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Name: Kristin
Birthday: 11/1/1984
Interests: other cultures/countries, religion, GOOD music, GOOD movies, relaxing, QT, hot tea, playgrounds, comfy beds, snuggling, snow skiing, traveling, learning, slow-pitch softball, CHEESECAKE!!, parks, lakes, the sky, unusual or fun animals, etc.
Expertise: boycotting Wal-Mart, stressing out, worrying, being curious, traveling, racking up debt in student loans
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
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AIM:  Mzungu04
Member Since:
7/18/2004
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| Finals week... ick! This is the last week of the last fall semester I will be at Austin College. Yikes! It is simultaneously a happy and a very frightening thing. I do have a ticket bought to fly to Chicago for a preview day at the seminary I wish to attend now, which gives me the same kind of feeling as realizing that my time at Austin College is coming to a close. I love being a very social, outgoing person for several reasons, but I am about to face one of the reasons I do not like to get to know too many people... I suck at, and hate, good-bye's. I utterly HATE them, and I, K-Aus, do not hate many things. I have made so many friends at Austin College and developed some amazing relationships with students and professors both. Why must I move away from this life in which I have become so comfortable? Why must I possibly leave Little Chicken behind, both of us going our separate ways? It stops my heart. She is my sister, confidant, and best friend. She knows everything about me, and I about her. I suppose it is important to move on and become uncomfortable, but I do not want to lose Polly.
So many people have come and gone in my life over the past three-and-a-half years at Austin College. Now I have to become one of those people to others. It hurt to lose some of those people, and now I may hurt others by leaving. I do not want to be that person. However, I suppose this is a transitional phase in our lives, albeit a huge determining phase in our lives, a time in which we begin really molding ourselves into the people we should become. I should really stop being frightened and just study for and take my finals, take each day as it comes, continue with my life. I do not have time to worry about this bo-jazz this week, but it also hurts to think that I am going to do something this coming weekend that I did with two people last year. They are not both here this year. Such a small amount of time I had in contact with him, but he had such an impact on my self. I am continuously growing and learning and becoming more confident in myself, but I can still have growing pains, right?
Back to studying for my finals. Love and peace to you all!
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| Wednesday I got home from Sherman, and we immediately left Mansfield to
go to Dublin. It was so nice to be in the middle of nowhere for a whole
day, where there is no computer or internet, and the service doesn't
work on my phone. This is not sarcasm. I have forgotten how nice it is
to be out of range on my phone with no way for people to contact me.
It's nice to just be, or as Brian said in one of his entries, to 'be
here now.' What does it actually mean to 'be here now' though?
When I am deep in thought, am I 'being here now?' or am I being here
now when I am serving others?
We went around the table last night at dinner and told everything for
which we are thankful, cliche isn't it? Oh well... here's everything
for which I am thankful:
Family and friends (that family at away from home), education, and the
opportunity to travel which has really given me a chance to realize how
much I have. I am so fortunate to have the opportunities I have.
Sometimes I get so frustrated with all of my schoolwork and
extra-curricular activities, and money, and everything. However, I have
so much, I have no reason to worry. Of course there are times when I
can be frustrated about schoolwork, but I need to remember how
fortunate I am just to be able to get an education. Thank you to
everyone out there who has helped me get to where I am today too.
Love and peace to all.
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| Isn't it funny how life goes sometimes? The combination of hot chocolate and tropical fruit just seems funny to me, but that's what I had together last Sunday while I was working that TERRIBLE fund raiser, NASCAR... *shudder* Of course the tropical fruit was not AMAZING because it came through some vendor, but it was alright. It made me miss Uganda a lot though. I kind of miss India too... at least the company from the trip. I got to see Maggie last night at S.O.B. which was REALLY nice, and I saw a few other people from my trip as well... Kari, Ada, Leah, Esteban, Rajeev... but we all kind of act like we didn't have that interesting, unique experience together this past January. It makes my heart kind of sad. I really enjoyed that trip and all the fun we had, and I like the people I went with.
I planned an event for the Sigmas, going to the Blue Door for desserts this past Thursday, and that went REALLY well. I wish I could have been at the entire thing, because apparently we had some issues getting sat and served since they got unexpectedly busy. That's okay though, because it gave us more time to talk and stuff. We had a LOT of Sigmas show up, and we also had over a dozen non-Sigmas show up. It was just a lot of fun, and I REALLY enjoyed the company.
The reason I was about an hour late to the event is because I had a memorial service to attend in Dallas at Preston Hollow for a friend of mine that passed away. His name is Dub Miller, and he was a hundred years old, nearing 101. I never thought I could be so impacted by someone I knew for such a brief period of time, but he REALLY impacted my life in such a unique way. If you would like to hear my stories about Dub Miller just ask me, because it would take a while to write, and I don't feel like putting it on here right now. It was really nice to see people at Preston Hollow too. After the service, John and I went to Opa! Grille, a Greek restaurant on Preston and LBJ, which is where Dub and I ate lunch the first time I ever met him, something that was just a SMALL PORTION of our adventure together. It was just a lot of fun, and so wonderful to celebrate Dub's life.
Now I need to go work on some work that was due this past Wednesday and I still haven't finished.
Love and peace to you all!
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| This week has been interesting. Tuesday was Halloween, and I felt very much NOT in the mood to dress up and everything, which is a first. Wednesday was my birthday and that was amazing! I have wonderful family and friends! My dad bought me a guitar, about which I am VERY excited! However, now I need to relearn how to play the chords I learned this summer, and I need to learn new stuff too. I got all kinds of other exciting things for my birthday as well. I have tons of projects and stuff coming up, so I need to buckle down now, and get to work on them. Someone send me some motivation to get stuff done. My birthday was such a high, but I really don't feel like doing anything, and I have been REALLY unproductive lately.
I hope everyone is doing relatively well at least, and I hope you all are being more productive than me!
Love and peace to everyone!
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