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