So on Friday, I called Emily early and left a message on her machine, telling her not to pick me up (of course she came anyway), but later when I came upstairs, Mom was gone! Okay . . . I called her cell phone and Dad and eventually found out that Heidi had a fractured skull from hitting her head Thursday night, so they were both at the hospital. She should be fine, though. So how do I get to school? I already had turned down my ride? I tried calling Jon R, but he never answered, and I d...
Tanya emailed me yesterday and said that she can't go to Nauvoo! If she can't go, then the whole thing's off, because obviously my parents wouldn't let me go with just Matt. I'm so disappointed! I've wanted to go since last summer, and it always fell through because of someone else who originally said they could go backing out. The thing about this time is that Tanya has known about it for probably seven months, so why didn't she arrange ahead of time? She said she needs to save up her mo...
Matt told me on the phone that I needed to read my email - he obviously didn't want to tell me over the phone. I finally got around to reading it (I was at work) and it said that he had read my BLOG and thought the articles were interesting. I had never even told him the address or anything, so he must have found it. All I did was talk about posting something now and then. I could tell he didn't really know what a blog was, but he never asked. Yesterday while he was talking to his friend...
Today, our pilates work out was tough! Man, I was groaning and huffing and finally she let us stop - yay for the abs and obliques! During creative writing, we got an assignment to watch people and write down their weird quirks, so when we went to do that, I translated the paragraph for the test in Latin, and it turned out to be pretty easy. Then during Latin, I charted earthquakes for my term project and found out that I was supposed to be writing down what tectonic setting each one was! ...
Yesterday Mom and I got in a fight - she kept criticizing me for everything, even when she told me to just tell her what I needed and what I thought. So finally I just walked away crying and went and waited on the porch - Emily (my ride) never came, so I had to go inside and call Matt. I'm so glad to have him. He comforted me and just listened. While at school, I stopped at every courtesy phone and dialed the Family History Number, never getting an answer. Then I called home and they had...
So, Matt and I stayed in town for spring break, and it was so great! I ended up not going back to work, and I enjoyed myself immensely. I got so much done, I felt so happy about it. I practiced the piano, sewed some things I've been meaning to sew - which, by the way, I now wonder what inspired me to get such a loud fabric for the jumper (it is bright orange with hibiscus flowers on it, which tempted me to make it a skirt so as not to overdo it), Matt took me to the driving course and show...
Wow! Things are so great and yet not so great! Yesterday Jeff had a meningitis scare, but he's fine now. I had Mom cut off my awful hair and now it doesn't look bad. The funny thing is, Matt and I met for lunch downtown at Rowdy's Loco Amigoes, and I hadn't told him about the cut. When I pulled up, I saw that he had cut his as well! I was kind of disappointed because A. I wanted to cut his hair (he said that I could), and B. He always looks like an army boy after he cuts his hair. Any...
Phew, final exams are over! I am now doing much better, my laryngitis is gone. Matt and I have re-evaluated our relationship several times on account of me going on a date tomorrow. Apparently while we were talking things out yesterday, my mom eavesdropped, because last night she was practically interviewing me and it really annoyed me. Anyway, my earthquakes and volcanoes exam took an hour today and it was murder. I know that I should have studied more, but I felt like it was useless si...
In general, I would just like to say that these past few weeks have been stressful, probably leading to the illness I have now! Working at the new job is interesting. The modified Dewey Decimal system was confusing at first, but I finally have it down, but looking at all the numbers in passing and turning around trying to reshelve these over-classified books makes me dizzy at times. I do get to learn the other stuff soon though. It's getting annoying that I have no ID badge yet - I have t...
Matt took me to get my allergy shots yesterday, and then we drove down State Street looking for cars, and I told him to pull over to look at a red jetta (I have my heart set on a Jetta, but I don't really want red!). I looked inside, and it was an automatic. BLECH! I don't like or want an automatic. So, I turned around, and there, in the midst of many other cars, was a black one in good shape! It was a manual! The guy came out and told us about it and we started it up and it had a sun r...
Okay, two things: First, the bad news: I just did something SO STUPID! You know how I just freeze up when confronted or on the phone or whatever? I was sitting in the Social Behavioral Science building in the level that only has elevators (so that I could be alone and have some quiet), and this dude came down (probably a graduate student or professor) and went outside and smoked. I thought, EEEW! Why do people think it's okay to stink up other people's air? I should go out there ...
Matt drove me through some used car places yesterday, and you know how salespeople are, sticking to you like glue. This guy flagged us down as we were leaving, asked about Matt's car and for what we were looking and said that if I left my name and number he would find it and contact me. I told him a jetta as new as possible, because the loan interest rate gets higher if the car is older than 1997! Yeah, right! How am I supposed to find a car newer than that for less than 5000? Duh! An...
I skipped my Latin class today so that I could do a better job finishing my project, and I DID write a little note explaining why some days were missing. It seems like so long ago now that I was engaged and I had a RING and yeah. So I was walking today with Matt and I was eating those handisnack things and not paying attention to where I was walking and suddenly I practically fell (I don't know how that works when I was just walking, don't ask) into this HUGE puddle in the middle of the sid...
I'm starting to think like a linguist with all the things I'm learning from my Linguistics classes - I heard this little kid talking to his mom, and I thought, "Wow, he's got his auxiliaries already. Is he that old?" I'm also noticing a lot of backchanneling - it's pretty interesting, but making it a lot different for me when responding to people in conversations. I've noticed that I get really sick of giving backchannels to one of my friends because she talks sooo much at the end of the s...
So, I got this email from some dude with Church Curriculum. He said that they liked my writing style and thought it would be good for the New Era, and that I should do a service mission with them. If I can't do that, he said, I should apply next year for sure. They like graduate students. I wrote back, but I think it will have to depend on how flexible they are and how many hours a week it would be. They are really flexible with the service missionaries at the FHL. Saturday would have be...