As an English teacher, I care about books and quite frankly I am worried about their future. With everyone religiously following reality TV shows and upholding Stephanie Meyers as great literature, I sometimes wonder what will become of the marvelous magic of the written word. While my professors have given me all sorts of upsetting articles to read on the negative influences of text messaging I have been much more alarmed by some of the things I have witnessed with…
Okay, so this is kind of late, I know. The race did end Saturday. However, Audrey tore it up on her final leg and I have to let everyone know about it. Her final leg is known as the Ragnar leg, which was supposed to be the most difficult leg of the whole course. It was 4 miles, all uphill at average of an 8% incline. Most of the people “running” this leg actually walked it because it was so…
So, tonight I stayed with Emily and Dan in Coalville and their house is directly on the race course. All night long people were running by. The dogs were going nuts. The fortunate thing is that this part of the course was one of Audrey’s legs, so we got to see her run by and cheer her on. She was keeping up a good pace and passing all the guys as usual. This leg was a tough one, a full…
So, Audrey is running the Wasatch Back relay race today and tomorrow. I’ll try to post what’s going on as it happens, maybe with pictures if we’re lucky.
This is probably the most exciting thing to happen to me since seeing a woman in Park City pushing a cat in a stroller. Anyway, I’ve been itching to make really good artisan-type bread for a while now. Problem is you have to have hours of free time to mix it, knead it, let it rise, knead it again, etc. I’m afraid to say I don’t have that kind of time available, and if I did, I don’t have that…
ragnar (n). In mythology and legend, a man[or woman], often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his [or her] bold exploits and favored by the gods. I just got invited to join a Wasatch Back team, which makes me both nervous and giddy. Nervous because I haven’t been specifically training for the event and it’s next weekend. Giddy, because what could be more fun than a 24 hr+ relay? I get to run…
Right now I am working at what I believe will be my last “student job” (Student Teaching doesn’t count because I’m not getting paid, but am actually paying for the experience). Currently, I work in an office where I am the same age as the girl in the office next to me, she however is not a student employee since she graduated from a major that has a more traditional graduation time-line. One of the tasks I, the indentured servant,…
In my last post, Lina’s comment referenced the “Technology Void,” which is a name Noel and I often use when referring to our apartment. Technology doesn’t work in our apartment, I’m serious. Here’s my proof: When we moved in there was a post-it note tacked to the wall above the oven with these simple instructions: Bake is Broil, Broil is Bake. As it turns out, “Off”, is also Broil. When the big switch to HD happened we went and purchased…
I arrived at work this morning to find that a transformer had blew and the power was out. However, since some of the projects that go on at the company are very important (ie costs millions of $) everyone’s computers and experiments are hooked up to generators. The secretary made an announcement that the power might be on in the next couple of hours. Everyone remains diligently at their desks acting as if it were a normal Monday, sending emails,…
For Memorial Day, Audrey and I went backpacking in Escalante. It was a lot of fun even though we got caught in the rain. Fortunately we found shelter in the canyon and it wasn’t a very narrow one. After we got out we met up with Danielle and company at Bryce Canyon for some good eats. Anyway, here are the pictures.