Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Service announcement: I AM GOING HOME TODAY!!!!!!!!

Well now that that's out of the way...out of the way? What am I talking about? That's not out of the way, that's super exciting. But in other news, my 21 page, 10+ hour paper is finally done. I have two more classes today (two were cancelled...yeah baby), some packing to do, then it's off to the airport for me. And that's all I can really think about now, so that's all I'm writing. Have a nice Tuesday (or Wed if you're in Oz).

Thursday, November 20, 2003

In an attempt to keep this somewhat updated and relevant I figured I should write since I have the time. It's Thursday night, which means I'm done with classes for the week. Two words: Praise God. This week seemed extremely long, and was very full. I leave for home on Tuesday and I can hardly contain my excitement.

Here's a small recap of my past week: Friday my roommates and I went down to Irvine for the Jars of Clay/Caedmon's Call concert and had a ton of fun. The music was great, but by far the best part was the time I got to spend with them. I was bummed though, because CC didn't play a single song off Long Line of Leavers, which is my favorite CD. Ah well. Saturday evening I went to my roommate's house about an hour from here. We hung out that night and went to church Sunday morning. That night the two of us met up with Mel at LAX and had some good times in Westwood. It was really trippy to have these random couple of hours to spend with her. Not only that, but we were in the middle of LA. Great, but weird. The rest of the week has really been a blur. A lot of classes...who really cares about that? I certainly haven't lately. I've been late to so many classes lately, it's been pretty bad.

In an attempt to get a lot of work done and a lot of sleep in I'm leaving for San Diego again tomorrow. I realized today that I need to spend the weekend somewhere where I can go to bed at 10. It will be glorious. I called up my cousin and ran that by her, and she said it was perfect because she actually needs a babysitter for Friday night. So I'll be at her place and will basically be paid to do nothing, because her kids will be asleep. I always feel so relaxed while I'm down there, so I can't wait to just leave tomorrow. Things have felt too overwhelming here lately.

Did I mention that I'm going home in less than a week? Sooooooooooo excited. Some more exciting news - things with my plans to study in Australia are progressing nicely. I met with my dean and asked him some questions, and he was extremely supportive of me and told me to keep him updated. That prospect is getting more and more exciting every day as more and more steps are completed. I still have quite a ways to go, but a lot of major steps have already been taken.

Friday, November 14, 2003

Well, in the words of my good friend Melanie, it is time for me to update. So update I shall. It's obviously been a couple weeks since my birthday, and I've gotten over the initial shock of leaving teenagedom and embracing the 20s. Overall I had a really fun birthday, and a great weekend hanging out with my family in San Diego (none of whose houses burned down by the way, but it was dang close for all three of them).

It's been a really full couple of weeks, and honestly there's no way I can even hit the tip of the iceberg. I would like to say though that God is so good and I've so seen Him meet me here and am so grateful for the things He's doing in my heart. It's been heavy, but it has given me renewed focus and perspective which I wouldn't trade for anything right now.

To put it all into a nutshell, pretty much everyone around me right now (I think with the exception of one of my roommates) is encountering a heck of a lot of hard stuff. And while there's nothing happening to me directly, it's still really draining and hard to watch the people around you encounter such difficulty and try to support them. I'm not sick of it in the sense that I want to give up or tell them "who cares," it's just giving me some wear and tear as well. It's hard to watch people during such hard times, and it's hard to remember that I can't fix everything. But I know that God is working so heavily on people's hearts right now and refining them and healing wounds in their hearts and making them more complete in Him. To see that at work has been amazing, it's just taken a lot out of me.

On a much more superficial note, all of my roommates and I are going to the Jars of Clay/Caedmon's Call concert tonight and I'm super stoked about it. The past couple weeks I've hung out with my roommates a lot more again (more how it was at the beginning of the year) and I have a renewed thankfulness for all of them. I live with three amazing, beautiful girls and I'm blessed by them every day. Not to mention we have way too much fun together and can laugh for hours about the stupidest things in the world.

Well I guess that's enough for now. Hopefully I'll be a little bit better about updating this. But then again, things are starting to get really insane with school. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.