the First Day

Well well, what to say. School has officially begun. The first day experience was like none other... not. It was just like every first day I have had in my lifetime. It starts out with me heading out early convinced I am going to get lost, and in doing so pack everything I would possibly need (and happen to not need on the first day) into my bag making it extremely heavy and not the funnest thing to lug around. Then after wandering the campus a good while and finally finding my first class, I find a bench to sit on for a good twenty minutes before class starts. When the time finally comes for me to enter the classroom, the real feel of first days sets in. The eery silence that everyone sits in before the teacher enters. Its the kind of silence that everyone wants to break, but can't because if you are caught being the only one in the room talking, it turns from an eery silence to an awkward conversation that the whole the class only moans, nods and sometimes throws in a pity laugh into. There is the ever popular "Man, it is quite in here!" phrase that is muttered by the somewhat outgoing people in the class, but again that gets meerly a groan and then nothing. Thankfully, after these few almost painful minutes, the teacher/professor/instructor enters, and breaks up the awkwardness of the silence. Now in any other school the "overseer" we will call him stands in the front of the room, possibly writes his name on the board, tells you what to expect from the class, and sometimes, pulls out a get to know you game. It happened to be no different here. I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but that is precisely what I got. A get to know you game? In college? I thought I got a little old for that in middle school, but no here we are once again. I can only imagine the over twenty year olds enjoying that much less then I do. The best part about those games are that you say your name twenty plus times, and three remember it. From there I get three more classes of this same situation over the space of two days. But they are over now, and I am on to bigger and better things. Like the homework.

the Update

Well, hello everyone. Its been quite sometime since I have updated this lovely thing so here I am to save the day. Alrighty, so lets start out with the apartment situation. My dear friend Abbi and I set out a while back to get a head start on the housing search. We were looking for the apartment we could get the lowest rate on. We found a lovely place that if we had two other roommates we could get a pretty good deal on it. We put the deposit down and had a few prospects for roomates and we thought we were set. Then life happened, and now we are down two roomates and a higher rent then we had ever intended on paying. Now now, don't get worried. We decided to stick it out a semester, and go from there.

As for the working situation, I found a way that makes it so I never have to go back to that dreadful Dimple Dell. I got a catering job through UVU. Doing it through the school is awesome cause its super close to my apartment, it works with my class schedule, and I get all of the school holidays off. Plus, I get to wear a bowtie, you can get better then that.

I move out the 22nd, and school starts the 27th. I think that about wraps it up. Hopefully when I get there I can take some sweet pictures and get them on here.... which will probably end up being like November. So until then...

the Lake

Due to the excessive awesomeness of this trip, I decided to break it up into four different posts for your enjoyment. I was a little slackerish this year as I did not take as many pictures as I would have liked to. However, thanks to the loving desire of my little cousins and brother, I did in fact get some pictures. They each took turns with the camera and went a little crazy, they came up with some sweet pictures. I posted some of my favorites, but be assured, there are plenty more. The pictures of the tubers are the few I took, but the rest are labeled for your convenience.

the Parker and Jakey File

Getting ready

What I believe to be Jake and Tammy's legs

Parkers drinking shot

Action shot

Jake /\ the photographers \/ Parker

the wake

Cute Tammy

Through the glass shot of my Pops

the Gracie File

A new perspective on the driver

The photographer, Gracie

I believe she really captured beauty in this one

My personal favorite, Lukey's arm

Lucas up close and personal

Ror, her dad

cute Karen, her mom

the Tubers

Lindsay Ali and the amused Joe

Weston, Kaylee, and Lanie

K.J., Lanie, and Jake

the 505

My current adventure of job searching has been an interesting one. I have been going all over the place talking to store mangers, talking to people, looking online, all kinds of great stuff. One of the times I was surfing craigslist, I did find a wanted ad for a hostess job at this restaurant in Tempe.They were holding interviews that day from 2 to 4 and I figured it was worth a shot. So I dressed up, got directions, the address 505 Mill Ave, and took off. When I got there I wandered up and down looking for the mysterious 505 for what seemed like ages. I felt a little stupid for not seeing it, but I finally made it to an intersection where the building across the street had a 50 and a sign blocking the last number. I noticed some women who looked dressed for an interview standing outside the door. Success! ...or so I thought. Already making my way across the street, I looked back up at the sign, and almost stopped right there in the middle of the road. "Hooters." Holding in my immediate reaction to laugh my head off, all I could think was, "What are the chances?" Praying in my head that this was not the place I was looking for, I looked back up at the numbers. 501. 505 was next door :)

the Graduation

Graduation Day! Woo! It was one of those days that I wasn't too excited about. I ended up enjoying, but was still so happy when it was over. The fact that it signified the end of High School however, made it one of the greatest days ever.

the Fam

A lovely picture of me standing at the podium with the best fake smile of the century waiting for everyone to find their seats.

Words of Wisdom, don't write your speech two days before, the night before should be just fine :)

the Patriarch and his wife

Joshua and me looking awesome

Jake Spafford, most genius guy ever

Cheese and I (I know she looks older, but she's not)

The famous Megan Jones

Partying with the boys

the Job Search

So I am down here in Arizona. I have been looking for a job and while the "Now Hiring" signs are beginning to catch my eye, I have come to realize that those signs do not mean what they pretend to mean. Sometimes they mean "We were hiring once, but you missed it," they can also mean "We are taking applications, so come in, fill one out and if by some odd coincidence yours pops out above all the others, we might just possibly give you a call," and occasionally they mean "We're just too lazy and forgot to take our sign down." On rare occasions do they ever actually mean they are really hiring. The greatest part is that all the places that are looking for people have no way of letting any one know. So unless you are a person who sees that place and takes a wild shot at asking if they are in fact hiring, you will probably be unemployed forever, which just may be my fate... though it has only been two days.

No worries though, I'm sticking to it. I am determined to find me a job.