Bitter Sweet

As happy as I am to finally be done with Spanish for the rest of my life, and as delighted that I feel that I'm almost finally a Senior and ready to go home and enjoy more adventures, I have to say I'm a little sad too.

With my gift card I decided to go out to eat with my friend Ashley one more time. She's one of my best friends that I've made since being up here and even though we weren't even in the same ward this year, I feel like we hung out more than I did with some roommates even.

We went to Taco Time (surprise surprise) and sat and talked for the longest time. I'm really going to miss her a lot. She graduates Friday and then goes off to grad school at Gonzaga University or something like that. A month from now she'll be in Washington and I'll be in Florida.

I'm gonna miss my roommates too. We're never gonna get to be roommates again for various reasons. I've had such a fantastic semester with them. We've had so much fun and I've made so many friends. I just wish all my friends could just be graduating at the same time as me so that the whole, sad "I'm gonna miss you." thing only happens once with a ton of people instead of being spread through practically every single semester.

Ah well. I'll just keep moving on. I get to go home and visit friends and family I miss there. I'll get to be in better weather and have much more freedom. I can't even wait!

And did I mention I'm done with Spanish forever!?

It's the Little Things in Life

I'm getting free pizza for dinner tonight. And in one class tomorrow. And in another class on Wednesday.

I'm done with all classes except Spanish.

My teacher just switched the Spanish final so we can get it all taken and done tomorrow and not have to show up to class Wednesday! Now I get to be done with school a whole hour earlier than I thought in a class where I'll be eating pizza and finding out if my group won the $200!

I just got some free ringtones for my cell phone. Now I'm excited for people to call or text me just so I can hear them!

My friends want me to live with them in Cloud 9 next year. We talked to the managers. Cross your fingers!

I'm going home on Friday!

I'm going on a cruise!

I work at Disney World!

Okay, so maybe they're not all little, but still! I'm the happiest kid in the world!

Wow

I just slept for 12 hours.

I love Saturdays.

And I need to remember not to go to overnight slumber parties during finals anymore.

What The Heck?

Earlier today when I went outside I noticed the sky looked funny. It was overcast, but a different overcast than I'd ever seen before in my life. In fact, it was so weird that I made a mental note to blog about it when I got home.

I've seen overcast, but usually the sky is a pretty grey color. I'd never seen a brown sky in my life... at least that I recall.



By the way, I stole these pictures from my friend who lives in Sugar City (like two miles away from here). I got them off of Facebook. Just so you know.



I had no idea why the sky was brown, but I figured it was just another unknown part of the horrible, disgusting, dry Idaho weather that I hate... but I digress.

So I went to my group meeting and we worked for a while and as I came home the brown overcast sky was still there. As I walked inside, my roommate, Kiara, notified me of the reason. Apparently, there's a big forest fire somewhere around here. It's like ten miles north of where we are or something. I'm not too worried.

But at least now I know that skies are not generally just brown for no reason. No matter how disgusting I think the weather may be. And there probably won't be rain.

Final Week-ish

It's that time of the semester.

There's only a week and two days left of school.

White glove sheets have been handed out.

People are running out of food.

Illnesses are being handed out more than exam papers.

Students have started cramming.

We've moved into hyper-insanity mode.

The wind is blowing hard than ever.

The paper chains counting down days in people's apartments are getting shorter.

Wish me luck! This is not the kind of roller coaster I enjoy boarding!

Better Than Nothing...

You guessed right!

They haven't released the actual picture yet. I got this from watching the school news channel and using print screen (and everyone isn't in the correct places yet here anyway, you can see all the holes).

They're going to blow the picture they took up to 25 feet by 20 feet and put it in the Crossroads which is the school dining area. It'll be huge! Unfortunately, it won't happen for another eight weeks and I'll be gone then. But I'll definitely put up a real picture someday. Me, Kiara and Jake were in the bottom left crook (I was literally right exactly in the corner on the outside) of the I as pointed out here.



Can't you see me down there? :)

The B was the hardest one. They kept having to correct the people in the B, telling them to squish together more and stop moving. The dash and the I were the two easiest letters. It was definitely very fun and very worth the hour and a half of my time!

Darn Good Day, I'd Say

I just wrote a post going through all the rest of the assignments I need to turn in until school ends. Then I figured no one cares about that. So I deleted it. But sum it up: Two presentations, a newsletter, an open book exam, and a mountain and a half of never ending Spanish homework that I'm totally dreading.

I still have no clue what grades to expect, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get my first C in college this semester. And I openly admit, I totally deserve it because I've been lazy as ever.

Enough with classes, though. I'm going on a cruise next month! A Disney cruise! I'm so excited I can actually feel my heart flutter in my chest sometimes! I was reading about it today and it turns out there'll be a Pirate night one night! Complete with fireworks! On the boat! How freakin' awesome is that!?

Today was my friend's birthday, too. We threw her a little party. I got her some presents and Daisy wrapped them with Jeanette's wrapping paper. We went to the park to help Kelly (birthday girl) do an assignment for class. She had to videotape herself teaching us how to play certain games. Then we came home and Daisy made us lunch. Tuna fish sandwiches that were also incredible. I made Ghiradelli triple chocolate chip brownies from scratch (yes, I know, they were AMAZING!). It was the thickest brownie batter I've ever seen in my life and adding the chocolate chips only made it thicker. This worried me, but they turned out incredible!

What a totally fantastic day!

Oh, and also, there's a thunderstorm outside. I haven't seen a good thunderstorm since Florida. And let me say, this is no Florida thunderstorm. But it'll do considering the circumstances. :)

I Hate Macs (Volume Five)

We have to create a book for one of my class projects. Carol had the book on her Mac because she was using InDesign and it was her job to compile the book.

Well, she titled the book on her computer as Wildhouse.indd. The name of the organization we're sponsoring is called Wildhouse. She saved it in a folder called Wildhouse.

Well, part of my job was to come up with pictures for the book. So I put a bunch of the files on my computer and titled the folder Wildhouse. I put that folder on my thumb drive and gave it to Carol.

She went to copy the folder to her desktop. She clicked and dragged as I watched, and a little pop up screen came up. As I asked her what it was and if we should rename it, she responded no. She said she knew what that was and was sure it wouldn't be a problem as she clicked OK.

Except that it was a problem.

Not only did it delete the entire book we've spent the last month creating and writing. It deleted the few pictures we already had, all the writing and pretty much anything and everything else linked to it. Because on Macs you can't just copy and paste. You have to create links.

By clicking OK we replaced the file with nothing but a bunch of pictures.

This is bad. Very bad. The book is due in less than a week. Very very bad.

I'll admit, a PC would have probably done the same thing.

Fortunately for me, I don't have any extra work to do since my writing part I have backed up on my computer and can simply send to her again. She's the only one who has to start over. But still, that stinkin' sucks!

What Did I Do Today?

Seven hints ought to be ample. :)

It involved people...



and tape...




the stadium...



many, many cameras...



proper placement...



and a couple thousand of these shirts.




And everyone sure cleared out of there quickly... this was taken within five minutes of the previous photo.

Fourth of July

It was a fun weekend. But I'm too lazy to fully write about it. Basically, Disney World pretty much ruined all other fireworks for me. :) But the IF fireworks were still somewhat impressive I guess. I got a lot of homework done. It was nice having the apartment to myself!

I've been getting progressively more and more excited for school to end. Seriously, I don't even know what I'm gonna do Senior year if I'm already this psyched for school to be over. Not that I dislike school. I love friends and parties and weddings (oh my gosh, the weddings! ugh!) and learning and stuff, but really I have way more exciting things to look forward to.

First off school ends exactly two weeks from today. That in and of itself will be great! Two-ish days after that I'll be on my way home. We're driving. In a car. Across the country! 32 hours in a car. This is gonna be so much fun!

After that I'll get to be home for a few weeks! I can tell right now I'll be bored out of my mind, but my mom usually has a pretty long list of work for me to do. Plus I'll get to see the people in my home ward again!

Then we'll drive down to Florida. 12ish more hours in a car. Depending on how fast I drive. Heehee! I'll get to see my Grandma... maybe both my Grandmas. I haven't seen them in a while. Plus I'll get to see the new place my one grandma is living in. She's lived in the same house for like sixty years, so it's kind of a big deal that she moved.

Then I'll go down to Orlando. I'll get to see Kimmy who I haven't seen in a while (we may even be able to be roommates again! Long story....).

Then Heather and I will go on a five day cruise! That'll pretty much be the coolest thing ever. Especially since I've never really been on a cruise. At lease, not a real one!

Then Heather will leave and my other friend Laura will come. On the 18th Laura and I will check in to work at Disney World! I'll be in Main Entrance Ops and she'll be in Merch.

Now, if I can't be ridiculously excited about that, what can I be excited for?

Captain EO

When I worked at Imagination in Disney World, I heard rumors several times about how Captain EO would make it's return sometime in the "near future." For those who don't know, Captain EO was an attraction in the place where I worked from 1986-1994 centering around Michael Jackson. Since Michael died last year, they were talking about bringing it back in his memory.

I heard the rumors. I didn't care. I'm not really a die hard Michael Jackson fan. I wasn't totally sure where they were going to put the attraction, but I definitely heard people talk about it. I thought it was one of those rumors that was just a rumor though.

But it's true. As of two days ago, the new Captain EO attraction opened up in the place where Honey I Shrunk the Audience used to be, right outside the doors from where I used to work. Honey I Shrunk the Audience was a pretty good show in my opinion. But I'll be honest, it scared the kids.

I remember one day I was working in strollers. As people return their strollers I would sometimes make small talk with them. One particular family with a little girl came to return theirs. I asked the little girl what her favorite part of the park was. She said Test Track as probably 90% of the little kids enjoy that ride the most. Her dad then completed this by saying, "Yep, but she sure didn't like the snake in the Audience show." The mom of the family pushed her husband and said, "Don't remind her!" as the little girl began crying. I had to try really hard not to laugh. Apparently she was deathly afraid of snakes. And there was a giant snake in the 3D Audience film determined to freak out small children. That why the signs say, "Warning, may be frightening for children!" Although, the Ellen DeGeneres ride also says it's frightening and it isn't at all. Meh.

Apparently Captain EO is supposed to be frightening as well. I will have to see. The only ride at Disney World that seriously freaked me out was the Dinosaur ride in Animal Kingdom. I rode it several times and each time I can say I was genuinely freaked out of my mind almost to tears. It was awesome!

Only At BYU

My friend Stephen just got engaged to a girl named Stepheni. Both spelled exactly like that. It becomes confusing on Facebook because the other day he made his status "I love Stepheni!!!!!"

Well, it was funny for me at least. I guess when I write it on here it's just not as funny. Needless to say he got a lot of comments from people asking why he loved himself.

In other news I'm helping a friend with a photography project tonight. For her photography thing she has to take pictures of a group of people. Because our clothes have to be coordinated, I was told to come in a white T-Shirt and jeans. I own a white button up shirt and a few white tank tops, but no T-shirt. So my roommate loaned it to me. Now I just have to hope against hope that it doesn't rain (even though rain is in the forecast and this is Rexburg, The Land of Horrible Weather).