The thing about TA's is, you shouldn't date them

       Didn't I tell you I would post something new in less than a month this time? And look at that, I'm making good on that statement. I guess I've just been on a writing kick recently, it seems to be my new favorite way to avoid doing homework or something. Right now I am sitting on a secret couch that I found on the first floor of the library. For some reason, they have a couch hidden back here behind the book shelves. To be more specific, its a love seat, and my theory is that its here for the express purpose of making out. It's the only reasonable explanation for why it would be here. Is it now a goal of mine to one day do just that in this very spot? Maybe. For now though, its a great place to hang out and write stuff while I try not to think too hard about that accounting test I have to take some time between right now and monday. Or the pl sc 170 final draft of my paper that I have due friday.
       In case you are wondering when I plan on explaining the title of this post, good news, its story time. I had a hard time deciding on what to title this post but I'm pretty happy with it, I think it does a good job of capturing the central theme of the story. I just want to start by saying, I am pretty proud of this story and I hope I did a good job of capturing the awkwardness that I felt throughout this experience but just know, it was classic. Ok, here it is, in all its awkward glory. So there is this one TA in one of my classes that I think is pretty attractive, and the other day I had the chance to spend a good 45ish minutes talking to her. That same day, Ammon texts me saying that we should do a double date to go see the leaves and such. I thought to myself, "huh, I should ask cute TA girl, I did enjoy talking to her after all." Now some of you are probably already thinking, "wow, thats a bad idea, she's your TA, if you screw up she might fail you". To that I say, yes. You are so right. It is a really terrible idea to ask out your TA. I didn't even know if she was single or not, she wasn't wearing a ring so I was fairly sure she wasn't married but that was all I had to go on. Now I'm sure this come as no surprise to anyone but, I went ahead and asked her anyway.
         By chance I had an opportunity later that evening to make good on my bad idea . It even started out problematic because we were walking up some stairs and of course I tripped, and not just the, "whoa, I kind of lost my footing" kind of trip. We are talking about a full out, "both feet are no longer under me, almost cracked my head open and died" kind of trip. Luckily I managed to catch myself so I was doing some sort of inclined push up type thing instead of actually hitting my head, but it wasn't exactly a shining moment for me. So we managed to get all the way up the stairs and at this point, even I was starting to second guess the wisdom of asking TA girl on a date. I mean, I did just make a pretty big fool of myself 20 seconds ago, it's unlikely that she forgot already. However, in a move that would have made my econ teacher hang his head in shame, I ignored the sunk costs and decided that I had come to far to just give up and limp home. No sir, I had come to ask this girl on a date and by golly, I was going to do it!
       As it turned out, the actual asking went a lot better than I expected. I mean sure, I didn't sound as smooth as I would have liked but that was a given, whenever I get nervous I tend to stumble over my words and rest assured, I did a good amount of word stumbling both times I talked to her that day. But I did manage to get out the when, where, and what and I even used the word "date" because apparently girls hate it when you don't say that. So then she said the only thing that a girl can say after such a stunning delivery from a charming young man such as myself. She said, "I'm so sorry but TA's aren't allowed to date students, otherwise I would go with you. Its against *acronym I've never heard of* regulations because I have control of your grades". Now that's not an exact quote but its pretty close. So then I said something about how it was fine and see you in class, blah blah blah. So there it is, I hope you enjoyed it, I know I did. Personally, I thought the whole thing was just hilarious. It was the perfect storm of failed efforts to ask a girl out and I couldn't help but appreciate it.

My life is a 3 step plan

       So, here we are, at the crossroads of potential once again. Right now, this post could be about anything, it may very well become one of the greatest pieces of literature ever conceived of by mankind. Or it could just become another piece of proverbial toilet paper, stuck to the shoe of mediocrity. Unable to even fulfill its intended purpose of wiping the backside of.... ok maybe this analogy is going too far. The point is, this post could be great or it could just end up being, well, less than crap.
       As you may remember from my last update on life, I had a whole lot going on school-wise during the last couple weeks. Well, those days have come to an end, for a few days anyway. And not really over exactly, just slowed down. The good news is I got A's on 3 of the 4 tests I had. The bad news, that fourth test was a real killer. But oh well, what's done is done. I guess.
       Right now is actually 1 am and I'm not even procrastinating any homework by writing this blog so I'm going to save most of what I was planning on writing for another day. Perhaps I will even break this tradition I seem to have going on of only writing once a month and do an update in a couple days, who knows? But I want to share this little exchange my sister and I had on facebook the other day. Some of you have probably seen it, but I kind of wanted to preserve it so I decided to post it here. In my family we sometimes like to play this game where you come up with a 3 step plan but leave out the second step that would explain how to achieve your goal. It seems dumb I know but just read on, you'll understand.

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  Kayla Walke

  Brother dear. I have a wonderful three-step plan. I'm sure you will approve.
  
  Step 1: We drop out of college.
  Step 3: We make millions of dollars.
  
  I've come up with two-thirds of the plan. You just contribute step 2 and we'll be golden.

   ·  · See Friendship · October 12 at 8:36pm near Provo
  

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    You, Holly Woods Meek, Cynthia Sun and 2 others like this.
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      Kayla Walke Don't just like it. You don't contribute and you aren't getting a cut!
      

      October 12 at 8:37pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Becky Walke-Bond Step 2: Cut your aunt Becky Walke-Bond in on the goods!!!!
      

      October 12 at 8:45pm · 
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      Tyler Walke Ok ok how about this, I've created a 3 step plan for how to execute step 2 of your plan.
      Step 1: buy a Bobby pin, two pokémon cards and a can of peaches on the Internet
      Step 3: carefully hide the evidence of our wrong doings so that nobody ever learns of the terrible, dark misdeeds of our past.
      
      That's all I got. Step 2 is all yours.
      

      October 12 at 8:46pm · 
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      Kayla Walke Okay. Got it.
      
      Step 1: Take a suspicious road trip to Canada.
      Step 3: Solve world hunger. Tell no one.
      
      Ideas for step 2?
      

      October 12 at 8:59pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Valerie McGee Walke I think due to lack of planning you should both keep studying. K, how about that ochem test?
      

      October 12 at 9:01pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Kayla Walke I've been studying for hours Mom! I get a break once in a while. Besides, if the series of 3 step plans work out, silly ochem won't matter.
      

      October 12 at 9:02pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Tyler Walke of course! canada, it was always going to be canada.
      Step 1: travel deep into canadian rockies in search of gold
      Step 3: ride out of the woods on a now tame big foot. Dirty, scratched, but victorious, raising the basket of genetically altered tomatoes high above our heads.
      

      October 12 at 9:10pm · 
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      Valerie McGee Walke You guys make me laugh! :)
      

      October 12 at 9:12pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Kayla Walke Woah there. The genetically-altered tomatoes actually correspond to solving world hunger. Careful, we don't want to get too close to actually finishing step 2.
      
      Step 1: Circumnavigate the globe using only a dollar-store compass, hatchet (the book, not an actual hatchet), and a rubber band.
      Step 3: Create transatlantic and pacific trade between the US and Atlantis.
      

      October 12 at 9:16pm · 
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      Tyler Walke well, steps 1 and 3 should be related to steps 1 and 3 of the previous post because they are supposed to help connect it somehow, thats what makes it a viable step 2. the trick is to make it have a connection, yet still be totally random so that step 2 is open to interpretation the next time around. that way if we actually write it all out in order, it would make some sort of twisted sense. notice i didnt say how we got from looking for gold to riding out on big foot. hope that wasnt too confusing but i think you get the idea. anyway...
      
      Step 1: carefully preserve the african crickets we killed with tweeties made from the pages of hatchet and the rubber band, we'll need the protein during the long months ahead as we begin our trek across the sahara
      Step 3: wonder how kayla managed to get a bigger machine gun than me as we mow down hoards of angry atlantians that have come to protest the globalization made possible by the legislation passed by congressman bigfoot and myself.

       So there it is. As it turns out, that was some kind of annoying to format all that facebook stuff, you would think it would just be a simple copy paste but no such luck. Sometimes I feel like my life is a 3 step plan (hence the name of this blog post), I know where I am, and I pretty much know where I want to be, but I have no idea what step 2 is. It's quite possibly the worlds greatest joke. But hey, maybe Kayla and I are on to  something here, maybe we do just need to take a crazy leap into the unknown and see what happens. Anybody up for a trip to the Canadian Rockies to pan for gold?