Well hey there friends. Guess we relearned the lesson that really we already knew. When it isn't a mandatory class assignment I just plain old suck at blogging. But, I think I might have something that can maybe make up for my horrible shortcomings this semester. While I didn't blog, I did do something semi similarish. At the start of the semester I made a paper chain for each school day. On one side I wrote an inspirational quote and on the other side at the end of the day I wrote something good that happened that day. Then as I was packing up my stuff to move I looked at them and wrote them all down here. Some days not much happened and I kind of had to stretch. Other days a lot of stuff happened. Anyway, here you go. I semester in very brief review.
1/7 Got a ride home from the grocery store from a generous stranger
1/8 Found my lost mp3 player
1/9 Drove Julie's car home without dying
1/11Started scrapbook plans
1/14 Wrote Seth and Aaron
1/15 Got ice cream with my roommates
1/16 Dropped Food Sci and added bowling
1/17 Found out I've got the skills for a few real jobs
1/18 Got to hang out with Autumn before she left
1/21 Made some awesome scotch tape ads (my first of the kind)
1/22 Came up with 50 sharpie ideas quicker than the last assignment
1/23 First day of bowling
1/24 Got offered an interview for a real job
1/26 Bought groceries to make real food!
1/28 Got a 4 in Japanese
1/29 First day of dinner group
1/30 Met some cool kids with serious friend potential
1/31 Had a theological conversation with Riley and discovered some awesome hot chocolate
2/1 Chinese food with Amy
2/4 Finally got an idea for Tabasco
2/5 Prof. Cutri liked my idea (a small miracle)
2/6 Found prospective housing. Went to the temple
2/7 Letter from Aaron arrived at home.
2/8 Made an amazing German Chocolate Cake from scratch
2/11 Had to stay up far to late but was able to get everything done
2/12 Class was late but... so was I
2/13 Got a new bowling score. The ID checker at the gym knew me by name.
2/14 Barrett and I's idea got pitched to the client
2/15 Got asked out by Shane. Grant was alright.
2/18 Made sense of Aaron's crazy letter
2/19 Awesome conversation with Riley (what did we talk about? I don't remember, ha ha)
2/20 Got ring checked
2/21 Got to drive the Zamboni and didn't have to mop by hand at work anymore
2/22 Japanese Party!
2/25 New bowling high score. Sold my contract!
2/26 Got an interview with the psych department
2/27 Rocked my oral exam
2/28 First letters from Riley this year arrived
3/1 Made sushi
3/4 Got a letter from Seth
3/5 Only had to look up a few words in Seth's letter
3/6 Got a package from home!
3/7 Found an amazing group for the 24/1 project
3/8 Night at the HFAC and presentation of the 24/1. Came in 3rd place.
3/11 New bowling high score and had fun with Andrew
3/12 Finished my homework early, went to bed at a decent hour!
3/13 Hung out with David and Morgan at The Wall
3/14 Pi day party in Brigham Square
3/15 Bonfire with the McKenzie gang
3/18 Played Frisbee and football at the park
3/19 Two letters from Riley. The first since he's been gone
3/20 New bowling high score, got a turkey, and saw Brother Coon in the Wilk
3/21 Watched To Kill A Mockingbird in the library
3/25 Got a new high score in bowling and a turkey. My elbow stopped hurting so I started going back to the gym
3/26 Had fun with Fiat ideas. Got to see Kim
3/27 Stacey saved me at the store. New bowling high score.
3/28 SPSS fun with Barrett and Fenton. The apartment painting was finally done!
3/29 Got off work early
4/1 Got to enjoy a hardcore rain storm
4/2 Went to a party with Sarah
4/3 Pie with Bad *
4/4 Went to Jon's concert
4/5 Met Jacob and went to a Lacross game and Les Miserables with him and company
4/8 Last day of Media Law
4/9 The snow melted!
4/10 Eggcelent (yes it was about eggs) brainstorming with Fiat team. Got asked out by Jacob.
4/11 SRA client presentation and fun while waiting for it with Barrett
4/12 KTA initiation and the half show. Our project took 3rd place.
4/15 Finished Media Law final. Last Japanese CC's.
4/16 Last day of classes
4/17 Hung out in SLC with Jon. "Conqured" Shamballa.
4/18 Talked about conspiracies with Quin
4/19 Found a place to store my stuff for the summer
4/22 Took my last final
4/23 Last day of work
4/24 Last official day of the semester and celebrated with and cereal party with David and company
4/25 Went home
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
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Staying Alive
Yes, yes, I am still alive, even though you wouldn't know it from my lack of posting. School's been in for about 3 weeks now and things are moving right along. Also, it is freezing outside and I mean that quite literally. Tuesday on my walk to class it was -2 degrees. Today we had frozen rain. It was intense. I've never been in temperatures like this before for such an extended period of time, but I think that I'm starting to adjust. The other day I remember thinking that it was "warm" and then finding out that it was something like 12 degrees. I guess though that this is the coldest winter Provo has had in something like 30 years. It's certainly different from last year.
Aside from being chilled to the bone I've been making some awesome ads. And by awesome I mean mediocer, but awesome by my standards. I'm taking 3 ad classes, one is media law/ethics (lots of law, but not as boring as you might think), research methods (a lot more interesting than you might think), and creative concepts. It's the creative concepts class where I get to make mediocre ads. Last Thursday we were told to have 5 ads for scotch tape by Tuesday. Well, I thought it was pretty quick to expect 5 finished ads in a weekend but I finished them all in about two days. I was pretty caught off guard Tuesday then when we were told to have 5 sharpie ads by today. I finished them all in a night though! It's taking some time but I'm getting much better with Photoshop/Gimp.
In my research methods class on Tuesday we played with eye tracking software, and by played I mean didn't touch it because it's really expensive. We did learn about it though and watch how it works. The tech tracked two volunteers, a guy and a girl, to show how they tend to look at different things and I was the girl guinea pig. Ha, thanks mom for making me volunteer for things!You can be glad to know that your influence has allowed me to add having my eyes tracked to the list of crazy things I've volunteered for, along with: trying on Samurai armor, interviewing Darren Shan, operating mining equipment, and I'm sure other thing I just can't think of.
Advertising classes aside Japanese 102 is kicking my butt as expected and I'm taking bowling as my fun class. I've only had it for one class period though since I was previously taking Intro to Food Science. I had high hopes for that class but after going to it for awhile it felt like it was going to be pretty dull so I dropped it. That was the first time that I'd dropped a class after attending it, it was a little weird.
I've also started working in the ad lab. I'm on the Mormon Messages campaign currently and even though we haven't had to many meetings I think that we've come up with some pretty good ideas and I'm excited to keep working on it. It'll be I think a good way to get myself more involved with the lab too.
So yeah, that's what I've been doing. Hopefully I'll keep warm and you'll hear from me again soon. Until then, stay classy!
Aside from being chilled to the bone I've been making some awesome ads. And by awesome I mean mediocer, but awesome by my standards. I'm taking 3 ad classes, one is media law/ethics (lots of law, but not as boring as you might think), research methods (a lot more interesting than you might think), and creative concepts. It's the creative concepts class where I get to make mediocre ads. Last Thursday we were told to have 5 ads for scotch tape by Tuesday. Well, I thought it was pretty quick to expect 5 finished ads in a weekend but I finished them all in about two days. I was pretty caught off guard Tuesday then when we were told to have 5 sharpie ads by today. I finished them all in a night though! It's taking some time but I'm getting much better with Photoshop/Gimp.
In my research methods class on Tuesday we played with eye tracking software, and by played I mean didn't touch it because it's really expensive. We did learn about it though and watch how it works. The tech tracked two volunteers, a guy and a girl, to show how they tend to look at different things and I was the girl guinea pig. Ha, thanks mom for making me volunteer for things!You can be glad to know that your influence has allowed me to add having my eyes tracked to the list of crazy things I've volunteered for, along with: trying on Samurai armor, interviewing Darren Shan, operating mining equipment, and I'm sure other thing I just can't think of.
Advertising classes aside Japanese 102 is kicking my butt as expected and I'm taking bowling as my fun class. I've only had it for one class period though since I was previously taking Intro to Food Science. I had high hopes for that class but after going to it for awhile it felt like it was going to be pretty dull so I dropped it. That was the first time that I'd dropped a class after attending it, it was a little weird.
I've also started working in the ad lab. I'm on the Mormon Messages campaign currently and even though we haven't had to many meetings I think that we've come up with some pretty good ideas and I'm excited to keep working on it. It'll be I think a good way to get myself more involved with the lab too.
So yeah, that's what I've been doing. Hopefully I'll keep warm and you'll hear from me again soon. Until then, stay classy!
Monday, January 7, 2013
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Christmas Eve, Eve
Guys, tomorrow is Christmas Eve! Can you believe it? It seems so soon, but then it always does. I think part of the reason though is that it seems like I just got here but I've been here for a week already and I've done a lot in this week too.
Sunday I went to church at the family ward. It was good to go in a real church building again. At school since there are so many members around we attend church on campus in one of the buildings. We also do it backwards where Relief Society is first and Sacrament is last, so it was nice to get back to what I was used to. There was some meeting about the new lesson structure for Sunday School or something so most of the people that I would have known were at that and I was really tired which was kind of annoying but whatever.
After church we went to my aunt and uncle's house and talked with them for a while a wound up my cute litle cousins. My youngest cousin, Ariana, was about a 2 months old the last time I saw her. She's about 9 now so she'd grown a lot. Another one of my cousins, Sebastian, I think looks like a little like Grant when he was younger.
Monday wasn't particularly eventful. I slept in while everyone else went to school. Grant and Dad went to see The Hobbit so I took Brandi to Karate and she got us "lost," but aside from that I pretty much just read my book all day. It's a murder mystery, which I've never really read before but I wanted to give it a try. Well, I want to flip to the back and find out who did it so I guess that means that it's doing it's job.
Tuesday I accidentally went to a band concert. I thought that the yearly drama radio show was that night but it turns out that it wasn't. When we got to the school though there was a Christmas choir/band concert so my parents and I just stayed for that.
Wednesday I was going to go into school with my mom but she ended up not needing me, so I went to a few stores and got some stuff done and then later Brandi and I went up to the mall to buy some presents. When I was out I ran into Hillary and her mom and sister which was cool since I hadn't seen them in a while. Brandi and I also wandered into Toys R Us to see if Karoline was working that day but I'm sad to say that she wasn't. That evening we went back to the school for the real drama radio show, which was alright, and I got to talk to Katy and Anna.
Thursday I really just made candy all day. I did attempt to watch the Church's Christmas devotional that aired way back on the first, but I was interrupted by and urgent need to go to Taco Bell and get food. I still haven't see the darn thing. When it originally aired was when I was at Temple Square filling in for the missionaries. In fact that's why we were there, so that they could go see it. And I've just never sat down and watched it. Taco Bell reminds me though, Brandi still needs to make me sushi...
Friday was the "end of the world" and I had a bit of an adventure. I got up around 9:30, and the plan was to go to Scott's house at 11, but apparently in the confusion of everything (I told Hillary to make that plans but then she had a family crisis) he was never told of this. So I picked up Chelsea and Katy and we headed over to Scott's house to find that he was still asleep. The three of us decided to go to my house and Hillary and Scott eventually met us over there. So yeah, not actually that much of an adventure. We had a good time watching lame end of the world movies and being weird, and we even watched an episode or two of Fruits Basket, which is a show I haven't really seen since my freshman year of high school. We exchanged a few gifts as well and were glad I think that the world did not in fact end.
Saturday morning it was my parent's turn to clean the church building so we went and did that at 9. It really didn't take very long though, which was kind of surprising because I feel like cleaning the church always takes forever. Anyway, after that we went to the mall where we got pictures with Santa and picked up a few things. Then we headed into Seattle.
We had planned to go see the King Tut exhibit at the science center but it ended up being some ridiculous price so we ended up just looking around and going to a few shops and stuff, which was fun. While we were there we also had dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory where I also saw Ms. Armstrong, my old English teacher from my freshman year of high school. Thankfully she did not see me. Or if she did pretended that she didn't, which wouldn't have surprised me.
While I didn't particularly enjoy her class, I thought as a person she was fine, but for some weird reason she didn't like me at all. It's too bad that Hillary wasn't with us, then we could have gone up and said hi and maybe we could have recreated that "Why, hello...oh...." that greeted us every day of our freshman year. For some reason Ms. Armstrong was super fond of Hillary and so every day she would walk into class and get a super happy hello or good morning or whatever and then I would enter right behind her and get an "oh". Usually it was the end of the happy hello that was turning into an "oh, it's you again." You'd think that after a few weeks she'd realized that we entered class at the same time roughly and get used to it.
Anyway, I didn't talk to her or anything so no worries and moving on! After dinner we went to the Deseret bookstore. I've noticed that finding a Deseret store in Utah is kind of like finding a Starbucks in Washington, they're practically around every corner. And yet fining one is Washington is like finding a Starbucks in Utah, they're pretty much nowhere.
We then went to the Botanical Garden and then to another mall/ Snowflake Lane which was... well, somewhat lacking (Snowflake Lane I mean, The Botanical Gardens and even the mall were great). After the Snowflake Lane thing it was crazy crowded so we decided to walk around. We were going to go to the University bookstore but it was closed so I suggested that we go to this store we saw called World Mart instead.
It was kind of a cool place. They had different food and furniture and stuff from different parts of the world and my parents even found an airplane thing for our living room. We also got some peach flavored chocolate and some of those delicious shrimp flavored chips from Japan which if you haven't tried you need to like right now, because they are awesome. Once we'd found our treasures the crowd had dismissed so we headed back to the car and went home. End of adventure.
Wow, I just realized that I said that in that day we went to like five different malls but you know, that's kind of my parent's thing. Not going to malls so much per say but going to shops and browsing the general downtown area and going into stores and stuff. I remember as a little kid I used to think that it was pretty boring but a few years ago I stared to see why they like it, so I guess that just means that I'm getting old or something.
And so that brings us to today, Christmas eve, eve. I can't say that I really did a lot. I went to the single's ward and got to see some friend that I haven't seen in a while. It was good to see them but aside from that I really haven't done much. I had some burritos, which might not sound that great to you, but I haven't had burritos on Sunday in a while (ok, last week, but I mean aside from that) so I quite enjoyed it.
So yeah, that's what I've been up to. And a happy Christmas eve, eve to you all! Hard to believe that Christmas is right around the corner!
Sunday I went to church at the family ward. It was good to go in a real church building again. At school since there are so many members around we attend church on campus in one of the buildings. We also do it backwards where Relief Society is first and Sacrament is last, so it was nice to get back to what I was used to. There was some meeting about the new lesson structure for Sunday School or something so most of the people that I would have known were at that and I was really tired which was kind of annoying but whatever.
After church we went to my aunt and uncle's house and talked with them for a while a wound up my cute litle cousins. My youngest cousin, Ariana, was about a 2 months old the last time I saw her. She's about 9 now so she'd grown a lot. Another one of my cousins, Sebastian, I think looks like a little like Grant when he was younger.
Monday wasn't particularly eventful. I slept in while everyone else went to school. Grant and Dad went to see The Hobbit so I took Brandi to Karate and she got us "lost," but aside from that I pretty much just read my book all day. It's a murder mystery, which I've never really read before but I wanted to give it a try. Well, I want to flip to the back and find out who did it so I guess that means that it's doing it's job.
Tuesday I accidentally went to a band concert. I thought that the yearly drama radio show was that night but it turns out that it wasn't. When we got to the school though there was a Christmas choir/band concert so my parents and I just stayed for that.
Wednesday I was going to go into school with my mom but she ended up not needing me, so I went to a few stores and got some stuff done and then later Brandi and I went up to the mall to buy some presents. When I was out I ran into Hillary and her mom and sister which was cool since I hadn't seen them in a while. Brandi and I also wandered into Toys R Us to see if Karoline was working that day but I'm sad to say that she wasn't. That evening we went back to the school for the real drama radio show, which was alright, and I got to talk to Katy and Anna.
Thursday I really just made candy all day. I did attempt to watch the Church's Christmas devotional that aired way back on the first, but I was interrupted by and urgent need to go to Taco Bell and get food. I still haven't see the darn thing. When it originally aired was when I was at Temple Square filling in for the missionaries. In fact that's why we were there, so that they could go see it. And I've just never sat down and watched it. Taco Bell reminds me though, Brandi still needs to make me sushi...
Friday was the "end of the world" and I had a bit of an adventure. I got up around 9:30, and the plan was to go to Scott's house at 11, but apparently in the confusion of everything (I told Hillary to make that plans but then she had a family crisis) he was never told of this. So I picked up Chelsea and Katy and we headed over to Scott's house to find that he was still asleep. The three of us decided to go to my house and Hillary and Scott eventually met us over there. So yeah, not actually that much of an adventure. We had a good time watching lame end of the world movies and being weird, and we even watched an episode or two of Fruits Basket, which is a show I haven't really seen since my freshman year of high school. We exchanged a few gifts as well and were glad I think that the world did not in fact end.
Saturday morning it was my parent's turn to clean the church building so we went and did that at 9. It really didn't take very long though, which was kind of surprising because I feel like cleaning the church always takes forever. Anyway, after that we went to the mall where we got pictures with Santa and picked up a few things. Then we headed into Seattle.
We had planned to go see the King Tut exhibit at the science center but it ended up being some ridiculous price so we ended up just looking around and going to a few shops and stuff, which was fun. While we were there we also had dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory where I also saw Ms. Armstrong, my old English teacher from my freshman year of high school. Thankfully she did not see me. Or if she did pretended that she didn't, which wouldn't have surprised me.
While I didn't particularly enjoy her class, I thought as a person she was fine, but for some weird reason she didn't like me at all. It's too bad that Hillary wasn't with us, then we could have gone up and said hi and maybe we could have recreated that "Why, hello...oh...." that greeted us every day of our freshman year. For some reason Ms. Armstrong was super fond of Hillary and so every day she would walk into class and get a super happy hello or good morning or whatever and then I would enter right behind her and get an "oh". Usually it was the end of the happy hello that was turning into an "oh, it's you again." You'd think that after a few weeks she'd realized that we entered class at the same time roughly and get used to it.
Anyway, I didn't talk to her or anything so no worries and moving on! After dinner we went to the Deseret bookstore. I've noticed that finding a Deseret store in Utah is kind of like finding a Starbucks in Washington, they're practically around every corner. And yet fining one is Washington is like finding a Starbucks in Utah, they're pretty much nowhere.
We then went to the Botanical Garden and then to another mall/ Snowflake Lane which was... well, somewhat lacking (Snowflake Lane I mean, The Botanical Gardens and even the mall were great). After the Snowflake Lane thing it was crazy crowded so we decided to walk around. We were going to go to the University bookstore but it was closed so I suggested that we go to this store we saw called World Mart instead.
It was kind of a cool place. They had different food and furniture and stuff from different parts of the world and my parents even found an airplane thing for our living room. We also got some peach flavored chocolate and some of those delicious shrimp flavored chips from Japan which if you haven't tried you need to like right now, because they are awesome. Once we'd found our treasures the crowd had dismissed so we headed back to the car and went home. End of adventure.
Wow, I just realized that I said that in that day we went to like five different malls but you know, that's kind of my parent's thing. Not going to malls so much per say but going to shops and browsing the general downtown area and going into stores and stuff. I remember as a little kid I used to think that it was pretty boring but a few years ago I stared to see why they like it, so I guess that just means that I'm getting old or something.
And so that brings us to today, Christmas eve, eve. I can't say that I really did a lot. I went to the single's ward and got to see some friend that I haven't seen in a while. It was good to see them but aside from that I really haven't done much. I had some burritos, which might not sound that great to you, but I haven't had burritos on Sunday in a while (ok, last week, but I mean aside from that) so I quite enjoyed it.
So yeah, that's what I've been up to. And a happy Christmas eve, eve to you all! Hard to believe that Christmas is right around the corner!
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Finally Finished
Well, I'm still alive so I guess that means that I survived finals week. It was a nightmare but, it always is. I ended up with a really bad schedule for finals this semester. 4 out of my 6 classes were scheduled and 3 or the scheduled ones were at 7 in the morning. My grades haven't come out yet, I don't think that they will until next week sometime but I feel like in general on my finals I did fairly well.
So I finished my last final on Thursday afternoon and then I headed up to Salt Lake City with Autumn. We got there around 6 and spent a few hours at the malls before we went to go see The Hobbit. It was really good, I highly recommend it. The only thing that I think I would have changed is that I'm a bit of a traditionalist and would have preferred it without the appendices or Lord of the Rings references, but that's really a pretty small detail. Now that I've seen The Hobbit though I'm excited to see Les Miserables.
Since we went to the midnight showing, we had to wait for the train to take us back for a little while and we still had to walk back from the train station I didn't end up getting home until about 6:30. So I ended up sleeping in for awhile the next day.
Once I finally got up I spent the majority of the day cleaning my room, packing, and running some general errands. That evening I had a date. We went to a hot dog place in Orem and then went back to campus where we played pool and I learned how to play 9 ball. By the way, did you know that if you don't return the pool equipment to games center they charge your student account $100! That seemed a little crazy to me. After a few games we watched Men In Black 3. I hadn't seen it before and it was alright. I'd say not as good as the first one but better than the second. After the date even though it wasn't particularly late, I was so tired from finals week, the movie the night before and everything that I just went right to bed.
This morning I got up and headed to the airport. The ride that I was going with had an earlier flight than I did so I ended up there for a few hours but it wasn't too bad. While I was waiting for my flight I stopped to get a hamburger. It tasted alright, you know it was just whatever burger place was around. When I pulled it out of the bag though it was literally dripping with grease. I'm pretty sure I lost a year of my life eating the thing.
I got into Seattle around 3 and home around 4. My parents went to a Christmas work party thing and Grant's girlfriend Sarah came over. The 4 of us (Grant, Brandi, Sarah, and I) played curses and had some fantastic yakisoba that Brandi made. After that Brandi and I watched Groundhog's Day and when my parents got back we all watched Elf. And that brings us to now. Now I'm going to sleep in my own bed, a bed that isn't too short for me, in my own room. And there's nothing you all can do about it.
So I finished my last final on Thursday afternoon and then I headed up to Salt Lake City with Autumn. We got there around 6 and spent a few hours at the malls before we went to go see The Hobbit. It was really good, I highly recommend it. The only thing that I think I would have changed is that I'm a bit of a traditionalist and would have preferred it without the appendices or Lord of the Rings references, but that's really a pretty small detail. Now that I've seen The Hobbit though I'm excited to see Les Miserables.
Since we went to the midnight showing, we had to wait for the train to take us back for a little while and we still had to walk back from the train station I didn't end up getting home until about 6:30. So I ended up sleeping in for awhile the next day.
Once I finally got up I spent the majority of the day cleaning my room, packing, and running some general errands. That evening I had a date. We went to a hot dog place in Orem and then went back to campus where we played pool and I learned how to play 9 ball. By the way, did you know that if you don't return the pool equipment to games center they charge your student account $100! That seemed a little crazy to me. After a few games we watched Men In Black 3. I hadn't seen it before and it was alright. I'd say not as good as the first one but better than the second. After the date even though it wasn't particularly late, I was so tired from finals week, the movie the night before and everything that I just went right to bed.
This morning I got up and headed to the airport. The ride that I was going with had an earlier flight than I did so I ended up there for a few hours but it wasn't too bad. While I was waiting for my flight I stopped to get a hamburger. It tasted alright, you know it was just whatever burger place was around. When I pulled it out of the bag though it was literally dripping with grease. I'm pretty sure I lost a year of my life eating the thing.
I got into Seattle around 3 and home around 4. My parents went to a Christmas work party thing and Grant's girlfriend Sarah came over. The 4 of us (Grant, Brandi, Sarah, and I) played curses and had some fantastic yakisoba that Brandi made. After that Brandi and I watched Groundhog's Day and when my parents got back we all watched Elf. And that brings us to now. Now I'm going to sleep in my own bed, a bed that isn't too short for me, in my own room. And there's nothing you all can do about it.
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