being alone

I like this new snapshot idea. It forces me to be creative and on the spot take a picture that exemplifies my current state of mind, without moving, with only my phone camera, and without editing the picture in any way except to rotate it. I think maybe I just like to challenge myself. Actually, there's no "maybe" about it, I do. Quite often I do things "just to see if I can."

This picture is a great one because there are no people in it. If you have ever seen BYU, even if it is only out of the window of a fighter jet, you will know just how rare that is. Because there are 30,000 people who attend a school that covers approximately 1.218 square miles. Which is not large. However, I don't know if that is really how large it is because BYU doesn't post the square footage of their campus on their website; I know, how ridiculous is that. So I had to calculate it by looking at the little campus map and measuring with the little scale in the corner. And I am not good at math. Also, I put my whole internet in French, so the scale was showing in meters instead of miles. So then I had to convert meters to miles. Then I had to calculate the vertical distance, and I couldn't rotate the map to use the little scale, so I had to do a complicated driving directions search to give me how many miles the campus was high. Then I had to convert my meters to miles (1 mile is 1,609.344 meters, in case you wondered) and times those two together. I think it took me about 20 minutes to calculate, but it is all worth it because BYU is possibly 1.218 square miles large.

So, now that I've gotten that vitally important statistic out of the way, I can go on about the fact that there are no people in the snapshot. I was going to get into this great poetic/philosophic discussion about people and being alone and loneliness. It would have been epic.

But man, that math problem was exhausting. I'm lonely, we'll just leave it at that.

Love,
Lizzy :)