my secret love affair.

I've been seeing a lot of this lately. 

Some think I'm out with friends, 

others think I'm already in bed. 

But the real fact of the matter is..

I'm with the one I love. 

The caedm lab. 

We have lots of fun together on the 4th floor of the Clyde. 

It's here for me all night if I need it, 

and never closes its doors.

It even lets me bring friends to join in the fun! 

Our relationship has grown much stronger these past few days, 

and now,

 I don't know what I would do without it.  

Caedm, 

thank you for being a loyal friend to me. 

How can I ever repay you?

Stewart Falls

if you haven't hiked it.
you should.
its beautiful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bending over backwards

and it's only Monday.

on the bright side, 

I've already made a complete fool of myself 

by skidding my bike on the way to school 

and completely biffing it in front of a couple dozen people.

no biggie. 

I just have a 5 inch wound down my forearm, 

and a couple holes in my right foot.

Oh well.

I'm sure I made people laugh. 

and it is a pretty day outside.

What's going on outside?

this comic came from a place called PhD comics.  

It's one of my personal fave's
AND
it reminded me of something that happened today.


SO
3:00 rolls around and it's time for my 3 hour signal processing lab.
I sit down at my computer,
log in,
and wait for the rest of the lab section to show up.

people trickle in
then WHAM
the lights go out.
(okay so maybe it didn't make a WHAM noise, but you get the idea)
We're all a bit taken aback.
After a couple minutes of talking,
we decide to go into the hall
with the security lights
and work on homework
until we figure out what's going on.

Then the TA remembers,
"Crap, this happened a couple years ago
when the construction crew hit our main power lines.
The fume hoods in the Chem E labs stopped working
and everyone had to evacuate the building
before the gasses leaked.
Let's go ahead and evacuate now just to be safe..."

We exit the Clyde,
and see it is a beautiful, GLORIOUS day.
We sit out front the building
where lots of other engineering classes,
as well as classes from other buildings (who apparently also lost their power)
congregated, continuing on with their lectures.

The other classes seemed so happy to be outside,
enjoying the beautiful sun.

We stood there squinting.

I don't think we quite knew what to do with warm sunshine,
and a bright sky...

most of us enter the Clyde around 8 am,
and don't exit until around 7 pm...
As cliche, stereotypical, picture perfect as this may sound.
It was so true.
I'm sure we looked crazy.
Just standing there squinting.
We honestly didn't know what to think of non-fluorescent lights.

And just to add to the humor,
today was a HUGE engineering career fair
with LOADS of recruiters interviewing students for jobs and internships.
The Wilk lost power too.
Which means all the recruiters were standing outside as well.

For an hour or so,
it was a giant nerd convention all over campus.
Guys dressed all fancy in their suits and ties
talking about C++, micro-processing, biotechnology...

It was a sight.

Long story kind of shorter,
the power came back on a little over an hour later
and everyone went back into the windowless Clyde
to continue on with their studies.
We weren't able to do lab 3,
so I'm not quite sure how we're going to make up for that.
But I did get a lot of other work done.
Stayed in the CADEM until 8:30!


Man,
I love being an engineer.

give a man a fish.

We've all heard the saying,
"Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime..."

Similarly, when you are baptized, you are clean for a day. If you receive the Holy Ghost and listen to it, you can be clean for a lifetime.

To campus, or not to campus...

not to campus. 

Can't believe I forgot to share. Hilarious.

(I hope you don't mind my fragmented story telling skills.  I'm a math/science person.  Elaborating is not my forte)

SO
Last Wednesday night.
Ward temple trip.
Kelsey, Kelly, Rinna, and I drive over.
Can't find parking right away,
so we decide to just head to Mt. Timpanogas temple instead.
We turned too early,
and took the long way around...

Get to the temple,
fairly crowded in the baptistry,
but still better than Provo.

After changing,
we sit in the chapel.
A long while later,
we're called to do confirmations.

As we're walking out of the chapel,
a temple worker comes up to us,
"Could you ladies write your names down again on this slip of paper?"
We do so.
"And could you put your numbers there too?
There's a young gentleman here who is interested in every one of you girls."
Say what?
There was a pretty cute guy working the baptistry that night.
But seriously?
You get another temple worker to ask us for our numbers?
While at the temple?!

So we agree, then head to the confirmation room.

Just under a dozen people later,
it's our turn.
The cute temple worker comes in,
"Do you girls ever giggle in sacrament meeting?"
Uh, what kind of question is that?
"When we were little?"
"Okay, because there's a family coming in with some pretty funny names.
The youth doing baptisms couldn't control themselves"
Okay, these will be some really cool Irish names or something 
Not at all.

A family comes into the confirmation room.
Not knowing what to expect,
I fold my arms and listen.
Then the names came.
Pretty Hips.
Lips.
Suzie Medicine Boy.
Flaming Tail.
Respects Nothing.
We did all in our power not to bust out laughing.
I'm pretty sure I snorted once.
Some confirmations had to be repeated because the reader couldn't get them out.

There were a few other random things that happened that night,
it was such an unusual visit.
But hey, it was a good time.
We helped with the Lord's work,
and had a good laugh at the same time.

:)

Boolean algebra and the Gospel

As we all know, I am a nerd.
I received this text from a friend the other day and thought it was hilarious.

"I'm such a nerd. I was studying my scriptures and thought that life was like Boolean algebra, sometimes if you add more of the gospel you can simplify it more."

And there goes a drop.

Do you ever walk into a room full of people you know, and feel like a complete outsider?  Everyone else is engaged in exciting conversations, and you're left standing there?

Thats how I feel. 

Every day. 

I say I enjoy sitting back and listening to other's conversations, 

people watching is one of my favorite pasttimes, 

but I would like to be included in the conversation every once in a while. 

I sit down at a table with friends, 

they're already conversing with one another. 

I say hello, 

try to engage,

then, with no avail, pull out my books and study. 

But now, because I'm studying, 

I "turn people off"

and they don't want to disrupt me. 

So what do I do. 

Sit at a table 

talking to no one

staring around the room

looking like a complete loner

and wasting my time?

Nope.

I return to my desk. 

In my empty office space. 

And work in quiet. 

"We're gonna have a good day!"

love that song.
The Click Five.

Auburn beat Utah State. 

Shave ice to celebrate. 

War Eagle. 

Here we go.

So the semester started. 

I'm super excited. 

biked this morning 6:30 am.
class at 9:00, 10:00, 1:00, 2:00, and lab from 3:00-6:00.
run this evening 7:00 pm.
homework.
reading.
shower.
bed.