Just Throw a Brick

*Inspiring post alert* Good news, friends! Gail Halvorsen is doing a candy drop on Friday! For those of you who don't know who the amazing Gail Halvorsen is,  click on this!  Go down to the "Impressions of a Berlin Airlift Pilot" and read it. I promise, it'll make you a better person. The first time I heard the name Gail Halvorsen, I was in my first month of working at BYU Broadcasting as a closed-captioner. We did a show back then called "Inspiring Lives", and my first one I ever got to do was about "The Berlin Candy Bomber", or Gail Halvorsen. I was putting in some extra hours later one afternoon and when I opened the video, I thought it would just be a meh job, not as bad as a Food Nanny but not as good as a men's volleyball game. And man. I was totally wrong. Out of all the things I've captioned on BYUtv and KBYU over the years, this is hands-down the best, most inspiring show I've ever captioned. Unfortunately, I can't find...

Well, day 2 on the lonely planet, aka a university on Spring Break. Although upon further research, turns out I do get a Spring Break! Of one day! But hey, it's a break nonetheless! And to be completely honest, I kind of wish I didn't have it. I'd rather have the cash than a day off. I mean, what am I going to do? C has school all day, guess I'll crochet a freaking blanket or something. I already made cinnamon rolls this month. Maybe I'll try my hand at archery or something. Got to get some new hobbies. Also, in the never-ending saga of tax problems, had a tax preparer call today and tell me I was going to be responsible if the university got fined for sending out incorrect 1098-Ts. Bro. Broooooo. I am not in charge. I am merely the puppet that answers the phones. And if I'm lucky, have some downtime to eat a Pop-Tart. But if somebody wants my help with one more stupid tax thing... In other news, yesterday I built a bookshelf and a table. That's right...

This is where I would put up exciting plans about Spring Break... IF I HAD ONE. *sigh* Even though I work at a university, even when they're on Spring Break, we still have to come in and do nothing. Except me, because I get to answer perturbed parent's phone calls when they finally realize taxes are due soon and they don't know how to read the 1098-T for their son/daughter who's conveniently on a mission. Unfortunately, due to FERPA laws, we can't help them at all. People, do yourselves a favor. When you go on a mission to a remote African village for two years, PLEASE leave your ID and sign-in information with your parents. For every account you own. It's just common sense. *gets off soapbox* Anyway, I guess if I had a spring break I wouldn't get a week's pay, which would be highly detrimental. Guess I should be grateful for my job. I'm also incredibly grateful for Easter, and Easter candy, and conference time. It was a great weekend. It sta...

Hey guys, what's up. Went back to work today after the weekend, good times. I had to edit a speech, and the lameo who transcribed it before me apparently thought Moses brought the "ten plaques" to Egypt instead of the ten plagues. Come on, people... More "Katelyn educates the captioners about sports" moments today - had to explain to a coworker that football players don't score in an "inzone", they score in an "end zone". *sigh* Although the way all these old announcers can talk, I can see how she would be confused. On a more positive note, the same speaker brought in this great quote by Eleanor Roosevelt. Interesting to think about, right? According to this scale, I'm more often an average mind, although I have my small and great moments. Usually when I'm in my "great mind" mode it's when me and my mom or dad or sisters are discussing problems and how to solve them, and it always ends up boiling down to the...

No, really. Once you get past all the words you can't read/pronounce/tell are English, it's all awesome from there. My two favorite science bros Today's post comes from a quote out of my Infections and Immunology book, "Sherris Medical Microbiology" (2010). The author writes (describing how Louis Pasteur was treated after he discovered a vaccine to zoonoses anthracis, a disease in herbivorous livestock): "He was cheered and carried on the shoulders of the grateful farmers of the district, an experience now, unhappily, largely restricted to winning football coaches." Powerful stuff. No really, this whimsical sentence actually made me think for awhile. What if the great scientists of our day were celebrated as much as sports stars? Allow me to speculate. First off, we would have a lot more scientists. Science is such an amazing field, with new discoveries made almost every day. Can you imagine how much faster we could cure diseases if everyo...