Surreal

Missed class this morning for my field trip to the courthouse. Got to school afterwards and had to think extra hard about where I was supposed to be. It doesn't feel like Thursday.

Made progress on my to-do list yesterday. Right after I wrote that post and got off work, I headed to the newsroom to try and get something done. I called a lady I need to interview, discovered I had the wrong number, and then didn't get a chance to try again because my phone died. That was about the last straw...

After much deliberation, I headed to the bus stop (tender mercy= no Comms 308 class yesterday because of our field trip this morning) and went home, where I plugged in my phone and made several more calls until I was finally able to get ahold of the lady I wanted to talk to. Everything else went pretty smoothly from there, thank goodness. More smoothly than Wednesday nights usually are, actually. It reduced my stress level a lot. Now all I have to worry about are:

A International athlete article- not started

A Saturday BB game preview- in progress

B Old stadiums article- in progress

B Weekly meeting with my editor

B Find story for multimedia assignment

C Find group for Comms 308 research project

D Attendance article- sort of in progress

Yep yep, we're looking good!

Tension

Whoo! Isn't tension fun?

So much to do this week... I was going to make a good start on it today at work... But I can't seem to find the motivation anymore. Where did all that energy I had on Monday go?

Let's take a look at the checklist:
Comms 308 essay- done!
Comms 411 worksheet- done!
Interview for old stadiums article- done! But I need another...
A FAFSA- done!
A Blue Crew article- in progress
A Comms 411 paper- not started
A/B+ Comms 300 reading- not started; this is on the chopping block if I can't get everything else done
B International athlete article- not started
B Saturday BB game preview- not started
B Trip to the courthouse for Comms 308 tomorrow, which will force me to miss Comms 411
C Old stadiums article- in progress
C Think of topic for Comms 411 research paper
C Think of story for Comms 321 multimedia assignment
C Find group for Comms 308 research project
D Attendance article- not started/sort of in progress

Ahh. Sometimes when I write it all out like that it calms me down because I realize I can take everything in small chunks. But I really do have quite a bit to do today/tonight/early tomorrow.

Dear Sugar

We love you!

Follow-up on last week's goal/ Life is great

Some of you may have noticed there was no victory post Friday. That's because I didn't quite get everything in. The only day I missed being in the paper was Thursday.

M: BYU v. New Mexico (recap)
http://universe.byu.edu/node/13556
T: Bonham named player of the week
http://universe.byu.edu/node/13575
W: BYU v. Wyoming (preview)
http://universe.byu.edu/node/13636
F: BYU v. Wyoming (recap), v. UNLV (preview)
http://universe.byu.edu/node/13688

Also, Sara was very hyper this weekend...

Sara demonstrates prancing during our date Saturday night

I invited Sara over for dinner yesterday. I promise I didn't add anything extra to her chicken...

You've got to love Sara

"Put down the camera or the cereal gets it!"

Whoops. Too late. :)

Beans in an orange bowl

It was just another day in the office...
...until Sara came by at lunchtime and offered to split her lunch with me. (I need to go grocery shopping- thanks for the coupons, Mom.) Only problem- it was beans, rice and chicken, and I had no bowl or eating utensil. The only thing I had was an orange (courtesy of Jill). So, with a little luck and a lot of mad orange-peeling skills, we improvised:
Voila! An orange bowl! With spoon. Awesome, no?

My brothers

Addict

"Speaking of crack..." Mara always says when she sees me pull my bag of cereal out of the cupboard above the fridge.

We have many apartment jokes: the poltergeist, the zombies, and the moose boxers, among other things. My cereal has become one of them.

Consider this hypothetical situation: girl grows up in awesome family with loving, super-health-conscious mom that rarely buys anything but Shredded Mini Wheats. Eventually, the girl starts working part time and earning her own money. Occasionally, she uses some of her hard-earned money to buy different kinds of cereal. She's not very ambitious at first, finding it hard to shake off the health-conscious principles she has learned from her mother most of her life. She avoids all the super-sugary cereals in favor of something slightly less rebellious. Sometimes it's Rice Krispies, which everyone knows is just begging for a generous spoonful of extra sugar. Sometimes it's Honey-Nut Cheerios. Occasionally she's bought Fruit Loops and Frosted Flakes.

We're still talking hypothetically here: girl's siblings love the variety they get when their super awesome older sister goes to the local family-owned grocery store and buys cereal. Sometimes they go with her and help pick out the contraband breakfast food. Once they've bought it, the kids' mother graciously allows them to keep it- and eat it. Often, they eat it as fast as possible.

This story is, of course, still purely hypothetical: girl leaves home to attend college. She miraculously lands the best university student job in the world- working for the chemistry department. Also quite miraculously, she is able to find an awesome apartment semi-close to campus and discovers she has (this word is being dangerously overused) awesome roommates. Life gets even better as she realizes she has complete control over what she eats.

She doesn't totally throw out her patient mother's healthy eating guidelines. (In fact, far from it!) But she is now absolutely free to choose which cereal to buy. When she goes to the grocery store, the variety of choice is almost overwhelming. Cereal becomes one of her number one favorite snacks.

I got this bag of cereal on Friday. It was gone by Tuesday.

The above story is purely hypothetical. Any similarities to real people, places, or events are completely coincidental.