1. Angeles Crest Highway. Angeles National Forest. It's what we call the mountains close to my house. Tangent: I'm pretty lucky to live right in front of a national forest. (Except when it catches fire.) Not everyone is so lucky. Ha. Anyway, the point of #1 is that I never ever associated the "Angeles" in the afore-mentioned titles with Los "Angeles". What do ya know? They are the exact same word. In fact I bet they're related. Oh the things you learn every day. :)
2. So I went to Sunday School in my home ward over break. My old seminary teacher was teaching. We were talking about the Law of Consecration. Tangent: I've been learning a whole lot about consecration in my Doctrine and Covenants class. I must have slept through the entire D&C year in seminary. Anyway, in reference to the law in our day he said, "The Church hasn't come knocking on our door asking for everything. The government has, but the church hasn't." Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha. Oh how I love the sporadic political commentary in Sunday School. :)
Breaking news: I have nothing more to say concerning Christmas Break! Oh shoot. I lied. I forgot about the Rose Parade.
3. Rose Parade Adventures. So, my friend Kellie from school was kind enough to sleep on the Rose Parade route with me. Yes, we slept outside on the sidewalk. No tent. It's fun. And quite entertaining. Sometimes you fear for your life, but for the most part, the wandering cops keep you feeling pretty safe. There are many drunk people and if you're lucky you get to camp right next to a group of them. :) We were that lucky. This kind man gave us part of the spot he was saving since a lot of people he was expecting weren't going to come. We got front row spots and we didn't get there until a little before midnight. Unheard of. Anyway, to our right was a group of three very intoxicated individuals. They liked to yell many things including many not so nice words. Let's just say I've never heard the F-word used in so many different contexts. So, I didn't get a whole lot of sleep that night mostly because I didn't want to miss any of the excitement from our drunk friends right next to us. One almost got arrested and it was his own fault. He called the cop over. So smart. Two of them were gonna fight. Just for fun. Drunk people are very interesting. The best part was the next morning their families showed up. Yep, despite us thinking they were single thirty-something-year-olds, they were married with kids. Special. Oh what is this world coming to? The parade was great! A good experience overall!
OK. Now we can move on past Christmas Break. Hurray! 2011!
4. So, when a new semester starts (in particular winter semester) everyone in the universe turns in books to the library. This is because we make it so that no books are due during Christmas Break. Thus, we get the two weeks worth of books that would have been due normally during the break on the first day back to school. One thing we get to do is look through every single book that is returned and make sure it is not mutilated, yes mutilated is the word we use, in any way. Thus, the process takes FOREVER and we get pretty backed up at the beginning of semesters. Because of this, many people will call and tell us they turned in a book a few days before and that it is still on there account. (The reason for this is that we just haven't got to checking in their book yet since we get backed up.) One Monday morning when this was working, I received probably over 5 of these calls. So many in fact that I could usually predict how the entire phone conversation would go. If we determined that the book was still on their account and should have been checked in already, we either have them come in and fill out a form or we can do it over the phone for them. As you might suspect, most people would rather do it over the phone. During one phone call, the girl was inquiring about a book entitled Foul Play that was still on her account. To be clear I had the right book title, I asked, "Was it Foul Play?" My co-worker Catherine was working in the vicinity and became very confused. Since we often ask the patron for details concerning how and when they turned in the book, she assumed I had asked the patron if foul play was the reason the book was still on her account. Hahahahahahahahahhaha. I apologize for writing such a novel to explain an occurrence that is probably not even remotely funny unless you work at the circulation desk in the library. Sorry. :)
5. Jimmer Fredette. First of all, it makes me happy that all you have to type into Google before Jimmer's name shows up is "ji". Of all the things in the world that begin with "ji", Jimmer Fredette is the the third thing to appear after Jimmy Johns (what in the world? I guess it's a gourmet sandwich place) and Jiffy Lube. And no, it did not pop up because I searched for it before. Anyway, Jimmer was on my list of things to blog about. And at this point I can't exactly remember why. But don't worry. I am never short on things to say about Jimmer. To begin, HE IS RIDICULOUS. The end. It really is that simple. He makes insane shots on a regular basis. This video demonstrates the madness. And it is now just expected that he will score some obnoxiously high amount of points every single game. If you can't tell, I'm a HUGE fan. HUGE. He's just great. I don't understand it. He's white. Not extremely tall. Doesn't look like he'd be very good. He tucks his warmup sweatshirt into his shorts. Why? Because he can. More on Jimmer later. I can assure you of that.
Alright I'll stop here. Five is plenty considering each one could be it's own novel. Happy semester being one third over! :)
1 comment:
hahahahah I definitely thought the circulation incident was funny, even though when I read it out loud to Mela it wasn't so much. Just in the head.
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