SECRET TREASURE

Oh my goodness, today I was richly rewarded for attempting a good deed! The story is as follows:



Dad lost his keys when they were here in Provo over Thanksgiving weekend, so today I stopped by the Lost and Found in the Wilk to see if they were found around campus or something. Tragically, no luck--none of the keys in their lost-key box was attached to the requisite length of orange cord, so I did not even bother to examine them closer. Psh. BUT, my miraculous reward, and a marvelous secret to BYU type fellows--on the counter in the Lost 'n' Found office there is a big box FULL of pens and pencils that you can just come and take for free-sies!! It is AMAZING. So yeah, as I stood there in line waiting for the lady to go look for some chick's lost folder I quietly perused the merchandise and picked out some SWEET pens, the likes of which I feel almost unworthy to use! Seriously, I later went to write notes with my newly-gotten Uni-Ball VisionElite, and the whole time I was just thinking "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!!" Hey so but anyway, next time you are on campus and find yourself lacking writing implements, a quick jaunt down to the Wilk basement will solve ALL of your woes.

Fun Facts:

-On Sunday I have to give a talk AND teach a combined Relief Society lesson. Woo.

-Mom and Dad will be here tomorrow night

-I checked out a lot of ridiculous reading material this afternoon, so that is cool

-my roommates and I just had a binge night of pizza and ice cream and watching P.S. I Love You, which I kind of liked and kind of hated, mostly because it pisses me off that fake Hilary Swank character walks for like 2 miles on some country road in the UK and ends up MARRIED TO FAKE GERARD BUTLER CHARACTER, whilst I tramped along like 200 miles in the UK and only got blisters. Universe? I am awaiting your call, and your reparations check.

-Okay, fine, the 200 h-ing UK miles actually made me some of the best friends of my life, so I guess that counts for something. England friends, take note: You have big shoes to fill.

-So today I went on a quest to purchase some Appletiser for Thanksgiving libationary purposes. The Appletiser website said that they sell it at Good Earth in Provo and Orem, so Becca obligingly took me there. So we brave the unwashed granola smell, search high and low,

and finally ask a worker, and after all kinds of askings of people and meeting with blank stares we put together that actually the website is LYING, they do NOT stock Appletiser at ANY Good Earth location. The gruff manager guy called the Orem branch for us, and then offered to call aorund to other places and then let me know (I left my name and number) but then he never actually did call, so...I guess that's a no. And I guess life is not worth living anymore. Oh hey, I shoudl probably have earlier explained that Appletiser is a sparkling apple type beverage, not unlike Martinelli's (but inexplicably BETTER, but I mean I dunno, maybe it isn't, I GUESS NOW I WILL NEVER KNOW), that I used to get by the liter bottles at grocery stores in England and chug in vacant parks in between hunks of bread and spoonfuls of trifle and/or cheesecake. It's...it's kind of a big deal. I was pretty excited to get some. But um, sniff, I guess that's not going to happen. :,(

the creepiest sentence fragment I've ever gotten in a writing fellows essay

"studies show that the early tyrannosaurs were in fact smaller long armed creatures that had grasping hands"

Huuuuggghhhhh. Those grasping, grasping hands.

This is like Writing Fellows Week Fall 2009 up in here. I'm fellowing another round of geology papers, plus we're interviewing all the applicants for next semester. Today I sat for three interviews--it was crazy! It's like they think I am a competent adult or something. Weird. It was pretty fun though, and one of the interviewees was my friend Jamie from downstairs, so it was pretty relaxed. Well, for me anyway. Maybe she was still in tense-job-interview mode. Hope not. Anyway. Woo.

Good Things

-spending all Saturday in bed watching classic sick-day movies with Ashley

-Harrel winning her big jiu jitsu competition, proving that I'm not the only one she can easily beat the crap out of.

-learning how to Protect Yourself Against Weapons with Master Tsai with Mary

-Anna's chocolate chip coffee cake, Sarah's pumpkin cake, Mary's chicken noodle soup (<-- the larger category being "roommates making me delicious food")

-reading House of Mirth

-only three days of school this week, til Wilderness Writing Moab trip--this is actually scary as crap because a)I'm still scared of the 100 ft rappel we're going to do, and b)there's a lotta lotta crap to get into those three days, but still...woo.

-only a week til Thanksgiving week

-I really like this picture I just found in my iPhotos

gonna get all Becca/Catch-22 all up in your collective grills

Feathers in my cap:

-my thesis proposal was accepted, so no more shenanigans on THAT count.  Of course now the actual writing of said thesis must commence anew, which sort of sucks, but um ok.

-last night, thanks to the glorious efforts of one Whitney Sara Bush, I actually enjoyed dancing for upwards of 30 consecutive minutes.

-I have all the makings of a pot of wassail.  Just need it to get cold and cloudy again.

-Walmart sells Christmas lights for SO CHEAP you guys!  So I recently purchased some for my bedroom. Really classes up the joint.  

-after upwards of 2 hours of intensive internet research, I have found several people who might actually want to give me some monies for graduate school.  Woo!

-Mom and Dad are officially coming to Utah for Thanksgiving!!

-I've got all kinds of pie crust dough in the oven, and all kinds of pudding mixes in the pantry.  You know what that means.  

Black Eyes

-have to write the dang thesis

-have to write a bunch of shiz in order to convince willing parties to give me money for grad school

-my house kind of smells like garbage, probably because of something in the garbage, so probably I have to take out the garbage.

-I have class in an hour and a half and I just don't want to go.  

-you know, I think that's kind of it?  

problems with a linguistics minor

The NON-exhuastive list:

-you learn about Old English forms of pluralizations (which survive in flukes like 'oxen' and 'mice' and 'deer') and then you learn about how "eggs" used to be "eggen"  and "eyes" were "eyen" and then your teacher says those examples so many times in the course of the semester that every time you go to make a fried egg sandwich you say "Oh well gotta go get my eggen out of the fridge, teeheehee" and then you realize that YOU HAVE BECOME THE ENEMY.

-um, more to follow.

Fun Fact(s):

-the GRE is not as awful as you make yourself think

-9 hours of sleep is a good way to recover from anything

-Jude the Obscure is ruining my life, but I've come too far to give up now (even if I want to THROTTLE some key main characters, YES I'M TALKING TO YOU, SUE; I don't care that you're Kate Winslet in my head, you are CRAZY.)

-brownies and Holiday Pomegranate 7-Up are ANOTHER good way to recover from anything.

-right now Red Robin is having a $5 special on their basic cheeseburger

-in relation to the above, I had pickles for the first time last night!  I hope Becca will still be my sister.

-I had fun redesigning my blog, for fun; you were right Mom--Gibraltar!

-It turns out I did better on the practice sections of math than I did on the real thing, but that is okay.

-I did better on the real verbal sections than in the practice, and that is very okay!

-my Linguistics midterm yesterday was disquietingly easy--which means that either I'm brilliant or I'm a really big idiot.  ... Let's go with the first, eh?

-my mead beverage turned out alright, but really it just made me excited to make wassail.  

-things are progressing apace with my shark costume. Now I just have to devise a means of attaching a fin...ideas are welcome.

-I'm really proud of Becca for being so awesome, here's why.

-Everyone be sure to study this, there will be a quiz* later.

-*not true, but you should still go there because it is fabulous.