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I have two late evening finals scheduled for Friday and Saturday. I am not looking forward to that. Friday is my Six-months-time anniversary and I thought that April 20 was a stat. holiday. Why can’t finals just be during class time? Does anyone really need more than an hour to eek knowledge out of students? I get super restless after about 1.5 hours anything after that and I’m just filling space so I can get a change of scenery. I’m still trying to figure out how I can possibly fill ten minutes talking about my “special project.” I could easily get everything out in three minutes and get everyone an extra seven minutes of sleep. For my special project, I read two books which exhibited distinctly different writing styles. I did this in hopes that broadening my reading repertoire would in turn enhance my writing ability. It did. Okay maybe three minutes is too much time too. I’ll try and expound on that a little. 

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What happened this semester? That is what I’ve been wondering all week. I just got in a little too far over my head and everything fell apart – myself included – and now I’m trying to piece things together before I get to finals week. I now know that I can’t work full time and expect to maintain any semblance of a decent GPA. I finally quit my job but it’s way too late to salvage this semester. So now I just have to hope I can get on top of things over summer ‘cause I know this isn’t getting any easier. This was my first semester at BYU and I thought I was ready to dive in but for some reason I wasn’t. I think the main thing was the fact that there were a lot of changes that really bothered me that I had a difficult time overlooking and the terrible part is that they’re all things that everyone here loves (I’m a real advocate for the whole separation of church and state thing and the prospect of a religion course influencing my grade really bothered me no matter how easy anyone says those classes are). Another issue I had was budgeting my time. I didn’t put enough in my planner and it cost me.

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I ended up having to work both mornings on general conference weekend so the only full session that I saw was priesthood session and I saw the last half hour of Sunday afternoon. I had conference playing in the hearth room at the hotel I work at so whenever I wasn’t busy at the front desk, I would go, stand in the door way, and watch. This did make it difficult to actually follow what was being said but it was nice to feel the spirit during work.

My family was in town for conference so my dad, brother, and I all got to go to priesthood together.  This wonderful opportunity reminded me of the blessing of the priesthood. Since I have gotten married it has been a new responsibility of mine to be a priesthood leader in my home. Having this new responsibility has made me even more grateful for the opportunity I had to be raised in a home where there was a good priesthood bearer leading the family. 

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The only time I write these posts seems to be when I have given up on doing productive things so It’s probably a good thing that I have been way under quota. Then again, looking at my history, It’s not good that this is my fourth post this weekend (which entirely supports my earlier statement). This was a rough weekend and still is. Fortunately my wife returns tonight so some things will be better. I’ve just been putting a lot of thought into what I have been doing lately and what I need to change and while I still haven’t entirely reached a conclusion, I’ve realized that I’m going to have to change a lot. I’ll be starting with my job. I have finally concluded that not only is it entirely inconvenient, it is costing me way more time and emotional wellness than I can afford to sacrifice at this point. I’m sure changing jobs right now probably will upend a lot of things but I feel I need to do it if I want to excel in school. So I’m putting my feelers out now (if anyone has an in) I technically am still employed at two other places and one of those jobs will give me 12 hours per week I just would want one more shift if I could get it so hopefully I can get my fallback arranged before I take my plunge.

My sister just posted a hilarious picture of my niece on facebook. She has on bunny ears and is making a series of very expressive faces. I love expressive people. Maybe it’s from my background in sign language.  So much of ASL and really any language is based on facial expression so I always pay very close attention to faces.  When people are very expressive I feel like I connect with them more. My sister is super good with her facial expressions so of course her smallish child is as well. This picture has to be one of my favourite baby pictures of Hannah thus far. It’s my sister’s first baby so she is taking tons of pictures. But then who wouldn’t. Hannah’s blessing is tomorrow. Too bad I can’t be there. My sister made all the plans so that I could make it then my manager decided not to give me the days off. I should stop complaining about that.

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My family is coming up next weekend because they’re on spring break. I saw their reservation in the computer at my place of work (I work at a hotel) and I wrote in a requests for their room. Typically when guests come in they have requests on their reservation asking for a high floor room or extra pillows etc. so I put in a request that said “please have bathtub filled for pet sea slug.” I’m not sure if I’m allowed to do that but I did. I just want to know what my manager does when he is looking at the list of arrivals next week and that one comes up. I’m sure it will be hilarious. I am still trying to decide what I want the other reservation to say. I was thinking about putting a request in to “have all light bulbs removed guest will be bringing their own energy efficient bulbs.” I was in a really creative mood yesterday. I must have spent a good hour thinking of random things I could request. My family comes in on Wednesday so I’ll see what happens then.  I have to think of ways to entertain them. Fortunately I’m not going to be working too much when they’re here.

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Wow I don’t know what number post this is but it certainly isn’t number twelve. I’ve been flyin’ solo this weekend and it has been terrible. I don’t know how I lived for so long without having someone to share a bed with. It’s so cold and lonely. I went to the volleyball game tonight, alone. It was a pretty exciting game. Before that I went to my aunt’s place. All her kids were over with their kids so I was kind of the odd man out but my aunt is awesome so she was good about including me. I did get a kiss from my niece her mouth was covered in chocolate but it was sill great. She just started walking a few months ago. Her dad is Chilean so when you say besitos, she comes over and kisses you on the cheek. It is nice having some family here to visit with. Hopefully I find somewhere to go tomorrow. My wife will be really sad if I am alone on easter.