Swifty Morgan asks his favorite cowgirl to become his wife.

Well....
Lots has changed since I used to blog about high school kids doing goofy things in the college world. I haven't really blogged much last fall, so let me fill you in exactly where I am in life. Sit back, pop some popcorn, and enjoy.

I graduated North Texas in May of 2012. Went to Oklahoma for a little bit, left for what I thought was to be my dream career. Stuck with it for 1/2 a year, got tasered, maced, had my rib broken by an overly aggressive odd fellow from California, and realized. I am 22 years old. Under no circumstances did I want anything to do with this career for my life. So I said "Adios!" and went back to school to pursue something I really believe I have been called to do for quite some time now. I suppose it just helps if you listen. Anyway, more on that in later blog posts.

So I realized I've been hangin' out with this cute gal for five and a half years. I figured I should probably start a' thinkin' about making her Mrs. Swifty Morgan. Figured it was time to get engaged, figured maybe it was time to settle down... quit roaming the west goin' adventuring. What am I talking about, she goes adventuring with me!

So as many of you know, Swifty Morgan is one of the biggest pranksters, most ornery folks you've ever met. I couldn't just flat out ask her! I had to surprise her, and big time. Unfortunately for me she knows me to be one of the most ornery folks she has ever met and fully expected this to be a surprise.

So I set my little pea-brain to work a thinkin', dangerous I know, and came up with a scheme. I took her out to several things and on lots of dates in the 3-4 days leading up to the day I asked her. I also played it up that I was some idiot (wasn't hard) who didn't know a thing about rings or engagements or anything! So I had this girl convinced that we were going to go looking at rocks. Most people call that prospecting, but I guess in civilized company it is 'ring shopping'.... ugh, a downright scary process.

Little did she know, I already had this all picked out. ;)

So on the 'big' day that we were going to go shopping I let her know about an hour before that a new geocache had popped up in the area and I HAD to be the first to find it!

For those of you who don't know what geocaching is visit www.geocaching.com or read the boy scout merit badge guide for the activity.

So we went a hunting..... HEY LOOK! WHAT'S THAT PIPE??

 I don't know! This must be it! open it up!

 Oh my! Inside the log is a ring? Wait what? Will I marry you?? YES!!!

 Mission complete!

So Swifty pulled off a good one on her. She didn't expect it at all!

Here is her ring next to the promise ring I gave her several years ago. I hand made that promise ring out of a silver quarter.

And afterwards, just as a joke, I took her to get some ice cream... Why? Her Mom told her she would never get a boyfriend because she used to be a messy ice cream eater, but what kid didn't?
Guess her Mom was wrong about that one!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures! Stay tuned for more!


Oh, and my old Phoenix teacher would be proud, I proposed in Walden Park, at the corner of Thoreau Lane and Emerson Dr. and remembered who those folks are!

That was quick.

Well, the semester is 1.5 weeks from being over. And fortunately for me, this is my LAST semester in college. Unfortunately there have been almost 0 stories from my work this semester. Sorry to disappoint y'all. I didn't try to create any action either. My wing of seniors has been so drama free. This weekend is checkout weekend so hopefully there will be SOMETHING interesting. Last year I spent 4 hours checking out one room because the students didn't understand that it was NOT OK to have mold on their toilet and visible dust on every other surface. Frustrating to say the least.

Stay tuned, I start scout camp in 2 weeks. And working with 5th graders - seniors in high school will provide ample stories. Scoutmasters may also provide copious amounts of entertainment.

Exams next week, here we come!

Back in action!

Alright folks, Swifty Morgan is back in action!
School started yesterday and so far a few exciting things have happened.
This semester is my last semester here at work/school and I am loving it. 12 hours of classes and no class on Monday or Friday. Can life as a Senior be any better? I think not!

So I guess you probably want to hear a funny work related story? Yes? Ok, well first I am going to tell a serious work related story.
As you know I have 42 Senior Guys on my wing. Not 1 of them left over Christmas break. That is pretty cool, also only 7 doc's were given to those 42 guys. That is super low, and I have the student with the most community service hours on my wing. Oh yeah!

So now a funny story?  Ok :)
So we got a new RA over the break for the other senior guys. Well one of the senior guys was telling the his friend out in the parking lot that he met the new RA, well his friend didn't really believe him and that is when I walked up.

'Swifty, Jake keeps telling me about this new RA we have. Is it true?'

Me: 'Jake, what are you talking about?'
Jake: 'The new RA, I already met him'
Me: 'What new RA? You didn't get a new RA. Greg is still your RA'
Friend 'Jake you liar....'
Jake 'Well then who was it that I talked to that told me he was the new RA?'
Me:  'haha probably just some maintenance guy in the building trying to be funny.'
Jake 'Wow, he really was convincing! Oh well, we will see Greg tonight'

So I was able to successfully get him to think that he didn't really have a new RA, he does have a new RA and the new RA is fitting in great here at work.

It is only the first week so hopefully students will start doing more exciting things soon!

-Swifty

The life and times of Swifty Morgan

Well, the life and times of Swifty Morgan haven't changed too much. I haven't had any good work stories to blog about recently. I'll have to stir something up to make some new adventures.
Until then... adios!

"That didn't go over as well as I thought it would"

I don't write this blog folks, it writes itself. That's right. I just transcribe actual events onto the internet:
The following took place this last Monday in my English class in college.

It was another somewhat entertaining day in English today as we were talking about ancient rhetorics and how they can be found in the writings of today. My teacher was busy using the overhead projector computer display to search for proverbs on the internet. Not proverbs like the book of proverbs in the Bible, you don't need to look for it, you should know where that is, in the Bible. Anyway, she was looking for those catchy little sayings like 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure', 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away' and so on and so forth. Well a kid in my class all of a sudden just jolted up and said "I HAVE A GOOD RELIGIOUS PROVERB! CAN I GOOGLE IT?!"....
This guy totally interrupted the teachers train of thought and took the entire class off guard.
"Well, um, ok, I guess so" said my teacher rather flustered.
By the time she got to the um the boy had already jumped from his seat and was a few strides away from the computer.

He quickly got to the google website and this is where things got interesting.
The kid clicked on google images. As most people know you NEVER do a LIVE google images search in front of a class. No matter what you type in there is always something awkward that will appear on screen and embarrass you. This kid didn't know that....
He  typed in "Odin ice giant" into the search bar and clicked the search button with the same great enthusiasm that he started with.

This was the picture he clicked on:

A rather interesting proverb indeed. In case the link breaks with the picture the quote says 'Jesus promised the end of all wicked people. Odin promised the end of all ice giants. I don't see many ice giants around'

I have no idea how this is a proverb.
To make it better the kid turned and looked at the class with this huge "I AM AWESOME" grin.
Nobody said anything or laughed at all.
Next he said "Well that didn't go over like I thought it would"

This statement got many more laughs than did his funny picture. I kinda felt bad for the kid but hey, this is college now, you can't do this kind of nonsense and expect people to always laugh to be nice.

The teacher continued by saying 'Well, um, cool" and then going back to her google search.

Just another day in Swifty Morgan's neighborhood.

Yes, it is okay to talk to girls.

Here in my dorm we have a tornado drill at the beginning of each semester. The noise is insanely loud and goes on and on for several minutes. Basically on my guys wing the 2 wings above us drop down into our hallway and sit in our hall. My guys get to chill in their bathrooms because the bathrooms are not on the exterior part of the building. The wing above us is girls and they come sit in the hallway during the drill. And after the tornado drill I had the funniest conversation with a student.
Me: Congrats, you guys survived the tornado, any questions about the procedures?
Student: "yeah, so we just go in the bathroom?"
Me: Yup you just go in the bathroom, it is great because it is probably quieter in the bathroom and also not as crowded as the hall way.
Student: Who comes to our wing anyway?
Me: A mix of seniors, both boys and girls.
Student: So senior girls come down here?
Me: Yes...
Student: So....
Me: Are you asking if it is okay for you to go outside and sit by the senior girls?
Student: I guess so.
Me: Yes, if you want to meet girls during a tornado be my guest.

Only time will tell if sitting by girls during tornado drills can get you a date.

Work Orders

So I am back at work and all of my residents are moved in, that means lots of work orders to be turned in for things that don't work in their rooms.
Here is one work order I wrote up today:

Toilet in resident room has a low flow issue. Upon initiation of flush procedure by activation of toilet flush lever the toilet fails to dispense an appropriate amount of fluids to complete the flushing action. Current toilet status requires resident to flush multiple times in rapid succession to complete flushing process.

The form online said to be detailed and describe the problem. task completed.

Look forward to more updates.