February 13-15, 2013

I am going to remember last year's Valentine's Day, and the days before and after it. I was going to remember Lincoln's Birthday as well, but I couldn't really remember it.

On February 13, I watched A Charlie Brown Valentine, and then I read from Hamlet for class the next day. I found it appropriate that I read the scene where Ophelia went crazy and recited the verse about "Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day."

On February 14, I went to my phonetics class. One guy was wearing a shirt that was blue and pink. He said it looked like someone had thrown up candy hearts on his shirt. Usually I stayed on campus all day, but for some reason that morning I went home. As I was walking home, I saw Alex, who lived across the hall from me. We talked with each other as we walked home, and when we were almost home, I saw a car with a pine tree strapped to the top! I only expect to see that in November and December--not February. Later I went back up to campus. I was working in the library that day, and on my way to the library I saw my old roommate Jeff Anderson. I said hi to him, but he must have been in a hurry, because he said something about how I was still going to be around (at BYU) for a while and walked off. I went in the library and I walked past some people who were getting ready to water the library's plants. One of them was a girl whom I had been on a date with two weeks earlier. I walked past, but I figured when I walked back, I would say hi to her. I clocked in, and then I saw her walking away with a pitcher of water, and I wanted to say hi, but she walked away too fast--so later that day I texted her and wished her a Happy Valentine's Day. I went down to the second floor, where they had just gotten done with some Valentine event in which they gave out t-shirts and cookies. If I had been just a little earlier, I could have gotten some. I worked on some source checking, and then it came time for my Early Modern English class. Our professor, Dr. Hallen, had a little box of conversation hearts someone had given her, so she passed the box around for us to have some. That afternoon I went to Papa Murphy's to get a heart-shaped pizza (I think I called first to see if they had them). When I got there, it was super busy and I had to wait a long time. I'm not going to do that again. Then I went home, and I watched Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown after I cooked the pizza.

On February 15, I went to my historical geology class, and our professor, Dr. Britt, mentioned the meteor that had hit Russia that day. Then after class, I went to the Eyring, and since I was now permitted to eat green things, I was delighted to see mint brownie ice cream in the vending machine. So I got some, but I didn't have a spoon, so I went over to the JFSB to see if there was a spoon over there I could use. There wasn't, so I took a plastic ruler out of my backpack, rinsed it off, and used it as a spoon. Then it came time for my geology of planets of class. Dr. Radebaugh showed us clips of the Russian meteor (and I think my classmate Michael might have shown me first). It just so happened that it was also the day another meteor was coming close to earth, so we watched coverage of that with Bill Nye. Dr. Radebaugh needed to move on with class, and I was disappointed we didn't get to see the meteor get to its closest point. That afternoon I drove home. I went with my mom to Jo Ann's in Centerville, and I wanted to get some kind of St. Patrick's Day decoration. This was a new location, and the aisles were much smaller than in their old store, and I didn't like it. I was looking at a St. Patrick's Day rug, and there was another lady in the aisle. I left so she could get through, and she said she felt bad because it seemed like I quit looking at the rug just to let her past. But it was OK. I settled for a set of shamrock lights, and at the checkout we got some green mint M&Ms. Then we stopped at Taco Bell and got some things to take home for dinner.