Ya, so Lab was definately awesome today. Everythinng I'd prepared came out great. My ecoli from my poop smear was great, my gram stains were great. Yeah!. I got mad props from Dr. Baum, and he actually said something that I guess I needed to hear. It was only Joey and I left doing work in the lab and so he was talking to Joey about dental school or whatever. So he started talking about people's personalities and their fields and how sometimes we're humbled by classes, doubting ourselves etc. So he turned to me and said "Some people have doubts...right Kelli?"and I said "Yup" So he said " A lot of time's you're much better then you think you are." So I appreciated that, after feeling, for a long time that he probably didn't think too much of me interms of me being a good bio student. I was in the process of being able to except that and block that out because it can be very hurtful, especially when considering the fear of that mindset pennetrating my classmates. I try very hard not to car what other people think, but when you can see for yourself the manifestation of your mistakes over and over agin you really do begin to doubt your own abilities. Therefore I have vowed to do my best to prove to myself that I'm just as able in any biology field as any of my peers. This can only be acomplished with God's help and by his grace.

Yeah, so... today is Sunday again, sort of a week since my last one of these things. Well no skunks to talk about this week. However I'm listening to this song right now that just makes my heart cry out. God I wish I could express myself through song the way this guy does. Wow. " Brokenness is what I long for. Brokenness is what I need...take my heart and mold it, take my mind, conform it." Beautiful.

I went to Chapel this morning and good gracious man am I glad I did. Chaplain's message was so beautiful, so real, so inspiring, so...God sent. He spoke about Job. I beleive that's the best relation of that story  I've heard. I love it when preachers reveal things about a passage that makes you go..."cool", because you can see just how they lift those ideas from the passage, and you kinda already knew the idea, but it might not have impacted you so strongly if not for their interpretaion. Well anyway, in the end he said something like"... the worst thing that could happen to you wouldn't be to suffer, but to suffer without God, without hope, without the comfort of knowing that someone hears you." God always hears us. That's so powerful of a realization, that anyone who has it should just want to run with it and tell the whole world how incredible God is.

I know that a lot of us in Chapel today were just waiting for a message just like that. You could tell from the atmosphere after that. I know it spoke to me.Who am I to question what God is doing with my life? It's not mine at all. It's his.

I pet a skunk today....well yesterday since its after midnight. I also happened to sign up for this xanga thing tonight as well...hence the screen name i_pet _a_skunk_today, suggested by Ashlea. Today was cool though, without even mentioning the climax, which was my encounter with the domesticated stink squirter.

Who owns a skunk Ashlea? Who owns a skunk?

Nevertheless, my stinky friend was adorable. As we walked onto the intramural field I saw its owner cuddling it babeishly (yes I just made that word up) and I was curious, because at first the form of its furry face seemed like that of a ferret. However, as I approached the man holding the rodent I saw its broadly striped white back and its feather shaped tail. Well anyway I was kind of wierded out for a second, but misplaced my bewilderment shortly thereafter.

When Tara, Ashlea and I were leaving the game, the owners had stinky boy on a leash in the grass of the parking lot, allowing him to mosey around. So what the heck, Tara asked if we could pet him, and we did. Its coat is beautiful I must say. So black, and then so white. Oh, and he didn't stink either. I'll tell ya. Its not Kitty furr, but he's alright with me. lol 

Yes.I just wrote a whole entry about a Skunk. But how often do you get to pet a skunk and leave with the good hygene that you came with?--->God is so awesome for creating so many wonderful, unique creatures.