Welcome to the Loft

Here I am at my new apartment. It's called "The Loft" because it used to be an old hay loft. It took me the better part of the day to pack everything up and get it all here, and now I just have to unpack everything again. Moving is a pain. But I think I'll like my new apartment--its really different from my old apartment, but I'll adjust. I think I needed a change, and what better time to change than during a semester that I don't have to worry about classes? Plus, I got a break because back at the complex (only a few yards away) a kid in my ward rigged up a huge sheet, found a projector at DI, and we all watched Oceans 11 in the north court. It was fun, but super cold which is dumb because it's April.
So anyway, I'll basically just be working this semester. I'm a student manager at the Cougareat (I think everyone knows that. . .) and I'm only officially scheduled for 20 hours at work, but I've already got myself unofficially scheduled to sub and come in to clean this coming week for another 20 hours. In other words, my master plan to cheap the system and work 40 hours is working.
And then next weekend there's a little thing called Women's Conference, which rivals Education Week. This means that I'll basically be working 40 hours in two days--sounds exciting right? Well, actually it does--because if I can work as many hours as possible then I'll have plenty in savings for next fall. Of course, I don't believe in being suicidal--there's this girl I know at work who's plan is to work 80 hours a week. That sounds a bit extreme to me, but each to his own.
And then the week after that, my friend David Silvers is getting married on Thursday. Besides getting to see David (who probably wont remember seeing me because after all, it's his wedding day) I'll get to see Heidi! I'm really excited. It's also very possible that Jess will come back down for the wedding as well, which would be great! Then that Saturday, my friend Lacey and her mom will be driving back to Colorado from San Diego and will stop by Provo. Then early Sunday morning, I'll be heading back to Loveland with them. I only get to stay until Tuesday night, but better than nothing right? I haven't seen Lacey in forever. . .
Well, I have to teach tomorrow morning, so I better go try out my new bathroom and bedroom and get some sleep. I wonder if it will be weird sleeping in a hay loft. . .

It's OVER!

Yea!! No more school! I've just been working on cleaning check stuff, which means that my room is finally clean. And while I was cleaning, I discovered that it was time to say good bye to an old friend--my old little CD



player. It's broken and doesn't close, that's why I'm holding it
closed in the picture. Still, it was pretty cool. I had some pretty sweet stickers. But why take up space with useless junk?
I still have to clean the kitchen, but that wont take me nearly as long. I think I'm going to just be lazy for a little while and then clean--oh, I should watch Stargate since that is what my pole tells me to do! Hurrah!!

Happy Earth Day!

I should go plant a tree. But unfortunately it's dark outside and too late for tree planting :( Not that I have a tree to plant anyway.
But on the up-side, school is finally over tomorrow!! This has been the craziest finals week I've ever had. Typically I just have to finish papers the week before finals. But not this time. I got hit on both ends. But by 5 o'clock tomorrow, everything will be done and turned in. I took my last two finals today (humanities and elang) and I took my last French final (EVER) yesterday. I was pretty excited.
I should actually be in bed, but I was trying to take a look at my english project that's due tomorrow. And, it's actually a blog about Star Wars. Originally it looked exactly the same as my old blog--and I was getting sick of that so I decided to stop trying to force my brain to think and to just mess around with my own blog. You should check out the Star Wars blog sometime though--it's not half bad.
Whoa, I just realized how hungry I am. So I think I'm going to eat something and then go to bed. Hurrah!

Two days and counting. . .

The semester is just about over. I survived last week--it was absolutely crazy. I had a 12 page research paper and a Beowulf project on top of all the other reading and worksheets that teachers expected me to do and turn in. I also had some french "cultural" experiences and quizzes that I had to finish up, tests to take, and about 25 employee evaluations to finish at work. To make things even more crazy, you may have noticed the Subway commercials that advertise 5 dollar foot-long sandwiches. Well, I think every person on campus noticed because Subway has been going crazy. So instead of getting a my evaluations done, I've been stuck in Subway helping them with the endless line. I was so frustrated one night that I hadn't finished my evaluations that I had a dream that my boss hired bounty hunters to track down all the employees for me. I just walked into the office and there was this army of large, tattooed, gun carrying men who wanted a list of all the people I needed to find. It was a pretty funny dream.
But I survived the week!! And now there are only two more days left of class. I think my grades will turn out pretty well. All except for french that is. There has just been too much to do and too many more important things to finish--there's no way I could have spent even an hour a night studying french.
Speaking about difficult, I taught the Sunday school lesson today. It was on Jacob 5 and Zenos's Allegory of the Olive Tree. I was pretty nervous because that's kind of a confusing subject especially when I'm trying to teach other people about it. But I think it turned out okay. At least everyone told me that they liked it and that they learned something. . .
Anyway, finals start this Friday and finish next Wednesday. Then all I have to do is move into my new apartment Saturday. I'm excited to not be taking classes this spring. I'll just be working 40 hours a week. So it will be nice to just come home and not do homework. Well, nothing else to report, so I guess I should go to bed.

Laissez les bons temps rouler. . .

I have a knack for walking into a room, turning on the light. . .and then all the light bulbs "pop" and burn out. Really, it happens to me often. Once it was my bedroom--both bulbs at the same time and it was pitch black. But my roommate had light bulbs then. Today, it was the bathroom. You know, the little cubbies that are in BYU type apartments with the toilet and the shower. I just walked in, and "pop" light bulb dead. And this time, the weird type of light bulb that goes in there we don't have. So we've been lighting a candle all day--and showers will be fun tomorrow. . .
Speaking of tomorrow, yesterday I saw a french movie about cannibalism. It was called Delicatessen and if you're not into black comedy I don't recommend it. And there was a freaky monkey and I hate monkeys. From a humanities stand point, however, it was a really clever.
On a lighter note--yea for General Conference! I love it already and we still get two more sessions!! That makes me happy.