School, School, School

Hey everybody! I guess it's time to update my blog spot! Cody keeps on harassing me to update it, so here it is...

I am working feverishly on homework this week, just trying to keep afloat. I have a 10 page single-spaced research paper due on Tuesday and it has been consuming all of my time. But it is coming along and I am hoping to have it finished on Saturday so I can relax a little before my final editing session. I also have an article for the Synopsis due on Monday.

So this week is a busy one! Tomorrow night is elections for the presidency of Society of Technical Communicators. It is a student chapter for a national society. I was asked to run for editor of the monthly newsletter and I accepted. I will find out tomorrow if I have been elected editor of the Synopsis. If I am elected then I will be the editor for my entire senior year and it will open a lot of doors for me. It would be a great opportunity to get my work published.

Also, I applied to be a Rhetoric Associate through the English department. An R.A. is basically a teacher assistant who reviews students papers and meets with them to suggest how to improve their writing style. I have an interview on Monday. If all goes well then I will be able to do that all next year too. It's a fairly good job and it will give me a lot of great experience editing.

Another fun fact is that the Clogging Club that I am starting here at Utah State is almost off the ground. I need to find a professor who will endorse the club and then I can turn in the last of the paperwork. That is my project for next week. My team and I are very excited and I have already had a number of people approach me about joining the club . It probably won't be official until next fall but it looks promising.

Speaking of clogging, my team danced in my ward talent show 3 weeks ago, and last week a member of my bishopric told me that my team was one of the two groups chosen to go to the Stake Talent Show in 2 more weeks. I was very excited about that. Our dance still needs some work and the 3 new girls are almost done learning it, but I think we will be awesome. We will definitely be attending competitions next year.

My weekend was pretty fun. I taught dance on Saturday morning , then I went 4-wheeling with some friends up to Hardware Ranch. We got stuck in the snow a few times, got covered in mud, and had a blast! After that, I went to go see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with about half of my ward at the theater, then we all went up Logan Canyon and had a campfire. On Sunday, Mom, Dad, and Spencer came up to school for Parents Day. My ward had a dinner after the block for all the families and Mom and Dad ran into people they knew. But now that the weekend is over I have been stuck in the library until late every night working on my homework. Hopefully I will have more time to breathe next week.