Swine Flu

Thats right swine flu right here in Provo Utah.  I guess you could call me an unconfirmed case of the swine flu.  I had a missionary come into my district with the flu and about a week later I came down with the symptoms.  I remain an unconfirmed case due to the fact that my insurance ran out the day before I got the flu, and I felt no need to go see a doctor.  Although, it would've been nice to find out for sure.  My room mates have been avoiding me to the best of their ability going so far as to carry around a spray bottle of alcohol and spraying down everything that I touch.  My room mate tried to wear a mask to sleep to avoid the germs, but found it too uncomfortable to sleep with.  The flu is since gone, and I guess you could say I survived the swine flu!  I now get the priviledge of teaching the quarantined missionaries at the MTC.  By me coming down with the swine flu I will get to bless the lives of many sick missionaries.  If you start to get a sore throat...watch out because swine flu may be taking hold.

The View from on Top

It's been a long time since writting a blog entry, but since the class that required it is over I really haven'y had much desire to write.  For some reason I just felt compelled to write.  Maybe its the fact that I'm sitting here in my Comms 101 class learning about the internet in relation to mass media.  Either way I guess its time to post a new entry.  June has arrived (my favorite month) maybe its because I have my Bday this month.  But before june began I had the oppurtunity to hike mount mahogany on Memorial day.  A long hike that took us 3 hours plus to get up to the top.  only an hour and 20 minutes after my little bro and former NFL player Chad Lewis.  A few scraped knees and a sore backside later we made it.  The view was something else, and I might even admit that it was worth the time time and effort for the sense of accomplishment.  A good start to what I hope to be a great summer!

March Madness

Last entry i said that I hoped to be heading to las vegas to see the Cougars play.  Well as I'm sure you saw that didn't happen, what a great disappointment!  I also hoped this was the year we'd finally see our BYU cougars advance past the first round, but instead they got obliterated by Texas A&M, and I found myself being talked down from the Kimball Tower.  Its almost as if they don't even try when they get to the big dance.  How many more years will I have to endure this?  At least the rest of the tournament has been fun to watch. My bracket has not been completely busted yet.

     March Madness is kind of like a mullet, you know business in front party in back.  School is like the business up front, unfortunately March is crunch time in school and a bunch of lame projects and papers begin to show their ugly faces.  Fortunately we have the NCAA basketball tournament to take our minds off of these terrible upcoming events.  It is comforting to know that a break is close at hand, but it sure would be nice to get some kind of spring break...Come on Cecil!  

     Oh well I doubt I will ever be that lucky during my BYU career. 

     

Vegas!

Well its about here...the big dance.  But, first theBYU basketball team must face the unfair MWC conference tournament held on UNLV's home court.  Seriously this is absolutely ridiculous to have the tourney each year in vegas. It should either rotate and be held at the #1 seed's home court or be played at a neutral site.  Let's take money out of the issue and uphold the integrity of the game.  No one from any other school besides UNLV wants to have to be heckled by those classless fans.  I personally don't care to hear F*** BYU all day long, and see fellow BYU fans being called out to fight.  Nevertheless its time to roll the dice in Vegas.  Let's hope for victory in a potential second round battle in the tourney.  Me and my friends attended last year, but unfortunately I won't make the whole thing this year.   But, if BYU Makes it to the final game (potentially against Utah) my friend Dave and I made a pact to drive down saturday morning to attend.  Hopefully next week I'll have a blog post about a Vegas adventure...

Life...

On this topic of life this past week was a bit crazy for my friends the Ellis'.  Last year around this time I was helping them move out here from Detroit.  We had some interesting experiences along the way, but we eventually arrived.  This year they had even more hectic times as their son Andrew was born with comlications with a virus known as CMV.  When he was born it was unsure if he would even survive.  I feel honored that they named their child after me saying that he needed a "fighter" name to pull through.  I say complications must be expected if you name your child after the most accident prone person I know.  But, he is fighting through and things are looking way better than they were.  At this point it appears that he is going to pull through this challenge.  The level of complication that he may face later in life is unsure, but I think he'll pull through.  He continues to do better each day.  Jerry and Kira-Fire Ellis are doing great in handling this challenge.  Andrew is in good hands.   

Sickness...

This past week i've been plagued with a cold.  It's one of those illnesses that has been enough to be an annoyance, but not enough to give me an excuse to skip school.  It also seems like school has piled every assignment/test into this week just for my pleasure.  Life has been real busy, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been any fun.  I watched BYU suffer a close loss to UNLV, but then redeem themselves with a great comeback win at SDSU last night.  If we don't beat Utah this saturday I might withdraw from school here.  haha.  I'm looking forward to this week being over, and life getting a little bit easier.  

Valentines...

So this pic and post may appear to be somewhat femenine, nut you'll just have to forgive me.  Not much about Valentine's day is very manly. This really was the first year that I've had to be concerned and put effort into Valentine's.  I've never had a girlfriend on Valentine's in years past.  It was actually a very good day Jourdon and myself went up to my houseand we made dinner with our friends Jake and Haylee.  Thanks to my mom everything was set up very nicely and we felt like we were wealthy for just this once.  Almost everything went perfectly minus one minor mishap at the end of the date, but that can go unmentioned. Valentine's 09 was extremely succesful.   I also had another funny thing happen to me before Valentine's. I went to get some concert tickets, and i got tix to two different shows, but as I walked out with the tickets I noticed one of the venues is a 21 and over venue.  Seeing as Jourdon is not 21 that doesn;t exactly work out, so I guess I'll have to go with my friend Dan or something.  

     Also this week blessed me with a five day weekend as opposed to my standard 4 day weekends thanks to BYU changing tuesday's classes to monday's schedule.  I should've spent some of my free time studying, but as seems to always happen to me I waited til the last second and did everything on Wednesday.  

SLC...

I'm not really sure why, but my hatred toward the University of Utah grows deeper and deeper every day.  This past saturday me, Jourdon, and 4 other couples went on a big group date up in SLC.  The plan was to catch a Utah Grizzlies hockey game, but we couldn't get seats together so we went over to Hollywood Connection to play some mini golf, and feel like kids again.  There were plenty of teenagers around to make us feel like junior high again. After our experience we headed up to ute territory to enjoy some great pizza at the pi pizzaria.  How could such a terrible place have suuch an excellent pizza hang out?  The pizza there is phenomenol, but we had to be around a slew of utes.  Now don't get me wrong I don't hate all ute fans, just most of them.  To only secure my dislike for them one of the girls on the date accidently left her purse there and didn't notice until we got home.  She called up there and asked them to look where we were sitting to see if it was there.  She called twice to ask this favor and both times they said it wasn't there.  Well she ended up asking a friend to go check, and sure enough it was right where she thought she left it.  I suppose this treatment should be expected from Utes.  

     Salt Lake isn't all bad, in fact I think it's a great place, it just has a dark spot in it known as U of U.  SLC is the home to the Utah Jazz one of the best home basketball teams in the country.  I'm a huge fan of the team, and I was even able to attend a game this past week.  They obliterated "dirty dirk" and the Dallas Mavericks.  I was extremely happy to watch the Jazz win by nearly 30.  Tonight they face my most hated NBA team - The LA Lakers.  Lets hope the ESA magic continues and D-Will and crew take it em.   

Transatanticism

I just want to say how much I enjoy Death Cab for Cutie's album "Transatlanticism."  I consider this to be one of the best albums of all time, and that's not an exaggeration.  The title track has recently taken on a more special meaning in my life so I thought it appropriate to give Death Cab a shout out in the old blog this week.            Life seems to be looking up in the world of BYU sports, but we'll see how long that lasts.  Also, in regards to sports super bowl XLIII was amazing.  I thought nothing would even come close to last years, but this did.  We attended a Super Bowl party at my buddy Dave's apartment ("You're a legend Dave" - fotc-) To my dismay my girlfriend Jourdon convinced me to let my 13 year old little bro Braden attend.  I guess it was fun to have him come because I'm sure he felt pretty cool hanging with a bunch of college students.  

Hmmm...

This seems to be a common image these days in the world of BYU sports.  There are few things that make me more frustrated than BYU losing to Utah.  I'm beginning to feel like I did when I was a freshman here at BYU  when the sports teams never ceased to disappoint.  Early this season I was feeling confident we might actually win a game in the "March Madness" NCAA tourney.  Now I'm begining to wonder if we'll even make the tourney.  Well maybe one day we'll advance past the first round, but all I can do is sit here and hope.  

     Other than BYU basketball being a huge disappointment and giving me the desire to plunge off the Kimball tower (jk), life has been pretty good.  Speaking of freshman year I had a date friday and we went to dinner and got ice cream at the creamery on 9th afterwards so freshman-like mmm... good memories of Freshman year.  I appologize this week's post does not seem very exciting.  Its not that the week hasn't been exciting it actually has been very eventful, but I don't really know how to write about it...

The Del

Another week has passed and that means the blogging assignment must be done.  Brother Clarke (MCom teacher) gave us an assignment last week of which we should report on in our blogs.  We were told to buy a random person a coke.  This task was accomplished last night at Del Taco.  Before I explain how it went down (not all that exciting) i'd like to share how tuesdays at the del began.  A Friend (Gobble) and myself had become obsessed with Taco Bell over the summer, and we would frequent it usually late at night for our "4th meal."  At the end of the summer we went out for our traditional 4th meal and were stunnned when taco bell had pulled a fast one and started closing at 11 pm.  In our disgust we had to find another place to eat, so we chose Del Taco as a second rate alternative.  It happened to be a tuesday night which meant Tacos were being sold 3 for 1 dollar.  This pleased our taste buds and wallets, and we decided Del deserved more of our business for staying open late and being cheap.  So the tradition of "Taco Tuesday" was born in our disgust for Taco Bell's false advertising of being "open late."  Every tuesday we pay our visit to the Del and the Bell has probably lost 100s of dollars in our business.  Anyways, during our traditional visit to Del last night I bought 2 drinks at the register and just handed the other to the person in line behind me.  Everyone around was confused and questioned my actions, but I just said I felt like buying an extra one and walked away.  I was actually a recipient of a free bottled water this week while I was at work.  Someone just came up to me and said I could have this bottled water.  I graciously accepted, and wondered does he have this class too?

Blogging huh?

Well as you can see this is the first post of the blogging life of Andrew Geddes.  I know I titled it "super sick" blog, which was mostly sarcastic, but I feel the posting of the music helps a little bit.  I feel largely apathetic towards blogging, and rather pathetic for actually creating one of these.  Suffice it to say that due to a class at BYU (MCOM 320) We've all been asked to create blogs and write in them once a week.  If i'm going to be commited to this I'll probably spice things up a bit with music/pics etc.  just for the heck of it.  Hopefully these blogs posts are somewhat funny and enjoyable to look back upon some time down the line.  Seeing as this thing is also available to the world on the internet I don't envision getting too personal.  

     With the start of the new semester I fortunately don't feel so overwhelmed by my classes like last semester probably due to 3 less credits and no calc.  Classes haven't been tough yet, but with college life comes the oppurtunity of hanging out and slacking off.  I didn't exactly start the semester off too well in being studious instead I found myself hanging out til all hours of the night and sacrificing some good sleep time, but I'm sure once school starts throwing obstacles my way I'll improve my ways and be better.  Anyways thats it for this week hopefully I'll have funny stories to share in the coming weeks.