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| University... oh joy. Last night was my chemistry midterm.
I will leave it at that because I'm not allowed to use words that are
fitting to describe it.
However, this morning as I was looking at the discussion board for the course, it brought a smile to my face.
Welcome to univeristy, people!
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If the pic is fuzzy, just click it.
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I got on the discussion board just in time to see this post! The
prof's took that conversation (which was over 60 posts long) off the
website and then posted this:
"Please keep the discussions relevant to the test content. Please
keep all comments constructive. Any issues with people involved
with the course can be adressed through the proper avenues, a bulletin
board certainly is not one of them."
Do I sense some tension???
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| Back to the grind. These past two weeks were absolutely
amazing. Jason came over, one of my closest friends from high
school in Korea, and we had an incredible time hanging out with
friends, going to see Toronto, going up north, and learning more about
God. As much as he'd say he's grown in the Lord in this time, I'd
have to say I've certainly learned a lot. I'm just thinking...the
break was great and had so much in it...maybe this semester will be
great too, but in different ways?
I pray that I would find these ways and that I would thoroughly enjoy
the good times in the semester and take the hard times with the Lord's
patience and learn from them.
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| What a whirlwind coupla weeks. Been good, been bad....I'm
just glad I'm gettin through the semester. And only a couple
weeks left! Then its library life - study 24/7.
So I've been thinking...life can be tough. There can be some
pretty nasty times, times that can be really degrading, times that can
really wear down on you and make you wonder what you're even
doing. I want to be happy in those times, to make the most of
them. I dont want to ever only be happy in retrospect, cuz then
you miss the good in the present. I know, this is such a cliche
thought, but it really is true. So what is the answer? I
have no clue.
But one thing I have found that helps is making everything a
joke. Seriously (not really), life is so much easier when you
aren't terribly concerned about the outcome of anything, but view it
all with potential for laughter. And the greatest thing about my
life is I know I've entrusted it to God, so I dont have to worry anyway
cuz its in His hands.
I wish I did take things less seriously. Then maybe I could enjoy them more.
I want to end with a quote of a friend. It rings so true at times.
"Don't worry about what other people think -- they dont do it often!"
And with that I'm happily blowing off my physics reading and going to bed.
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| My internet is working on my computer for the first time in half a week. Yay.
Its wierd. It's kind of like, after a while my computer just gets
tired of running on my house's network, and starts by working less and
less frequently, and then just stops working altogether. Then I
go back home, use it on my parent's network, then when I come back to
my house in Hamilton, it just all of a sudden works again! So now
its working. And I figured out how to view my internet
bill. All that's left to do now is figure out how to inform my
housemates that they all owe me 10 bucks each. Should be fun.
And speaking of fun, this weekend was AMAZING!!! Can I say that again? AMAAAAZING.
I went to Acquire the Fire, which was in itself pretty good. Then
Skillet played. AMAAAAZING. Yes, Skillet came to rock
Hamilton. And boy did they rock. I almost cried during one of
their songs. I know, manly me. And they finished off their
set by John Cooper sprinting around the stadium as they play the final
thrashing chords, jumping up on to the stage, which is about shoulder
height, rolling into a backflip, almost nailing the guitarist who just
jumps out of the way, jumping up, and running over to the mic for the
final scream. AMAZING.
But more than that, was good time with great friends. And it was also nice not to have to cook for myself for once.
So this entry, I actually have a good story to tell. Last
Thursday, 6:30 am, I woke up to the wonderfully soothing piercing sound
of our carbon monoxide detector. For all of those that aren't
science majors or major geeks (same thing, in reverse order), CO
(carbon monoxide) is a lethal gas that can leak if you have gas
appliances. Which practically all of ours are. So I read
the instructions beside the detector, which tells me I could die (in
capital letters of course), and to get out of the house and call
911. So I woke up my housemates and did just that.
I thought, its just CO, the fire dept will probly have just a little
detector van. No. They brought the whole stinkin FIRE
TRUCK. And crew. They inspected, told us our detector was
faulty, and took off. So I'm like...Im up now...feel like I'm
choking whenever I'm in the basement cuz my mind is playing tricks on
me. But I've got plenty of time til school. So I got
wrapped up jamming on my guitar, ended up late for class anyway.
Well...that story had kind of a lame story, but you gotta admit, its
not every day you get to call in the fire truck before the rest of the
world has awoken to their Tim Hortons (for all non-Canadians, "Tim
Hortons" is a word we invented for coffee. We pretty much drink
more of it than water up here).
But enough of my rambling. I'm so happy to be alive and doing
what I'm doing, even though its not really what I want to do. If
you know what I mean. But you know what I've come to
realize? Its all about friends and relationships. Aside
from God (which in itself is a relationship), thats what makes life
really come to life. Cheers to friends.
"ramble on..."
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| I don't know who reads this anymore, but whoever you may be, you get to rejoice with me now....
Because I passed my Chem midterm!!! Yes, I passed with a grand
50.91% Can't get much closer than that! But its one thing
that really showed the Lord's hand in it, because all I wanted to do
was pass the test, and I had so much prayer for it, and He brought me
through, though barely!
So school's actually going well right now. Very busy, and at
times I think I'm going to go crazy, but being busy and crazy do have
their advantages, from time to time. And the Lord has connected
me with some really great people here, people with whom I had a pillow
fight tonight.....while I really should've been studying for my bio
midterm. Priorities. you know.
I think I need a good story. But I can't really think of
one. Hmm I guess this is pretty funny. I'll compile a brief
list of the things that are/have been wrong with the house I am living
in:
- dryer broke
- downstairs shower had no hot water
- toilet doesnt flush sometimes
- bugs in my ceiling
- window broke (yes, the whole panel just fell on the floor)
- fruit flies in the kitchen
hmmm i guess its not too bad is it? Especially now that its all more-or-less fixed. Except for the fruit flies.
And now for a picture of a couple of extroardinarly classy individuals,
in one of their more elegant moments at my cousins wedding. Such
poise.
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