Showing posts with label shwag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shwag. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2009

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.