Shut up, Jeff!

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I think I talk too much. Tomorrow I'm going to make a point of choosing my moments to speak carefully. This will be best for me and for all who suffer with my daily discourse of drivel. I'm gonna shut up now.


K, bye.

More Law School News and Where Have All the Weekends Gone?

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First of all, I got a couple emails yesterday with good news. I was accepted to the University of Cincinnati Law and I also was accepted to Saint Louis University. Saint Louis has a program called 1843 Scholars where those nominated submit short essays and those selected receive full-tuition scholarships. They nominated me, which is very exciting, but I'm certainly not 100% sure that even if I won I'd want to go to Saint Louis. We'll see. So, that was good news, but I'm dying to hear from BYU and UofU. And I'm pretty anxious to see if I get waitlisted or rejected outright at William and Mary and Illinois.

I have also noticed a troubling trend thus far this semester. I don't get free time on my weekends. Every other weekend I'm teaching Gospel Doctrine in Sunday school, and the other weekends I seem to have an overload of homework. For example, this weekend. I have a bunch of Spanish homework, a bunch of reading to do for my geography class, and I have to actually pick my topic for my history capstone... these things are all due BY Monday. Ugh. I also came home so I could get my W-2s for taxes, but of course one of my employers has decided to wait until beyond the last legal day to send my form to me. So, that's this weekend. But this whole month has kind of gone this way. I hope I get to have weekends again.

Do you want to hear something else that's very depressing to me, but probably laughable to others? My body wouldn't let me sleep in this morning! I was determined to REALLY sleep in at least until 11, but my body woke up at 9. And then I'd lay back down and I'd wake up a while later thinking, "Oh, that had to have been a couple hours, but why do I still feel so tired?" Yes, each time it had only been about 15 minutes. UGH!

Imagine Dragons is a sweet band.

K, bye.

iPad iNdifference

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Being what many would call an "Apple person" I should be all sorts of jazzed about the latest Apple creation right? Wrong. I don't care. I've grown up my entire life using Apple computers. (I'm using one now.) I really like their products and think them superior to PC. I'm NOT one to freak out each time they come out with something new though. I own an old iPod Nano that I won in a drawing on campus. I didn't plan on buying one, despite my LOVE of music. I certainly wanted one, but never saw a NEED strong enough to buy one. I did get a MacBook, but it was many years after I wanted it, and (although my Mom actually bought it) I was fine with a refurbished one that was already a generation or two old (and I would have purchased the same one if I was buying). I just have never been one to NEED the newest technological gadget. I'm only now thinking that I'd actually want an iPhone. Certainly don't NEED one, but I'd get one if it was really cheap. I'm also running the Mac operating system that's now two generations behind. You see, I just don't NEED to stay up-to-date on the latest.

So for these reasons I felt rather apathetic when my co-worker was FREAKING out about the new iPad as news came out about it yesterday. It doesn't appeal to me for multiple reasons. A. I've got a laptop, and I really don't need it. B. It seems like a weird size that wouldn't be sturdy enough to put in my backpack by itself the way I do with my current MacBook. I've seen so many people with broken iPhone screens that I'd be SURE that I'd break the screen on the iPad. C. Is it really going to be all that useful. Really? It seems like it doesn't really offer anything new that my current laptop can't do, except "cool" things like touchscreen. D. Is this really the latest and greatest? There was a kid in my Stats class my senior year in high school that had a tablet PC that he could lay flat and he took notes on it with a little stylus. That was 2003. So... I don't really think this is all that great.

Just sayin'.

K, bye.

The Utah Jazz are CLOBBERING the Portland Trailblazers!

I just had to come back to announce how freakin' happy I am about the clobbering that the Jazz are dishing out right now.  It's 21 to 2 with 6 minutes left in the 1st quarter.  I know things could change quickly, but the Jazz are looking AWESOME!  Well, that's all.  I'm kinda a big fan these days.  (It's now 23 to 4.)

Welcome to Rand-O-Mania!! 2.0

Hi!  A friend was talking about her blog layout and I decided that I definitely needed to switch mine.  I never meant to stick with the one I had, but I wanted to change to one of the cool templates you get from other websites and I could never get it to work with all my extra stuff.  However, I decided that I liked this blogger one.  Good enough. 

So, call me an old man, but I'm watching Jeopardy! right now.  Normally there are categories that just blow my mind and I can't figure them out, but just now they had a "Seven Dwarves" category that was essentially explaining each dwarf and the answers (questions) were their names.  It was pretty lame and easy.  The one thousand dollar one was (Paraphrasing) This fat dwarf was very jolly.  Who is Happy? is worth $1000?!  Really?

OOOH!  Cool random thing I learned the other day.  If you combine a ? and a ! you can make a symbol called an interbang!  (Or interrobang.)  I very frequently use that combo of punctuation when I have a question to shout in surprise or anger, etc.  (What the crap!?)  If I can do it, here, my friends, is an INTERBANG:  ‽

So there you go.

K, see ya later.

Win Number 16...

Ah, the sweet taste of victory.  I vanquished my foe with a mighty final sprint.  And by vanquished I mean barely beat, and by foe I actually mean my really awesome roommate Spencer.  I'm not sure if any of you noticed, but I added a widget to the side of my blog that displays the count of victories in roommate rivalry sessions.  Spencer and I decided at the New Year that we were going to keep a running record of our wins and losses in sports or games that pitted us against each other.  The total mostly consists of games of racquetball, but there are also a few games of Risk and some other interesting contests included as well.  We haven't had a chance to play racquetball the last few days and so decided to have one contest where we did a "feat of strength!"  (Festivus?)  We both saw who could hold a stretched exercise band in the air longest... Spencer won that.  But then tonight we got the idea to have a race.  As it's ridiculously slippery (I watched a guy fall on his butt today) and icy cold outside we decided to do it here in the apartment.  We just ran from wall to wall thirty times.  We started out really fast but slowed down as we got winded.  I was the fortunate one who figured out a method of having a quick turn-around time, and in the end I won by a breif margin.  Anyway, as you can see, in our "Kenny vs. Spenny"-esque competition I'm not winning.  (We're actually a lot nicer about it than those two were though.)  Spencer beat me at racquetball five times in a row one night.  Hence his 2 win margin.  It's amazing the kinds of competition bored guys in apartments will come up with.  (Fireball?)

K, well, see ya later!

24 For 24 Years

1. I like when I have co-workers that make work a lot more fun/bearable.
2. I like my family.  They're cool/great/fun/funny/awesome/nerdy/et cetera.
   
3. Sometimes Always I love to eat sugar.
4. People who make cakes for me are kinda my hero.
5. My co-worker who brought graham crackers to work is also kinda my hero.
6. Law schools who toy with my emotions by withholding their admissions decisions from me for prolonged periods are not even kinda my hero, but very much kinda my enemy right now.
7. Food sounds super bien right now.
8. Some weird girl just decided she's the Light Captain and decided to turn off the lights in the computer lab.
9. Learning about World War II in Asia at 7:30 in the morning is kinda hard.
10. Hand sanitizer.
11. Yeah, I just hit my knee.  I'm pretty stupid-tired right now.
12. Half-way.
13. Why do people consider 13 unlucky?  Really... why?
14. If I'm already running out of random thoughts, I must be REALLY tired.
15. I know I've been ranting about this a LOT lately, but Texas Roadhouse is the bomb.com.  Yep, just used that phrase.
16. Do you remember the peaches song?  It just randomly popped into my head.
17. Cool scarf.  
18. I'm OCD (minus the D) about a few things.  I have to have my wallet, keys, and cellphone all with me at almost all times even if I know I won't use or need some of them.  For instance, I walked to work, do I have my keys?  YES!  Am I planning to buy anything? NO!  Do I have my wallet?  YES!
19. GO AGGIES!
20. I want to go to China.
21. Vietnamese people made my warm jacket, thank you Vietnamese people, and I'm sorry if making my jacket sucked.  I really am.
22. The episode of the Office from last week was really lame.  Really?  A cheesy clip show?  Time to end it.
23. I like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
24. Yesterday one of my roommates told me that my birthday was my "golden birthday."  I've never heard of it, but since I turned 24 on the 24th, it was golden.  Yep.  K, see ya.