Mormon Mentality - Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People

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Here are the things I like people to know about me:
(1) I’m the third of the 11 children of Russell & Christie Frandsen.
(2) I served in the Romania Bucharest mission from 1999-2001.
(3) I studied English at BYU and Georgetown (insert appropriate joke about Mormons and Catholics here).
(4) I’m married to a neuroscientist (visit him at http://rebirthofrenaisauce.blogspot.com/). And a hot one at that.
(5) I can drive stick.

Here are the things I don’t like people to know about me:
(1) I’ve never read “The Odyssey.”
(2) I’ve never read “The Brothers Karamazov” (though I did a presentation on it for a college seminar).
(3) I only floss for the two weeks before I go to the dentist.
(4) I’ve never yet had a truly meaningful conversation at a ward activity. Even when I try.
(5) I procrastinate everything. Including the writing of this biography.

11 Posts

Blogging in Bed

Apr. 9th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

No, this isn’t as scandalous as it sounds. Just some simple data collection. Where’s your favorite place to blog?

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Welcome guest blogger esodhiambo

Jan. 30th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Nepotism Alert: If this introduction sounds just a little too glowing, perhaps that’s because eso is my super-cool East Coast cousin who, along with her sisters, has been the arbiter of taste in my extended family for decades. One of my favorite parts of visiting my New York cousins is sitting around and listening to them talk. They represent the full spectrum of political and cultural opinion (I’ll leave it to you to figure out where eso falls), and if you want a statement on international development in eastern Europe, the latest education legislation up for debate, travel tips for France, or the hot new Broadway hit, there’s a sister who can deliver for you.

The Obama Dilemma

Jan. 14th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

More politics. Sorry folks, I watched my very first live debate from beginning to end two weeks ago, and I have all of the exuberance of a new addict.

(N. B. I’m ashamed to say that until the age of…oh, 24 or so, I just handed my vote over to my dad, who diligently filled out an absentee ballot for me every November. Has anyone considered the political implications of large Mormon families with lazy college-aged children who allow their parents to vote for them?)

The kerfuffle (Curfuphle? Kurphufle?) among the Democrats these days is, of course, who’s going to win South Carolina, and All Things Considered did an interview this evening with a group of black female voters to find out whom they favored: Hilary the woman or Obama the black man?

Identity politics indeed. Read more »

Strike the Harp and Join the Chorus!

Dec. 22nd, 2007 at 1:47 am

Christmas started in September that year. A friend in my singles ward—the ward choir director, and an intimidatingly good musician—approached me and asked if I wanted to sing in her Christmas choir. She was applying for a masters program in choral conducting and wanted both the conducting experience and some video footage of the rehearsals and concert, a requirement for her application. The choir would be rehearsing two times a week, an hour and a half each time, for 16 weeks. Attendance was mandatory. No chattiness. We’d all be buying copies of the music since copyright laws really were important. This was not ward choir. Read more »

No-Sugar November

Nov. 1st, 2007 at 10:11 pm

[Fantasy Football Stats: Nerds of Titanium: 6 and 2]

Whereby Naomi Frandsen Sloan pledges to eschew:

Cookies, candy, ice cream, and sugary foods, including: jam, sugary cereals, muffins, juice, and other things such as she knows are not good for her.

Which means that as I write this post, I am without my usual stimulant of semi-sweet chocolate chips, consumed by the handful every time I stop to think.