Nothing spectacular happened on Thursday as it was rather tame and contained nothing else besides class, at least that is all I can remember.
Friday, not only did I have class, but the ward had its annual Halloween hayride. Sure the Halloween hayride occurred on Friday the 13th of November but it was fun. Lena Tenney brought four friends with her and I got the opportunity to give those four a ride up there. They are quite the interesting crew. All are very accomplished and intelligent individuals, and perhaps a bit egotistical. So was I at that age and I guess I still am. Lena's friend Robert was riding shotgun and as per the rules he was navigating. Unfortunately I didn't screen him well enough and I discovered he had no idea where we were going. We accidently got on I-35 south. We were forced to turn around but with some quick thinking nothing was lost. We arrived at the event and I immediately got myself a hotdog and some home-made root beer. We then rode around President Keyes property and it was okay. Afterwords President Keyes spoke in a fireside setting and he had some very good instruction for us. After he was finished Lena's crew and I, and Lena, headed home. Overall everyone had a good time.
Saturday I got the opportunity to help setup the Family Fun Zone. Always a good time when you get the opportunity to hang out with the Elders and once again get a free hot dog. Oklahoma State was successful against Texas Tech which was excellent. Utah got throttled by TCU. Finally, Real Salt Lake beat the Chicago Fire and advanced to the MLS Cup. I guess that is 2/3, which isn't too bad.
Sunday I got the opportunity to pass the sacrament which is always a good time. Mainly due to the fact that you always get to see who is with who in the ward. We discovered the early church's missionary program and I was quite surprised to see where the church originally had missions. Such surprising countries included China. Priesthood, I don't remember the subject, but it was enjoyable as well.
Monday in between classes I went and washed Stanley and got his oil changed. This was so on Wednesday Natalie and Jacob could borrow him and take him New Orleans. He is currently there and from what I hear he is enjoying himself. I restarted my streak of FHE attendance and it currently stand at 1. My friend Matt taught the lesson and it was about the importance of temperance and the dangers of anger.
Tuesday was probably the most incredible experience in law school to date. As we were sitting in our civil procedure class at 9:00am, Chief Justice John Roberts walks in and proceeds to interrupt the professor. Of course, Professor Swank was more then willing to give up the podium and let the Chief Justice speak. He gave us a short spiel for about 5 minutes and then told us that surely we had some questions for him. He then proceeded to tell us that he was going to pick the first person to ask the question and suddenly pointed at Brandee Raney and said, "YOU! What is your question?" I'm so glad he didn't pick me, I would have crumbled.
After awhile I asked him, "Where do you think the major change in the law will be over the next twenty years?" He said that he felt it would be in relation to technology. Such as copyright laws, how technology can be employed by the police, and such. After spending about 30 minutes with us, he encouraged us to come hear him speak that afternoon and then bid us adieu and left.
That afternoon Lena came down to the law school and we went and listened to him speak. The problem was that we had to go through security and were required to have a photo id. I had forgotten mine at home. I was forced to run all the way back to my apartment and then back to the law school. Sadly, my unpreparedness led us to not being able to get seats together, so we opted to going up to the sky boxes and watching Chief Justice Roberts speech from up there. Chief Justice Roberts spoke about Abraham Lincoln's appointments to the Supreme Court. An interesting subject but one that surprised me. I was hoping for maybe something more current or political I guess. After the speech Lena and I went to Braum's. A good time was had by all I believe.
Wednesday was pretty normal. Classes were normal and nothing too exciting happened. Sadly, institute was frustrating and seemed to be small reflection of my seminary experience. In my opinion quite a few inappropriate things were sad and not corrected. As I said to some individuals I talked to about it later, this is the exact reason why your testimony is in Christ and not in people.
Today is Thursday and I'm currently watching Oklahoma State play Colorado. Oklahoma State's defense is playing much better but our offense is leaving much to be desired as we are playing without our senior quarterback Zac Robinson. Currently the score is OSU 10-7. The defense already has 4 sacks.
Real Salt Lake plays on Sunday for the MLS Cup in Seattle. The game will be televised on ESPN and I'm completely stoked. I hope we win and I feel like we can do it this year. Oklahoma State is obviously playing tonight and we'll know what happens by the time the night is over. Utah plays SDSU and I like our chances there. Chelsea F.C. this week plays the Wolverhamptom so it should be an interesting game with all the injuries we have sustained so far.
I've missed Survivor tonight because I'm watch Oklahoma State but thats okay as I'll watch it tomorrow. Last week Russell was once again able to find the hidden immunity idol without any clues. That takes brains. They were able to use the idol to blindside one of the Galu 6. This means with a possible Shambo betrayal the game is now tied up 5-5. Of course, this week is the week that Shambo would betrayal Galu so perhaps she didn't. I missed the Office as well, but last weeks episode was actually a lot funnier then they have been recently. This is a good sign and lets hope this continues. StarGate: Universe once again were no sci-fi series should ever go that is time travel. Basically, the last episode I watched was worthless. With the use of time travel that whole episodes content was wasted...
Well with Real Salt Lake playing this weekend for the MLS Cup, I leave you with the shield.
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