New Major

After much thought and such I have gone and changed my major from Food Industry Management to Food Science. So now I get to play the game of chemistry every semester, but I'm excited for it. Perhaps I will actually be able to succeed and get a good career out of this. There is so much opportunity out there for food scientists.
So this week I took a couple of huge exams and next week I am taking four more. Life is very busy on the education front. I'm glad that a break is coming up. Mike and I are going down to Ca for thanksgiving. Good food, time with family, and exploring San Francisco a little more are on the menu.
I can't wait for this semester to be over and Accounting to be buried and forgotten in the dust.
Mike is gone this week at FTX. It's some type of military training thing. Ok, so it's only from Thursday afternoon to Saturday afternoon. But it changes the dynamics of my day. It seems like all that I am doing is being at school and studying and doing homework. I do that anyways, but it's different.
Anywho, don't forget to thaw your turkeys in the fridge for 2-4 days before baking! Also I learned that soaking one's turkey in a brine solution with seasonings helps to both keep your turkey moist and infuse it with flavor. Basting doesn't really do anything. And in order not to overcook the white meat and cook the dark meat to proper doneness, you can employ the use of aluminum foil over the breast meat of the bird 30 min before it's all done. I highly suggest watching the episode yourself. It is very interesting.

Happy almost thanksgiving!

Voting!

So last night I had my first experience in voting. I mailed out my little absentee ballot and hopefully the guy I voted to be President will be President. And an exciting find I made today is that BYU offers a basket weaving class. How cool is that? I am seriously going to try to get into that class next semester. If anything I'll get a couple of sweet baskets out of it.
So the big decision this week was to decide how to get down to CA for Thanksgiving Hols. I'm still working on that but we'll see. So that's what has been going on this week.
That and Laprino, a cheese company, came to BYU today to give a presentation to the Food Science Club. Great Pizza.

Bugs In My Food

So this is really gross. My lovely visiting teachers brought me a candy bar for my birthday. So I ate 1 half of it, look down into the wrapper, and find a lovely shiny black beetle. Just sitting all dead like on top of the other half of the 100 Grand. And then a couple of weeks after that I went to Cafe Rio and get a fly in my food. Cafe Rio mostly does salads (really big ones) and the poor little fly was all mixed up with the lettuce, chicken, and sauce. I don't even think he knew what hit him. I guess that since I want to go into Quality Control as a possible career, I am going to be blessed the rest of my life with insects in my food. At least I get extra protein, right?

Summer Internship

So all of summer I had the opportunity to intern with Deseret Dairy. I think that it was one of the most fun summers that I have ever had. Now don't get me wrong, my social life suffered a bit because I was not keeping normal college student hours. I woke up before the crack of dawn (4am) rode a bus down to Salt Lake City from Provo, and got to work by as the sun was rising at 7am. I am still working on getting back to regular hours. Usually one is supposed to stay up past midnight and wake up around 7. That is the normal run of things in my apartment.
But all the experience I gained was well worth the odd hours.
So this is me in my lovely lab coat (I own two) in the lab, chilling between testing milk and cheese.

Why am I doing this?

The answer is more of a question: "Why Not?" I decided that I want to share what is going on in my life. I may even keep this up if you guys are liking what I am doing.