the final days

If you haven't seen - Jared put up a bunch of pictures of Emma! Hooray! She's a beautiful baby. And I love seeing more pictures of Brooke and Bryan. Bryan has such personality in his expressions .. and when did Brooke get braces? I had no idea! I look forward to seeing all of you guys at the reunion next summer.

So I'm down to my final weeks. Week and two days, actually. I got my work schedule last night and I'm driving north to Canada next Saturday. And then Aaron immediately told me that he's working on Saturday - from 5pm to 2am. I guess I'll see him when I wake up in the morning. But I'm very ready to get out of Rexburg .. I just have a ton of stuff to do in the meantime.

T 12/4: Graphic Design class, Outlet release party*, Old Testament, work (maybe)
F 12/5: Graphic Design class, dance practice with Daniel @ noon
S 12/6: group practice @ 11:15, dance competition** 12-2, work 3:30-9:15
S 12/7: work 11:30-5:15, Christmas broadcast, work party 8:00
M 12/8: Doctrines of the Gospel class, Social Dance class, Design and Color class, work 6-9:15
T 12/9: GD Poster/Presentation due, OT class, group performance/Big Band Dance 7-10
W 12/10: DofG class - take final, DandC class - final, work 6-9:15
T 12/11: GD class, OT class
F 12/12: GD workbook due (worth 25% of grade), work 5-9:15
S 12/13: Leave 6am for Canada

Besides being where I need to be, I have to actually do the assignments, study for the finals, write/mail my Christmas memories, make two more birthday cards, pack up everything, and find time to sleep.

And if anyone hadn't heard, my cellphone will be turned off after I head into Canada, and Mom and Dad will terminate it then. I'll come up with my own phone when I come back in April.

*Outlet release party. So around the same time I entered stuff into the BYU-I gallery (end of October), I also submitted a few pieces to the Outlet. It's a magazine published by students of student art and writing. A few weeks later they sent out an email to let us know we could pick up our submitted pieces, and they would email us later that day to let us know if we made it in. I never got an email, so I assumed I didn't make it. Alas, on Monday of this week, I DID get an email, saying how they hoped everyone had gotten the email to let them know they were in, and that they were having a party on Thursday to celebrate. I'm hoping this means I get a free copy of it, but if not I'll buy one anyway, because that's just cool. I have no idea what made it in, so I'll have to update you later on that.

**Dance competition. For my social dance class we have to participate in a competition. We get the same grade if we make first or last, but if you're in the top you get a ribbon! (ooooh and awwwww) We have the opportunity to dance either waltz or cha-cha or both. While the teacher was talking about it, a guy named Adam asked me to dance cha-cha (which I'm excited about, because cha-cha is fun!) and then later after class Daniel asked me to dance waltz with him. I feel very popular.