First, Survivor! What an awesome season. Nearly ever elimination has been filled with back-stabs and betrayal. While they may make life on the island unpredictable and a bit scary it makes for quite the interesting show. The biggest mistake of the season occurred in this last episode where John won the right to either have a piece of apple pie for himself or could give a full pie to, I think, four of the other members of the merged tribe. Once again selfishness ruled the day and he was voted out that episode. His famous words with the pie were something the lines of, "I'm confident that no one would vote me off for choosing to eat the pie myself." FOOL! Much like Cindy in Guatemala, who took the car instead of giving a car to the other five remaining tribe members, John was voted off and so the story goes. There are three more episodes I believe and it should be interesting to see what occurs.
Second, Sports! Utah Basketball is picking up steam and actually beat a very decent Michigan team last night at the Huntsmen Center. The Running Utes under Boylen are a much more defense oriented team so it'll be interesting to see what prevails in their matchup against OU an offensive team. The Football Utes will be traveling to San Diego for the Poinsettia Bowl against Cal. I like our chances to extend the streak of bowl wins to 9. OSU Basketball has been on, and then off, and then back on. With the run-and-gun offense Ford likes to employ some nights they will win by 100 others they will lose by 50. They are playing so so right now and hopefully will be able to pick it up for conference come the first of January. OSU Football is once again traveling to the Cotton Bowl to take on Ole Miss. Which is the same matchup as their last trip to the Cotton Bowl, when my family attended. That game was won by the arm of Eli Manning and so it should be an interesting matchup this time around. I feel like OSU should be able to pull off the win. Chelsea FC is frustrating me. We were trotting along looking invincible until last week occurred. A shock loss to Bolton in the Carling Cup, on penalties oh how I hate penalties, follow by a thrashing by City and then a draw to APOEL in the champions league! Comeon the Chels! The Blue Flag is flying high in Norman but we need to pick it up.
On to the running assessment of the past week and a half.
Tuesday, the 1st.
Tuesday was abnormally busy for most tuesdays. Due to the fact that we were on a condensed schedule Tuesday's schedule was that of the normal Wednesday schedule. Although there truly is nothing to report from that day, I remember a longing to attend Institute as that usually occurs following that schedule so I remember being quite messed up that entire night.
Wednesday, the 2nd.
Wednesday was abnormally quite as compared to most Wednesdays. Due to the fact that on the condensed schedule Wednesday's schedule was that of the normal Thursday schedule. Once again nothing truly amazing occurred that day so there is little to report. Institute was good as usual and I did the usual things. Albeit with one slight difference. I volunteered myself to go to the OU Women's basketball game on Thursday night with Lena Tenney + 1. The +1 being Lena's roommate Molly, from Dallas.
Thursday, the 3rd.
Thursday was much like Tuesday and Wednesday, abnormal in the fact that the schedule was different but not very spectacular. Rather the saving grace of Thursday was the basketball game that night. As per the draw up plans I met Lena in front of the University Cafeteria at around 5:30-6:00pm, I can't remember exactly when, Lena was able to swipe me in and I got to enjoy my first taste of cafeteria food since the long ago days of RAing at the University of Utah. That day of course being the 15th or 16th of August. The food was decent the company was good and it seemed every at the table enjoyed the meal. The table included myself, Lena, Molly, Robert, Nathan, Mick, Brandon, Jen, and so many more that I cannot remember them all. Among topics discussed were the logistics behind Bros before Hos and a variety of subjects some of which should not be repeated. The game was pleasant affair as most Women's games are. The OU women struggled in the first half and only went into the locker-room up 1. After half they blew them away and finished with an even 100 points. The first time I have ever seen a Women's team score that much. I was true to my OSU roots and refused to clap during "Boomer Sooner", the OU fight song. I did make one exception at the end of the game where I did do the clap but that was to applaud the effort of the team and not to support the heresy that is OU athletics.
Friday, the 4th.
Friday was brief, thankfully. With only one schedule class, an optional review for property, there was little that had to be done and much of the day was spent doing something that I can't remember so probably nothing important. The review session was good and I felt very good about property heading into the finals. The only class I'm truly worried about is Civil Procedure and that final is to take place on the 18th. It is the last. Friday night I drove out to Stillwater for my last time out there until after finals in order to visit with Natalie, Jacob, Polly, and Walter, the bad boy, before finals began. As well I picked up Natalie's laptop so I wouldn't have to hand write my finals. Natalie and I went to Charlie's Chicken which was pleasantly pleasing unto me. We watched Psych, Arrested Development, and other odds and ends to fill out the night before we retired.
Saturday, the 5th.
Saturday, we awoke and had random breakfast before we started the day and once again watched Psych, Arrested Development, and other odds and ends to fill out the extra time. Around noon Jacob's nanna came into town and we went to Crepe Myrtle where we enjoyed the pleasant company of each other and the good food, although it did take quite some time for it to arrive. Oh before I forget, I may have ruined Christmas for Gracie or Georgia, I'm not sure which, when I asked ambiguously whether or not they still believed in Santa to their mother Liz. Liz got angry and was not pleased. In my defense I made sure to craft my question in an ambiguous format that a normal 3rd grader should not be able to infer what I meant. Either way, Parents should not lie to their children. I returned home that night and watched Texas defeat Nebraska in what was probably the worst game of football I've ever watched.
Sunday, the 6th.
Sunday the 6th started as most Sunday's do. I awoke, I dressed, and I journeyed to church. The abnormal, the word of the day, event was the occurrence of the Church Christmas Devotional that night. I invited Ms. Lena Tenney to come with me to the Devotional. I picked her up 10 or so minutes before the devotional and we got there right on time. What a Devotional! I extremely enjoyed it and I would gladly watch it again. President Monson's talk was most uplifting and I'm very glad that I attended so much meeting.
Monday, the 7th.
Since school began on the 24th of August we have been building towards one event. That event of course is the end of semester finals. For me those finals began on Tuesday the 8th and so Monday the 7th was set aside to ensure that my understanding of property law would be such that I would be successful on the test. As I noted before this post, I felt very good about property law and as such not a lot of review was conducted. Perhaps the better term for what did occur was a refresher. Either way, I felt prepared and I ensured that I went to bed early enough so I was not tired in the morning. I also finished the Book of Mormon that night. I started regularly reading it in the middle of October and finished on the 7th of December. I think that is pretty respectable.
Tuesday, the 8th.
Whoooooo Weeeee! I awoke at about 7:00am but laid in bed until at least 7:30am. I then proceeded to prepared and to represent myself on the property final. I decided to wear my Real Salt Lake Natalie bought me back in 2008. This owing to the fact that it was the only jersey I own that is not familiar with some losing event currently. My blue Chelsea jersey I was wearing during the debacle in the Champions League Final in Moscow, we lost on penalties, my black Chelsea jersey I was wearing during the debacle of the semi-finals of last years Champions League when we lost in the 93rd minute to a strike by Iniestia. My, or perhaps my fathers, white Real Salt Lake jersey was worn when we lost to the New York Red Bulls last year in the Western Conference Semi-finals. Thus leaving the red RSL jersey which I wore during our victory in the MLS cup this year. The property test was in one word draining. It was a four hour affair that took just about everything we had and demanded more. I feel very good about the test and I feel like I knew what I was doing and how to answer. Of course we won't truly know if that is true until grades are released in January, but I feel good enough that I'm not going to worry about it.
Wednesday, the 9th.
What a weird day Wednesday was. With the final on Tuesday and the impending final on Friday, Wednesday had to be one of the most unproductive days of my life. Nothing happened. I read, I played rockband, I read, I played arcade games online, I read, I slept, and I ate.
Thursday, the 10th.
Today is Thursday and my Torts final is tomorrow. This means I will have to put a bit more effort into review then I did for property. Not much has really occurred today so far as I slept in kind of late.
I will try to keep you guys updated as things occur. I hope my grammar wasn't too atrocious as I'm not taking the time to reedit/reread this mass.
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