Women's Conference

I had a fantastic time at the Women's Session of conference!!! I'm so excited for general conference this weekend!

Updates

Alright, so it's been a while. I guess I should update you on how things are going over here in my corner of Orem. :)

As some of you know, I've dropped three of my classes at school to take online at home (those classes start on October 27). So now I get out of school at 10:26 on A days and 11:55 on B days. I really enjoy it. I still get to see all my friends, I still get to be around people, but it's a shortened day so I can actually stand it. I have a really hard time being around people, so my short days are a true blessing.

My writing is going great! It was going really slow for a while, crawling along at a snail's pace. I couldn't seem to force the words from my pens. Outlining wasn't working, simply jumping in and starting wasn't working. I spent months without writing. Then I tried a new approach to it--instead of structured outlining, I started writing the plot as if I were telling it to someone. That has been awesome and I'm writing at a rate of 1 gel pen per day.

Oh! I forgot! I'm 17! I turned 17 a while ago, but I didn't really do anything fun for it, so I just thought it wasn't worth posting about.

I've started browsing freelance writing jobs, so I might get started on that within a week or so.

And I've started drawing again! I gave up on it over the summer, thinking it wasn't worth it, but I missed my paints too much, so I started up again :)

Thank you for reading this post, I really appreciate it :) I love y'all!

With love,

Aubrey Lou

9/11

In my psychology class today, we talked about today. We talked about 9/11 and the devastating psychological effects it had on our nation. When it happened, I was barely two years old. I don't remember it but I can see in the faces and the eyes of my teachers today that they all remember it clearly. It stands out to them like a scar in their memories.

Most everyone in our school dressed in Sunday best to honor the day and remember it. What makes me sad is that as the generations continue to progress, the infamous tragedy of this day will be lost in history. Our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren won't remember this day with as much clarity and pain as we do, and most of us aren't even old enough to recall the events--we only see the aftermath in those older than us.

I know the pain of this day will fade as time goes on--time has a way of dulling things, even the things we think should not be dulled. I think back on Pearl Harbor, a day which is equally, if not more infamous than today, and to me it's just a date. It's just another event I have on a test every year. I know it was horrible, yes, but it doesn't matter as much to me.

It depresses me a little to know that 9/11 will one day be just another date in the history books.