top 10 quotes from Easter weekend with the fam:

#10
mawmaw: "poor kids, they have 2 uncle richards."
richard: "poor?? FORTUNATE children."
#9
mom: "i always say darn those socks."
#8
mawmaw: "that's well water."
richard: "dont you mean good water?"
#7
martha: "do you want to be passed it?"
#6
martha: "the amount of sleep luke gets tonite could affect how quickly he cures cancer."
#5
mawmaw: "hey hows your achilles tendon?"
dad: "oh, i have cut it off with a knife."
#4
mom: "STOP. dont use anymore big words after that or he will just keep reading from the dictionary all night."
#3
martha: "if you die, we will probably eat out. we will have other things on our mind and probably wont feel like cooking."
#2
jennifer: "i really liked this salmon, now i think i will try mali mali."
#1
mawmaw: "well, lets not dirty up the trash can."

despite the weather not being so grand for lake activities, we still managed to have a good time being with each other and playing a few games, watching ncaa basketball, eating a LOT, and correcting each others grammar, because josefys will be josefys.

i enjoyed a visit back to my first church on Easter Sunday, and we got to see some old family friends which is always fun too. they have remodeled the whole church and it looks great, but i remember going a few years ago and looking at the blue steps by the childrens wing. these giant blue steps were my fave childhood memories at church, where after sunday school we would all wait for our parents and play quiet water, still water, 1, 2, 3 FREEZE. and sometimes sneak in a jump from the top step if no one was looking. i was mortified to discover that these giant blue steps were actually quite small. now they are gone altogether. where do kids play quiet water, still water, 1, 2, 3, FREEZE these days??

How deep the Father's love for us
How vast beyond all measure
That He would give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure

How great the pain of searing loss
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the chosen one
Bring many sons to glory

Behold the Man upon a cross
My guilt upon His shoulders
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers

It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished

I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no powr's, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection

Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom.

--stuart townsend

dun duh daaaa. i attended 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, yes EIGHT classes this week, meaning ALL OF THEM. what what?? now in store, an evening of pizza rolls & sonic cokes and ncaa tourney action and packing to go to the lake with some of the josefy side of the fam.

today in basketball marked a signifcant event. in the pickup game that traditionally follows class that is made up of entirely guys except for myself.......i was NOT picked last!!! in fact, i was picked before 2 other people. i'm not sure how this makes them feel but i dont think they really care, but thank you tim!! and jeff for being cool.

quotes from basketball:
guy coming in to take someone's place: i'm on skins?? (naturally i sharon, was on shirts of course)
tim: yeah
guy coming in to take someone's place: does that really mean i have to take my shirt off?
all the guys: yesss
guy coming in to take someone's place: i'm just warning you i'm kinda fat. is that ok with everyone? (looks at sharon)
sharon averts glance, and desperately wants to leave the gym
guy coming in to take someone's place: i really need a back wax and i get really sweaty so sorry whoever's guarding me
sharon is extremely grateful she will be guarding hott jeff and not this guy and still desperately wants to leave the gym

quotes from INFO 439:

"i would suggest that if through the course you've been in some sort of intellectual nap, now would be a good time to wake up!" --deutsch

"either place we end this scenario, you the project leader, are screwed." --deutsch

tallies from INFO 477 Tuesday:

said "puppy" IIIII IIIII I
fat references II
food references 0 (surprising, but true)
old school programming references IIIII I
lame jokes IIII
dumb questions asked IIIII IIIII IIII
time spent belaboring concepts we are already quite familiar with: 47 minutes
minutes spent talking about languages other than the one we are supposed to learn: 10

tallies from INFO 477 Thursday:

said "puppy" IIII
old school programming references IIII
lame jokes IIIII I
dumb questions asked II

the best quote from 477 will go unposted, but if you were there, you know what it was, and you know that it was really really funny.

props to the a&m basketball team for doing so well this year, but came up just a tad short yesterday. st. joe's was getting on my last nerve by using the entire 35sec clock every stinkin time. i understand this is their strategy i suppose but oh my goodness, soooooo boring and stifling.

props to daniel t for surprising us with a sneaky balcony entrance as we tried to surprise him at his surprise bday party that was way too late for a school nite! props to evelyn and alicia for throwing a killer party. and props to the tons of people that showed up! if you didnt come, you missed out on the triple layered triple chunk brownie cake and one fun bday partay, triple chunk style.

i admire .....

great authors like c.s. lewis, a.w. tozer and oswald chambers whose works have affected so many people, even after their deaths.

laypeople like my mom and dad who use their gifts to build up the body, for "nothing" in return.

ministers like keith, clay, and lance, who put their walk with God first, then their families, and somehow still have time to lead the church......and for sports!

ministers wives like cynthia, shawna, bev, and christine who know how to support their husbands, love people, and probably should be on the church's payroll....and know how to make you laugh and have a good time.

shane barnard's mad guitar skills

missionaries who carry out the great commission day after day, in difficult places

youth in the Northwest and elsewhere that dont have Christian friends at school, but bring their friends to know Christ by the way they live their lives

doctors, lawyers,architects, etc, because they work so hard and seriously.....thats a lot of school!

teachers and coaches that really care about students, and look to make a difference in their lives.....and they do.

people like weslee who know how to just have a crazy fun time in life

my friends from crestview like wes, steph, and lolly who are seeking God's heart and pouring into others

collegiate athletes

my college friends that work and take a full load of classes....and are involved in ministry....and still have time to play with nerf guns and giant frisbees in the computer lab with me?

my brothers and sisters: the leader one and his faithful and always learning stuff wife who together refuse to settle for normal, the outgoing one, the writer, the stud athlete, and the tenderhearted one, and the funny boring one....o wait, thats me

young couples like m&r who really love each other and their families and want to make a difference......and do.

the apostle paul, nehemiah, ezekiel, daniel, priscilla & aquila, and peter......and a whole lot of others

evangelists like luther, moody, tyndale, spurgeon, edwards, graham.....who had a vision and changed the world

people who can speak multiple languages.........parlez vous francais?

people that take up the cross, and follow Him.....daily.

so you probably figure that if your dad mentions that you should update your blog, its definitely been too long since your last post.

my last spring break was the best spring break ever!! it was so good to get to see matt and bree, and to experience london. for those of you like cynthia who enjoy well summarized things, i wont give my play by play of the trip but a simple summary: windsor castle, hyde park, speakers corner, kensington gardens, green park, tower bridge, tower of london, big ben, house of parliament, trafalgar square, buckingham palace, harrods, westminster abbey, st. paul's cathedral, covent gardens, british museum, a play: the producers, leicester square, and china town. if ya want more info than that, then you'll actually have to call me.

i do have some quotes from london, mostly taken from the church services we attended.

"i dont know who the next james bond is going to be. but i wanted to ask if any of you have ever wanted to be james bond? if you're a bloke, that is." --pastor nigel

"sometimes when you're going to a Holy Lord in prayer, dont you feel a bit grubby inside?" --jean, pastor mike's wife

"the wife can let the guy lead but inside be thinking 'you're an idiot' or 'you're a prat' " --pastor nigel

"ohh i get it, men should lead so they should drive the car and women should map read." --pastor nigel

"be honest now. do you ever day dream and replay conversations or relationships in your head, only in your dreams you win? i've scored many a try [touchdown] for england....in my dreams." --pastor nigel

"these dont strictly relate to 'going out'. if he says 'i'm moving to nester, come with me', she doesnt have to obey. and why should she? suppose the relationship ends and she finds herself suddenly very alone in nester." --pastor nigel

"suppose a wife says to her husband 'lets not go to Bible study tonite', not that i'm saying women woud be more apt to say that, but anyway, dont say 'dont be stupid. of course we're going, get in the car'." --pastor nigel

"but if you do say i dont want to go, what does your boyfriend say? does he say 'good point. football's on'?"--pastor nigel

"unfortunately the three questions we tend to ask are is she beautiful? will she make me happy? is there someone better looking coming around the corner?" --pastor nigel

things that have made me smile over spring break:
1. going to the mavs game with lolly and the hopkins....and props to clay & cynthia for taking care of my car and giving me ride to/from the airport and for getting me a mavs ticket and for letting me stay with them and for tivo-ing alias and 24 for me and for pretty much just being the coolest people ever
2. abby dancing at the mavs game
3. seeing matt and bree, duh
4. being a tourist in london
5. seeing melanie fox and catharine rhodes!!
6. playing spades with evelyn, daniel, and chara
7. eating sunday lunch at the park
8. sharing about my trip with m&r and hanging out with luke
9. martha calling me to tell me michael vartan was playing celebrity poker on the travel channel
10. watching michael vartan playing celebrity poker on the travel channel

things that annoyed me:
1. jet lag --and my inability to sleep on airplanes
2. having to take out the trash
3. unpacking
4. american airlines flight attendants and the dude in the cowboy hat who would not sit down and shut up
5. my roommate inadvertently leaving her alarm clock set for 8:10am and LOCKING HER DOOR so it couldnt be shut off. it beeps for 1 hour, 59 minutes, by the way.

currently i'm celebrating inside because i dont have monday classes so technically my spring break is still going strong!! unfortunately, i sense that lisa and i will be doing fowler class project tomorrow, blah.

and a quote from palm sunday:
"palm branches are like big holy green pompoms....i'd really like one!" --chris hoover

"there's this story about a farmer who had a donkey.....now thats just a great story right there isn't it?" --toney, speaking at chapel

"what happened after that? roger ruled. because roger had resources." --pastor tim owens, sharing the story of poor roger who always got bullied until he got his older brother from the highschool football team to come over and take care of it


one of my sistuh's is here for the week, spending her spring break with her uber cool sister. so i'm busy just making sure she does all the aggie stuff.


i don't trust my ears
to hear what You're saying
if only You'd write it on the wall
i'm still not sure i'd get it right
i wish someone would grab my hand
shield my eyes from all that draws me
and show me where You're calling
i definitely don't know the answer
i'm not even sure on the question
break me 'till You're all i want
and give me faith to follow
no matter what it costs
or whom.

i won't dream small
i'll reach for what i can't see
and when its time to leave here
unclasp my hands from all i hold
and if i wont let go
then take them too
because all i want is You

quotes:

"make it interesting for me to read--that will actually help your grade a little." --deutsch

"i'm sure you can find something thats interesting to write about--if its not interesting to you: fake it. " --deutsch

"you want to finish it early??.....okay....thats a novel question." --deutsch

"i'm sure you are all thirsty to find out what a work breakdown structure is"--deutsch (uhh, actually not so much....but a sonic coke sure does sound enticing)

"if you dont understand its probably because....your not my brain." --will, jestfully pretending to be markum

attention: in 3 minutes, it will be Bree's birthday.....HAPPY BIRTHDAY BREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


#484
i'm pressing on the upward way
new heights i'm gaining every day
still praying as i onward bound
Lord plant my feat on higher ground

my heart has no desire to stay
where doubts arise and fears dismay
though some may dwell where these abound,
Lord lead me on to higher ground.......

funny quotes from my weekend with the fam:

sister 1: "i'm hot."
sister 2: "its because your wearing modest pajamas."

question: would you bungee jump?
sister 1: "i'm not sure. maybe if someone pushed me out of the plane."

M: "like a chocolate covered bunny...well, not a chocolate covered bunny, just a chocolate bunny."

R: "I always use my debit card at the ATM machine."


we had a blast this weekend, though i think i ate way more than i should have eaten this weekend. we enjoyed being a part of the largest crowd at reed arena and watching a&m dismantle the texas tech basketball team...it was beautiful.

last nite i watched an intramural game while sitting next to chris walker of the a&m basketball team...cool stuff.

today was ummmm...interesting....verrrry interesting.

if you were a crayon what color would you be?

white. so everyone would leave me alone.

THINGS I HAVE SAID, TYPED, OR THOUGHT THIS WEEK

i think my parents like it when i say...."i want to wear shaaaaooorts."

yesterday marked one month's worth of rowing pretty much every nite at the rec. gotta hang in there 2 more weeks then i get a break because i'll be in london. can i just say WHOOP to that.

there's just nothing like a long-sleeved t-shirt.

"i only run if someone is chasing me or if i have to go to the bathroom..." --funny the things people say

over the course of my life there have been exactly 5 guys that i have "liked."

at Bible study this week i was reminded how fortunate i am to have a godly family. i enjoy these times and look forward to even better ones with them...can you imagine all of us grown up and having a partay? crazy times, i know.

i'm convinced that 2 of the best cd's ever are lifehouse's no name face and jeremy camp's restored.

4 songs i find myself playing over and over on the guitar are Holy is the Lord, If You Say Go, He Is Exalted, and You Are God Alone, because they are awesome.

i think if i could live anywhere the top 5 places i'd want to live would be seattle, africa, somewhere on the east coast, china, or colorado.

if you asked me my favorite subject in grade school i probably would have mentioned recess and maybe math. if you asked me today my favorite class i'd say basketball class. sometimes things dont change much.

if you asked me in junior high what i wanted to be when i grew up i might have mentioned the wbna or a basketball coach/math teacher. today you couldnt pay me to play in the wbna. i guess some things do change. i'd still do the coach/math deal though maybe sometime.

flipflops are incredible. but they seem to have very poor traction. its a little scary to try to walk in them when its raining.

i was thinking today that my days of jeans & flipflops are numbered. and i was saddened.

"asleep cuz 8am's inhale as if through a straw" --daniel's away message. haha, made me laugh

when i look at the awesome turnarounds coach gary blair and coach billy gillepsie have made to the a&m teams in such a short time, i'm quite impressed. i think, wow, i would like to be like you. until you have a losing season.

i think if i had to decide what my favorite food was, i'd be in trouble, but suffice it to say i'm a major fan of grilled cheese sandwiches. and enchiladas and fajitas. and light blue gatorade or the blue powerade. i think if you threw in plain bagels, i could live on those foods and beverages for a long time.

i think you will find the authors of the Bible usually talk about their joy being made complete when they see their "children" walking with the Lord or coming to know the Lord. i think sometimes we lose out on some complete joy because we focus too much on ourselves and neglect to invest in others around us. maybe.

who decided that shampoos and conditioners should smell like fruit?

guest lecturer = no deutsch quotes

my family is coming down for the weekend!! guess i should clean the place up.......

couple quotes from deutsch's class:

"if your heartbeat gets down to zero, this is not good and someone should know about it." --deutsch

"what are your options here? well, you could hire a hit man for your boss, but unfortunately there's no local Mafia representative in College Station...we're not very well connected."--deutsch

"that's useful for keeping things in budget and on schedule, and, parenthetically, keep you from getting fired." --deutsch

"what more could you want??....well, probably a lot more, but thats all we're going to get in this class."--deutsch

today's sign that team awesome is back together:

"hey my armpits smell really bad...but i'm not positive." --lisa

today's worst case of name dropping i've heard in a long while:

"i was like, hmm, Pita Pit. i hadn't been there in forever, but yesterday when we were driving through Hollywood i saw one...." --lisa

todays sign that info 477 just might be the death of us all:

class is so boring that you look over and markum has drawn the logo for the tv show 24....it was quite impressive.

seriously, 477 is the worst class ever. i thought that there'd be no way some certain classes could be beat, but i think its done it already, and we're still in the early part of the semester. sad times.

bad things about today:

-info 477
-the milk for my cereal smelled not so great, even though the date on it was today. so i poured it out. then i thought, hmm, since i've already poured the cereal, how bad could orange juice taste on cereal. i dont know about your cereal, but DO NOT EVER attempt this with honey bunches of oats with peaches. it was the grossest thing i've ever tasted. needless to say, i didnt have cereal this morning.
-did i mention info 477 was terrible??


good things about today:

-watching the aggie mens bball team crush iowa state....HA
-eatin fajitas and chillin with M & R & L .....FUN times
-i went to ALL my classes....i'm not sure which list to put this under bad/good?
-my nap this afternoon :-)
-my intramural basketball team winning on a buzzer beater runner in the lane.....beautiful!!
-getting an email from one cool friend :-)

10 random things you will NEVER be able to quote me as saying:

lets do something a little less competitive (i mean, someone's gotta win, right?)

i just dont think michael vartan is that hot (c'mon, he's like the definition of hotness)

nah, i dont really feel like taking a nap (sleep is beautiful)

hmm i guess i overdressed for this occasion (unless somehow jeans & flipflops were too dressy)

i never missed class this semester (uh yeah right)

please pass the mayonnaise (sick)

sure, i'll take some V8 juice (sicker)

the rainy weather makes me so depressed (its my absolute fave weather)

a&m is overrated (please.)

well i guess i've got everything figured out (uhh, yeah right)

sorry i dont have any quotes for you...my classes were cancelled on thursday (except for one, i had a test in it) so that all the girls could attend a conference entitled, creatively, Women in Information Technology. since they cancelled class so i could attend, i did of course.......not attend.

today i ate lunch at jasons deli with a pal of mine. we ordered, incidentally, identical sandwiches. i happened to order mine first. she happened to receive hers first. and then we waited. and waited. and waited. finally, i dragged (drug?? i always forget) myself over to the counter and pronounced that 'i've been here a long time and never got my sandwich.' i should have gone over a lot sooner, because i knew it was an abnormally long time to wait for my sandwich, but i was really tired. they had failed to make my sandwich. the sandwich-maker-people were ordered to make one 'on the fly'. i was offered a salad while i waited, which i declined, because then i would be too full to eat my sandwich. perhaps it was because i declined the salad, or perhaps it was because i looked so forlorn, but shortly thereafter the manager came over and gave me a business card on which he had scrawled 'good for dinner for 2 anytime'. i thought this rather extreme...me waiting an extra i dunno 15 minutes? and they give me a card worth potentially near $15-$20. but hey, i'll take it.

quote of the day:
Remember: "A good friend will come bail you out of
jail....But a true friend will be sitting next to
you saying "...WE screwed up! BUT WASN'T IT FUN!!!

i'm afraid i have too many true friends and not enough good friends. good thing i dont plan on going to jail...

today is valentines day. happy valentines day.

i miss valentines day parties from elementary school. i remember deliberating over what type of valentines i would get each year. then we got to go the store and pick them out. we'd bring them home, and open them all up. then i'd take the class list with everyone's name on it. and i'd take my best friends and choose my favorite valentines for them, and write their names on those. then i'd split up the ones left, making sure no boy got one that was too girly. and one by one, i'd fill them all out, until only the least favorite ones were left over. Then i'd write the left over people's names on those, and if there was still some left, i might write my brothers and sisters names on them, haha. of course, if you have really good valentines (i.e. include candy), you make one for yourself as well.

when the big day finally arrived, there was very little school work done. a lot of coloring in red, i remember. and everyone had a sack at the back of the room with their name on it. when your turn came, you were allowed to go to the back of the room and distribute your valentines in each of the sacks. of course, this was done as slowly as possible, because you had to peek in each sack and eye other people's valentines, seeing how yours compared to this. the most peeking was done into your own sack, trying to see how many valentines you had received. then that afternoon was the big party, with the room moms having brought all sorts of cookies and chocolate, and everyone getting to open their valentines sacks. sigh. i miss such valentines parties...

i have managed to be disgustingly productive today so far, despite my head feeling as though it weighs around 10pounds. and yes, parentals, i have taken medicine today, actually. too bad one can only take claritin once every 12 hours, because this morning seems like such a long time ago to have taken relief. now, back to my productive self. or maybe a nap...

quotes from class....

"the demand a few years ago skyrocketed...if you could spell I.T. they would hire you." --norton (I.T. as in information technology)

"that first game we underestimated you and we got took." --guy from my basketball class (muwahhahaha...thursday mornings are fun)

and some random quotes from the christmas break .....


sister 1: sharon, i like your shirt. its like retro.
sharon: thanks. but its not retro. its just...normal.
sister1: no, its so retro. dont you think??
sister2: yeah, its retro. ......actually i dont even know what retro means.

small brother: yeah, sharon, have you like ever even been on a, ya know, date? (geeze, is it that bad?? YES, I have, thank you...)
small brother: oh. i didnt remember you ever going on one.

sharon at sonic-
car hop person: that will be $1.61
sharon hands car hop $2 and one penny, in order to get back 40cents, not 39.
car hop person: did you want the change from that?
sharon glares. am i not obviously thinking about the change i will receive if i just handed you a penny? 40 cents goes a long way towards buying my next drink...
sharon: no.
car hop person: thanks! have a great day.
sharon glares, but at least i wasnt cheapskate.

boy in senior level class before semester break: i seriously need to go home and clean my apartment.
other boy: are you graduating or something?
first boy: no...
other boy: so you're coming back to the same apartment?
first boy: yeah
other boy: then whats the point of cleaning it?

sharon at bree's apartment, wearing some clothes of bree's that didnt make the london cut.
bree: "ohh look....its mini-Bree."

sharon selling back a textbook, talking to friend keith about the final we'd just taken.
wait in line--25min.
keith sells his book back, receives $90.
book lady: ohh, haha, you'll get $90 too.
book lady rings it up.
book lady: ohh, umm, actually we just met our quota. would you take $35 for it?
sharon leaves to go stand in line at another bookstore, off campus. receives $60 for textbook. annoyed.

sibling: what brand of strings do you put on your guitar?
sharon: i used to use Martin, but this past year or so i've been using Elixir.
sibling: Elixir?? i thought that was like....diarrhea medicine.



for those of you concerned, i did finally get my room clean and all my christmas presents put away. i had to throw a super bowl party to motivate me though...knowing all those people were coming over got the job done.


i really do like the idea of a 'combo meal' at food establishments. besides the implied cost savings, whether they actually exist or not, i detest ordering. i dont know why, i just hate it. so the ability to simply say....i'll take a number 14....with chicken...mmm rosas. i digress. or any number, i'll take a 5. a 3. much easier, than ordering the actual food you want. but i always feel bad for the person taking my order, because there are so many questions they must ask, particularly at like say fazolis. would you like meat sauce or marinara sauce? garden or caesar salad? and what would like to drink? anything else? i know they must get sick of asking these same questions. so i embarked on a campaign to save them this trouble by saying things like this: i'll take a number 3, with meat sauce, ceasar salad and a coke. then the say, your total is blah blah blah and please drive forward. excellent! but then i have situations like these...

sharon at sonic: yeah can i get a number 3 with mustard and no onions. with tater tots and a coke.
speaker person: ok i have a number 5 with no lettuce or tomato. what would you like to drink?

sharon at taco c: can i get a taco combo, with two soft tacos with chicken, and a coke?
speaker person: ok i have a taco combo, beef or chicken with those?
sharon: umm, chicken
speaker person: and to drink
sharon. sigh. coke.
speaker person: your total is blah blah blah. please drive forward.

so i gave that up. and just let them ask their stupid questions. after all, maybe they enjoy asking those questions? my next plan is to simply avoid the combo meal altogether. i dont really care for french fries anyway. on second thought, maybe i'll just eat at my house.

10 Random Things About Me
1 I definitely love new socks
2 I cant breathe if i were to eat....or smell....peanuts
3 I went white water rafting on the Nile River....and thought I was going to die...and loved every minute of it.
4 I usually wait till the last minute to study or do projects....and it seems to work out ok
5 I am guilty of being a class-skipper.
6 One of the favorite things I've ever done is lead Upstream freshman Bible study group 14: the triple chunks...whoop!
7 I root for sports teams based on the hotness of their players.
8 I never saw Titanic. oops.
9 I know how to keep a secret. And I enjoy keeping them. From you.
10 I really like to throw darts.

9 Places I've Visited
1 Uganda
2 Seattle, WA....i love this place
3 Portland, OR
4 Gresham, OR ....Whoop!
5 Louisville, KY ....o the memories
6 Germany...yeah i definitely lived there when i was a kid
7 Arrowhead Springs, California...actually i'm technically a Californian, its true.
8 San Antonio.....here I come!
9 London this spring break!!

8 Things I Want to Do Before I Die
1 go white water rafting in the grand canyon
2 fly an airplane
3 help with a church start
4 get married
5 memorize the New Testament
6 write a book
7 see the Aggies win a national championship
8 go back overseas

7 Ways to Win My Heart ....yeah good luck with that :-) just kiddin.
1 kick my tail in basketball
2 write me a letter
3 know the Bible like crazy
4 sing me a song....that you wrote.
5 be a servant to other people
6 smile
7 love the Lord with all you've got

6 Things I believe
1 Jesus Christ wants to have a personal relationship with you. And He will rock your face off.
2 God is who He says He is
3 God can do what He says He can do
4 I am who God says that I am
5 I can do all things through Christ
6 God's Word is alive and active in me

5 Things I'm afraid of
1 oversleeping
2 joining the workforce
3 somehow failing a class and not graduating
4 forgetting to pay a bill
5 doing something stupid

4 of my Favorite Things in my House
1 my guitar
2 my books
3 my pictures
4 my pillow.....yay sleep!

3 things I Do Everyday
1 brush the teeth
2 say 'i dont know'
3 read

2 Things I am Trying Not to Do Right Now
1 waste time...............hahahahahahaha
2 look ahead and forget to enjoy these times right now

1 Person I Want to See Right Now
1 WESLEE...we're about to go to breakaway right now...look for some class quotes later.

if they offered an award for like the Most Unmotivated Person, i think i could probably win it....if i felt like it.

i can just see the interview--

interviewer: so, tell us why you would like to be named the MUP

me: mmm, i dunno. it'd be alrite i guess.

interviewer: can you describe your class participation last semester?

me: minimal, at best. if it was raining, i def wasnt there. if it was on tues or thurs, i probably wasnt there because i just had one class, and i mean, thats a lot of work for just one class. if it was friday, i for sure wasnt there, because, seriously, it was friday. if it was a mon or wed, give me a 50% chance, unless it was my 8am, and then i dunno, i'd say i'll see ya there if i see ya there. i did generally go if there was like a test or something though.

interviewer: well, can you tell us how you applied yourself over the christmas break?

me: well, mostly i'd get up around 11:30, because i liked to be up when my dad came home for lunch. after lunch i might take a shower, or a nap, depending on which was more pressing. i read lots of books, took lots of walks, and made a slideshow.

interviewer: i see. and how quickly did you unpack upon your return to your apartment after this month long sabbatical?

me: um, well, i'm still working on that. but yesterday i DID finally put my suitcase away in the closet.

interviewer: yes, and could you explain how you keep yourself organized?

me: well i really like to-do lists. i try to make them for every month on outlook and every day on my dayplanner. and on random little pieces of paper and in my notebook where i keep my class notes. if i dont do something, i just keep transferring it to the next day's to do list until finally i eventually do it. typically i will write something down about 10 times, then do it. then i gleefully cross it off on all 10 to do lists. its rewarding, really.

interviewer: have you worked a lot in the past?

me: no, i wouldnt really say so. once i was an intramural official, but i got tired of having to go to the rec at nites and get yelled at, so i started giving my shifts to people that like really wanted lots of hours for some reason. i'm on the substitute teaching list, but i rarely go because its so much, you know, work. but i do babysit on fridays. my client and i agree on whats most important: sleeping. and its only once a week. and he's cute. and there's free food. and they have alias on dvd. what could be better?

interviewer: do you attend a lot of meetings?

me: well, if i feel like getting out and going. which i usually dont, particularly if its rainy or cold. but sometimes if they're having a free dinner, thats a pull for me. sometimes i go, eat the dinner, and leave before the actual meeting, to prevent boredom, of course.

interviewer: could you describe how you tend to spend your free time?

me: well, often i have some down time in the afternoons. i really enjoy a good nap, checking away messages occasionally even though i could not care less what they actually say, or compulsively checking my email over and over and then wondering if its broken if i dont get any, or just sitting at my computer listening to music. lots of music. oh, and sometimes i play my guitar or go through old Bible study notes or sit around and type up dumb blog postings.

interviewer: could you explain how you go about completing a task?

me: ok hmmm. lets take something i'm working on right now, like cleaning up my room for example. thats what i'm doing right now.

interviewer: it is?

me: well, yeah, kinda. so about 2 weeks ago i put as a task on my outlook : unpack/clean room. then i realized (from my project mgmt knowledge) that this was too broad and needed to be normalized (haha bad attempt at database humor. gosh, that was a horrid class. but i digress). anyway, so i put unpack as a task. and clean room as a task. then i've been writing it on my to-do lists faithfully every day. yesterday it said "clean up the stinkin place". (it doesnt really stink, i just like that adjective). anyway, so then i, you know, pick up a few things. then i get kind of tired so i sit down in my office chair and kinda look at all what needs to be put away. then i might turn on some music, to kinda motivate me, but then i just sit here for like two hours, listening to music and compulsively checking my email. so thats how it usually goes down, and my gantt chart shows that this should finish in a few more weeks. but we'll see. you know how projects go.

interviewer: why do you think you're so unmotivated?

me: yeah, i'm not sure. maybe its because my classes bore me. or because i already have a job and dont have to renew scholarships so my previous drive for academic excellence has less pull, or maybe its because i'm a senior and you know how seniors are, or maybe its because i'm a rebel and i dont like doing what people want/expect me to do, or maybe its because i just do what i feel like doin...which typically isnt that much.

interviewer: uhh yeah. so, is there anything else you want us to consider?

me: nah, i should probably get back to my cleaning.

interviewer: seriously?

me: no, not really. i have to go take a nap now...

well, my perfect attendance didnt make it too far into the semester. i only made it to 50% of my classes today, due to the rain and not feeling so hot when i woke up this AM. oh well, it lasted 2 weeks. a total of 4 class days. anyway, i do believe that i have a maximum total of 24 days left of going to school, for, perhaps, ever. weird!!

i'm sure you will be excited to hear that i did make it to deutsch's class, so here are some quotes from him:

"i will now pass out the package of goodies" (this merely refers to the new notes packet)

"i guess i manufactured something that michael said that he really did not."

"to keep ourselves oriented, here is the course model."

"throwing information at a customer is not what we aspire to do."

"all of this is not particularly rocket science."

"let's use this as a menu."

"that conveys a level of placidity on your part."

"i'd say if you're talking too much you'll see some signs...customer looking out the window, customer falling asleep..." (student looking out window, student falling asleep...)

"another counter example--i'm full of failed customer interactions."

"you have to find some way of pollenating the atmosphere and getting that allergic reaction." (um, yeah)


here's some words to a song we sang in church the other day that i thought was pretty cool:

Father, let me dedicate
all this life to Thee
In whatever worldly state
Thou would have me be

Not from sorrow, pain or care
freedom dare I claim
This alone shall be my prayer
glorify Thy name

Can a child presume to choose
where or how to live?
Can a Father's love refuse
all the best to give?

Let my glad heart, while
it sings, Thee in all proclaim
And whate'er the future brings
Glorify Thy name

i sat down to write this post because i was feeling witty and full of stories to pass on, but now that i'm sitting here i can't think of anything that i had wanted to write about. so, yeah, thats all i guess.

it definitely rained all day today. its a good thing i was unaware of the forecast or i might i have been tempted to skip class.

based on the success of my marketing of the phrase 'do you want a cookie' while i was finishing up high school, i've decided to begin a campaign called, fittingly, Do You Want a Cookie?. Simply put, its an incentive based program featuring delayed gratification, because this is how i am motivated personally. It obviously is not a fit for everyone, but i'm a personal fan. the way it works is each week, try to eat pretty good and work out. if you work out 4-5 days that week, then you get 1 cookie that weekend. work out 6-7 days in a week...2 cookies! its beautiful. if you dont feel like working out, simply ask yourself.....Do You Want a Cookie?!?!

i've made a list of words deutsch used in lecture today, as well as taken down some quotes.

list of words/phrases by deutsch in todays 75min lecture. please excuse misspellings.

phenomena, elevation, assumption, withhold excitement, intrinsic, initiative, enclave syndrome, materialize, synthesis, analysis, scope (as a verb), extract information, lets revise that, interpersonal skills are worth upgrading, stimulus, representative scenario, validating, emebriated, encapsulate, optimistic viewpoint, anomaly, saturated sector, off-nominal mode, introspective, simply characterize the system initially, consequential harm, hazy, cartoon, signifcant achievement, que, ascilloscope, stabilization algorithm, upstream brewing process, insert appropriate volume of liquid, porportional

"lets get started, the grace period has expired" (this quote was actually taken down by markum, as i myself had missed the grace period, due to the rain and lack of umbrella and thus needing to utilize the bus system after lunch on main campus with one cool friend)

"ok, i understand more the purpose of your question now"

"distill the narrative overview into operational scenarios"

"drunk workers on the job cuts down on efficiency" (really? you think?)

"yes, see the paper being susoomed by the machine" (he's talking about a fax machine, but i have no idea what that word is)

"if you're a manager you view it as extremely important...it keeps you from being fired"

"if we're defining a system for an oil refinery, we want to speak in Refineryeese."

"well, let me give you a hint. it has skin. uuuusually has hair. so what am i describing??....a human! thats right!" (hahaha very nice. my personal favorite. it was like a little guessing game. a weird little guessing game.)

"we've basically truncated our revenue system" (oops)

"lets think of an ATM. in this case ATM does not mean Texas A&M" (oh. hmm. thats odd)

"in preference, what i advocate..."

"you've just described a stimulus!!!" (yay!)

"lets just play a ring-around-the-rosy game here" (yes, lets do)

"whats the significance of those 2 extremes?"

"what you dont know is actually more important than what you do know" (great.)

"the system shall do the impossible."

"lets terminate this discussion." (translation: class is over)


lets terminate this blog posting. yay for the weekend!!

so this semester seems like its going to alrite. despite what dominos says, i'm still all about fridays, not tuesdays. i enjoy the quiet times with LJ. so far! and i really like mondays and wednesdays. i really thought i might get bored, but so far, i've had more than i could accomplish. tuesdays and thursdays are somewhat of a drag, but knowing i only have to go twice a week, has gotten me to every class so far.

"dont let all these boys scare you off. you'll be just fine"--hanik, the basketball coach. (this will be determined tomorrow, when we actually play basketball.)

"they must be more finite than nebulous" --ammons (an old prof i had in pre-blog days. i have nothing i want to say about him. he observes my 477 class with fowler. charming.)

"well the dog stays in the house with us. she wont necessarily LIVE in this [dog house]. its to be more of a......cabana?" --keith clanahan, guest lecturer in 477, (in response to my question while he was trying to teach us project mgmt by planning to build a dog house for his dog.)

"with the pony express you never had a guarantee your message would get through. the rider might get killed by Indians or fall into a big hole, or he may get cold and light all the mail to keep warm." --norton

"they're not exactly apples and oranges but its sor of an apple/orange juice....mixture." --norton (a smoothie? if you will...)

"i paid 800 dollars for my first cell phone and it had about 4 parts to it. my wife keeps telling me i should throw it away..." --norton

"i'm not really sure whats going on but in preference to burning up, i say we should leave."--deutsch (did the fire alarm go off during this class? why, yes it did. did we all sit there like dumb idiots doing nothing? why, yes we did. did we finally decide to exit the building? why, yes we did. well, actually markum and i just stood in the hallway, near the door, close enough to make a dashing exit should we smell smoke. did several people just leave and not come back? why, yes, of course. did i stay? why, yes, naturally. really? i know, i must have turned over a new leaf.)

"imagine reading a boring textbook....like maybe the one we have for this class....."--deutsch
(i dont have to imagine this....i have plenty of experience)

well thats about all i got folks. hopefully will get some more quotes down tomorrow in classes. hopefully also i'll get more in the groove of updating more regularly, for you, my beloved reader.

i shall close, with a list of things i HEART, by request, in no particular order....
1. i HEART my soon to be new job
2. i HEART J-Jo
3. I HEART oregonians that stinkin rock my face off :-)
4. I HEART the rowing machines at the rec
5. I HEART being a senior again. Whoop! I forgot how good it feels....
6. I HEART cool evenings, driving around with the windows rolled down
7. I HEART fridays with LJ
8. I HEART phone calls from my brother and sister in law (whoa watch out!!) from london and i think its a middle eastern man trying to sell me something "do you have a pen?"
9. I HEART alias and 24
10. I HEART Ezra? Yes, Ezra. Check it.

the much anticipated first blog of 2005. finally. i have received angry threats, letters, IMs, emails, and verbal warnings as to the lack of my updating. i apologize and hope that none of the readership has been offended beyond forgiveness for my neglect.

i have many topics to share about, all of which cannot be addressed in only one entry, but i shall share more of them as time goes on. briefly, my break was good. it included time with family, friends, and a ton of driving. also it included my brothers wedding and a trip to the cotton bowl, where it was rumored the aggies were playing, but we didn't see them there, unfortunately. more on my break in the future.

the beginning of the end. yes, yesterday marked the beginning of my final semester at A&M. so far i have had a blast hanging out with everyone. it is my first and only matt and bree-less semester, which is certain to be odd. i have seen several movies since i returned: the village: excellent film, and not as scary as i thought it would be, but still really interesting, collateral: another excellent film and quite intense, little black book: ridiculously dumb movie that i wish i'd never seen and put me to sleep.

so this semester, i'm very excited about. i have only a web based class and tues/thurs classes. meaning mondays and wednesdays i'm left to my own and fridays i will be 'working' but at a pleasurable task that i'm stoked about. also mon and wed are available for substitute teaching.

a rundown of my classes:

8:15 am : Basketball/Health. I walked into this class, and saw many boys and 1 other girl. when the coach announced the name of the class the girl promptly got up and left, leaving me by my lonesome in some boys P.E. class. seriously i dont know what the deal is, its not football or wrestling, its BASKETBALL, and i really figured there'd be some girls in there. i cant drop it because i need it to graduate, so i guess i will just have to show those boys how to play a little basketball. i then spied mark across the room, and then i was a lot more excited, because maybe he can protect me?? that is, if he's awake enough. coach = hanik.

9:35: Large Scale Information Systems Project. the reuniting of team awesome. the class might be horrible and the teacher nearly unbearable, but any class with team awesome cant be that bad. can it? professor= fowler.

11:10 :Data Communications & Networking. I dont know anyone in here. But i hope to learn a few things, and at least Norton is aware of Josefy. which is always nice.

then i go home for lunch.!

2:20: Management of Information Systems. Markum is my pal in this class, ja? professor= deutsch. the king of big words. this little old man can spit out more big words than my mind has time to process. slightly boring topic, but a wealth of good quotes are sure to abound from this class. the horridness of him actually lecturing for the entire time on the first day was tempered by his 'proffering' up some quotes....

"i've got an unusual phone: all it can do is make calls." --deutsch

"as you can tell from my manner of speaking, i'm not from here." --deutsch

"actually, management really is a dull subject so we're going to have to work pretty hard to keep this interesting." --deutsch

"everyone here is a young adult-except for me. i have somewhat more maturity in that area." --deutsch

and from his syllabus....

"In rare cases of factual contradictions between the text and Instructor's notes, precedence should be given to the Instructor's materials."

"Students should avail themselves of the opportunity to ask questions of these guest experts."

"In cases of pathological mal-performance, a Group may elect to discharge an individual member with the concurrence of the Instructor."

it dawned on me that i did not have a scantron. for my 8am final. in less than 9 hours. i couldnt for the life of me remember when ag cafe opened, if it was 7:30 or 8. i looked today, it was 7:30. but i couldnt know this last night. so, i made the laborious trip to h-e-b. when i got there, i couldnt believe my eyes, it was the weirdest thing....h-e-b was NOT crowded. what the world? does this have anything to do with the new h-e-b soon opening in bryan on wednesday? or perhaps it has more to do with the fact that it was a sunday night at midnite. or really it probably has mostly to do with the fact that its the middle of finals so no one needs to buy groceries because they are headed home soon, to partake in free food provided by their parents. the parking lot looked so lonely, i've never seen it so empty. inside there were a few students, mostly just picking up milk or ice cream or....scantrons. for your info, h-e-b DOES have scantrons, but only green ones and blue books, not gray or the weird blue books that also include a scantron. perhaps the oddest thing about my trip to h-e-b was that i saw my roommate from freshman year....cool! and then i saw a basketball teammate from highschool...double cool! so random!! to see 2 people i rarely see in a deserted h-e-b. it made the late run to the store very worth it.

"they say that if you are in band then you are better at math. i played the clarinet. i am not good at numbers. i dont understand the concept." - T

unfortunately, reutzel lost any cool points he may or may not have had. in fact, he might just have negative cool points. hnatt however, gained cool points today after we met with him and had just a nice chat, hnatt and team awesome.

fave profs at a&m=
conant
mrs. p
hnatt
dr. welch

here's some of my current favorite things to say/phrases. some of these are based on friends sayings and others i've carried with me since high school....

10. fo shizzle
9. did you want a cookie?
8. please hold
7. if you will
6. stoked
5. i dont know
4. naturally
3. beautiful
2. mmkay?
1. very nice

"but what about you?" he asked. "who do you say i am?" --matthew 16:15

sometimes my acting
speaks louder than my talking
sometimes my twisted perception
plays me against You,
my Advocate.
sometimes i'm so busy
protectingthe dreams in my heart
that i'm saying
You're not big enough
but faith is clinging to what I cannot see
and if I cant fathom your plan now,
could You at least hold my hand?
You're big enough for me
and what You say goes
anything You choose to give
is more than i deserve
thats who I will say You are.


"let not the wise man boast of his wisdom
or the strong man boast of his strength
or the rich man boast of his riches,
but let him who boasts boast about this:
that he understands and knows me,
that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight, " declares the Lord.
--jeremiah 9:23-24

so my mom, see, she is amazing. i dont know how she does stuff. she's still got 4 kiddos living at the house, and they are not an easy bunch, let me just tell ya!! to have 3 teens in the house and the forever baby of 6 kiddos, this is a recipe for stress. still, my mom manages to get everyone where they need to be, in the clothes they need to be in, fed the food they need to be fed, and tries to make everyone happy. meanwhile, she has her own life teaching school and working out and volunteering for stuff. geeze, just thinking of this makes me tired. and it doesnt stop there....my mom has started this crazy thing while my brother and i are at college. nevermind that my mom spends hours upon hours wrapping Christmas presents every december, not only for us, but for cousins and aunts and uncles. she decided that matt and i need 'advent presents'. yes, these are SO COOL. at thanksgiving break or so, she gives us each a sack full of presents. WRAPPED presents. a FULL SACK. each one is carefully labeled with a day in december. we are to open one each day, the one for that day. i once casually remarked that i wanted to open them all on one day. this was met with GREAT resistance and threats. but can i just tell you how difficult it is to have a whole sack of presents in your room and not open them? especially when no one is around. friends, this is a test of integrity....be amazed at my parents parenting capabilities when it comes to building character. who else would come up with such a ploy?? anyway, so the first gift, dec 1st, is always an advent calendar. naturally it would be. the other things are unpredictable. they are so random and cute and fun and its maddening to look at the boxes and try to determine what they could be. in fact, the temptation is very great. i will say i have never folded and opened a present early...yet. BUT here, friends, is the cool thing. dec 1st actually begins at MIDNITE. haha, yes, it does. being a college student, i am always, of course, up at midnite. therefore, i open the days present within the first few minutes of the day. i have a little christmas party every nite in my room a little after midnite. its very exciting. last year bree would often come in and take part in the celebration. sometimes at 11oclock, i will get real excited when i realize there's only one hour left till present opening!! SO all that to say, my mom rocks. and so do advent presents. my mom is cooler than your mom.

well hello there everyone ....happy thanksgiving!! hope all is going well.

so team awesome finished our totally krunk website. how krunk you say? well just check it out for yourself at http://davinci.tamu.edu/fall04/420/tbanet yes, this is what i've been doing for the entirety of last week. but i must say we did manage to have some solid good times. things i will remember about our project include, but are not limited to these top 5:
1. nerf guns
2. THE frisbee
3. the mouse
4. sonic
5. and of course, THAT GUY

seriously that took up most of my life last week. i also managed to participate in a mission project in north bryan, doing manual labor with a bunch of sorority girls. i must say, i was impressed. and we had a good time. we also had our youth rally near caldwell on saturday nite and it rocked the house.

i am in graham being thankful with my family. there were many funny things said today, but in order to maintain the privacy of our home, i will not reveal thim on this blog unfortunately for you.

so i had another road trip experience with matt and bree on the way to graham. we capitalized on 99cent sandwiches from arbys and happy hour at sonic. beautiful. in order that they could 'study' for the upcoming CPA exams, i drove. shortly, i was the only one in the car awake, happily listening to country music as we drove across the great state of texas. its a good feeling. soon everyone was awake, but sadly, it was too dark for studying, naturally. we took a detour, i.e. went the wrong road due to a logic error, and wound up at just the right brookshire's we were looking for in order for bree to purchase items for "ham pickle rollups." these are pretty good things to eat, though odd sounding.

oh yes, i do have a job for when i graduate. yay. i'm going to take the summer off to do some missions stuff and then start working in september. get excited! i'm excited but a little scared....

in store for tomorrow: sleeping in, naturally. eating leftovers, naturally. and watchin the fightin texas aggie football team btho t.u., naturally. WHOOP!

so its been craaazy times. yesterday megan and i were havin a little chat in my room whenever, after i'd say at least a good 30minutes, she says, "wow, your fan's leaking." sure enough, there was water dripping from my fan. in fact, water had been dripping there all day long, the entire bottom half of my bed was drenched and there was a water spot on the ceiling. it'd been raining all day long, by the way, thats where the water was coming from. maintenance actually came very quickly, and i quote, "clogged the hole". and emptied out the water from my fan. they came back today and supposedly all is better. now i just need to work on my observance skills i guess....odd, because i'm usually a most observant person. anyway, that was fun.

what else is fun? well, i have a brand new baby cousin here in town. yaaay! fun times.

i've been up at good ol' wehner and the wcl every nite this week for several hours minimum working alongside team awesome to build one heck of a website. thankfully this project is due on monday and we wont have to work on it anymore, regardless. sadly, we have another significant project in another class due the following monday.

but whats good? i have a job offer. this makes grades on these projects seem highly insignificant. if you want to hear about my offer, IM me or call or whatever and i'll give you the dl.

quote: "can money buy you love?.....umm, thats beyond the scope of this class." --reutzel

quote" are you IN this class?" --hnatt, to ME. me, of all people. who has attended faithfully his class mostly every time (weird, i know.) the following class period he tried to redeem himself by joking about his mistake, but it only made me feel worse. did this hurt my feelings? no not really. it ticked me off that i've been attending class since apparently he has no idea that i have been. note: this is not a large class. we're talking maybe 25 people? eh, well. what can ya do.

i have spent much agonizing thought this week on what to do with my life and many significant decisions. um, this is not very fun. in case you were wondering. but it is a good feeling to know that a whole lot of folks are praying for you. this weekend will be full of our project and also a youth rally and a missions project on saturday.

well, sorry that this isnt the greatest post. but i'm in trouble for not updating in a week, so had to slap something up. its back to sleep for me. i mean work....

here's some quotes from the ol profs.

"my, that is unattractive." --mrs. della whitcomb

"can you guys think??"--reutzel

"this is a problem the united states has been having for years...we're slowly getting heavier."--vaughn bryant (yeah, and fatter.)

"frankly, we should give a darn about this."--vaughn bryant


i just got back in town from doing an interview in san antonio. i had a really good time, it was a fun trip. we had a nice dinner overlooking the riverwalk, i enjoyed my personal suite at the hotel, and had a great time visiting the company. yay for will riding w/ me on the way down there and bringing totally awesome music along with him. also yay for san marcos outlet malls...

while i'm at it...
yay for mgmt project being completed...
yay for oregonians that rock my world :)
yay for mail-in rebates
yay for traveling expenses reimbursement checks
yay for the cool front that just blew in
yay yay yay for Someone who blows me away every day



i've been paralyzed with fear
immobilized by these doubts
i can think of nothing else
and somewhere i want nothing less
but the old part of me rises up
from where i'd crucified it
old dreams and hurts
unworthy of Your calling
trippin me up, freakin me out
i'm livin for less
where's the courage from knowing
the One who can do all?
if this is what tests my faith,
then maybe my faith is too small.....

sometimes it hurts so bad
i cant overcome it.
i'm not even sure why its there,
or have a clue as to how
to get it to go away.

but i'm holding on,
clinging to You.
better things are on the way.
its a testing time right now
and so far i've failed.
lift me up so i can stand.

my heart longs for
days gone by
and days to come,
and loathes the days i'm in.
but this is a day You have made
and You have a plan for me here.

so close. what a crazy fun krunk game. i've never heard anything so loud & crazy. my ears are still in pain. my throat is like ahh i hate you. and the aggies are 6-3. i was walking all the way home from the game b/c my car is broken and hmm there i was just walking when i spy $20 just chillin on the ground. so momentarily i am $20 richer, which turned out to be a real good thing, b/c my uncle fixed my car (good news!!! he rocks my world) but i'm a poorer person now. but $20 richer than i would have been. i felt really sad for whoever lost the bill, but am glad at my good fortune.

there's something about being at kyle field, that makes me become rather irrational. for some reason i truly believe that by simply yelling louder or waving a towel a little faster, i can somehow will the football players to make a good play. or perhaps if i will just jump up and down and act crazy then we just might win. eh well, its fun. i was watchin hi-lites on all the halftime shows and was feeling pretty proud. one poor stupid dude was trying to be nice to us i think but he clasped his hands and pointed up like a senior was going to whoop and then says 'gigem aggies'. no man, thats WHOOP. gig'em is thumbs up. geeze.

on thursday i began my career as a substitute teacher. i had a very luck class of third graders. we had a blast together, i was so nervous though. i got to do fun teacher things, like write on transparencies with the overhead projector, read books aloud and turn the book to show pictures, answer questions about tests, and give a spelling test. i also had recess duty. when i was a kid, i loved recess. it was good to experience recess again. i've heard horror stories of students in Bryan, but these kids were the sweetest and loved 'miss josefy'. they told me all sorts of fun stories and funny quotes. if you're interested, ask me about the girl whos pants were too tight, the boy who spits, the girl who cant stop hugging, our voting discussion, and the girl who's mama weighs 100 pounds. it really wore me out, but i hope to keep on doing once or twice a week.

well, vaughn bryant, my anthropology prof, took a step up in coolness this weekend, by allowing me to postpone taking his test in order to go to san antonio for an interview. not only did he allow this, he did it enthusiastically, encouragingly, and helpfully. encouragingly? hmm. anyway, i'm done. that game took it out of me.

the sharester network is calling it. i give W the W and JK the L.

election nite is fun times. its sorta like watching a sporting event. you can look on the computer in the morning and see who won but its just not the same as experiencing excruciating moment by excruciating moment. we sat around and ate rootbeer floats and made fun of news anchors and other buffoons they put on the networks on election nite. peter jennings was cracking me up:

"i apologize, the machine confused me." --peter jennings, trying to put votes up on the little map

"i have a lot of respect for you but i dont think you are correct" --peter jennings, SLAMMING some weirdo on his show, and jennings being the anchor, didnt even give the guy a chance to defend his point. haha. oh well.

i do enjoy college life where we can sit around all nite and laugh at psychos and eat ice cream and eagerly await the results. i've gotta actually go to bed though, i have substitute teaching orientation rather early tomorrow morning. should be exciting!

so i decided this semester is kind of a sad one.

top 5 things of interest from the last few days:
1. i had an interview w/ usaa on thursday. i should hear back about a 2nd round tomorrow.
2. i had my aunt&uncle over to dinner and my brother&his fiancee & a friend on saturday nite. it was fun times.
3. sat nite we lost to baylor. um. yeah.
4. we had a sunday school class cookout on fri nite that was way cool.
5. it finally feels like fall outside. yaaay.

quote of the day from classes today:

"well thats like when you spend a long time looking for your keys, and you finally find them and you're like, 'well that was stupid' but you are not mad at yourself, because you are just glad you have your keys." --mike hnatt, explaining looking for errors in a computer program

cool word: "fruitage" (see Isaiah 27:9 NIV)

If You say go,
we will go
If You say wait,
we will wait
If You say step out on the water
and they say it cant be done
We'll fix our eyes on You
and we will come

Your ways are higher than our ways
And the plans that You have made
are good and true
If You call us to the fire
You will not withdraw Your hand
We'll gaze into the flames
and look for You



very nice song.

so when you are eating a sandwich, it usually tastes better if you take the little papers off the cheese. yesterday i was sitting here, eating a really good sandwich, then i took a bite that tasted kinda weird, and i was like eww that tastes kinda weird, and its hard to chew. and i chewed and chewed and thought, this is disgusting. then i saw the paper sticking out of my sandwich. gross. so just a tip for ya.

my fam came down this weekend. whoop! we enjoyed a little koppe bridge and JCody's bbq and the fightin texas aggie football game. that wasnt the way i'd thought the game would go, but wow what a fun time. i really didnt think we deserved to win, the way we played, but i sure am glad that we did. the weather was blah though, i mean seriously its been in the high 80s here in C.S. all week. is it almost november or are we stuck in september some how?

"i sure hoped it would rain. this shirt needs to be washed." -mark at the football game.

in fact, all the guys were definitely wearing their swim suits w/ their maroon out shirts, just in case it happened to rain.

sunday night i stayed up all nite working on a computer program. mark is my new hero for staying up most of the nite helping me with it. too bad the program specifications had fatal errors in them. which we discovered when we went to class. ohh the frustration. but its cool, i've got it pretty much up and running, and hey, gotta keep perspective on this stuff. i do believe thats the first time i've ever stayed up all nite for the purpose of school work. usually, if i'm up all nite its because i'm out having fun, and if i have hw due, i just forget it. i need my sleep.

so yah, yesterday is pretty much a blur b/c i was so sleep deprived. in fact, hahahaha i tripped going up the stairs in wehner. yep. hahaha. smoothness.

yikes, i gotta go to anthropology class and watch some movie there.

ya, i definitely got this email today:

We are back home this weekend for the first time in three weeks, and our team is still talking about the last home game when you caused Kansas State some problems that helped us win. I have a simple request -please come back and do it again.I’m told that there’s room for a few thousand more up there across from our bench. We’ve never won against Colorado at Kyle Field in two tries, and after them we have two of our ranked Big 12 South rivals coming to town, Oklahoma and Texas Tech. You will be a great help to us by cramming into the stands and yelling with even more volume than K-State experienced.The coaching staff, the players, and I are sincerely grateful for and proud of having over 23,000 students at our home games--more than any place else in college football--standing, yelling and, we hope, kissing often, from start to finish. “The Home of the 12th Man” at Kyle Field is crunk. (I try to learn from players...)
Gig ‘em!Coach Fran

nice.

there's something in me that longs to be different
while the rest cries out to be the same.




i dont know what its like
to care about just one thing
to hear a small voice
in a crowd thats roaring
to turn from all that draws me
and live for the One who calls me
suddenly everything i noticed
didnt seem all that big
all the loves i'd been pursuing
faded away into just this
to seek You, to find You
to hide myself
and show You

so a lot has been going on since my previous post. i ended up going to west texas for the weekend, marking my 3rd friday in a row of skipping classes. i would seek to make it a month of classless fridays, but alas, i have 2 tests this friday, so i suppose i will attend. my brother & his fiancee had a couple wedding showers on saturday, that i went to, and so that was yay fun, and i did some bridesmaid duties, because, i am, of course, a good bridesmaid like that. friday & saturday i got to see some good friends from midland, which rocked. gotta love that place. and, wow, the aggies kicked osu in an amazing game. the only thing that made that game more amazing was that i was eating ROSAS during the middle of it (whoop!) and that i was watching it with some people that are perhaps my favorite people in the world.

on the way home from midland, we had a little blow out near big spring, about 30 miles into our trip. it being a sunday afternoon, of course most places were closed. thankfully the walmart was open, but of course there was a 2 hr wait, naturally. we ended up buying a tire there, and taking it down to a truck place to be put on, and hopefully saved some time in there somewhere. we ended up getting back late. perhaps it was these circumstances though, that led us to develop an exciting fun new hobby. ladies & gentlemen, let me introduce you to texas roadside assistance, if you are not familiar. the number is on the back of your drivers license, and oh is it fun. we saw a poor man (or a rich man, i'm not sure) walking along the road, we think his car had broken down. we didnt stop, because it was dark, and that would be dangerous. besides, we had no physical room in the car for him. BUT we did our civil duty, and called texas roadside assistance, who sent a state trooper to go see if this man needed some help. and we felt very good about ourselves. bree then spent the rest of the trip looking for more things to call in. yes, a truly exciting hobby if you are ever driving on the road and are bored. i believe the number is 1-800-525-5555.

lets see. i heard a lot of funny quotes this weekend. but i didnt write most of them down, sadly. however, i have some from some classes and a few from this weekend, that i will share. i hope that you enjoy them and have a great evening. and GO ASTROS, that game last nite was incredible. and i got a new cell phone. finally. yay for me. i am no longer self conscious about my cell phone that takes two hands to hold up to my ear. just kidding. but do yall remember those things? most of you know that i'm also a little self conscious about my major. well, on monday i decided to indulge in a chic-fil-a sandwich rather than my usual brownbag lunch (and yes, i do indeed pack my lunch in a brown bag, naturally) and as i was walking through that building on west campus where the lunch place is located, i happened to notice a girl reading a book entitled 'pictoral anatomy of cats'. and suddenly i didnt feel so badly about my major after all.

"today is your final day before destiny....in other words, your test is on tuesday." -bryant

"we have a lot to go through, so we need to go like.....a hellican. haha." --bryant

"nevertheless, they all died." --bryant

"usually you buy your first wife. that gives you prestige. then you just steal the rest of them" --bryant

"imagine an alien from another planet who lands on earth after a nuclear holocaust has destroyed all life but has left undamaged terrestrial libraries and archives." --the opening statements of ch 4 of my anthropology textbook (what?!?! i refuse to imagine this situation because it is absurd)

"i meant to bring the 5 dollars i found in my pants." --bree

"i was prematurely exiting the function. i dont know what i was thinking." --will (a little info humor for ya)

"anyway, back to the point....i forgot what the point was. o yeah. the class doesnt speak much so i was comparing yall to mutes." --mike hnatt

"its kinda like what you were saying....what were you saying?"--reutzel

"sharon? i think if she said she was impregnated by the Holy Spirit people would believe her." --matt (uhh, yeah, thanks matt)

"yeah, any time we were in trouble we had to stand up and hold our instruments overhead, so of course the flutes were like eh, and the tubas were like ugggh." --bree, remembering old band days

"she tells me 'you're the best person i know'.....and thats pretty sad."

"alrite, alrite. i forget its the class that is mute." --hnatt

so i had the "bright" idea to change up the look and feel of my blog. in doing so, i managed to lose all the comments posted and also my little counter down at the bottom. i'm sad. from now on i will seek to satisfy my craving for change in other avenues, not this blog.

two things happened today. 1 being i went to class, the other being i wrote down a few quotes (!). so here they are:

"even today Roman numerals are viewed as sexy. try putting on them your wedding invitations and everyone will think, wow this person must be very important. they will have to go look it up in the dictionary to know what you are talking about." --bryant. (i dont think i'll pass this on to my brother and his fiancee, tempted as i am)

"he [leonardo pisano fibonacci] is best known today for his famous Fibonacci sequence (f1=f2=1, fn+1=fn+fn-1), he developed it to explain how rabbits multiply, but now it is most used to predict things in finance." --from bryant's power point slides (what kind of sickos make up junk like this?!?)

"you know the story, leave a couple rabbits, come back in a few years and you have a million of them. if you dont believe it, ask the Australians." --bryant


yep, so that was my exciting anthropology class today. in other news.....

i ordered new eyeglasses today.....
i applied to be a substitute teacher in Bryan ISD, haha "teacher sharon"...
anyone who's read 'The Great Divorce' by C.S. Lewis, shoot me an IM...
group projects are annoying. i'm stuck with 3 of them this semester...
a&m creeped into the polls. HA to you doubters...
i still havent gotten my stinkin new student ID card...
i did, however, get my new license plates...
note: if anyone ever rips your license plate off, just go by your county tax office, the same place you register your car at, take in your license plate that is hopefully left, fork over $6.30 and voila, you will receive new plates. do not however, think you can pay with a Visa or Mastercard check card b/c this is unacceptable. you will have to get cash out of the atm, and unless you bank with First American Bank, you will be charged $1.75. consider this a public service announcement
ezekiel 16 is a way cool chapter, you should check it out...
(v24---does God approve of nose rings?!?!! :-) )

You say You can do more than I imagine
and my dreams are pretty big
All I've ever hoped for
and everything I need
is found in losing me.
Its time to take the test and see
just where my faith is taking me.
I'll follow though I cant see with my eyes,
I know its Your hand thats leading me.

"Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you." --Psalm 19.10

so i had another incredible weekend. eveyln and i participated in an outreach survey deal with the church on friday nite, and wow what a craazy deal. we met some interesting characters and dealt with some frustration, and overall things turned out alrite i think.

my family was here for yesterday and today and i had a blast with them. i hadnt seen them all semester, so thats quite a long time. my extended fam was in town to, we were having a baby shower for my aunt. a 6hr baby shower. yep, us josefys, we now how to throw a kickin party, let me just tell ya.

a song thats really been on my heart this weekend is 'o praise him' by david crowder. the first verse talks about:
turn your ear to heaven and hear
the noise inside
the sound of angels awe
the sound of angels songs
and all this for a King
we could join and sing
all to Christ the King

and the second verse talks about:
turn your gaze
to heaven and raise
a joyous noise
the sound of salvation come
the sound of rescued ones
and all this for a King
angels join to sing
all for Christ our King

and theres other parts, talking praising the Lord because He's holy.

turns out one of my friends from midland, her dad got killed in a car wreck yesterday. when i found out last nite, i was really crushed with just the pain she must be going through. and listening to my friend who was with her when it happened, just share the difficulty of walking through that with someone. its not something i understand, and hope that i never have to understand. but in the midst of that, and knowing the hope and peace that will prevail in their family because of Christ, i was struck with the thought that her dad is in heaven now. in one moment he was with us, longing to join in with the angels. and now he's there, singing with them, experiencing the presence of the Lord on a level we can only long for until the day that He takes us to Himself as well. and that is the sweet hope we have in Christ that makes it worth getting up tomorrow, and every day after that, striving to live a life that pleases Him, until we too join that massive multitude around the throne of God.

Revelation 7......
after this i looked up and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the the throne, and to the Lamb"....
these are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes...

a special treat: a sampling of quotes from days gone by. a top 10 of sorts.

10. "I cant believe I look like Michael Jackson." --kara

9. "Concept testing is where you test the concept."--conant

8. "Don't call yourself stupid, just pressurized." --mrs. p

7. "See, I've heard this multiple times, and I still think its funny. Thats funny." --sara

6. "Everyone says be who you are. I say thats crap! I say if you like him better than you like yourself, then be him. Be who you want to be." --travis e.

5. "wait, whats that white thing in the middle of the sand??"--evelyn, at the astros game
"huh? .......that's second base." -me
"i thought they would run all the way around near the wall."--evelyn
"thats really far"-me
"well they ARE professionals." -evelyn

4. "yeah, yeah, omnipresence is Him being everywhere at once, omniscient is where He is all knowing, omnipotence is where He is all powerful, and omish is where you make wooden furniture." --chris hoover

3. "Dude. Its a joke. Laugh. Blow snot out your nose. " --sara

2. "Lets focus on this chapter, fully, yet exclusively." --conant

1. "Have we gotten anything done yet? Why start now?" --mrs. p

mrs. p's quote wins b/c it sums up my ideology very well. what does ideology mean? i'm not sure, but it sounded right.

a random quote for you to end this evening:
'one of the hardest things in the world is to watch the one you love, love someone else.'

i thought that i understood that on a certain level. but sometimes, i wonder, if God feels that way about me. hmm.

an account of my evening:

5pm: fully intending to write computer program that was originally due today and is now due on wednesday, that i havent started on, up at the WCL beginning at 8pm

7:30pm: accepted invite to free dinner at JCody's with my bro and co. hope to go to WCL at about 9.

9:30pm: just getting back to my brothers apt. figure i will make it to the WCL about 10:30pm.

Midnite: yeah, i never made it to the WCL. o well.

hmm. yes, i heard a couple funny quotes tonite:

at JCodys, TONITE, bear in mind that today was monday.

Mark: i think i will go home and take a shower.
Matt: yeah, i had a great shower before we left.
Mark: yeah, i did too.....saturday nite.

a random comment: 'well her apology didnt change her personality"

coming soon....a "best of..." quote post.

so i had a really good weekend. friday night i went with the business honors association down to houston. we got a really cool tour of minute maid park and watched the astros game. fun game, and i'm glad they clinched a playoff spot today, even if i couldnt keep my eyes open past the 4th inning. but friday's game rocked and it was a fun trip down to houston, my fourth time down there since school started, believe it or not. once to help bree find her wedding dress, once for an awesome jeremy camp concert, once to lead worship, and then to the astros game. phew.

saturday i went to the a&m game, which was awesome time. we had incredible seats too, south 30yd line, row 4 on 2nd deck. beautifulness. i was so excited we won! my throat hurts really bad today though.

some interesting quotes:

(i dont have any quotes from class on friday because, well, i'll let you guess why.)

"wait, whats that white thing in the middle of the sand??"--evelyn, at the astros game
"huh? .......that's second base." -me
"i thought they would run all the way around near the wall."--evelyn
"thats really far"-me
"well they ARE professionals." -evelyn

"I studied by the pool today, it was awesome. Whenever I was about to fall asleep I just jumped up and went swimming." -evelyn

Evelyn totally rocks my world!! I've never met a brazilian i liked better. :)

--Paul, in Philippians 1:20-21
"I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed but now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain."

**The opposite of shame is honor. For most of us, if we feel shame, the opposite would be that we would feel honored.
**But Biblically, the opposite of feeling shame would not be that we would feel honored, but that Christ would be honored.
**What you love determines what you feel shame about.

--Christine Hoover, teaching on magnifying Christ through pain and death

"Perhaps your greatest problem is not that you don't know the will of God, but that you are unwilling to do it." --Pastor Tim Owens

i was fully convinced that today was thursday. imagine my surprise when i discovered it was indeed wednesday.

i have a few quotes, but they aren't the best. be patient, i'm getting back in the habit of listening for them.

"basically, the zebra personality sucks." -bryant

"if you suffer from bad diseases your bones will tell the tale" -bryant

"what is mutation? its when you make 1000 xerox copies and 1 of them comes out a little fuzzy" - bryant

"well, thanks, it wasn't really my idea. Dr Welch was telling us how to teach, and he said do this, because otherwise you could totally suck at teaching and not even know it. at least if you do this you know you suck." - c reutzel, regarding our midterm teacher evaluations

"we're gonna start off with putting this round circle in the middle...well i guess thats what a circle is, round." - d whitcomb

"i dropped my electric razor in the toilet" - marcus, yeah, you'll have to ask him about it

only when you're in college do you...
1. go to bed at 2 and still get 8 hrs of sleep
2. pay $400 for books you dont want to read
3. take naps in the afternoons
4. get irritated if class lasts 1 min longer than it should, after you got there 5min late
5. become extremely confused as to what they are asking for when they say 'your address'
.......

so i'm back in texas. i had an incredible, incredible summer in oregon. seriously, there are no words to describe all that the Lord taught me and that He did this summer. and the people there, rock my face off. hi quality people. i miss them.

here i am back at texas a&m, enjoying my senior (?!?!?!?!?!) yr. yes, the current plan is to indeed go ahead and graduate in may i suppose. i was hoping to give quotes from my classes again this yr, but they are just not as conducive. I will make an attempt though.

So let me introduce you to my profs:
i have mrs. della whitcomb for 2 classes, oddly enough, both Complex Business Application design in VB.NET and Systems Analysis and Design. she is the nicest nicest lady i have met at texas a&m. she says cool things sometimes.

i have a phD student chris reutzel for Strategic Mgmt, also a nice fellow, but pretty cut and dry.

also i have mr mike hnatt, of info 210 fame. i am taking web development class with him. he is hilarious and an awesome guy. today he described his thyroid problem to us, after which he said, 'why you tell 50 people you dont know that story, i'll never know..." i dont know either but those things he does randomly share w/ us, will probably make up the majority of these postings.

i also, for anthropology 205, have mr. bryant. dr. bryant? i'm not sure. we had a guest lecture for the first few weeks till the first test. this is the boringest class ever. hopefully bryant will have some funny things to say.

anyway, thats a look at my 15 hours. this past weekend i went w/ a group from the church down to houston to lead worship. chris hoover, our music minister over at FBC Bryan, is the world's funniest man, i think. i was laughing pretty much the entire way there and back. 2 quotes from him to close out this post:

"yeah, yeah, omnipresence is Him being everywhere at once, omniscient is where He is all knowing, omnipotent is where He is all powerful, and omish is where you make wooden furniture."

"i'm convinced that dolphins are really aliens ready to take over the world, they're just waiting to get it all figured out. in fact, they simply lack arms. once they figure that out, i think they'll take over."

other random catching up type things,

on thursday i got my fightin texas aggie class ring....whoop! my roommate megan then surprised me w/ a ring dunking party on sunday. whoop again!

somebody stole my license plate off my car on friday nite while i was gone in houston and it was parked in the ghetto of Bryan--the FBC Bryan parking lot. seriously, it stinks. i did some investigating and apparently I can get a new one for $6.50. so yeah, just go to the Dept. Of Transportation (texas, not ptts) website and go to FAQ's and you'll find it and the number and all that. there, now ya know what to do if someone steals your stinkin license plate.

tonite my pastor and his wife, my friend and i solved all the worlds problems. it was fun. seriously, it was an incredible time of conversation that i was sad had to end...i love to hear about God's faithfulness and to be challenged by those who have walked so many years with the Lord. i guess for me it just kept coming down to praising the name of the Lord. He is so faithful to us and His greatness and knowledge are so much more than we can fathom. It makes me excited to be alive and to be His child. And to know that He has it all under His competent control just makes things so much less stressful.

if i could sum up one thing the Lord has taught me this year, He taught me about the body of Christ. He taught me how to build up, how to allow others to build me up, how to pass on His teachings, how to be there for others in times of need, how to encourage one another. Yes, I saw the body of Christ at work at my church, in our Upstream group, in my friendships. I know its real and I know it works and that makes me excited.

i finally lined up some things to do this week that should be fun...a little basketball, a little babysitting, a little eating with others, a little bit of baseball, a little hanging out with friends. let me know how you guys are doin, enjoyin the break and such...

so i have completed my second year at texas a&m. i have conquered mrs. p's class...i was sorta sad as i handed in my final. it was a fine class. i finally met conant as i was leaving that final exam...it was a touching moment, to speak with a man who has provided so many laughs to so many people. not to mention, i learned a lot about marketing from him. i just saw that i made an A in his class, with only 4 points to spare. phew.

now i am chilling in midland after spending mon nite in graham with my dad. the fam heads to graham for good june 1. i have done absolutely nothing for the past 2 days. in fact, yesterday i never even went anywhere in my car. the only time i left the house was when i went for a walk in the afternoon. what can i say, i'm a bum. tonite i went and watched my little brother Jared, whom we affectionately refer to as JRod, play his baseball game. they lost, but i must say i do enjoy little league baseball games. on saturday i'm going with my parents to watch him play with his select team in a tourney in abilene. in a couple weeks the whole fam is going to watch him play in ruidoso and stay a couple nites....i will be at summer missions orientation in dallas, naturally. thanks fam. oh well. i'm pumped about oregon coming up.

i must say though that i'm a little sad as this will DEFINITELY be my last time in Midland where i shall live at 2602 Shandon. sad day. it has been my home since 1993. i shall share with you all some of my memories from this place:

1. one of the earliest memories was when matt and i got our last spankings. so far, anyway. i believe i was in 3rd grade and he in 5th. and we were fighting over.....a trapperkeeper. yes, a trapper keeper. remember those? we got a little loud in our yelling, and our dad got off work a little early that day. oops. it was his trapperkeeper, matts, but he SAID i could HAVE IT, he claims he said BORROW. i cant recall who actually kept the trapperkeeper.

2. it was this house that we played legos in my room on the floor every saturday morning for hours and hours. back then i had a hardwood floor, no carpet, which was perfect for legos. i miss those days.

3. it was one of those sat mornings playing legos that my parents came back there and told us that our Poppy had died. that was my mom's dad, a really awesome Christian man. that was a sad day that i still remember.

4. the front living room used to be our "school room" for the 2yrs we homeschooled. i remember doing many a math worksheet and a timed reading review in that room.

5. there was the christmas we got the ping pong table. and all the tournaments on it. its all folded away now. :(

6. my 7th grade year we had disciple now here for the 7th grade girls. many a things happened that weekend. they are not fit for this blog, haha. but oh do we remember them.

7. there was that Christmas matt and i got new bikes and dad hid them in the guest bathroom. haha, that was funny.

8. and the time we got the basketball goal. i have spent more time in our driveway playing on that bball goal than perhaps anywhere else. well maybe not, but i have spent a lot of time doing that.

9. wall ball against the shop wall with the millers and the ashlocks. ohhh man, were those the days.

10. we have had many sunday school parties and thanksgiving dinners and easter egg hunts here at 2602 shandon w/ really cool friends

11. haha, one time after we first moved here tiffany came with her dad who dropped by to welcome us to the church. we sat out in the sun room and were eating pecans and tiffany ate part of a shell and she really freaked out. it was hilarious.

12. it was here that i spent my first nite alone in the house, with the fam out of town. i was a little skeered, but i survived.

13. i spent many many a nite washing dishes in this kitchen. yeah, pretty much.

14. this is probably boring you. i'm bored myself. oh well. thats all for now.

NO MORE CLASSES! WHOOP!

whoop also for a 90 in database. 542 of 600 points. only 2 points of effort wasted in overachieving to receive an A.

i have a few more quotes to wrap up with from last week, hope you enjoy them. props to mrs. p for reading my lil site. now if only your final doesnt kill any of us....

"I used to show all this verbage and THEN the example." --mrs. p (verbage. excellent word usage.)

"That has always sounded so vile to me...I don't want to catch a thread death." --mrs. p (a little computer humor for ya there)

"There was an organization at that time called the Gray Panthers, which is a group of seniors that are fairly aggressive." --conant

"I was watching the Food Network the other night. One of my favorite networks. Some of you may enjoy it as well." --conant

"Mel Gibson's recent movie used the word 'passion' in its title." --conant (really? i must have missed that one)

"Let's back up the food chain." --conant

"None of us like to be stereotyped." --conant

"There's nothing more frustrating in the marketplace than encountering an employee who knows very little." --conant

"Lately I've been on this candy...phase. Although I'm not eating a lot of it, I'm looking at the industry." --conant (thats a good line)

"This is nitty gritty detective work." --conant (yeah it is)

And for my final quote of the semester:

"Everyone says be who you are. I say, that's crap! I say if you like him better than you like yourself, then be him. Be who you want to be." --travis, naturally

i hope you have enjoyed conant and mrs. p and the other contributors as much as i have. its been a great semester. looking forward to my summer and also the fall. keep checkin back i'm sure i'll find some interesting stuff to put up. better make it a favorites spot tho, cuz i'm probably signing off IM for a long while. so shoot me some emails, friends! and have a very nice summer.