Hi

I was going to post some pictures, but my memory card reader's glitching out on me like it does sometimes. So, I came home from Spokane and finished putting my room together (almost). I've now got my bookshelf right next to the door, and the mirror between the foot of my bed and the closet (so I stop kicking my books in my sleep). When I got here my bed was up on cinderblocks, so I took advantage of that fact and now have no big boxes or tubs in the living space of my room. I put up about 1/3 of my pictures, I've been too lazy/busy to do the rest yet.

Monday (my birthday!) Mel and I drove down to Salt Lake. I got myself a pair of shoes that I'd fallen in love with in February at a store that had had only one pair left on clearance, the wrong size of course; in Salt Lake they were the 'these just came in' shoes, they came in my size, and they were 40% off. So I got them as a birthday present with some of what I got from Oma and Opa :) We picked up Mel's boyfriend and his twin brother from the Salt Lake airport, then bought stuff we needed for our apartment at Ross (e.g. garbage can, shower curtain, and a backpack for me), and groceries at Winco.

So the first week of school was interesting. We started on a Tuesday, which would of course happen to be my busiest day. My intro to foods class looks like it'll be fun; I got lucky enough to end up with one of the three guys in the class as my lab partner, rather than one of the girls whom I suspected would probably light the lab on fire. He tailors clothes. We made lollipops, which was a bit of an adventure. After those 3 hours, I went to my object-oriented programming class, where he just showed us examples of programs we should be able to write by the end of the semester. My last class that day was Book of Mormon, we went over the syllabus (we're going to have to read the Book of Mormon in 4 weeks starting April 27th). We also had devotional by Pres. Clark, on preparing for marriage (the singlemost popular topic on this campus...). On Wednesday I went to my operating systems class; I'm the only girl in there. We talked about digital logic and building switches (AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR). My teacher is tall. My next class was home and family consumer science education, and the teacher said anyone who isn't taking it for their major (that's me!) can waive the class. So I went and got a waiver form and frantically tried to find another class that I could take instead, because waiving this one would bring me down to 12 credits this semester, and I have to have at least 14 to keep my scholarship. After lots of hunting, I finally found a class I have to take, moral judgement and analytical thinking, though I didn't have the prerequisite and the class was full. I went and talked to the teacher, he said the prereq didn't matter, and if I showed up to class that day he would add me. So after going to my programming class (it's daily, and I forgot my laptop power cord, oh horror of horrors) I went to this guy's class (everyone calls it 'capstone' for short). It sounds tough but I think it'll be good for me. He told me he added me, but it hasn't shown up on my schedule or Blackboard yet, so I can't do the homework *sigh* That night my laptop died because of lack of power. Thursday I got to sleep in until 11, then had programming, where I actually understand the Java code we're writing (and at the beginning of class my teacher gave me my cord back), and Book of Mormon, which I'm going to absolutely love. Friday I went to operating systems. After that class I went and worked (I'm still working as a TA for my old web design teacher). Then I had programming. Then I went home.

Somewhere in there I also went to the library and got a card. I got my reading glasses in the mail on Thursday and have been trying to remember to wear them (I'm very good at getting fingerprints all over them, every two minutes). My roommates this semester are Mel and Shelby, who I roomed with last semester as well, Heather, who I've been friends with since coming up here, and two new girls, Kristen and Aleen. Kristen and I have already gotten to be pretty good friends, and Aleen is nice. I've gone back to the old apartment a couple times, usually to get mail, and I'm glad I'm not living there anymore. It smells disgusting, and they have random outfits of clothing hanging on the living room walls as decoration (e.g. an olive winter bodysuit complete with olive fake fur trim, a pink long-legged leotard, etc.). Saturday I spent most of the day doing homework, and work-work, and some of the evening watching Star Trek. Today I went to my new ward (48th), which I'm already liking a lot better than last semester's. The bishop (Bishop Westenskow) is really nice, I feel like I could actually talk to him rather than having a staring contest like with the last one. The bishopric came by Wednesday night, and on Sunday he remembered my name (wow). The counselors are Bro. Bennett (heehee!) and Bro. Rose. Poor Aleen had to play piano for sacrament meeting. Had a nice lesson in Sunday school on that funniest of all Bible stories, Balaam and his donkey *grin* Walked home after church. Took a nice nap. So now here we are :)