Rain

This weekend was ok. On Friday I finally got my bike back! When I went in on Thursday to pick it up they hadn't even looked at it, and I the day before I had to scoot a mile away to a bike shop and back to buy a part they didn't have. When I came back all the mechanics were gone, so I was told it would be done Thursday. Surprise! It wasn't. So I got it back Friday, and it feels infinitely better than scooting around.

So I got back from classes and went straight for the mailbox, where Reach and my new debit card were waiting for me. That game is awesome. I hung out until my game at 8, which we won in pk's, which was stressful as the goalie. I stopped one, two I guessed wrong and the other three guys just missed theirs. So we won and went to Sonic to celebrate, and now we have another game this coming Friday.

On Saturday I had to be up at 9 and get to the football game by 9 30. The weather was super nice, so taking tickets wasn't nearly as awful as the last game where we stood soaking in rain for 2 and a half hours. During the second quarter I left my gate to workthe field, and that's always fun. We stomped UNLV like 55-7. They scored in the last 45 seconds.

After the game I hung around home until Ben's coworker and room mates picked us all up to go bowling. I probably bowled my best game ever, but maybe it's because we had the bumpers up for the first 5 frames...but those don't affect the 4 straight down the middle strikes I had! So after bowling we bought some junk food and watched August Rush at our place. The movie's great, the ending sucks.

Sunday was great. After church I went to work the fireside that Elder Ballard spoke at, and he gave a really good talk. I was dying of hunger the whole time, and it wasn't until like quarter to 8 that I ate for the first time all day. I had a huge plate of spaghetti, toast, corn, and pomegranate juice. I. Love. Pomegranate. Juice.

After dinner I went to ward prayer, totally won a candybar for getting a spotlight right. I went home and played Reach with Dan. Miss that kid. Till and I talked about everyone meeting in Ellensburg that first weekend after finals for like a ski day/Christmas dinner or something. I really want to, I miss them so much. We'll see if I get to, cause I thought we were going to Chicago...either way I'll have a great time over break.

Now it's Monday, and it's raining and my butt is soaked from biking to campus. I should probably get a wheel flap or something so when it starts snowing I don't have a wet butt every day. After classes today I need to work on French and Italian for several hours. Also astronomy. Is it bad that I'm doing homework to make time for video games...?

Rambin' Man should be paying attention in class...

Longest Day Thus Far

A couple days ago I had a nice chat with Shayla Johnson over lunch. She's awesome! I hope you read this Shayla, and I hope you enjoy blogging as much as the rest of the world.
Alright so on Thursday I had a rough day. Of course I'm writing about in archaeology. I woke up and didn't get to take a shower due to time limitations, and then I ran out of Marshmellow Mateys and had to have half a bowl of knock-off golden grahams. Then I scooted off to campus, which isn't the most fashionable way to get around, and it hurts my back. I should have had my bike back then, but there's an explanation to come.
Ok so Italian went well, and then after class I made plans with 4 other students to meet later to do our pratica orale. Then after we left I got a text from another friend who wanted to speak, but he couldn't make it that night so I agreed to meet with him right then. We talked for 40 minutes and he went to class. I went to study French, which didn't go as well as I would have liked considering I lost 40 minutes speaking Italian. So I went to French and I didn't understand like half the concepts we talked about because my professor said we could skip something, and I ended up skipping the wrong part.
Immediately after I had to go to the library to do 60 pages of Notes and Quotes for my BOM test, and I ended up being there for 3 hours. I got to talk to Mandy for a while though, and that was nice. So after studying and such I went to take my test, and I got an 88. Not too bad, but I was ticked because some of the questions were total BS. Like there's no way I could've studied to know any of them. But whatever. I was excited to pick my bike up at the shop, where it had been for the last 3 days.
I got there, told the girl what I was picking up, and when she took it off the rack and started rolling it to me I saw that it had no pedals. No bottom bracket. Old chain dangling from the loose gears. The hadn't even touched it!

Flashback: I was told the day before that they didn't have the size of the part I needed, so I could either wait for them to order the part or I could go buy one myself, bring it back, and then they could fix it. I scooted at least a mile back down the hill to the nearest bike shop, bought the part, and came back. The mechanics were gone, however, and I'd have to wait until tomorrow (Thursday).

Ok so I back and they hadn't looked at it. I wanted the parts put in for free, because I was ticked. Still am. I had to scoot all the way home. My iPod died as I was studying for my test and I didn't have any music. I got home and I wanted ice cream. I brought the wrong card to the creamery, had to go back and forth a couple times before I got it right. They didn't have any new flavors.

Had to speak/study Italian with the group I talked about earlier, we were together for an hour later than we needed to be. Didn't get to watch the Office, had to eat raman for dinner. I dropped my bowl of burrito mix on the floor. Still had an archaeology project to do which I didn't get to start until 11 30, didn't finish until 1 30.

BUT! I had the greatest pleasure of being surprise visited by Jen, who made my day infinitely better, even though she was just stopping by to get a glass of water. She's super cool, and I'm excited to hang out on Saturday.

I have a game today at 8! Super pumped, hope we do good. Hope I do good. I'll report later. I just found out a got a 95.25 on my archaeology midterm, what the heck! That's awesome! This day is starting to be a lot better, even though I didn't eat breakfast. Easy trade for a shower.

I went to lunch and ran into Ben and Hilary. After I got my food Josh, Ben's old friend, was with them too. I guess he's gonna take David's place in Ben's room next semester, which I was a little nervous about because I hadn't met him, but he seems like a really cool guy. I had a bowl of teriyaki chicken from the cougar eat, it was pretty delicious. But for $5.91? I would've rather had 3 cheeseburgers...

I also went to see if my bike was done, which I was told it would be now. It's not. At least it was getting worked on though, I'll go back in an hour and hopefully be riding home on it just in time to take a nap. Hooray!

Ramblin' Man is having a good day.

Student Lectures

As you know, I tend to start my latest blog in archaeology. So here we are again, learning about human sacrifice from some brave student in my class who's lecturing for extra credit. I just learned that sacrifice actually means "to make sacred." Interesting! So turns out a ton of people were doing this whole sacrifice thing...which is a little frightening to think about. Especially because a lot of them were little kids.

Now another girl is talking about the Chinese Terracotta warriors. They're pretty rad. This girl actually went to China and took pictures with them. 700,000 workers to create 7,000 statues to protect one dead guy.

Ohhh now it's Roanoke Island, something that's always interested me. "Croatoan" was written on the site where 117 people were sent and just disappeared. Apparently we still don't know where it is? I thought we did. Wellp, that's about it for that.

King Tut! His sarcophagus was super cool. The thing about mummies is though...they're butt ugly. P.S. How many 9 year-old kings have their been? Too bad the kid died when he was 19. He was born of incest and had a clubbed left food and a missing toe, and suffered from osteonecrosis. That kinda sucks.

Now this really excited guy is talking about the Maori weapon called a 'mere.' The most prized one was made of green stone...cool! Just whipped out a "Deadliest Warrior" clip - well done sir. He's really into this haha, I appreciate the show. Thanks guy.

Weekend Aftermath

For some reason I start all my blogs in my archaeology class. We're watching a video on an ancient Iceman guy who was found frozen with an arrow in his back, and all these archaeologists are working to figure out how/why he died. They have this old guy shooting an old bow at a cow, which is pretty hilarious to watch.

I realize that I never talked about my visit to Chase and my bike breaking on Friday. So I got home from classes and decided I should go to the nearest Chase branch and ask about the application I thought I had started/finished but never received confirmation on. When I got there, the banker told me they didn't have any information on an application for me, besides my name and social security number. That was comforting. I didn't get the free $100 and I spent 2 hours fighting for it. The guy did give me a $25 coupon, which is nice I guess. Free money is free money. I opened an account anyway and even bought a debit card that earns me miles through United. I'll get it this week, and I'm pretty excited for it. Maybe I can get a ticket to France for next year with it? Or Chicago? I guess we'll see!

So after Chase I was biking home when the crankshaft in my bike decided it would come loose. I had to scoot my bike home standing on one of the pedals (which I also did to get to school today, which was humiliating). I hope I can get it fixed by later today or tomorrow, I would hate to walk to classes and back every day. I need my sleep! And breakfast! I didn't get to eat this morning because I wouldn't have had time. :(

Anyway, this weekend was pretty fun. I made my first chili last night, following my mom's recipe. It was pretty tasty! David made the most perfect pumpkin bars, they were super moist and delicious. I made a lot extra, so I'll be eating leftovers for a while. Especially since I still have leftover burrito/rice mix from Thursday night.

That Wyview party wasn't too great, but I got some free pizza and cookies out of it. I left early to spend the last of my money on my signature card so I could cancel my meal plan without losing too much money. Then I played guitar for a while before roomies came back.

Sunday was good. In sacrament we just sang a bunch of hymns and talked about them, which was great! After I went home teaching, came back and ate, made and ate my chili, went to ward prayer, came home and hung out with Andrew, Tyson, Cris, Gentry and Hannah and got them interested in getting a hat. That's pretty cool because I like money. Well, that brings us to date.

Ramble Ramble Ramblin'