school...

K so school update (ty you can skip this one its kinda boring.)

My days start at 6 AM In the fitness center. Monday, Wednesday and Friday i have distance, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday i have sprints. After I run, i have plyometrics and lifting till 8.

Shower.. usually but stinky tinky well :D

I hit the books till 10 then i have Calculus. Now see i'm not good at calc as it is, so by all means give me a teacher that sounds like Mr. Mee-ah-gee from the Karate Kid. (not kidding he is brilliant though.)I keep waiting for him to slap his hands together and "heal" my brain.

ah school goes on, Work was pretty busy here in Admissions, me and Laloni just kinda did our own thing we are the only first years that work on the 3rd floor, the rest are seniors and oh my gosh they are semi-ridiculous senioritis IS WORSE in college. there are 12 of us that work up here and yea when 10 people trip up the stairs you know it was a long weekend, and if you ask them about it they wont remember. ah well its all good.

Oral Communications is interesting but its a LOT of work, and our teacher says "Right" just about 200 times in an hour, and then tells US not to use verbal fillers. Ah Wellness 4 Life is maybe my favorite class, i get credit for running and lifting :) and the in class work well its stuff i already know, we are going over muscles and bones and systems i can safely say i'm doing well in this class.

Japanese Customs well its BORING but i don't have to lose points for not drinking green tea. Thank goodness.

Janitor Work well i have better days, but its not so bad i get to drive a cart around so thats pretty cool, and i don't mind vacuuming, and sweeping floors, its the scrubbing the showers and toilets that i don't like, Seniors are disgusting. and cleaning up vomit is NASTY. (sorry Scarlet) no its not that bad all the time, mostly i do what Brian our Groundkeeper asks me to.

INSTITUTE- ah i look forward to Wednesday nights they are a blast!! President Berlin is amazing and way funny.

SNOW

This past weekend I went on a bit of an adventure but had a great time. I was snowed in in Mayberry (yes the very same Mayberry where little Opie Taylor grew up its right off Andy Griffith Highway HUGE tourist attraction - i'll post some pictures soon) Here is a list of "little" snow fun...

-FREE SLEDS- From the Academy closet at 3 AM down Academy Hill

- Unusual SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS- a bench at Denny's :) (sleep followed shortly after open mic night. 40 of us got snowed in there. and yes they did give us free pancakes) and then later i slept in Mayberry at Sam's house with the YSA's because they shut the town down due to 16 inches of snow.

-Balconies and SNOWMEN- out Mims and Vabs window there is a deck that wraps around Gramley Dorm. We technically aren't supposed to go out there but well it was untouched snow. Naturally we built a little SNOWFAMILY and turned them so you could see them from the road a little later Public Safety came to Gramley and chewed us/me out.

-SHE THINKS MY TRACTORS SEXY- Well to scrape the snow/ice off the roads they use a tractor well they so foolishly parked this said tractor outside of Gramley ... Naturally we built a snow fort around it. about 10 feet tall (we stole ladders from the student closet.) all the way around it and then we might have sprayed it with a hose so it would freeze during the night. . . :)

-NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED/PAY IT FORWARD- While the YSA's were snowed in, we took it upon ourselves to go shovel an older couples driveway. When we finished the Grandma comes out and tells us she called a friend down the road and told them we would do their driveway "just as soon as we were finished." we couldn't say no, so we hiked up the hill and after several tries all of us made it to this house. WITH A HUGE driveway i'm talking like the Davis's in TQville drive way.(from where you turn off the road) needless to say my shoulders are sore but the hot apple cider and hot chocolate and bread and soup when we came back was amazing.

-SNOW CANCELLATIONS- So it dropped a lot of snow but not like it does say north of Cedar back home i assumed church would still be going. I was wrong when it snows or even ices they cancel church. So we had church at Sam's house (reminded me a lot of Lake Powell.) it was really neat. The testimonies were awesome.

-BABCOCK BARRICADE- Babcock is the other freshmen dorm now see the cool thing about Babcock is if you set the alarm off on the basement exit (meaning you open the door after 11:01 pm) no one can use that door at all so everyone has to use the front door. :) Thinking of tractors we built once again a snow-wall about 4 feet from Babcocks only entrance. Now this one was 5 feet tall, (limited amount of time Babcock is on main campus.) and we ice-packed it SOOO good, and then we hid in Clewell (sophmore/junior dorm) the next morning and watched everyone try to break it down. Then they brought the tractor... and i received a notice on my room's door to meet with the Dean later that day...

oh and yes i'm sure i'll get chewed out. But hey its supposed to snow again this weekend. though i don't know how much i'll get to play in it because Sabi and I are coaching a team at a clinic friday and saturday.

WICKED

- MIDGE I've never received so many texts in my life from soo many random people telling me how AMAZING you did opening night of Hurricane Idol.

-MOMMA thanks for the package and the razor that i'm sure Jack the Ripper could have used.

-FAMILY thanks for the birthday wishes.

-AIR Thanks for the family update it is officially on my wall.

-MEG -Sorry i missed your birthday party but i love you.

WICKED - It was absolutely AMAZING absolutely loved it, and had an excellent time.

WEATHER- FYI the world (world meaning just this side of the country.) is in a panic because of a snow warning. hahahaha makes me laugh!!!

CHUCK- Is probably my new found MASH or for you back home CSI. Love it!

School- well... given my school history i'm still not a good student, but apparently i'm not a bad speaker.

its christmas time!!

break

Today is our "quiet" day and all i can say is "BULL CRAP". i'm being serious when i say there are too many excited chicas here to be quiet. Gees Kellie's room mate is sooo loud its making me laugh. Last night they got mad at us because we were "disrupting their sleep patterns" i want to tell them they are disrupting my study patterns. Ah tomorrow is thursday. and i really can't wait till 10:30 i'll be done with my test and getting ready to get out of Salem and head to Raleigh with Vab and Mims. Then off to the Raleigh airport to fly to Chicago, where with my luck i will get stuck due to bad weather. :) life is good, cold and i can't wait till i get home.

Thanksgiving 0-2

Ok family well Kentucky was kinda cold but still had a rather good time. Kellie's family got the grand opportunity of traveling with me. We left on Wednesday morning and i crawled into the back seat of their suburban cuddled under my blanket and instantly went to sleep. I woke up when the car stopped for food. Much to John Youngers' pleasure unlike his daughters i eat. But yeah it was a 6 hour drive but we got caught in traffic (i was told this) for two hours. Thanksgiving for me was small. Kellie, her sister Shannon, their parents and me. were the only ones at dinner. (WEIRD) Dinner was delicious and mom i have a recipe i want you to try. its delicious. Friday Kellie got sick. (dehydration lots of up-chucking)So i stayed in the hotel and took care of her while her parents spent time with Shannon. Kellie was better by Saturday. Saturday night we went to the Tennessee v. Kentucky football game and watched Kentucky send it into overtime and then lose it 3 minutes later. (line man who can't block.) Ah but at this game i went the rounds with a young man standing behind me who was going crazy and yelling at Kentucky (who he was cheering for.) He saw me smirk after he made the comment "you can't try to play the way they do back West this is the East coast and we play football." i laughed at this. He later went on to talk about how great Alabama was which of course i laughed even harder he noticed and called me out on it. I of course brought up Utah v Alabama in their bowl game last year. He told me i should sit down because i probably couldn't even find Utah on the map. Which in turn fired me up a bit. So we argued a little bit and he slowly backed down. His dad mean while was standing next to him just laughing asked me when we were done arguing where Kellie and I were from. Kellie said Connecticut. and explained why we were at the game. And then i said Utah. i've never seen a glare like that before in my life. then i found out ByU beat Utah oh yeah i'm still hearing aboutit.

KFC

Hmmm well family this week is a big week. Thanksgiving is on Thursday and though i would love to be home to celebrate with you all. I find myself traveling to Kentucky with Kellie Younger and her family. Bare in mind Kellie is from Connecticut, but her sister plays in the band at the University of Kentucky and this week is their rivalry week they play Tennessee on Saturday. Speaking of Rivalries the Holy War is this week and i know i wont be able to watch it. BUT GOO UTES!!! Ty wish i was watching it with ya bud. Family have a great Thanksgiving (midge eat some pie for me.)

QUESTION: In Kentucky is Kentucky Fried Chicken still Kentucky Fried Chicken or is it just Fried Chicken?