a broken record

i think i am going to be a broken record about this job situation for a while.

but on a good note...i am interviewing for the assistant branch manager position at my branch in lindon. a promotion i would LOVE to get! cross your fingers and live the secret.

to all who follow my old blog, i have moved :)

www.fouramfriend.com

please make the note in your readers or what not :) i think as of tomorrow. i will begin blogging again.

officially

I checked my application status on Saturday. I have officially been accepted to transfer to the University of Utah.

Woot!

Many will probably think I am making the wrong decision--that I am adding time to my graduation. Yes I am. But after some very long conversations with Whitney, I know I am making the correct choice. Something that she said that stuck out to me was "you need to stop saying 'i only have xxxx left and then i can finally be done! or finally get on to something worth my time!' ... you need to start living more in the now. live life in the now instead of always thinking about what you are going to be doing in six months or a year."

and she is so right. college should be a fun time in life. and especially since I'm paying for it, I shouldn't hate going to the school that I attend. which is why I am transferring. I will be much happier at the U. I met a lot of good people and experienced a lot of good things while attending BYU, now it's time to have a new experience at the U and possibly enjoy my last year of college instead of loathing it :)

GO UTES!

Sweeney Todd!

more hot PIES!

birthday wishes

Every year, people ask me what I want for my birthday. I don't really "need" anything. But I get paid by meridian on the 24th so I thought I would cash my check and probably treat myself to a few of these things: (not everything of course)

I HAVE A WINDOW!!!

Every job I have had to this point at BYU has been in the basement of a building. Not anymore! I am on the fourth floor of the Tanner Building (Marriott School of Business) and I have a great window view of the south valley.

I think i deserve it.

i think private school really means:

ability for parents or even other teachers to take students out of your class at anytime multiple days in a row.

that's what i think private school means.

sweeney auditions

When: Friday, Sept. 19 5-8 PM

Where: BYU HFAC E-251

What: Bring 32 bars highlighting your abilities. An accompanist will be provided.

Callbacks will be held Saturday, Sept. 20 1-3 PM HFAC D-341

Cast members from previous castle Sweeney productions need only come to callbacks
The show will be Directed by Mindy Nelsen and Music Directed by Korianne Johnson.
The roles of Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett will be played by Neal Johnson and Barta Heiner


For more information, Please contact Nick Stone by email or phone:
nickcstone@gmail.com 801-367-6538

www.castletheater.org

i don't know what the actual job title for this is, but i would be content to be this guy:

"oh crap, everything is going wrong. there is no way everything will get done ...... " or something like that.

to where my name is thrown around as the guy to call.




"you should call nick stone. he can work miracles."


love it.

please come to my show.

please.


www.castletheater.org

multi-tasking

i know that we are all busy in our own sense.


but i'm not quite sure that many of those around me actually have a clue of how many different projects, activities, assignments, trips, etc, etc, i actually have going on. i think most would probably want to pass out and quit.

me too! but you know, i think what keeps me going right now is actually being able to see graduation. mmmm....graduation. (then what?! haha -- not thinking about that right now.)

i just turned in two dvds of a video and a cd with some radio ads i edited for the marriott school. i don't think they realized that the time leading up to their completion involved some castle errands, teaching two classes yesterday, going to one of my night classes, reading for humanities, helping julie get ready for her shoot this afternoon, and AND being in class.

let the games begin.

the beginning. of what should be the end! (finally)

well first things first. i bought an iphone. yes. it is done. i tried the verizon version of the iphone, but it's not syncable to my laptop, so i have been frustrated. i plugged in the iphone and BAM all my contacts, email addresses, calendar, and favorite music ready to go! it's pretty much awesome. there i said it. and i will be paying about 40 dollars less a month (yes really 40 dollars less.) so within 5 months the phone will basically have paid for itself. i named her beyonce III.

secondly. my classroom is finally ready. (thanks to emily and wald.) it has a beautiful red wall to accompany the other three gold-ish walls. it's a very warm and inviting room now! and it no longer has nasty purple trimmed doors and windows. it still needs some decorating, but i think i am going to have an activity where i have the students make their own "cover album" on old LP jackets, and then we'll hang those up around the class. i'm looking for some other cool posters and such, and maybe i'll have the awesome new art teacher come start a collage or something. him and i are new best friends. him and his wife own a really AWESOME clothing store in provo. it's called mode. i would love to work there a few hours a week just to get a discount or something. he's an awesome guy and i'm really excited to be working with him. remind me sometime to talk about how everyone thinks i'm too young to teach. more probably because of the way i dress. i bought some new khakis today. and for my birthday i'm hoping to get some new clothes from mode.

thirdly. the beginning of my "real" senior year has begun. and truly it will be my senior year. i have had some really romantic thoughts about being done with school by now, but realistically it was near impossible. (i just wanted to think that in some way it was doable. well that's not the case when you still need 30 credits combined of GE's and other classes even though all my major courses are completed). i have a not necessarily extra hard classes ahead of me, but i do have a full plate this semester. and next semester.

fourthly. i've been trying to figure out where my "next step" will be after this year. i want to head east to be closer to my older siblings. or at least closer than now. i think my first choice would be to get an apprenticeship with this theater. it would be a paid apprenticeship and it would give me a chance to live in the city where i am thinking about grad school. the application isn't due until starting in late may, and they encourage prospects to come and visit sometime the year they apply. so i can go visit jon and his family for a weekend and also visit the theater.

fifthly. i'm really proud of merry wives. i was having a conversation with tracey the other night and i told her that i was really appreciative this year when i would ask her things and she would respond with "what do you think is best, you are in charge." and i sat back for a moment and really thought about that. -- yeah i am in charge. i get to make the decisions i want. (mostly.) and whether the show turns out good or bad has a lot to do with me. usually i'm just there to help out the person who is really in charge, but this year that was me! and i've decided that i'm actually pretty damn good at it. yes, i have a lot to learn, but for me it has been a challenging experience with great rewards. although after this rainstorm from the weekend i'm scared to go see how the set looks.....

sixthly. i have the feeling that i am going to be really tired this year. really really tired. haha. i know i always say that life couldn't possibly get any busier, but i think i have just blown all of my old records out of the water. i am going to be busy, but i am going to try and blog more as well. because even though my site tracker says no one reads my blog (probably because i don't update often enough haha) i am going to blog for my own person journaling. as always. that's what it's always been.

i wish i had some pictures. i will soon.

update

Merry Wives opens in two weeks. I am doing nothing really besides getting things ready for the show. yay!

love it!

here are some photos from tonight: i am in love with barta.

for all of you non facebookers

my friend kris and i had fun taking some pictures on sunday.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2196818&l=981e8&id=17807888

i think i'm in what one might call a rut. haha. don't get me wrong. my life for the most part is -- good. but nothing in the past year, it seems, has gone the way i intended for them to go. i switched jobs in january from speeches. a very good change, but to a job where my description sometimes changes day to day. (and maybe that's why i don't hate it.) job and work wise i've always been pretty lucky to be quite choosey as to where I work. i hope that is at least one trend that I can always have no matter where i go or what i do.

i thought i would be done with school. i was off. way off. well not way off, just off. i want to be done with school -- yet it's one of my constants that i grasp, even if i complain about it. school is school and will always be school. i can always count on it for that.

i thought i would be moving to new york city in august. and i think i'm pretty sure i've removed that completely off the table. at least for now.

i'm trying to find a reasonable place to live in provo. with griff -- now that's just fun no matter where we live. but still i don't really want to pay to live in a dive. of course, sometimes the dives can be fun .... ??? haha. we'll see how that plays out.

here's the confusing one for me. i'm starting to enjoy reading more. i have bought more books this past year than i have ever purchased. right now i am reading one called "the china study" (thanks clawson). it's a good thing to do while i'm riding the bus.

friend circles haven't changed, but friends have come and gone. moving here, there, and maybe back again. i have fun with my core friends like whitney, griff, and stacey. miss my friends like michelle (sorry ross. i wish you were around more but referring to michelle clawson who lives in vegas), laura, julianna, and enjoy my new friends like katy, steve, riley, and megan. all offer me different perspectives on just about everything.

things aren't terrible here in utah, but i still have this underlying desire to go. i don't know what that "going" involves. just that next chapter. i'm to the point where i want to skip ahead to the next chapter because it's only a few pages away, but then realize that i need to read the last few pages and not skip ahead because there is important information that I will need in order to be more prepared for the following chapters.

i get myself so excited about things, and then sort of freak myself out.

so for now -- i'm going to remain excited. excited! because graduation really is around the corner. summer is full of exciting things with merry wives starting to come charging full speed ahead with sweeney todd looking like it will happen in oct as well. two exciting shows! (and maybe i can be in sweeney...).

bring it on world.

the summer for...

this has become the summer for a lot of things. as busy as i stay i've had more time to stay busy with things i enjoy. last weekend we went hiking up to ensign peak (north of salt lake over looking the city). if i can, i am going to try and go hiking every saturday or sunday. today we hiked to silver lake up american fork canyon. (pictures to follow once i get them from marianne.) griff and i seized the opportunity to jump into the glacier fed lake while paul and marianne watched -- they were the smart ones.

i love being outside. away from my computer. away from where my cell phone works. and hiking for the most part is one of those recreational activities where you are getting a great work out without even realizing that you are exercising. next week i'll be up at bear lake with stacey. hopefully there will be a fun hike we can go on.

i have been listening to sondre lerche a lot lately. he did the music from dan in real life (thanks michelle for helping me find motivation to look up his name.) he is accompanying while i write this blog. check him out if you haven't yet.

oh. well i'm back in school now. finished the crazy intense 9 credit spring term. and now i'm just enrolled in one class with the castle as an "internship." the end of school is getting closer and closer. i keep running into frustrating road blocks with classes i still need for GE requirements and such. but i know i've been saying this for like two years now. this coming year WILL BE the year i graduate.


promise.



also. my next post will be discussion the new title of my blog (vagablogging). or at least a definition.

marin county

this is the best one from my trip up to see clark, morgan, and jill. it was a very short short trip, but really a great chance to do some much needed catching up. hopefully it won't be another 5 years before i see them.

for those of you who read my blog by reader

I have put up a new header photo. you should let me know if you approve or disapprove.

writing to follow.

returning soon.

to a blog near you.