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Normally I'm not a very big football watcher. Depends on the teams playing. Since I married into a football watching family, it's been kind of interesting. Jakob is pretty adamant about watching BYU football, so last saturday we went over to my parents to watch the BYU vs Washington game. I almost feel asleep watching it. I had to start snacking in order to stay awake (there went my diet). But for the first couple quarters, the game was fun to watch and even funnier to listen to Jakob watching it. Oh, don't get me wrong, I had my moments there too, but mostly I was complaining about how the referees were treating the BYU team. I don't believe that the refs couldn't see any of the holding that was going on with Washington. When it comes to that ending few seconds, I still think that they finally got it right, at least when it comes to the call against Washington. Throwing the ball up and over your head is the same thing as throwing the ball to the ground. It should be called as unsportsmanlike. I realize that after all that work you'd like to celebrate, but there is a rule about excessive celebrating in the endzone. That was the right call. BYU blocked the point after attempt beautifully! I don't think the kicker realized what was happening until he actually looked up. The minute the ball was snapped, it had no chance of moving beyond that line. BYU did make a mistake by leaping off the bench after the blocked kick because they should know that the clock doesn't start on the point after attempt, it didn't make any difference when Washington kicked the ball again because they weren't going to go anywhere.

One thing that really bugged me was the TV commentators. I know that most people think that the mountain west isn't a good conference and that we don't compare to the big leagues, but we've shown that we are just as tough as those other guys. According to an article I read on byucougars.com "Saturday’s victory over Washington marked the second straight win over a Pac-10 opponent, dating back to a 17-16 win over UCLA in the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl. BYU has won of its last five games against teams from the Pac-10." Doesn't that mean anything? I know that ESPN has an issue with the mountain west because they started their own television network to show the games, but I'd rather watch it from our network because the commentators for our network have done their research and they know the team well and don't give stupid comments or uneducated comments.

But getting off of football, life has been moving along. Jakob's show is almost finished (one more week) and he started his class today. UVU is under fire for not accepting many credits from other universities. Apparently the other universities in the state are taking them to the Utah Board of Education because of it. UVU thinks that they can now be "snobbish" and not accept other credits because in the past, many of the other universitiess didn't accempt credits from UVSC. Well, there was a good reason for that: the classes at UVSC didn't meet the standards that other universities had set up for specific programs (and we're talking about credits from specific programs only). Now that they are a so called "4-year university" they have to be in line with the other universities and their program standards. This should be interesting.

As for me, life has gotten itself into a routine. It seems that when I finish with work and go home, I don't have any energy to do anything else other than sit. There are times that I really don't do much at work; I end up reading or watching old TV programs on the net while computers are reimaging, or when my supervisor isn't around, I have fun dancing (I have a big space with a cement floor, so I can get my sounds out and I have room to move). So I don't know why there isn't any energy left to do what I really like to do after work. Jakob wants me to finish up his musketeer costume (he's been on a musketeer kick since he started writing his screenplay) so I've been doing a lot of research. I've also been trying to figure out what it is that I want to do for myself because now I have a dressform and can fit things to me! I've been thinking of doing a southern bell gown or a couple of other movie costumes. Eh, hard decision, but at least I have time to do some image research.

Cheers!