Sunday Isn't Suck Day Eve.

Obvious Fact Of The Day: When you stare open-mouthed at the Gospel Doctrine teacher, your participation is going to be called into play.

Alrighty...my first Sunday without Desi in my school ward. And since I'm kinda a wuss, I invited Scotty along with me so I wouldn't be alone. So, upon arrival, I looked about to see my fellow ward members...and of course checked to see if any of them were cute. And boy was I in luck! We seem to have a high population of attractive fellows! Which is all kinds of fantastic. It makes church so much more interesting! Alright, now who remembers the cute baseball players from my FHE experience? I sure do. I was just praying they didn't remember me because they both ended up in my Gospel Doctrine class...and one of them was teaching it. His name, I came to discover, is Clinton Dowse. Apparently he's from Kanab and has been back from his mission for about a year. And oh boy is he a good teacher! He just has some swell teaching methods that helped me remain interested and helped me actually pay attention. For example, he had a girl come up to the board and draw out the story that we were reading, verse by verse. It was pretty funny and memorable...which are words I previously haven't really associated with Sunday School, so it's a nice change. So anyway, after church, I went and spoke with Brother Gurr to set up an appointment with Bishop Reed to obtain a temple recommend, seeing as how mine expired about a month ago. Hence, I'm meeting with him on Tuesday at 7:40 pm. Party! Speaking of party, after I went home and changed out of my church clothes, Scotty and I headed to his grandparents' house in Parawon for Sunday dinner. Oh man his family is hilarious. I love it! But it makes me miss my crazy family and our interesting family dinners. Sigh...

Brothah/Sistah Familiah Kind Of Way

Obvious Fact Of The Day: When you start drinking, you stop making sense. When you stop making sense, I start making fun of you. The best part? I know you won't remember me the next day.

Movies, movies, movies. Yeah pretty much the story of my morning. Movies with Scott. Ok, I cleaned the whole apartment first cuz he didn't get his lazy butt out of bed till like 1...so I guess it's more like the story of my afternoon. But the day got less boring and lazy when Scotty's parents called. What's funny about that part is when he told his parental units that we were watching a movie together, they called for a hand check over the phone. And being the good kids we are, we did so. Course, there was really no point seeing as how we were sitting at opposite ends of the room...but oh well. We ended up meeting them at Dairy Queen for ice cream and fries and we played the same trick on them that we did to Wes. It was fantastic. His mom hit him and everything. Ha ha I love Scotty's mom. Almost more than Scotty. After we scootered home from our DQ experience, we headed on out to Wes' apartment (clear in the boonies of Cedar!) for his roommate's birthday celebration. By the time we got there, there were 5 other girls there. 4 of them were related to each other, and the odd ducky to their gang was Wes' sister Chesha. One of the other girls, Becca, started drinking and at first didn't seem very tipsy but oh my, did that one change. It was pretty funny listening to her conversational skills take a nose dive. And, being the smarty pants I am, I took every opportunity to make fun of her. It was fantastic. She didn't even care either. She tried throwin' comebacks out, but they didn't get very far. Mostly because she was having trouble making complete words. It got funnier when Wes' other friend came in (already drunkish) and tried to introduce himself to Scott and I. Now, husband and wife mistaking is one thing, but brother and sister mistaking? That one is a little more unforgiveable. He INSISTED that we were either dating or related. We kept telling him that we were just friends that met a week ago, but he wouldn't listen. I don't know which he decided we were in the end...but I made the excuse that I had to get some sleep before church tomorrow so that I could go home. I can only handle so much partying and being mistaken for Scott's sister in one night...

Choose The Right...Fight In Public Places.

Obvious Fact Of The Day: Three people on a two-person scooter is bound to draw some attention.

Today after classes, Desi and Kylee went back home with some of Kylee's roommates...but I didn't go. And since Scott is my only friend, we are going to be hanging out buddies all weekend. Oh! But before Kylee and Desi left, we had to make a few trips back and forth between my apartment and Kylee's...and Scott just wanted to drive. So the three of us squished onto Kylee's little scooter and made our trips. You know what the best part about being completely crazy is? The looks. That's right, you heard me. The looks we collected in our short journey made the entire adventure worth it! Oh, the double takes that went down. Especially when we all went to duck to be more aerodynamic and make it up the hill easier. But what's even better than all that is that Kylee let Scotty and I borrow her scooter for the weekend under the condition that we replace the gas we use. SCORE! So after they left, Scotty and I went to the store to purchase some items that Desi and I needed for sustenance. It was pretty funny cuz we would fight over the dumbest things like which brands of what food was better and things of that nature. Then we decided that we were acting like we were married and pretty much right after that I saw this lady look from me to him and then down at my CTR ring that was on my ring finger. I, personally, don't think it could really be mistaken for a wedding ring, but I have had others tell me that they thought I was married because of it until they got a closer look. Ha so anyway...then we went to the library and checked out some movies to watch and went to the Welcome Back Carnival on the Quad. It was pretty lame and the grass was really wet...but we thought it would be funny to try and get Wes to think that we were dating. So we walked up to him holding hands and he didn't seem to notice at all. Then he asked me to come talk to him real quick and he said "Are you dating Scott? Because if you are, I'm going to have to smack you." And that right there made my night. It was hilarious. Anyway...then we went to Scott's apartment to get some stuff he needed before we went back to my apartment to go on our cinematic adventure. Some girls from his high school tried to prank call him and he got annoyed and hung up on them. When they called back, he just wasn't going to answer...so I did for him. They asked who I was so I told them I was his fioncee and that he went outside to get the groceries from the car. I thought it was pretty good trickery on my part because they believed the whole thing. They thought I was living with him for some reason and demanded to talk to him and he totally went with it. But don't you worry, he straightened out the conversation and told them the truth in the end...but it was funny while it lasted.

Just Keep Swimming...Just Keep Swimming...

Obvious Fact Of The Day: When you're sneaking in after hours, you must remain sneaky. Yelling and screaming do not fall inot this category.

Yay for free ice cream and cake on the Quad! I will most definetly partake of any sugary goodness being handed out at no extra fee. Anyway...today was mostly boring school items until nighttime came around. Scott called and said that Wes had invited us all to his work to go hot tubbing. That offer sounded pretty spectacular, so Des and I donned our suits and awaited Kylee and Scott's arrival. We all headed over to the apartment complex in Scotty's car and waited for Wes to come unlock the door. Mind you, we were there after hours in a building located in the middle of an apartment complex where people were trying to sleep. Oh, and it's a school night at about...midnight thirty. Don't worry...I altered the time stamp on this fantastic blog journey as to maintain the date of this event in all its...uh, glory. Ha ha. But anyway...we happened to bring a frisbee with us to the pool event, so we started trying to play Ultimate! Except that one didn't really work with the whole...5 of us, so we just played monkey in the middle. And literally, we really did act like monkeys when in the middle. Especially when Scotty wasn't in the middle. We would jump on him and try to steal el frisbee, but he wouldn't have such nonsense. So he would throw us to the other end of the pool. I think that can quite count as my exercise for the day.

FANtastic!

Obvious Fact Of The Day: When you are offered extra credit to come to a study session with a TA that will answer any and all questions you may have, it's usually a good idea to go.

Wednesdays in my Calculus class have been designated by Armstrong as "study days". This means that you are free to come to class and work on that week's assignments before they are due the next day (even though we don't have any assignments to be due tomorrow). Our TA (Heidi) also comes in to work out any problems that we may have questions on or problems with...and we get extra credit for putting our name on the roll. Sweet deal right? Right. So guess how many people showed up this morning for this fantastic opportunity. Guess? Guess? Yeah...that's right! 4 of us provided our lovely presence in class. Woot woot! Better grades for me! After that wonderful class, I had a couple hours without class so I went to visit Kylee at work in the T-Bird Grill. She gave me free fries and a chicken sanguich! But shhhh...don't tell anyone! It was a one-time kinda deal. But it was one of the best tasting one-time deals I've ever partaken of! So I munched and headed off to my UNIV class. Waste of time? Yes, sir it is! But hey...it's college credit, right? I can use all the college credit I can get. We got an assignment to write a one page, double spaced essay (holy...easier than high school english. That's like writing 2 really short paragraphs. Fantastic.) on the required reading Choosing Civility by P.M. Forni. Have I read it, you ask? Course not. Have you met me? I haven't finished a required reading book for school since the summer before 10th grade! B.S. is my main form of writing skill. Mmmhmmm. But for the rest of the class I couldn't help but notice that the boy from my CJ class on Monday kept looking at me. Don't really know what to think about that one yet...hmmm...

Tonight's activities consisted of a Meet Your Religious Leaders Fair on the MultiQuad. The best part? Free food. Yeah, Des and I pretty much showed up, found our ward, got some brownies and a name tag and headed up to the SUUSA room for our very first Freshman...I mean...FreshPERSON Board meeting. It was pretty rad. A girl named Liz Day is in charge of us crazy kids. And can I just say that she is officially one of my favorite people ever? She is just fantastic. Pretty sure everyone should know her and be friends with her because we all need a Liz in our lifetime. During this meeting, we were informed of our responsibilities. Priority #1: the ThorCorps. We are in charge of getting people to show up to games and get all spirited up. Priority #2: Fan Of The Week. Yep, we interview and photograph members of the crowd at events and put them on our FOTW board. It's a splendid idea. But we all thought, "Who is going to care if they are FOTW? We have to give out a prize of some sort so people actually WANT to be the FOTW." Liz was already on top of that. She said she had proposed in a Summit meeting (that's the meeting that all the real important student government people go to and talk about what the plan is) that we should give out FANny packs to the FANs, but no one at Summit was really feelin' what she was throwin' out there. But oh, did we understand completely. We were psyched! We started brainstorming ideas for what items we should put in said FANny pack. I was thinking we should put one of those cheap fold out kinda chinese looking FANs in there, along with a FANtastic 4 figurine. Get it?! Ha well Liz got it. That's all that matters. When the meeting was adjourned, Des and I headed back for some free sloppy joes and waited for Scott. We finished eating before he got there, so we were all up for hiding from him while he was looking for us. We ended up ducking behind a group of guys and looking through them to make sure Scotty couldn't see us. But they thought we were looking at them. So they introduced themselves to us...which was awkward, but funny. I ended up getting hit on by a guy who said his name was "Puddin"...and he showed me how he could dance pretty spectacularly. He was really funny and nice, but as a 22-year-old, he looked almost disappointed when I said that I was 17. Gee, wonder why. Jailbait, anyone? Ha ha. Anyway, once Scotty found us, we headed over to the dance at the Institute parking lot. It was actually really fun! Way better than any Stake Dance I've ever been to. But not better than EFY. Nothing tops EFY.

Today Is Tuesday.

Obvious Fact Of The Day: When your schedule says that class is at 5...that means it's not at 7.

Today I only had two classes. Calculus this morning was funny as usual, and ASL was even better. Course, I was supposed to go to class at 5 but got confused...so I went with Amanda to hers at 7. This, of course, made it so that I missed most of the big-kid version of the Club Fair and a Comedian. But it's ok. Dr. Groft is his own kind of comedian. I think I'm going to seriously dig that class. But I was kinda upset after I got home because Des and Kylee and Scott had all gone and had fun at the comedy thing and got to hang out with good looking Cody. I didn't want to be all grumpy and say something I was going to regret so I went to my room and called Cody Beans. We had a long chat and everyone left...so here I am. Wow...kinda an uneventful day.

Slip 'N Slide

Obvious Fact Of The Day: Grass is slippery when wet. Grass gets wet when water is on it. Grass + water = wet.

First day of classes. It actually went pretty well. I dig not having to wake up until 8 on Mondays. SO much better than 6...by a good 2 hours. First class of the day: Criminal Justice. It's actually a really large class and has a few really good looking kids in it. You know how you can tell when people are checking other people out? Don't pretend you have no idea what I'm talking about. You know. Yeah so from the back of the classroom, I was watching this go on. A few boys scoping out the female spectrum in room 407. It was actually really entertaining. One would nod (or even point, depending on how inconspicuous he wanted to be) toward a girl, and the rest would agree or disagree as they saw fit. My favorite was when they would point out a guy. That was just pure funny. Well, ok, it's funny until one of them turns around and makes eye contact with you. Oh, yeah, that happened to me. I looked away quickly as if to play it off like I didn't just get caught watching this odd sport. When I looked back up, they were laughing quietly and nodding...but I'm pretty sure it wasn't about me. Well, I hoped the laughing wasn't. I wouldn't mind the nodding. Ha ha. Calculus was next...and can I just say...Dr. Armstrong is HILARIOUS! Seriously, this is going to be the best math class ever. Ok...well, it will be ONE of the best math classes ever. It's hard to top 10th and 11th grade. Those were a blasty.

My first singles ward FHE was tonight at 7 at the Bishop's house. We played some "olympic games"...not well, but we tried. My group's first event was a grape catching contest. I can't catch things in my mouth to save my life, so I just watched. Two pretty cute baseball players were going against each other. It was so funny cuz they would try to cheat...the whole time. Desi participated in the watermelon seed spitting contest...but I wasn't even going to try that one. The baseball players sat out the next one and just watched all the events...which I fully participated in. It was one of those games where you have two buckets and one is filled with water and you have to transfer that water to the other bucket with a sponge. Of course, it's a relay race, so everyone is running. Unfortunately, we were the 3rd group to play this, so there was already water all over the grass. This, of course, meant that Desi and the other girl totally wiped out while trying to empty the sponge into the other bucket. Desi's a screamer, so when she slipped a bit, she screamed, and so now almost everyone's attention was on our intense relay. I so was not going to be an idiot in front of everyone and follow in my teammates' slippery footsteps, so when I neared the other bucket, I slowed down to maintain my footing. And then I sprinted back to make the handoff like no one's business. Course, after completing the handoff, I face planted it and ROLLED. So much worse. Not to mention everyone was already watching, and now, laughing. And I'm not gonna lie...it was hilarious. I was laughing so hard, I couldn't even get up. And I also couldn't look up and make eye contact with the cute baseball players. So much fun.

After FHE, we went to the MultiQuad to watch Iron Man on the huge projector. Only...they couldn't get Iron Man yet, so they put in Bourne Ultimatum instead. We got my blankie and some chips and salsa and joined Scott and Kylee and had a blasty blast hanging out. Right up until some stupid kid tossed a shaken up 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke on us. That part was just annoying.