Colorado!

I'm going to colorado this weekend. Hopefully Prof Rossi doesn't give me much homework since i'll have a hard time doing it without my computer.

There'll be updates and pictures when i get back. The Red Sox are poised to win the world series, but to do that they're beating the only other team i can imagine seriously rooting for.

Such is the plight of supporters of underdogs in these modern red sox times.

Remember that time when i always get nauseous for no real reason sometimes, usually dealing with social events following less sleep and crappy food. Well yeah, i'm getting bored of it, but it's kinda nice that my friends don't know me well enough to yet immediately pick up on it.

I looked out the window and what did i see?

Today was ok i guess, nothing too special, just some nice hanging out times. I discovered Facebook video, which i've known was around for a while, but now i like it a lot. While going through the videos on my computer i found this one. i tried uploading it on blogger, but it went all night and didn't finish, so just look at it on facebook.
http://utah.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1018341740639


it made me laugh and be happy.

In other news, i got a 98 on that midterm i was freaking out about, and i have a B+ average overall in that class, which is great. If i rewrite that essay and stop failing physics exam (i'm doing above average, but still, it's disappointing) i'll be all kinds of set.

I've decided i'm going to try to get a job reffing indoor soccer, if i can do that. Come to think of it i've never had ref's in indoor soccer, but if i can do it i'm definitely going to. I'd get payed and i'd get to play soccer, a definite win win. This weekend i'm going to colorado with some friends while molly goes to the World Series. We'll probably hike around a bit and have fun times. Having friends is great, i really should have gotten some sooner. My laundry card came with $3, but each a load costs 1.75, so that's pretty wack. I did laundry today because i had run out of socks and underwear, but a single white load should hold me over for a while.

Lets see, i think that's about all that's gone down here since sunday. Oh, and i won an andy Warholesc tie, that was cool. I should go to bed, maybe i'll read some plato first. Peace out.

~Popcorn Popping.

Family Newsletter October

i have a massive midterm i need to study for, and all our talks in church today were about not procrastinating, but this is something i need to do sometime today anyway, so i may as well get it out of my system now. Days of late have been pretty awesome, i had a minor emotional breakdown from failing a physics test and getting a c on a paper, but as it turns out, i was above average on the test, and that's my drop grade, and i'm going to re-write the paper. more importantly, i got a hammock that day which gave me something to occupy my thoughts other than, "oh crap, i'm going to fail college, lose my scholarship and have to go to UVSU." (not that there's anything wrong with going to Utah Valley State...)

Otherwise life's good. The red sox are in position to go to the world series, and it's possible that i am as well, since a friend of mine's family loves the rockies, and are going to try to get as many tickets as possible, and i might be able to sit in for a game. (how awesome would that be, Red Sox vs Rockies). I went to a utah soccer game on thursday and that was really exciting, and it reminded me how much i love and miss playing soccer a lot, so now i'm thinking i need to set up a indoor soccer team for intermurals. It snowed yesterday, and me and my friends went sledding on my clothes hamper, which worked really well. I also played racquetball yesterday. On friday i watched transformers in the dollar theater (awesome), and on tuesday i saw Ratattoulli in the dollar theater. I guess that's the gist of what's been going on. I had a midterm in IT on thursday, and i think that went pretty well. I think that about most of my midterms though, so we'll see how that turns out.

Alright i guess i'll type out the real family newsletter now. I always find typing them a little awkward, because here, where i write like it's a journal, there, i have to write like it's a letter. And i'm not a big fan of writing letters, but whatevs:


Salutations!

The talks in sacrament meeting today were about not procrastinating, so it's somewhat awful that i'm writing this as my calculus midterm ticks ominously closer, but in priesthood we talked a little about the importance of family, so i'll take care of this first. So far i'm loving life in salt lake. Friday me and my friends made the obligatory hike up to the giant U on the mountain, which was actually a pretty nice hike. I wanted to trek off into the brush, but my friends weren't in the mood for getting lost in the mountains, so we ended up taking the fairly tame path up the mountain. Yesterday it snowed quite a bit, so we went sledding in clothes hampers and had snow ball fights. I feel like i have to make up for the last 14 years of my life with no snow, and so far i'm doing pretty well.

In other news, college is going alright. Me and Cami made it up to Cache valley a few weeks ago to visit Grandma and Grandpa. It's great, and a little surreal, to be so close to family i usually only see during the summer. In a few hours there's a fireside at the Institute by Elder Uchtdorf. Last month we had Elder Holland, and the institute was skirting the edges of the fire code, so this time it's a little more organized, and you really have to get there early in order to get seats in the same room. We also have a temple trip this week, up to the Bountiful Temple. Last month we went to the Salt Lake Temple, but i didn't have a recommend yet, so i'm excited to actually be able to go this time around. So between family, the mountain hiking, the snow, the General Authorities, and the bounteous temples, Utah is treating me very well. I'm looking forward to winter and some more significant snow fall (we only got a couple inches yesterday, enough to sled, but i find myself craving a snow fort). But until then, i should go ahead and study. So long.

~Ammon

So yeah, that about covers my life, now i need to study. blech.

Ay, there's the rub.

I had the most realistic dream i've ever had last night. Not only did it feel real, but the stuff that happened was fairly believable. I was playing soccer on my murrah team, or at least mostly on my murrah team, i know Jean, Cory, and Chris were all there, so yeah. We were down 1, and it was raining. Somehow or another i ended up scoring 2 goals, really 3, but one of them didn't count (i was offsides i think)

It was a really fun dream, and i woke up wanting to play soccer. I think i'm going to do indoor soccer over the winter, which looks to be wicked awesome. Depending on how the indoor is, i may have to buy some sneakers, i'm too cheap to buy indoor cleats.

This weekend became fun very quickly as people started coming back in. I went to the football game with james, although we missed most of the first half because i thought it was starting at 3 for some reason, but the first half looked pretty unexciting. The second half was way fun, and we did the an awesome fake fieldgoal where the kicker served as quarterback. Our kicker definitely one of the best kickers in college football, maybe the best, but he definitely isn't the best quarterback. It was pretty weak, but the play was so awesome (and we were winning by so much) that it didn't matter. I wonder if they had tackled him if it would have been roughing the kicker...

So anyway, that was pretty cool, we won, and the weather was pretty nice. Then we went back and played trivial pursuit...no that was yesterday...we just hung out for a while and then went bowling, i'm not nearly as good at bowling as i was, i bowled an 85ish the first time, and a 107 the second time. But i did curve the ball and make it look awesome, and that's really all that matters. Also, because they cut us midway through our 10th frame, technically i had the highest score, but james definitely was set to win, i think he only needed 1 pin to beat me.

Sunday was good, it was the last day for Adam, our awesome sunday school teacher, which was sad, he's a great teacher and seems like a pretty rockin' guy too. He's off to Rome to teach english. It's crazy gutsy, cus he doesn't really have a hotel or plans or know anyone over there, and he doesn't speak italian. I think that would be really a lot of fun.

Other than that i made it to church ontime for the first time in a while. hopefully it'll be a trend. After church i took a nap, ate some, played trivial pursuit, and hung out for a while, while doing my homework, very slowly, but fun times.

Also i got a care package of winter clothes, racquetball stuff, and a $500 scholarship check, which will be helpful. Tonight there's a carnival thing at the church, so we'll see how that turns out, and then there's heroes at 8, which i'm sure will turn out awesome. Tomorrow i get my hammock, i'm really very excited.

This is my friday night...

why is it that words with ea are less friendly than words with ee?

Meat, Beat, Steal, Weak, Bear, Dead...

Random observations while watching baseball.

Also, it's interesting that college football is way more exciting than pro, but college soccer is much less so.

If i go crazy then will you still call me superman?

I've almost made it through this week, only one more day and then everybody will be back and life will continue. Good times.

I've had a pretty unproductive week, although i've gotten a few things that i needed to get done out of the way. Otherwise this week has been very thoughtful, and i find myself missing mississippi. Today i was hiking about through the mountains, and it reminded me of being a little kid and wandering around the woods near my house. I wish i'd had utah then, there's so much more to explore, i could go for miles just behind my dorm.

Today i've been missing murrah soccer. We really had some good times. I don't think i'll ever have as much fun as i did at some of those games. Even though i have intermural here, it's not the same, we're not a team, and winning and losing barely matters. Most of all i miss a way to constantly play soccer. I really like soccer, like a lot. I think if i were good enough i would have no trouble playing pro-soccer. It'd be so much fun. Since it's too late now, i'd settle for a large group of soccer playing friends.

I miss Sal and Mookie's too. That was a really fun job, i think if pro soccer doesn't pan out, i would enjoy working at a restaurant. I know it won't happen, because i don't want that as my career, unless i became a chef or something, cus those guys are awesome.

Lets see, what else. I just generally miss having a lot of friends. When you only have a few friends it's pretty easy to find yourself with nothing to do.

I'm pretty much out of things to say, i wrote extensively in my real journal today, that was good. Other than that my life is pretty calm, tepid even. Maybe i'll have exciting dreams...

gosh, these are so emo sometimes.

fall broken.

it's been a long while since i did a blog, so i guess i will. A lot has happened, but it seems like not a lot worth talking about has happened. Right now it's fall break, which i'm really not enjoying much because all my friends went home for the week, leaving me bored and lonely trying to figure out what to do with my time.

I watched the prestige for the third time, but this time i actually watched it, and it's crazy how much more i noticed. i guess i won't talk about it much, so as not to ruin it for anybody, but yeah, it's a good movie to watch again.

General conference is this weekend, which is always a good weekend. It sleeted yesterday, which is about the worst possible precipitation (except maybe freezing rain), but the snow in the mountains looks cool.

Friday was lots of fun, i had a physics test, which i think i did well on, and then we hung out, played games, watched Batman Begins (also an awesome movie), went to denny's, and finding it rediculously full of people for 2am, went to IHOP. By about 5 am we were all pretty tired, so we just ended up watching boomerang until i decided to go to bed.

Thursday was pretty fun too, the office always makes for good times.

Wednesday was crazy busy during the day, as wednesday always is, but i went and saw Dan in Real Life with Cathy, which was fun. Dan in Real Life is a Steve Carrel/Dane Cook movie coming out in a couple weeks. You'd think a Steve Carrel/Dane Cook movie would be really funny, but it really wasn't. It was a nice movie, but it was closer to a chick flick than anything.

That's about as far back as i can remember interesting things happening. I got my bed lofted on monday, which was definitely a good decision. My room is about 100x as cool now. I decided i'm going to buy a hammock, which will make my room even cooler, if i can make it work, which i think i will.

I have a new roomate now, again, he's pretty cool, and he has a piranha, which eats little fish and is awesome. This week i'm on fish duty for Cathy and Madeline, i'm really worried i'm their fish are going to die this week, because while fish are relatively hard to kill, they're even harder to keep from dieing if that's the way they're going. Madeline said she's never forgive me if i kill her fish, and i think she's fairly serious, so there are some pretty high stakes.

Anyway, i'm going to watch the rest of conference and then wonder what to do on sunday night.