Top 10 Most Overused Words at BYU

10. Heck
9. "Honor Code"
8. Cool
7. Engaged
6. Married
5. Fetch (or some derivative therefrom)
4. Prideful
3. "Sweet Spirit"
2. Awesome
1. NCMO
Honorable Mention: Random (thanks for pointing that out, Laulau)

Next week's entry: The MLB Season in review and a postseason preview (and congrats to Ichiro).

Ray Kearney is my hero

I don't know if you knew this, but Ray Kearney is actually Superman. If you watch him really closely you'll notice periods of sudden, unexplainable abscence (but never when he's supposed to be working)-- he mumbles something about "having to go" and takes off running.
One of the things that tipped me off is the muscles of steel. I mean, seriously. Try it sometime- get him to flex his bicep. It nearly broke my finger.
Oh, and there's that whole "able to leap tall buildings with a single bound" thing. Actually kind of disconcerting when all of a sudden he just starts flying...
I'm looking forward to meeting Lois Lane...

It doesn't mean you love each other less

People please, for the love of pete, just break hands when walking through the 3M's. To the guy: Dude, don't subject your poor short girlfriend to standing on her tiptoes just to hold your hand over the 3M. To the girl: Don't think that somehow he likes you less now and is gonna go after your best friend just because he wasn't holding your hand 24/7. And to both of you: It just looks stupid.

(Now watch I bet I'll become one of those people and be forced to eat my words...the irony)

Pop-litical Culture

So. . .I really don't like politics. I'll be the first one to say that I am very uninformed and very ignorant when it comes to anything political. The reason? I just have no interest in them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that they are important. Blah, blah, blah, I know that it is politics and politicians that are running this country. But, you know what? I will never be one of these politicians. Mostly because I have no idea how it all works, but also because I just have no desire to do so. I just let those that know about all this stuff run the country -- and I'll give my input if I know about the subject.

Here's my point. Am I any less intelligent for not knowing what the Secretary of Defense (Rumsfeld, right?) does? Just because I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh or read the Drudge Report every day, does that make me any less "American?" I say, NO! It's all a matter of likes and dislikes.

I have a friend who has no interest in movies. (I happen to like movies a great deal.) So when I am talking about a recently-viewed flick, and they reply that they haven't seen it and/or don't know about it, I do not get a shocked and horrified look on my face and yell, "WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?? HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FILM INDUSTRY?? ARE YOU STUPID OR SOMETHING? YOU ARE UN-CINEMATIC!" No. I just realize that their likes are different from mine. Some people like classical music, others like heavy slash death metal.

On that note, it's just a matter of highbrow vs. lowbrow. People who listen to classical music are considered "more sophisticated, "even if they belch after they drink their wine. While those that listen to grunge or punk rock, are thought of as a "lower class and stupid," even if they are on the honor roll at their university of choice. The subject of politics is the "highbrow" thing to know. Apparently you can do nothing more than drool on yourself if you don't know everything about what was discussed on Hannity and Colmes the night before. Popular culture is the "lowbrow" subject to discuss with others. It is accessable to everyone and, therefore, common and vulgar.

Or so society tells us. I say, stop bashing on those of us who get our political information from Letterman and Conan in the form of jokes. Let us like/dislike certain politicians only because they appeared on Saturday Night Live or had a humorous e-mail sent around about them. We just have different tastes. We're not stupid, we're just interested in other things. I love America. I love being an American. I love having the freedom to do (almost) whatever I want. . .including the freedom to not pay attention to politics.

P.S. I do plan on voting, but it's mostly going to be based on who I get a better "vibe" from.

This Week in College Football

There's a lot of talk about how good the Georgia Bulldogs are this year. I don't see it...they just barely beat an offensively-inept South Carolina team on Saturday, this after giving up 4 touchdowns last week to 1-AA Georgia Southern. Unless they improve a lot as the year goes on, they will lose to Florida (like they always do) and probably not even win their conference, let alone a national title.

Our beloved Cougars struggled against Stanford, losing 37-10. Next up: The #1 Trojans, who just romped Colorado State 49-0--Good luck . . . Oklahoma beat the Houston Cougars, and Colorado beat the Washington State Cougars, making teams with the nickname "Cougars" 0 for 3 for the weekend . . . Fresno State and Utah both passed tests this weekend, and their schedules favor them to both go undefeated and thus hopefully put some pressure on the BCS system.

lock the emergency exit stairwell doors

during the last fire drill a problem was brought to my attention by Brad Westwood-- the doors in the emergency exit stairwells are periodically unlocked. This is problem for several reasons:
1. People are able to access areas they should not (i.e. special K) anytime the building is evacuated (fire drill, false alarm, flood problem, etc). Brad is especially concerned about this, for obvious reasons.
2. Patrons will begin to get the mistaken impression that it is possible to use the EE stairwells to transit floor to floor. On some doors this is unavoidable (the 3rd floor doors in the NW are left dogged down, the NW upper floors do not have locks) but on the ones that can lock, they should be.

In my personal opinion, this is not part of some malicious plot by some insider to make the library vulnerable, I think we're just not relocking the doors when we check chexits.

And so, brothers and sisters, now is the time to redouble your efforts. Ensure emergency exit stairwell doors are locked. If you're on rove and bored, check all the doors to make sure you can't get back in the library once inside. The only way out should be the emergency exit itself, thus preserving the original intent of the setup.

And thus it is.

A Higher Power

So,

I'm a BYU football fan. I enjoy going to games, cheering for the team watching the band (you sexy tuba-players, you), and the friendships that are made there. So imagine my shock and horror when I find out that Divine Comedy will be performing on, not one, but TWO of the nights that we are having home games! I'm an all-sport pass holder, so I now have paid for two tickets that I will NOT be able to use (not to mention, that I had to leave the Notre Dame game early because some jerk who will remain nameless *coughJosephGoldencough* scheduled me to work that night).

Of course, I complained to Peyton, the President of Divine Comedy. "Why are we competing with BYU Football?!?" I exclaimed. He then explained to me that we got screwed, screwed like a small, metal object into a wooden board. Apparently the people who do the scheduling for the buildings were told, by a "higher power" (that's what Peyton said) to not let Divine Comedy schedule until other BYUSA clubs were allowed to schedule (we are NOT in any way affiliated with BYUSA anymore -- long story). So, in the end, we had to take what we could get. So we now have to try and fill the seats in the JSB when everybody's butts are going to be in the stadium. *Sigh*

Who is this "higher power" that wants to keep DC down? Is it France Nielson with his flashy smile? Is it the SHA who is tired of our relentless mocking of the honor code (all in good humor, mind you)? Or could it be the man with the slicked-down hair himself, Cecil? I don't know. And why can't we all just get along?

P.S. The sun is in my eyes, so ignore spelling errors, please.

Learning is fun!

Sometimes when you're at your job you can get bored. But that's why this website is good because you can learn stuff. And we are, after all, at a school of higher learning.....check it out.

people who don't pay me for the new food stuff suck

$2 of your hard-earned lucre should be mine, and if you don't give me that cash you will forever be on the poop list.
That's right, the poop list. It's up on the fridge.
Pay me.
Now.

I love you all.