Had we have lost Majbrit to the river, I would have never forgiven myself.

I led a few friends to a spot in Diamond Fork Canyon my family calls the Red Narrows. A place I have been to many times with my family. I learned how to rappel there, and I'm very familiar with a few of the cliffs and the surrounding terrain. Recently I had learned how fun it was to play in the fast moving river on the other side of the road. I had considered it to dangerous before but now was changing my tune. I went to the Narrows that day specifically to play in the river. I brought a few friends with me, and one of them brought his wife (girlfriend at the time.) After we arrive I lead the group across to the spot that I wanted to play at. The river was around 3 feet deep and very strong where we were crossing, and I don't think that anyone made it across without loosing their footing at least once. Brenin and Majbrit both were swept down stream a little and I found out later that Majbrit lost her sandals in the first crossing.

So after playing in the cold river for a while we all started making our way back across the river. I noticed my friend Jared rather nervously helping Majbrit cross the river so I made my way over to help them out. As I reach them Jared looses his footing, and hands Majbrit off to me as he's swept down stream. As I begin to help Majbrit across the river I come to realize how frightened she is. After a few more careful steps we both loose our footing. Quickly I regain a solid foothold as the river tries to rip Majbrit from my hands. I try to pull her to me, but the current is to strong. After a few more moments of fighting the current with no avail I lift her up out of the water and then pull her to me. When I set her on her feet she collapsed backward into me. It was at this point that I realized just how dangerous the situation was. She was paralytic with fear and could hardly stand. In no state to swim for her life in a fast moving river. After tightening my grip around her we continued to carefully cross the river. A few more steps and down we both went again. We cruised down stream a bit and rode the rapid part of the current to the side of the river. Then I gave her a final toss out of the faster current and into a slower part of the river toward the open arms of her boyfriend.

Well that's my story about playing in the Diamond Fork River. A fun but rather dangerous act.I'm glad that no one was hurt. I really need to be more aware of the danger that I may inadvertently lead people into.

Excerise

There is so much pressure on the us today for our bodies to be in prime condecision. Don't get me wrong I like being in shape and fit, its just that I feel that I never have enough time to go to the gym and constantly workout. My roomate seems to find time everyday. He tells me that its his only way to get all of his energy out. He says that it helps him focus on school work if he goes to the gym for 30 mins each day. I hate trying to go to the gym because I always feel real good the first time going back but the next time I ask myself why am I doing this. I talk myself into leaving early and not working out as hard as I should. I guess I'm just not that motivated and I don't get motivated by just going to the gym. The way I get my best workouts is from playing sports like soccer and football and snowboarding and tumbling. These are all great ways to stay fit but they just don't get you stronger. This a problem that I have and I'm sure many other people can agree with me.

Writting Lab Dilemna

Okay, I will admit it, I have been procrastinating going to the Writing Lab. So last week I decided that I would finally go. I called to schedule an appointment and they said that the only available time they had was on Thursday at 3:00. I decided that this time would work for me and signed up. Well Thursday came and I woke up feeling sick. I knew that I needed to go to the lab, but there was no way I was going to make it feeling as ill as I did. I called the lab once again and asked if I could switch my appointment to Friday or Saturday. Now here is the problem, since it is almost the ends of the semester, many students also need to go the Writing Lab, so they were totally booked! I asked if they had any opening for the following Monday and as fate has it, they said they didn’t know yet and that I should call back on Friday when they would have their Monday schedule available. So on Friday I called first thing in the morning. I tried three times and I ended up getting voice mail each time. Finally on the fourth attempt someone finally picked up and I got another appointment made. Let’s all pray that something won’t come up that will make me unable to make it again! Here is my advice, if you know you have to go to the Writing Lab, don’t wait until the last minute to do so.

I know a friend of a friend that knows another guy

Can anyone help me? I have been looking for a good paying job for the last couple of months. It all started when I loss my old job in SLC working in a warehouse. I was a shipper. I worked about 28 hrs a week and still had time for my education. I made great money each week and could afford anything I wanted. Well all this sounds awesome but I the comute to work was just too much for me to handle. I sleep in twice and used up all of my personal time off. They fired me and sent me on my way. I have looked for jobs down here in Provo already because I knew that I wasn't going to be able to hold up much longer working in SLC. Unfortunately none of the 10 locations I applied for hired me. I got a call from my bro Peter who told me to call my sister Kristen and ask her to help me out. Peter had been eating at TGI Friday's that day and decided that he would get the number of the regional managers who just so happen to work with my sister 10 yrs back. Peter thought that if Kristen could just get ahold of him and see if he remembered her that maybe she could ask him if they had any opening at the Provo location. Apparently this R.M. Jeff Hyde must of liked my sister a lot, enough to remember her after all these years. I gave my sister his number and had her call and ask if there was any opening in Provo. The next day i received a call from my sister who told me that he remembered her and that he wanted me to call the general manager of TGI Friday's in Provo and ask if they had any openings. Thats what i did and I guess the R. M. had called first and told the G. M. that I would be calling so when I did call he was expecting me and we made an appoinment. Long story short I got the job..

Arguing Research

I have never been excited to write a paper before and why should this research paper be any different? Well sure enough it wasn't. I don't mine researching because I like random facts and interesting theories. Its the part of putting things into my own words and making it sound important. When I paraphrase articles I usually can tell the story or the facts in less than one paragraph. Thats why I tend to use a lot of other writers opinions more than my own because they are better at adding creativity to the story. The title of my blog is "Arguing Research" and the reason I switched the order of the wording is because in my paper about firefighters I was arguing that the way of fighting fires and the re-action people have to them has got to change. "Smokey the Bear" for many years drilled a message into the youth of america and that message is that fires are never allowed in the forest and that no good can come from it. There have been hundreds of researcher that now prove that a fire is the best way of taking care of the forest. First the fire if controlled will clean up the forest grown by burning all the dead branches and other crap thats on the ground. If fires were to have been let burning in the pass they would have helped space out the forest that we see today that are so compact and crowded with trees that when it comes to putting them out it become almost impossible.

Text messaging

So I've been wanting to write about an experiment I tried earlier on in the semester. After class one day I remember we had a discussion on text messaging and how much it affects our communication in our everyday lives. My experiment was that I would try to go a week without using text to respond or contact anyone. The first day into it I remember receiving what seemed to me more texts than usual. I tried to call back each one of the individuals that had contacted me, but when trying to do so the outcome was less than 50% sucessful. So right there I was missing out on half of my contacts for the day. I later learned that about half of that 50% that didn't answer were in class and were not able to talk on their phones. The other half just weren't next to there phones. I tried to continue the experiment but by the next day I had already forgot not to respond to text messages. The results to my experiment are: First I realized that most text messages are just friendly conversation and aren't that important. Second I didn't notices myself gaining anytime from not responding, I might have been a little safer while driving but I'm a safe driver as it is. Lastly I can say that I'm addicted to text messaging and that it is a big part of my communication with everyone I konw.

Overall the classical argument paper seems to be coming together pretty well for me. I have decided to do a website for the genre translation assignment. I figured that since I am doing my paper on steroids that this would be the best public genre to represent my subject and paper. The website is not quite done yet, but I make changes often and I am finally getting it to look like I would like it to. As for the Classical Argument paper it is also coming together, but it still sounds a little choppy. I think I will have a couple more people read my paper and give me some feedback to make sure it's ready. Any how, I'm excited to see what everyone else has done for their paper and public genre translation.