Day One...Can You say Procrastination?

Hey!

This is my first time trying this out, so here it goes! Just wanted a place to post some stuff about me...I figure that I'm lousy at keeping in touch with people and often don't have the email addresses and/or phone numbers necessary to do so, so spread the word! You will no longer need to be wondering what I'm up to.

University's going awesomely. I kinda wish I didn't have class because it's just so fun without it. The homework and (practically) literal mountain of books I always have staring me in the face intimidates and just forces me to be on the computer so I can procrastinate from reading them. Think of all the things I could be doing if I didn't have all this "reading"! lol...

This weekend's going to be a busy one. I have a paper for my ENGL 251 Expository and Persuasive Writing class (ew) due Monday that I WAS working on this morning until I thought I'd try to figure this out again. Tuesday I have my last midterm (YAY!) in, you guessed it, yet another English class--302, Shakespeare Histories and Tragedies. Maybe I'll rent the movies over the weekend so I have a clue what's going on. lol...no, it's not that bad, I just feel like I'm always a step behind lately. How does one hope to maintain any sort of social life without falling behind in absolutely every subject, and how does one be studious without becoming a hermit in her own house? Speaking of going into hiding, I CAN'T WAIT until The Phantom of the Opera comes out in theatre. I AM SO THERE...it isn't out yet, is it? hmmmm...I don't know...if it is, wow. I'm pumped about that.

Yep, I'm pretty much loving life right now. I'm having a blast at home with Trisha, soap fights, and The Weakest Link over supper and all. You're a blast, pooky (inside joke from that Swiffer commercial where the woman is preparing her office for a corporate meeting, making sure everything's just perfect. Her husband is on the speaker phone while the people she's about to have this big meeting with are standing in the doorway. The husband is hooked on the Swiffer at the house and is explaining step by step what he's cleaning, and the wife is like, "That's good, honey. That's nice," completely disinterested/preoccupied. Then the husband says over the phone, "And do you know what I'm going to clean next? The bedroom, mu little pooky smooky dooky..." and all conversation happening amongst the woman's corporate stop their conversation immediately and the wife practically dives on the phone to shut off speaker phone...it's hilarious)!

Ya, another reason why life is good is because GOD IS! Ever since IVCF retreat He's really been working in my life in a number of ways and it's really exciting to see what the future, including today, has in store for me! He's shifting my ideology re: what my future should include, and although tough, He's there guiding me every step of the way. Lately I've been learning that if we just tell Him that we're absolutely NOTHING without Him, He'll take the things (talents, abilities, etc.) that He gave us in the first place, and use it for His glory. I really feel like He's been using me lately and if there's anything more humbling, it's that. I am nothing without Him! My prayer is that of the apostle John's: "He must become greater; I must become less." (Jn. 3:30). It's easy to say, but I think I'll be spending a lifetime trying to achieve that one!! Devotions are SO critical to my life right now. I feel like a day is a waste if I don't finish it off right. I have to do devos at night, regardless of whether it's 2:00a.m. (which it has been for the last few weeks b/c I always get my second wind at about midnight). What I'm trying to work on during devos is reading through the NT and actually listen God when I pray too. I started in Romans (don't ask why I didn't start at the beginning) and am in 1 Corinthians now. After Bible School it was like I subconsciously believed that I had had enough Bible study for awhile. That's really hurt me these last couple of years b/c I'm having to work now at memorization and stuff now. It's coming back to me, but if I hope to be any sort of missionary for God here at University, I NEED TO KNOW MY STUFF! Being a Christian is quite the responsibility! I honestly feel privileged though!!!

Alright, enough ramble, I should stop procrastinating and go work on my paper some more.
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~Jen