Week 2, Blog 3 (Freewrite)

Life at BYU: the BYU Motion Picture Film Archive Film Series

Dani and I have been planning to go to the first BYU Motion Picture Film Archive Film of the semester (which was yesterday night) from the beginning of the year. She got asked out by this guy from her work for the same night, but we planned around that. She sweetly suggested he take her to the movie, and then when we ran into each other in the library auditorium it’d just be a surprising coincidence. However, in order to ensure a smoother transition for me spending the evening with them, we decided I’d have to get myself a date as well and we’d all enjoy an unexpected double. The only problem is we decided all of this about an hour before the movie. I combed the ward directory, scrolled through my phone contacts, and knocked on the doors of a couple new boys in our complex. I went through seven boys before Dusty (a good looking redhead in the ward) FINALLY had enough pity to go with me. Of course, he doesn’t know he was so far down the list, so we’ll keep that on the downlow. At any rate, Nikki (who had decided to join us and gotten a date on her first try), and I were just preparing to leave with our dates when Conner (Dani’s date) showed up and caught us in our plan. We quickly changed our story (since there was no longer the element of surprise we had at first planned on meeting with) and headed to the library, 20 minutes late. The auditorium was full. So much for the BYU Motion Picture Film Archive Film Series. I wonder if we'll ever get to see one of those (things never seem to work out for us when we try). We made the boys dinner and went to Dan in Real Life at the dollar theater instead. A BYU student is all about improvisation, because the beggars of the world can't be the choosers...