Congratulations to Me!

I know I'm not supposed to post until homework is done, but when you get great news you have to share it.

So, congratulations to me! I am the first ever winner of the Allan and Suzan Payne English Scholarship. This is a $1,000 merit-based scholarship, and I am very excited and honored to receive this award.

The great thing about this award is that it is merit-based instead of need-based. That means that I didn't win it because I am poor, or because I happen to fit into the right demographic. I won because I am smart, and I am a good student. This money is a direct result of the work that I have put in to my education. It is also a result of all the encouragement that I get from family, friends, and teachers, so thank you to all the people that have helped me on my path to educational enlightenment.

Blog or Homework?

I'm very sad to say that this time it is the homework that must become the priority. So this will be my last post until some homework actually gets done.

On the plus side: I have decided to use posting as incentive to finish homework, and I have some really big posts to do. Most of them are on my family blog, but who cares? A post is a post right?

So coming soon: A research paper for Ed-Psych, and a post about baby showers; a research paper for Shakespeare, and a post about our new floors; and a rationale for Young Adult Literature, and a post about our third wedding anniversary.

I hope you are unable to contain yourselves as you wait!

Homework or Blog?

Blog, of course! I'm sure the seven page research paper that I haven't started yet, and which is due in 25 hours will write itself. Creating my own blog has put a lot of pressure on me to post. I don't know if I'm up to it, so for today I will respond to a tag from quite awhile ago.

My Eight Favorite Shows (All time or currently on air?):

• M*A*S*H
• Scrubs
• The Office
• How I Met Your Mother
• Friends
• The West Wing
• The Amazing Race
• NCIS
  

Eight Things I Did Yesterday

• Worked
• Got really mad that someone from church came shopping at my workplace and then told me it was too bad that I had to work on a Sunday.
• Attended the dedication of the Draper, Utah Temple
• Watched 3 episodes of How I Met Your Mother
• Had waffles for dinner
• Blatantly avoided homework (I'm telling you the paper will write itself)
  
• Chatted with my wife
• Begged my baby to be born eight weeks early so I'd have a good excuse for not doing my homework.

Eight things I am looking forward to:

• The birth of my son.
• Spending time with my wife.
  
• Summer.
• My summer reading list-no required for school books!
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hitting theatres.
• Cheerleading practice.
  
• My uncle coming to visit.
• The end of my research paper.
  

My Eight Favorite Restaurants:

• 25 Main Cafe
• Shroomies
• Slice
• Olive Garden
• Bearpaw
• The deli at Harmon's
• Samurai 21
• Timberline Inn Restaurant

Eight things on my wish list:

• A healthy baby
  
• Free time with my wife
• A college degree
• A completed research paper
• A drive-in movie theatre in St. George
• A pilot's license
  
• A worm-hole between Salt Lake and St. George allowing faster travel
• Comments on my blog

Eight People I Tag:

• I actually won't tag anyone, especially since the person that tagged me also tagged everyone that will read this. So those people I re-tag if they haven't done this yet.

Bring It On!