Truth off the pages of my journal this morning....

...it's like I was put inside a tornado and spun around a few gazillion times only to be set on "solid ground". As my head was still reeling, and I was disoriented, it suddendly became apparent that I was actually moving forward some sort of a conveyer belt...destination unknown...

I guess this is where I am. And for some reason, it feels a little more like abudant life -- a little more like a little kid on laughing hard as they get off a spinny ride at the amusement park or being picked up by their father to spin in the air -- than it does pain, confusion, or like you want to throw up.

It's amazing what a little perspective does.

I'm sitting in my last college class ever....

It's true. And really exciting.

I mean true, I still have a bunch of things that I need to do before graduation next Friday, but I'm getting freaking close. :)

Last night, I spent 3 hours at Kinko's to print off three transparencies. I really hate Kinko's. For some reason, things always take about three times as long as they are supposed to. I have to be honest though, the night was made a little more halrious, rather than just frustrating when the Kinko's guy sweetly admitted that he was purposefully screwing up my order so that he could talk to me more. The entire story is much too long and funny to even recount here, but suffice it to say, it's worth being retold, so you can ask me about it. Somehow, in the midst of it, I convinced him to come to Alpha next week. Haha.

So, yes, here I am in my Digital Prepress class while Jon, possibly the dryest of any instructor I've had in college, (except maybe the Russian Advanced Calculus prof at Ohio State), goes on and on about Preflight in InDesign, and I'm just thrilled that I'm never going to have to do an assignment again...well, that is, until VLI starts next week :)

Thanks for putting up with me the past few weeks, not to mention the past few years as I've pushed through college.... 5 1/2 years later, I'm a couple of hours from it being over. :)

"Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart." - Rainer Marie Rilke

nights in are good for the soul.

Reminiscent...

Tonight as I was driving home from Gabe and Gretchen's rehershal, the air was crisp and fresh...if we wern't in the desert I might even say there was a slight fog. It reminded me of cold, lovely nights in England two years ago and all the joy and nearness of God that that time was for me. Sometimes you need those moments when He feels far away and you feel like it's your own selfishness that's created that distance.

Sometimes it good to relive to remember that things are always changing. And that's what you love about life.

Success.

Deep belly laughter - check.
Childlikeness - check.
Sleeping in - goodness I hope so. We'll see if I can sleep past 6:43 am tomorrow.

Yea for Gretchen getting married. Our little girls night out shindig really hit the spot tonight.

Not to mention...Allison had one of the best quotes ever - "Yea, I bet Jesus would be a frat boy...always travelling around with those tweleve other guys..."

Ha.

Waiting for my website to upload...

...gives me a moment to write a quick lil blog-eroo...

So, I'm exactly 17 days away from graduating...and exactly 10.5 hours away from my portfolio and website being due...so of course, I am at my coffee shop (I just wrote about is as MY coffee shop..haha.)...trying to get all the work done.

I'm realizing more and more that I need to schedule in some times for fun these days. I'm in deep need of belly laughter, being childlike and sleeping in....for people that know how to tease me and people that know my stories before I tell them ... again... for the 13,000th time. There's something sick about the way that I've spent more time with my computer these days than any person. Oh I can't wait for the day when I'm not in school anymore...

I think my thoughts are pretty jumbled tonight. I think I'm just trying to waste some time...but I bet you are too. That's why you're catching up on your blog reading, right?