Another week has passed, and the Winn’s are starting to get into a little bit of a rhythm here in Knoxville. Jarom is enjoying his classes, learning about intercollegiate athletics and sport law. Alixa is working at the Olive Garden, a band-aid to keep us from starving until she can land a better job that will hopefully allow her to work a more typical 9-5 schedule. Even though she hopes to be out of the restaurant business very shortly, she does great work there. She already has a regular customer who asks for her by name. She says that the alcohol consumption is not much different here as compared to Provo, but everyone orders “sweet tea”, which is simply iced tea and boatloads of sugar [Recipe: 3 gallons iced tea, 5 lbs sugar]. She has also earned 4 free lunches from guest compliments and other outstanding services.
We have been here long enough to start noticing other interesting traits of eastern Tennessee. One of these is an omnipresence of the unwanted-results-of-sexual-activity industry. There are lots of ads for pregnancy testing and prevention (especially on UT’s campus) and many others for STD prevention. Perhaps this is the norm and Utah simply has less, but it has been interesting to see. Alixa is hoping that the environment will help her to get knocked up.
As many of you probably know, UT lost their season opener to UCLA. The town has been sad the past few days, and it is not the best start for turning Jarom into a diehard Vols fan. In other football news, the NFL starts this week. That means that the annual Jarom vs. Alixa fantasy football game is on this weekend. The all-time matchup currently stands at 2-1 in Lixi’s favor, although Jarom is optimistic for this game.
Jarom turned 27 last week, and nobody came to his party. Jerks. For his birthday the internship gods gave him a position with Adidas working with the regional director of team sales. That means that he will be doing stuff with high schools and colleges that get their equipment and/or uniforms from Adidas. It should be interesting, it gets him school credit, and at the end of the semester he will get $1000-1500 worth of stuff from Adidas. That’s a lot of workout clothes!
Lastly, a funny story. As part of her job search Alixa needed to fax a resume to several potential employers. Today Jarom found a stack of 4 resumes and 4 cover letters in the car. A little embarrassed, Alixa admitted that she had printed them up without realizing that she could simply fax the same resume and same cover letter four times. In full disclosure, I must make it known that this was simply a mental lapse. She did not think that fax machines actually send the physical piece of paper. She just had a brain fart. But I laughed when I heard it.
2 comments:
Oh, Lix. Hahaha. That's a funny fax story. How's the baby making coming along? I'd like to see a little Winn soon.
I am huge-o. I've seriously just popped out like a big balloon. Only eight more weeks. I can't believe it. I don't think I'm ready for him to come out yet. I'm officially done working on the last day of the month. I'm very excited, but all my old people are sad. They'll get over it. I'm already over it.
Utah just isn't the same without you guys. We're trying to make some new friends, but it's different. Dave played racketball with a guy tonight and I've gotten to be good friends with our neighbors. But we're not the the "let's hang out" phase yet. We'll get there.
How does Jarom like school? What jobs have you applied for? Sounds like the OG is treating you well. Your apartment is cute, too.
Just so you know Cameo was rooting for UCLA in that game.
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