Free Food.

I don't know if there is anything that college kids love more than something that is free. If you don't believe just watch what happens when free shirts are being given out people swarm like crazy.  The second thing that college  kids love is food, something that we never think that we get enough of.  Put those two together and college kids go nuts! Seriously I have seen lines longer than the ones at lagoon with people just waiting for their free hamburger. It is a pretty crazy occurrence.


What does this have to do with anything. Well it turns out that every once in a while I get pretty good at the whole free food thing.  I am not talking about just a piece of candy in some professors office more like those hamburgers that people wait forever for.  One time I went nine days straight of getting free food, I thought that was pretty incredible.

This week I am going on day six of free food, and hopefully I can break my last record and get ten.  How do I accomplish this you might ask, all you have to do is know the right people and be at the right place at the right time. Simple right?

I do it for the stories

Sometimes I do random and somewhat stupid things in my life, since I don't drink I can't blame being drunk on my dumb actions but I figure I can always justify it by saying that it makes a good story.  Such an occurrence happened about a week ago.

Two of my friends (girls) and I were driving home Saturday night at about 11:30 while driving on state street I look to my left and see a white car with two boys.  I decide to just give them a nice head nod,  well turns out that    my head nod is quite magically.  We start following each other in our cars and talking to each other through the window. Then some way or another it escalated into them coming over to our apartment and possibly getting my number?.... I would say that makes quite a good story just coming from a simple head nod.  Also don't worry both boys were attractive and tall! Which makes the use of my head nod completely worth while.  

While yes this could have been a horrible horrible mistake and was probably a dumb idea, doesn't matter because I did it for the story right?

Hot dogs should be there when I need them

There are some people that I just should not go out in public with; it’s not for our sake really but for everyone else around us. One of these people I cannot go out with is Erica Keck my former roommate and good friend.

On Thursday we Erica and I decided we should meet up and go to J-dawgs. Upon arrival we were both devastated to find our favorite hot dog place had ran out of hot dogs!  After a very emotional letdown we decided Brick Oven was a good alternative.

However this may not have been a wise decision.  As I proceeded to knock down an entire glass of water thoroughly embarrassing myself in the process.  Then I also came up with the great idea of pretending it was our birthday so we could free ice cream.  As Erica was discussing how we could slyly hint this at the waiter, the waiter walked by to check on us.  Both of us started laughing so hard, the poor waiter was extremely confused.

After a few other embarrassing events we finally left.  We remember now why we should have gone to J-dawgs in the first place and not been allowed to actually go out in public. So if you ever see me with Erica you should run far and fast.

University excused spring break

Probably the best idea I have had this year has been to add the careers in recreation class. I have had more fun in this class than any other classes I have taken, and I have taken some pretty fun classes. Of course is it possible to not love a class in which you go to California during the middle of February and get university credit for it. On top of that be able to have the opportunity to tour some sweet recreational facilities from St George to Los Angeles. 

Some of my personal highlights was talking to imagineers from Disney (we may have spent the whole day in Disneyland also), touring the Angels stadium (including going to the dugout and their locker room), getting a free Trans-Siberian Orchestra t-shirt, going to the strip in Vegas, and just being able to see all the many career choices I have before me. 

Best final ever? Without a doubt.

Giving a "coke" to a stranger

So this past week my professor challenged the class to "buy a coke" for a stranger and then blog about it. Here's the problems with this picture, #1 I hardly ever buy anything for myself, which brought about problem #2 I might have completely forgotten about it and not done it, oops. And #3 I was supposed to blog about it next week.  I have however given a "coke" to a stranger before so instead of making something up I will just retell this story.

So one day I decide to help my friend, Cami, with a booth that she has in the middle of Brigham Square.  At this booth we are giving away brownies to people that come talk to us.  As we start closing down we still have some brownies left. Cami, gets this brilliant idea that I should give it to some cute boy. Then as her mind keeps going she decides I should put my phone number on the napkin underneath the last two brownies.  I just laughed at her ridiculousness. She proceeds to further entice me by promising to buy me lunch if I do it.

Now I am a poor starving college student, If you know anything about those you know they will do almost anything for a free meal. So I agreed to her challenge.  We proceeded to wander around the BYU campus for what I would call my victim.  After wandering for a long time, I might have just gotten sick of it so I just ran up to some random boy and handed him this napkin with two brownies and one phone number on it. 

So just like that mission accomplished. I got a free lunch and gave a "coke" to a random stranger even if it was a few months early.  I think that I will try it again and maybe even stick around for the reaction.

My only claim to fame thus far

It was just an average day working at the ticket office when destiny arrived, in the form of two college boys.  They approached my window and asked if I would be in a movie for them.  They were filming it to give to some girl so I figured why not, might as well help out my fellow man. 

What I didn't realize was how many people were actually going to see this video.  They film me with my little 10 second part and go on their way.  As I continue my day I go to class which is in the basement of the MARB aka no cell phone service.  When I finally get out of class my phone starts vibrating like crazy 11 unread text messages.  They were all telling me how famous i was. Same day I got filmed I got famous, not even all of the movie stars can say that. New life goal achieved. 

I have heard rumors that it even got onto ESPN? Sweet.

You're it

I may have found my new love.... Laser Tag I have learned from last month that there are two types of laser tag: Laser tag and Laser TAG. Now the first was in your normal run around a room painted black with wooden walls shooting at each other’s vests, while music is playing over the speakers. Fun? Yes... could it be better? apparently... Now laser TAG stands for Tactical Action Games. Basically in this game we went outside, yes outside in January, in the Provo canyon (at Timpanogos park to be exact), to play a glorious mixture of laser tag and the best night games you have ever experienced.  Each game we played the games got more exciting and intense than the next. By the final game we had bases to protect, bases to rebuild, bases to destroy (the other teams bases), enemies to shoot, our own butt to save, other peoples butt to rescue and we were also trying to capture the enemies’ flag while of course protecting our own.  I would have to say along with the fun I learned some valuable skills, especially if zombies attack.