I'm not ready!!!

I was driving in the California desert on Saturday between Blythe and Vidal Junction (for those of you who know the drive, you know how bleak this is) when I had a really intense moment. I had gotten a really witty text from Michael Conrad Hunter. I was just laughing to myself and thinking about how downright excited I was to be back in Cedar after a week in El Centro. I was thinking about the AMAZING people that would be there waiting for me, and then I had the thought: "It's all gone in six weeks." I graduate six week from last Saturday and I will never live with all these people again. I've said goodbye to a lot of people as they graduated, transferred, and left on missions; but I was always still here and there were always people to keep me going. I was always a student, and I knew what was coming next. It was at this point I started hysterically crying in the car by myself. I have no plans, and as much as I would love to move to some random city in this great country and have a new adventure, I've had it so great here that I don't know if I have the courage to do that. I'm not ready!!!

The End of a Dynasty

December 9th, 1988 Jerry Sloan was hired as the head coach for the Utah Jazz and today he resigned. Everyone has those few constants in their lives that they expect to always be there, and when they're not it's like the wind is knocked right out of you. That's how I felt today. Jerry, you will be missed.

Take Luck!

Brian Regan. He's coming to SUU. The contract is signed, it's all public now, and there's no turning back. Every time I'm in the Centrum Arena, which is often since I'm obsessed with SUU basketball, I get a sick filling in the very bottom of my stomach about filling all those seats. 4231 seats available. So far facebook tells me 83 students are coming. Let's pray real hard shall we?

And on top of that, I have no idea what I will be doing four months from now. AAAAAAAAAAAAAaa. I have no direction in what job to look for, what part of the country to look in. I just know I got student loans and I don't want to move home. Do you think Celias would hire me?

What's Next?

It's snowing outside. I LOVE snow. I'm in my favorite sweats, the coacomotion has been used, the Taylor Swift Pandora station is on, I have the apartment complex to myself, and The West Wing waiting for me. I'm so content, comfortable, happy, _____________(insert description of someone who's world is about to be turned upside down.)

Done

October, where'd it go? October consisted of Homecoming, two Thunder Thursdays, three home football games, one weekend concert, and that little thing I like to call the Howl. A little over two thousand people attended/participated this year, we broke even after significantly dropping prices, and the LDSSA Activities VP left his own activity for mine.

HOWL=Success!



Football team winning Conference Championship= Success.



Homecoming= Epic Success.



Statistics= Epic Faliure.
Well there's always 1050 next semester right?

The toughest thing about this year? All the people who really knew the non SUUSA Emily are gone. Don't get me wrong, I feel truly blessed for this experience but I didn't realize how lonely this year would be. When it comes to work I have the BEST support system in the world but I just want to be Emily sometimes. Not Activities VP. I need me some Hillary Jayne, some Dan Dan, some Michelle, some Carrie Colton, and most of all some Ghetto Fabulous Roommate.

She got to come down for homecoming and it was perfect. Everyone that week kept asking me if I was okay like they expect the Activities VP to have a breakdown during homecoming but I knew my GFR was coming and that's all that mattered. Once she got there it was like she never let, she was pre-Nauvoo Shani. Exactly what I needed.



But now it's November which means, all the procrastinated assignments, ice on my windows in the morning, and the awkwardness of thanksgiving break. I want nothing more than to go home this weekend and be with my fam but no one can go this last minute. To put the cherry on top I found out my oldest brother is going to be there so I truly will be the only one not there.

I love Cedar, I truly do, but I'm done. I'm ready for the next adventure. I feel like Cedar has offered me everything it can and I'm just killing time here.

I had the best day with you, today.

I had the BEST afternoon with Nat: perfect weather, good food, slight gossip, talks of Mexico, Boston, a hammock, and all with in a stone's throw of Juniper. Love her.

Southern Utah University Student Association

When I graduated High School, I was going to go to Law School. I was going to be a prosecutor. I was going to fight for the constitution. It took me approximately 3 weeks at SUU to realize that wasn't really what I wanted at all. I lived in Juniper and took full advantage of that. My RA was on StAB (Student Activities Board) and suggested I get involved in one of their committees. Due to the bitter taste Student Government in high school left in my mouth I had no desire. I took my generals and just went along living; figuring that one day I would decide a major. My second year I really felt that Communications was the route to take but I didn't know why. Then the spring semester of my Sophomore year I decided to take an Event Management class because I'd heard good things about the teacher. I interned for the teacher that following semester thinking I would leave on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that December. My Father in Heaven had other plans for me and I stayed in Cedar.


At that the end of my third year I decided the idea of doing events for a living sounded enticing as I truly loved it. More experience couldn't hurt so I applied to be on StAB and was blessed enough to be appointed to a position. I had the most amazing people to work with and LOVED the experience. The people in the picture to the right became some of my best friends. I learned from Amy Shupe, the then Vice President of Activities, to never give up on someone. From Jeni Jones I learned you can find common ground with anyone if you just put in the effort. From Laurel I learned what really matters in life and how to not care about what doesn't. From Sam I learned how to breathe when I talk. :) Sara Shupe taught me to always have a smile and Tarl, well that for a whole other post. The point is I knew that was where Heavenly Father wanted me and while I still wanted to be on a mission I was truly blessed to be a part of that board. I love being able to create the atmosphere for other students that I grew from here at SUU. And that was what got me to start thinking about running to be the SUUSA activities VP.

The whole idea scared me. I knew I had a lot to offer but the thought of running for office made me want to crawl back into bed. Being a human being and a female one at that I've struggled my whole life with learning to not care what people thought of me. But to run for office you had to put your whole self out there and ask for people to like you, to vote for you.

However, I was blessed to run with three of the most amazing men I have ever met and seven fabulous senators. We decided in the very beginning that we wanted to worry about what we would do if we got elected, not on how to get elected, and work back from there. It was important to all of us that at the end of the day whether we won or lost that we felt good about ourselves and the kind of campaign we were running. I learned that politics can bring out the worst in people, and it shocked me how come people I considered good friends acted. But never the people I ran with. I was SO BLESSED to be in that kind of atmosphere with such good people. If I had lost I would have felt like it was a worthwhile experience just to work with them. But, we didn't loose. :)


On April 8th, 2010 I was sworn in as the 2010-2011 VP of Activities and I have the opportunity to work with some of the most amazing people this upcoming year. We sat through many an interview and I'm pretty sure I have 5 of the sweetest event directors for my StAB this school has ever seen! Some I've know for years and some I just barely met but I love them all and I know this year will be one for the record books. My executive council (the student body president and the other two VPs) are perfect. I couldn't have asked for better. So now my one follower (love you chelsea!) is updated on the most significant thing to happen in a while and I feel better about this blog . Hope your baby is happy and healthy :)


Some of the people I get to work with next year...