I don't know I'm not a huge fan of classical, but I do like bach and vivaldi
heyyyy!
Hi!
how are you doing?
I am exhausted, but I wanted to talk to you some more tonight How are you?
i am doing great i am finally catching up a bit and the stress is subsiding haha
yeah? I hate stress, and stressful situations I'm glad you're catching up!
me too how was your day? anything crazy happne?
It felt really long, but I think it payed (paid?) off in the end Umm, I cleaned the rest of my house And had a graduation party That's pretty much what I did all day lol
did you get paid? i think paid and payed can be used interchangeably i looked it up once that is so awesome
They can?
i remember when i graduated yeah
And yeah, I guess I got paid for graduating lol
decided the need to have different uses though how would you use them or in what contexts?
Wow. That's just so extreme. And paid I think is money But I'm not sureeee
yeah i think i would agree with you because paid just screams money to me but i don't know how you would use payed then
Ha. Yeah. Neither do I
how was the party?
It was okay. I kinda wanted to leave like 30 minutes in, but it lasted 3 hours lol But I saw a ton of people that I know, and some really close friends, so that was good
that sounds like my mission farewell except it was different you just want time to lay down and soak it in your destiny
Ha, yeah?
yeah that is actually really nice any time i feel really happy about something i do that too i lay down and just soak in life arms hanging off of the side of the bed and everything
i think that is pretty cool. Normally I do that when confronted with a crazy philosophical idea. But, that's a cool strategy!
oh really? how often does that happen?
Normally after seminary Or when I realize something insane, like vibrating energy
what is vibrating energy?
everything
oh are you talking about the string/multiverse theory? because i mean that is a big coincidence if you arent cause that is kind of what the theory says it is interesting
Maybe, I could be. Or the speed of light thing from the other day
oh yeah
What makes it so interesting to you exactly? Like your favorite parts of it?
well the string theory states that the smallest units or particles are made up of strings of energy that vibrate like loops kind of and the multiverse theory states that there are multiple universes and it builds on the string theory basically each parallel universe has its own wave length that the strings vibrate at and it changes the properties of matter there so matter in our world operates differently than matter in other worlds so the rules are kind of like custom based upon the wavelength of the strings that make up the subatomic particles that constitute all matter interesting thats why i say that lol my math teacher her at byu is studying algebraic geometry related to those strings here
Oh my gosh! That is sooo amazing!!!!! It makes me want to lay down and absorb everything Really?
his name is priddis super great guys take his classes he is one of those really amazing math teachers everyone loves go lay on your bed and soak it in
I will definitely try to get them! And, if you ever need a chemistry teacher, I know one of the new professors And, I am in bed, lol
are you serious? I passed my ap chem exam so i wont be taking chemistry i will be taking newtonian mechanics instead
Yeah! The chem prof is one of my neighbors, and in my ward. And, I've never heard of that...
its physics 121 i hear it is hard but i love a good challenge
ohhhhhh!  My dad probably took a class similar then
it is interesting i considered studying physics once that was before i thought of being a neurosurgeon
A neurosurgeon??? Dude.
i know right? thats why i changed my major to something else again... last time though
It's better to change it multiple times rather than doing something you don't like
exactly and i figure i need to change it while i am in my first year and i have pretty much settled the hard thing with math and sciences is that it is hard to see how you are helping other people in your profession
Yeah, I'll probably do the same. And hooray for settling! ish! Yeah, it would be
but in neurosurgery you save lives every day
But, I don't think I could do that because I'd be too terrified that I would make a mistake
STAC classes are so fun
Yeah?
so fun haha i dont know why i didnt take any my first year like volleyball and weightlifting and ballrom ballroom i am trying to do ballroom this next semester along with swim and then volleyball winter semester i havent swam for 3 years
I don't know which one(s) to take this fall, because I wanted to do volleyball with you
because of mission rules
You can't swim on your mission?
i mean maybe i could switch out swim and volleyball and do volleyball this next semester
You don't have to, let me assure you
ok
I don't want to mess up any scheduling or anything
i am still in the wait list for swim ok. well i dont care when i do it i might just do an intramural team instead
Yeah?
i am doing swimming with my roommate but the waitlist is too long so i might not make it in
What is the difference between stac and intramural? And, who knows? maybe try fasting for it or something
thats a good idea i am not too worried about it though honestly i just think it would be fun i just ran into my room mates sister in the math lab today and my roommate has sold 14 contracts at his summer sales job already! he is a genius and apparently it carries over to selling pest control hahaha
Oh my gosh! That is insane! Also, why do so many return missionaries sell pest control or solar panels?
solar panels are way cooler than pest control in my opinion but because you get good at talking people when no one else wants to hey want to play would you rather?
Ohhhhhh! That makes sense! And sure, but I warn you, I am terrible at decision making
ok here we go haha would you rather lose all of your money and valuables or all of the pictures you have ever taken or are in so no pictures or dead broke
Does valuables include sentimental valuables?
uhhh if it is worth more than 100 dollars
Then, I'd rather lose the money and valuables.
what do you have that is sentimental? or is it too sentimental to talk about?
Most of the stuff I have is sentimental tbh, but I love my pictures and my cards, and anything I get from church lessons
pictures have so much sentimental value would the answer be different if you had 2 million dollars?
I don't think it would. I mean, I love a lot of things, but that would all someday be spent, probably on food, so pictures are my saved items
yeah good answer what if you were on your deathbed and you needed the money for a life saving surgery? like 500,000 and insurance wouldn't cover
Let me think for a sec how old would I be at the time?
27, you got a rare form of cancer but the treatment promises a complete cure
That's specific
well sometimes specific is fun!
I feel like I would pray about it first, but I might do the money so my family wouldn't have to pay funeral costs
but it can be anything if you want
And yeah, specific can be fun
I have an idea What if you made a game of would you rather but turned it into a story? it would probably be to complicated
Like a choose your own story?
we could write a book yeah
Let's do it! Get money for college!
ok so where should we start? and who is the main character? you or me
Uhh... we could flip a coin
sure *flip*
wait! who is heads and who is tails?
*coin pauses midflip* your choice but hold one this is really cool to look at i have never seen a quarter do this before
No! Don't give me the choice! and do what????
its still spinning but just floating
oohhhh! So mysterious!!1
honestly you should come see this
I'd love to! But I don't know how fast I could get there!
oh and i flipped a coin for you to see which side you get you get heads
okay. that works for me
thats what google says anyways
lol google is great
heads so you are the main character where do you want to start in life? I feel like i am a conductor on a train next stop...
what time period is this gonna be?
uhhh 2018
okay, just checking
so any time in your life and you live in ...
Well, I haven't done much in my life, and abq nm
modesto california
ohhh that's better I like that It's the starting place of Monsters vs. Aliens
yeah it is perfect not to flashy, one might even say modest! yeah hahaha
Ha ha ha
that is why i chose it
Punny
i am sorry bad pun i will stop those
uh, great pun Keep em up
are you a fan of puns
YESSSS I love them, so much!
oh was that a bad pun or a good one
I think it was pretty good lol But what is a pun judged on?
back to the story
okay.
did you decide?
I literally haven't even graduated high school, mr. train conductor. I have zero life experience, so I might need help
ok
any suggestions
so you have just graduated highschool
yes
you are faced with a difficult decision
Oh no, what ever will I decide?
your mom (your dad left as a kid) is all the family you have left. She is deathly ill and cannot take care of herself but shoot is there ... hold on
okay
there isnt any college in modesto so you will have to move away if you choose to go to college
We can make one up? or yeah, just no college
or you could stay and take care of your sick mother and study through byu independent study and get a job at the local pizzeria what do you do? you have been accepted to all the schools you applied for harvard, yale, stanford, mit, you name it if you take out a loan maybe you could hire a maid for your mother
byu independent study and stay with my mom
but it would be a financial burden to take through school ok so you are working at the pizzeria and one day the guy who owns all the pizzerias in california walks in and you make him the most delicious pizza he has ever tasted he offers to give you a job at a nearby food science lab but there is a catch he doesnt want you to be distracted and you havent even finished the first semester of classes so he tells you to drop out of school what do you do? he offers a salary of 50,000 a year 40 hours a week 2 vacation weeks a year
I pretend to drop out, but secretly keep up byu independent study,  and study and do class work once home from work Is that an option?
ok yes that is an option but it comes with consequences that are unpredictable is that your choice?
yeah, I think so
ok shoot now i have to come up with consequences this is hard! i am not very good at this
lol. I'm a decent story teller, just not when having to do the chose your own path
hey your turn you have to be able to do better than i can i am not much of a writer
Okay, I just need an opening scene or situation
ok i am good at making choice choices just give me some
Okay, I need: Character name, age, occupation, and family history Like easy background
character i am jim macfarlan age, 28 i am cowboy in the 1800s and i come from a long line of rich people but i ran away to chase the crazy cattle drving life
Okay, and do you have a nemesis? or what is your main problem?
my main problem? antagonist? hmmm
Yeah, pretty much
there is a band of robbers in the forrest, and i chopped off all of their arms i mean hmmm that is already part of another story well they have a boss named
hmmm, it did sound vaguely familiar ;)
ricornelli depodegi and he is ruthless i have an unpaid debt with him and he is slaughtering all of my cattle!
Ricornelli depodegi? in a forest with a band of robbers, while you herd cattle in the desert right next door?
yeah dont ask me why they are right next door haha they are in the mountain forest
Okay, I won't. So, forest on mountain, desert at the base of the mountain maybe? or is one side of the mountain desert and one forest?
sure that works
Okay.  give me a few to start typing it out!
ok i will get a drink from the drinking fountain
Sounds good. Just a few more minutes :)
ok i am back
The bedground (where cattle are kept at night) was devoid of life. The gate was open, and most of the cattle were gone, the others lay in a crimson beef stew (shallow water where cows have stood) Jim Macfarlan, the cowboy in charge of them cattle stood at the near empty bedground with a look of shock and fury on his face.
oh dear my cattle are all gone or dead! it was ricornelli depodegi!
Correct. It was that deuce Ricornelli Depodegi, the auger (big boss) of the forest near Jim's desert trail.
wow narrator where are you getting all these big words?
(western slang from legendsofamerica.com lol) (trying to make it semi authentic :))
well you are doing a might fine job
Jim Macfarlan was one heck of a cowboy, the cattle herder everyone wanted to employ if they could. (and thank you)
wow i am speechless
The only problem with his situation was one of his clients, the auger of the forest. Depodegi. Depodegi hired Depodegi hired Jim to herd cattle from one side of the mountain to an outpost on the other side. But the cattle he had to herd turned out to be something other than cows.
hey i am thirsty again... i really need to bring my water flask next time
A flask, or a water skin, was made from cow leather, and were worth one heck of a price when sold to the right people They were also known as cattle to those who knew the right people to get these new inventions These were the cattle Jim had to herd Jim had already accepted payment for the cattle herding he promised he would do, and he always used the same trail to get across the mountain range
oh dear depodegi is not going to be happy about this i have to do something
Jim then had an idea, one that may or may not work. These water skin cattle were illegal to sell without the right permissions from the sheriffs of the towns. So, why not deliver them to the sheriff at the outpost instead of delivering them to who he was supposed to? Jim also figured that since they weren't actual cattle he could accept another job to deliver cattle to the same outpost.
wait i am getting really confused i thought they WERE cattle
They are water skins, but they are known as cattle because they are (for some reason) illegal to sell without the sheriffs permission
wait so water skins like the water bottles you use to drink from back then?
yeah. or something. I don't know. I'm making this up as I go along lol
ok
So Jim Macfarlan accepted one of the jobs he was offered. There were a few dozen cattle in this job, because he didn't want too many to herd with his other shipment. (cows will be cattle, waterskins will be Cattle with big C)
ok but this is starting to get slightly confusing i am following though
I'll try and make it a little easier to follow. It'll eventually make sense. I hope.
ok
Jim set off on his journey, with a box of Cattle, and a dozen or so actual cattle. He took his normal path, and had no trouble at all getting to the outpost. It was when he delivered the Cattle to the sheriff that the problem developed.
ok this is interesting, the speakers in the library just started blasting who let the dogs out
hahhaa! Wow. I haven't heard that song in a while!!!
yeah it is blasting all throughout the library like seriously cant someone have some peace? they said something about how i have to leave in 15 minutes and then turned up the music hahaha
It's practically midnight dude! Like really? That is just weird!
yeah they do it every time the library closes but i am never here they just blast funky dance music and tell people to leave then everyone just starts dancing it is so funny
Well, I guess there is a first time for everything. OOOHHH DANCING!!!!
yeah now it is playing something i have never heard in my life
can you recognize the words?
it is called wonderboy by tenacious d i just looked it up and i have never heard it before kind of weird
yeah, i havent heard it either
well i have to transition to my phone. are you going to bed??
I'm not sure... i guess it depends
well if you still want to talk just open another window otherwise you can go to bed
okay
but i have to leave cause the library is closing unfortunately see you in a sec!