More catching up on life

It's vacation time! Yep, time for the annual Spring Training trip to Phoenix. But first, maybe a little update on the last few weeks.

At work, I've been touching up docs and making the slow transition to development. We're working on a more comprehensive dashboard solution, and I've been put on that team. Right now we're still in the product design stage. It's going to be a lot of work. Meanwhile, Mardell's supposed to be finding another tech writer. By the way, I sold the iPod they gave me to some guy in San Diego. I got $250 for it (which was the retail price). It's all about supply and demand, and iPods are in very short supply.

As for law school, no word yet from Virginia, Harvard, Berkeley, or RAND. BYU's offered a scholarship, but no word from Georgetown. I talked to an LDS guy from Georgetown on the phone a few weeks ago and was pretty impressed. I was also pretty impressed at a luncheon I went to at BYU--although I get the impression that the cool professor who sat at my table (a black woman who graduated from Berkeley and who I later saw quoted in a CNN article) was more of the exception than the rule. I think that except for price, I'm leaning heavily towards Georgetown. Although I'd really love to be back in Texas. I'm planning a trip to check out both schools around Easter.

Church stuff is kind of hectic. We got a new Stake Presidency. Saia got engaged, so I haven't had a functioning 1st counselor in forever. Because of Stake Conference and Easter and General Conference and vacation, I'll miss 4 of 5 Sundays. So it's crazy and disorganized. One cool thing we did recently was a Man of the 229th Ward competition. A whole bunch of us got together at the Crandall's and we had a decathlon of events like Street Fighter, Fusbol, Darts, Mario Kart, a Standing Long Jump, Spelling Bee, and so on. Roger ended up winning, but only because Lori proposed a last competition—improvising a poem in front of the judges (Lori, Natalie, Sharolyn, and Becky) that began "Roses are Red." As we all know, I'm not terribly good at improvising love poems (I got too caught up trying to make real poetry instead of being funny and appealing to the audience). Roger did a pretty good job of sucking up to all four judges and being funny, so he won. Of course, now I can think of what to say, but oh well.

Athletics is getting better. The orthotics and training exercises are really starting to help. I'm just wearing them for Frisbee and basketball, but I can tell the difference. I've been training for about a month now—weights and the exercise bike 3 or 4 times a week. And just this week it's getting light enough for Tuesday-Thursday Frisbee. Plus, we started volleyball at the church on Tuesday. Our main intention was to kill a basketball game that had gotten out of hand, but we had over 20 people there to play, plus a lot of people I haven't seen in forever. Anyway, I'm feeling better than I have in a long time, and I'm looking forward to Frisbee season.

As for my personal life, I'm still seeing Angela on occasions. I've also gone out thrice with a girl named Jamie. Becky introduced me to her at a couple of parties she threw together, and I was impressed enough to ask her. She's a Computer Science major. She has a pretty good since of humor (and I guess by good I mean similar to my own—very sarcastic) and is cute and a brunette. Plus she really likes rock-climbing and other outdoor stuff. So I took her to see Jakob the Liar at the International Cinema back the first weekend in March. That went well, so I took her to a company dinner the next week at Tucanos. Then we watched Second Hand Lions (which was an awesome movie, by the way—almost as good as Big Fish). Then just yesterday I took her to see Jane Eyre at the Hale Centre Theater. That too went pretty well, so I guess I'll continue to ask her out. Except she's moving to Houston at the end of April, so that might put a damper on things.

Posted March 24, 2004 (10:48 PM) | Comments (1)