| My heartbeat is back to normal, and I'm not hyperventilating. I talked to my roommate-to-be this evening. I think she's a little scared of me now.  I wasn't exactly nervous - but I was - well, hyper, maybe. She seems like a nice girl, and very easygoing. I think we'll get along all right. But I didn't sense deep calling unto deep. She will not be, in dear Anne-girl's terminology, a bosom friend, a kindred spirit. When I asked her what she likes to do, the first thing she said was "reading." Now I don't know if I had conveyed an impression of being super brainy and she was a little nervous, or that was really the first thing that occurred to her. But I was glad to hear it, even though she said she likes to read modern mysteries and love stories. She mentioned Jeannette Oke (whom I've never read and never intend to...) but that actually encouraged me, because that may mean she's coming from a Christian background (that is to say, of some sort). Her other favorite pastimes are listening to music (pretty much any kind, whatever that means), messing with computers, and watching television. And this is the one part that really, really scares me. She mentioned some shows she likes that made me shudder. Not that I've ever seen them - I never watch TV, and never have, unless the Braves count as TV. But I've heard bits about them, and I searched up transcripts of some episodes. *shiver* It took me about a five second skim to make me feel sick. I can deal with it as long as she doesn't keep a TV on in the room all the time. If she does...well, we'll have to work something out, or I'll have to see if I can switch roommates. Other than that, she roots for Carolina, she's majoring in social work, she's public schooled, she's the third oldest of four, and lives in Johnston County. Her name is Candice and she has a major Southern accent.
Please, please be praying for her! I hope we can find a lot of things to appreciate and enjoy about each other, and perhaps I can really be a witness to her in a lot of ways. I'm quickly getting a sense that this is going to be a missions opportunity more than a deep friendship. And that's - discouraging. :( But, as I'm trying very hard to remember these days, fidelis est qui vocavit! God is faithful! |
