i must do hebrew homework tonight. last night i slept instead. this is not good.
i want to socialize and talk and play and whatever, but i will be hanging out in my room tonight. woohoo!
HOWEVER: there will be children of my classmates and teachers coming through for trick or treating, which will be so fun! :-)

anyway, i realize that I've been rather boring lately, and i apologize. the grass is growing back (though there is still the River Kwai that runs across the quad because of the incessant sprinklers and the big rainstorms...), i haven't heard anything out-of-the-ordinary come from the president, and nothing exciting is happening here right now, just hebrew, papers, class, etc. I do have some things to say about the recent actions by groups within the Presbyterian Church, but I am holding out until I experience some of the conversation and atmosphere of some of the competing groups first hand. so...more on that later.

I am going home to church next week! A conference Thursday through Saturday, mushrooms at Duke and dancing at Roscoes on Saturday night, church on sunday morning! woohoo! :-) I'm sure I'll have things to say after that. but that is still 6 days away. in the meantime, i have to read Ezekiel, and go discover what nightmares are in store for dinner tonight. ta.

the sun has come back!
after the thunderstorms of the early part of the week, the glorious sunshine has returned. yay! I love sun.
Now, don't get me wrong. I don't mean that it's necessarily warm outside. I only mean that it is sunny. At least that gives the illusion of warm! I would rather it be cool and sunny than warm and cloudy, frankly. After all, part of the reason I moved down here, to the South (said with a slightly haughty southern drawl...) is the weather, which HAS, by default, to be better than Chicago. Not that I don't love it "up north", but really--the weather was a little ridiculous.

anyway, I'm still working on being open minded about "praise" music and whatnot. So far I think I'm doing well. I'm sort of easing into it with some music about God, much of which reminds me of pop music but some of which i can see in a worship/prayer context. We'll see how long this whole open-minded thing lasts. I hope a while; after all you do deal with all kinds of people and the different ways people worship and pray in the church at large! I find myself actually liking some of this. Having said that, I still love contemporary hymnody from the world church, and sometimes i even love the traditional hymns.

anyway, i'm supposed to be working on a paper here--and i have hebrew in 20 minutes, probably with a quiz. Maybe I'll abandon the paper temporarily and memorize some vocab. yes....

ta

writing. lots of it. 8-10 pages on an important "post-biblical historical event that influenced the theology, understanding, and practice of baptism." i'll see y'all later.

back to school.
after a week "off" i don't want to go back to class...but i did anyway. I've even done the homework! I went to Reformed Theology today all psyched about the Westminster Confession, and left class tired. lol.
i have some hebrew work to get done now--we are just proofing our project. yay!

OH:
Chris is not feeling well, and hasn't been for some time now, so prayers and happy thoughts for him are appreciated. :-)

the hebrew project is done! woohoo!

i am trying to read Jeremiah, but i keep daydreaming. or is it evening dreaming by this time? whatever, i'm doing that instead of reading. oy.

this is slightly weird, but i just want to go home and go to church.
is that so wrong, to miss your home church, as a seminary student?
I've visited only a couple of churches here, but so far, not so much. I cannot wait until two weeks from today, when i will be back at The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. yay!

I did not take a nap today. aren't you proud of me?
granted, i slept until about 10am, but still.
i cleaned my apartment a little--i even vaccuumed!
i did homework.
i watched a movie.
i wrote letters.
i am remembering right now to change my clocks! fall back, everyone...

yeah. i'm going to read a book now, and go to bed. maybe i'll even go to church tomorrow! three weeks in a row would be a record for me so far this school year.....
yes, i shall go to church. :-) as long as my clocks get changed...
ta

In answer to those of you complaining about the choices of water in the poll:

too bad.
I am not changing it again, because that resets all the votes, etc, and it generally a hassle. And besides, I can only list up to ten choices, so I can't possibly satisfy everyone. I only added Dasani because I live in Coke-land and don't want to alienate others in the coke monopoly situation. so there. just vote for one, would you? thanks....

and if you want a new poll, give me some ideas! I have to come up with them all on my own, and sometimes that can be hard. hence the reason polls run for such a long time.

btw: the poll about being sick: most of you preferred "throwing up". "ralphing" and "hurling" got no votes, the rest got a few. The second most popular was, I believe, "tossing my cookies". hehehe! that's just gross.
anyway....work. yes, much work to be done.

go drink some water. ;-)

I love sleeping. I may be doing a lot of that today. But maybe not, given that the entire reason I am home right now and not in Washington DC protesting war is the sheer amount of work to be done....

I love sleep. :-)

I am so good. My birthday was a mere four days ago, and already I have written my thank-you cards. Normally, within four months is an acceptable time frame for me. This is a new record, I think. I am so impressed with myself.
I felt that I needed to share that with you. :-) Thank you in advance for your congratulations.

Ok, so last night at Backstreet. It was a pretty good time! We got there around 12:30am, and it was almost totally dead. We took in the cabaret show for a while, and though the dance floor was still deserted at 2am, we (six of us) went down and danced our hearts out. It started to pick up around 3 or 3:30...we left just after 3:30 because a couple of people were tired. We had SO MUCH FUN. hehehe! I love dancing.
I went to bed at 5am. I wanted to get up for breakfast but couldn't bring myself to do that. I've taken mid-day naps longer than that sleep time. So I slept until 9am, and managed to be early! for the 10am staff meeting. After lunch I did Hebrew. lots of hebrew. at starbucks. woohoo! I love starbucks.
after hebrew i hung out with chris, which was good fun. :-) i took a nap too. this was a Very Good thing. :-) I like naps. heheheheh!

anyway, yes. today was a good day. :-)
There are lots of smileys in this post. I kind of wish blogger turned them into right-side-up smileys, but it doesn't.
i have lots of letters to write now. I decided not to go to the war protest in DC this weekend, much as i feel that it is important to protest war, because i didn't get any homework done all week, and i have thank yous and general correspondance that is SO BEHIND that needs to get done before school gets back into full swing. And I wasn't feeling as well as I would hope for a protest--so i will be watching the news, looking for my classmates. NO WAR!!

today was a good day. :-)

well, the Reformed theology exam is over. it wasn't as bad as i expected.
AND: I got my Old Testament midterm back! And I got an A! Walter Brueggemann wrote "excellent!" on the top of my paper. This is very exciting, because he gave me a B on my first paper for him. I feel happy...woohoo!

anyway. i'm going to help Miranda clean now. Ta.

ok, so after a complaint, i've added another brand of water to the poll. ;-)

So far so good on the birthday week. We've been continuing the celebrations--i went to dinner tonight with some girlfriends, and we had a nice time. Tomorrow night is dancing!! woohoo!

In the meantime, i have an exam in 10.5 hours. I have to go now. ta.


PS:: for chris only: thanks for the note advice. you rock!

heheheheeh!!!! This is very funny. I highly recommend it.

So anyway, my birthday was great. Thanks to all of you who made it so!
I did my midterm paper in the morning. In the afternoon, I went to Borders and read a book, which was very good. I also purchased said book (The Piano Tuner) and two CDs. And the new Cosmo.
Then we went to Costco, where I was able to buy water, cereal, mac-n-cheese...and MJ bought me a birthday cake! woohoo! I knocked on all the nearby doors and everyone came over and we ate cake, which was very exciting.
In the night we had a little slumber party--Amy and Katie stayed over, we got John to come over and Tyesha came too, and we made fun drinks and laughed and listened to music and had a fun time. We were quite loud, which isn't so good because Miranda had to sleep (although we thought she was gone--all her lights were off so early, we thought she had gone out, but she was sleeping. I'm sorry!!) so she could work this morning, but we had a lot of fun!
Today i have done essentially nothing. I copied Sarah's notes from the Reformed Theology class up to the midterm from last year...I took a nap, I read some more of my book. Now i'm here alone at last (everyone is gone) and I'm still not doing anything. I'm not going to dinner tonight because it's gross...I need to wash my dishes....I need to study for ReThe...I need to work on Hebrew...oy. yes. and there is Taize tonight at 7:30pm. yay.
i'm going now. ta.

Today is my birthday. In some temporal sense, my actual birthday begins in about 20 minutes...i was born at 5am PDT. that is 8am here--which it almost is. very exciting!

btw: i am 22. many thanks for votes of 126. :-)

i found the lid! it appeared randomly on the floor of my bathroom, near the sink. YAY!!

you can send me a card. or this kind of card.

tomorrow is my birthday.