Hello electronic audience. Its been quite a while since I’ve taken the time to jot down my thoughts. There are several reasons for this. First, I have been busy. Two summer jobs plus support raising didn’t leave me with tons of leisure time, and the support process really just took a lot of energy from me. By the end of the day, I just didn’t have much left to say. Secondly, let’s be honest: It was summer and not a lot was going on in my life. Nothing worthy of blogging, anyway. Thirdly, I saw the movie “Julie and Julia” at the beginning of August, and the perspective on blogging presented in the movie was convicting. Julie’s sweet husband proclaims that blogging is fulfilling because its “all you all the time.” Wow. I felt narcissistic for even having my own piece of the cyber universe here on wordpress. Take all of these factors combined, and you get an empty blog.
But change is in the air. Its WOW (week of welcome) here at Cal Poly, which means the air is abuzz with pre-fall excitement and the streets are filled with wide-eyed and (sometimes) inebriated freshman. What a place. I love it. I also love that I have spent the last week with our SLO Crusade staff team planning awesome ways to reach every single student with the love of Jesus. For the record, I love my job.
There have been several opportunities for me to write. A few of the things I’ve wanted to write about were: Don Miller’s perspective on singleness, awkward phone conversations that happened while support raising, and all of the tiny miracles that make summer wonderful. But I’ll do my best to keep you (my friends, family & support team) updated from here on out. No guarantees on frequency of posts, but I am so very excited to share with you about how this life is unfolding.
This isn’t a Christian song. Far from it. But the message is cool. I have definitely felt the God of the universe whisper this to me in the past few months.
so let go, jump in
oh well, whatcha waiting for
it’s alright
’cause there’s beauty in the breakdown
so let go, just get in
oh, it’s so amazing here
it’s alright
’cause there’s beauty in the breakdown
such boundless pleasure
we’ve no time for later now
you can’t await your own arrival
you’ve 20 seconds to comply
The message is continual, gentle, persistent. He uses all means possible to convey the message…even Frou Frou lyrics. The Most High God, creator of all things cares about my heart. Now that is crazy. CRAZY. He cares about yours too. I’m not just pulling this out of thin air. I have tasted and seen the goodness of the Lord while I am in the land of the living. But don’t take my word for it:
Let go…see the beauty in the breakdown. (2 Corinthians 12:1-10)
I should be writing my final paper for Neruda right now (hey! cut me some slack…I’m on page 4 of 8…and its not due til Thurs) but instead of writing, I wanna show you this video. The thought of it keeps interrupting my writing because it is so stinkin’ funny! I hate cats, but I still love this!
D on my French midterm. I can’t say I’m surprised….I gave up studying to go to June for the weekend. My prof gave this really depressing lecture to our class before he handed the exams back. He kept saying he was how he wasn’t sure how our class was doing so poorly. I just braced myself, and wasn’t too hurt because it turns out my 64% is one percent higher than the median. The worst was that my prof wrote on my exam IN ENGLISH (a big deal for a fool who considers himself too good for it most of the time) the word: disappointing. He drew an arrow on the paper from the word “disappointing” to my work and to the directions for the section. I guess he just wanted to grind it into my brain that I misread the directions. As if I didn’t realize it from my lack of points for the section. My bad.
Good news though. This is what I did instead of studying for the better grade:
worth it:
Neruda says “Hay que vivir la vida.”
Prof. Kennelly says: “Restez à la maison et étudiez.”
I’ll admit it….I’m in a majorly procrastinating mood right now. So here I sit, procrastinating in the Mac lab on the second floor of the Cal Poly library. I decided to do a little photo journalism to help you understand what’s going on (thank you photo booth!!!). This is my procrastinating face, I’m pretty sure:
I should be writing my Spanish essay on bilingual education. Oh well.
In other news, I am wearing a Veritas Forum shirt for the 5th time this week…I hope I don’t smell like B.O. too badly:
Also, my backpack, endearingly dubbed “Old Faithful,” is on its last leg. The zipper is crazy and causes the contents of the pack to spill out all over the place at least once a day. As much as I love her, I’ll admit its an inconvenience. Sadly, there is a tear between the canvas and the leather bottom.
It is quite sad, because she’s been my faithful companion since 4th grade, before I even went to school. I used to load up my New Adventure Bible and 3 ring binder for Community Bible Study in Old Faithful and go off to homeschool Bible study. Nice. I do love her, and I will miss her when she must finally be laid to rest:
You should come. Also, I’m excited because it says ‘Porn’ on my shirt…a promotion for the event. I had better stop this photo booth madness…the other guy in the lab is starting to look at me like I’m crazy. Maybe its because I keep kissing my backpack.
