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4 Jobs I've Had
1. Religion/Family History Reference Assistant, Harold B. Lee Library
2. Server at the MTC Cafeteria\
3. Telesurveying (may I die before I do this again-- 3 weeks was 3 weeks too long!)
4. Secretary, bills manager, lawn mower, orchard pruner/waterer/picker/canner, gardener, helper with everything else Dad wanted to do (including painting, calking, sheetrocking, mudding, putting in pipes, putting in electric lines, pulling up carpet and any other remodeling work). Pretty much I was free manual labor (okay, maybe not free as in cost, but free as in way too readily available. No wonder I started looking around for other options!)

4 Things I Do Instead of Going to Bed
1. Email/Facebook/Play around on the computer
2. Look at family members' blogs or update this blog
3. Listen to my roomates' never-ending dating traumas or share my own dating traumas (in an apartment of 4 girls, there just never seems to be enough of this. Someone always has a creepy guy interested in them, or wants to get back with their ex-boyfriend or can't decide which guy to date, etc. etc. etc. It's enough to stay up every night and expound upon.)
4. Read cheesy but captivating books like Twilight and the newest Harry Potter.

4 Most Common Cravings for this Week
1. CHOCOLATE. (I'm not even sure if this can accurately be counted as a craving any more. It's more like a fact of life. I'm awake, I want chocolate.)
2. Boo berries (I'll be honest-- after Danielle's blog post I had them on the brain. Luckily, since it was actually Halloween they were on sale for only $1.50, which relieved most of my guilt over giving in to such frivilous urges.)
3. Anything with cheese in it, but especially a ham and cheese sandwich (sadly my ham seems to have disappeared into that black hole in the back of the fridge that always manages to swallow up the food you know you had a day ago).
4. Fresh fruit. Obviously I need to go grocery shopping some time soon . . .

4 Special Features of My Apartment
1. My bedroom window, with no screen on it. I discovered this within a couple of days of moving in, when the flies started mysteriously appearing in the apartment. One side of the window is covered with a screen, but for some reason the other side isn't. At least it makes a perfect location for launching water ballons or other treats at unsuspecting victims below!
2. The half-performing microwave. Every time I warm a plate of food up, I pull it out to find half the plate still ice-cold and half the plate near boiling. Doesn't that go against some law of physics somewhere? Light and dark can't be in the same place in the same time. I didn't think heat and cold could be either.
3. The Fishbowl. Monticello is unique in that it has 2 apartment complexes that face each other, with a gap somewhere between 15 and 20 feet apart. The common area between is appropriately called the fishbowl because at such a short distance, everyone can hear and see everything that goes on in all the other apartments. Example: The other night a girl from the ward came over to share her latest dating trauma with our apartment. As we were all listening and discussing it, one of my roomates got a text message from a guy that lives in the complex directly across from us, in the basement (we're on the 3rd floor). The text said "We can hear you from here!" Yikes.
4. A peculiarly high engagement rate. Girls that live here seem to catch marriage like the plague. The girl that lived in this apartment before me just got engaged a couple of weeks ago. The apartment next door, where I used to live, had at least 2 people get engaged there in the last year. We'll have to start taking bets on who's next.

4 Books I've Read over 15 Times
1. Beauty (by Robin McKinley)
2. A Little Princess ( I used to pretend that Mom was mean Miss Minchin when she would make me do my chores and I was Sara, the heroine, who never retaliates, but meekly obeys and makes everything better by imagining that she was a princess.)
3. The entire Work and the Glory series. I'm not sure exactly when Janel got me hooked on them, but I found an entry in my journal, dated 3-12-95 that noted that I was reading the Work and The Glory volume 4. After that I re-read them regularly, especially around Christmas when I knew we'd get the latest volume.
4. Pride and Prejudice

4 Projects I can't Seem to Finish
1. Writing my life history. Oh wait, I haven't even started that one. Dang.
2. Organizing my room. Every time I swear to, another pile of stuff appears. Maybe fore my new year's resolution . . .
3. Scanning the family photos for Mom
4. Memorizing The Ride of Paul Revere by Washington Irving. I've started it half-a-dozen times and every time I get stuck after the first page.

4 Silly Things I did in 4th Grade
1. Read every baby-sitter's club, Sweet Valley Twins, boxcar kids, and Nancy Drew book ever published multiple times over. Did I really not have anything better to do with my time?
2. Convinced myself that half of the boys in my class secretly had crushes on me and confided my hunch to my best friend, Megan.
3. Felt bitterly disappointed when my pumpkin/easter mobile/anything else we made in class never won any of Mrs. Heilesons' regular art contests. I guess art just isn't one of my talents.
4. Got scared to death after watching the movie The House With a Clock In Its Walls in library time and refused for years afterward to even look at a John Bellair book or have a ticking clock anywhere in my bedroom. (The plot involved an evil sorcerer who left a clock inside a house that was really a bomb that could go off at any time.)

4 Goals I Have Made Every Time I Have Made Goals
1. Get to bed early (obviously the time this list was posted answers any questions about how well I have succeeded at this goal)
2. Practice the piano more.
3. Organize my time (and not wait to do homework until 2 hours before it's due)
4. Be more outgoing-- talk to people instead of waiting for them to talk to me.