My Accomplishment for Today

I can't tell you how much better I feel now. I look up at the mountain, and think: "I own you. I climbed you. You are nothing." I feel as if I rule Utah Valley.

Well...I guess I haven't climbed Timp yet.

It's the final countdown....

Anytime I get momentarily depressed (see: Detroit Pistons game 3 loss last night) I just have to think of the following picture:

This castle is in the city of Bacharach, Germany. It is also where I will be spending the night in about a month.

I'm pretty stoked about the trip. It's going to be life-changing. Legendary. Epic.

Of course, I will keep all two of my faithful blog readers updated. (Thanks Mom!) wink, wink.....

I'm not excited about leaving Provo, though, and especially all the really good friends that I have here. I'm dealing with that situation by not thinking about it...and instead, dreaming of castles in Germany.

My Current Love

I've been catching up on old episodes of the Office.

This, of course, always leads me to the same conclusion:

I must marry Pam Beasley.

Yup, she's great.

I've had a couple of fictional characters that I have been in love with. Elizabeth Bennett is the one that first crosses my mind. (In case anyone's interested, the fictional character that bothers me the most is Kim Bauer. I....am not going to talk about her right now.)

But for now....I think that Pam has taken my heart. She's funny. She has an amazing personality. She's attractive. She's smart. She's devoted. Her and Jim got together like I always imagined (and..frankly...still do) myself doing with my wife; totally liking each other from the very beginning, but first becoming really good friends and then later dating and at the end, hopefully getting married. Well, I will get married to her, I'm just talking about Pam and Jim. I want them to be happy just like I will be happy.

We'll see how long it takes before I fall in love with another fictional character.

I have a couple of things that I could talk about:

But for now, I think I'm just going to mention that I graduated a couple of weeks ago.

My parents came out to Provo for the occasion. It was fun to see them. For some reason, I just realized that...I will only see them once a year, most likely. Christmas. I guess that isn't a huge chance from before, and I did go two years without seeing them...but I don't know.

My grandparents also came down from Idaho for the occasion. It was really good to see them. Isn't my grandma's hat cute?

I can't believe it, four years of school all for the chance to wear a cap and gown and stand on this sign.

The graduation ceremony itself wasn't the most exciting, so I spent the whole time staring at the faculty's graduation robes. They were intense. Then I start thinking of all the places I should go to grad school, so that one day if I ever decide to teach and have the opportunity to wear crazy intense graduation robes as a member of faculty I could have the coolest color robes. The University of Washington's colors are purple and gold....that could be pretty cool, I think.

I bought train tickets today

Yup, I'm going to Europe. I'm pretty excited.