Mary

I kept hoping that it would happen and finally today it did! I saw one of my favorite people in the world on campus for the very first time - Mary Christine Carlisle! It filled my heart with joy. I was beginning to wonder if we really were going to the same school since I haven't even seen her since school started - but yes, indeed we are! This definitely needs to be added to our apartment blessings wall.

2009

Well I most definitely survived finals week and I thoroughly enjoyed the break. Now I'm back in Provo starting a new year and a new semester. I love new semesters. I think that the first and second weeks of a semester are perhaps one of my favorite parts of school. You are not behind in anything, you don't have a lot of homework yet, very few big projects - you just get to go to class and enjoy learning new things without everything else like tests and homework getting in the way. It also gives me a chance to start new. I can make anything I want of this semester. Right now there is nothing holding me back. It's a great feeling.

This semester I have the fewest credit hours I have ever had (in my whole three semesters) - 12.5. I'm taking ASL, Human Development, History of Creativity, Doctrine and Covenants, and Tap Dance. Yes, it sounds like a pansy schedule. This is true. However, I am so excited for all of my classes - even Creativity, if for no other reason than my civ credits will be done after this semester. ASL is probably my favorite so far - it is a language that absolutely fascinates me. It is a great feeling being able to get excited about the things you're studying in school and I have found something I enjoy in every class. Right now I should probably go write my paper for ASL so that's all for now.

Finals...

So I probably should be studying right now but instead I find myself blogging...something that I struggle doing on a consistent basis. Apparently I am really stalling the whole studying thing. I will make this blog short. As you may know finals are next week. Six of them. Yes, six finals in the space of five days. The testing center is open 14 hours a day for five days. That's seventy hours that I have to take those finals. That means I need to be taking a final approximately every eleven hours and forty minutes that the testing center is open or, if you include the ten hours a day that the testing center is closed I need to take a final every twenty hours. Hmmmm...I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or worse about this week. I guess I'll let you know come Friday night. Hopefully I'm still alive, breathing, and sane. To be continued...