11:03 AM
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Okay, so change of plans. I'm actually not going on my date tonight. My cousin Riley called me last night (while we were watching "The Village" at our friend Jackson's apartment by the way- we really enjoyed ourselves.) and told me that he was leaving for his house today around noonish, and asked if I wanted to come. So I called Sam, the guy who asked me on the date, this morning and asked if we could reschedule, and he said that he was just about to call me anyway. He had gotten the dates mixed up, and it was actually NEXT Saturday that whatever-it-is-he-has-planned is, so the rescheduling was actually a good thing! So the moral of the story is, things work out. Usually. Sometimes. And sometimes they don't and you end up embarrassing yourself, but not this time. :)
The Fall Fest last night was actually not that fun, so we left early and went to Jackson's apartment to watch "The Village" and eat ice cream. I loved it, but of course the end made me mad. I hate it when they leave things hanging. Grr. But anyway, it was really fun. Jackson played guitar for us while we were scooping ice cream, and he's actually really, really good. Like most guys who tell you about how they play the guitar and all just like to talk about it, and then they want to play for you and it's not that great. But he's reeeeally good. We had fun with that. Then when we came back to our dorms from his apartment we sat outside and talked and sang songs. We're a little silly, but it's a great time.
I just thought I'd tell you all about that so I don't get certaaain peeeeople pestering me about how my date went this week, since I won't go until next Saturday. Later, loves!
1:11 PM
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Hey all!
So I'm incredibly busy here in Happy Valley. My calc class is sooo hard, and I have my first exam on Monday, so I'll be studying like crazy for that sucker all weekend. But I'll also be having some fun too- my roomies and I are watching a movie tonight and then going to this Fall Fest thing down at the student center, which should be fun. It's supposed to be a kind of carnival-type thing. Then tomorrow-get this- I'm going on a date. IIIIII know. I go my entire high school life without ever ONCE being asked on a date by a guy from my school, and then three weeks into college I get asked out by a guy I've talked to all of 3 times! He's my roommate McKenzie's friend, and I think we're going to double with her and her boyfriend. I'm not sure what we're doing or when quite yet, but I'll tell yous guys about it next week. Also, if I can get a ride over there I'll be going to my cousin Mitch's farewell on Sunday, but that's not a sure thing. It basically depends on if my other cousin Riley (his brother) who's here can drive me. So it should be fun, besides the homework part.
I have my calling now, and even though it's not announced yet I'm going to tell you anyway since it has no effect on you whatsoever- I'm going to be teaching Sunday school. I start the Sunday after next, and I won't be teaching every week (I don't know yet exactly how often). That'll be fun times. I spoke in Sacrament meeting last Sunday, and I went first, so I was the very first person besides the bishopric to speak in our church! It was really nice to have it over with too, because now I probably won't have to speak again for another 6 months! The FHE groups take turns being in charge of Sacrament meeting, and we're group number one. So since there's 12 FHE groups, our group won't be in charge again for another 3 months, and then different people from our group will have to speak anyway! WOO! But it went well.
So for my lifestyle management class we have to wear pedometers for 14 days, and on average I've been walking about 18,000 steps per day! I'm so dang HEALTHY! :D
My roommates and I have been having sooo much fun together! I absolutely love them, and we all get along so well! We constantly have giggling fits, and on weekends we totally go nuts. We're pretty much crazy about each other. There's been some boy involvement too- McKenzie already had a boyfriend when she got here, Julie got a boyfriend about a week and a half into being here, and Krista has a kind-of-boyfriend who she just doesn't want to make it "official" with. PLUS poor Somers has this guy who really likes her, but he's super annoying and forward, and incredibly PERSISTANT, and no matter how strongly she hints he won't leave the poor child alone! AAAND Caitlin has some interests in a friend of Krista's and Julie's who comes over here a lot- he's really cool. And there's a guy in my physics class who sits by me every class... and he's really cute... and we have a lot of fun together... but that's pretty much it.
So my math teacher has been throwing out the dorky jokes like CRAZY lately, and I thought I'd share a few with you. Some are actually funny, and some made me want to cry with the realization of what category of people I was placing myself in by picking this major.
Professor Belnap: I assume you all know that the earth orbits the sun in an elliptical path. The sun is actually one of the two foci of that ellipse.
Student: What’s the other focus?
Prof. Belnap: That’s Kolob, actually.
Professor Belnap: …and then that makes the whole thing a perfect squares. Now what happens to a perfect square?
Student: It gets translated!
Professor Belnap: … “So you just do the operator twice… (d^2)/(d^2x) is just the notation, it doesn’t mean anything different.”
Class: ………
Student: That’s a terrible idea!
And the most HORRIFYING one:
Professor Belnap: "The curve shows the path travels along the plane, and it doesn't have to be a regular Cartesian funciton- kind of like it's showing the path I make as I walk across the room. So there can't be a break, because I can't just teleport across the room... this isn't Star Trek!"
Some geeky kid I can't stand: "Yeah, but if you WERE teleporting in Star Trek, your atoms would still follow the same path, so technically you would still be following the same continuous curve!!!"
Me: *Please kill me.*
And my Physics teacher is a TOTAL geek, but he's great, and I absolutley love his class. We have the coolest demonstrations! But he always messes up what he's trying to say, and we have technical difficulties pretty much every day. My Book of Mormon teacher is SO much fun! She's this 60-year-old lady who's a complete fruit cup! She's nuts! Here's a few gems from her:
Professor Hallen: Oh yes, and the cherub had the sword that pointed in four directions, so I better… there. Oh, he looks like Kung Fu Panda!
Professor Hallen: So I’ve been buying reading glasses from the dollar store for years and years, and yesterday I got an upgrade! These are from Wal-Mart, and they have rhinestones. Don’t you think I look scholarly?
We "sing our opening prayers" every class, and she used to be a soprano in choir (like 30 years ago) so she likes to sing super high descants along with the hymns at the top of her lungs... she completely cracks me up, I love her.
So I made a little video with some pictures of my dorm and my room mates. I took a bunch of pictures of campus too, but I didn't include them because I figured you can just look online at campus if you don't know what BYU looks like. =) Here ya go!
