If I waited a couple more days I could make it exactly a month since my last post, but I've decided not to.
SOooooo much has happened since my last post...here's a quick recap:
I was homeless for a weekend. Thanks to my lovely friend MP and her Aunt, I had a place to crash AND store my stuff.
I moved into my new apartment.
I got a new roommate named Tiare (pronounced the way its spelled Tee r ee)
I started new classes (Econ 382, Hist 201 and DANCE 180!!!)
I worked a ton, had an impromptu pizza party with a co-worker.
Tiare moved out after 2 weeks, a new girl Michelle took her place.
I withdrew from my History class.
K has gone to Texas, not once, but twice in the past three weeks. (her dad is a pilot, she can do that sort of thing.)
I've decided to stay for not only the Spring but Summer as well...
I have made BYU Brownies TWICE in two Sundays.

BYU MINT BROWNIES



Sugar-n-Spice, Cougareat Food Court

MAKES ONE 9-BY-13 PAN OF BROWNIES.
PREP AND COOK: 90 min. COOL: 1 hr.

1 c. margarine
1/2 c. cocoa
2 Tbsp. honey
4 eggs
2 c. sugar
1 3/4 c. flour
1/2 Tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. chopped walnuts
12 oz. chocolate icing (Use your own icing recipe or purchase some chocolate frosting. You can also search the Internet for chocolate icing recipes.)

MINT ICING (I've been having trouble getting the icing right...good luck)
5 Tbsp. margarine
dash of salt
3 Tbsp. milk
1 Tbsp. light corn syrup
2 1/3 c. powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. mint extract
1-2 drops green food coloring

1. Melt margarine and mix in cocoa. Allow to cool. Add honey, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Add nuts. Pour batter into a greased 9-by-13 baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool.

2. Prepare mint icing: Soften margarine. Add salt, corn syrup, and powdered sugar. Beat until smooth and fluffy. Add mint extract and food coloring. Mix. Add milk gradually until the consistency is a little thinner than cake frosting.

3. Spread mint icing over brownies. Place brownies in the freezer for a short time to stiffen the icing. Remove from the freezer and carefully add a layer of chocolate icing.

Procrastination is...my life?

So there's really not much going on in my life currently...the first half of last week blew chunks, which is why I avoided updating my blog. Then the second half of the week was kind of fantastic (at least in regards to talking to boys, since that is the only thing that really matters)! I avoided posting about THAT since I highly believe if something is going freakishly well you don't voice how freakishly well it is going because other wise the cosmos remembers things aren't supposed to work like that and shoves a wrench in your beautifully working life. I was kind of hoping the freakishly well stuff would continue through Halloween or so, especially since I'm still trying to fix the mess that was the first half of last week. But, alas, alack, the universe hates me! And my really good ending to last week is not continuing. Instead, I am besieged with papers I have no interest in writing, and the loneliness that comes from living the life of a nun without actually agreeing to it. The papers are especially hard since they are for Bio 100. A class I thought was going to be cake and possibly the one science class I liked my entire college career...obviously both turned out to be false!

On top of all this, it seems like a lot of people around me are rethinking the whole college thing (being here, major, etc). This of course causes me to be uncertain about my decisions and accentuates the fact that I really don't want to take pl sc 200 (aka writeapapereveryweekandmakesureitsabsolutelyperfect) next semester. We'll just wait and see what happens later! *Oh how I wish for my knight in shining armor to come and sweep me off my feet so I can major in something fun like theater or unusable like family history!* but with my luck, I'll be single when I graduate in five years after my mish. (Genevieve I told you this would be mope-y!)

On the plus side we carved pumpkins Monday night!

Why a 94% feels like a C

Today, after a long weekend of doing anything but studying and homework, I realized I hadn't finished an assignment for one of my harder classes. Of course said assignment would be the hardest one from that class yet, and of course it would be the one assignment I didn't meet with my study group to go over. The TA lab was no help because there were like 20 students in there, and the one girl I tried to help didn't have the decency to answer my one question for her. Frustrated and upset I went to class to turn in an assignment that is probably 80% wrong. I figured the only way to save the day was to get a really good score on the midterm that was being handed back today. When my professor said the class average was a 94, I figured I had done slightly better than that because I had done the extra credit portion and felt fantastic leaving the testing center last Wednesday. At the end of the class, the TA (Sterling - pretty much the sweetest name ever) handed back our tests. Lo and behold, my grade was exactly 94%. Normally, I would be ecstatic (hello! A = party), but 94 = average. Therefore, me = average in Intermediate Price Theorem.
Moral of the story...knowing the class average is not helpful...unless its really low.

On a different note, this weekend re-affirmed my knowledge that in about a year and a half I'll be submitting my papers for a full time mission. Despite going to the bridal fair on Saturday and all the talk from the Stake Relief Society Presidency about their husbands on Sunday.

Favorite thing Lucas (my nephew) did this week (at least so I heard)~ on the way out of a restaurant he said to the waitress "bye honey"