Changing Seasons

I hate the cold. I hate that time of year when you go outside to leave for work and you have to defrost your windshield. When I grow up, I'm moving somewhere that does not happen for eight months of the year! (Why do I live in Utah? What was I thinking?) I love being able to go out to my car and just drive off, not spend five to ten minutes scraping my windshield.
Of course, if I didn't have to go out in it, I don't think I would mind so much.

I want to go to France

Today in my french class, the teacher in charge of the Paris study abroad next semester came into my class to advertise the program. She's also my stake relief society president. How I wish I could go! Here are my reasons why I can't. a) it will cost over $7,000. b) I'm not really a student. c) I really need to take an english class next semester that is not offered any other time so that I can get into a master's program next year.
Still, Paris in the spring would be so neat . . .

I picked a winner

My Blind Date

Good news
1. He was 26
2. He paid for parking
3. He paid for dinner

Bad news
1. He didn't go on a mission
2. He didn't go to college
3. His last name is a first name
4. He's a body builder
5. He watches R-rated films
6. He is a sloppy dresser
7. He needs a haircut. Actually a new hair style


Interesting facts
He is an entreprenuer. He wants to be his own boss and doesn't think he should waste time doing something he doesn't want to do. (I think he needs to put the time in where it is needed because sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do in order to get where you really want to be. Different sides of an opinion)
He definately thought I was cute. Or funny. Or fun to be with.

Best part of the night . . . (besides watching Keith Lockhart dance to the music he was conducting) President Monson was at the Symphony!

And the music was fantastic! Tribute to Oscar and Tony and there was a sing-along part! You can imagine my glee!

Blind dating

Many people keep telling me they are going to set me up with someone they know, but so far only one person has done it. So here is my fantastic story about how I set MYSELF up on a blind date.
First of all, I have season tickets to the Symphony. I think its fantastic even though I shouldn't have spent the money. So every time I go, I have to find someone to go with me. I am getting a little tired of the dating game right now, as boys have a tendency to not talk to me for about two months after I go out with them on a first date. So I asked one of my friends, Singer's Son, if he was able to come. Sadly, he was not. But then the first Blind Date guy called me back. So I thought, perfect! No pressure. Unfortunately, he has gotten back together with a girl he had been previously seeing. By that time I was a little fed up. I called my sister for some reason and asked her if she knew any cute guys who liked the Symphony. Apparently, there was a guy visiting from her ward and essentially (to make a long story short) now I am going with him. I have never met him, I talked to him on the phone last night to work out details of going, but that is it.
Sad that my life has come to this. Setting myself up on blind dates.

My so called life

I feel like I haven't posted in a while. This is not because my life is so exciting that I don't get around to writing. No, it is because my life is so insanely busy that I don't have time. I wish it were more exciting. Right now, I am taking a french quiz online and it is taking a long time to load. I have spent the last two days both up late and up early to work on a french paper. (I can't write well in English, my French is worse) I almost had a standard partner, but I decided that my sanity was worth more than having a partner. Meanwhile, my latin partner and I have just had two lessons from the "pros" (Paul and Olga), which take up time and money. And working two jobs and trying to do my homework and help the sisters in my ward has pretty much made it so I wish I had remembered to schedule in meals and sleep. Ah well, I wouldn't be happy if I was bored!!

Un autre fois

After looking at my friends blogs and reading at least three or four posts per person, I realized it was time again for me to say something. I had one of those weeks where I thought, oh, I need to post on that, and then haven't had the time to actually sit down in front of the computer and write anything.
I have to tell you, substituting is actually going quite well so far. I have only had second grade classes so far, but that is really a cute age. The thing about them is that if I were in the class longer than a day, I would probably want to take them home with me. My land lady says I should have gone into elementary teaching instead of secondary, but I think I would just want to take them all home. That would not be a good thing. But in other subbing news, I have a job every day for the next two and a half weeks. So job stability can be mine. And, today, one of the teachers at the school I was subbing at asked if I could sub her class this month. So that's good too!
Also, as part of my insanity, I have decided to take a french class. Let me think when the last time I took french was. It had to be at least five years ago. I am planning to use it to get into Grad school because for an English Masters, you have to be able to read a foreign language. That's good, becuase reading isn't the problem, its speaking. Next semester I'll have to take an English class as a prereq, but right now, that's a little bit of a difficulty, and its going to take some finesse. I'll let you know how that goes.
I was hoping that my class would broaden my social circle (ie have cute boys to date) but there are only about four, two are ethnic (which is fine), one looks like a pre-mi, and the other leaves class faster than a speeding bullet. So that was not the social avenue I had hoped it to be. Oh well. I'm sure I'll figure something out.
In other news, I am getting a new dress made to compete in, and it is going to be hot! I am very excited. But I can't afford it. I can't afford anything right now. But that's ok, some things are worth it!

One more reason NOT to go to football games

Today I walked outside to get the mail, and there were about eight cars passing my house. My street is pretty slow, we don't get much traffic. So I look down the street, and the entire road is full of cars. They are backed up to my house, which I think is insane, because everyone was going to the game. Crazy.