Life of Pride
As I begin my second week of junior year, I find myself with a few minutes to reflect. My brain, which had begun to slow down over the summer, has woken up, and is humming busily over a number of topics. I feel like it is time to settle some of them.
God is good. I still don't know exactly what He wants me to do with myself after I earn my history degree at PHC, but at least I can tell I will enjoy myself in the process of earning it. History needs more work than just about any other major at this college, but I will learn a lot. The process is worth it.
Also, sermons and chapel messages lately have all been telling me - it is more than "OK" to be passionate about what God wants me to do. It is
right and
proper and
needful. Pastor used Romans 12:11, in which we are told to be "not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord." God is the one Person for whom passion is always appropriate. :)
I'm at school, and I've just finished the first study day of my junior year. I have three difficult history classes MWF, and my three miscellanea on TuTh. Thus, I must do more than 100 pages of reading before Wed. Fairly possible, I assume. So far, it seems all right. Of course, some weeks later on just one of the courses assigns 200 pages of reading in one week. Another one of the courses assigns a 4500-5000 word paper, my first longish research assignment. Upperclassman work, here I come! :)
Setting off for college right now...
Yesterday, I was lying on our living-room couch perusing Reader's Digest, when I happened to glance across at my two youngest sisters, ages 10 and 12. They sat so seriously on the opposite couch, drawing their art entries for their pageant that starts on Saturday, that I felt the sudden urge to lie down on the carpet, roll back and forth, and laugh hysterically while kicking my feet in the air, in order to make them smile. So I did. They reacted most satisfactorily. The 10-yr-old joined me on the floor, and the 12-yr-old laughed at us both.
Then we sung, "If You're Happy and You Know It," but we substituted our own words. The lyrics became, "If you're happy and you know it..."
...clap your knees.
...slap your head.
...snap your toes.
...lick your nose.
...do the Twist.
Afterwards, we rolled on the floor and kicked our feet some more, until our stomachs started to hurt too much.
The moral of the story is, if you feel the urge to do something completely silly every once in a while, just do it. Life's too short not to spend a good portion of it laughing. :) :D :D
What time is it? Why am I still awake when I want to go to sleep? What's up with this?
My family is watching a Star Trek movie :-P about whales that can talk to space probes, and since I sleep in the living room during the summer, this means that I can't rest. So I'm up posting in my blog.
Today's been interesting. I'm going to be Naomi's bridesmaid next summer when she and my older bro get married, so she and I went looking at bridesmaid dresses today for five hours. I tried on what must be a
gajillion dresses, and my bro took pictures of the best ones in order to coordinate a style with Naomi's younger sister from across the country. It was a lot of fun. I love formal gowns. By the time we'd finished, however, I was exhausted.
Then we came home, and I spent quite a few hours digging up an old color printer from the corner of our home office, unearthing a USB printer cable from the recesses of the storage cabinet, downloading and installing a driver, trying to make the thing clean its print heads, and at last printing some of the pictures we took for Naomi. Then I printed some long-overdue pictures for myself, checked my email, and here I am. I want to go to sleep.
Meanwhile, I'm going to go play my tinwhistle.
I'm back from the road trip to OH, which was beautiful, and already it feels unreal, like it was a month ago instead of yesterday that I spent 8+ hours driving. The weather today is glorious, and since our air conditioner decided to stop working anyway, I have determined to spend as much of this day outdoors with the sibs as possible. Only hitch: as usual before we put our foot outside the house, we have to pick up and clean. Bother it.
If we ever get out of here, I'm going to the park to throw a Frisbee around, and then I'm going swimming in the neighborhood pool. My tan's all fading, and I need to do something about that before school starts again. I can't come back from summer looking like a recently-released convict!
I also need to go to the library later. I'm paying fines on books I haven't read yet. I was planning to read them today, but we'll see how that goes with the lovely weather and all. I may just turn them in unread. I have their bibliographic information if I want to take them out again in the future.
A lot's been happening in my mental life - too much to even start putting down right now. If I have more time later, I may delve into some of that.
You wouldn't believe my life these past few weeks! If I hadn't been there, I wouldn't believe it either. Get this: last weekend I drove to KY with my older brother and his fiancée, Naomi, for "BreyerFest," a model-horse convention. I personally have very little interest in model horses, but Naomi loves 'em. So she dragged us around to places with zest at unholy hours. I had a ton of fun, but the experience was exhausting. We drove back Sunday and I barely finished resting up by now (Tuesday). Now my sisters and I are heading out again at 5am tomorrow morning to OH to visit
Hocking College. One sister might like to study massage therapy there, and they also have a very interesting two-year archaeology program I may or may not do after I finish at my current college and before I apply to graduate school. The other sister is tagging along for the ride.
We figured out that we had to drive up to Hocking this week, because
next weekend my two littlest sisters are competing in a Miss Something-Or-Other (I forget what) pageant. They're all excited about that, of course, and there's no way I'm missing it.
Then, week after that, I'm off to school for my junior year on yet another road trip. :-P This is all quite exciting. Still, I haven't been able to talk much to my friends. :(
