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OOOOKAY it’s been a while.  School has started again and I’ve been absolutely swamped with work and homework and classes and…. yeah.  It’s all going pretty well, though, can’t complain.  My classes are:

intermediate tap dance-  yeah, I’m working my way to being able to tap like Gene Kelly.  It’s getting there.

new testament- I read the four gospels in two weeks, go me!

World civilizations to 1500- actually pretty interesting.  We’re still on the paleolithic era.  Cave paintings and whatnot

psychological statistics- the only math class I’ll ever have to take in college.  My professor is awesome, lecture is easy to understand, the hours and hours of homework are hellish.

intro to art and drawing- its for non-majors, so they don’t expect us to be actually good at art, which is great.  it’s fun, and it’s fulfilling a GE!  wooo.  although I do have to lug around a huge drawing board and pad of paper, which gets annoying.  maybe I’ll post some pictures of my sketches and stuff.

university strings- I was aiming to sign up for the orchestra a level up from this one, but it was full.  Last year it was a bit below my skill level.  But this year, whew!  We are playing some hard stuff.  I’m third chair.  We’re accompanying soloists on a vivaldi concerto that I’ve played before, but then we’re doing Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances, which aren’t too bad (and I might play the solos!), but the Tchaikovsky…. man.  I can barely play that.  The sight-reading was just terrible.  At least now I’ve got something to practice.

So yeah, those are my classes.  Fun stuff, huh?  Work is going well… we’ve started football season, which is, can I just say, not fun in the least.  Last game day, the game was at 1, some of us had to get there at 1 in the morning.  On a saturday.  Gah.  Luckily I got to come in at 4, but I stayed later.  We make food for all the VIP lounges and the president’s loge and stuff…. it was fun.  Before the season started we got to take a tour of the stadium and see where our food was going-  we got to go in the president’s loge, which was awesome.  If I could watch the game from there, I would definitely go.  Here’s a picture.

I’m enjoying being back with my roomies very much.  It’s great to have them all here.  We’re pretty much awesome.

So yeah, that’s life right now!  Its pretty good.  Hooray.

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So, this is where I work!

go hot kitchen!

I know the picture quality is terrible, but I took this on my phone. so yeah.

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Food again.

Today I was reading Confessions of a Shopaholic (did you know that was a book before it was a movie?  I didn’t) and the main character was trying to make curry instead of ordering out.  And all of the sudden I was like, I WANT INDIAN FOOD.  So I ran to Smith’s, got some cauliflower, carrots, mushrooms, etc, looked up some recipes, and bam!  Veggie masala and naan for dinner.  I kind of went crazy.   I finally got around to using the pressure cooker to do rice (it got a bit overcooked), I used this recipe for the masala (with a few changes of my own, mainly adding mushrooms, peas, and a few more spices), and this one for the naan.  The only thing I wasn’t really happy about was how the naan turned out- not at all like I had hoped.  It still tasted good, but it wasn’t really naan, just kind of… bread.  Probably because I used olive oil instead of ghee because I don’t even know what ghee is, or where to get it.  Yeah.  But it was really good!  And it smelled really good!  And LEFTOVERS!  wooo.

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College students CAN eat well on a budget.  No ramen for this girl.

roasted portabello mushroom with baby spinach, diced tomatoes and feta cheese

udon noodles with green onions in a soy broth

farfalle with sautéed cremini mushrooms with fresh thyme and parmesan

 

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I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I haven’t posted in a way long time.  So here is an update.

I have now officially finished my freshman year of college.  I feel like it went way too fast.  I really hope the rest of my college career doesn’t go by this quickly… this is supposed to be the prime of my life!  These are the few years where I’m allowed to make blanket forts and stay up till 2 and buy random things at the dollar store and go on spontaneous camping trips and… yeah.  Sometimes I worry that I’m going to just… miss all that.  What if one day I wake up and I’m married and have five kids and a job and I’m… an adult.

Wow, sorry to dump all that on you.  Basically my life is just work right now.  I do love my job, though.  It’s pretty awesome.  Go BYU catering!  I get to cook food all day.   Although, right now we’re in the middle of EFY- we do lunches for them.  Tuesday is burritos, Thursday is chicken cordon bleu (we call them hamsters… they really do look like little golden dead rodents), rice pilaf, and broccoli normandy.  Last week we had to do meals for upwards of 2000 kids.  Yeah… so that was fun.  At least I’m getting close to my 40 hours a week.  Also, they put me in charge of the special meals- the gluten-intolerants, vegetarians, nut allergies, lactose-intolerants, and people with random allergies like carrots and pineapple and chocolate.  So that’s fun.  I get a list every week and I make sure they all get what they need.

Well, I really don’t know what else to write about.  Um, recently I’ve been going back and forth about cutting my hair short again.  I am so tired of it being this random in-between length.  I decided to leave it long last week, today I’m leaning toward a sort of 20s-style bob.  Gah.  Haha, I even found a haircutting place in Provo called Haven Salon.  For real!  If it weren’t so expensive (25-40$ for a cut) I would bike over there right now.  I wonder if they would give me a discount because apparently I was named after them.

Yesterday mom told me I needed a project.  I suppose it’s true, because all I do is work and sleep and watch tv and eat.  Usually not in that order, but sometimes.  And I was like, ehhh I don’t want a project, all I want is to sleep and watch tv and eat.  And then I was like, AHHH I DO NEED A PROJECT!  So then I put in Transformers (super cheesy movie, by the way.  seriously, it’s all ‘put the all spark in my chest I will sacrifice myself for you puny inexperienced human race’.  and they kind of ignored some of the fundamental laws of physics which really bothered me.  I’m such a nerd.) and ate some tangerines and noticed that I have a little belly pooch.  Ah!  It’s not like I’m fat or anything, but all that ice cream is getting to my midsection.  So I’ve found my project.  I’m going to get in shape.  Hopefully.  So I did crunches and pushups and planks and arm circles through the rest of the movie and it felt really good.  Although, I’m so lazy and unmotivated that the only way I can make myself work out is if it’s during a movie.  So I’m going to be watching movies and working out for the rest of the summer.  Hopefully.  Usually my ‘projects’ don’t last very long so we’ll see how this goes.

So yep!  That’s what’s going on.  The life of a college kid.  Slightly less exciting than you might expect, but I’m okay.

 

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We’ve had a fun week here.  We went ice skating a couple days ago- that was great, after I was able to stop clinging to the wall.

PS- all photo credit in this post goes to Katelynn.

I love this picture, it’s just a huge mess of awkwardness.

we had a full-blown nerf war.  I know this picture is blurry, but whatever.  You get the idea.  We all ended up shooting each other in the eye at some point, which hurts.  I don’t recommend it.

and we made a blanket fort in our kitchen and tried to sleep in it, which didn’t work out so well.  The kitchen floor is HARD, especially when you’re squished between two other people.  We ended up all just going to our beds in the middle of the night.

so yeah… college life.  I’m still working hard, though it may not seem like it

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We had a photoshoot yesterday.  with nerf guns and prettiness

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late-night adventures in college.  they’re great

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so… I’m a huge Sherlock fan.  Imagine my joy when I saw this on my way to a  job interview today.  Sorry for the bad quality, I took it from my phone.

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I’ve known that BYU was a pretty cool school for a while, but this sealed the deal.  We have the world’s largest cardboard box fort on campus!

the entrance