1st Day of School

So here I am at school--sitting in the library on my computer. I always get really enthusiastic at the beginning of a new school year and this year has been no different. I got up on time, got ready, and left for school planning on being an hour early in order to get everything situated (such as my locker and creating pages to take notes on for each of my classes). I got to the library at about 8:00 and expected to have to hurry to get everything done before my 9:00 PE class only to find that I'm much quicker at getting things in order than I anticipated. To fill the extra time I decided to check my schedule online to make sure I have the right room number written down on my paper schedule and discover that my 9:00 PE class doesn't start until the second block--that is, it doesn't begin until October 21st and here I am at 9:00am on August 31st with nothing to do until I have to work at noon. I don't have any homework to work on since I haven't actually been to any classes yet and I can't even look at what I have coming up because I don't have a syllabus for any of my classes. Maybe I'll go watch Arrested Development in the LRC :)

Reset

I've decided that the reset button can fix almost anything: the computer, the internet, my cell phone, etc. Summer is like a reset button. I get completely stressed out and tired during the school year, but I'm ready to go again. Even with the stress of paying tuition and buying books I'm excited!! My classes for this upcoming semester sound like so much fun for the most part! They are: PE (where I actually get to go to an elementary school and teach PE), Children's Literature (which is the one I'm most excited for!!!!), Math (which I could do without, but it's okay because it's basically my only really academic class and it's even just teaching you how to teach math to elementary school kids), Rhythm and Dance, Art, Music, and Drama in the Elementary Classroom. Yep, I know, my schedule rocks. I'm also trying to add the advanced writing class for El Ed majors but so far I'm not having much luck. If I am able to add it, it will bring my credit hours up to 18. I'm a little nervous about that seeing as how the university won't even let you go above 18 credit hours. But I think I should be able to cope since my classes should at least be interesting. And if I'm not able to register for the writing class, I won't have any classes on Friday!!! Plus, I only work on Mon, Wed, Thurs, and Sat so I would have Fridays completely free!! The only problem I have with my work schedule is on the Saturdays when there are home football games. I bought my all-sports pass! and working on Saturdays makes it hard to go to the games. I'm crossing my fingers that someone I work with will be willing to cover for me so I can go!!!! It's going to be an amazing year! Or at least that's the way I'm thinking right now! We'll see how I feel in a month or so. :)

I find it really ironic that I almost change the background for my blog more often than I post on it. But, what ya gonna do? I'm not much of a writer and my life isn't all that exciting--so there's not much to write about anyway. The reason I'm actually writing something now is because of upcoming events in my family. None of which have to do with me. There are two upcoming weddings and two people going on missions. I hardly ever date so the weddings definitely aren't me and I'm still just 20 and therefore, not old enough for a mission. Shayla and Zach are the ones getting married and their fiances are, respectively, Dana and Danielle. I am sooo excited for both of them!! Zach and Danielle are getting married on September 18th and Shayla and Dana don't yet have a date. Kami and Brooke are the ones going on missions. Brooke already has her call--to the Dallas, Texas Spanish speaking mission!! and she leaves on October 7th. Kami hasn't turned in her papers yet but she is going to soon! She's just waiting on the rest of her dental work and her physical. I'm so excited for them!!!!!!!!!! I'm also a little sad because they are all going to be leaving me and I'll be stuck home with David and McKay--who I love, but sometimes I just need a girl around. Me and mom will just have to "cha-cha" without them!

In other news (this one actually has a little bit to do with me surprisingly), the two desks that I work at are splitting. I'm pretty frustrated with this development because it means that most of the people I have been working with I will no longer be able to work with. I really like my co-workers and a lot of my favorite people will be working at the LRC desk while I will be working at the Circulation desk. However, I will be able to get to know some new people! Since most of the people decided to work at the LRC desk, Circ has to hire all the new people. I like getting to know new people so it should at least be fun in that way--plus I still get to work with some of the old people too :) Speaking of the LRC, I recently discovered the existence of the LRC blog. It's called LRC: the blog and I was reading it the other day and one of the posts made me laugh uncontrollably. Cheryl, one of the people I work with, wrote it and she was talking about checking headphones out to people and how they follow you from the computer, to the drawer where the headphones are stored, and back to the computer again almost every time. She called it the headphones tango. It was really funny, although it might not be that funny to anyone who hasn't witnessed the spectacle approximately 500 times.