My Dad's Cooler Than Your Dad

He's 54 and he still loves being a kid.  This week he decided that he wanted to be a pioneer.  So he packed up his bike and rode from This is the Place Monument and headed towards Martin's Cove.  What?  Who does that?  By themselves?  But he couldn't find a trail to get past Evanston and then he crashed.  So he was with us for Halloween!  And... he dressed up.  He's 54 people!  His costume: Lance Armstrong.  He had the yellow jersey and a needle sticking into his arm connecting to an IV bag hanging around his neck full of blood.  Yep, he was a doper, and he's a bishop.  Sometimes I wish I could get more into the spirit of halloween and be as cool as my dad.  Or, all the time.
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Halloween Half Marathon

This half was actually pretty fun.  I dressed up as Luigi and my sister was Mario.  She's way faster than me and so is Mario so it worked out perfectly.  But hey, Luigi didn't do too bad.  I was faster than my goal... sort of.  So that was good. I had a wardrobe malfunction though that lost me about 5 minutes.
Now that it's over, I don't feel so good.  There's a point in running where you actually don't feel good afterwards.  You feel terribly sick.  Not sore, but sick.  For the last half marathon, we got home at 1:30 in the morning so I just showered and when I finally fell asleep, I slept off the sickness.  Not the case for this one.  All day I've had stomach cramps and they won't go away no matter how much advil I shove down my throat.  At first I thought I was just hungry, so I went to Panda Express with my little brother and boy did that make things worse!  Then I went with some people in my ward to a corn maze tonight and I was in pain.  Also, I had to burp a lot but I refrained, which probably made my stomach pains worse.  Ya, so I think it's time for bed and hopefully I'll feel better in the morning.
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Missed the Snow

This morning I woke up and by the time I went to class, the snow had stopped and the remains were on my car.  Then I went to my lab and when I came out there was more snow, but again, I had missed it.  When it starts up again I will be outside ready to go.
I'm ready for a snowy year.  Last year was sad, the year before was ok, and the year before that I was in Spain and it only snowed once.  It was freezing and rainy but no snow.  This is why I love Utah most of the time.  This state knows that snow is way better than rain.
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Fire Watch

For the last couple of days I've been in training to be a secretary at work.  The secretary job isn't better than a fire alarm student, but it is something different, so it's been fun.  But I'm still a fire alarm student so I still get to do fire watch every now and then.  Basically, we turn off the alarms when there are big events and then someone has to sit by the panel and make sure no alarms come in that the rest of the building can't hear.  Let me tell you, it's really exciting.  Today's the blue and white basketball game and they wanted us here five hours before the game actually started?  It's a little excessive.  No one's here except a few people preparing for the game, and the players.  Oh and me.  I have a fantastic job.

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Was it the sugar?

Nope because I definitely didn't have enough sugar to get me this way.
From the moment I woke up (5:30) to about an hour ago I was a little bit crazy.  Today was a dancing, singing, saying what you mean sort of day.  Sorry if I offended you.  I think my roommates were a little freaked out, they haven't yet learned how I get when the pressure's on.  One of them said she'd like me when I'm dead?  Don't know how I feel about that...
And this is golden so please watch it.

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BYU culture

Everywhere on campus has its own culture.
The HFAC is full of artsy people that like to be unique.  They push the BYU honor code the most by hiding their longer hair (if a boy) and colored hair (if a girl).  They're often seen carrying art boards or musical instruments around and they are usually the most into fashion.
Then you have the Wilk.  The people that eat here during lunch are either the "cool" kids, the ethnic groups, or the ones not looking to study but need a place to stop on their way to work.
You can always find good looking boys in suits in the Tanner building.  Careful though, they are usually the most serious ones on campus and look only at their futures.  It's go go go with them.
The HRCB has political science nerds.  A bunch of used New York Times papers in this building.  Lots of lectures go on here so unless you want to get dirty looks for talking and disrupting the educational opportunity, I would suggest avoiding this building.
The Talmage is full of NERDS.  It has its own kind of odor, a mix of frozen pizza/ burrito with BO.  Because math and computer science are such hard majors, the kids never leave and I think some of them don't like to shower.
The Benson is the chemistry building and you can find a handful of attractive pre-med students, but it's mostly full of chemistry enthusiasts that don't know anything about enjoying life.  They often change the subject back into why that aspect of life relates to chemistry. Weird.
The Marb/Widtsoe is an interesting one.  So many people have classes here that you get a good mix of personalities.  However, the Widtsoe has some crazy experiments going on in it, and a lot of animals so whenever I go in there I smell formaldehyde.  I'm pretty sure there's also a fair amount of asbestos in the air as well.  Probably why no one enjoys these buildings.
The RB/ Smith field house/ Student athlete building are intimidating.  Lots of tall and large athletes hang out here.  Also, the dress code is a little more relaxed for athletic wear so you'll often see athletes in short shorts and tank tops.  Some of them are cool, but most have a big ego.
That's what's been running through my mind today.  You're judged based on where you spend most of your time.
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Hello World

I've turned into a new person.  Not really, but I'm getting there.  I still don't feel the need to be social, but I've realized this past week that there are some great people in this world that can definitely lift your spirits.  For example, after the game today an old asian lady, who goes to every game, started talking to me.  I couldn't really understand her but her enthusiasm for BYU football made me laugh.  As we were walking, she fixed the boy's jacket who was walking in front of us.  I could tell he was a little surprised and somewhat scared, but she thought nothing of it.  She then put a brick back into someone's garden.  Helping the world one step at a time.  I want to be her.
Here's an old favorite...

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Can TA's be attractive?

Is it bad that I think my TA for my bio class is really cute?  Extremely nerdy but awfully cute.  He has a dorky laugh and gets way too excited over teaching our class but it's slightly adorable.  And I've seen him outside of class, outside of school even.  He was hiking Timp the same day we were.  His extra credit quiz question for today was, "if you were a member of the phylum mollusca, what would you be?" He's basically a keeper.  Too bad he's my TA...
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