Monday, January 28, 2008

the documentary

After participating in my first day of shooting footage for Josh's documentary, I must say this is going to turn out incredibly. Little does anyone know just how perfectly cohesive will be the independent interviews of the participating individuals. This will rock yo socks. HOLLAA!!

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Def Leppard

As many of you have heard, I was e-mailed by the director of intramurals and was basically told that our behavior in the past game was not in compliance with the rules and that all of our games would be forfeited for the rest of the season if I did not go in and speak with her.  So, as of tomorrow, I will be turning myself in.  

If I never make it out, I want you all to remember me as the coach that led you to an 0-1 record.  It wasn't easy, it took time, two practices each averaging about 15 miuntes long, and a heart of gold.

If they just talk to me then thats cool too.

I will of course try to compromise with them, but in the end if they will not allow it, then it's time to put our game faces on, whoop some serious a and show these fools who we really are.  And moon them a lot.

For anyone that wants to stand outside the intramural office while I am in there with picket signs, creative chants asking for the continuance of Def Leppard, having a prayer vigil, lighting candles, holding hands and humming ...that would be awesome.

I love you all.

Coach Crespo

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Everything I need to know about life I learned in HEPE

I was told today by a girl that you can tell a lot about a man by his shoes. A rather Gumpish sentiment if you ask me.

In any case, apparently my shoes reflect that I don't match, am cheap, and am prematurely aging into an old man, velcro straps are less than two years away for me.

I just wanted to put that out there because I don't have any particularly funny things to say today.

Oh, and word to the wise, don't ever tell a girl that you would consider using her as a rebound in case your current relationship doesn't work out.

Anything that requires an alarm clock is too early.

Ladies is terrorists too, go and brush your shoulders off.

We all need to take a deep look inside and look at our body mass indexes. Or as Zack might say, indeces or or indexi.

Proper.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Big Announcement

To all my fellow elitists,

I suppose that now is the time to tell you all something i have been holding back for quite some time for reasons of fear and confidentiality.

Dane Rahlf's love life has been something quite interesting in the past semester. We all know that it all started with a little mishap with the infamous Brittany. Well... Brittany and I have been talking since Christmas and decided then to give it another shot. I have been out on a few dates with her, and have lied about a couple of people that I took out (ie the girl that I went to the BYU young ambassadors was not named "Alena," it was Brittany). Sorry for the dishonesty, we wanted to make sure it was going the right direction before we told anyone.

Things are going quite well, and I imagine you will be seeing more of her around, and most likely less of me around. Nothing official yet, we haven't even told our families yet. But you guys needed to know. Thanks for everything you have done (and not done) in that regard.

Friday, January 18, 2008

NewsFlash

This just in from my physics professor: The Great Plains have become the Great Planes.

This guy literally threw a stack of syllabi into the class. Fetch yes.

I am going to settle Catan tonight hard core and I challenge any man who thinketh himself a man to try and stop me.

I will pillage you no end. No matter what I roll, I'll end up with 2 of everything plus an additional two woodsen. And you all can just eat rocks. Unless I want them for a city. In which case I will wrest them from you and you will end up with nothing. Maybe a development card for a chapel. That way you can have a freebie victory point and a place where you can pray for mercy, only to have your prayers answered with me surrounding your feeble colonies with more roads and placing the filthy black robber next to your only sheep-producing territory.

Brooke in the Boys' room

Funny story about one of our honorary members of the Sweet16.

Dear Brooke was in a public restroom for about 5 minutes when she asked April, "Why does this bathroom have urinals in it?"

True story. I guess that's all I have to say about that.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Greek tragedy of Jeremy Lindstrom

This is perhaps the worst thing to ever happen to anybody.

So Jeremy around midnight breaks up with a certain girl from Rexburg over the phone.
Shortly after Jeremy decides on a whim to go and break up with her to her face even after the deed has already been done.
Jeremy leaves house in car.
Drives 5 hours to Rexburg.
Breaks up with the girl face-t0-face
Jeremy is in car and on his way home again within an hour of arriving.
Jeremy is pulled over for doing 75 mph in a 65 area. $75 ticket.
Jeremy speeds again and slides off the road. $75 ticket. $175 towing?
Jeremy speeds yet again, falls asleep at the wheel and rear-ends a semi-truck. He totals his car. The cops gave him a third ticket, this one has no price on it (I imagine his license is getting revoked. Just like on Dan in Real Life...Three strikes, yer out!).
Missed two classes. Got no breakfast. Got no lunch. Got no girlfriend. Got no car. Got no job. If he had pets, his pet's heads probably would be falling off.

This is the worst story I have ever heard.


Here is how the Mastercard commercial would look:

Gas from Provo to Rexburg: $50
One ticket: $75
Second ticket, tow truck: $250
Third ticket, license revocation, totalled car, getting stranded in Brigham City: $3000
The laughs everyone has at your expense for driving all that way to break up with your girlfriend: Priceless

Dane's date

Well, I finally made it onto this thing, nobody invited me for a while so i guess i struck out ebfore i even got up to bat... which interestingly enough, that is what happens to me when I actually play baseball...

just thought i would report on the date, so all you fools know what's going on. He name is Malori and my uncle set us up. She is really cool, and funny, but has a laugh and voice that i swear is the exact same as gretchen's. it was uncanny I kept looking to see if she had that mission impossible voice thing on her neck.

josh, she lived in chile for a while and speaks sweety spanish, so if you would want to take her out...gimmie a holla.

holla

video man Josh

I would like to point out that the old biddies shut Josh down today. He comes in to the office to film me while I am working, and one of them says, "what's going on here?" "Oh, I am making a piece about the greatness of the education department and all the education majors here." "has Linda approved it?" "Umm, Linda?"

EAC Old Biddies 1
Josh 0

the race is on

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Women and Baseball

Nat: yes sir
she said the people at the health center said it was strep
"i was going to call last night but I wanted to wait until morning to see if I feel better, and I dont..."
4:48 PM me: wow, she went to the health center? she must have been feeling pretty crappy
or pretty streppy
she texted to cancel?
Nat: yes
sent 3
and then some
after i responded
4:49 PM i asked her what she had planned for the weekend: "Sleeping and or dying"
me: so be it
Nat: yup
she said "i hope you aren't mad!!"
4:50 PM i said, "well, we'll count this as a ball rather than a strike"
me: doesnt make sense
you could have just said, "relax, it's only your first strike"
do you even know how baseball works Nat?
4:51 PM Nat: yes i do
i know it doesnt work perfect
the analogy
b/c a ball is the pitchers fault
and i am not at fault here
me: luckily she knows bumpkis about baseball
4:52 PM Nat: but it works in the sense that she's not in a condition to swing the bat so we'll let her slide
yeah i am lucky there
me: you only slide when you're going to second, third or home. There is no reason to slide when she's not even running for first
4:53 PM Nat: ok ok when i just said slide i didnt mean it in baseball terms
me: if she's in no condition to swing the bat, then she should be benched
you should have just said, "just sit this inning out then"
Nat: she is benched until she gets better
ok, Josh, you are a master of the analogy
i should have consulted with you
, master
4:54 PM me: it doesn't matter...maybe you two are more compatible than I give you credit for
Nat: i will make no predictions
4:55 PM me: yeah, when you make predictions, you get letters telling you that you're a "nutcase"
Nat: haha
me: when the correct term should be "crackerjack box" or "a bag of sunflower seeds"
Nat: well, you've got to learn to make good predicitions
4:57 PM Nat: to know when it's time to pull the pitcher and put in the closer
4:58 PM me: hang on, none of us is the pitcher
when I said she struck out, it doesn't mean I was pitching
nor did it mean that you were pitching during your little "ball" aside
4:59 PM Nat: so who is the pitcher?
me: no pitching nor closing is done by any of us
me: there really isn't pitching, because nobody is trying to make anyone strike out
it's more like tee-ball
Nat: hahaha
that's true
me: the only reason why someone would strike out is if they were a. intending to, or b. retarded

Some interesting truths about Nat

The following conversation actually took place. The

11:12 AM Okay Nat.
We're going to take a little survey.
The test is very simple, it is a yes or no test.
11:13 AM If the answer is no, write no. If the answer is yes, write nothing. That is, do not respond if the answer is yes. Ready to begin?
11:16 AM I will take it by your non-answer that you mean yes. That is correct, good answer. First question: Are you a happy man?
11:18 AM So by your non-answer you have confirmed that you are a gay homo-sapien, is that correct?
11:19 AM yes again. Thank you for clearing that up.
11:20 AM Next question: Have you ever stolen medical supplies from Children's Hospitals?11:22 AM Your answer than is "yes". Next question: do you or do you not have a crush on Krista [last name omitted to protect the innocent] of the Elementary Education office?
11:23 AM so the answer is...yes.
11:24 AM Next question: Have you ever told your friends at any time that you think Krista has a crush on you?
11:27 AM so that's a yes as well
11:28 AM Next question: do you plan to date April or Melissa if either or both Johns stops dating them?
11:29 AM I'll take that as a yes
11:30 AM Next question (submitted by Derek): Are you going to "bust a move" on Lindsay at the concert tonight?
11:31 AM So that's a yes as well. Next question: Will she pull away in disgust?
11:33 AM Also yes. okay then. Next question: Have you in the last 48 hours licked the window of a girl's apartment while making obscene gestures with your hands?
11:35 AM I'll take that as a yes.
11:37 AM Next question: Did you play Rock Band in my apartment last night completely nude?11:38 AM Also yes! Next question: Are you plotting the overthrow of the United States government because you blame them for taking away Egg Nog each year?
11:40 AM so that's a yes. Next question: do you have to use rubber/plastic sheets?
11:41 AM also yes.
11:42 AM Next question: Can I keep your can-opener?
11:43 AM Yes? Gee thanks man.

Nat: ive been gone...
11:44 AM me: Thank you for your participation in our survey

Nat: i am just getting out of the meeting

Friday, January 11, 2008

Def Leppard

Alright, after much consideration and brainstorming and pondering and laborious thinking and sleepless, sweaty nights thinking about the future of our basketball team, I think I may have come up with a solution.  As everyone should know, the rules pretty clearly say that what we are planning on doing is not going to go over very well with the intramural office.  Here are some possible solutions to that:
1.  We do our crazy thang the first game, and most likely they pull us into the main offices, tell us to stop and we play serious the rest of the season.
2.  We play serious the whole season and the last game we go buck wild and even if they have a probelm, they can't kick us out.
3.  My personal favorite, is that we play serious the whole season, but ever 6 points or so we score in the game, we pull out a play.  That way they can't be mad at us for not taking it serious or playing hard, and we get to use our awesome plays.  

Anyway, let me know what you think.

corollary to Facebook Fast

I challenge all Elitists to see who can go the longest in refraining from facebook use.

It turns out that 33%+ of my study time is used on facebook. Since I have gone a full week without doing any homework, it behooveth me (and anyone else who is so addicted) to boycott facebook if only for a week.

Winner gets power and prestige.

Who's in?

FACEBOOK FAST

Gentlemen, I have started a weeklong facebook fast. I will not log in to facebook no matter what for the next 168 hours. If you do anything to my wall, or send me any messages, I will be forced to look at the email the facebook sends me, and then ignore it.

I think I can do it.

P.S. I totally forgot that we went on that canoe trip by moonlight. We need to get those pictures out in the open before I forget that timeless event again. Remember when our canoe got stuck and Nat had to get out and drag our canoe through the ice water? Yeah, that was pretty rough. Then we saw a flock of Moosen in the woodsen.

woozle wozzle.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Conversation with Nat's coworker

The following conversation took place today at 11:01 am. I was particularly proud of it and wanted to share. Note. Some parts of the conversation have been edited for style and content. The names are as they appeared on the chat window. NOTE: After everything she says, I reserve the right to say "That's what she said," because that's what she actually said!

Nat: good plan! well im off to the tire store

(6 minutes)

me: enjoy yourself
have fun buying tires
and replacing them
and rotating them
and inflating them
and deflating them
and reinflating them
and then kicking them
and then driving on the rims
and then walking around
and then looking around

Nat: hahaha this is actually krista now
nat accidentally left his thing up

me: Nat, you are not a girl
we've been over this

Nat: no he's not

me: you are Nat
you are a man

Nat: but he definitely works with one

me: don't speak in 3rd person either, Nat
remember to take your medication

Nat: i'll try to remind him tomorrow

me: and don't forget your accordion lessons
no, you do it
you take your medication
this is your problem

Nat: if i take the medication i dont think its gonna have the same affect
call me crazy

me: not his or hers or the government's problem

Nat: hahaha

me: Crazy, don't forget your medication
and call you Nat, Crazy

Nat: ok i'm getting off now i officially feel weird talking as nat

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Def Leppard schedule

What up, jiggas!

Here is our schedule for basketball. I was fixin' to put us in the highest division so we could really upset the serious players. But they said that we would be moved down if we were really bad. So in order to avoid changes in schedules, I had us placed in the lowest division humanly possible. Any lower and we would be playing against the Teletubbies JV team.

Jan 24. - Thur. - 8:00 p.m. - 144 Richards
Feb 5. - Tues. - 9:00 p.m. - 144 Richards
Feb 16. - Sat. - 9:00 a.m. - 156 Richards
Feb 29. - Fri. - 8:00 p.m. - 144 Richards
Mar. 14 - Fri. - 6:00 p.m. - 144 Richards

Derek thinks that we are going to dominate. Personally I think "spank me sideways" is a good team motto. I expect Nat will have this all on google calendar and will send us all some invites for good measure.

The Def Leppard embryo is about to be birthed. Prepare to eat amniotic sac vestiges opposition!

Whoopsie Oatesy

Hey y'all. I just have to make amends to our dear friend Zack. Shortly after my early morning victory of Settlers of Catan over Derek and a stranger named Matt who shall go unnamed, I was sitting with Zack at the Intramural Sports office. The female clerk who was taking our money gave Zack a warm hug and then went to the back room. Zack then remarked to me, "We used to date." I then yelled out, "That's your ex-girlfriend!?!?!" The woman was astonished, embarrased, then upset, then wouldn't make eye contact with either of us. Zack blushed, as did she. She was real mad. I tried to smooth things over by saying, "I'm not even sorry." But to no avail....again. I tried to give her an apologetic hug, but she spurned my advances. Zack tried to apologize on my behalf, but she was not having it. She later texted Zack a response. He refused to show it to me.

So this is my public apology to Oatesy Foatesy. In my defense, I reserved you a spot to get an intramural schedule. So call it even?

And I make an appeal to all Elitists to harass Zack to show us what the woman texted to him.

BOO YAH!!!

Spank me sideways!

Monday, January 7, 2008

Bryant the Loser

Bryant you were engaged. Almost engaged. Then proposed to thrice. She left you at the altar on your wedding day.

I met you. Derek saw me. You just walked away. I'm blogging your story.

You came to BYU to avoid the friends of your ex-fiance who broke up with you on your wedding day. In her town of 60,000 people, 300 go to our school. You have met 7 of them. And they laugh at you.

You are a crap-magnet.

Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, no shhhh.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

I posted nothing.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Guys Night Out Uber Alles

Listen, I don't know who crowned Josh the official Elite 8 planner, but I've got a good one to book for us: Cougarettes in Concert, Feb 27-Mar1. Ohhhhhhhhh baby. You should have all received an email with the details

Maybe this year one of us will be the man to walk on stage at the end with a long stemmed rose and a small black box...

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Trip to the Cabin

As official planner of the Elite 8, I thought I bring to everyone's attention that we have a break on the 21st from school. So, for whom (is that right Zack?) ever needs to make arrangements with work and school, make sure you have that weekend free. Right now the plan is to go to the cabin, but its still in the planning. Let me know if there are any other ideas.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Oedipus Complexities

Alright...the next item of discussion. Nat and I decided that it would be interesting for all of us to decide which girl in the ward (or at least a girl that we all know) is most like the mom of each Elite8 member. After we have decided who each mom match is. We'll try and predict the outcome of a relationship between that Elitist and that sister in our ward. (Or we can evaluate how the relationship already went if that person already happened to date the girl most like his mom [Looking in Zack's direction])
 
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