This only takes about 5 seconds. Go do it. Right now. Go.
They’ll fund up to 20 masons (1 per 100,000 visitors), so that means we have until July 1st to get 20,000,000 people to visit this Web site.
Burkina Faso has been on my heart lately because they have the lowest literacy rate in the world, and as a future teacher and as someone who just loves to read, it makes me so sad.
So let’s do some good.
I am totally blown away by the fact that it is February already. I can tell you one thing–God has been really faithful to get my through January not only in one piece, but feeling really good about the coming months. February 1 officially marks one month since The Biggest Change of My Life, but it feels much longer than that. Some days are rough, but God’s being really faithful to me lately and teaching how to trust Him with every detail of my life. I’m going on a missions trip to the University of the West Indies over spring break, which I am very excited (and very nervous) about. Today I take my first exam of the semester and turn in my first paper, but that’s kinda crazy because I can’t even remember this semester’s class schedule on a day-to-day basis.
At any rate. I decided that this year, I’m going to make a playlist for each month. For a long time now, I’ve been waking up every morning with a different song stuck in my head. I don’t know if I dream about them or what, but they’re not even always things I’ve been listening to recently. That has since died down quite a bit and probably only happens once or twice a week. At one point I had decided it would be fun to keep track of which song was stuck in my head for every day of the month and make a mix of them all at the end. I never got around to doing that, but I decided that this year I’ll make monthly mixes. They’ll be composed of songs stuck in my head, songs that are resonating with me for one reason or another, songs that are applicable, songs I hear randomly, etc. etc. For January, I have 22 songs. Some days had more than one, others none, but 22 total.
January:
I’m stealing this from Texas In Africa. You should check out her blog–lots of interesting links and tons of quality information.
Seven Facts About Me
1. Places. I spent a week in July on an Alaskan cruise to Juneau, Sitka and Skagway. I’d love to spend a summer living there, giving some kind of tour, enjoying the rain and cold. It’s my favorite kind of weather, and it was the most spectacular place I’ve ever seen.
2. Some favorites. Color: shades of blue, Book: Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, Flower: Tulips, Poet: E.E. Cummings, Sports team: tie! The Atlanta Braves and (of course) The Florida Gators, Bible verse: “If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”
3. Music. Right now, I’m madly in love with Iron and Wine’s “The Shepherd’s Dog”. Such an amazing album. I loved “Our Endless Numbered Days,” but I usually had to be in the right mood for it. I am ALWAYS in the mood for this more recent album.
4. The Near Future. I have pretty severe scoliosis, and so I’ll be spending a good chunk of this summer recovering from spinal fusion surgery, in which they’ll use a bunch of rods and screws to straighten out my spine. I’m scared.
5. The (not-so) Far Future. Right now, my best friend the Blue Jay goes to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. My OTHER best friend the Seminole will be finishing her undergrad stuff at FSU (I know, I know…I forgive her, you can too) next spring and plans to go to grad school in either Baltimore or D.C. I want to do Teach for America, and D.C. is one of the cities I was thinking about…so we’re sort of vaguely planning to all live together in D.C. within the next few years.
6. Obsession. Books. Books. Books. I love to write and read. I can’t really explain the feeling I get when I’m holding a book, journal, or stack of paper in my hands, but it’s really satisfying and comforting. I own more books than I know what to do with, at the moment. I’m slowly but surely working my way through them. Right now I’m reading Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis. I just started it to today…I’ll let you know how it goes.
7. Freakish Fact. I used to have braces and my teeth were nice and straight, but over the past year or so my teeth must have been doing some strange things, because I’ve recently discovered that I can’t bite properly anymore. I can’t touch my top and bottom teeth in the front together. This makes biting into a sandwich very tricky, trust me.
The end. Someone else’s turn!
Merry Christmas!!
On the 26th I’m off to New York for a few days, so I’ll be back after that!
First of all, I realized that I left Feist’s “The Reminder” off of my Favorite Music of 2007 List. That was a huge, gigantic mistake! haha
But that’s not really why I’m posting.
Today is my cousin Nicole’s 21st birthday, and she’s making me (the younger cousin, no less haha) feel old! I remember the day she got her driver’s license. I thought she was so cool and thought I was real cool sitting shotgun as we drove around playing New Found Glory (oh my). We stood at the Hess station near her neighborhood and couldn’t figure out how to pump gas…we were forgetting to flip up that lever thing haha.
I remember being in elementary school and spending weekends at Nicole’s house. We would lounge around by the pool with cucumber slices over our eyes, and I used to reluctantly let her curl my hair when really, that was way too fancy for me.
Today, she’s’ a 21 year-old hair-dresser. Funny how that works.
Well, it’s official.
Today was the last day of class this semester.
Good riddance, that’s what I say.
Since Sunday, I’ve spent more time at Library West than I have in my own apartment. The extended hours and I have been good friends this past week, but I am not sad to say good-bye.
Until May, 4:00am. Until May.
This semester has been a crazy one for me–a roller coaster ride, definitely. There have been very high highs and I feel like I’ve really grown a lot (I’ll write more on that over vacation, hopefully), but there have also been extreme lows including relationships issues and health scares for two of my best friends (who, thank God, are both fine now). Besides that, I never anticipated being so busy this semester. Every day, I runrunrun and have barely had any time to even process what has been going on.
I have one more exam on Monday, a presentation on Tuesday and then I am DONE and could not more be excited for a vacation. I’m really looking forward to spending time with Josh, my family, friends who will be in town AND!!! I get to go to New York at Christmas time which will be amazing. I’m also really looking forward to sleeping, reading and processing the craziness that has been this semester.
That all being said, right now I’m off to work on my scrapbook and watch Ricky get Auf’d from Project Runway. Last week’s episode was fun because I LOVE the Barber twins, although being from Tampa, of course Ronde is my favorite.
So, now that this crazy semester is over I’m going to try to update this more. Then maybe I’ll start telling people about it haha. We’ll see.
Today it rained, rained, rained all day, and the air was cool. It was refreshing and wonderful, and I’m terrified that next week I will wake up and summer will have returned.
Today in kindergarten, Jing Sun came running back from the swing and said, “Oh! My heart is beating!” It seemed so simple and sweet and lovely, and I wanted to give her a great big hug.
I am neglecting all sorts of things lately: phone calls to my mom, journals, scrapbooks, keeping in touch with friends, cleaning my room, The Office on DVD. I sort of expected this semester to be a lazy one, but I’ve never been so busy! Everyday I wake up early, and spend all day running, running back and forth and around. But I feel like everything is worth it* and everything is helping me grow.
As soon as my knees are all healed up (I took a spill playing capture the flag…I’m all bruised and pretty soon I’ll have big scars), I’m going to start running. Not the crazy five miles a day Kristina does, but just a little. Tiny bits.
Also, I think if I hear the word “tazer” one more time, I might go insane. GET OVER IT.
*Statement retracted. Math for Liberal Arts Majors is NOT worth it.
