The God Who Dreamed
Seated at the great desk, the Author opens the large book. It has no words. It has no words because no words exist. No words exist because no words are needed. There are no ears to hear them, no eyes to read them.
The Author is alone.
And so He takes the great pen and prepares to write. Like an artist gathers his colors and a woodcarver his tools, the Author assembles his words. There are three. Three single words. Out of these three will pour a million thoughts. But on these three words, the story will suspend.
He takes his quill and spells the first. T-i-m-e. Time did not exist until he wrote it. He, himself, is timeless, but his story would be encased in time. The story would have a first rising of the sun, a first shifting of the sand. A beginning...and an end. A final chapter. He knows it before he writes it.Time. A footspan on eternity’s trail.
Slowly, tenderly, the Author writes the second word. A name. A-d-a-m. As he writes, he sees him, the first Adam. Then he sees all the others. In a thousand eras in a thousand lands, the Author sees them. Each Adam. Each child. Instantly loved. Permanently loved. To each he assigns a time. To each he appoints a place. No accidents. No coincidences. Just design. The Author makes a promise to the unborn: In my image, I will make you. You will be like me. You will laugh. You will create. You will never die. And you will write. They must. For each life is a book, not to be read, but rather a story to be written. The Author starts each life story, but each life will write his or her own ending.What a dangerous liberty. How much safer would it have been to finish the story for each Adam. To script every option. It would have been simpler. It would have been safer. But it would not have been love. Love is only love if chosen. So the Author decides to give each child a pen. “Write carefully,” he whispers.
Lovingly, deliberately, he writes the third word, already feeling the pain. E-m-m-a-n-u-e-l. The greatest mind in the universe imagined time. The truest judge granted Adam a choice. But it was love that gave Emmanuel, God with us.
The Author would enter his own story.
The Word would become flesh.
He, too, would be born. He, too, would be human. He, too, would have hands and feet. He, too, would have tears and trials. And most importantly, he, too, would have a choice. Emmanuel would stand at the crossroads of life and death and make a choice. The Author knows well the weight of that decision. He pauses as he writes the page of his own pain. He could stop. Even the Author has a choice. But how can a Creator not create? How can a Writer not write? And how can Love not love? So he chooses life, though it means death, with hope that his children will do the same. And so the Author of Life completes the story. He drives the spike in the flesh and rolls the stone over the grave. Knowing the choice he will make, knowing the choice all Adams will make, he pens, “The End,” then closes the book and proclaims the beginning.
“Let there be light!”
9.24.2004
ok. this post is dedicated to jackie romine, because she is the sweetest most caring person i know. guess what she did for me?
i went to the post office to check my mail like i often do, and i found i had two packages AND a letter from my dear sister sarah written during her culteral anthopology class. amazing.
all of that is great, and i'm really happy and it made my day cause my mommiloo sent me cool stuff and sarah's letter was complete randomness, but jackie's was awesome. she had heard that i was homesick from an unknown source, and she sent me a card and these four items:
a blanket (!) for when i need someone to snuggle with
tissues for when i need someone's shoulder to cry on
a journal for when i have frustrations or secrets i need to tell
and hugs because she isn't here to give me one herself.
HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!?! i love her so much and miss her even more. she's on her way to thailand and japan for two weeks at this very moment. the blanket matches all my other stuff perfectly (even though i didn't plan on matching, but it's cool cause most of my stuff does) and hugs are my favorite thing ever. real ones, and the candy.
jackie dear, you are awesome and wonderful and i love you. you rock my socks off.
i went to the post office to check my mail like i often do, and i found i had two packages AND a letter from my dear sister sarah written during her culteral anthopology class. amazing.
all of that is great, and i'm really happy and it made my day cause my mommiloo sent me cool stuff and sarah's letter was complete randomness, but jackie's was awesome. she had heard that i was homesick from an unknown source, and she sent me a card and these four items:
a blanket (!) for when i need someone to snuggle with
tissues for when i need someone's shoulder to cry on
a journal for when i have frustrations or secrets i need to tell
and hugs because she isn't here to give me one herself.
HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!?! i love her so much and miss her even more. she's on her way to thailand and japan for two weeks at this very moment. the blanket matches all my other stuff perfectly (even though i didn't plan on matching, but it's cool cause most of my stuff does) and hugs are my favorite thing ever. real ones, and the candy.
jackie dear, you are awesome and wonderful and i love you. you rock my socks off.
9.22.2004
if you think about it, there really is a lot of danger involved in playing Ultimate Spoons down a hallway. sam and i went to shen last night and played in the third floor hallway with chris, billy, and shawn, and looking back there were quite a few injuries waiting to happen. luckily we escaped mostly unharmed. mostly.
i had my first official college exam today in bib lit. thanks to Heather and Danielle, two girls on my floor in the same class, i did well. they really helped me a lot and i'm so thankful for them. Jesus definitely was a big factor too..i prayed a lot this morning!! ha.
i'm also really thankful that sam and i get along so well..it's amazing actually. she's one of my really good friends here and even lets me talk about disc a lot. she hung out with my team yesterday at dinner and afterwards and had fun so that was good.
i'm off to study for my bio and sociology quizzes today (what fun!) and eat breakfast.
10/4 out the door.
i had my first official college exam today in bib lit. thanks to Heather and Danielle, two girls on my floor in the same class, i did well. they really helped me a lot and i'm so thankful for them. Jesus definitely was a big factor too..i prayed a lot this morning!! ha.
i'm also really thankful that sam and i get along so well..it's amazing actually. she's one of my really good friends here and even lets me talk about disc a lot. she hung out with my team yesterday at dinner and afterwards and had fun so that was good.
i'm off to study for my bio and sociology quizzes today (what fun!) and eat breakfast.
10/4 out the door.
9.20.2004
weekend was good. sam's friend Tyler who wants to date her and her little brother Jon came to visit her so I didn't have a roommate all weekend. she stayed at the inn with them and it was lonely but i got a lot of studying done. and last night, full of randomness, i slept outside.
it was freeeeezing.
but so much fun. i slept in the back of shen with people from the frisbee team and it was completely spontaneous cause i had already been in bed but couldn't sleep so i got on the computer and it all came from there. it was so cold and i had no sleeping bag but i stole samantha's so it was ok. we threw shoes at people's windows and i looked at the stars for a long time. thank you Lord for new friends.
oh yeah my service project was yesterday and we were definitely gone all day moving two semis full of stuff. weird stuff, too, completely random. there were i think 67472883923 things in total. but we got it all done.
mmm lunchtime. i get to eat french fries again today!
i love how i was on a diet from them all week and the day i can eat them again i do. ha.
it was freeeeezing.
but so much fun. i slept in the back of shen with people from the frisbee team and it was completely spontaneous cause i had already been in bed but couldn't sleep so i got on the computer and it all came from there. it was so cold and i had no sleeping bag but i stole samantha's so it was ok. we threw shoes at people's windows and i looked at the stars for a long time. thank you Lord for new friends.
oh yeah my service project was yesterday and we were definitely gone all day moving two semis full of stuff. weird stuff, too, completely random. there were i think 67472883923 things in total. but we got it all done.
mmm lunchtime. i get to eat french fries again today!
i love how i was on a diet from them all week and the day i can eat them again i do. ha.
9.18.2004
sorry i haven't posted. i know it's been really boring for the people who stalk me, but i haven't really felt like it. a lot of stuff has been going on and i really have been too busy. sorry.
school is going well, just lots of studying. too much really. my first official bio lab was thursday and we did easy math stuff, so that was good but no disection yet. and one of the TA's is on my frisbee team so that's cool if i have a problem i can talk to him.
frisbee is awesome and i'm so glad i decided to do it. we had our first scrimmage today which was really fun and we're hosting a tournament next weekend and 9 other schools are coming. the name of our team is the Roaring Sheep (not really sure..working on finding out why) and the name of our tournament is Ewes Huck. it sounds like you suck, so it's funny. here's the site if you wanna check it out. :) http://campus.houghton.edu/orgs/frisbeeclub/
caroline's 18th birthday was yesterday so i got her a book and a card and sang happy birthday with the entire cafeteria at lunch. fun times.
um. the girls on my floor are really cool and i've been trying to spend more time with them one on one getting to know them. it's been good.
i went swimming yesterday with Billy and Chris and went off the high dive and almost cried. haha not really but it was kinda scary once i got up there. i don't think i've gone off it since we lived in Utah when i was like 8.
tomorrow i'm doing a service project in rochester helping a family move from their old house into their new house. it should be fun but we are leaving at 9:45 and the lastest we will get back is 7 they said. that's a long time i hope we get it done fast cause there is like 25 of us going. it shouldn't take that long.
i cleaned my entire room today and changed my sheets and did three loads of laundry. cool beans.
back to studying.
10/4. i miss ashley pelletier.
school is going well, just lots of studying. too much really. my first official bio lab was thursday and we did easy math stuff, so that was good but no disection yet. and one of the TA's is on my frisbee team so that's cool if i have a problem i can talk to him.
frisbee is awesome and i'm so glad i decided to do it. we had our first scrimmage today which was really fun and we're hosting a tournament next weekend and 9 other schools are coming. the name of our team is the Roaring Sheep (not really sure..working on finding out why) and the name of our tournament is Ewes Huck. it sounds like you suck, so it's funny. here's the site if you wanna check it out. :) http://campus.houghton.edu/orgs/frisbeeclub/
caroline's 18th birthday was yesterday so i got her a book and a card and sang happy birthday with the entire cafeteria at lunch. fun times.
um. the girls on my floor are really cool and i've been trying to spend more time with them one on one getting to know them. it's been good.
i went swimming yesterday with Billy and Chris and went off the high dive and almost cried. haha not really but it was kinda scary once i got up there. i don't think i've gone off it since we lived in Utah when i was like 8.
tomorrow i'm doing a service project in rochester helping a family move from their old house into their new house. it should be fun but we are leaving at 9:45 and the lastest we will get back is 7 they said. that's a long time i hope we get it done fast cause there is like 25 of us going. it shouldn't take that long.
i cleaned my entire room today and changed my sheets and did three loads of laundry. cool beans.
back to studying.
10/4. i miss ashley pelletier.
9.12.2004
Things I Am Thinking About:
my very full stomach. i just ate lunch and had pot roast and carrots and potatoes and hawaiian pizza and salad and chocolate cake and ice cream. my belly is quite satisfied.
an upcoming dreaded sociology class. it's dreaded because 1.) i know i have a quiz 2.) i haven't studied for it and 3.) i also have a paper due that i haven't finished. guess what i will be working on today?
i am going jogging later.
i am wearing my new glasses that i almost broke already but didn't. the frames are black on the outside and lime green on the inside.
i talked to carol-anne yesterday. and also olivia and dominick angerosa. they were over at my house eating pizza (the angerosas) so i talked to them and accidentally called dominick olivia because they sound so much alike.
i now have a recipe for candied sweet potatoes without having a cookbook. i can make them here in the pleasure of my own dorm room. thank you dear. i can now have the listening pleasure of 'potatoes' at any time.
i really need to study. however i am avoiding it at all costs.
i talked to anna and jonathan today!!! whoohoo i miss them and jonathan is by far my favorite one. i really want to hug him and make him blush right now.
erik ate a raw clam last night. and he chewed it. that's kinda gross. grosser than gross.
i have 15 mosquito bites on my left arm. just my left arm. my right arm apparently doesn't taste as good.
i wore my grandma's bracelet and my kenyan bracelet to church today. church was good except we were five minutes late but i sat next to someone i know from bib lit.
i should put my contacts in. i took my glasses off and the trees outside are one big blob.
i bought a poster of james dean on friday. it is big and i love it.
i need to write back to the massive amounts of email i've gotten and not responded to. if you've written me an email in the last 5 days never fear, a reply will come shortly.
i think i'm done. this post was randomness but random is best kind of ness. except kindness. and faithfulness. ooo faithfulness. that reminds me of the fruit of the spirit song.
i miss the VBS songs. i think i'll get a copy of the CD so i can listen to them all the time.
i need new earrings. hypoallergenic ones. the ones i just bought are not and now my ears are not happy.
i am going to pierce my nose. i just need to find a place around here. oh wait. there's nothing around here. ha. but still caroline piercing her own ear kind of inspired me to be rebalistic.
ok now i really have to go study because it's been like an hour since i said i was going to and i got way distracted by the ridley family and this post and looking out the window.
maybe i have ADD.
my very full stomach. i just ate lunch and had pot roast and carrots and potatoes and hawaiian pizza and salad and chocolate cake and ice cream. my belly is quite satisfied.
an upcoming dreaded sociology class. it's dreaded because 1.) i know i have a quiz 2.) i haven't studied for it and 3.) i also have a paper due that i haven't finished. guess what i will be working on today?
i am going jogging later.
i am wearing my new glasses that i almost broke already but didn't. the frames are black on the outside and lime green on the inside.
i talked to carol-anne yesterday. and also olivia and dominick angerosa. they were over at my house eating pizza (the angerosas) so i talked to them and accidentally called dominick olivia because they sound so much alike.
i now have a recipe for candied sweet potatoes without having a cookbook. i can make them here in the pleasure of my own dorm room. thank you dear. i can now have the listening pleasure of 'potatoes' at any time.
i really need to study. however i am avoiding it at all costs.
i talked to anna and jonathan today!!! whoohoo i miss them and jonathan is by far my favorite one. i really want to hug him and make him blush right now.
erik ate a raw clam last night. and he chewed it. that's kinda gross. grosser than gross.
i have 15 mosquito bites on my left arm. just my left arm. my right arm apparently doesn't taste as good.
i wore my grandma's bracelet and my kenyan bracelet to church today. church was good except we were five minutes late but i sat next to someone i know from bib lit.
i should put my contacts in. i took my glasses off and the trees outside are one big blob.
i bought a poster of james dean on friday. it is big and i love it.
i need to write back to the massive amounts of email i've gotten and not responded to. if you've written me an email in the last 5 days never fear, a reply will come shortly.
i think i'm done. this post was randomness but random is best kind of ness. except kindness. and faithfulness. ooo faithfulness. that reminds me of the fruit of the spirit song.
i miss the VBS songs. i think i'll get a copy of the CD so i can listen to them all the time.
i need new earrings. hypoallergenic ones. the ones i just bought are not and now my ears are not happy.
i am going to pierce my nose. i just need to find a place around here. oh wait. there's nothing around here. ha. but still caroline piercing her own ear kind of inspired me to be rebalistic.
ok now i really have to go study because it's been like an hour since i said i was going to and i got way distracted by the ridley family and this post and looking out the window.
maybe i have ADD.
9.09.2004
*this post is dedicated to david ridley because he inspired me to update*
ok so. this one has a possibility to be short because i have a bio quiz tomorrow that i am studying for.
the past few days have flown by, complete with class and food and boys.
yes boys. hahahaha.
side note: erik is coming to visit in a couple weeks. :) keep that in mind.
classes have been going really well this week. i had my first horsemanship class tuesday and it looks like it'll be relatively easy and a break from my other classes. i mean, i get to ride during class and the final exam includes naming the parts of the horse. how cool is that.
yesterday was totally cool. i got back my first sociology quiz and i got 8 out of 9 possible points. so that was exciting. after that i met with a really cute ROTC guy (found out later that he has a girlfriend..no worries kids) and we talked about me getting up and doing PT at 6. in the morning. every day. i'm thinking no. it would be fun every once in a while. when i get the urge. ha. after that was...dum dum dum...
my first ultimate frisbee practice!!!!!!!
it was so hardcore. i am not kidding. it was definitely a blast but a lot of work! we ran and stretched and did lots of drills and worked on stacking and defense and offense and i was quite overwhelmed to say the least. everyone was really helpful and encouraged me though. i was one of 3 girls, and 18 guys.
that's where the boys come in. :)
but now i need to find myself cheap soccer cleats (size 8 woman, 6 men if anyone wants to help!) cause i can't wear my softball ones cause they aren't made for cutting. *shrug*
oh. i forgot to mention it was raining yesterday. so we had a 2 hour practice in the pouring rain. yes pouring, not drizzling or any such thing. it was fun but oh so cold. i definitely took a hot shower and ate lots after. and if anyone wants to come we have a tournament on the 25th, and lots of weekends in oct and nov. i'll let you know if you really want to come..you know you do.
today was uneventful, except that it rained all day, i got all the questions right on my first western civ quiz, and i watched the princess bride for the first time. oh and i definitely got a package from my mom with cowboy cookies and my new glasses in it. i love my mommy. i really miss cowboy cookies. and chad meyer and david ridley because everytime i made cowboy cookies they ate them all. :) especially chad for lunch.
like i said, bio quiz tomorrow=time to study.
10/4 good buddy.
ok so. this one has a possibility to be short because i have a bio quiz tomorrow that i am studying for.
the past few days have flown by, complete with class and food and boys.
yes boys. hahahaha.
side note: erik is coming to visit in a couple weeks. :) keep that in mind.
classes have been going really well this week. i had my first horsemanship class tuesday and it looks like it'll be relatively easy and a break from my other classes. i mean, i get to ride during class and the final exam includes naming the parts of the horse. how cool is that.
yesterday was totally cool. i got back my first sociology quiz and i got 8 out of 9 possible points. so that was exciting. after that i met with a really cute ROTC guy (found out later that he has a girlfriend..no worries kids) and we talked about me getting up and doing PT at 6. in the morning. every day. i'm thinking no. it would be fun every once in a while. when i get the urge. ha. after that was...dum dum dum...
my first ultimate frisbee practice!!!!!!!
it was so hardcore. i am not kidding. it was definitely a blast but a lot of work! we ran and stretched and did lots of drills and worked on stacking and defense and offense and i was quite overwhelmed to say the least. everyone was really helpful and encouraged me though. i was one of 3 girls, and 18 guys.
that's where the boys come in. :)
but now i need to find myself cheap soccer cleats (size 8 woman, 6 men if anyone wants to help!) cause i can't wear my softball ones cause they aren't made for cutting. *shrug*
oh. i forgot to mention it was raining yesterday. so we had a 2 hour practice in the pouring rain. yes pouring, not drizzling or any such thing. it was fun but oh so cold. i definitely took a hot shower and ate lots after. and if anyone wants to come we have a tournament on the 25th, and lots of weekends in oct and nov. i'll let you know if you really want to come..you know you do.
today was uneventful, except that it rained all day, i got all the questions right on my first western civ quiz, and i watched the princess bride for the first time. oh and i definitely got a package from my mom with cowboy cookies and my new glasses in it. i love my mommy. i really miss cowboy cookies. and chad meyer and david ridley because everytime i made cowboy cookies they ate them all. :) especially chad for lunch.
like i said, bio quiz tomorrow=time to study.
10/4 good buddy.
9.06.2004
I am having the best day.
So I woke up late and barely made it to class at 8, sat through Bib Lit, and right after class, guess who calls me?
Josh Toth.
I know.
He's been on a Navy sub since June and I've gotten emails from him but he's in port and he called me this morning and we talked for a while and i'm SO EXCITED. he rocks my world.
then i went to biology class and she had a review lecture and it ended early so i got out at 10:30 instead of 10:50. so i had extra time today and that was cool.
chapel was really good this morning. it's Christian Life Emphasis Week and the speaker is from Auburn, MA, and he's a Red Sox fan. yeeeeah. and apparently he was on the price is right and won a Yamaha motercycle, a Dodge Neon, and got to the showcase and won the whole thing including a trip to Bankok and new living room furniture. wow. he is my idol.
i am so hungry right now because yesterday i didn't have breakfast, ate a little for lunch, skipped dinner, and skipped breakfast this morning. i haven't eaten anything in 24 hours. not even like, a hershey's hug.
oh wait. yes i did.
i decided that instead of people giving me hugs, i'll eat them to get my daily allotment. oh yeah. so i ate 4 of those. but that's it since lunch yesterday and i'm STARVING.
freshman 15? not for me.
So I woke up late and barely made it to class at 8, sat through Bib Lit, and right after class, guess who calls me?
Josh Toth.
I know.
He's been on a Navy sub since June and I've gotten emails from him but he's in port and he called me this morning and we talked for a while and i'm SO EXCITED. he rocks my world.
then i went to biology class and she had a review lecture and it ended early so i got out at 10:30 instead of 10:50. so i had extra time today and that was cool.
chapel was really good this morning. it's Christian Life Emphasis Week and the speaker is from Auburn, MA, and he's a Red Sox fan. yeeeeah. and apparently he was on the price is right and won a Yamaha motercycle, a Dodge Neon, and got to the showcase and won the whole thing including a trip to Bankok and new living room furniture. wow. he is my idol.
i am so hungry right now because yesterday i didn't have breakfast, ate a little for lunch, skipped dinner, and skipped breakfast this morning. i haven't eaten anything in 24 hours. not even like, a hershey's hug.
oh wait. yes i did.
i decided that instead of people giving me hugs, i'll eat them to get my daily allotment. oh yeah. so i ate 4 of those. but that's it since lunch yesterday and i'm STARVING.
freshman 15? not for me.
9.05.2004
i'm tired of pretending.
ok. so you want to know how i'm really doing? no? then go away. here are the random things that are going through my head:
i thought erik was going to come visit this weekend, but he decided not to. originally he was supposed to come drop me off last weekend but didn't end up being able to, so was going to come this weekend. why didn't he? because he said "everyone told me to let you get settled and be your own person." what? did you ask me if i wanted you to come? no. wouldn't it have been me you were coming to visit, not everyone else? yes. therefore, try talking to me about it rather than everyone else.
i am tired of being here. my roommate is gorgeous, i love her to death. the girls on my hall are really nice too, and so are most of the random people i've met. i've just had enough. i know you are thinking i've only been here a week, come on, but really..10 days is the longest i've been gone anywhere. and that was only twice in my life, this March in England and to the DR last year. so, i've hit my limit. oh yeah, i'll get past it, i know. i sort of have to. but that still doesn't mean i don't want to come home. maybe not even for very long, just enough to see my family and closest friends and visit with grandad and chris and ride my pony and pick up gilbert and cuddle with him and mend his broken tail and play with kate, the puppy my family is dogsitting, and go to my own church. that's all i really want to do. then maybe i will come back and study..just every two weeks or so go home. i guess that would defeat the purpose of going to school far away. whatever.
people back home went to the lake today. i wanted to be there. in some ways. in other ways i didn't because i knew it would be just like it was when i was home. i would go, people would talk, unedifying subjects would be brought up, uncomfortableness would be felt, and i would go home praying and wondering what happened to the kids i used to hang out with. but i still wanted to be there and see everyone that i miss so much, and maybe get some extra hugs.
i haven't gotten a hug for a week. isn't that sad? i mean, i'm totally bummed just thinking about it. the last hug i got was from my mom last saturday afternoon. maybe that's why i'm not feeling too dandy. i haven't had my allotment of hugs this week. and you know how much hugs are worth to me. at least it hasn't affected me so much that i've started hugging people i walk by. that would be interesting.
ashley pelletier is my way cool friend i can talk to about anything.
we sang My Glorious at church today. love that song.
OH. the other day we had an activities fair and i signed up for 17 things. maybe not that many but a lot and if you really want to know what they are ask me. but one of the things was a traveling ultimate frisbee team. i am not kidding you. we have practices and tournaments and everything with other schools. WOW. my first practice is tomorrow. yeeess. i am way excited about this.
tomorrow is class too, which means it's bedtime.
out.
ok. so you want to know how i'm really doing? no? then go away. here are the random things that are going through my head:
i thought erik was going to come visit this weekend, but he decided not to. originally he was supposed to come drop me off last weekend but didn't end up being able to, so was going to come this weekend. why didn't he? because he said "everyone told me to let you get settled and be your own person." what? did you ask me if i wanted you to come? no. wouldn't it have been me you were coming to visit, not everyone else? yes. therefore, try talking to me about it rather than everyone else.
i am tired of being here. my roommate is gorgeous, i love her to death. the girls on my hall are really nice too, and so are most of the random people i've met. i've just had enough. i know you are thinking i've only been here a week, come on, but really..10 days is the longest i've been gone anywhere. and that was only twice in my life, this March in England and to the DR last year. so, i've hit my limit. oh yeah, i'll get past it, i know. i sort of have to. but that still doesn't mean i don't want to come home. maybe not even for very long, just enough to see my family and closest friends and visit with grandad and chris and ride my pony and pick up gilbert and cuddle with him and mend his broken tail and play with kate, the puppy my family is dogsitting, and go to my own church. that's all i really want to do. then maybe i will come back and study..just every two weeks or so go home. i guess that would defeat the purpose of going to school far away. whatever.
people back home went to the lake today. i wanted to be there. in some ways. in other ways i didn't because i knew it would be just like it was when i was home. i would go, people would talk, unedifying subjects would be brought up, uncomfortableness would be felt, and i would go home praying and wondering what happened to the kids i used to hang out with. but i still wanted to be there and see everyone that i miss so much, and maybe get some extra hugs.
i haven't gotten a hug for a week. isn't that sad? i mean, i'm totally bummed just thinking about it. the last hug i got was from my mom last saturday afternoon. maybe that's why i'm not feeling too dandy. i haven't had my allotment of hugs this week. and you know how much hugs are worth to me. at least it hasn't affected me so much that i've started hugging people i walk by. that would be interesting.
ashley pelletier is my way cool friend i can talk to about anything.
we sang My Glorious at church today. love that song.
OH. the other day we had an activities fair and i signed up for 17 things. maybe not that many but a lot and if you really want to know what they are ask me. but one of the things was a traveling ultimate frisbee team. i am not kidding you. we have practices and tournaments and everything with other schools. WOW. my first practice is tomorrow. yeeess. i am way excited about this.
tomorrow is class too, which means it's bedtime.
out.
9.02.2004
i'm beginning to wonder if people from home have forgotten me already. i know it's easy to let it slip when your own life is busy, but i mean it's only been a week. the first night i must have gotten at least 10 calls, then the next night it was 5, then a couple each night.
tonight?
none.
i feel oh so very lonely at this moment.
i know i shouldn't complain. i haven't always been that good at keeping in touch with people. i'm sure as heck going to try though. a couple of people from my church already sent me mail, which is totally amazing and wonderful because i didn't send out my addy till today and that means they had to ask my parents. i love my church.
i'm trying to figure out what to do for october break. if anyone wants to help let me know. it's the 14-17.
tomorrow is an 8 am class, and it's almost 11 now. that means i should be in bed.
10/4
tonight?
none.
i feel oh so very lonely at this moment.
i know i shouldn't complain. i haven't always been that good at keeping in touch with people. i'm sure as heck going to try though. a couple of people from my church already sent me mail, which is totally amazing and wonderful because i didn't send out my addy till today and that means they had to ask my parents. i love my church.
i'm trying to figure out what to do for october break. if anyone wants to help let me know. it's the 14-17.
tomorrow is an 8 am class, and it's almost 11 now. that means i should be in bed.
10/4
9.01.2004
So yesterday was the worst day of my life.
Today was better.
Classes started yesteday. I had Biblical Literature at 8, General Biology at 10, chapel at 11, Lifetime Wellness at 2:15, and Principles of Sociology at 3:15. Not so bad, right? So I thought.
Bib lit was fine..the prof is a really nice 70-something man who kinda reminds me of Mr. Rogers. He gave us the syllabus and everything and explained the format of class, then gave us a brief lecture. I don't have any papers to write for his class, which is an automatic 10 points for him.
Next came bio. Oh dear. oh dear. my prof is a young woman who for some reason talks reallyreallyreally fast and likes to use her power point just as fast. She gave us the syllabus (not too bad either..book report on a Lee Strobel book Case for a Creator and a formal lab report on one of our major labs) and then she proceeded to give us a quiz. I am not kidding you. I was horrified.
side note: lunch just started and i can smell french fries through my open window. i am not so patiently waiting for Sam to get back from her class to go to lunch with her.
anyway, so she gave us a quiz and then a 20 min lecture assuming we already remembered 72 different things about biology from 3 years ago in high school. wow. so i came out of that class ready to cry and go home. however..
Next came Lifetime Wellness. God has blessed me by giving me this class. First off my prof is really really hot. Oh yes. I said that. He's fresh out of college and a personal trainer for the school, so you can guess what he looks like. Basically LW is an course on how to keep/get your body healthy by eating right and exercising. There are labs each week that seem really fun, like endurance tests and stuff. AND one of the labs is using the climbing wall, so I get to prepare myself for going to England and scaling rocky cliffs with David William. Not really. Yet. So I'm excited about this class cause basically it fits my lifestyle.
Then came sociology. wow. hardcore. the prof is fascinating (seriously) but the concepts are really foreign to me. it's going to be a lot of work and stretching of my brain (probably painfully) but i'll be really excited when i finally get it. AND if you are an active participant in his class and get at least a B on the midterm you can elect to skip the final or take it on a no-fault basis. if you get a high score and it brings your grade up, great, but if you get low and it will bring it down it will be ignored. OH YEAH. active partipation here I come.
after class i proceeded to do homework (60 pages in biology!!!) and listen to Shenanawa serenade East. Shen is one of the guys dorms and East is my dorm. Around 10:30 about 250 guys lined up outside the dorm and started singing "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys, and "Aint No Mountain High Enough". amazing. sam and I were in hysterics. all the girls were screaming and yelling and stuff. tomorrow night our dorm is invited to their dorm for a bonfire and making s'mores and stuff. should be cool. so that was definitely the highlight of my day.
Bio was better today..she slowed down a lot when the entire class responded with a vigorous "yes!" after she asked if she was too fast. so that was nice and i felt a lot more prepared after reading so much. i didn't get all 60 pages done but that's ok cause i found out they're not really due until friday. yay for me. I read about 35 and passed out. so i have 2 days to read the rest.
anyway. so i was homesick yesterday but ashley called me and i got to talk to one person from home. and my mom called and she sent me two packages so that's exciting. I love her.
lunchtime!
Today was better.
Classes started yesteday. I had Biblical Literature at 8, General Biology at 10, chapel at 11, Lifetime Wellness at 2:15, and Principles of Sociology at 3:15. Not so bad, right? So I thought.
Bib lit was fine..the prof is a really nice 70-something man who kinda reminds me of Mr. Rogers. He gave us the syllabus and everything and explained the format of class, then gave us a brief lecture. I don't have any papers to write for his class, which is an automatic 10 points for him.
Next came bio. Oh dear. oh dear. my prof is a young woman who for some reason talks reallyreallyreally fast and likes to use her power point just as fast. She gave us the syllabus (not too bad either..book report on a Lee Strobel book Case for a Creator and a formal lab report on one of our major labs) and then she proceeded to give us a quiz. I am not kidding you. I was horrified.
side note: lunch just started and i can smell french fries through my open window. i am not so patiently waiting for Sam to get back from her class to go to lunch with her.
anyway, so she gave us a quiz and then a 20 min lecture assuming we already remembered 72 different things about biology from 3 years ago in high school. wow. so i came out of that class ready to cry and go home. however..
Next came Lifetime Wellness. God has blessed me by giving me this class. First off my prof is really really hot. Oh yes. I said that. He's fresh out of college and a personal trainer for the school, so you can guess what he looks like. Basically LW is an course on how to keep/get your body healthy by eating right and exercising. There are labs each week that seem really fun, like endurance tests and stuff. AND one of the labs is using the climbing wall, so I get to prepare myself for going to England and scaling rocky cliffs with David William. Not really. Yet. So I'm excited about this class cause basically it fits my lifestyle.
Then came sociology. wow. hardcore. the prof is fascinating (seriously) but the concepts are really foreign to me. it's going to be a lot of work and stretching of my brain (probably painfully) but i'll be really excited when i finally get it. AND if you are an active participant in his class and get at least a B on the midterm you can elect to skip the final or take it on a no-fault basis. if you get a high score and it brings your grade up, great, but if you get low and it will bring it down it will be ignored. OH YEAH. active partipation here I come.
after class i proceeded to do homework (60 pages in biology!!!) and listen to Shenanawa serenade East. Shen is one of the guys dorms and East is my dorm. Around 10:30 about 250 guys lined up outside the dorm and started singing "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys, and "Aint No Mountain High Enough". amazing. sam and I were in hysterics. all the girls were screaming and yelling and stuff. tomorrow night our dorm is invited to their dorm for a bonfire and making s'mores and stuff. should be cool. so that was definitely the highlight of my day.
Bio was better today..she slowed down a lot when the entire class responded with a vigorous "yes!" after she asked if she was too fast. so that was nice and i felt a lot more prepared after reading so much. i didn't get all 60 pages done but that's ok cause i found out they're not really due until friday. yay for me. I read about 35 and passed out. so i have 2 days to read the rest.
anyway. so i was homesick yesterday but ashley called me and i got to talk to one person from home. and my mom called and she sent me two packages so that's exciting. I love her.
lunchtime!
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