I did not want to wake up today. The fact that when Erin’s phone decided to go off and she decided to say something to the effect of, “Are you planning on waking up today?”
I said, “No.” And then rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. But you know when you are slightly awake and that someone you sleep with is there and you know she is awake and you know she is not going to let you actually go back to sleep the final comment was, “I need to sleep a little more,” and then listened to her reset her alarm so it would go off after a little more time.
So, I woke up feeling about like a slug on a wet sidewalk with motorized vehicles racing up and down it, I dragged myself out of bed and into the bathroom and then (eventually) into the shower. I even shaved today because… well, I don’t really know why other than a thought that one of my plans was to meet with a professor (faculty adviser) so I could get a hold removed from my ability to register for classes and I thought, briefly, that there was the slightest most minuscule chance that the university advisement office would not allow me to hand them a stupid set of three pieces of paper that the professor said, “Where do I sign?” and then signed it. And since there is a chance that not shaving could lead to not having the hold removed led to my shaving this morning.
Several hours later I am still shaved.
However, before I could do that I had to go to work and since today is Wednesday we had our weekly staff meeting. The staff consisted of me which meant that I had to sit and explain what I was doing, what departments needed, how communications were being handled with departments, and etc. because one of my coworkers is in Georgia, another is finishing up an internship, and the third simply forgot that the meeting was happening. Which meant that for the second time this week it was our manager and me in a room alone with me explaining why we were doing what we were doing and why my opinion was the right opinion - though two days later my opinion had to change because I did some additional research AND had one of the coworkers explain to me why he thought we needed to go in another direction.
An hour later I walked back to my desk and continued to write a generic email to all of the thirteen departments and programs that get to be changed.
And an hour later I went to lunch at Taco Bell with Jordan (who does not sufficiently update his website and whose website is about as annoying as anything you could imagine on the internet) where we discussed John-Jordan topics some of which included me allegedly being mean to him AND me needing to write something AND other stuff.
Since my appointment with the faculty adviser was at 1:30 p.m. I dropped Jordan off at home and drove back to campus and then walked across the travesty that is education week and sat in the hall across the professors office waiting for him. The outcome was me logging into Route Y (student access to online university services) and checked to see what available classes exist for me to take once the hold is removed. Then the professor arrived. We chatted for a bit. He signed the piece of paper. Made an editorial comment about this being my last semester and the paper he was signing seemed unnecessary and then chatted about life, family, and everything.
I was supposed to get m oil changed today, but that didn’t happen in part because by the time I got to university advisement and then to my car I was already late for the appointment. I called and rescheduled and then went home.
In short, it was a day and as I thought we would be done going out, I had to convince Erin to lie down and so I offered to lie down with her because she wanted to sleep on the sofa behind me, but she won’t sleep in that situation; and then she wanted to sleep on the bed in the baby’s room, but she wouldn’t sleep in there either (and it was too hot); and so I laid down with her in our room and fell asleep only to have her decide she couldn’t sleep and wanted to go to the great satan for supplies we needed to purchase and she had to bribe me to get me to go.
And now, hopefully, I am done for the night and can eventually go to bed and sleep and not wake up til morning.
John Hattaway | smokingpen | Alicia Grey | Clockwork Princess | Cassandra West
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on Aug 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
John, Your website is wonderful! I enjoyed reading many of your entries - yes - even the one on religion to the end. My favorite comment, however, was the one about Education Week. I made the mistake of going to the bookstore yesterday. I had to park miles away. But, hey, I needed the exercise so it all worked out.
=0) Linda
on Aug 21st, 2008 at 10:23 am
Thanks for the comments on my site. I really appreciate them.
Education Week is a travesty of BYU-dom. Granted, it is something that may be more PR in practice, but it is also something that has just been going on forever and as a result of FOREVER is not likely to go away. Too many people actually schedule this week into their schedules and then spend it on campus.
With that said, it is true that one aspect of Education Week is to promote continuing education, which is also the department that sponsors it. However, with the church often eliminating unnecessary things, like the CES Symposium for Institute and Seminary teachers, I wonder if Education Week has almost run its course and will be eliminated???
Since this is my last summer here, that I know of, Education Week is a thing of the past (at least for me).
-John