Okay, so it is basically a miracle that I am sitting here writing this entry today. Yes, I Dori Gregory, sad to say, fell asleep at the wheel yesterday. It is probably the most scariest thing I have ever done and I cannot believe that it happened to me...and happened so quickly. I am also amazed that nothing bad at all happened to me. Okay well here's the story. I had stayed up to late the night before and had been really on the go until I got in my car to drive back to Starkville. I was on cruise driving down the interstate. There was nothing to look at but road and sky. I could tell I was getting sleepy so I kept trying all my tricks. My music was kinda slow so i skipped to a more fast and upbeat song. Then I tried slapping my face. Well I don't know what happened but somehow I found myself driving on that gravely part on the left side of the lane. This brought me back to awareness but unfortuantly I scared myself so badly I overcorrected and slammed on the brake at the same time. I lost all control of the car and somehow I was able to finally stop. Unfortunatly I stopped in the wrong direction. I had been spun around facing the wrong direction and was blocking the on ramp for the exit. Let's just say it is a complete miracle that noone was in the right lane or I would have slammed into them for sure. I was so freaked out after this all happened. I cried almost the whole way back. I am still kind of shaken up about it. I have never been that stupid or that close to death. I have learned my lesson though. Hopefully I will never do that to myself ever again.

On a happier note, my classes are going well and i am really pumped about my photography class. I am learning so much in there, although it is probably the hardest art class I have taken here...and the most expensive too! Well I better get off this computer (I'm in the lab and finding an open spot is really hard...i feel so bad for these ppl!) peace!

Currently Listening Good News For People Who Love Bad News By Modest Mouse see related

So, hmmm I again forgot about this Xanga thang. I suck! well not much has changed since my last entry. I have discovered some music like Modest Mouse and Eisley and some other random bands. Thanks Erin! They really are cool. I am so ADD I just get so bored easily w/ all my music, thats why I love my IPOD so much. You can just mix it up. Well I think I have made my decision about the minsitry question thang...i don't really think this is the time for me. Maybe in the future but I think it has been made clear that I should just focus on my studies because my grades are not looking that great currently.

Last night I went and saw the midnight showing of Harry Potter! It was soooo great. Much better than the last movie. This movie didn't follow the book entirely but it would be very difficult to do that considering this book was like 700 pages. The last movie just did not do it for me...it was just too dark and too much of a transition from the 1st and 2nd movies. This movie was a lot different and more suspenseful I thought. He who must not be named (Voldemort...shuddder) was great although I kind of wish he was a little more scary though. Oh and if you want to talk suspense, let me tell you that dragon chase scene...whoa I was on the edge of my seat...whoah (dripping sarcasm). That scene really went to long i thought. Oh, and what with Dobby not being there and the Rita Skeeter story was so small. Oh, and did those kids ever go to class? Some things that I thought were so impt. were left out, but overall they did a very good job creating a 2 3/4 hr movie out of a 700 pg book. So that's my review....aren't ya'll happy. Oh, and can you believe these ppl who go to movies that fall asleep...My friend Danielle kept drifting off. so sad. I had to keep poking her. And it's so neat when you can meet new people in random situations. Like I went to this party before the movie at some random guys' apt. and we went to the same elem. school. He remember me but I didn't really remember him. That was sooo long ago. I feel so old...Oh, and then I sat next to this really cool dude at the movie theater. People who love Harry Potter are just cool. We had a lot to talk about. that's always good....and talking about random people let me tell this story:

I went to the chapell the other day to pray and get some things off my chest and I went in there expecting no one to be there (because usually that is the case). I walked in and it was like I stepped into some really really strange dream. While it was all happening I thought I was not really witnessing this. Okay, so here is the story...this lady was sitting in one of the pews and was just reading her Bible. So i went to go sit and pray and the lady looked up and was like "Oh I don't think I have met you before...my name is Something (ya'll know me I suck at names...let's jsut call her Sally)" I was like "oh, I'm Dori and I'm just here to pray" I thought I had walked in on some random Bible study and I thought I might be interupting it...so you know I was fine just doin my own thang...but no...this lady wanted to have this big theological debate in the middle of this chapell (sp???). It was so random. Oh, and there was this other guy in there that came in and sat down. I was so confused. So the lady asks something like "why did God really have to sacrifice his only son...why couldn't he jsut give us forgivness?" well I answered her question I thought pretty well but she was like oh you'll kick yourself for not seeing how obvious the ans. is...and then she just rephrases pretty much what I jsut said and threw in some scripture. It was just so random. And then she kept asking me some more questions and I was just trying to see a way out of talkin to this wacked out woman and be able just to sit down and pray...but no! Oh, and during all of this, these random little kids  and some teachers took a tour of the chappel (sp?) and just walked in and went down the aisle and then jsut walked out. I tell ya'll it was surreal! So it all somehow finally ended ....this theological talk and I was finally able to pray. So weird!

well that was my story for the week and I hope y'all enjoyed it! yay....peace

Currently Reading NIV Student Bible Compact Edition see related

    Sad to say, but i kind of forgot about you xanga. I have not updated this thing in like i don't know how long. I guess i'm more addicted to Live journal...and no one really reads this anyway. Live journal and xanga were not really the thing to do in highschool. I don't really remember what the "thing" was to do, but i don't think this was it. I think ppl were more into smoking pot and ciggs, and drinking and partying. Looking back on it though, I really didn't do that much in high school, i just went to class and learned. I'm a nerd what can I say. Well let's get an overview on this year...I'm taking 19 hours which really isn't that bad. My grades are okay..they aren't A's but i've still got time to change that. I think I've decided to switch my major path to Occupational Therapy. I hope that's what i'm meant to do. In the back of my mind I have been considering the ministry profession. I guess I have some more prayer to do for that. I just pray that God's will, will be done, whatever I do decide to do.. Hmm what else, i actually like my roommate this semester. She's oober cool. We are rarely in the room together at the same time. So considering that these rooms are crakerbox small it's a good thing that we are out of each others hair. hmmm. what else is new. I still am obsessed with wesley. I feel like the more i am around other christian ppl the better i have become.Yay for God and the wonderful ways in which he works! I mean how amazing is it that it was 90 degrees today in Memphis! Its the middle of October!!!! I actually remember one year where it snowed on Halloween night! Nature is bizarre. I bet it's because of El Nino. Let's just blame everything on that El Nino thang. yah. Well I think this is gonna be it for the update. If anyone reads this let me know cause I would update more if someone actually read it! peace out...A town!