Early to rise...

Today I am grateful for the UTA Bus system. I can get to BYU in 2 hours any day I want. I wake up at 4:30, make it to the bus stop before 5:30, and get to BYU at the Wilkinson Center at 7:30, before anything really opens up. It's amazing how much longer the days are when you're up before the crack of dawn.

I'm also grateful for seminary, and the practice it gave me getting up early.... admittedly, I was terribly unpunctual for the later years..... I would recommend not doing that. It wasn't so hard this morning to get up for the bus, though. I think the problem was that I had to push myself for seminary. If I miss the bus, I miss the bus and I miss work. I'm grateful for something else to push me out of bed in the morning.  (Seminary should be reason enough, but after long nights of homework during the teen years... it's hard to convince yourself to leave your bed when you're not fully conscious.)

I'm grateful for good books, museums, and iPods. :) Today I read a fair bit of Pride & Prejudice on campus, walked around the Monte L. Bean Museum, and enjoyed the wonderful songs of Enya on my long bus rides. :)

Tomorrow, I will go to campus to work. Today was just to make sure I could navigate the bus system. :) 'Cause I'm a big kid now....