At the Beginning Again...

Life is like a circle. There really is no end or beginning, because it is all the same.
Today, was my first day of Calculus 2 (aka math 113). We ate cake. It was a presentation on how one can "cut" up strange shapes and find the volume of it. Good cake. Boring class. I know this for sure. It's going to be hard to stay awake for this two hour class.

This past weekend was a b-u-s-y one. You might think yours was, but you didn't live mine. Let me enlighten you. Friday night, I moved some of my stuff to my new apartment, and then stayed up till 2 am cleaning and packing more stuff. Then Saturday morning I woke up at 6 am, moved Becca's, mine, and a little bit of Tanis' stuff down till 8ish. Cleaned the entire apartment (tossing unwanted food from the "fridger", scrubbing the oven inside and out, and swept the floor.) Luckily Tanis did most of her cleaning (The bathroom) before she left for her wedding, and Kayla came up after her apartment and swept my floor. God sends. Then from 8:40 to 9:15 I took a shower, got dressed and was out the door, (forgetting to brush my teeth and even eating breakfast) driving with Kayla to Tanis' wedding up at the Mount Timpanogas Temple. (We made it in about 15 minutes, thank goodness there were no po-pos.) made it just intime to wait with the wedding party for the new couple to come out. Stayed and took pictures until 10:40 and then drove home, dropped Kayla off and then went to work from 11am-6:30pm. Came home, had dinner, went grocery shopping, and then unpacked my stuff till about 10:20 and then crashed and watched half of Pride and Prejudice the pink version. Went to bed by 11:30, just to get up at 7:30 so I could make lunch for the bishopric and scan my lesson for that day.
And that was my Saturday...


pictures will come later...

Fini

Finally, after 4 r-e-a-l-l-y long months I'm officially done with school. I just finished my last final, and let me tell ya, it feels grand. Now I have a huge list of things to do, like laundry and packing. Not to mention sleep and socialize before all my friends move out of the ward. My 4th roommate will be getting married here on Saturday, and my 5th next saturday up in Alberta, Canada. I sure do go through them quite fast, don't I? my job search is going, still looking though for a decent priced, interesting job. The bookstore is just too boring for the money I'm making, not worth it.
I'll be moving down to apartment 16 this saturday, with Kayla and Kim (Too bad my name wasn't Kellie like how mom was planning on it...KKK). I'm way excited, because Kayla is just the smarter version of me. Same sarcasm and everything (Well, she has her quirks and I have mine).
Calculus 113 will start in one week exactly, and then I'll be working in the morning for 3 hours, math class for 2, and then dates with heroic math nerds the rest of the day...sounds kinda quaint. I guess some form of social life on the side...eh ;)
Well, I'm off to finish my Geology project(alright, I guess I'm not completely finished with Winter 2010 semester, but I will be!)

Hopeless

I write this post about 30 minutes after my last test this semester (not including finals). And looking back over this semester, I believe I have failed every test. After my New Testament let down, I ran for 9 miles, to make me feel nothing (But I sure felt something...). I would love to go for another run, maybe run all the way home to my mommy and be a couch potato, sitting on my 16th backbone and eating chocolate bon-bons and wasting away my life, but I can't; which depresses me more. Instead, I have to put on a good face and by activally social when all I want to do is hide my face. Everyone here claims that they get "A's" on tests and when they get a B(gasp!), Heaven forbid! gee, I feel lower than the scum of the earth when I see my grades flash on the testing center screen...almost like a dagger to the heart, a plummiting of my stomach. I'm to the point where there is no hope to getting good grades on tests. To me, it's impossible. Sure, everyone tells me it's my first year, and that's normal. They also told me that last semester, about the first semester at a university...so if that is the story, then next year are people going to say that it's my second year, it's okay to not do well because the classes are hard?
Maybe I just need to get married, drop out of school, and become a baby maker so they won't kick me out of school because my grades are just too crappy. Afterall, I am probably in the highest marriage rate city in the world (not counting Vegas), it should be easy (obviously I can't handle hard).
I'm not writing to get sympathy or "I'm so sorry"s. I need to rant, and this is my soapbox, my soggy soapbox. I'm pretty sure that I will have to retake classes, which is a depressing thought, but that's life I suppose, full of disappointment.

Humpty Dumpty

Easter, there are many traditions that are practiced during this season. Growing up we always dyed eggs, had baskets full of chocolate and toys, ate ham and jello eggs. Since this is my first Easter away from home, I am missing all the little things that were usually expected. However, I am trying to coupe. Yesterday, I went and bought 4 dozen eggs, and after today's afternoon General Conference, I and my roommates will be dyeing them all.
However, last night after watching Fantastic Mr. Fox, I needed to boil them all since I was going to be busy all morning. It was late and after I got through 3 dozen of them, I started putting the last dozen in, when physics took hold and two, sadly did not make it through the night. I, however, did not take this superb picture, but my friend, Ben got down on the floor to take them. He is a man of hidden talents. Just like earlier that night when I was getting out a bigger pot, they were stacked pretty strangely and as since I am not an octopus and don't have eight arms, it was a little difficult to manage all the pots. Ben offered to help and as he was lifting out the desired pot, the three glass lids shifted, and two fell. I caught one between my forearm and the shelving unit, and with my superior soccer skills tried to catch the other with my foot, to lessen the blow when it hit the ground. No such luck. with a huge clang the lid hit the floor. Luckily, it did not break nor wake up the sleeping bears(my roommates), but it seems to me that last night I was at the top of my graceful game.
I really am too dainty.

Cloudy with a chance of Dippin' Dots...

Today, it snowed. WELCOME TO UTAH! April first and it snowed. As Kayla and I were walking home from house hunting, it started to "snow", but it looked more like Dippin Dots as Kayla said. And it was so true. After the walk, I craved these twenty-first ice cream sensations, but I was a bit too cold to pay 4 bucks for a small size.

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!! This is the real reason for this post. On wednesday, I had a meeting for my Geology 210 class. A Field study class...yes, this means funness that a stuffy, horribly lighted classroom can not achieve. Brace yourself, you will eat your heart out...

For the two weeks leading up to school, I will be backpacking all over Utah. This is the itinerary.
August 16: Meet at 7 am and depart to Albion Basin Campground in Little Cottonwood Canyon (Alta, UT). For the next four days (Tuesday-Friday) I will be hiking all around that canyon, creating cross section of the Pre-Cambrian(?) rocks that are exposed. I will have to provide my own food, and all the other good stuff. (I AM SO EXCITED!!!!) We then drive back on Friday night, to calm our weary feet and restock our food for the following trip. All that week, Thunderstorms are most likely to pop up, and if you didn't know this, Thunderstorms are my true love. We are supposed to pack for both warm and cold (snow) weather, because at 10,000 feet, anything can happen. (I AM SO EXCITED!!!!). I hope it rains, no the entire time, but at least once.

August 23: We just spend it up on Campus, but then on Tuesday we meet at 7 am and travel to Zion National Park and camp there for the night. Leave Wednesday for Bryce Canyon Park and spend the night there. Then on Thursday we leave for Capitol Reef National Park and stay till Saturday morning (the 28th). Hiking is throughout the entire week, and even while we are driving we will be stopping and checking out mountains and peaks. (I AM SO EXCITED!!!!). We get back Saturday afternoon, just in time for school to start either that monday or tuesday... Perfect timing.

Not to mention that if Kayla and I do find a house then she will sadly be moving all my junk as well as hers since move-in is usually the 25 or 27th. And I'll have the darkest most funny tan that anyone can have just in time to meet my new ward. Fabulous first impressions. Got to love them. ( I AM SO EXCITED!!!!)

And if anyone (mostly the women and Craig) care, this field study will have about a 3 to 1 boy ratio to girl participents. And judging from the meeting some of them are pretty good looking... Two secluded weeks... where no girlfriend can go... free evenings... You can fill in the empty pieces. (I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!) besides, we are suppost to have a buddy system, and no offence to the girls in the class, but I would like to be paired with someone that has The Priesthood, just in case something does happen when we are away from Base Camp. Just a pre-caution. That and guys are just more fun to be around, girls I've notice, tend to wear on my nerves much faster than their counterparts. Oh well.

And if anyone really knows me, I am not a patient person. So waiting for August to come will be painful, I will most likely be packed a month in advance, or at least know what I want to take with me. And I will google all the info about the places were we are going and seeing. Uh. I AM SO EXCITED!!! I will probably be the most boring person to talk to until this is done, because I will have a one track mind.

(The pictures are as follows: Alta, UT; Zion N.P; Bryce Canyon N.P.; Capitol Reef N.P. expect better pictures come September)

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!