to fill up a half hour. My friend at work and I are taking it and experiencing major flashbacks to the days of standardized testing and junior high math teachers!

Invisibility might be overrated... So I'm giving it up!

Maybe being invisible wouldn't be as great as I used to think. I remember as a little kid just wishing I could sneak around invisibly and then as a not so little kid (in college) being so jealous of Harry Potter's cloak! But now that google has bestowed upon us invisible powers of sorts I'm not so sure how I feel about it.

I've been invisible on g-chat all day, and this afternoon I started to get depressed. After Lauren had to go to class I had no other chats going on. Nobody else knew or cared to "send offline chat"s my direction and I started feeling lonely. And then I realized how preposterous the whole thing is! If I want to chat I should get online and show myself! If I don't, I should just sign out. What is with the limbo of invisibility? Why do I like/use it so much? Someone asked me who I was hiding from the other day and I had no idea. I don't even know why I use it! I think I originally fell for the setting because of how it made me feel... akin to Jack Bauer or Sydney Bristow... so sneaky...so savvy! But now it's just obnoxious and I need to stop!

And to anyone else with the same invisibility addiction - I might be sending you random offline chats in an effort to flush you out and rid you of the horrid habit ("lovely girl/horrid habit")!

Ethan Frome

Have you ever stopped reading a book just because you don't know if you can handle the sad ending that you're fairly certain is coming?

Chocolate Show!

If there was ever any doubt as to whether I was in the right place to indulge my overindulgent tendencies, this confirmed it and removed all doubt:

http://www.chocolateshow.com/

And it's good to know this show hits other cities as well. Although now that I've seen this Ali and I may need to reconsider our 2014 move-to-Singapore plans in favor of Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, or Shanghai.

PRESIDENTIAL QUIZ FOR ELECTION DAY:

COMPLIMENTS OF MY DAD - a bit of a political enthusiast... (hence the reason for the urgent phone call I got Saturday asking me to pick up more badges to round out his collection)

Oh and don't worry if you don't know any of these... I only got TWO right. I'm kind of dying about that and thinking about going back to school because apparently I know nothing!

1. Who is the only person to serve 2 terms as vice president and 2 terms as president?

2. What was the official name of the political party that Teddy Roosevelt ran under in the 1912 election?

3. Who was the only president to never be married?

4. How many different vice presidents served during FDR’s tenure as President?

5. Who is the only person to ever serve non consecutive terms as president?

6 The election of 1800 had to go to the congress to elect a winner. The ballots were tied for 35 ballots. Thomas Jefferson eventually won the election. Who was the candidate who was tied with Jefferson on those ballots?

7. Who was the first Mormon to declare himself a candidate for President of the United States?

8. Before Bush 43, who was the last president to win the presidency while losing the popular vote? And before Bush 43, who was the last president to be elected without receiving a majority of the popular vote?

9. How many of the men we elected president have been impeached? And name him (or them).

10. Virginia is the state that has produced the most presidents. Name the state that has produced the second most number of presidents?

TIE BREAKER QUESTION: Who was the president that was sandwiched between the non consecutive terms of one of the presidents?

ANSWERS TO BE POSTED JUST AS SOON AS WE FIND OUT WHO ARE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE! Although, I don't feel like we'll be even a smidge surprised.

If You Get Sick and Have to Stay Home from Work:

I recommend watching 12 hours of Friday Night Lights. I know I SHOULD be embarrassed - but have you seen this show? Plus, let's be honest - there are other guilty viewing pleasures that merit more embarrassment...