time to 'fess up

This may come as no surprise to some of you...especially those of you who have been anywhere near West Lafayette or me lately.

j'ai updaté

I just got promoted and it feels like summer outside and I have two midterms tomorrow and I really like this CD.

Such is life at 338 Wood, Windsor Residence Halls.

OK, so the promotion is supposed to happen. Once you write 3-5 stories, unless they totally stink, you get assigned to a desk. So I turned in my third story today, and my editor is like, "You're out of here!" She assigned me to Campus which is exactly where I want to be. Now I get to be on the second page sometimes or maybe even the first page, and I can seek out my own stories if I want to. Way cool :-).

And I guess it doesn't quite feel like summer. More like spring but it is still very nice indeed.

The midterms however are totally real. One French presentation and one written French test. You would think my French teachers got together and decided to make my life miserable this week. I have a vocab quiz on Thursday and an oral exam on Friday. Sometimes I wonder why I decided to take two French classes....I better know this language by the end of the semester!

OK, it is time to say au revoir and return to studying/researching/practicing/etc.

this is why

There are things people do that I don't understand. They say things they don't mean and they do things they know they shouldn't. Sometimes they say they're sorry but I wonder if they really mean it.

There's things God does or lets happen that I don't understand. There is supposed to be a divine plan in there somewhere but all I see is a muddled mess of human emotions.

Then comes the part where I do things I don't understand. I know that humans are fickle and fallen but God isn't seeming so great either. I stare at the ceiling and there are strange wet things in my eyes and my mouth is screaming
WHY GOD?




Has this ever happened to you? You would think I would learn. And I have learned. I have learned that for some reason that makes utterly no sense, God always answers me. When I think I have lost hope I find it again. And that makes me ask again, why God? Why do You care enough about me to show me when I'm so very wrong?

you know a bona fide newspaper reporter

Yes, it's true. I actually get paid for talking to people and writing stuff about it. In other words, I am now a reporter for Purdue's student newspaper, the Exponent. And here is my very first article!! It's nothing spectacular but it is fun to see my name in print. In a few weeks the novelty will have worn off and you guys will have to go find my stories for yourselves.

bein happy beats not bein happy

It is absolutely gorgeous weather outside and I have wonderful friends...how could life get any better? (Well, if there were a horse outside my dorm waiting for me to hop on his back...)

I seriously do have the best roommate in the world. Wanna know why?

On Saturday she slept in Katie's room so that Bekah and Ana and I would have enough room in our dorm room. Apparently she and Katie stayed up til six after Bekah, Ana, Patrick, Kara, Liz, and I left. Bekah and Ana and I were extremely good and only talked til four.

On Sunday Amber and Jacob came up to Lafayette, too, and we were all hanging out in my dorm room and being extremely distracting, I'm sure, while she was half-heartedly doing Calculus (ugh!). After the five of us went to church and Fireside Chat at the Long's I came back and instead of being like, whew, I have the room to myself, Tiffany says, "It was fun getting to know your friends better!" And then we stayed up til 3 talking about stuff (I do sleep sometimes, just not this weekend). The conclusion of our discussion was that it was completely totally a God-thing that we ended up as roommates. We get along rather well in case you can't tell that yet :-).

So, now I am heading over to Andrew and Josh and Ross'...Kara and I are going to cook. By our own enthusiastic choice, might I add. Then Liz and I are going swing dancing. Then I am going to come back and finish the Lab Report I started in Soc class (during another lecture by the dude pictured below).

I hope you are all feeling as blessed as I do right now...God is amazing.

what this school is teaching me

This isn't the best scan in the world, but it does give you an idea of what I do when I am in Sociology class. I figured out recently that drawing keeps me from falling asleep. Another thing that keeps me awake is counting how many times he says "in essence" (24 on Tuesday!) or "at the end of the day" (none today--very remarkable! But he made up for it by adding a new one to the list--"undoubtedly"). Of course I also take notes but since he repeats everything a minimum of five times there is plenty of time for doodling or whatever in between.

Have a happy day! And remember...when life hands you the world's most boring professor, make art!!

illusions in my head?

Quick slice of life moment...

Place: 3rd floor dorm room
Time: between Comm class and Sociology Tuesday afternoon
Who: good little girl studying for her Chemistry test while she listens to this...

I wanna meet up with you
And show you what I'm thinking
I'll take you anywhere
That you wanna go
I'm sitting here bored and lonely and
You know that anytime you're free
To show me how you feel
I'll take it anywhere that you want to go
Anywhere that you wanna go
And I'd make it right if you wanted it
I want it back more than you know
I'd cross the line if you wanted it
I want you back

And I'm waiting for you
To get that feeling once again
Reunited in the end
And I've been waiting for you
To capture my imagination
Cuz I've been fooled by the illusions in my head
In my head

Now I realize I never had it so good
You took me anywhere I wanted to go
Now I'm sitting here dreaming of the days we led
Anytime I wanted I could show you how I feel
I can't go anywhere that I want to go
Anywhere that I want to go

And I'd make it right if you wanted it
I want it back more than you know
I'd cross the line if you wanted it
I want you back
And I'm waiting for you
To get that feeling once again
Reunited in the end
And I've been waiting for you
To capture my imagination
Cuz I've been fooled by the illusions in my head
In my head

I'll take it anywhere
I'll take it anywhere
I'll take it anywhere
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go
And I'd make it right if you wanted it
I want it back more than you know
I'd cross the line if you wanted it
I want you back
I'm waiting for you
To get that feeling once again
Reunited in the end
I've been waiting for you
To capture my imagination
Cuz I've been fooled by the illusions in my head

And I've been fooled by the illusions in my head
And I've been fooled by the illusions in my head

(Trust me, it is good studying music, at least for Chemistry.)

Bonus points for anyone who can identify both the song and title without looking it up!! Extra EXTRA bonus points for anyone who has listened to it this week! And free dinner for anyone else who listens to it while studying for Chemistry tests :-).

it IS the weekend

I think the weekend is starting...it's Friday afternoon and I've finished all my classes for the day...yes, I think the weekend has begun! And if that's not good enough, I am also eating a peanut butter and banana sandwich. My what bliss! And it's gorgeous outside! So gorgeous that it doesn't matter that Ross still has my coat. (Now, none of this would have happened if Ross didn't have a girly coat to start with...) And I went "spiritual survey" taking with my Bible study leader and we met this girl who seemed really interested in figuring out exactly the point of Jesus Christ. So that was very cool :-). After that I went to this meeting for an internship that somehow had interested me somewhere in the distant past... and ended up being completely disgusted with their idea of success=money=happiness. I felt like screaming right then and there but that probably wouldn't have been a good thing to do. Instead I politely refused the offer and came home to my lovely peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Now, I need to do homework, among other things, so that I can go swing dancing tonight!! There is a dance in Elliot Hall of Music on the stage (which is huge) and a live band. It should be lots of fun.

OK there are things I need to do that are more important than blogging...not that blogging doesn't have its place!