Ow, ow, ow

I can't sit. I can't stand. And now I can't walk. Well, without feeling the effects of my afternoon spent dancing. No worries, I have no regrets and have always somewhat painfully enjoyed being sore after a good stretch or workout. Given that it's been maybe two years since I've done jazz and a little longer for most hardcore dance classes, it is probably expected I feel the way I do. But it's good. All is well. :)

I did sleep really well last night. Maybe having a major headache which practically knocks you out can do that. I did take medicine...I had a pack of pills but they didn't say what they were ANYWHERE. My roommate and I went through here medicine and found something that had the same ingredient and concluded my pills were a version of Day Quil. So I took them...and while I was hurting in the evening, I work up refreshed and excited to begin the day...only about a half hour after I planned at being AT work. But it too was alright. I still got to work before my boss. And I have exactly 18 min until I get a catered lunch with the managing director of all Church curriculum. I'm counting down the mins.

The weekend was good. Friday I ventured onto the U of U campus for what I think was my first time ever. We went to the gymnastics meet against BYU and WOW, the place was packed! I've been to a couple of these things at BYU and never, never ever, did I see them fill the entire Marriott Center. That was exciting...and we had a group of way cool people...and pretty attractive guys :) Then, because we were all starving, we went to eat and much to our, and most specically my, delight, Cafe Rio was still open! Then we traveled to Bountiful area for a house-warming party for someone that had recently moved out of my ward. The somewhat decent dance party in the basement died quickly after some kid started going on his hands and doing kicks and it was just weird. We drove back to Temple Square, dropped my roommate off with her friend who flew in from NYC, and I got to drive her new XRS back to Holladay. Ah, that was fun. Saturday morning I already posted about...I did get to eat my cafe rio leftovers for lunch and then got ready to attend the YW broadcast that evening. The drive in was horrible! and I wasn't positive if I could still park in the Conference Center parking lot...so if I had to wait in all that traffic and then turn around to find somewhere else to park, well, I may have been upset. But alas, the guy asked, are you working the event, to which I was able to respond, yes, yes I am...And I was allowed to park there. I walked in and signed in and was handed a stack of creme colored paper with the words CONFIDENTIAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONFIDENTIAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS bordering each page. What were these? Why, they were the talks of the YW presidency and President Eyring to be given during the conference. I didn't know where the media room was so the lady showed me the way to the room at the back of the plaza level of the Conference Center. This was pretty cool. The room is kinda like box seats for the Conference Center. The room has a straight-on view of the proceedings with outlets and wireless internet and audio jacks and such. So we sit with what I think were one-side glass (We can see out, but no one can see in) with the view of the entire everything going on. Plus, I guess the missionaries had done a little more than usual and instead of setting up the normal water coolers and nuts for us, they also included bottles of apple and orange juice, mints, M&M's, etc. etc. And then we all sat there watching the conference while following along in our printed versions of the talks and marking changes and such taht occurred. It was pretty cushy and actually way more exciting than I expected it to be. Now I'm even more excited to cover General Conference. Yay!

Dancing the day away

I have to give thanks to Christianne for refering me to the blog Your Heart Out which posts information about things to do in SLC and such. I don't really look at it that often but happened to earlier this week and found this open house type of thing at a dance studio downtown. They do it I guess about ever 3 months and teach each class offered for 40 min. And it's all for just 5 bucks! I haven't REAALLLY danced in pretty much forever and it was pretty exciting to think about doing it again. (And by really dancing I mean technical dance styles like jazz, modern, etc. Ballroom is a little but it's really different)

So I am happy to say that I went through with the whole thing. Sometimes I get these great ideas and then chicken out, get scared, and don't do the things that I would really love to do. But I went, paid my five bucks, and spent the morning and afternoon dancing at the RDT Community Dance School under the direction of dancers in the Repertory Dance Theatre. So basically they are all really really good.

I miscalculated the time for the Brazilian dance class so I missed that one but made it in time for the African class. Uh, so it was really fun. We were accompanied by live drummers and well, what can compare with that. I took four classes total: African, Ballroom, Jazz, and Hip Hop. I also watched an improv class which seemed really fun but I was starving so took that time to eat a granola bar.

Anyways I came out really happy and loving that I went through with this. It was the most fun I've had in a while and just reminded me what I love about dancing. I love this form of expression and well, it's a lot more fun than running at the gym. I'm really tempted to sign up for a couple classes. I loooooved my jazz class. It was taught by this fun guy on the company. I actually love dance classes taught by guys and this was no exception. I'd really like to take this one...as well as either the African or Brazilian class. And it's not bad of a deal. You buy a punch card for ten classes for 90 bucks. I'd be more likely to sign up if I knew I'd be here for a while but I don't. I guess we'll see what happens.

wouldn't you think there's a better, less creepy, way

So is it just me or is being approached in somewhat dark parking lots kinda scary? I would think that's pretty common knowledge but I've encountered this scenario several times in the past couple weeks...I don't know, maybe it's just Salt Lake.

First time: I ran into Smith's to return a redbox DVD and was snacking on the crumbs of some cheese snack crackers. As I walked to my car, a older gentlemen approached me saying he had been washing windows all day to try to earn money to buy food for his young daughters. But that day it had started raining and he couldn't wash the windows...So he was asking for money. Both fortunately and unfortunately, I didn't have any cash on me (depending on if you look at my selfish feelings of gratitude that I didn't have to give away my money, or my more compassionate feelings of charity and wishing I could help). So I help up my nearly gone bag of crackers and said, "You can have these" He declined. Maybe he wasn't really trying to find food for his family, maybe the meager snacks that get me by aren't quality enough for him.

Second time: Today, I was walking to my car with a couple bags of purchases from the Walmart in Salt Lake City. This particular store has a multi-level parking garage and is a little darker than most parking lots. It was only about 6:45 and with the help of Daylight Savings Time it was still light out. But that didn't stop my surprise from being approached TWICE. Again I was snacking on some cinnamon bears (maybe there's a cause and effect element here) This young man started with a question, "Hello, do you wear cologne." Obviously he's trying to sell something and I do my best to not give him much attention. Yes I do actually wear perfume and all kinds of smelly things but gave him a simple, "No." So he tells me I should and continues talking and walking aside me as I make my way to my car. And he even let me get a sample on my right wrist...I'm smelling it right now and I actually like it..mmmm But I again told him I wasn't interested and he left me to approach a guy getting out of the car across from me. Since he was talking to me during the time that I usually find my keys, I had to set my groceries on the hood of my car while I looked for my keys in my purse. After finding them and proceeding to unlock the door (an act I am extremely grateful for after I locked myself out of my car last Saturday) I once again heard a question from a young man's voice but this time it asked, "What perfume do you wear?" Luckily I was able to send this guy off with a simple "Sorry, he already got me." Then as he walked away we exchanged comments like, it smells good huh. Yes, yes it does.

But seriously...who approaches girls by themselves in parking lots to sell them things??? Most likely they will think you are attacking them or will at least be defensive towards you and less likely to buy things. My advice, find a different way to sell your project...perhaps a way that doesn't resemble a questionable situation.

Confidentialality....

So the countdown has begun. That's right, my method of dealing with these last few weeks at my internship has found its way into my lap. I am officially working on stuff for conference. Unfortunately I can't say anything about what I am doing..big bold CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL's are printed all over the work. But it's exciting. I also am not writing so it's kinda a good break. Although I really should be finishing up a couple of assignments. My boss just had a baby so he will be out all this week...and I'm gonna have to work at being productive. But alas, today is March 25 and I believe my official end date with be April 25 (just 11 days after my birthday) so I have this week where I am working to finish up projects, and apparently starting on confernece preparation stuff, this weekend when I cover the Young Women's Broadcast, the next week when I really get into conference preparation, then General Conference, then CRAZY WEEK, with pulpit checks, interviews, and bio writing, the Ruthie's Wedding, come back, and start finishing up final projects.....

Thank you Thank You

Thanks everyone who looked at my site and helped me find the little things I overlooked or just offered some amazing comments. I was really surprised at some of WHO responded and what they said. For example, David, another intern from the Marriott School who I very rarely talk with, sent me a message saying that he loved it and is planning to incorpate some of my ideas into his own site. Anyways...thanks everyone. My job application process has begun. I will still be adding a couple new things to my site but wanted to go ahead and get things rolling. And they are rolling it seems, now we just have to see if I hear anything. So far I've applied at various organizations around here in Murrary, American Fork, Bluffdale, Provo, and well pretty much everywhere else (minus random places like Arkansas and Tennessee...I just don't think I could see myself there). So basically that means places in California, Arizona, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Boston, and New York City. So far I've simply been responding to job postings but I will soon seek out places I am interested in and inquiry about positions that may not be posted. It's kinda excited but once again I wish I didn't have to buy plane tickets from a certain place...it just isn't helping the stress

Ah! One step closer!

OK OK OK!!! So I have some progress on my site. Feel free to visit it and tell me what you think. I can definitely use the feedback. I had some problems with the space I had available and then the links weren't working but I've tried to work with what I've got. Also I know there are probably tons of errors and things that don't look the same from different computers....sooo, I probably will be needing to fix that things. I've tried to keep all the fonts "internet safe" although it isn't quite as cool as I originally planned. I may be updating that later. My cover letters and resume are also really rough updates. For those of you who help me update them, you know I usually get lots of feedback before I send those out. This cover letter is serving as a general one that would apply to any job I'm interested in. I plan on updating and revising it for specific jobs that I really want. Ok...sooo http://web.mac.com/kariannesalisbury

Let me know what you think!!!! Or if you find any problems that my frustrated self probably subconsciously chose to over look

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I work on a computer like all day every day. Oh great fun. Today I opened my Firefox window and went to google to search for a topic I'm writing on. And there is Google's St. Patrick's day logo. I simply love these things. I'm always disappointed when it's a holiday and for some reason I never visited Google. So this all makes me think of this kid I used to work with who absolutely looooved Google. Once he came in estatic about this girl who he wanted to date because he heard her saying in passing, "Oh, I love Google" I too love Google... I pride myself (well kinda) on the fact that I had Google Mail (more commonly known as Gmail :)) way before it became so popular. I mean, hey, you still had to be invited to be a member. And I owe my membership to Jared Webb who used one of his limited invites to share to greatest of Gmail with me. Anyways, Google continues to expand (and some say, take over the world) Anything from blogspot, YouTube, Picasa, shopping, documents, analytics...Google's got it going.

So today, after seeing the Google logo for the day search, inevitably with Google itself, for Google logos from the past. There's tooons that I've never seen. (I think I need to spend more time on Google huh? Well, maybe not) So here are a few of my favorites I found in browsing.

Winter Holiday 2003


Louis Braille's Birthday 2006


Opening of the Summer 2004 Olympic Games


Leap Year 2004


And there are tons tons more

By Karianne Salisbury

I received my copy of the April issue of the Ensign and after taking a minute to flip through it, I found my first byline in the Church Magazines! It doesn't really look like much. Just four columns of half a page. - "Earthquake Response Continues as Members Rebuild Homes in Peru." It's about the efforts to return to normal life after last August's magnitude-8 earthquake. I actually wrote the story above it as well about Sister Faust but no byline there. Anyways, those are my first printed ones. More should be coming in future months...very future months. Also, for those who have been waiting for me to send out that email with links to all the stories I've written that have gone online, I will do that soon. I was waiting because my favorite article yet was gonna go up but there will still be a couple weeks before Ithat gets posted. Ok.

fixed that

OK so search engines will no longer be "crawling my blog"

Showing up on google

Wow. Ok soooo... I finished my Web site and have been updating and correctly things pretty much all day since work. But I still don't quite remember what the url is. I knew it had my name, .mac, .something... but not. So after a couple of attempts, I just put Karianne Salisbury, .mac in a Google search. And I was surprised what came up - my post from a couple days ago when I first explained I was creating the site. Intrigued, I entered just my name and was surprised that most of what actually was about the real me--the REAL Karianne Salisbury.

1. BYU NewsNet - Professor Says Everyone Can Sing: This was the first article I wrote as a reporter for BYU's student paper, The Daily Universe. I interviewed this professor and he even gave me his DVD "Everyone Can Sing" for free. It is still unopened and I still can't sing.

2. BYU NewsNet - Upcoming funeral for BYU student: This was another of one of my first articles. A 24-year old BYU student died from heart complications and I wrote the article about it and the funeral and such. I talked to his family, roommates, and others close to him. It has hard to describe but a good experience and I enjoyed having some role in the life of these guy I never knew but who really seemed to be an amazing individual. Thinking of this, I looked to see if BYU wrote anything about Cameron Williams. This article is pretty short and about the benefit concert held for him.

3. BYU Dancesport Championships - Results: Last semester my partner and I took first in our competition for intermediate country dance. We danced the western polka.

4. Students Defend Their Individual Rights!!! This I've seen on google before. And it took me a minute to remember that this was actually me. In like...5th or 6th grade I entered this essay contest and got some kind of award for it. I wish I still had that essay.

5. Live Laugh Love: the little things you hear: Um, my blog!! It comes up on google????

6. Marriott: I believe this is a copy of the Marriott Alumni Magazine that I worked for all last year. My name is mentioned in the credits.

7. MySpace.com ... uh, yea this is SOOO not me

8. Spectrum Medical, Inc...Again, SOO not me

9. BYU honors university president: This is another Daily Universe article I wrote that apparently got pulled for the University-wire. It was on the Pres. Hinckley exhibit we had in the wilk. I guess they didn't know that he wasnt the president of the university.

10. A life in the day of...: I am sorry to the UTMOST degree: A link to my dear friend Gabriel Proulx's blog. I had posted a comment on this.

Don't ya think it's interesting what you find about yourself on the internet

not enough time, not enough space

So I apologize. I don’t think I have ever talked this much about church-related things….it’s weird for me. But here goes. This morning I was crossing North Temple to get to the Church Office Building from the Conference Center. I was waiting for the light to change and for the glowing white man to signal I was safe to cross the street. (Although, after observing some of the driving in Salt Lake City, I’m not sure this is true…but I’ll get into that at another time.) As I anxiously stood of the corner hoping that it didn’t start raining before I reached the building, I notice a group of brightly-clad women approach the other side of the street. Talking with one another, they are waiting to cross in the other direction. After watching the still green light for a few seconds, I look back across the street and realize…hey, that’s the general Young Women’s presidency. I had my phone in my hand to switch the ringer to vibrate, and hehe, thought, oh I’ll just see if I can take a picture. I ever so very slyly position myself and my phone to focus on Sister Susan W. Tanner in her nearly-lime green dress suit. I still don’t quite have my phone figured out and couldn’t manage to find how to zoom and the picture really wouldn’t have looked like anything without it. (Granted, even if I did zoom, the stalkerness aspect, combined with the distance separating us, probably wouldn’t have turned out anything spectacular anyways. But in my head I was just thinking, if you could just make out the individuals, I could later explain the significance.) Just then the light turned red and I received the signal to cross, as did Sister Tanner, Sister Dalton, and Sister Cook. They were much more lively than I was this morning—perhaps their bright clothing contributed to this—and very excitedly proceeded to cross the street, coming directly towards me. My phone was still out and I was hurriedly trying to complete my mission before the moment was lost. But then the man in the dark suit cut in front of me, and, well, with them coming towards me and me going towards them, it was a little awkward to be holding my phone somewhat suspiciously out in front of me. I had missed the moment. So I very casually acted as though I finished my task on the phone, flipped it shut, and very nonchalantly cross paths with these sisters.

That was the time, now here’s the space. In my last post, I commented about creating a “professional” portfolio Web site. Well last night I committed myself (I also bought a mouse pad) to finishing the project and…I did! I know it’s not anywhere near perfect or complete, but I think it is enough to start apply to positions with. I signed up for the free trial of .mac like I mentioned and proceeded to one-click publish my site to the world wide web. Whhuu. But alas, a problem arouse. I did not have enough space in my idisk which determines how much web space I have. So I can’t publish… I’m not sure how to check how big various things are on this site. And right now I’m not quite sure how to proceed. I guess I may once again be looking for a way to use my own design of a site on a site somewhere…somehow. I’m kinda confused about it… I just want to start applying for jobs dang it!!! :)

the little things you hear

OK, so I'm trying to get a lot done these days but I also never seem to get anything done.

Today after I finished eating lunch in the cafeteria, I approached the elevators where a couple other people were already waiting. Two men were talking and as I slowed I heard a bit of banter and then one said, "I am actually speaking in this General Conference." GA Alert! GA Alert! In my ever so sly way, I peek over at him and simply overhear him modestly say, "Well, we are just filler speakers for the apostles....still, it is a little nerve racking." Uh, no kidding! So I absolutely didn't recognize this guy and I didn't think it was quite my place to ask for his name or to even inquire about which session he'd be speaking in. So I attempted to commit to memory who this man was and what he looked like. After rushing back to my quaint cubicle in the southwest corner of the 24th floor, I scoured over my very outdated chart of the leadership of the Church. So I admit, my memory's not that great and no one absolutely stuck out at me. I was assuming he was in the First Quorum, but no worries I check the Second Quorum as well... I'm not entirely positive but for my guess of who he was, I am putting... Elder Keith Hilbig. So keep your eyes open and look for an amazing General Conference address...we'll see if I'm right.

I am currently designing a professional portfolio web site for my hopefully starting soon, search for jobs. I'm really excited cuz I love doing this kind of thing but worry that it may just be my way of putting off actually applying. I am using iWeb which is really user and design friendly, and automatically creates all the html and such. I am still looking into ways I can post it online...like free sources that allow you to have your own site...um, for free! Right now I'm kinda going forward with the plan to sign up for a free 60-day trial of iMac, which offers a free site and automatically uploads what I do in iWeb. No worries, I will let you all know when my site is up and running.

Side note: On my home page, I currently have a picture of myself and I'm wondering if this is a bad idea. I just needed something there for the design and it was the first thing that popped into my head. I don't actually have very many professional ish pictures so it's actually my current facebook photo but I can change that. I'm wondering if it's a bad idea because employers might dislike it, pre-judge/eliminate me, think I'm too young, etc. etc. Let me know what you think.