Back From Vacation

I'm now back from Florida. It's very depressing to be back in the gray, cold, nothingness of Utah. I will try to persevere. I offer no promises.



(It is actually sort of weird for me to think that people actually read my blog, but over the next few days I will put up a vacation summary and what not. It's just not in my today.)

I think that I might be a horrible person

Tonight I invited people over to watch a movie. It was fun as it allowed me to get better acquainted with friends I don't often see. The thing is this: there is this girl who often comes over to our house, always uninvited, and just lingers here. I was a wee bit embarrassed as she really just dominated the conversation with facts about nothing and left us with lots and lots of awkward moments. It wouldn't have been a big deal if the people who were over were close friends of mine, but they weren't -- just people I was trying to get to know better anyway. I suppose I'm just venting since this girl seems to be always here in the house for absolutely no reason. Usually when she is over I hide in my room and make my other roommates deal with her, but tonight all of my roommates were gone so I was forced to be a gracious host to everyone. Also I often come home to find her in our living room watching t.v. by herself with none of my other roommates home. It just freaks me out. I should probably just accept that she simply wants company, but to me it really just gives me the willies and forces us to have very, very awkward interactions. Basically I think that I might be a horrible, intolerant person. On the bright side I only have 12 hours before I leave for Florida so I don't have to even deal with her for a whole week. There will be much rejoicing.

Vacation

For some odd reason I have the Go Gos song Vacation stuck in my head, since hey a vacation is all I've ever wanted. Today I'm finishing the last wee bit of work that I need to get done before leaving for vacation and then I won't even have to think about school for a whole week. It's going to be really nice to be away from Provo, especially since the weather in central Florida is going to be pretty nice this week. Who could possibly ask for anything more?

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentines Day. Today was sort of an odd day mostly because engineers are a wee bit old. First off all of my classes are about 90% guys. One of my classes starts with a joke and the professor insisted on a love joke for Valentine's Day. It turned out that the only one anyone knew was the girls are evil math derivation. I'm sure that you have all seen it, but I'll include it anyone.

We all know that girls require time and money, thus girls = time x money.
Time is money so girls = money x money or money^2
Money is the root of all evil so girls = √evil^2
or Girls = Evil

I thought it was funny although I had seen it before. It became funnier throughout the day as a lot of my professors thought that they needed to remind us that even though we are engineers today is in fact Valentine's Day and we should probably try to do something. I think that it's just funny that world thinks that engineers are oblivious to everything. At any rate I hope your Valentine's Day was great and take it easy.

One Week

I only have one more week of school before I get to take a vacation. The downside is that I have a lot of work to do between now and then, but hey it's only for one week! There is currently much rejoicing among the peasants.

Life is Still Odd

It's amazing to me how sometimes tings seem to work out well in the end and how other things leave you more and more confused and frustrated.

First last night some of my roommates and I went to see a movie. The movie itself was terrible and there were some morons sitting in the front yelling the whole time. These idiots eventually also got bored and decided to leave the movie early and on their way out pulled the fire alarm, interrupting our movie. After the movie was over we got rain checks (free movie passes) to make up for the trouble. It was just nice to essentially get my money back (with another free ticket to boot) for a movie that I thought was really dumb and stupid. Although I'm not sure what I'll do with these passes since it is unlikely that I'll ever muster up the courage to actually ask someone to go out with me.

I thought from my movie experience things were looking up, but then life always has a way of keeping the score even. I ran into that same girl on whom I have a on again off again crush. It's just frustrating to me that I can't decide if I like her, if I don't and what I should do. To me the only vexing thing is that she is really cool and fun to be around, but I just don't see her very often and I'm not really the type of person who can call people out of the blue to see what they are up to. It really would be easier for someone to simply could up and say "Hi. I like you. I heard that you have some movie passes to use. I'm free Friday and Saturday." I suppose that I should just accept life for how it is and move on.

Guns etc.

Today one of my roommates and I went shopping for guns. It really made me want one. It just seems like it would be one of those fun things to have. I'm sure that I can probably find better ways to spend my money, but yet I'm getting a lot of money back from taxes this year so I can probably afford one. I suppose I should just want and see how I feel in a couple of weeks before I make a solid choice.

Church Today

Today was Fast and Testimony meeting. I hate Fast and Testimony meeting. It really wouldn't be so bad if people actually bore testimony, but most people just ramble on about nothing and we always go over because of it. I also have a late sacrament meeting so the longer we went the better the chances were that I would have to sprint home to watch the super bowl.

At any rate I got to thinking. Lately I have been thinking about what I want to accomplish in my life and it occurred to me that I often plan for the success, but not the work that is required to achieve that success. I often see myself reaping the results of future actions, but fail to take into account for the work necessary for that success. For example before my mission I planned what my life would entail, being a returned missionary, but failed to take into account that I would have to actually serve a mission before becoming a returned missionary. As a result, my mission was really hard, harder than it would have been if I had adequately prepared for the work part of a mission. I think that in general to accomplish more in life I need to plan the work and let success take care of itself.

Back Up Date

Back in high school life was a lot easier because I had a "back-up" girlfriend -- a girl who I bring places where a date was required. As I came to school I've found it difficult to find a really good back-up girl friend. I have tickets to a show here at BYU for Saturday and I don't have anyone to go with, since I was too shy to flat out ask someone. I could really use a back-up date about now.