When It Was Ricks College
I attended Ricks College for one year. Rexburg was over 200 miles away from my home and so I lived in the dorms near the campus. Believe it or not, I really did have three roommates with the same or similar names – though each spelled differently. Christy Ann Howardson, Christie Lee Hill and Kristaleigh Phelps. The girls who lived in the same dorm as we did would see me coming and would say, “Hi Christi-“ in which I would respond, “No, I’m the other one” thus earning my new nickname, “the other one” We couldn’t refer to the Christie(y)s with just the last initial because they both started with the same letter. And although Christie was willing to go by Christie Lee it was just too confusing for Kristaleigh. And Christy refused to go by Christy Ann. So sometimes I called her Howard – or Howardine – just to get a rile out of her. It was actually kind of fun. As roommates go, we all had our peculiarities, our strengths and our weaknesses, et...