Most of the time in our lives, I feel it is safe to assume, we try to take upon ourselves enough work to keep us busy but not so much that we become overloaded. For some strange reason, I am hoping to nth power that I'm as overloaded as possible this week.
As I mentioned in my last post, the 1L's have the opportunity to participate in the moot court/appellate advocacy tournament this semester. We found out last Friday which teams advanced from the "group stages" into the tournament proper. The BoA, or Board of Advocates, run the tournament and they announced that out of the original 99 teams that participated 28 of those teams went undefeated (3-0). Unfortunately though, there were only 24 spots for teams in the tournament. Luckily, Dan and I, Team 51, advanced into the tournament and we have our first match up on Monday. We have spent close to 6-7 hours working on our arguments together and then who knows how much more time thinking through it on our own this last weekend. If we win Monday we compete again on Wednesday. A victory on Wednesday means another competition on Thursday, and a victory there moves us straight into another that same night. If after all that we are still undefeated we compete on Friday at noon in the Bell Courtroom for the right to proclaim ourselves the best in the 1L class. Once again, I'm hoping I'm extremely busy this week.
To add onto that complicated mess that is the Oral Advocacy tournament, the coed intramural soccer tournament begins on Tuesday night and if we win we will have a game right after the last. At least the tournament will be over for sure on Wednesday, but to be honest I'd be surprised if we advance past Tuesday. I'm still pretty stoked about it though as we have a fun team and I love soccer. Last week the game on Tuesday was sadly a loss as the team gave up two goals, but to a girl, and so they counted for two points a piece. We shall see how we rebound on Tuesday without our best players.
Something else that also needs to be mentioned is that the Big Event took place on Saturday of last week. The Big Event is a way for the students of the University of Oklahoma to give back to the community through service projects around and in Norman and Oklahoma City. For example, my group which consisted of the LDSSA (Latter-Day Saints Student Association)(Chris, Emallie, John and etc) went up by Remmington Park in Oklahoma City and helped clean up a neighborhood. We had a good time and service is always a good thing to participate in. Especially when you get a free t-shirt for doing so.
Church was excellent and I always enjoy attending. Of particular note was President Keye's testimony at the end of sacrament meeting today. President Keye's retold a story from his experience at the priesthood session of conference which he was able to attend. Furthermore, he recounted President Monson's talk from conference. The one in which President Monson mentions a twenty dollar bill and then tells about how although that bill might be crumpled, stained, and dirty it is still worth the same as any other twenty dollar bill even those that are clean and new. He then noted how the Heavenly Father loves us all equally. Those that sin and those that are the perfect. We all have worth to him and we need to realize that worth as individuals. As someone who has not lived a perfect life I loved this talk and I appreciate its message and I that everyone who can will go back and listen to it and take its message to heart.
On a more random note, I noticed something a few days ago that affected me in a strange way. I randomly decided that I would see what someone from my old high school glory days was up to. As I typed in their name into the search bar on Facebook, they came up and I checked out their profile. I'm not sure what is was, but I suddenly realized that we were no longer Facebook friends. Why we are no longer friends I'm not sure. The individual clearly has not met the quota for number of Facebook friend allowed so it must have been a personal choice to remove me. To be honest, I was quite stunned by such an occurrence.
The realization soon came upon me that I had removed friends before without telling them or without any other reason then I just simply wanted to. Surely, if they noticed, it must have been quite an interesting experience for them as it was for me. To this day, I'm surprised that the defriending of myself by someone else surprised me or at least affected me in such a manner. Perhaps, Facebook gets taken to such a point that not being someone's Facebook friend actually means more then it should? Then again, maybe I'm completely over thinking this. Either way I thought it was quite interesting.
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Hey,I also heard that some people are having problems with random friends being deleted. And after further investigation it was decided that that person also did not delete them. So maybe facebook now has a mind of it's own and decided that you should no longer be friends?
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