slackin'

suppose i've really been a slacker at this blog stuff! (oh well, not near as much as some of my friends... geesh... once a month? what's that? it's as though they're busy or something... gosh.) :-P

i'm not really thinking in complete, literate sentences right now so here are some updates from recently:

• friday came and went. it was a great week overall. not much stress and plenty of sleep for once. just what i like.
• went to see "the amityville horror" on opening night here in storm lake. w/ a bunch of buddies-- ryann, lindsey, jon, matt, bonnie, david, nick, jewels,... oh gosh the list could go on and on. a professor was there w/ the group, too, though. isn't that sweet? (gosh i love bv for their awesome profs. might i make mention that beth and i had lunch together in the cent room on friday-- was the greatest lunchtime convo i've had since i've been here!) anyway, i'm not completely sure that horror movies are for me. my heart was definitely beating at its maximum and i started freezing near the end of the movie so i had to put my jean jacket back on. oh goodness. it was indeed a good time, though.
• went over to jody's, met kevin, ran to wally world for an ice cream fix (read: fri night at midnight), came back and watched "hotel rwanda." came back to my room (after ra curfew-- my what a rebel i am!) and researched the presbyterian office and peacekeeping at the UN for quite some time. got to bed after 3.
• saturday-- slept in until noon and ohhh did that feel good. spent a good part of the afternoon laying outside on a blankie and reading while soaking up the sun. (not that i soaked very much up-- i'm still albino, but hey, at least that means my risk of skin cancer is lower). evening time-- pizza w/ the choice mentors and mentees. downed 7 slices of pizza and thoroughly enjoyed every single bit of it. mmmmm mm. at this time i invited shaun over to watch spanglish w/ me mostly b/c he'd mentioned drinking that night-- and i knew that if he came over to my room and stayed long enough, he wouldn't drink. i was a pretty happer camper b/c he did come over, and ended up staying until 2:30 (which sounds like a crazy hour but considering i had rounds every couple of hours until then, the night was probably still young for most). we watched spanglish while i worked on my bulletin board (which i've put like a million years' worth of effort into!), and then he went to get his collection of spanish music which was definitely musigasmic (like the new word?). i'm in the process of burning like the 11th cd from his collection. toooooooooooooons of spanish music from mexico-- oh, leisha like! anyway... long story short, shaun probably went back to his room and went to sleep, since he was tired, which meant he didn't drink any last night which was a good thing. the kid knows how to control himself surprisingly well and i don't think he necessarily drinks to get drunk, but... he's too much of a little bro (ok, by like 20 days) to me... yeah, shaun's definitely a cool guy, and i'm definitely gonna miss him next semester when i'm all over the place and he's in japan (how cool is that!? just a soph and he'll be in japan-- rock on!). there are a lot of people i'm going to miss though. case in point-- beth. when i get back, she'll be going on sabbatical for the spring semester. this means ONE YEAR WITHOUT BETH. a leisha no le gusta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh well. gotta do what you gotta do. after i survive through these millions of study abroad papers, all should be well. until then, i could use prayers.
• sunday: church, lunch, homework, community builder at 3:30, dinner, get some fresh air b/c i'll finally be off duty, homework, bible study, then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. looks like it'll be a good day.

laters, gators.