Rise and shout the Cougars are out!!!

This post has two purposes. 1-To talk about how awesome cougar football is, and the second to face the reality of cougar football. So if you don't want to face the reality, or the reality the way that i perceive it, then don't read paragraph two. But first, i am so glad to hear the head official dude of the pac-10 conference defending the unsportsmanlike conduct call at the end of the game. IT WAS THE RIGHT CALL!!! So all you anti-byu fans out there can quit crying about it. It is stated clearly in the rule book that if a player throws the ball into the air, you (as an official) basically have no choice but to throw the flag. And all the officials were told before the season started to crack down on celebrations. It was the right call. Plain and simple. BYU football rocks my world. It is easily the best five months of the year. However, they do have many problems that they need to fix if they want to continue on their quest for perfection, or that quest will end this saturday. I love going in a rush to applebee's two weeks in a row to see the final minutes of the game. I love it. But i believe the biggest fans are the harshest critics, and i have quite a bit to say. I love them. BYU is the best kick blocking team in the nation. I love mr. Jan Jorgensen. You may want to stop reading at that point or you may accuse me of cougar heresy and never look at me the same.
Having said how much i love them, Are you kidding me?! It came down to that to beat a lousy washington team! Wake up linebackers and Db's. Here's a clue, Locker is going to run the ball! The guy couldn't throw the ball into the ocean so you think they are going to rely on his arm?! I don't think so. Ridiculous that it came down to a blocked pat (awesome, but ridiculous.) This is where the heresy comes in. I hope i am wrong, and i never in a million years thought i would say this, but unless they fix their defense, their whole season will be for nothing because they will lose to utah. There i said it. Did anybody else see how freaking wide open all of washington's receivers were on that final drive. If locker could throw a ball the outcome might not have been so favorable, and it won't be against utah. Utah is looking good, and all they have to do is watch the washington tape and they already have their gameplan. Do an even mix of qb draws and deep balls and BYU won't be able to stop them. With how absolutely crappy our defense looks, Brian Johnson is going to throw for 400 yards and rush for 100. That's not even counting the braided hippie boy they have running the ball too. That also goes with our other major problem. Can somebody please hold on to the freaking football?! We can't continue to do that (especially this weekend and against utah) and expect to win. I hate the attitude BYU is playing with. I always wanted them to have attitude because it helps, but they are playing with complete overconfidence. They are playing like they can't be beat no matter how they play. And yes, you could argue that's a good thing, but you have to have in your head that you still have to outplay the other team. They come off a little arrogant to me and i think they need to check that or ucla will for them. I feel better. I love my cougar football and i couldn't live without it. I almost jumped out of my applebee's booth when they blocked that pat. I had ribs all over my hands and face, so i would have looked very silly, but who cares when you are rooting for the cougars. I love them, i do.

It's True :(

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Free Write

I haven't just written about what's going on for awhile. Here goes. Justin and I are going to school, and kind of sick of it already. I'm taking Major Authors: Dickens, American Literature, Intro to Visual Arts, Beginning Drawing, and Intermediate Fiction Writing. By the way, why do the professors here at SUU feel like they have to babysit their students? Each of my classes have their own weird little attendance policies, which blows my mind. One of my classes says that if you come in late or leave a little early, that equals 1/3 of an absence. If you have more than 3 absences, your entire grade gets dropped one letter grade. How do they come up with this stuff?

Oh, that reminds me of something else that totally blows my mind. Yes, Nic, Logan drivers are the worst, but Cedar City drivers are right there with them. Justin and I were talking about this the other day and he came to the interesting conclusion that Logan drivers are just stupid, they don't know what they're doing, whereas Cedar City drivers and just bad, meaning they know what they're supposed to do and just don't do it. The biggest thing that I cannot fathom is how Cedar City drivers don't pull over for ambulences. I know, what?!?! It's true. Within a week, I saw it happen twice. An ambulance is coming, I pull over to the side of the road, and people that were behind me actually pass me and keep on driving...I don't get it. I. don't. get. it. Yes, you getting to Wal-Mart 5 seconds earlier than you would if you had to pull over IS more important than somebody's LIFE.

But back to school, Justin seems to like these classes much more than last semester. He's taking Child Development, Intro to Criminal Justice, Intermediate Writing, Humanities, and Forensic Science. We never feel like going to school, or doing homework for that matter, and I think it's much harder to stay focused on those things when you're married. Especially when you're newly married, and both working at opposite times, and going to school at opposite times. Meaning, whatever "free" time you have, you want to spend together, canoodling on the couch, watching movies, chatting it up, or some other stuff. You don't want to be reading The Old Curiosity Shop, or Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, no matter how interesting they are. This is also why my screenplay isn't completely finished already. I have it all worked out, just not written out. And all because I want to see my husband once in awhile.

Oh my gosh, I just heard someone talking about ANOTHER Spiderman movie. ...is this true?? If anyone knows if this is true, please let me know. Remember how I said the LAST thing Hollywood needs is another movie about Spiderman? I have no more words on the subject.

So, there's the random stuff that I'm thinking about at the moment. Oh, except one more thing. In all my english classes, there is this group of really snotty girls present. They are the same girls, give or take a few, and they think they know it all, and they think they are very clever. Both of these are incorrect. I just found out that they all work in the Writing Lab in the English Building and all of the sudden, it made sense. This brings me to my point. I don't understand why people think they have to act superior to others, or react abrasively to new ideas. Is it a defense mechanism, or do they really think they're entitled to act this way? I have self-confidence, but I don't presume to think that I'm better than everyone else, or that my opinions are the only right ones. The thing I love about literature is that everyone can look at it a different way and come to a different conclusion. Discussion classes used to be about sharing personal and new insight. If anyone has any insight on this topic, please let me know.

Jesse Writes the Following:

I've been thinking about how sometimes writers will put the first chapter of their book up on their website, or put the first chapter of a sequel at the end of the book before it, you know, just to get some reactions from people. So, after much inner debate on my part, here is the link to the first scene of my superhero spoof screenplay:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dctxt6q5_11hh5m55cb

Enjoy! And please comment like crazy, I can take all kinds of criticism.

Movie Crazy

I don't know if you've noticed any of the changes on our sidebar, but I would invite everyone to pay attention to the "Movies We've Watched This Month!" section. We thought it would be fun/funny to see just how movie-crazed we've become. Justin getting unlimited free rentals at his job has just further fueled our obsession. I'm sure this section will soon turn into "Movies We've Watched This Year!" and then we can start the process of calculating just how much time we spend watching movies. It could get scary, folks.

Yea!

Guess what? I am so excited. Justin is getting me a brand new Dell laptop! Oh how I love this man! Now I can play on the internet during class!

What Did We Do Over The Weekend??

We made a sweet, awesome FORT.