Halloween

Halloween is on Sunday, but as I am a mormon, I am celebrating it tomorrow. I still have no idea what I am going to dress up as. I never really have loved halloween. When I was little I always wished I could be a princess, but I never was(well, I was one year when I was super little, but I don't even remember:( ) So... I am at work right now, and there are a lot of people dressed up, but not me. I'm just in my normal work clothes. I just have a hard time getting into the halloween spirit.

horrible

Yesterday, as I was walking home from my not-so-great sociology class, I had the opportunity to see something out of the ordinary. I was walking by the Tanner building(for those of you who don't know what that is, it is a big, ugly, gray business building), and just as I was going past it to make my way down the ramp, I saw what I think was a guy(they had a red hoodie on, with the hood on, so it was hard to tell for sure), start running up the stairs and then trip. Instead of hoping he was okay and offering help, all I could think was "I am so happy that wasn't me because that is so embarrassing." I am a horrible person.

No big deal, I'm just a little bore at work so I registered my phone to send posts to my blog.
Holla!!!!!!!!!!!

I just love technology.

Thursdays

Thursdays are pretty tough days for me.
9:00 Wake up, get ready
9:50 Run out the door(literally)
10:05 show up to class late
10:50 start my ascent up the stairs of death
11:00 food science class with Caitlyn and Natalie.(pretty much a joke. I will never be a food scientist, but we get free food)
11:50 start another ascent up to the morris center for work(during which I walk by the bell tower where the bells are rining in the noon hour. They need to be tuned.)
12:10-4 Work(usually I get time to do "homework" as well)
4 Walk home as fast as possible so I can eat dinner before...
5:18 go to class
8:00 freedom

So, there's nothing really super horrible, but it's just a long day.

Bedtime Stories

Every semester my roommate(s) find a way to tell me a "story" before I go to sleep. I absolutely love it, and it really helps me grow closer to my roommates and I love them so much.
In Fall of 2009 my roommate Elizabeth Rose would come into my room and share with Margot and me a peom from her book of poems. Sometimes it was long, other times short. All were amazing. I love English majors.
Winter 2010 rolled around and my roommates and I ended up having a never-ending sleepover in the living room where, each night, we would watch at least one episode of Friends. So. Much. Fun.
Last night(Fall 2010) Caitlyn decided to show me a blog of which she had spent many hours in search. It was amazing and I hope we have similar experiences nightly.

I'm at work right now and I think I'm going to look up a good poem to read, then when I go home I'm going to watch an episode of Friends on Hulu, then I'm going to find that blog I've been looking for.

cinder blocks and carrots

At this very moment, I have four cinder blocks sitting in the middle of the floor in my room. Eventually, I plan to use them to lift my bed off the floor, but until then(whenever "then" may be) they just sit in the middle of my room. They kind of act like a wall separating the two halves of the room. This wasn't necessarily intended, but it happened, so Caitlyn(my roommate) stays out of my area.

I bought a five pound bag of carrots at Costco the other week. I still probably have 3.5-4lbs left. I do like carrots, but five pounds for one person is a little bit excessive. Are carrots freezable? I LOVE steamed carrots, so maybe I should just freeze the rest and steam them as I desire...

Another First in College.

I failed my very first test in college last week. Two days after I decided to try to get into the nursing program.

I'm having second thoughts about this whole college idea...

RICE!!

I used my rice cooker tonight for the first time since last winter semester. It smelled like maybe I cooked some dust or other surprises as well...

I now have 4 cups of rice that I need to eat in the next few days. I need some good ideas of what to make with it... Hello? That's a plea for help people.

fall is HERE!!!!

Signs that fall is here:
-Yesterday I stepped on a plethora of cruchy yellow leaves that had just fallen from a big tree.
-It was pretty cool this morning(low 40s)
-The mountains are so colorful!
-I don't die from heat exhaustion while walking to class.
-It feels like school started forever ago, yet we still have forever left
-Halloween is just around the corner
-I'm wearing a jacket right now
-It's dark by like 4pm(jk, not till like 7, but still)


I'm liking it though. Because of how warm it has been the past few weeks, it has made BYU seem even more foreign to me because almost the entire time I was at BYU-I it was FREEZING. It was a fun new experience though-the heat I mean.

RIP camera

This past summer I ruined my camera. I drowned it in heat protector spray for hair.

My camera now does not work.

If anyone has a digital camera that they would like to donate to a wonderful cause, please contact me.

Unplanned sighting

I'm at the mall/grocery store/on campus/anywhere and I see an acquaintance. What do I do? I hide. Every time. Even if they are standing in the store/aisle/entrance to a building/etc that I need to go through, I will turn the other way and go to a different store/aisle/entrance. I don't know why this stresses me out so much, but it does. It's especially bad when I see girls that I recognize from one of my classes in the restroom while washing my hands. Awkward.

Little profile pic

Today I realized that I have no profile picture. When I follow someone's blog, it just shows the boring grey silhouette. Please Help.

UGLY

For all of you who read my blog but cringe as you do so because it is so ugly, I have good news. My amazingly talented cousin Elissa Stewart is doing a make-over for me!! :) I am so excited!!!

Don't You dare Slip!!

The weather has been pleasantly gray today. Lots of clouds and rain and little bit of thunder. As I walked to class with my super cute purple umbrella, and on my way I cross a couple of streets, but as I was crossing one, a girl was going the other way. Now, this wouldn't be a big deal except the ground is obviously wet from the rain, and because I don't jay walk, I was in a crosswalk. Well, this other chick was wearing flip-flops, and as she stepped on the painted crosswalk she slipped, but luckily did not fall down, but the thing is, when she slipped I gasped. Pretty loudly. A couple of people gave me interesting looks because they had not seen the girl slipping and sliding across the street as I had.

The worst part is, this is not the first time I have reacted badly when someone has slipped. Last winter when at BYU-Idaho the stairs to our apt were iced over and my roommate Dara slipped. I screamed.

God Bless the Man in the Testing Center

Time: 8:57

Place: Parking Lot south of Campus at the Bottom of rape hill

Who: Courtney and Caitlyn(my amazing roommate)

What: Trying to make it to the testing center by 9 to take first test of the semester(basically first test of my career at BYU)before the testing center closes at 9.

Get out of the car. Run across the parking lot. Wearing ballet flats. Run across street-lucky no cars coming-run up flight of stairs. Run up more stairs. Keep running up never ending stairs. Get to the top of stairs so I can run up a steep path. See the building(I don't even know what it's called...?? sometimes I wonder if I'm really a student at BYU?) Run in the building. Run up the first flight of stairs inside.

See a man closing the last door for the testing center. Collapse onto the stairs. Pull my phone out in despair. Hear the voice of an angel. "Did you need to take a test?" "Yes." "I thought I heard someone panting."

I got up and took my test.

I HATE THE DUMB INTERNET AT MY APAAAAARTMENT!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't freak out, but I just bare figured out how to change the font! Please don't have a heart attack, but we probably should mark our calendars and celebrate this day each year for the rest of our lives!!

I did want to mention that the first day of each semester is a disaster for me. Let's take a trip back through time to my very first day of college. It was a beautiful day in Rexburg Idaho(sometime around Sept. 11, 2009). I had no idea where any of my classes were. I had only been on campus once... maybe twice. Well, I was stressed to say the least, aaaand I had a broken foot. Okay, so this isn't the BEST story for a WORST day of school, but my other two get way better.

Fast forward to the first day of my second semester freshman year. Still at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg. No broken foot, but I'm pretty sure there was snow EVERYWHERE aaaand it was fREEZING. I don't know exactly what happened, maybe my brain froze, maybe I'm just dense, but it wasn't until I was sitting very confused during the first class I attended that I realized that I was sitting in the correct room for my 10am monday class, but it was not monday. IT WAS TUESDAY. WHO THE HECK DECIDED TO START THE SEMESTER ON A TUESDAY??

Fast forward to the SECOND day of my first semester sophomore year.(I know I said all of these stories were about my first day, but the second day counts as the first day for me because you are still going to new classes-right? duh.) Well, I walk into my class and there are like 4 different older professor looking people at the front of the class. The classroom is in the student athlete building. The professor looking-type start talking about how excited they are to be working with freshmen. They hand out the syllabus and this is when it hits me. At the top of the first page of the syllabus reads the name of the class:

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES FOR THE STUDENT ATHLETE

Now, it's not like this isn't what it said on MYMAP, but when I read the name of the course when registering, I interpreted it as contemporary issues that student athletes face as they play their sport... Nope. Not what it meant. The class I was sitting in was for student athletes. I. do. not. play. any. ncaa. sport. I barely exercise at all. There were a couple of things that made this experience all the better:

1. I was sitting in the seat farthest from the door

2. It was a small class (so I didn't feel comfortable just standing up and leaving)

3. Towards the end of the period, we were given the opportunity to go around the room and introduce ourselves as well as share the sport in which we participate.(making me wish I had just stood up and left. would've been less awkward.)

All in all I think I will just boycott school from now on. Or at least the first week of each new semester.

The lord's university? Really?

This year, I am attending BYU(in Provo, UT). Last year I went to BYU-Idaho(Rexburg, ID). I am just really confused because last year in Idaho everyone said that we were attending the Lord's University, but now, her in Provo, everyone says this is the Lord's real university. Now I just don't know what to think.

Enough about all of the politics. I do miss BYU-Idaho dearly, and often wonder why the heck I transferred down here. Here are some of the things I miss the very most about BYU-I/rexburg/Idaho(in no particular order):
1. The small campus
2. Living across the street from campus
3. The happy/friendly students
4. Meeting my friends at the xroads
5. Horkleys
6. Scary movie night
7. Millhollow
8. The constant wind
9. Lights on the track at night
10. All of my amazing roommates

But, there are so many things I love about BYU as well... including:
1. Getting to go home for dinner each Sunday
2. Big college-like classes
3. Going to the mall that is just 8 minutes away
4. Shopping at Target
5. WEARING SHORTS!!
6. I don't know if I should put this one... No curfew (well it's not enforced)
7. The Mountains (the leaves are changing color and it is beautiful!!!)
8. Seeing my cousins
9. FOOTBALL!!!
10. Housing complexes that include boys and girls i.e. the boys in my ward live across the sidewalk, opposed to across the street, then across the park, then across another street.

All in all, I honestly can not compare the two schools. Each has its strengths as well as weaknesses. They both have a special place in my <3.

Those stairs in the American FOrk Tab

We had stake conference today. We got there late, so we decided to sit in the basement. As we were walking down the stars, I missed one and slipped. Luckily there was no one below me or the would've seen more than they wanted. It was a little embarrassing, but I thought I handled it quite well. For the first couple of minutes I did think through all of the other scenarios/consequences had I fallen all the way down/ripped my dress/broken my arm/broken my leg/etc. Conference was pretty good. It did seem like it lasted forever, but spiritually uplifting all the same.

I'm Aliiiiiive!!!

I just wanted to let you all know that I survived surgery. I am alive and recovering. Just wanted to let you know so you could stop worrying.