2010 Midterms

Some people like football or baseball or even tennis. I like politics. I remember back in 1996 waking up after election day and mom told me that Bill Clinton won the election and was still the president, and it made me kind of sad. I remember that when I would play with my matchbox cars had a limo and I would sometimes pretend that Bob Dole was the president who drove the limo and I had this red convertible that Bill Clinton would drive around in. Its kind of funny that at 9 years old I had Bill Clinton pegged as a party boy even before that whole Lewinsky scandal broke out. But I digress. The point is I like politics and the past couple years have been really interesting to say the lease.

Living in California's capitol city gives me some pretty cool opportunities that I just didn't have in Fremont. Last Sunday I got to meet Carly Fiorina who is running for the US Senate. It was really cool. We were all there making phone calls in the campaign office and she came in followed by a bunch of news cameras and reporters and shook everyone's hands. Then she gave a quick motivational speech and then stood right in front of me to talk to the reporters. Apparently the footage was on the news but I didn't get to see it. Then on her way out she patted me on the shoulder as she told us all to keep up the good work. It was so cool! Unfortunately I didn't get a picture with her but I got a picture of her, which is almost as good haha.

Hopefully she wins! It would be nice to have someone from CA in office that I actually voted for.

Interesting...

So it seems half of my professors this year are LDS. One of them graduated from BYU so that was a fairly easy one to guess. But my other professor was a bit more of a mystery. I always felt there was something familiar about him. But slowly the evidense began to pour in. First he mentioned that he had 5 kids. Then in another class he mentioned that he met his wife at a church dance. Later he mentioned incidentally that he was out of the country from 1986-1988. I was pretty convinced at this point and then I happened to notice on his blog he has a quote at the very bottom that reads "It is better to be trusted than loved - David O'McKay"

He's a pretty big-wig in the design department and he is part of the panel that reviews portfolios for entry into the program. Its kind of cool to see LDS people in high places : )

Butters Visits Sacramento!

So I have a bit of blogging to do that I've been putting off. First of all, Butters came to visit right after my birthday! Mom had to go to Utah for a week so we decided to send Butters back to Sacramento with me and mom would  pick her up a week later. Well towards the end of the week, mom called and said she was going to stay in Utah for two weeks so she could take care of some business there. Then we noticed that her and dad would be going to Minnesota to see Stacy and Jason the weekend after she got back from Utah so we decided to let Butters stay another week rather than taking her back and forth so soon. Finally mom was home on monday but we decided that our schedules would work out best if she came to get Butters on that Friday. If you're confused by now, I'll just say that Butters came to stay with me on the 19th of September. She was only supposed to stay a week but ended up staying until October 15th!

It was really nice having my dog back and I was sad to see her go. I had to get used to being alone all over again, although sometimes when Im on the computer I forget and in the back of my mind I feel like Butters is still there and when I go to scoot my chair back I turn around to make sure she isn't in the way and remember she's not there. :(

But anyway we had some fun, here are a few shots I took of her favorite behaviors:

Container Deconstruction

 

Afternoon window patrol

Bath time 

Pre-Exam studying 

And of course, she got into the holiday spirit