My Life is a Blur of Orange and White

And I mean that in a good way. To tell you the truth, I am slowly but surely falling in love with Knoxville. Everyone here loves it; everyone loves UT. Its horribly contagious. I'm becoming a fan already--and I'll probably never even get to a football game because tickets are impossible to get a hold of, and if you do find them, they are way out of our price range. Anyway, one of the funniest (and most endearing) things about Knoxville is the very noticeable presence of the color orange--everywhere. I mean, people even wear it--people who have no business wearing orange (like me)--even when it is not UT specific clothing, its still orange. I thought I might get into the spirit so I went to Walmart looking for some orange work-out shorts (sounds strange, but here that would be perfectly acceptable). They had every color fully stocked, but in orange they only had a few XL and a few XS left. The town is just glowing orange. A few examples (I was taking pictures of orange things around town until I realized I was embarrassing Chris, so these are the few images I captured in my first few days):

Rocking chairs

They have orange displays in EVERY store. Its not hard to find UT gear. Orange T's painted all the way down the sidewalks on campus. Public transportation

The HUGE stadium (all the railings are orange--it looks like its under construction)
Yes, even the sports cars come in orange and white.

This is neat--look, the shape of the state of Tennessee is in the UT logo--cute!Pat Summitt St. Dedicated to my mom:
Things you never see on BYU's campus. (I wanted to take more pictures of things you never see at BYU, but I didn't think the bikini-clad girls would appreciate that.)

Finally, my gorgeous husband preparing for class. That box contains all his books--he got 6 nice hard-bound books for $250! He asked me to guess the price and I said around $600, because that's about how much they would have cost at BYU. But $250!? You can get a binder and a thesaurus for that much at BYU.

Anyway. His classes are going great. They were a little overwhelming at first, but he has picked right up into the swing of things, like I knew he would. He's just amazing like that.
Now if only I could find a job.