First Week of School

I was scared when I got into Blogger just now that it might've changed and I wouldn't know how to use it anymore since I haven't posted anything in such a long time.  I got lucky... everything looks the same.

So.  First week of school.  First week of the last semester of required classes of my undergraduate career.  In other words, I'm probably not graduating until April, but my last semester will probably be a little fluffy.  Maybe I'll do an internship.  Look for a job.  We'll see...

My classes are good!  My favorite so far is my religion class... Church History, Joseph Smith and the Restoration, with Susan Easton Black.  I am mostly just looking forward to being in a Religion class again because it's been awhile, but I think she's going to be first class.  She talked about patriarchal blessings, and different ways to "study" them, as opposed to just "reading."  I liked the idea of looking for 3 things: blessings, commandments, and warnings.  The commandments often have to do with your strengths-- the things you came here already good at.  The warnings often have to do with inherent weaknesses you might have.  It fits pretty well with mine.
I think my other classes are good too.  I found out I'm in one of them with a great friend of mine, which is the coolest thing!  We're going to have fun.

Other things from this week... Got to see lots of my Jerusalem buddies!  I love them.  Heather and Daniel from our group got married, and a ton of us went to their reception.  Also, one of my Jeru teachers and another of my friends came in to Course Reserve this week and I helped them place some materials on reserve.  It always makes my day to see them.

I made two batches of cinnamon rolls this week.  My friend Lillie's birthday was Friday, so a batch for her and her husband Long, and then another batch for a Labor Day breakfast I'm going to.  The first batch came out underdone, which was a bummer, but I think I did a lot better on the second one.

I bought Photoshop this week!!  Actually, I bought Adobe's "Production Premium," which comes with Photoshop, Premiere, and a bunch of other stuff too.  Premiere is their professional video editing software.  I'm super excited.  And... the student discount is amazing.  I've been putting it off for a while, but BYU just put the leftovers from my Pell Grant in my bank account, and I figured it was a good time. :)  I've been fixing red-eye like there's no tomorrow.

Two of my sisters, my brother-in-law, and I went to the Salt Lake Seven Peaks on Saturday.  Go there, it's reallllly fun.  I got pretty sunburned, but... like that's never happened before...

Last of all, I took an accidental 2-hour nap this afternoon.  From 5 to 7.  Which is why it's 11:40 PM and I'm wide awake.  But... tomorrow's a holiday!!