I'm Famous!

Totally famous. See this picture? Cover of the Utah Chronicle on Tuesday. Like front cover. Page A1. Granted, that particular publication only has, like, 4 pages. Still. So see the guy on the far right in the dark orange jacket holding an invisible basketball? Totally me. Me leaving the library. There was a gas leak and the entire campus was evacuated. That’s me fleeing. I’m a little bummed though. If you look a couple of guys to the left, you’ll see my buddy Chris. Hand in pocket, head turned, sunglasses on…how did he end up being all GQ and I ended up being the ballboy?

Being famous is hard. I must have signed a hundred copies of that thing yesterday.

I guess it was pretty serious. The gas actually bubbled the asphalt. People could see the gas blowing through the grass. Craziest thing, though, was the news coverage when I got home. They had a helicopter filming down on the guys fixing the leak. I would expect them to have oxygen tanks and fire proof suits. Nope. Hard hats, levis, sleeves rolled up. That’s a Ford commercial if I ever saw one.

Those people around me in the picture are my group members. That’s us getting prematurely pulled away from working on a group paper. So Dr. Schallheim, if we missed the boat on what bond rating Deluxe Corporation should target when setting their debt/equity ratio, it was the gas’s fault and not my utter incompetence in your class. Who knew I would be so clueless in finance?

The worst part, though, was that my 4 hour night class was cancelled. We’re making it up with an “extra long” class during finals week. Technically, 4 hours is already extra long. I’m pretty sure anything over 6 hours is considered a seminar. If that’s the case, I want some shwag. There better be free pens, mini Nerf balls, and laptop bags or I’m walking out.

Incidentally, I had my first internship interview last week. You know what they say…A journey of a thousand miles that I should have started months ago begins with a single step that I should have taken months ago.