Autumn Adventures

Things are cooling down here in Logan, but I am still trying to do a lot of different things with friends. Of course, I do a lot of homework, but I haven't taken any pictures of me doing that recently.
Here, my roommates Christina and Ellie play Scrabble. I like to help Christina, but she doesn't like to take my Scrabble-icious advice.

The first snow that stuck of the year. My poor little car. And poor frozen Sarah.
Me and my siblings in a polar bear cave at Sea World in San Diego over Fall Break.
A freaking amazing picture of me in Matt's aviator glasses.
Some beautiful California flowers.
Me, Leslie, and Melanie on the way to Moonlight Beach over the break.
Me driving Andrew's mom's mini cooper before the paint dance.
Me and Andrew after the paint dance. This was for Homecoming Week here at USU. And I got a bucket of paint dumped on my head.
WATCH OUT!!! IT IS SARAH THE PAINT MONSTER!!!!
I sure do clean up nice. This is me looking beautiful for the Homecoming Dance.
My good friend Eric took me to the dance and we had a really fun time. And he brought me daisies, which was really nice of him.
Here I am, hundreds of feet over the ground going repelling for the first time ever. It was so so so scary! But I had a really fun time. I think I would like to definitely go again, and I'd like to go rock climbing again. There is just something thrilling about having your life dependent on a rope tied to a rock. It was really scary when you weren't attached to anything because the wind was blowing pretty hard and we were on this ledge hundreds of feet above the bottom. See the highway way down below me?
Me with my friends Bryan and Melissa after we went climbing. And we are safe off of the windy cliff ledge. It has been a really fun and good time here in Logan (and California). I like my life.

25:07

Woot! I am so proud of myself. Today I ran a 5K, the first one I've run in 8 years (which I got extra credit in PE for, and I walked most of it). I ran the whole time and to make this even more impressive, it was windy and snowing. Brr! But that is Logan for you. It was very fun. I am so proud of myself for accomplishing that, even though I have run farther than that, it was just satisfying to run and finish a race, and to do it in 25 minutes and 7 seconds! I didn't think that I ran that fast, but I guess I do. I will most definitely run another 5K.

Utah State vs. BYU

I had a lot of fun at the Utah State vs. BYU game on Friday. Here at USU, we know that our football team isn't very great, but people go to the games to show their support (and to keep funding for our really superb basketball team). I usually go to chill with friends.


Here I am with my friends Monica and Erika. We've been friends for about 8 years, and we still hang out. I am so glad to have them.

Me and some friends on the front row! Woot! We are having a crazy good time cheering for the Aggies. Some people thought that they had an excuse to cheer for BYU, but they got a whole lot of crap for that. You totally have to be true to your school (please see the Beach Boys).


Us hanging (literally) out in the front of the stands during the half time show (and the game).


Big Blue is so dang awesome! I think my college goal (besides becoming a True Aggie) is to kiss Big Blue. I should have done it at the game, but everyone was mauling the poor guy.


BYU is white, and we are the TRUE BLUE! I discovered that football is a lot of fun to watch when you are closer to the action. It is also really exciting when there is a huge school rivalry and everyone has been trash talking the rival for the past few weeks.


I have this theory about playing BYU. First of all, they are really good, ranked about 8th in the nation. USU is the 3rd worst team in that division. Many people had resigned themselves to a slaughter, and giving up is not a good thing. I theorized that there was a lot of pride about the Cougars. Pride is bad, and BYU should not have pride. I believed that the humility of the losing Aggies would result in a miracle. And it did!


As the Aggies scored two touchdowns and held BYU for a long time, I could not believe it! We had possession of the ball for most of the fourth quarter, and thanks to some terrible calls, we didn't get about 2 additional touchdowns. Soon, the Aggies, known as the most hostile basketball crowd west of the Mississippi appeared at a football game as a chante of "Overrated! Overrated" was directed at the BYU team. The expected slaughter did not happen!


The game ended, 14 - 34 for BYU, but hey! We are one of the worst teams in the nation and I am so impressed. That is almost the most we have scored in two years. I'm so glad! Way to go Aggies! You rock my socks. And I think that our rivalry t-shirts were hilarious. On the front it said: "Y B U?" and on the back it said: "Win or lose, you still live in Provo, 'nuff said." :) I love Logan and Utah State.

10 Things I Hate About My Minor

My minor is English Education, and today I decided that I have the DUMBEST minor in the history of the world. And this is why.

1. The Ray B. West Building - This is where the English department is located. It is so old and there are box elder bugs crawling over everything. Sometimes they attack me. Gross! And the pipes clank, and I am pretty sure someone died there. And, Ray B. West was an engineer, it makes no sense!
2. It makes no sense - English doesn't make any sense. Please read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and tell me what it means. Why do I have to read it?
3. There really aren't all the connections there that English majors insist are there - no one puts all that crap into it. I don't understand how literature majors can write dissertations on one line of a book.
4. T.S. Eliot - he was in my American authors anthology and now he is in my British anthology. I don't know where he belongs. He was born in St. Louis and then he moved to England. He wrote "The Waste Land" and that poem is awful! People should write things that are happy and understandable and put those into anthologies.
5. The Art of B.S.ing - I B.S. so much on every English test and paper. And then I get A's on them! I feel like I should have to study to get A's on those things, but no. Then I do way better on the people who are serious about English. There has got to be something wrong with this system.
6. Krapp's Last Tape - Actually, just the paper that I had to write about Samuel Beckett's play. This play is about an old man who listens to old recordings of himself, and then he makes new records about his response to his old tapes, which were his past responses. And then, I have to compare him to Wordsworth and then prove that Krapp fails at being a Romantic poet.
7. I am brilliant without even trying - So the paper about Krapp's Last Tape was supposed to be 2 pages. I am so brilliant that my paper ended up being four pages. Cutting out brilliance is even harder than making stuff up to fill up a page limit.
8. The heavy books - Three days a week, I have to lug around a monstrous anthology so we can study one poem in class.
9. I won't even be able to teach English - why does the secondary ed program require a teaching minor when you can't teach it? I would rather get an anthropology minor or something like that, but there isn't an anthropology ed minor, so I am out of luck there. I could still get one, but I would have to do that in addition to a teaching minor.
10. I like facts - English is not based in fact. Every English class (except one exception) is totally based in theory and interpretation. History has facts, and then you use those to figure out what people are saying in their documents. Math is full of facts. English concepts are totally intangible. Check this out: "One final paradox: even though this is a poem about Nature not inspiring Wordsworth, he has of course still been inspired to write it, which means that Nature has in fact inspired him. This poem expresses the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings induced by the experience of Nature not inducing a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings . . . ! Going back to the river has worked after all to impress and inspire his poetic imagination! Nature was in fact inspiring him, after all!" This is about Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and it makes sense but when you think about it, how do you really know that? Seriously.

Basically, I really do like English, but sometimes, it is a little bit ridiculous.

Sorry Scott...

I'm sorry Scott. When my homework is done, I can't resist reading a great book called The War about World War II by Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns. It has stories of the soldiers and lots of pictures, several of them are a little more gruesome than what I have ever seen. I'm enjoying it though, more than any party I've been to so far this school year.

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Volleyball for FHE

Well, last night was FHE. I played volleyball. Even though I had khakis and I was the only girl playing for about half an hour and was at least 8 inches shorter than the shortest guy playing, I still went in and did it. It is really boring to just sit there and watch cuz you don't want to look like an idiot. Just go out there and look like an idiot. Looking like an idiot is a lot of fun.

And for once, I didn't suck. I served awesomely, I bumped the ball straight back over the net, I wasn't a useless player, and I ran to the ball. The only thing I sucked at was setting, which I will be working on in the future. It was a lot of fun, and I was proud of myself for just having fun. I also wish my cousins could have seen me play. I think they make fun of me so much, that I subconsciously convince myself that I am rotten at volleyball. Maybe someday, I will be as good as the US Women's Beach Volleyball team, and maybe I'll have as flat of a stomach as them, too.