modge podge

• i'm only blogging right now because aaron is blogging
• yesterday we saw Slumdog Millionaire and it was very good- i recommend to all
• We attended the great larry miller's funeral yesterday, but i believe a-dawg is writing about that
• i love little boys-- i think i want to have tons of boy children someday (and a girl for balance) I was reading about how there are ways to choose the gender of your children based on which days you conceive. Male spermies swim faster but live shorter lives; female sperm are slower, but have a longer life span. Thus, if you try to conceive near the beginning of your ovulation period, by the time the ovulation event occurs, the males are all dead so you're more likely to have a girl. Does this blog satiate your thirst for knowledge?
• I'm starting my job/internship tomorrow at the diabetes center in slc. i'll be doing pediatric research and it should be a good time! More details about the study can be found right here. And more details may follow once I've actually worked a few days. But let me just say that I am filled with good fortune to have gotten a paying internship in the public health field when we were pretty much told, 'don't expect to get paid.' wtheck? Who has 300 hours to just give away like that? Additionally, let me say persistence pays off. I almost e-mailed the man in charge of the internship, but aaron stopped me and said, "every girl is going to e-mail, you should call." And so I called, and I called again, and I found out that every other girl did e-mail. And now here we are, and soon I will be diplomatized. I am going to frame it, and Aaron's too, side by side. Special.
• I am craving a chick-fil-a kids' meal, with a larger fresh-squeezed lemonade in lieu of a toy.

Mint Brownies Anyone?

I have decided that I absolutely adore temporary jobs.

• They are fantastic for people with short attention spans (moi, for instance) who get bored with a job rather quickly.
• It's fun to make friends with the other people right away, knowing that if you don't like them after two more days you'll never see them again.
  
• Plus, it's a great way to earn some quick cash and I have never been paid so much in my life (excluding the $20/hour piano lessons...miss those days).

In any event, I highly recommend it.

Working at Women's Conference is an interesting time. Every hour or so, the concession stand becomes busy for about 20 minutes as the womenfolk line up to get their BYU brownies in between sessions. Plus, diet cokes (I had to reassure that they were indeed CAFFEINE FREE about 20 times) and chicken salad croissants- those seem to be the popular women foods. During the sessions, however, it's free time. I just chill in the Marriott Center and sample the various vendings- gratis.
Hello $9.50/hour- Bring it on BYU!

I love everyone

I bought my plane ticket to go home for Christmas:

Friday, December 21, 2007
Delta Air Lines # 490
Salt Lake City International (SLC) to Philadelphia International (PHL)
Departure (SLC): December 21, 5:05 PM MST (evening)
Arrival (PHL): December 21, 11:17 PM EST (evening)
Seat request: 31F
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Delta Air Lines # 604
Philadelphia International (PHL) to Salt Lake City International (SLC)
Departure (PHL): January 6, 5:25 PM EST (evening)
Arrival (SLC): January 6, 8:25 PM MST (evening)
Seat request: 32F

I won't say how much $$ those were because in my opinion it was way too much. At least it's non-stop and I'm not flying on my birthday for the first time in 3 years! I get to start classes on my birthday instead, woohoo.

I am grateful for my roommates for taking care of me when I had a horrible rash today. They got me benadryl and hydrocortisone and Meagan rubbed it in good. And Monica made homemade chicken noodle soup plus homemade rolls and fed me. Oh wait, you guys are the only ones who read this pretty much. I guess I don't need to refer to you in 3rd person.

I am also grateful for my parents, especially my dad who always calls exactly when I need him to. I don't know how he knows but he gets my vibes all the way over there. I think it was hearing the Billy Joel song on the radio that did it this time- he heard it and thought of me playing it and picked up the phone.

And while I'm at it, I'm grateful for a certain boy (who I don't think reads this?) who is pretty dang good at making me happy.

I'd better stop before this takes a turn for the sappy. Wait—

Breaktime

First things first, since I'm link-crazy we'll start off with this. Faces...everywhere you look.

I now work Tuesdays and Thursdays for a total of 8 hours which is hardly anything at all but I was beginning to feel extremely lame never having worked in college. Number one reason I can handle my job? Two words: Free. Muffins.

Blogging feels a little bit redundant since I keep a journal on Microsoft Word and habitually [compulsively?] write in it every night. But there are differences, such as there are no URL links in my journal. And there will unlikely be anything very personal on the blog, unless I am in a sharing sort of mood.
Sharing is caring.
Unless you're an intravenous drug user...in which case sharing is daring.

I think I need to attend another byu stand-up show.

Wasting an Inordinate Amount of Time

I am in the habit of bopping from one computer lab to another on campus, whenever it crosses my mind that I need to Google something. This happens far too often. If I'm in the middle of class I begin tapping my foot impatiently, but then it ends up not being just my foot but my entire body...tapping...wanting to find the internet and Google the thing which has just been brought to my attention that I don't know everything about it that I would like to. This can be quite a challenge when sitting in my apartment and Comcast once again proves unreliable. This also happens far too often. If I overcame my compulsion to check on the weather almost hourly perhaps that wouldn't be such an issue.

I like to keep tabs on my pet peeves because that way if they're out in the open I can figure how to not let them bother me anymore. There's 4 or 5 I can think of right now, which I won't blog about lest I unintentionally cause offense. But one that I know won't because I've only heard some professors say it is...pronouncing words that begin with 'W' with a 'Hw' sound. Examples...'Hwheat', 'Hwheelbarrow', or 'Hwhy'. Hwhat? Maybe it's proper or something. People and their mysterious pronunciations.

In one of my classes I have discovered that there are three, one two three, guys that I have been on dates with and felt awkward about it later. Now I don't like to avoid people but we'll just say that's one class to which I arrive precisely as the bell rings, and not a moment earlier.

I don't know if you knew this or not but...

Oh my gosh, I live in Utah. 

 In other news, despite living in the so-called desert (not dessert, because you don't want more) it is raining heavily and of course the windows are open and how am I expected to focus on schoolwork? 

I know I just posted a few hours ago. But this blog is new and shiny and exciting, not to mention there's not much to read, not even enough to leave you wanting more. For the sake of not being distracted any longer, I'll sign off right here.