First Day of Spring Quarter!

Ok so it's the first day of classes here at CW for Spring Quarter. First off, SPRING quarter is definitely misleading in this part of the our great big world.  Spring= flowers, sunshine, barbeques and happily skipping through fields right?  Not here it doesn't.  The weather is SO bipolar here!  One minute its bright and sunshiney outside and you think to yourself, "Spring has finally come!"  The next minute its SNOWING!!!  I'm used to the rain; I grew up in Oregon.  But snow?!  I expected it when I lived in Idaho but this is the almighty Pacific Northwest for crying out loud!!  For me that means NO snow past February and this little town is defnitely not meeting up to my expectations!

Anyway back to school.  The first few days of classes are always exciting!  What will my teacher be like?  Will it be an easy A or a class that I have to actually apply myself to get a good grade?  I love getting brand new spiral bound notebooks or any other new school supplies for that matter.  I should probably become a profession school supply shopper, I love it that much.  Then you go to buy your textbooks and WHAM!!!  You're having to spend $500 on books.  Really something should be done about the ridiculous prices of textbooks.  But other than that its great!  I only have 2 classes today:  Anthropology of Religion and Anthropology: Human Variation/Adaptive Living Populations.  Then I'm also taking and English class and a Biology class.  I suck at sciene so the Biology might be a bit of  struggle but I'm determined to do well.

I hope that come next year I will actually be able to take more of my Primate Studies classes!  My dream job would to be living in Rwanda or Uganda studying the great Mountain Gorillas in the area!  Everyone thinks I am a totally nut job and crazy person for wanting this to be my career.  But it would be so much more than a career!  It would be my life!  I want to climb the forest everyday looking for gorilla families.  I want to get to know them so well that they accept me as a part of their group and let me get up close.  I want to help conserve their territory and keep the poachers out of the forest.  Diane Fossey is my HERO because she wholey committed her life to helping these awesome animals!  When I look at them I can't help get excited.  They are huge and massive and could rip your arms right out of your sockets if they wanted to.  But they're also really similar to us.  They live in group families because they need social interaction and love just like we do.  It is so adorable to see a male gorilla whose sole job is to protect by any means necessary his family, sit and play with one of the little babies.  They are so similar to us it is amazing.  I just have to work hard and get through school and do everthing I can to make my dream a reality!


Well that's enough rambling for now.  I have class in a couple hours and I should probably clean my room before then since it looks a bunch of adolescent chimpanzees were playing in here.  I can be such a messy person!

First One

So it's currently 2:43 in the morning and I'm at work.  I work the night audit shift at a hotel here in town.  There's not a lot to do at night and since spring quarter classes don't start until Tuesday, I have no homework and thereforeI have nothing to do at work.  Hence me deciding to start writing this here blog.  'Cause what else do I have to do in the middle of the night when I'm at work and everyone else is asleep?  I guess I could get a pen pal from somewhere in Europe where people will be awake when I'm awake.  But then I'd have to talk to a stranger that really doesn't sound too fun.
So anyway, I live here in Washington, attending school.  I'm majoring in Primate Animal Behavior and Ecology with a doiuble major in Anthropology.  That's fancy for I'm going to be working/studying with primates: monkeys, apes, my little brothers, etc.  I'm pretty sure my family thinks I'm a nut job because of my chosen field but whatever.
 I have a mom and dad who are still together and happy. (Which is almost non-existent in today's world.)  I also have 2 little brothers.  Ok so not "little" but still little to me.  Tyler is almost 21 and serving a 2 year mission in England right now for the LDS church.  Tanner is 15 doing the whole high school thing.  We all grew up in good ol' Lebanon, Oregon but 2 years ago my parents moved to...Utah...ugh.  What made it better was my best friend (Stephanie), her husband and little boy and her family also moved to Utah, not far away mine.
A little about me:  I'm a weirdo, most likely.  But who's normal right?  I have a slight permanent Wisconsin accent.  2 of my closest friends are from Wisconsin and living with them for so long I tend to say some words like I grew up in Wisconsin or use words that NORMAL people from the Pacific Northwest don't know.  Just blame the Hoffman girls.    


Music is absolutely one of my most favorite things in the entire world, both playing instruments and listening.  I'm loud and outgoing.  I'm a people person but my stupid people tolerance level is extremely low.  I like to think I'm a nice person but if you get in my face or are a complete moron then I think you deserve to know that I don't appreciate it.
So in this blog I'm probably just going to post whatever happens to be on my mind, mostly in the early hours of the morning.  But that's enough for now because I have to go to newspapers around to all the "special" guests.