A Jab at Macs on the First Day

So I walk into the computer lab and see a line to use the computers. The 3/4 of the lab with PCs is full of users, but then I look around the corner and see that the Mac section is practically empty! My guess is that there are a few fastidious PC snobs, but moreover there are a lot of people out there who just don't know how to use Macs. Fortunately I know the 101 type basics, so here am I not in line but on a computer.

Class starts in two hours. I've been seeing a couple of classmates and professors around campus and so far everyone has been friendly and super awesome. I have a lot of presuppositions about my classes swimming around in my head right now, but we'll save it for after they've been approved or made lies of in turn.

By the way, Amelie is a french movie in more ways than one but it's randomly quirky and fun. For example, the main character Amelie wants her father to travel. So she steals his garden gnome and sends it around the world with her flight attendant friend. Her father keeps getting pictures in the mail of his gnome in various famous locations; ie: New York, China, etc.

Jesus loves you!

This is Post Number 200!!

Party at my place!
Hehe... just kidding:) for now. Well, school starts in exactly 96 hours and 16 minutes. I now have wireless internet in my apartment, thanks to a visit from the Comcast guy, a trip to Best Buy and the ministrations of Benjamin.
I just bought a cookbook by a woman who traveled around the world for two years, just to collect recipes and sample things! What a life, eh? I was just reading about how she made a point to order room service wherever she went. And I gathered that her publisher sponsored all of this. Some of the recipes look good, and some quite strange. Banana and lime soup? Maybe that would be good as a smoothie...
I do plan on cooking lots of interesting things this year, though. The older I get the more I discover how central food is and how important to both physical and social upkeep. And how much joy there is in eating well cooked steak or brownies!
An exert from "31 days of praise":

My heart rejoices in You, Lord, for You are my strong shelter in times of trouble and danger and stress, my hiding place to whom I may continually resort... my Father who lovingly provides for me... my Shephered who guides and protects me... my Champion who upholds my cause as His child and defends my highest interests... my Bridegroom who delights in me... my God who is mighty to save, who rests in His love for me and rejoices over me with singing, with shouts of joy. You are my inheritance, my share in life, the One who satisfies my longing soul and fills my hungry soul with goodness.

The details

Do days of chores, packing, errands and sundry menial tasks drive anyone else crazy? (especially when they keep you at home!) They're not that bad while I'm at the tasks, but then, unprepared, I'll encounter a human being I recognize and find I don't have much to say to them, except, i.e.: "I just called UW parking services and the UW police in hopes of getting a permit and found out I don't really need one," (yay! wish I knew before that trip into downtown, though) or perhaps "Bought those under the bed storage units," or "More unpacking/packing!"

The good news is that hopefully by tomorrow night I'll be completely moved into my new apartment and ready for school to start-- and still have a week until school!:) hehehe
Nothing distracts me from spending time with God like a solid list of "things to do." Time to do that. Tata!

Start a new career today!

Ben tells me that he has the formula for writing a bling-bling romance novel down, but hidden online I've found the recipe for a great fantasy epic!
So read up and start writing today-- you can thank me later when you're published.

Back in Seattle...
Actually, I've been back for about a week, but the first three days were in Whidbey and the past few I've been doing a buncha things that need doing. My time at work and school seems to revolve around computers, but not so much here at my parent's house:)
And actually also, I'm really not back in Seattle, I'm back in Bellevue. "Seattle's" just the generic term for the area I've come to use while being out of state!

Aside from getting badly sunburned in Yellowstone and severely carsick the first day, my trip back was pretty okay. The highlights were listening to Harry Potter 5 on CD, being in Yellowstone, staying at Joel's house and the really good beef jerky we ate one day. It turns out that Joel's family is really cool, though different than I expected. Joel and his mom make a powerful combinaton as hosts: between his mom's cooking and chatting and Joel's special touches, their house was the best place we slept at on the way home! (though admittedly the other two were iffish motels.) In the bathroom in the morning at the Shaver's I found a stack of matching towels complete with a plastic wrapped cup, soap and breath mints. hehe.

By the way-- kudos to Raeleen for throwing my a surprise birthday party! What a great idea!!

I'm a little overwhelmed right now-- I was so excited to go home, pumped to live in the promise of blessings from God and serve him in ways that I've been prepared for this summer, but now old thought patterns are starting to return and I'm realizing the enormity of my expectations for this year-- this summer was so packed with blessings, and I went through little that could be called a hardship. My hopes were renewed and I began again to truly believe that God could use me in courage and joy and that wonderful fellowship existed and that I could meet and overcome challenges. But feelings beliefs are so tied to surroundings. Now it seems like the lessons from Colorado are still in Colorado, and I wonder how I thought they could apply here. Maybe I need to voice them more often? Or truly take time to remember?