I guess it was about groundhog day this week

Most everything we did had to do with that 22 pound rat. That 120 year old 22 pound rat. But Rebecca doubts the validity of Punxsutawney Phil's age. Whatever. If a big fat squirrel can predict the weather, why can't he be over a hundred years old? ;)

We went over to the Washburn's house for FHE and introduced people to new games. It seems like we do that a lot lately; maybe that's because we don't have any "regulars" who we play our usual games with, other than Karl and Angela. And we're still introducing them to new games :). But Monday night was nice, even if Rebecca and I didn't feel like we could talk their language. It's difficult for us to sit around talking scrap books, pregnancies and sports when neither of us have experience with these things, making it challenging for us to fit in with our own demographic in this ward. Yet, we keep trying.

Wednesday morning, Rebecca and I spent a couple hours putting up a show on the top floor of the HFAC at BYU. One of my professors (the one who told me to just get a BA and move on to an MFA for speeds sake) keeps asking me why I'm not in the BFA program. He must know too many people to keep any details straight, because I've gone over this with him many times: he's the REASON I didn't go for a BFA. Still, he walked past us and asked if this was my BFA show. Nope. Just a show. Why aren't you getting a BFA? Because YOU advised against it.

I still believe what he said the first time. MFA programs don't care about WHAT degree you got, but what your portfolio is like. When I was at CMU, Clayton told me that one of their grad students was a plastic surgeon who decided to switch and do some art for a bit. If Joe thinks that my shows and work is worthy of a BFA final show, then I guess that's a good sign.

Friday was a pretty good day. The weather was wonderful, I got to wear normal clothes to work and we had a groundhog day party in the evening at Karl and Angela's place. We played 'pin the shadow on the groundhog' and 'throw the darts at the groundhogs' and other made-up games. Karl and Angela always invite people we don't know and we have lots of fun at their parties.

Rebecca has been finishing up her IRB proposal for her thesis. We're hoping that she gets it done in time and they don't take forever to approver her. But Katie has helped by reading it over and she has experience working on an IRB committee in VA. We also turned in taxes, but not state ones: utah cheats us, cuz we make money out of state! One day, I'd like to really understand two things better: taxes and the stock market.

Just normal school, other than that. Have a great week.

UPDATE: We forgot to mention that on Tuesday, we were DUPED. Seriously duped. Wayne saw an advertisement for a contemporary artist, Robert Rauschenberg, speaking on campus. We were overcome with excitement and could hardly wait until 4pm. Until they started a VIDEO of the guy, and we realized it was just part of a film series, not the lecture series. DUPED. We felt so duped that afternoon.