IComeInPeace1112's Xanga

Oh, what to say...

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:42:48 GMT

As I have mentioned so many times before, it's not exactly that my life has been dull, but that the things that happen in my life won't fit on here. Sometimes I have fun little stories to relay to you all. Lately, however, my stories are longer and more complicated.

Well, there's always school. I could post about the frustrations I've had with etbu, how I tearfully considered transferring on the day I found out Blanca Jenkins (my favorite professor) was leaving, the stresses of classes, and other complicated situations that I'm flat-out scared to go back to. I could vent for quite a few paragraphs about the frustrations I have with my school, but then you'd think that I hated it and I should transfer.

I could post about all times God has reassured me that He will take care of me, and all the reasons I have for staying at etbu in my same major. I could go in depth about all the things I really love about etbu, and how much I love most of the faculty, and how I have the best on-campus job in the world, and shockingly fantastic friends. But then, that would just start to sound like an advertisement for a place that you guys haven't been to and don't intend to go to, and how exciting is it to read that?

I suppose I could combine the two and give a detailed summary of the good and the bad I experienced with college life, but even that wouldn't be too appropriate for a blog visible to everyone on the internet. Most of my stories involve specific names and places, and if you guys don't know these people, it wouldn't be of much interest to you. Beyond that, I would have to go into stories of What I Learned from God this Year, which tend to be very personal and complicated. They're intertwined and don't exactly have endings yet, and they just don't make good xanga material. College is about so much more than academics that how could I attempt to explain how I really feel and how the first year actually changed me?

Or, instead of talking about college, I could talk about my summer. I could talk about all the hard things about re-adjusting to Kemp. I could say all the things I disagree with about the church, and you'd think I hated it. Or, I could say all the things I really do like about Kemp, and all the hopes I have for it to strengthen its weaker points, and convince you that I thought it was the best church on earth, but that would be only partially honest. I could explain what I like and dislike about it, but who am I to evaluate it? How is it fair for me to just get on here and tell about how I feel about a church that I only attend 3 months out of the year?

So, school is very difficult to blog about, and I'm really not in a position to blog about the church. That kind of leaves me to either describe mundane, around-the-house situations or to talk about various trips to visit relatives that none of you know.

Anyway, all of that is why I haven't been blogging so much lately. It isn't that I don't think of it, and hopefully I will soon be blogging away again, once I have appropriate material. You know, material that isn't totally boring, but at the same time isn't too deep and/or personal to be shared with just anyone who feels like reading my blog.

Culture Shock

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:17:09 GMT

So today, my friend had to drop something off at Cedarville University, and I was with her so I went along. This was a shocking experience. There was an entire office for counseling (a service etbu doesn't offer) and there were real campus security cars and computer portals that really worked. I'm so used to etbu now, that I hadn't even thought about other ways a campus could look--let alone a college with, shall we say, a bit of a bigger budget. I felt really dumb walking along like Look guys! This looks like a college where the ceilings wouldn't ever break when you were trying to clean them!!

Anyway, now I'm consoling myself that what any other college looks like does not change what my college looks like. I don't have to go to the best of the best. I can go to a good place and if somebody else builds this ridiculously fancy place, I don't have to think that that makes etbu any worse just because it looks bad in comparison. Also, services and maintenance aren't everything. Where else can you go and get free May term? Or where can you go and get Blanca (sometimes) in the Spanish department? Or where do faculty members and friends hold international parties in their houses on Friday nights for anyone who wants to go, or where do vice presidents let you call them by their first names? I can't change my situation, so I'm not going to look and shiny fancy buildings and offices and state of the art everything and feel like I have to have that. Even when it's tempting to gripe, I really want to focus on the positive.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:09:24 GMT

I feel horrible for my lack of blogging lately. However, there's one major problem: all the stuff going on in my life right now is un-bloggable. I'm sure that will get better eventually, but my blog's gonna look depressing in the meantime. If I think of anything to share with you guys, I shall post it, but until then I'll leave you with this happy list of stuff I plan to do.

Register to vote (anybody know where to do this?)
Get haircut (...or this? I wanna donate.)
Pay ETBU
Switch banks
Write letters to my friends
Finish the book I'm reading
Get Mom to buy me some more clothes, since she says mine are getting worn out. (I usually do not like clothes shopping because there are so many other things that it's more fun to buy, such as coffee and play-dough, but I figure if she's buying then it'll be fun. )
...and yeah. I've actually been pretty bored lately, so if anybody needs a baby-sitter, I'll probably be available.

EDIT: If you're ever bored, try acting out "Don't let the Rain Come Down" with Bob. Is fun. Also do a Kroger run for your sister.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:21:49 GMT

So, here I am, sitting on my bed next to the fuzzy little cat, and I have decided to come on here and blog. Nothing super duper exciting has happened in the last few weeks of my life, but random going out to see friends has been making me happy. I was so bored for a while there that I thought I was seriously gonna die, but then two very special things happened:

My friends invited me to do fun stuff with them
The cable got fixed

I am now okay, though I still have like massive amounts of free time on my hands, so if anybody wants a favor, yeah, here I am.

In other news, my friends claim that they can get on facebook and burn prodigious amounts of time there. When I get on, I usually have like one notification that somebody's about to have a birthday and I should use their app to send them a card or something. I'm really not sure what I'm missing. As opposed to xanga, facebook runs mainly on status updates and wall posts, both are restricted to very short messages. I basically think it's a dumb website, but I kinda hafta go there, or I will be a social outcast. Playing Oregon Trail over there can be kinda fun, though. One person just got a notification that I left a message on her tombstone. Given that she has probably never played Oregon Trail, she's probably gonna be weirded out when she gets that. Oh, well. I left her a rose, so all should be well.

Other than that, my sister cooked me some hot dogs, so I'm gonna go partake.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:31 GMT

So, for the first time in our history, we are about to take both cats and the dog to the vet at the same time. This should be cool, because they all hate the vet with such passion that they might, just might be able to forget their hostilities toward each other.

Oh my goodness...

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:41:22 GMT

...anybody else grow up on this stuff???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prc57Xex7Oo

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:38:14 GMT

If I were dying right now, and I were able to leave behind just one piece of advice to benefit those I left behind, my advice would be thus: don't *ever* put mustard in your macaroni.

Update

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:28:04 GMT

Mexico was amazing and fantastic and I loved it all to happy little pieces. (Yes, I could elaborate, but I don't feel like typing that much right now.) After I got back from Mexico, my friend and her family picked me up, and let me stay at their house for three nights. Aside from housing me comforatably, they fed me, helped me gut out my apartment and transport its contents to storage, took me with them to church, and finally dropped me off at the airport all the way in Shreveport. It was great to be a member of their family for a little while, but I owe them megabigtime.

So now I'm in Ohio. Let's do something fun if anybody has any great ideas. I'm thinking a bike ride, but that's just me.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Sat, 17 May 2008 03:26:09 GMT

AM IN MEXICO!!!! Will answer your comments later. For now, I´m in a host family´s house, and I am very happy. The keyboard is different here. Ignore typos.

Note to Mom: Remember those little red bananas that they sold in Utica that you would NEVER buy me, that I promised myself I would buy as soon as I moved out and was in control of my own life, and that I discovered to my horror were not sold like, *anywhere* outside upstate NY? Blanca found some for me today. She is my hero forever. (I love you, Mom. Even if you did deprive me of the little red bananas. It led to my happy discovery today. I have a picture in my cell phone and will show it to you when I get home.)

MORE TO COME PEOPLE, WHEN I FIND A KEYBOARD THAT DOESN´T GIVE ME CULTURE SHOCK

Monday, May 12, 2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:39:27 GMT

Am about to go to Mexico. Will not blog again for 3 weeks.