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I am at teh libray all day. And all night. 11:30 am- 11:30pm working on stuff for finals.
The Rexburg Standard Journal featured and article about the two consulting projects that groups from my statistics class did for teh city of Rexburg. My project had to do with proposed improvements to downtown and the other had to with recreational opportunities in rexburg. Unfortunately the article is not posted on the journals website and I do not think I can upload a pdf file here but you can imagine it.
Well, back to studying
... They both just wont give up!
Yesterday was a beautiful day in Rexburg. It was in the upper 40's (yes thats beautiful). The sun was out and the snow was dissapearing. The grass was waving in the sun and you could see the flowers poking out of the newly spread mulch on the way to school.
Then today I walk outside to go to class and its SNOWING! What?! There was a t least 3 inches already on the ground. I was so mad. To add to the mess I hear on the radio that there is a chance of snow through the end of the week. What is this about! Its almost April and Spring has already officialy begun.
I am quite ready for Old Man winter to give up
Do you have a particular "catch phrase" for which you are known?
Submitted by Emu with a Clue.
It all began with predictive texting, you know where the phone figures out what you are trying to type into a text message without you having to press the extra buttons. It became a rule that we were not allowed to correct the phone when it entered an alternate word instead of the one we were going for. This caused for some interesting text messages. (It was all fun and games until the phone entered "heavier" instead of "heather", she didnt like that too much)
Then we decided that we were going to abbreviate every thing we said you know like jk for just kidding. Then it was TBH for "to be honest", TBCH- "to be completely honest" then it just got out of hand. It became a game to see if you could figure out what we were trying to say. My roomate would text me
TBCHIATODMHAIRRH. LGE,IWSTBY?
Translation: To be completely honest I am tired of doing my homework and Im really really hungy. Lets go eat, I want some Taco Bell, you?
Oh and the best text messaging adventure so far.... A few weeks ago we thought it would be fun to start a text message rumor that Tom Cruise died. So, at 2 in the morning we sent out about 80 text messages combined to our friends accross the country announcing that we had just heard that Tom Cruise had died. A lot of people believed it and were really sad, I almost feel bad but not really because it was funny.
Show us your bedroom.
Submitted by Wel.
I have already posted these pictures but I couldn't pass up the vox hunt. So think of an English hunting lodge but in western America. Kind of a Ralph Lauren approach.
I wanted to find a way to update my room, make it complete in a way that seems always alive even if I'm not there year round. I didn't want to throw out all my high school stuff, its my high school room. So I constructed kind of an organized collage with elements from high school, college and miscellaneous. Notice the sashes on the left, sterling pheasants, silver tray (idea from Lacey's room) and that great desk with old Republican and Democrat Jim Beam bottles. I like the way it turned out however I want to replace the pictures of me with other pics. I was just in a rush to get it done to take some pictures for my protfolio. I like the texture and dimension.
The snow shoes were the last things to be added to the room, They are exactly what it needed. (thanks mom for letting me borrow those, they can go back in the playroom anytime) I can't take credit for the wall with the window though. That was moms creation when I first moved into the room my freshman year of high school. Its my favorite part because it was the first element of my room, along with the fantastic tracey parter rug with the golden retriever. Those elements inspired the entire room. I love it because it feels like my room and like it evolved with me over time.
Me.
Although this is not as big as Kazia making the soccer team (congrats! congrats! congrats!) I still won 200 bucks. I placed first in the Elevator Pitch Competition sponsored by "Students in Free Enterprise" (SIFE). It is a competiton that tests your ablity to pitch a consise, informative, interesting business idea to a poetential investor in less than two minutes, or the durration of an elevator ride.
I participated last summer in this competition and it was attended by a smaller group. I placed second out of seven or so competitiors. At that time I pitched an idea for an online home furnishings company. I learned from that experience what I could do better this time. My first pitch and idea was too complex, too wordy for an elevator pitch. I needed something more concise.
This time there were over 20 participants and an even larger audience. I was a bit nervous seeing that each competitor got to see every pitch. But I also kind of thrive on that type of thing. My strength here was going to be my presentation. I was noticing a few good ideas but even fewer were presented well. I was number 17 in the line up. Armored in a professional attire that would make even a wall street banker think twice about his shoes, I greeted the judges confidently. (classic Donna Karen Signature black suit, blue/white pinstripe ralph lauren shirt and a classic gold tie) However, I didnt nail my presentation how I wanted to. It was ok but not as smooth as had been my pitch to my roomates on the way out the door to the competition.
After everybody had presented the judges deliberated and I was unsure if I were going to place. You never know, judging is rarely objective, its full of biases- both unintentional and intentional. When they came back and announced 3rd and 2nd place I figured I had lost out since my name wasnt announced but to my suprise, and really I was suprised, they called my name for 1st! I was very excited, especialy because they had unexpectadely doubled the cash prizes. I just won 200 bucks, two buy-one-get-one-free buffets at Craigos and a free dessert coupon for Craigos.
Oh, you may be wondering what I pitched. I startedby calling attention to an headline article in the Standard Journal about how the crippled national housing market has left the upper valley standing. Real Estate is still Idahos number one investment.
Its a modification to the already proven and succesful practice of House Flipping. My team is able to revolutionize the flipping model of Buy-Renovate-Sell by eliminating the initial hurdle of home aquisition all together. Instead we work with existing home owners who are motivated sellers of older homes in good neighborhoods, which the upper valley is in abbundance of. First, the home is appraised by an independent source. Then, we work as an independent contractor to renovate key areas that our expert team has identified to provide the greatest return. We finish the job and walk away. The house is aprasied again and sold by the home owner as usual. We recieve as payment the difference between the pre-renovation appraisal price and the post-renovation sale price. Returning 25% of that difference to the homewoner just for allowing us to perform the service. Based on Idaho averages we are looking at $10-40k return in just a 60-90 day turn around period!
Our competitive advantage lies in our ability to minimize risk by eliminating the need for home aquisition, reducing turnaround time by limiting our involvment in the buy/sell stage and our ability to provide an actual monetary return to the home owner for a non-monetary investment. No other flipping model can do this. This is House flipping streamlined and on steroids.
It was a fun experience
What makes a good President of the United States?
There is a lot of emotion that goes into my answer for this. I truly believe in our political system and desire very much for it to work in our lives, our families and our hearts. On Sunday I read the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln gave these dedicatory remarks after over two hours of oration by the famed speaker Edward Everett. President Lincoln was asked to give a few brief remarks to dedicate the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
The battle at Gettysburg was both grand and bloody. No foreign foe was being driven back in this battle. Over 160,000 American soldiers, brothers, fought each other intensely for causes rooted deep in their hearts. over 7,500 were left in the trampled meadows of Gettysburg. This decisive battle broke open the path to Union success.
This battle was epic. Yes, there have been greater battles both before and since but few with such ideology interred in its rubble. This is the epic scene that was the background and seting for President Abraham Lincolns now iconic address. Lincoln stood at the dedication cermony as the President of the United States of America. If ever "United" had carried so much meaning in our name it was then. Lincoln knew however, that with the scarring effects and emotions of the civil war still smoldering in the ashes of the country the task of uniting the great states was long from over. The battle of states rights vs. federal power continued for many years and arguably will persist forever.
I believe President Abraham Lincoln is one of the best presidents we have had and will ever have. Who can argue with that. I believe this because I believe that he belived in what he said that fall day. He understood what it meant to be American. Not in a patriotic way but in a recognition of the solemn blessing, opportunity and responsibility of the American ideology.
This type of Conviction is what I expect from an American President. Not just in speech or in rhetoric but in action and in the heart.
Take a minute to read the Presidents address. It is only 10 sentences, 272 words, but it contains some of hte most influential and governing principles of American doctrine
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Who or what do you really love?
What:
A good outfit, Im not going to lie. Yeah I love that.
Orange Juice
Tuesdays and Thursdays because I get to sleep in bit
A good picture
The look that blonde girl in the pink silk jacket just gave me, Im going to go talk to her.
There are several pro's to having good looking roommates...
Fact: More girls talk you (as a group or pair of roommates) when you are both good looking as opposed to only one of you possesing aestetic appeal.
Fact: Not just girls but more good looking girls.
Fact: You, yourself, have a better overall appeal when surrounded by handsome friends.
There are also a few con's to having handsome roomates...
Fact: If both of you are handsome there is not one designated "wingman". You have to take turns.
Fact: You fight over the same girls and insist that its not your turn to wing.
Fact: Your roomate steals your prospects.
Fact: His "almost" girlfirend flirts with you and since you think he owes you one you dont care and may even encourage it.
Also, The other day I was walking out of the MC and was right behind this guy who sneezed. The wind was blowing my way so I held my breath and hunkered into my coat to avoid touching/breathing any air that might have even come in close proximity to that germ filled blast. This was my plan to do for the next few steps but then he sneezed again! I thought ok I can hold my breath for a few more seconds. Then he sneezed a third time! Who, besides LeAnn, sneezes three times? I was just about out of breath. I couldn't turn away because the wind was going crazy, I didn't know which way the contamination was being spread. I felt the instinctive gags and gasps for air creep from my lungs up my throat, I may have even felt a bit light headed when the guy turned a corner and I hunched over in a coughing/gasping fit for a good thirty seconds. Im not a germaphobe per say but seriously, who willingly opens up their face and lungs to sneeze debri? I may invest in a box of SARS masks
Not socially awkward like, Man this is embarrassing, awkward in a hmm this is not pleasant.
So I was hiking up to the top floor of the Smith Building for my Accounting class. I feel very out of shape because I am always out of breath by the second flight of stairs. On my way up I realize that I should use the restroom before going to class. Great because the restroom is right at the top of the stairs on the way to class. So I get to the top of the stairs and turn into the bathroom but I am completely out of breath and go to take a big whiff right as I walk into the door. But realizing the possible outcome of that action I tried to stop before I went in but a gentleman was holding the door for me so I reluctantly walked in still refusing to take a breath but on the verge of collapsing per lack of oxygen. I couldn't take it. While using the urinal I gasped for air and coughed a bit and caused quite a scene. The man next to me pretended not to notice and looked the other way. Im sure he was wondering what type of freak was standing next to him. Well I washed up and left the bathroom still panting wondering if I could ever recover the brain cells I just lost. Yes, breathless in an awkward sense
