You can tell me what I should call this.

Well, I took a few days off and I decided that I was getting addicted and that I was trying to turn out blogs to reach number 50 instead of really talking about things for 14 minutes. So, I am going to focus on time a little bit so I might not get all of what I want to say out. I also am going to attempt something. I am going to write a blog as the person who gave me the assignment. I know this won't happen first go round, but by 50 I hope it is starting to be as good as his.

I had an interesting phone conversation this morning at midnight. It lasted about an hour and a half. In that phone call I learned a few things. Before I say these things, I try to keep my feelings out of my blogs but since they are my journal pretty much I can't avoid it.

I learned what a true friend is and why Heavenly Father has us do the things we do. None of you know who I am talking about, matter of fact I will place my entire life savings on the table right now and if any of you can say that you have personally met her I will give you it. First though lets talk about God.

I will admit, I don't pray everyday, I pray when asked to in class or at church. Ususally for fast Sunday, and of course when I want an answer to something. I questioned something that my Heavenly Father wanted me to do about a month ago. I didn't understand why he would want me to do something like that when things were going so great. But I did what he asked and after going through some tough times this past month things started to make sense. One, if I hadn't done what he asked me I would have been in a lot of pain right now and two I wouldn't have done some or said some of the things that I have done in this past month. So, if you know that your Heavenly Father wants you to do something, do it, don't question it. As Nike says, "Just Do It" and you will be blessed, even if you don't think you are or will.

Briefly, true friends and true love. I sat on the phone tonight talking to someone about things that I would never have ever talked to them about until tonight. I listened to this person tell me about these problems that they have created for themselves and also that things that put our friendship in Jeopardy. I was somewhat mad when the I first heard what happened but after reading the scriptures with this person, I was able to calm down and talk to this person and at the end tell them not to worry about me but to fix what had just happened. I had to put all of my personal feelings for this person aside (and if you haven't figured out that I am talking about a girl well I am) and try my best to help her. Friends can talk to you about anything, even after they have hurt you. And love, well, everyone knows it is real simple. You would go to the end of this earth, to the end of eternity to make sure that this person is happy. Even if it means that you aren't in their life anymore. Just like Christ will do anything to help us get back to him but also, if asked to, he will step out of our lives. Not because he wants to but because he loves us.

Well, there you go. I hope you all enjoyed. Have a great weekend! Jesus loves you!!!

Professor Windsor!!!

Hey really quick. Can I go through and edit some of my blogs. Just break them up better, putting paragraphs and things like them or would that take away from the assignment.

The Pro's problem!!

Okay, you have to read sports talk before you read this or you just won't get what I am talking about.
New England. I have no respect for them, they do well in the playoffs, so what. Out of the three Super Bowls they have won, they have only won one out right, against a 8-8 and North Carolina team that wasn't even suppose to be there. They win all there games by a field goal because the other team is to stupid to waste all the clock before they score. USC on the other hand, won every National Championship out right. Ask Oklahoma about the a** kicking that they got from USC. Do I think that New England should get props for those three Super Bowls, yes. Because the rest of the NFL is so screwed up that no one can beat them because it is all about the individual not the team. Don't believe me, what about TO this season and the ridiculous amounts of hold outs in the off season? How about the year long hold out by the NHL? Someone wants a little more here or a little more there. Want something bigger and better. What does that get you? Ask the Yankees. No, I am not trying to suck up to you Windsor, I feel my work can stand for itself (but if you disagree please be generous on my personal essay) Just tell me Windsor how many wins did the team with the highest payroll in the league have through May. Enough to give them the third worst record in the entire MLB (only in front of Tampa Bay(lowest paid team) and Colorado (youngest team in the league)) I mean if you are going to get paid the most shouldn't you be showing everyone up? Now, do I have a problem with a team being paid a lot, no if your good. Honestly, I think Atlanta should be getting the dough, they have been good year in and year out. They have won their division how many years now? 13 maybe 14. Sure they haven't won every world series but they have played in a lot of post seasons, probably more then the Yankees if we were to go back and compare. Back to the money thing. So, what happens to the sports with salary caps? They pay a ridiculous amount for one player and then try there best to fill there team with good players for the least amount of money so they can stay under the salary cap. Result? Decent team. So to all of you pros, including you T.O. and yes the Yankees, suck up your pride and instead of worrying about how many more millions you can make why don't you worry about how to get your team to win a world series or a Super Bowl.

Sports talk!!!

Okay, first off, however in there right mind thought it would be a good idea to come up with all these weird Starburst flavors, I want to meet them so I can shoot them. Original! That is the only way to go. None of these sour, tropical, Baja, purple junk. Original! With red, orange, yellow, and pink. That is it, no variation. Now, to what I wanted to talk about. Last night, me and a very good friend of mine got in an argument about USC three peating. She feels that they shouldn't and someone should stop them, but at the same time worships the New England Patriots for setting up this "Dynasty". Now, I love college football for two reasons, one it isn't the pros so they don't do it for money, and two it has some of the most talented athletes in the sport playing it. Now, I know that there are the college athletes getting some fully ride scholarship for them to play, but how many kids on campus are getting paid to help out and make BYU the best university in the nation? Well, those athletes are just getting paid to represent their college. I respect college athlete's and if USC can three peat this year, which they will unless Texas stops them, which as much as I love Texas, but they won't. I mean how many college teams have three-peated? Not many. I mean Miami got screwed out of it a few years ago when they lost the game in overtime to Ohio State over a gay call, that even to this day they are trying to justify if it was the right, so obviously it wasn't. It is a rare thing for college teams to do it because of the constant moving in and out of players do to graduation. USC is being questioned in every way if there are as good as everyone makes them out to be just because of the lose of talent they have had. If a college team can three peat why can't we be happy about it. I know we all want upsets, that is why when March Madness comes around I make an entire bracket off of upsets. I can't help it and that is what kills me, if it is a close call I pick the upset, so in the end I have Bucknell winning the NCAA Championship so there goes my bracket. Seeing that I am running over my unit of time read down to the next blog and I will talk about the whole pro thing.

The big 20!

Naturally I would go to bed and just write another blog some other time but this is number 20 for me, and I feel my last blog didn't come out the way I wanted it to so I thought that I would give it another go round. First, music, listen to Hold On by Blink-182. It shows just what guys go through somewhat. Well, I just want to say is that I have always wondered why people make things so complicated in relationships. I know that in some of my past relationships, when things ended everything got weird, and also things at the beginning were really weird and awkward. (I am talking about dating, you know boyfriend and girlfriend status) I always seemed to be in some sort of competition with another guy, like I had to out do him or be better then him. So, asking a girl out was complicated,just in the fact that I was worried how the girl thought o f me compare to other guys. By the way, girls we aren't stupid, we can tell when you like another guy, so finding our competition isn't that hard. So, after we finally get what we think to be a go ahead signal from a girl we ask them out, go out on a date with them, so on and so forth. But first I would like to back up to the asking out part. Most girls philosophy is that if the guy asks they won't say no just because he reached out and put his feelings on the line and you don't want to crush him. Don't waste our time. If you don't like us say no. That is the last thing I want, to go out with a girl because they felt some sympathy for me so they lead me on. Okay so now you argue a guy sees to much into something. Why would a guy ask you out if he didn't like you more then a friend? If you just want to be a guys friend and you see the date as more of a hang out time instead of a date, then you need to tell the guy that, because then he will know not to bring his A game for that date, and more importantly not to get his hopes up that you like him which brings us right back to why did you say yes in the first place. Honesty is the best policy. I think the biggest advice I can give anyone on a date or in a relationship, act, just act, that this person is the first person you have been in a relationship with. There is no need to compare and contrast this relationship with a previous one, because in all reality this is the first time you have ever been in a relationship with that person so everything is new and you really can't compare them to anyone else because no one else is like them. No one wants to hear about how you and your last boyfriend or you and this guy went here and it was so much fun. Especially if you like a guy or girl, what a bad way to frustrate them or make them upset or to send the wrong signs and make things complicated. Don't look to deep into things and if you are afraid someone is then tell them and clear everything up. If you want a friendship, let I be a friendship, if you want more then pursue that and make it obvious what you want. Well, I think you have heard enough of Eric's Dating Philosophy. I almost want to write a dating guide but I think it might not turn out so well. So, you my readers tell me what you think. Leave me some comments and if you think I should produce a book let me know and I will pursue it. In the mean time look out for the next 30 blogs that I am getting ready to bust out. I am done writing about dating, seeing that the weekend is coming up I might go football. But I think I need a blogging break, because they seem to be getting some what boring. Well talk to you later .

Girls!

The subject I have chosen is rather funny. Everyone knows the saying, " girls, you can't live with them, you can't live without them." Well, it is true for several reasons but I don't want to go in that direction. See girls think guys are so hard to read. Well, we aren't, we lay things out there, and sure we may not ask you out on a date but it could be simple that we are afraid of you. Guys, we just do things, not for any reason, we get up in the morning, find the cleanest shirt and put it on. We don't worry about who we are going to see. Sure we like looking good but we aren't out to win a certain girls heart over. We don't worry about whether or not you like us. We try to win you over with some jokes and being nice guys. If things don't work out, yes we are somewhat sad but we get over it. Now girls, they think about who they are going to see that day and try to dress accordingly. They flip out when they see there crush and he waves at them. And if he doesn't they break down and cry because he doesn't like them when in all reality the guy just didn't see them. Also they say they like you but then date other guys. I know the church encourages it but just curious why must you tell us about it? I mean nothing sucks more then being a compared to other guys and how fun they are or maybe how creative they are. If you think they are better then go date them and leave us alone. Don't sit there and hold it over our heads and when we don't talk to much or some what ignore you don't ask why. I mean how often does a guy compare you to another girl right in front of you. Not as often as you compare us. And the whole be nice thing, don't hurt them and if you have to be as nice as possible to the point where you miss the point. Just come out and say I don't like you I like some one else or, I hate all guys, or whatever but don't think you are doing us a favor by not telling us or trying to be nice about it. Just lay it out there. You know, I heard a song awhile back about this. Girls just need to be honest about things from the beginning. Don't try to impress us or get our attention because if we are talking to you you already have it. If you don't want us to like you more then a friend then don't flirt with us and if you just flirt naturally, tell the guy hey you are cool and all but I just want to be friends. Nothing more. If we like you we will pursue you. If not we will just ignore you until we need you for something, yes I know that that is brutal but it is the truth. Pretty much,ladies here is my advice. If you just want to be friends be up front about and say that you aren't interested in relationships, just say it up front to prevent any confusion later on. Two, if you are dating someone else or even hanging out with other guys, leave that information out, unless you don't like us. Say that you are hanging out with some of your girlfriends. We don't want to know about how you hung out with some guy today and how much fun you had or how creative he was, or how great the date was. Lastly, don't try to be nice because in the end we just want the truth even if it results in our hearts being ripped and torn to shreds, I promise we will get over it.

My two cents.

Well, I was hoping to have this blog done a few days ago but I never felt strong enough in my argument. I never felt that what I would say is original but I don't care. I am going to put my two cents in and leave it at that. So, why do most freshmen English students struggle with writing formal letters, essays, well pretty much anything is rather simple. They one don't read enough, two don't write enough, and three have never had it pressed upon them. Most high school English teachers are glad that they read a short story in class together, yet a lone have there students read on their own. It mainly starts with respect in the classroom. Teachers don't have the respect of the students and the parents would agree with there child before the agreed with the teacher, so they get no help there. Also, high school is more of a lets not fail anyone so let us make it as easy as possible to pass. Require very little and receive even less. Now, I know teachers try to help students out but they be a little bit to generous about things. So, each year they get worse. A teacher that taught rather well ten, even fifteen years ago, could not produce the same type of student these days just because of the laws put in place and the dumbing down of America. Yes most high school teachers aren't as good as they were many years ago because of the education system falling apart. What was a good education then, is now a great education. We are seeing the United States of America become stupider because people don't want to stand up and enforce things. The lack of leadership in schools is rather pathetic. No one wants to stand up for what is right. Most people don't even care and the ones that do are so few they can only do so much. America will be dumber then a third world country rather shortly if we don't fix it. I know as a high school student I didn't read a lot of the assigned books, and it shows in my writing. Also, the use of modern technology, computers, email, etc., don't help this poor writing. People use a lot of slang and also writers might be doing the same to meet the reading level. Considering the fact that a newspaper is written on an 8th grade reading level it makes you wonder what would happen if you published a newspaper that was written for a high school graduate reading level. Could people understand it and comprehend it? Just tonight I was playing a game of taboo. One girl had a rather large vocabulary and she could use it. She didn't just know it, but she could use it. A young girl in my ward, maybe 10 years old, would stand up and bear her testimony using words that I don't think your average high school student would understand. Was she a genius? No, she just read. Mainly, Harry Potter and fictional books. Nothing greater or grand. Not Moab Dick, or Waiting for Godot, or The Importance of being Earnest. Just fictional books. If everyone in this nation could just read a newspaper and understand it, it would help. Then the papers could write more indebted and at a higher reading level. Why can't people write formal with good taste? Well, they can't read, so they can't spell, so they don't even try to comprehend.

BYU's downfall!!!

Okay, before you read this post I will say up front that I am no football genius. Some might call me a armchair quarterback, but I would like to think that I know a little bit more then the average Joe about football. I played two years in high school, and I have watched college football for the last four years of my life. I look forward to college gameday, I stay up late at night getting the ESPN highlights of the games that day, and I let my voice be heard when I know that a team blew a game, and just a little hint for everyone, my goal in life is to coach a college football team to a national championship. I feel personally that the instant reply in college should be done away with, even if it fixs problems that some stupid officials may make. The thing about college football, is that the student athletes on the field are playing with all their heart, they have family and friends that watch them and they try to show them what it is all about. Pro football is all about money and PR, high school doesn't have the talent like college athlete's do, so what is the greatest football on earth, college football. Today's game was disappointing to BYU fans all over the world. For us to lose a game that we had been leading all along is rather pathetic personally disagree with Mendenhall's coaching strategy, his defense is to aggressive putting 8 guys in the box and leaving teams with plenty of cushion underneath to make small plays. You don't need a 80 yard pass to score every time, you just need to keep picking up the first downs. You pick up five yards on every play you might ended up with a 3rd and inches every now and then but not enough to force the punt. I understand that he is trying to put pressure on the quarter back but his defense wasn't placing the pressure that he needed. He should have been playing three man front dropping eight d-backs, forcing the young quarter back to make a throw or TCU to run the ball. The entire loss wasn't on the coach, the team didn't play defense the last quarter of the game. They felt that the lead they had would hold up and they just needed to slow them down long enough. You can't play like that, especially if your coach is going to blitz on every play. You have to bring your A game on every play. You can't take a play off and come back for the next one. BYU, played a spectacular first half, but the game didn't end at half time, it goes for four quarters. BYU should have learned that after TCU upset Utah last week in the same manner. Just some thoughts. BYU can still make a bowl this year and can still have a winning season, they can still become Mountain West Conference Champs, we just need to bring our A game and play to our best every game. No more trying to find our identity.

You know what sucks?

Alright, I just got done with the blog before this a whole five minutes ago, so if you here me go off on some weird random thing about how I hate girls then I apologize in advance. I am looking through my blogs and I notice that I have almost no comments on my blogs, do you know how disappointing that is to me. I begin to wonder if anyone cares about this whole blog thing or was it just an assignment to get some kids writing? Well, I hope that isn't it because I but a lot of thought in to these blogs and plan out some what, what I am going to say. Most of it doesn't sound like thought up stuff, it is made up as I go, but if it does come out I must have been thinking about this for sometime considering the fact that I am suppose to write for fourteen minutes straight and not let me hands stop, or be distracted by others, just focus on what I am writing. I must have placed some thought in these things just by the way they come out. Also, the topics I write about. I don't just pick some weird random stuff to talk about, except my what to talk about blog, but if you read my titles you can see that I actually think about my blog all day long and when I feel something is blog worthy I write about it, occasionally some unblog worthy things have made it in, but still for the most part I thought about the blog earlier in the day. But now that I am tired of writing about that I think I will throw some blog ideas out to you and let you pick what I should write about. We have "Homework", "BYU blows it 51-50" ( I might just write about that tonight), " Calling Parents", "Dating" ( you might want to give me a week to cool off, curious, read Just stay away) and for random weirdness, you can give me any sport you want me to blog about, I will research it, and give you an honest opinion, or I might be bias and say that the sport is stupid and gay and should never be played again. So there you go, oh one more "Guys and Girls; what is the relationship" it sounded cooler in my head but I think I could come up with something good if you ask me to blog about it.

Just stay away!

Okay, now most people are thinking that I am a jerk and that I don't want anything to do with them. Well, I somewhat do feel that way but mostly towards girls and I just don't feel like doing anything with them. So, any girl that does read this just stay away. Your a curse to a guy, especially if he hasn't gone on his mission, because while you are thinking marriage we are trying to keep our heads on and focus spreading the gospel. While you are wondering how many kids you want to have we are still trying to figure out if we like kids enough to have any, or even if we want to get married to a girl who wants more then 1. I might be wrong about this so any guys if you would like to comment or blog about this go for it. But honestly I think the next time I hear anything about marriage I might just barf. I can honestly stand here and tell you that any money that you spend on a girl before your mission is money you are spending on someone else's wife. So my advise for all you guys that have girlfriends, just dump them and be friends. I mean isn't that what we are suppose to do. Date a billion of people before we decided which one we should marry, it usually boils down to who isn't married when we get back from our mission but that's okay. If your at BYU you can just find a freshmen who is taking Marriage prep, I mean she is just begging to get married if she is in that class. I know most girls say they don't come to get married here at BYU, but that is just like a girl saying that she doesn't want to be swept off her feet by mister romantic. Why lie about? Everyone knows in the back of your mind you are secretly hoping that you find mister right here at BYU. BYU should honestly change there motto to, " Meet today, Marry tomorrow." We even have the Provo temple a whole two maybe three blocks away. If you don't like that one we still have, what ten more, a hour, two hour drive away. So girls don't bug us guys if you know we still have to go on a mission. Just stay away and let us enjoy our lives while we still can. If you love us so much you will be here when we get back in two years.

88%

Well, you think B+ when you see that, 88%. Well, right now all I have to say is that I am the champion. I know I didn't get the highest grade in the class but I got a 88% on my first college chem test. See in my high school we use to take partner tests for chemistry so it wouldn't be all of my work. That was all me though, all 88% of it and had I been thinking, it would have been higher. I got 51 out of 58 points and I think if number 7 wasn't number 7 I would have gotten it right. I wanted to just leave and come back and finish it later but it was a do or die moment. So, I missed out on three points there, and then a point off on sigfigs and then another two on some little stupid things that I didn't know. It is all good though, I didn't even cram for that exam. I could have done better if I would have crammed or studied just a little bit. I like that about myself, I don't stress out about grades. If I don't know it it is my own fault and I can only blame myself so if a test comes up and I am not ready for it, point the finger at me, no one else. Other then that it is all good. People, especially girls, flip out about the little things. Oh my gosh, I don't know this or I don't understand it what should I do. It really is stupid. You don't know, you don't know it, then learn it for next time fix your mistakes. Don't whine about them. Your the only one to blame if you don't know it. In all reality it is because if the teacher didn't teach it well, then you should have gotten help from someone. That was the most annoying thing in the world to me. I could not believe how anal people got about there grades in high school. I mean when you go to college the teacher doesn't know your name yet alone your gpa, or the grade that you got last time when you took a class like that. Everyone just needs to calm down, get over it come on, it is a grade not eternal salvation, Heavenly Father won't care what you got in high school, well, unless you were cheating, but other then that no one cares. But I must say an 88% is dang good. Peace

Be the Beast!!!!!

Let me tell you. Never, ever go and lift with someone that you think or know will definitely lift more then you. I get this crazy idea that I am going to go start lifting and who not do with then anyone other then my peer mentor from Freshmen Academy. Now David is probably a junior, maybe a sophomore but anyways I ask him if it is okay if I go and lift with him. So we are suppose to meet at 8 up in the weight room. I get there and he is not there so I hop on a bike thinking that I would get a good little warm up and get all the blood going and moving. I go for about ten minutes and still no Dave. So I figure I might as well start, I go to an open bench and start with the bar for a warm up. Now, I haven't lifted since last Febuary, maybe more like January, so I start light. I probably get about 85-90 pounds on there and do about ten. I rack it add about ten more pounds and do about ten more. Then Dave shows up, apologizes for being late and uses what I just did for a warm up. Then he puts on about another hundred pounds on and pumps it out ten times, racks it, grabs 40 pound dumbbells and does like 8 or 9 butterflies. I am thinking to myself am I stupid, so I tell him, sorry can't hang lets take off about 50 pounds. So I am doing about 140 or something, probably, less. We do about five sets, then we go to military press. He puts what I was working out with for bench and does it like nothing. I find some lighter weights and I can't even do that. So I got to work out with the bar and barely could finish the last set. Here I am thinking that this guy is crazy and then it is upright rows. I have never felt so tired before in my life. Then he wanted me to do skull crushers with him, I backed out of that with him, and then finished with some tricep extensions. I felt pretty good yesterday, I wasn't that sore, my arms just felt like lead, now I just feel like I should quit while I am still ahead. But I am going to the gym tonight and I am lifting. I am going to be the beast, because I am a beast just for working out with Dave. I have no fear, I will be doing 200 for bench in no time. Be a BEAST!!!!

Knick Knack patty whack give a dog a bone.

Well, I am not going to lie, this whole Knack thing sucked. It was a good idea and really made me think about the type of person I am and made me explore myself some what. It was just the fact that I had to pick something that I just have a thing for. I mean I would find something cool in one instance but then when I would compare it in other instances it wasn't the same. My knack just wasn't all to cool, I mean procastanating, everyone does that. In fact that would be an old knack right now just in the fact that I have been fairly good with my homework since then. I am trying to stay on top of things like that but now with this new Book of Mormon writing assignment I don't know. I think it just the fact that this is college and I am scared to death of failing and wasting my time, money, and my effort because I didn't do what I was suppose to. I do have to say that I have learned a rather large amount in the short time that I have been here. I mean I might have learned this much in about two months of school. I can't believe that I have already been here for a month, at times it seems like I should be taking finals right now, at others it seems like the teacher should spend a little more time talking about one thing or the other about how he or she grades and what is expected out of the students. It is rather crazy that all of this is going on but then at the same time I want finals to be here already. In reality, I want some more time and I want to do more then what I am doing. I think that this weekend has some potential and I hope to really actually do something instead of sit in my dorm and do nothing. I mean that is what I have been doing for the last three or four weeks. I want to get out and hang out with people and talk to them and hang out with people. Get off campus and see what Provo is all about. Maybe Austin and I will get together on Saturday and play some tennis. I really think that I would extremely suck at tennis but it would just be fun to try to act all tough and see how hard I could hit the ball at the other guy. I mean doesn't that just sound fun. I don't know. I think I have become rather good at typing just because of how much I have written in how little time. Well, you can all have a good day.

What to talk about???

Well, I really don't know what to say right now. I have actually had this writers block for quite sometime. Well, not really, I guess it is generated from my friend that is a girl. You see I told her that I would write her a letter so when it comes to writing other things I can't think about anything but of what I am going to write her, and what to include in the letter and in my free time I usually am a way from a computer so I don't want to write her because then I will have to rewrite her. Well, I was hoping I could come up with something fun and exciting to talk about and let all the world know that they might have a good laugh but I think everyone will just end up laughing at me, which I would say I am something to laugh about. Honestly, I mean have you seen the way I dress, it is obvious that my mom use to dress me, my room mate actually had to show me how to tie my shoes(not really). Well, enough about me lets talk about you and see how things work out for you. So, how do you feel about yourself? If you are an average American, you should say overweight, or straight out FAT. That is right EAT UP SADDLEBAGS!!!! Do you understand that most Americans die from some sort of overweight problem. I mean come on, lets get rid of the fast food joint( k I am listening to music and it is on shuffle and it just went to The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show, all I have to say is that that is against the Honor Code) well back to the weight issue with our country. Personally we should all have limited TV watching enforced by the government and then they should also lower gym fees so more people could afford to go workout. Oh and by the way lets lose this whole work as many hours as possible so we can make as much money as possible attitude so people can belief and a strong healthier world. But that is never going to happen, so my suggestion, EAT UP SADDLEBAGS, HAVE ANOTHER BIG MAC FATTY. Well, in all honesty most people who are fat know it and are cool about it and really don't care if you pick on them here and there and it isn't all to mean. But I think we all need to reach out to everyone and help each other wake up in the morning and go do some sort of physical activate, whether it be walking, running, swimming, playing a game of basketball, lifting some weights, do something about three times a week, eat some what healthy and also with good reason and if you are overweight it isn't because you aren't trying, you just are. Be as health as a horse, a big horse isn't a bad horse to be as health as but could we just work to a better fitter nation please for once SADDLEBAGS.

Steal My Thunder!!!

Okay, today was suppose to be a very grand day for me and my English homework. I was going to have done ten blogs in a little under three weeks from recieving the assignment, instead, someone has done twenty compared to my little ten. I mean come on, we haven't even been on this campus for twenty days, yet alone, have had this assignment for twenty days. This remonds me of this project i had to due last year in pyhsics. Everyone was suppose to make/ build a water clock to time three minuets. I mean sounds easy if you knew how you were doing. So me being me I waited till the night before it was due, one becasue I couldn't come up with a good idea and I didn't want to do it yet. So, I start thinking about this and I talk to this guy i work with, he's about forty working at pizza with a brillant mind but he hated doing homework so he never finished college, and he gives me some ideas. I try to make this thing and the more I think the easier I make this whole thing. In the end I have a milk jug with a whole in the bottom with a litttle stopper, a platic piece that was left over from a shelf, and some syranwrap. I mark where I need to fill it up to so when it three minutes is up the jug is empty. the next morning my mom throws the jug away and i have to pull it out, un crush it and hope for the best. I go to class get within three tenths of a second. I mean 3:00.3. That was how close I got. The next closes to me was five seconds off. The next day a kid in the other pyshics class gets a tenth closer. I don't even think it was that. I never heard the end of it. ALl I heard was how CJ got closer then me, and this was coming from kids who were like thrity seconds to a minute off. It was pretty stupid. The kid took pride that he beat me. I mean I spent like an hour and he spent a week. He better have beat me. ALl i have to say is that if you can write two of these back to back knock yourself off because you are crazy and pshcyo. Have a great day. Later. Sorry no spell check this time

This could be good!

Well, let me tell you, I am starting this week out good. I did most of my homework last night and even though I didn't get as much sleep as I should have, I still got a few hours in. I think that this could be a good one. I feel that this could be the best week of college yet. I am not stressed out, I am not worried about something, I started this week out right and I think depending on how tonight goes this could possible be the best Monday, I have had in awhile. I just need to find a job this week and I think that things would be going really good. I don't know, the job thing has me a little worried and I am unsure if what I need to do to obtain one on campus, so, I will make a few calls tonight and go from there. I enjoyed reading Bryson's book except that I really can't relate to it to well, I mean I don't even know what half of the words mean in there, but that is okay, I get what he is saying in general. All I know that this is number 9, that is right 9. Next it will be ten, hopefully tomorrow because then I could be a fifth way through this so that would be good. I am actually amazed that I am not putting this assignment off like all the past writing assignments I had. I had one for English last year like this but it was ten lines on what we thought about one quote and I would collect the quotes and then at the end of the six weeks I would just write for like an hour and fill all of them in. Then my junior year we had to keep a journal of the moon, so I waited until the last day and wrote like 28 moon entries, it was pretty weird. I remember looking at a calendar trying to figure out when the moon was in what shape. It was quite funny, well, not really, but it was because I got a 98% on it. That's what is so different about high school and college. If you spend ten minutes on an assignment when it should have taken you like an hour your college professor will mark you down so bad. In high school you r teacher is just glad that you did the assignment and that is in on time so you get prop points. You didn't have to bribe anyone or do anything special for that person. It is quite amazing the difference that there is. It is just working a little harder that's all. Well that is time. Later

In for the long haul!!!

Well, let me tell you. This weekend is looking to be a long one. Well, I hope it becomes one because I have a ton of homework to do and not a lot of time to do it. Sadly, but it is okay, I have time to do it and I think if I stay focused I can do this. I know I can do this all I have to say this is way different then high school. All of my teachers would be all over us and trying to remind us every minute to do the assignment. Here it's more like you have one chance to get it right. I can't believe. I have almost missed like three or four assignments, I really need to focus, because I really don't feel like dealing with bad grades and my pell grant is riding on good grades and I really don't feel like throwing this all a way out of stupidity but hey sometimes you just have to pay for your stupid mistakes the hard way. I would rather not but if I end up screwing things up looks like I will have to which will be okay. I am fully capable of doing this college thing and getting all my homework in and dominating in my classes, I just need to focus. I just have to cut the chain with the things that are holding me back and really just go for. I have people all around that can help me and pull me through, just will I get there help? I hope I do, I know they will help me but will I be smart enough to ask for there help. Of course I will be, if I didn't I would be stupid and would deserve to fail any and every class that I am taking. Well, maybe not everyone but close to everyone. I really don't feel like talking about grades and school to much. How about those cougars? They are looking good today, leading Eastern Illinois 17-0 right now. Hopefully that changes to like 65-0 like Wisconsin over temple. It was pretty bad. I so wouldn't want to be that team right now, I can't believe Wisconsin would go out and slaughter a team like that. I think that had a little chip on the shoulder from last week because I think they got there butts handed to them. It wasn't good, well it was close but it was pretty bad that they lost the way they did. Well, what else is there to say. I really can't come up with anything right now. I mean I have like two more minutes and I can;t come up with something to fill that two minutes , well we are down to one. One whole minute can you believe that. I hate writing for a certain amount of time. Some times its good but others it turns out not so good. Well, look at that times up.

What I never knew.

Well, it starts fairly simple. You walk into a classroom for the first time. Your a new college student, which most people like to call freshmen. You think that this should be a simple review class and you took plenty of Chemistry in high school, well for me anyways. For others its English, Algebra, or maybe even good old Book of Mormon. Well, you sit down for the first time and you start listening to your professor, well you aren't really listening more just hearing, because you know this I mean you just want to stand up and say can I take the final already because I know this. Well, you make through your first class of it and get your first homework assignment. Yea what a breeze it is. Instead of spending the half hour you expected on doing two problems. You spend three hours on it and you really can't get a hold of yourself. You question everything that you did, you ask three or four people to check your assignment and compare answers and of course you got one out of the ten right. So you spend every ounce if time between classes redoing it and all you can say is that you are glad that you have until five to turn in your work instead of having to turn it in first thing in the morning. This is when it hits you. High school was a joke and really a waste of time. For me, I feel I should have skipped high school and came to college because high school, all it though t me was poor study habits and even worse listening, reading, and writing skills. Critical thinking, who needs it when you have a teacher to nag on until they give you an answer. Well, anyways, back to the story, I thought I knew Chemistry fairly well and that two years of it would have really pushed me over the top of everyone else. In all reality I don't even know where to start. I could ask my Chem partners back home and they might be able to help me but I highly doubt it. What I thought I knew so well, I am barely learning all about. Chemistry isn't some easy walk in the park thing, I mean I would be surprised if you could chew gum and learn chemistry at the same time. It sounds easy and ridiculous but you better put better bring your a game when you go to a college chemistry class or you won't stand a chance. Well, I don't think this fits Bryson's style to well, but I think I will try some more tomorrow.

Doesn't that just stink?

Well, frankly it does stink. I lost my Algebra book and I wasn't smart enough to put my name in it so now don't we just have a problem. I hope it turns up because I really, don't feel like going and buying a new book. Other then that today has been an okay day. I had two classes this morning and two more this afternoon. I am also suppose to go get a computer this afternoon so hopefully that happens so I can do my homework in the comfort of my room. That would just be great. I won't have to ask my friends if I can borrow there computer I can just use mine. Which would be a really good thing. Hopefully I can find a job sometime this week to so I can start to make some money and pay my bills. I really don't want to have to stress about money this year. I would like to stress school work and passing my classes so I hope I can focus on that and that only. Well, today we get to turn in our rough draft of our brochures. I really hope this is as painless as possible. I mean I don't want to have to redo the entire thing or get told it sucks so start fresh. I mean how much fun would that be. It wouldn't be any. So, tonight is looking like it will be a good homework night. I most likely have an English assignment and also I have math and chemistry. Chemistry is due tomorrow but I have looked through it so I hope I can just peace it together and work it out. It really isn't that hard I just haven''t done Chemistry in awhile so it will be hard for me to get back into. Just like Math right now. I took a really advanced math last year and algebra this year so going backwards isn't helping me because I have to revise my thinking and now it is individual work so I have to figure out how to do this by myself instead of seeing how someone does it and then just mirror what they did. It is a little different to do homework on the computer to, so I am adjusting to that. What else is school about? How could I forget tests? I have a math test I have to take in the testing center sometime this week. Math test 1. I have a review for tomorrow night though so it should be pretty easy to pass. I couldn't imagine that they would make it to hard on me or the other college kids. Well, it is about quitting time so I think I will type a few more words and end. Really all I want to say is that Jesus loves you and I hope you have a great day.

What a beautiful day!

Well, let me tell you of my day. It has been a very good day. I got to all my classes on time and I got all of my homework turned in. I only have a few more small things to do and then I am done with all of my homework for the night. I also got a good two hour nap in and my ex-girlfriend and I had a fairly decent conversation today so things are going good there. Well, not really but I can see that in about two to maybe three weeks she will be over me and possibly seeing another guy. It was actually weird how that whole thing went down but it was probably for the best. I don't want to get off topic to bad. Well, I also get a chance to do what ever I like no not really. Well, I also am looking for a job and I think I could get a good job on campus working about 20 hours a week which would be good because then I can pay my housing payment so I won't have to get a loan and this way I can work lots and pay my bills and go to school and still have a social life and do homework. So things are looking up and things are getting better here at BYU. Sadly I haven't felt homesick yet so that is good . I don't know I am not typing to much tonight. I am having a hard time thinking of things to type. I don't know normal I can go off about how crappy school is going or something to that nature but tonight I just fell good about how school is going and glad how things are turning out to be. I am some what sad that me and my girlfriend broke up and that we probably won't get back together but that is what the lord wants. It really sucks when you think about it like that but also it seems exciting because I am just curious in what the lord has planned for me. You know. I just can't wait to see what the lord has planned out for me. I don't know I think it will be cool. I just hope everything goes good for her. It bugs me to think of her seeing other guys and stuff but at the same time it doesn't. I don't know. Well once again it has come to the end of the this blog. It is probably one if my worst ones but hey. I have like fifth of them. So later.

Work on a Holiday!

Well, let me tell you there is nothing more that sucks then working on a holiday. I can't believe I actually screwed myself up like this. I was suppose to spend all my time on Saturday doing my homework. Instead I slept and watched football. I didn't do anything, so now on my wonderful and great holiday of labor day, I end up laboring. It isn't to bad. I only have a few more things to do but still it is frustrating sitting in your dorm room listening to people outside playing while you are inside reading. I guess it wouldn't bug me so bad if I actually understood what I am reading and the reason for me to read. Well, I can understand, I am just really lazy and I am so use to my other friends doing work with me or just copying from them that I lost a lot of critical thinking skills that I had. Well, I didn't lose them I just haven't used them in a while so getting them out is a little bit on the hard side. Let me tell you though. I am already seeing improvement from writing everyday. I type a little bit better already and this is only my third or fourth blog so you can see that it is paying off fairly nicely. It is wickedly awesome I am getting use to where the letters are and I don't have to look down at my hands to type any more. I occasionally do just because I struggle hitting some letters but I know I just need to getting my head down dig in deep and drive and do my best to succeed and I will. Someone once told me that it is not how much you know it in college, it is how bad you want that college degree. I now see what he meant. The teacher will teach you what you need to know and if you listen and do the assignments you will just cruise right along. That is right I said cruise, maybe not smoothly but you will get through college. You might have that class that you just can't pass but you will get through it if you push hard and try hard. For, example, I just realized I might be on this computer for about another hour or so just so I can get most of my work done. No matter what I am leaving at five no matter how much I have done. I think I could get a very good portion of it done but I don't know what I am looking at yet. Lets see if I can do it. Well, as always the time has come for this wonderful great blog to end. It was wonderful telling my story to who ever cares to here. See you later. Have a great day.

Poor time management.

Today is Saturday, the 3rd of September. Here I am wasting my time by not doing any of my homework. I mean it is Saturday, my day to catch up on all my homework and possible get ahead in my classes. Which would be a smart thing to do but would I want to do that? No... Instead I want to waste my time sitting around doing nothing. I mean it is 11 in the morning and I just got done taking a shower. I haven't even ate breakfast yet. That is sad don't you think. Not to mention that the game starts at one so I need to hussle and get something done if I plan on making any thing happen today. Like I said in my last post, I think, I don't mange my time wisely and I waste it doing stupid things and I stay up to late and I don't focus on the task on hand. I need to pull the head out of the butt and focus. I could probably finish most of my work in a few short hours so, I am going to write a game plan. When I am done with this, I am going to go read my scriptures and write in my journal for that, then I will go have breakfast/lunch, afterwards I will, start doing my chemistry homework, and hopefully I will finish one assignment before the game. Then I will watch BYU play Boston college and after, I will watch Boise State play Georgia. I will then iron my church close, what else do I need to do. I will probably talk to my girlfriend sometime in there and I will write her to. Both a letter and an email, well maybe one and then the other at a little later date. I also need to check my bank balance and then pay my housing. I hate money, I wish it did grow on trees because now I have to work none stop and go to school to make housing payments and also pay for anything else I need like to get my toenail fixed. I have an ingrown toenail. It sucks to have it but it really doesn't bug me to much but whatever, it needs to get removed. So, what else do I need to do. Oh wait. Get a job, that would be a good start. A job I love jobs because I just rock when I work because I can pick things up rather quickly and my bosses or mangers worship me and want me to stay and work for the rest of my life at their restaurant. Well look at the time that is fourteen minutes, Less then a unit of time right. Makes plenty of sense.

Long day.

Once you see what time it is you will understand that this is had been along day for me. Actually it has been a long week for me, and I really need a long nights rest. A really long nice and wonderful nights rest. Well, I have been thinking about this and how you wanted us to write about one subject. So I am debating talking about school and teachers and stuff or maybe pick something else. I really don't think that you care just as long as we write. As you might have noticed the last time I didn't have to many spelling mess ups. Well, after I finished writing I wanted to go back through and make sure that I had spelled thing correctly and do a proofread , kind of. I mean If I am posting something on the internet, I want to make sure that it is somewhat decent besides that it was really bugging me so I though t since my 14 minutes where done writing that it would be okay to go back through. Just clean things up a little so you could at least understand tit and read it t and not wonder what I am writing. I am a really bad typer so I push a lot of the wrong keys so I need to go through and do a lean up so you actually somewhat kind of understand what I am doing. I really wish I could sleep right now because I am so tired and I just want this to go really fast because I am ready for bed. Yes that is right. Bed. Sleep, that thing that most college kids lack. I really can't blame my teachers for it because I usually keep myself up doing stupid thing s so maybe I will learn my lesson really quick so I don't have to spend my entire school year writing about how tired I am and how I refuse to do my homework. I would be the best student in the world if I wasn't lazy and actually applied myself. I was never a kid who was worried about understanding. I was just worried about my grade and did things just enough to give me a decent grade so I hope I fix that before I start to fail. I need to get in to this stuff and not worry about others and what they think of me and things like that. I really need to focus and learn and try to gain as much knowledge as possible. I really could rock and be awesome at school if I just practiced. Well, as the time winds down all I can think is that this year could be great for me in English. A lot of work but I feel that there is a lot of very important things I need to learn and that this school has it to offer me. Well, I will end this blog and say a quick peace out.

This sucks!!!

That is right I said it. This sucks. I hate writing for one so I thought I could take out some of my anger on it. The reason why I hate writing is really simple. I never have been good at it. Well, I really can't say that because I sucked at wrestling but I still liked it. Well, it is really simple. I just don't like writing but today really topped it off. I came home from school trying to get all of my homework inside my head in order. Guess what? I had a ton that is right a ton. So I thought I would start on the computer stuff thinking that I could possible get that done easy and but you know what. I can't access my account so I can't get to my algebra homework so now don't I have a problem considering the fact that I would like to get it done before this weekend because it is really easy. I mean it is algebra, how hard could it be. Then again it is college and people do say that college is a lot harder. Not really just more work and preserving . Whatever that word is spelled like. Well, back to this I hat writing thing. You see, when I had lady English teachers I couldn't stand them because they would screw me over and say I never got the thesis or my intro was to weak or that I didn't have good arguments and give me a one or maybe a 2. But my guy English teachers, I couldn't;t go wrong. I usually could get maybe a 6 or 7. Granted that isn't great but for me it was. Also stupid lady English teachers would make life so complicated, just like girls do, you know they always wonder if they were to hard or if they hurt anyone's feelings by what they said, it was pretty stupid, well you know how guys are. They run things with authority and they don't care if someone's feelings got hurt, well we do but we wouldn't lose sleep over it because that is they way life is and that is just what we do. It is all in the point of view. Not to mention, I have yet to meet a guy teacher who actually spent so much time worrying about how something looked or whether it looked okay. You know I had this assignment in English my sophomore year. We had to make poetry books. I already suck at poetry as it is and then for her have me make a book with it I just wanted to shoot my self. But like have the grades where on looks. I mean come on, do I honestly have a chance of beating a girl or even getting close to her. Well, it is time. I hope you enjoy this. It is quite fun to write and not worry about how it sounds but I do hope that I could fix my spelling. Well whatever.