So here I am, Tuesday morning, not having to work. It was slow at the car wash, so they told me to go ahead and go home. So, I did.

When I arrive home, my BYU email account wasn’t working. It was having problems over the weekend, but I called the IT department and they fixed it…or did they?

I actually talked to Brynn, my girlfriend, when I called. She works there and happened to be the one that answered my call. I’m now going to have to lock her in a closet for only temporarily solving my problem.

But I digress (pondering acts of emotional and physical abuse’ll do that) from my real point. After I lodged my complaint with star command, they told me that they could fix the problem again, but not knowing how permanent it would be, they passed my issue along to their supervisor, and said they’d call me whenever they figure it out.

I then had a few hours to kill between what I was doing now (nothing) and when I had to go to class. I briefly (and when I say “briefly”, I mean “less than the amount of time it takes the guy behind you at the traffic light to honk after the light turns green”) entertained the thought of watching the devotional on the tele.

But then I got on my rant (and when I say “got on my rant” this is all internally, in my head. That is usually my favorite form of rantation) about devotionals. I’m not opposed to devotionals, or devoting, or being devout, or divas (actually, I am kinda opposed to them) but I am opposed to people telling me when I’m supposed to be devout.

BYU shuts down everything during devotional times. I’m never on campus when this takes place, I try to avoid campus whenever I can, but supposedly they even lock the bathrooms and have security look for stragglers. The cougareat is guarded by cherubim and a flaming sword, and the library puts all of their books on lock-down…at least, that’s what I hear. But who are they to say that on Tuesday mornings at 11 O’clock, the only thing you’re allowed to be doing is being spiritual.

What if I don’t want to be spiritual right then? What if I want to just read the talk later because I’m a visual learner? Why can’t I buy a taco and read the paper while Dr. Whatshisface goes off about who knows what?

So, I was in mid mental rant when I get a phone call. By this time, it was a little past 11, and it was the IT department! A nice young man helped me with my problem, but why wasn’t he watching the devotional? Is the only department open during devotional time the IT department? If so, I think I may just call them every Tuesday around 11, because I need something to do.

That is all.

-Scotty