test scores

hey everyone-
for those of you who wanted to know...i passed my TExES exam. i scored a 281/300 (i needed a 260 to pass) yea. now i need to start studying for the esl one.

Dilemma

We have a dilemma and perhaps we can get some input from all of you that have much more creative and discerning minds that I or your Dad . The people that are doing our bathroom are going to do our front door. Instead of getting a whole new door, it would be much cheaper to just paint the door. And they do that all the time - we just have to pick the color. My dilemma: do we go conservative with your basic brownish color and do we want to paint it a completely wild color i.e. green, red, blue, etc. Please feel free to offer an opinion. BTW - the office color is going to be sage green and the bathroom color will be tan/gold. What do you think?

August Updates

A Mastercard Experience

Tickets to AND1=$60
A new polo shirt, jeans, and a pair of shoes=$80
4 songs off itunes=$4
A 60 gb ipod=$364
$334 of that NOT going to FICA taxes=priceless

To All Those Older Siblings Out There

First of all, Samantha, I must apologize for not responding to your blog. I love seeing pictures of Oliver and all, but what am I supposed to say after the third or fourth blog of Oliver’s pictures. I guess I could write how mom becomes increasingly more obvious about me staying in SLC every time they see pics of the famn damily, but then again, I don’t think it would be wise to let mom know that I have been noticing. It is nice to be ignorant of some things. “Yeah, so I was thinking of transferring to an out-of-state school next semester…What? Yeah, sure I could use some things at Costco…A new car? I guess it would help out.” See what I mean?

Well, about two weeks ago, we finally finished interviewing potential employees, and I am forever grateful for so many reasons. First reason is that I am on the other side of the table, so then I don’t have to think of the lamest and most obvious answers there are. Have you ever noticed that there are some questions that have just obvious answers? “Could you keep doing the right thing even if someone on the crew isn’t?” If by chance there was someone who pulled the idiotic stunt of answering that in the negative, how were they smart enough to even find the building? The second reason I am glad is that it is over. During the interviews, though, I saw different types of people that makes life interesting.

First person is the, my-brother-worked-here-before-so-I-don’t-have-to-wear-decent-clothes interviewee. This was actually the first person that came in the interview. This guy is Mason Curran’s little brother and he actually knows the Tustison’s in Ione. He showed up at the interview in beat up cargo shorts and an old white t-shirt. This kind of surprised me. It made me think of all the standards we had as kids growing up. I can always recall overdressing for the situation being standard in our household. This actually made me look quite a bit awkward being with “friends” here in SLC because I was counseled to where about five layers of clothes when I went ice skating. This made me look only second to Fui Vakapuna in size. Or maybe dressing in my Sunday best for an interview for a volunteer spot at the chamber of commerce was the highlight. Whatever it was, this guy didn’t even fall on the line of that counsel.

Another type of person I say there was someone who still didn’t progress to becoming a teacher. This was evident by his off-white, picked-up-off-the-floor white shirt, and his super skinny tie that he wore. He was a freshman, however, and it was kind of nice not to hear the same, “I would be good at this job because in my mission…” speech. Which leads me to the third type…

“Have you ever dealt with an angry customer before?” was one of the questions that we continued to ask. It was guaranteed that if they served a mission, they would mention how during that time, they learned the best way to deal with blah, blah, blah. I know the mission was important and all, but were you completely anti-social growing up? Did you ever speak with anyone else? Did you not learn anything before those two years or were you in the corner with the cone-shaped hat on? Think of something original. Which kind of reminds me of sacrament meeting in the fact that these r.m.’s give talks using examples from the mission to describe basic gospel principles. Get over it.

One of the last people that we had to interview was a brother of one of the assistant’s. He showed up in a suit, brought every single award, academic and non-academic, to show us. He even passed out his ACT score. Thanks, buddy. I asked the assistant afterwards if he told his brother anything about the job, and he simply said “No, but hey, all is fair in love and war.” Great, I thought, but considering he’ll get the job anyway, that isn’t exactly fair. We were planning on giving him the job, but after the assistant finally got a hold of him after about a week of trying (remember, this is his little brother), the little bro decided not to take it. Whaaat! Don’t older brothers (and sisters for that matter) keep their younger siblings in line anymore? From licking feet to calling them master followed by their first name, my life was a continual example of submissiveness. But through this, I learned the important things in life, such as who to take for certain classes (and getting the preferential treatment from those teacher due to the outstanding record of that sibling), why I shouldn’t wear a white shirt to church, that your brother isn’t your brother when he is around his friends, and that the JSB shouldn’t be renamed the JissBox, to name a few. I thank all of you out there for your help. I’ll even give all the in-laws out there props for their continued help in shaping my life. Good night and Good luck.