Yesterday was a great day. I went to work for half the day then headed down to BYU for the 2008 Richard Bushman Seminar. The conference touched on "controversial" historical issues and how we can effectively explain them to those struggling with their faith as well as how we should approach such subjects in institute and BYU religion classes. The conference touched on issues such as the failure of The Kirtland Safety Society, The Kinderhook plates, Freemasonry, plural marriage, Joseph Smith and the supernatural, and changes to printed revelations. I think I'll type up my notes from the conference on my blog, but I'll leave that for another post, for now just know that it was very good. There wasn't a ton of new information, but I appreciated the new framework given to the old information.
After the conference I went to my old work at eWB , talked with BP for a while, then Kelli, Amy, Jillian and I went to Jason's Deli for dinner. It was so good to catch up with all of their lives and let them know what's going on in mine. I just love everyone there and appreciate their friendship so much.
Then I met up with Julie and Mike, Keith, Kyle and his girlfriend, and BJ and Jewel for dinner. Mike and Julie are moving to Oregon this week and we wanted to get together with them before they go. They decided to go to dinner at Goodwood, which is o so good, but I had just eaten so I just mooched a little off of BJ's plate.
At about 8:45 I left for my hockey game at Seven Peaks (I was subbing for my friends) and BJ, Jewel, Mike, Julie, and Melissa came to watch. Man, I was dogging it at the end! I think it was a combination of me not having played a game in a couple of months, only playing softball in the meantime, and the fact that everyone on the team were taking like 3 minute shifts!! And it wasn't that we were hurting for people either, we had 3 full forward lines. I kept telling them 1 minute shifts at the most! But whatever, we won 4-1, and it was apparently their first win of the season, woohoo! I miss playing hockey in Provo so much, I made so many friends. It's like when you play hockey you're part of this little community and it's great!
After the game the 6 of us went to the malt shop down the street from our old stomping grounds (The Glenhood) and according to BJ, "my personality was really coming out." Translation: "Meghan, you're acting like your crazy right now but I like it 'cause it's funny."
(p.s. I'm kind of ticked at myself that I brought my camera and didn't take a single picture of the day so sorry).
I got home at about 1 a.m. this morning so needless to say, I'm pretty tired. But no worries, I had such a good time!!
Oh, except for the parking ticket I got! I can't believe I forgot about that! I really thought during the summer at BYU you could park anywhere on campus, but my friend Ben informed me (after the fact) that you can park most places on campus but you still have to have a parking pass. Ohhhhh. But apparently I would have still gotten the ticket even if I had one of those thingy's because do I park in the "regular" parking? No. I mean, I drive a Mercedes right? There's no parking with little Ford Escorts in the student car section of the parking lot. Nu-uh, I go for the big cheese. I hang out with the faculty vehicles, cause that's where I belong. And I paid $30 for it.
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