Alaska again?

Ask me what my favorite summer ever was, and [depending on my mood] I might tell you it was my summer in Alaska.


Sure I spent all summer doing the most monotonous jobs you could imagine including, but not limited to:

• Moving cans across a table for 5 hours at a time
• Pushing 1000 pound carts from one room to another
• Putting cardboard layers between cans

BUT during our down-time, I had some much fun in the AK!  




I'm wary of going back for a few reasons: 
1. I fear the people aren't going to be as awesome as they were last year. 
2. The incident that made the supervisor hate me  (not to be blogged about). 
3. Considering the amount of $$$ directly corresponds with the number of fish, I'm hoping there is a lot of fish this year.
4. I'll miss 311 playing in SLC for the second year in a row :(

I sent my application the other day, so I guess the pros outweigh the cons.  Hopefully the incident doesn't affect my chances of getting hired...honestly, you do a BILLION things right it should cancel out the ONE thing you did wrong right? I learned my lesson!  Haha, I'm probably just overreacting.

(sorry for those who don't know what the incident is, I'm sure you are just DYING of curiosity)

My Insight of the Day

Have you ever been hated for something you're good at?  I was told that I was disliked, even hated, for getting good grades with little effort.  It made me think a little bit.  You wouldn't hate someone for being a good guitar player, right?  Just because they are playing music with little effort doesn't mean it was always that way. They had to work hard at some point to be able to do what they are doing.

In part II of the conversation with this person, they asked my opinion of certain things - these things which I don't have an opinion on.  They questioned what goes on in my mind, and with such an empty brain why I get good grades.

Here's what I came up with:

I think about what I have to!  When I'm in Chemistry class, I think about chemistry.  When I'm at work, I think about work.  When I'm not doing anything, I like thinking about nothing...just general man things (food, girls).   Plus brains aren't the only aspect of good grades.  The way I see it, if you do the work, pay attention, and use time wisely, you'll get decent grades.

It is true that there are very few things that I have a strong opinion on.  I like to just go with it.  I hate arguing.  Life is easier that way.  I can have an opinion if I have to, but there are too many things in this life that do not matter, so why have an opinion on it?! Ha ha.

All The Small Things

I know, it's SO original having a song title as a blog post title... but nothing super exciting has happened in the last few weeks. I feel like blogging though so here they are!

#1. Goags
So my roommates and I did this thing where we sing a song only we replace various words with the word "goags."  Take the song "Beverly Hills" for example.  We would sing "Beverly Goags, that's where I want to be!"  Now imagine every song you've ever heard and replace various words with "goags." ...what started out to be something funny, got really ridiculous around here.  So now that g word is banned.  Saying it will get you a slap to the face.  What is Goags?

 

 His name is Logan, but everyone calls him Goags (and ladies, he is available!)  His name is no longer Goags, it's Russel.  But the new problem is we started saying "Russ" in all of our songs now. Uh oh.

#2. Twitterpation
Yep I'm guilty.  It happened, I denied it, but it's still happening.  I can't help it.  The result of twitterpation is doing things you never thought you would.  I thought this was supposed to end in elementary school.  Ugh.

#3. Money
Before last week, I hadn't received a paycheck in 5 months.  I had forgotten how good money feels!  Also I did my taxes and I have more money coming home to me soon.  I'm hoping to take a Vegas vacation on 3/11 to see 311 to celebrate having a job haha.


I guess that's all that's worth mentioning (even though all of this was NOT worth mentioning in the first place) I'll keep you updated if anything cool ever happens round here!