So I fell off the horse again, but I am back on! Mainly because so many good friends are gone, and I know they look at this, and so I need to tell them whats been going on.
So, since the last post on the hair in July...
Beach for a week. Awesome. Ate everything I wanted, all really fatty and sugary. Yum. Beach every day. Boogie Boarding (how do you actually spell that?). Chris came for the whole week for the first in the 3 years we have gone since being married!
Birthday. I am 23. Woot. It sounds old. Free Tucanos meal. For those of you who that means nothing, I am sad and you need to come to Provo to try it. Meat meat meat. Sister baked me a cake (ode to Napolean Dynamite which I haven't seen in so long!).
Chris started his Masters Program! Where to start with this....so, kind of weird having him be back in school because now just because he is home doesn't mean he can play :( But its made me more responsible and helpful, like doing dishes and *trying* to cook every day. He is taking 4 class which is a lot for a masters but its what they recommended for their first semester. 1) Intro to Grad Studies (just about...being a grad student...useful? I will have him comment), 2) some teaching pedagogy class since he is teaching -- insert: Chris is teaching a section of English 150, the freshman English class, 20 students, he wrote the syllabus, he writes all the lesson plans, he is THE teacher, so pretty cool. I think he is kind of hard (lol!) but we will see how his students rate him come December! -- 3) workshop for writing a Young Adult Novel, so we will see what he is able to produce in this class, YA is where its at right now (and by "it" I obviously mean the money), and 4) Non-Fiction workshop, which he is actually loving, and which is good because he has never done much with Non-Fiction and his emphasis is Fiction. Overall its more than he thought it would be I think, but is really loving it.
NERD FEST!! Ok this is what I have really wanted to post about the whole time :) For those of you who read current fantasy you hopefully know who Brandon Sanderson is, and if not you should read Mistborn and Warbreaker, and then you will know, and hopefully love it. For those of you who don't, brief background, LDS fantasy author, teaches a class each Winter at BYU, was doing pretty well when he got asked to finish the epic fantasy series of all series The Wheel of Time because the author died before writing the last book! But had a good outline, so Brandon is fleshing it out. The last book is so massive that its actually going to be 3 books, the first is out. Anyway, now he is WAY famous, but his own stuff is so good!! Anyway, now that he is quite established in the published fantasy world, he has released his own massive epic series, Way of Kings. There was a midnight release for the first book of the series, and since he is a BYU alumni and teacher it was in the BYU bookstore. You had to go to the bookstore starting Monday morning (some people camped out the night before) to get a number, then you came back that night and got in line to get one of the books, and signed by Brandon. The coveted thing was to get one of the first 100. Chris was like 91 or something like that, so cool for him. Here is where Nerd Fest really comes in. So we have to be back in line by 9 pm for the midnight release. We get in it about 8:30. At 10 pm we were moved inside (the whole time we were in a line outside), and then sat around in there till 12 when the book was officially released. So, 4 hours (by the time we actually got our copy) for a book. And, the whole time people are just talking about fantasy stuff, some were wearing costumes, talking about their own righting, using crazy lingo about writing, or Brandon's stuff, or whatever. Just, so nerdy, it doesnt sound like it but you had to be there I guess. At some point I realized that I was following all of their dialouges around me, even with acronyms and stuff, and I realized that it was because Chris talked about the same stuff. And I put 2 and 2 together. CHRIS IS A NERD!!!! So nerdy. He doesn't act or dress like one, but at heart he was at home in that line! I couldn't believe it. But, I also could. Any of you who already knew this, let me know how you did!
This post is already pretty long, I apologize. The last thing that is going on is my current love is Zumba. Aerobics. For those of you that haven't tried it, find it where you are, and go. Its amazing. Also we are running the half marathon in St. George in November, so we will let you know how that goes.
Also, sorry there were no pictures :(
