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! ...

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...

I went to the dentist, and the assistant asked me if I ate a lot of chocolate, then scraped all of that gross goober off. Ron said I might want to go to a periodontist to check on my lower gums. Then I talked to him the whole time in German and he talked about Mom and we tried to get her to figure out just one phrase, but she couldn't. Don't you hate when you're mad at yourself because you're mad about something that you shouldn't be mad about? Yeah, well, Charla has these little things i...

So I just got an email that I'm not getting the chance to have an interview for the Ensign. That's disappointing in ways (of course, hard on the worth of writing samples in a portfolio), but in other ways it's very relieving. Now I will have time to take classes and hang out with my family, while only working three days a week! Sweet. Anyway, I just saw my high school English teacher here at the library. She has a baby now. Whoa. She's a cute baby, too. I was glad that I was able to h...

I've been stressing because my counselor let me know that I could not graduate and go to Boston in the same semester. I tried to figure out ways, but it was just too close to call, because of a residency requirement. So I think that the plan now is to graduate in the summer and either work there with an internship, or find one here, or start grad school there. Then I can go on a mission in the spring! Wahoo! On Thanksgiving, Mom took me to Shopko and bought me a coat that was on sale f...

Is it just me or do coffee drinkers smell from the coffee? Eeeeew! So, I need to work harder on school. Help me! I think I need to get my grade up in several classes (from a B or B+, but still). One of my teachers says he doesn't give As. I've worked really hard in that class, and he has to cancel it all the time. I don't think that's fair that he can't dedicate his time when we do, and he still can't give us the grades we deserve. On Saturday, I left the FHL to drive to Clay's hou...