I know its been awhile...

Well I am sitting at a computer at the Moab library waiting for my roommate and her sister to come so we can camp and hike arches tonight and tomorrow. I am way excited as I have officially passed arches national park many times and never gone in. In fact, the site I am working now is justa few miles away. I am excited like I said however I AM EXHAUSTED! We, three other students and myself, have dug up and relocated about 4 tons of dirt. No exaggeration! Anyways my arms are sore my legs are sunburnt, im constantly tired and I stabbed my knee with a dental pick... other than that its been a great week. I have to admit its been alot of manual labor but the hard work really makes me feel like ive accomplished something. anyways my minutes are almost up gotta go. more later :)

Tired.

I went to work early today and stayed for 6 hours. My brother came to visit me and I gave him a background tour of the museum. It was cool. Unfortunately the rib, of an apatosaurus, I am working on is breaking into pieces so I have glued my fingers together many times trying to get it together. Fortunately its finally coming together. So anyways I came home just in time to shower and run to the dentist. I have to admit I really like him and I am not such a fan of the dentist so thats a pretty good compliment to him. I went to get a cream slush at sonic with my friend Meisha, who is awesome, and it was delicious as usual. So then my good friend Alex came over and we hang out alot. We are watching Beautician and the Beast with Fran Dreshcer. Love it! Anyways I ought to be doing my Glaciology homework. Im working on it but its at the point that I just dont want to do homework... guess its good thats the last thing I have to do for awhile. Good Night!

Did I tell you I have two jobs? and other random thoughts...

Oh, so my other job... I TA for Geology 101. The best part of this job is that I can work from home, essentially all I do is grade papers. Ill answer questions to if I can but I pretty much have to refer them to Dr. Nixon. It is not such a bad job just very time consuming and kinda boring, however I love to see how the kids... well some of them... have pulled geology together they are understanding it and realizing its not as boring as most people make it out to be. I think of this because I have to grade papers and watch Finding Nemo (a movie is a must to keep me entertained).

Dr. Nixon the professor I grade for was honored at our geology banquet and there is now a scholarship named after him. I thought that was very nice of the geology department to honor him, he is such a great guy.

I have to finish my mission prep final today and work on my glaciology final homework. Though it is class work I'm not worried and can do them quickly well... glaciology will take awhile but what a great class so its all good.

Today was my first day to sleep in. So when I woke up and it was bright and sunny I was like ah early morning... to realize it was 730. Man whats the use of having a day to sleep in if my body doesn't let me???!!! yeesh.

Well I ought to get working and getting these papers graded. Have a great day.!

Dinosaurs

So it is true, I work at the Dinosaur Museum just north of campus. It is ridiculous how many people knock on the door to ask us if we really believe in dinosaurs or if dinosaurs are real. Let explain a few things: 1 If dinosaur bones werent real, why would they be paying me to dig something out of the rock. I mean seriously, do they think they put plastic in rock and have us dig it out for them...? So yes, I believe in dinosaurs, they are as real as you and me. 2 If they cant believe in what they can see and touch they must have serious issues believing anything... Faith... yeesh.

So anyways thats just what I was thinking about this beautiful, in the 60's, Sabbath Day. Oh and how beautiful out tulips and ranunculus's are. Unfortunately, the tulips came in March absolutely beautiful and I now they like the cold but last week when they were covered in snow most of their lovely petals fell to the ground. Anyways our garden is stunning, now to mow the jungle around it...

Life Through the Summer!

Hey everyone! So I updated my blog and I'm going to start over and try to keep things updated for the summer. Here are my plans for awhile. I just finished my finals this morning and have successfully made it to my senior year of college! I will graduate with a B.S. in Geology after another year of school. Woohoo! This summer the geology department is taking us to India to study the structural geology of the Himalayan Mountain Belt. I'm excited but have started to become nervous for such an adventure. After I return home from India I will start to prepare to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Unfortunately because I wont be home until September I have to wait to hand in my papers, though they are done, until mid-June. Which means I should find out where I am going in July! My roommate, Shannon, and I will be driving my car back to Virginia the week my call should come so I'm hoping to return quickly. For the summer I will be doing an independant study through BYU while I work at the Museum of Paleontology at BYU. We are privileged this summer to go on digs and be in the field for 8 weeks this summer.We will be digging in the Morrison Formation near Moab. I'm so excited!

These are my plans for the summer. More to come as soon as I know what I'm doing!