Friday Last

No more classes on Fridays anymore. =) I'm excited. Friday was already my day to sleep in, with no class until 10, but now it's extra sleep in time... fabulous. English was fun today, though. We had a sub, and she was cool & taught the material in a funny way. We applied kairos/kronos & some other analyzation techniques to issues affecting us today, so that was nice. Our Mythos, Logos, Ethos paper is due Monday, but mine's already done, & hopefully what she wants.

After class I had lunch with Megan (sister) -- taco bell, yummy. Tomorrow her ward's renting out a nearby movie theatre & playing 4 movies & providing breakfast for us... so I might go. The only catch is it's at 8AM. =\ We'll see.

Grapes called, I had walked with her over to the Wilk & left her at the book sale, & she needed someone to buy her books because she left her money and credit card back in the dorms. After we were done eating inside, I joined her & picked up some more books myself. I also bought about 5 CDs and 1 movie thing for Dad for his birthday/Christmas presents. It was a worthwhile trip.



Today Megan went up to campus with me to turn in my Civ paper (3 hours before it was due, I was proud of myself) and rent a movie from the bookstore to watch on our Movie Fridays. We're going to wait until Whitney gets in after work to see if she wants to come to Wendy's with us for dinner, after which I plan to bring home my Frosty & eat it as we watch Stardust tonight.

Justin finally got my letter today. I don't know what the deal was... stupid. I guess the Naval Academy just doesn't want their people distracted or some mess like that, so they hide their mail as long as possible. Mail stealers.

Helpful Hint of the Day: Feel free to be lazy & wait 5 minutes for an elevator to take you one floor down even though there's stairs 5 feet away. Especially if you have nothing to do afterwards.

His Story

Today I roped Megan into coming to the Progressive Book Sale with me... I scoped it out yesterday, when everything was 50% off, & went back today to get the stuff I could at 75% off. I'm so pleased with the books I got... all for $10.

I feel smart having these books laying around my room... I am reminded of the quote, "Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." & I'm so excited to be able to start my own history books collection. I figure I need to start doing so, if I plan to be an informed history teacher. I'm interested in this stuff, so I want to know so I can fill in a student one day if they want to know this coolness as well.

After our book surfing (which I will return to Friday to get some CDs for 90% off...), we stopped in the CougarEat to get a nice lunch & change of pace from the Cannon Center, which is our usual haunt since most of the girls here have a Cannon-centric meal plan. After that, Megan was even kind enough to wait for eons as I sloughed through the line at the Student Employment Center... though the people around me in line were quite nice. The guy in front of me was going to be a bio-medical research assistant... his major sounded pretty intense. He's going to be dissecting cell membranes for his professors.

Cool stuff. We chatted a lot. & one of the girls behind me was going to be working at the Testing Center as well; she's also a freshman. & we even have differing schedules, so we could be able to pick up each other's shifts if need be. Very lucky meeting.

I'm kind of excited for my first English paper; it's a short one with a paragraph of Mythos, Logos, and Ethos writing on a subject from our own religious Mythos & person Ethos.

I'm thinking I'm going to write mine on religious persecution, and how it's for our good. Mythos - scriptures; Christ, Joseph Smith being persecuted. Logos - historically proved religious persecutions, such as Joan of Arc and that Ann lady who started Rhode Island. Ethos - my own experiences with religious persecution. I'm glad that idea just came to me, & I hope she likes it... hopefully the writing can make up for if she doesn't like the topic idea.

I'm also a little happy to be going to World Civ class tonight, since we had our first quiz on Monday & I think I did well. It was only a map quiz, but I'm proud of myself, and I want to see for myself if I did as well as I thought I did.

First college quiz, and all... you know.

After Civ I'll be coming back & picking up Megan and Asia, and any other girls that want to come support Asia in BYU Idol. More on that later tonight.... the Daily Universe said the winner last year sang Michael Buble's "Everything" (my current favorite song) and a Josh Groban song, so I'm pretty psyched. I'm glad someone around here can plan cool stuff that people will actually come to.

Helpful hint of the day: Use the Subway line in the CougarEat only if you really want to test how long your feet can be stood on without hurting.