Z0mG!

Hello fellow cybernet-arians! It is that time of the day (read: week) again where I get to spill out my soul upon the pages of this blog (does it even have pages?)
So.... I've done...stuff.. in the past week..Like for example on Po'akolu I went to class and did stuff..
I'm really blanking on what I did on wednesday.
On Po'aha I didn't have BoM, so I got an extra 3 hours of sleep that morning. I woke up in time to get ready and go to geology, which was awesome more than usual (the usual being the fact that I have Prof. Skinner teaching the class) because for the end of the class he took us outside and demonstrated how the addition of mentos to a 2-liter of diet coke is similar to the buildup of pressure in a volcano. On the way back from class I ran into Amanda, which was nice because I pretty much hadn't seen her since summer term. We caught up and chatted, and I remembered to ask if she was interested in my committee for FSC which she was (which was awesome) because my committee needs to be great and awesome. The rest of the day I don't really remember what happened except for something that evening that I'd rather not relate.
Po'alima: went pretty quickly. I had the usual classes (and voice lesson) throughout the day, then at 4:30 I packed up my things and went to the Y serve office to get ready to go on a retreat. Explanation: the retreat was for Y serve program directors, and I guess that the freshmen service corps council members qualify as program directors. It was up in cobble creek canyon, at this place the church owns called spring haven. It was pretty cool; it was youth conference style with group meetings and breakout sessions where they talked to us about personal mission statements and the purpose of service within the office and our individual programs. We stayed overnight of course, but that meant waking up at 6:45 Po'aono morning for breakfast and continued talking-to. We got back to Provo at about quarter to 11:00, at which time I promptly went to bed for an hour or so. Then I hung out until the game, which was good for the first 10 minutes and then just went downhill from there. I ended up leaving in the last 7 minutes of the game, and the score didn't improve in that time. Sadness.
That night I went to bed way early, for the purpose of making up for lost sleep (I think I went to bed at 10:30). I also had to be up for an early-morning stake leadership meeting (at 7:00 AM. Yippee.) Following that I went right back home and slept for an hour, then got up again to go to ward council at 9:30, for church that starts at 11:00. My business continued: after church ended (2:00) I had hall meeting (3:00) then had to do various home teaching (4:00-5:00) and then ward choir (6:30-7:30) followed by ward prayer (~8:00-8:30). Following that I was rather sleepy, so I retired.
Po'akahi went well, but it was a longer day than I was used to. I got up for 10:00 CS class, during which I figured out how to do the lab which is due Friday. Unfortunately, that ended up distracting me the next class during which I was suppposed to be paying attention to early medieval literature...
Chorale was its usual self, then I had a lunch break, followed by linear algebra (which has kind of become a little boring, to be honest). After that I went to the blood drive, where I gave double red cells (they take twice as much blood but they give back the plasma and platelets and such) then came back home and worked on my lab, finished it up mostly (I just need to create a GUI for it). After that we had FHE which I ended up ditching because I was so exhausted (that whole lack-of-oxygen thing). I went to bed at 8:30. Yes, I said 8:30. I was tired enough to go to sleep but my body was not used to going to sleep at such an early hour. I ended up waking up every hour, hour and a half or so. That made this morning pretty good, with all that sleep; I made it to Book of Mormon and I paid attention, and then the best part of the day: I made cookies for my home teachees. I had to grab some ingredients from the creamery and borrow some dishes, but I ended up making them. It's a toll house recipe that doesn't use any liquids except for (melted) butter and eggs--but it's quite a lot of butter. They're goooooood. I had geology, during which I learned about sedimentary rocks (don't let me forget to take the quiz on that tonight!) even though I was feeling out of sorts. I'm blaming my lack of red blood cells for that. I had my FSCC meeting after that, during which I laughed way too much (the lack of oxygen) and then I came home, watched Chuck, then wrote this up, and then decided to go and do some homework. Ciao!

too legit to quit

Some of you may be wondering: "why is the sky blue?" and while I can, in fact, answer this question, I'm not going to.
Some of you probably aren't going to be reading this for another week or so because of my recent posting history...so sucks for you.
Today was alright...I woke up to my alarm at 7:30, then turned it off and slept until 10:00. Equating Book of Mormon class to Seminary probably isn't such a good idea, because I now actually have the power to skip-and have virtually few consequences.
Oh well.
I worked a lot today on my Computer Science lab; we were given a partial class that simulates a checkers game, and expected to complete it, and create two new classes (one an object constructor for the players of the simulated game, one the driver) to carry out the simulation. I worked on it and ended up finishing it right before Geology. Geology was AWESOME because a) we graded our walk-in labs (and I got a 100%) and b) we learned about VoLcAnOeS. <--That's right. VOLCANOES. That stuff is legit. And somewhat frightening at the same time.
Immediately following Geology I went to the CS lab to pass off my lab; the lab was fine but the TA did help me with some finer points of Java, for which I was (am) grateful.
I had my FSCC meeting today, which was quite long, actually. The end result of it is that I need a committee for marketing/publicity/advertisement...which is a shame because no (BYU) freshmen read my blog anyway so this shout-out is initialized as null (you can tell I've been working with Java a lot today).
brm b-drm.
I visited with Bethany, Danie, Emilie, (<--oxford comma!) and Amanda today--funny story: I was walking over to Whitney (hall), and was about to go in, when the fire alarm went off (all of heritage did fire drills today) and they came out the front door--they're wicked awesome (even though most of them are Utards--oh, sorry, I meant Utahans. Freudian slip) though I only got to spend a limited amount of time with them because I had to go to my own hall's fire drill (and for volunteering as a door guard, I got over 9000 starbursts. Okay, maybe not so many) but it wasn't a big deal or anything.
(Annoying long run on sentence. Usually I would CDO-out over this, but I guess my grammar senses are weakened past midnight. Go figure.)
I then hung out for a short amount of time at Bowen 14, and then returned an hour later to go running with Kaitlin, Aurora, and Aimee. Disclaimer: I had not been running since May. At least. And I only swam like 3 or 4 times during summer term. Yet somehow, in the high altitude even, I was able to keep up. It made me happy (see? --> :) After that I just chilled and such, took a look at my next CS lab, watched CHUCK-
Ok. Chuck was amazing. Season opener, right? It picked up right where last season left off, and didn't rely to heavily on either romance (season 3 opener), Chuck's nerdiness and general naivete (season 1 opener), or violence/action (most of season 3). I'm excited for the season to continue. Also, Fringe and 30 Rock both start on Thursday (30 rock party anyone? oh wait--no freshmen read my blog. der shame.) and then Stargate Universe starts next Monday. *Excitement!*
For some reason, unbeknownst to me, I'm still awake. This is going to be bad in about 8 hours when I wake up.
Side note! I reconfigured my router today so that my DS can connect--for mi famiglia, that means that I can (conceivably) play you. On....some game or other (PS-if you find my lost Kirby DS game, you can have it).
Tim is going into the MTC in like a day or two; that's exciting :) (The MTC, for any non-mormons out there (yes, Utards (They're Utahans!), there are some out there) is where we brainwa-I mean, train our missil-I mean missionaries to go and be awesome. BTW, there are over 9000 missionaries. Just btw (read: Bee-Tee-doubleyou. Or Bee-Tee-dubs).) <--talk about nested statements. What a plethora of ponderous potpourri!
RT is watching Sumo Wresting on the japanese channel. Again.
Good night seattle.

emotions are tricky things; kind of like pink elephants playing the didgeridoo

Dang but the time flies by. I might have mentioned how my first week absolutely crawled, but these past two weeks have passed faster than a speeding bullet shot by a gun held by superman as he is flying at his top speed (for any aspiring physicists out there, feel free to try and calculate the speed of that bullet relative to a stationary bystander. End paren. )
Lessee... things I've done since last friday
boychik, I dunno
Oh right! OK:
So that Saturday I woke up early (~6:30) to play racquetball. Immediately after that (ish) we had a service project! The Freshmen Service Corps had it's first activity (which you can see in the pictures, not all of which are up yet). We worked at the Provo Library (The old BYA building) on the tree rings, as well as general landscaping activities. Then we went to North park and did some more little straightening and cleaning activities.
The rest of the day, I'm sure I did something important....which thing was our stake conference. Unfortunately, even though I don't feel like it, I am an adult so I have to go the saturday night session (*complain..*).
But the night turned out well; HumorU had their last 'Best of Spring/Summer' show that night at 10, and Katie was kind (read: awesome) enough to go with me. Again, the whole car thing; we grabbed dinner at the creamery before the show..all in all it was a good time.
Sunday was exciting because Scott got his mission call! Edmonton, Canada, English speaking, reporting January 20-somethingth.
Last week was just school...I didn't have that much homework (that whole not-having-American-Heritage-or-First-Year-Writing thing :) I actually finished my homework for the week on Wednesday (ignoring, of course, my walk-in labs for geology. But those don't really count, anyways due to the easiness thereof). So, mostly, I just drifted around, hanging out with people in my ward, and some old friends from summer and stuff. It was a pretty chill week.
This past weekend was kind of chill; I was sustained on Sunday in my new calling; Service Committee co-chair. That, plus my position in the FSCC...and I feel like someone's trying to tell me something.
mehhhhh
and now it's Monday...and i'll try and update more frequently (?) (because that means anything..

To say that Provo is a small world is like saying the atlantic ocean is damp

Today is Friday
It is a good day to live
Fridays are awesome
This was my Haiku of the week. BTW, this week has gone by a lot faster than last week has...I can't believe that it's really already Friday.
Anyway, boring review of my week start now. On Tuesday I had to wake up at 7:30. I was not very happy about that. I feel like that class is becoming seminary. Luckily I only have to take it for the semester; winter will be a new schedule, free of early morning religion classes. One upside of the class is that I found out that Kristy from my old ward is in my new class (Autumn is as well, but I already had seen her the class before) which is neat. The rest of the day saw me going to the first devotional of the semester (Pres. and Sister Samuelson both spoke). I then had to run to Geology, but made it in time. After class I had an FSCC meeting (we have a service activity on Saturday!). Following that, I did a bit of homework, then went and visited with friends and new people from my ward.
Wednesday I had computer science, followed by music 201, in which we watched this production of Oedipus Rex from the 1950s--one of the trippiest things I've ever seen. All of the actors were wearing masks, and one of them looked like Darth Vader. Afterwards, I chilled (and napped) for the two hours before my Linear algebra class, went there and witnessed Dan Blake write wayyyy too many matrices on the board. After that class I socialized some more; I had everyone from Fox and most from Bowen and Felt. Thursday I again woke up early for BoM; walked there with Kristy. After class I came back and actually did some prep work for CS (I read ahead in the text book. Yippee). Then there was Geology again, after which I came home and took a short nap. Following that, Bethany came over and chilled for a bit, but because my roommates are so entertaining (that was sarcasm) we left, and went to her apartment (where her roommates actually are entertaining. Also, really nice). I believe I am making a return trip there today, and they are coming to my apartment Saturday to watch the BYU-Air Force game (away). Also, they convinced me to take university chorale (*insert bitterness about men's chorus*) which they are in as well. After spending time with them, I went to audition for a new group that is starting on campus, called Glee: Provo, in the spirit of glee. (It's being headed by my old EFY counselor from last year--shout out to Travis!) Following that, I went to watch the divine comedy auditions (they run yesterday and today--I'm auditioning today) to get ideas and see how/what others are doing. After an hour of that, I went down to Helaman halls for Rachel's birthday (yay!). Following that, I was really tired so I didn't end up doing much socializing; I went to my apartment and did my linear algebra homework
Then I went to sleep.
Then I woke up and started
my day. It's Friday.
second spontaneous haiku of the day. This should be interesting.
Also, I'm auditioning for Divine comedy today. erk. ...okay. I should probably pay attention now. Bye!

Run and tell that Home-home-homeboy

So I found out today that Skype is free... "you are so dumb/you are really dumb--for real" I KNOW! Stop yelling at me :(
Anyways you should totally add me so's I can use it sometimes (or however it works)
I'm not going to do a whole rundown of my activities this past week, because the majority of my time was spent talking to people; my FHE sisters, people from summer 186th ward, and others. So on thursday I went to CaryLynn's birthday party. It was totes awesomeness. I met lots of people. Friday saw me on a date with the awesome Dani at Divine Comedy (which was also awesome; they spoofed Harry Potter and Avatar. All amazing). Saturday was TEH F00TB4115 G4M3 (props to anyone who understands that). I have to admit, it was quite hard for me to get into the spirit of things; we were on the east side of the field, which meant that we had the late afternoon sun on us for the first 2 1/2 quarters. Also, UofW was ahead of us for basically the first half, which contributed to my apathetic spirits. However, as the sun set and the Cougars rose, my spirits soared. And ultimately, we reigned victorious. It was teh funsauce. Sunday turned out to be an interesting day, people-wise. I went to church as normal, then after Ward Prayer I just felt like meeting people--so I went and met people, and met people, and met people. I probably met ~50 people that night, starting with those who hung around after ward prayer and then going over to Bowen and making the rounds there. This morning I went over to Fox and did rounds there; I think, out of the girls, I only have about 20 people I don't know yet. Then there's the guys... but I think I should be able to meet my goal of meeting the whole ward by the end of the week. Then, this evening, we had an AWESOME FHE where we had a breakfast picnic outside in our pajamas. It was really fun. Now I'm done. Bonus video.

Double rainbow all the way

This has absolutely zero relevance to my last two days of life, but I figured that going back into school and all this would be a good opportunity to teach you about one of the the memes o' the internet.
So, yesterday was Tuesday, I intended to go swimming in the morning, waking up at 6:50 to get to the RB by 7:00 and swim until ~8:00...unfortunately, I was misinformed; the pool hours during the fall are from 6-7:15. Annoying. I spent the morning returning a text book and preparing for my secondary audition for Men's Chorus, went at 11:00 for an 11:30 audition. I think it went alright.. the woman was kind of intimidating so I was nervous, and messed up on tonal memory and sight reading and my prepared piece and everything pretty much. But callbacks list goes up tomorrow so I'll be able to judge based on that (for those of you who saw my status, I just called it callbacks, but it was really more like pre-callbacks. I had a preliminary audition, which is essentially just to weed out those unfortunate American Idol wannabees from people who can actually sing--this was the secondary audition to determine who will make callbacks). While there I met this nice girl named Miranda, who had had previous experience with the auditions, and was also pleasant to talk to. I had to go from that audition to my Geology class, with possibly one of my favorite teachers ever, named *mumblemumble* Skinner, who is extremely funny. Unfortunately, I had to cut out of class early to go to my book of mormon class, due to bad scheduling (and an extremely poor job by the freshmen mentoring department). After BoM I went straight to the FM office to get my class changed, because it stunk. In the process of doing that I found that I had a hold on my classes due to the fact that I still had to pay for the voice lessons I'm taking this fall; it's an extra charge outside tuition. Got that kind of ironed out, and finally got back home. I then proceeded to hang out with all of my AWESOME FHE sisters. I'm really glad for my FHE group; I lucked out big time. The unfortunate thing is that because of the dimensions of my ward, I have to split time among my sisters, but it turned out to be ok. Jeff accompanied me to visit the girls in Fox, after I was in Bowen for a while. The rest of the night is kind of a blur, but seeing as how it's already 1:00 the day after, I'm not surprised. I'm pretty sure I went to bed at some point, and then woke up this morning.
My first class was at 10:00, so I got up and prepared for that, completing my Lin. Alg. (Math 313) HW before leaving. Computer science was really boring, and I wasn't really paying all that much attention as we talked about hard drives and input/output devices. After that was Music 201, which was cool; we talked about Homer and the Iliad, which is in dactylic hexameter. I went from there to an orientation kind of thing for CS, which turned out to be not really helpful in learning how in the world I'm supposed to program in Java.
Then I had some free time, so I came back and ate some lunch and did random things on facebook/teh interwebz until it got close to 2:00, which was when my Math 313 class was. That was a nice break from the college-y feeling; we just did stuff with Matrices. It felt like I was back in a nice old high school class...except with smart people (some of whom were married) around me. After that I came back and visited with our Fox girls, then over to Bowen which led to a trip to the library where I got my 313 HW done. I then went back and decided to visit Fox 49, where Dani and Emily live (who were in Harris over the summer but were my friends as well). Surprise surprise, Rachel was also there! It was a really neat reunion, and I ended up walking back to Helaman (where Rachel now resides) with her and Dani. But, because Helaman visiting hours are weaksauce, I couldn't come in. Coincidently, while waiting outside, I ran into an old friend from EFY Plymouth last year (That Awful Crisis!), Leslie. I ended up hanging out with her and some other people I met there, played volleyball (on some really cold sand) and saw some kids playing Ninja with lightsabers. On my way back from there, I ran into two people from my NSO group (who by this point had found out that I was younger than they were), CaryLynn and Taylor (M). That was neat, and I talked with them for a while, as well as getting invited to CaryLynn's and her roommate's birthday party tomorrow, which should prove to be awesome. Then, because I stayed an talked with them, right as I got back to my hall, and old friend from my ward last term walked by, saying that he was going to go visit some friends in Fox. I went along, and found out that I had already met his friends. We chatted and had a good time until 12:00, when the lobby visiting hours finally ended. Then I came back here and decided not to post until I ended up doing so. GOod n1gh7.