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Sunday, June 29, 2008

What Happens in Vegas...

Okay quickly.. this comment is to DJ. This is called a blog. It's like an online journal that people can read. It's not really like a personalized myspace or facebook or anything like that but you can still comment by clicking on the comment link at the bottom of the post.

So I moved to Vegas this weekend. It was a pretty uneventful truck ride. Driving the Uhaul was not the ordeal I thought it would be. I did not die. (Andrea the code phrase is: ham fried rice, not really but It's me). The exit that Google maps told me to take was closed and my phone died so I got pretty lost. Due to luck or fate I finally pulled over at a Popeye's chicken and plugged in my phone and found out that I was right across the street from my house. I got there at the exact same time as my hired movers so we took a tour of it together. They were convinced I was insane for moving into a house I had never seen. I hit the jackpot though. It is amazingly cute and I love my room and my roommates for that matter. It looks like a model home for IKEA which I love. The only disappointment is that my bookshelf would not fit up the stairs. I'm still considering taking it apart and putting it back together in my room. (Also, I decided that the worst job in the world would be a mover in Las Vegas).

So a little about the girls I'm living with: Amber is my skinny twin. She is finishing up a degree in Sociology and wants to go to grad school. She co-majored in Criminal Justice. Her dream job is to work for the FBI and she loves to watch Forensic Files and City Confidential on Court TV. She wears size ten shoes and said I could borrow them at anytime. Melissa is a teacher. We haven't talked enough to find our combined loves. Actually we did find out that we attended the same Creed concert in Salt Lake. Zandra (she actually works with me but does not live with me) is in our ward she is amazing and she made me curry chicken and told me all the ward gossip today. We decided to have dinner every Sunday and invite boys. We are doing it next Sunday and we already invited some boys. She also wears the same size shoes as me and promised to show me where the nearest DSW (designer shoe warehouse) is.

Okay so about the ward. It was a little strange. There are two relief societies. I am in the meadow lark relief society. I have no idea how they assign people to each one. Also, there is a nursery and a primary in the ward but sacrament meeting was still amazingly silent. It was a somber mood at church this week because the second counselors wife had passed away a few days before. At the new member meeting I met two roomies who called themselves heterosexual life partners. Since I too have a life partner (you know who you are) I instantly fell in love with them both.

I'm feeling pretty confident about this move now. My only lingering worry is how the transition from hourly pay to salary is going to go. I'm afraid I won't get a paycheck for three weeks which would seriously suck.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Writers Block

I am warning you right now, this post is going to be boring as hell. It is 3 am and I am still writing my international relations paper. Well actually I'm blogging about writing my international relations paper. I'm so close to being done that it hurts and I'm spent. I can't finish the thing for the life of me. It's a nice parallel with my school career in general. I'm so close to the finish line and I'm the guy who stops to re-tie his laces. I think the problem is that a few semesters back I procrastinated writing all my final papers and I ended up halfing to write like 60 pages in one night. It put me off to ever writing another paper. I guess the positive is that I learned that I never want to write a book. Since then I can't write even a two page paper without having an emotional melt down. I have five agonizing pages done and about two more to go. Hopefully I'll die in my sleep tonight and I'll never half to write a paper again.