NA Live

So, I've been working on the picture question, and I regret to inform you that it's a no go. I left the usb transfer cable at home. I'd purchase a card reader, but there's nothing remotely close to a store that would sell that around here. Alright, on to the good stuff. Yesterday morning, we met in our community groups and spent time meditating on Psalms 103. This was followed by an excellent message by Mark Dever on Discerning Doctrine. After a break for lunch, we returned to hear a message by Al Mohler on Discerning our Culture. I must admit that I was somewhat dissapointed by his message. I really was expecting some "wow!" kinda stuff and it really wasn't. After another break, we came back for an absolutely outstanding message by CJ on idolatry. It was a great and very convicting message. After, we spent a large amount of time essentially wandering aimlessly about the city (I say city in the loosest of terms).

Live From NA!!!

Hey all you readers back home. This is a live update from New Attitude 2007. We had pretty good trip down. We got into Louiseville around 9:30. We grabbed breakfast at Dennys and then tried to get the girls checked into their hotel. It was too early so we dropped Colin and Less off at their hotel and then found a parking spot and sat for about an hour while the 3 girls went insane. After that we were able to get them into their hotel. Josh Harris spoke at the first meeting. He gave an excellent message on Discernment, and then we met in our community groups. More to come later, and hopefully some pictures too.

Changes and Stuff

Well, classes are over and finals week has begun. I don't have a final until this Tuesday, so I have been enjoying doing not much of anything. I made some decisions this week about what I'll be doing over the summer. I had planned on staying here and taking classes all summer. But, due to the fact that I'm still looking for a place to stay, and that I really have no money to pay for the classes, I've decided to come home for the summer and just work as much as I can. So I'm planning on coming home after finals which would be somewhere in the 10th-12th. I'm not sure exactly when. I have a lot of stuff to bring home, and it won't all fit in my little car. So I'm trying to figure out a plan to move my stuff back home. Hmm, in other news. . .well there really isn't any other news.

I love warm weather!

Hey look!! I'm posting again in the same week!! Everyone pinch yourselves, because you must be dreaming!! LOL, I'm sure no one really cares, with the exception of my mom. It's been a fun week so far. It's FINALLY really nice outside. It's supposed to hit 70 today. It's amazing what warm weather can do for one's well being. Tearing around campus, windows down, music blaring, ahh it doesn't get much better. We played frisbee on Wednesday night. It was a lot of fun. We lost, but it was still a ton of fun. I got another astro-turf burn, but not as bad. When we were all leaving, all the students that live on campus were walking back to their dorms and it was on the same street that I take to go to the Basslers. So I pulled along the curb, windows down, music up, and rolled along with them as they walk. A few of the guys jumped on my hood and the trunk. The best part was that as we pulled up to the stop sign, a cop came out of the parking lot next to us. And we scattered. It was hysterical though. I thought the guy was gonna pull me over but he didn't. Anyway, I'm ready for the weekend.

Mondays Are Better Now

Hey!! Guess what!! I haven't updated this blog in a long time!! What a surprise! That's never happened before! Anyway there hasn't been a whole heck of a lot to report lately. Lets see. I played drums on Sunday for worship. That was fun. But, boy does it get hot in the "cage" especially when all the people get there. :D It went well, no serious flubs, at least until the end. We were singing Perfect Lamb of God after the message and if you know that song the third verse is a half verse. I totally forgot and did a frantic crash into the chorus. Otherwise it went well. I had a lot of fun. Oh, I don't know if any of you out there knew, but new TV series premiered last night called Drive on Fox. It stars none other then Nathan Fillion, ie Captain Reynolds. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend you all watch it at it's regular time tonight at 8pm. I think you can watch the first episode on www.myspace.com/fox. Definitely check it out. Um, other news . . . I have a splitting headache today and I had one yesterday. Very unpleasant. Thankfully aspirin seems to help quite a bit. I actually just took one, and I couldn't swallow it because I didn't take enough water. I didn't feel like getting up to get some more so I just chewed it. Ugh. NASTY I can tell you. Oh yes I forgot. I finally got my accounting test back that I took like a week and half ago. The professor took forever grading them. I was talking to a girl who sits next to me about how bad the class is and how the guy treats us like we're stupid. I mentioned that I thought the class was pretty easy nonetheless, and she was like "Well that's cause you're a *bleeping* genius." When we got our scores back I got a 91. She asked me what I got, and when I told her, she was like "You *bleep*." It made me laugh. Oh yeah. I broke my cell phone. I left it on the floor and stepped on it by accident. It stills makes calls but the screen is cracked and I can't do anything besides answer calls and punch numbers in manually call them. I'll try to check my voicemail regularly since I can't tell I have unless I actually call it. I'm gonna look into getting a fairly inexpensive replacement.

Fading into Mediocrity

It's been a rather uneventful couple of weeks since spring break. Yikes, it's been two weeks. That went by fast. It's been very nice weather wise since spring break, which is very sweet. Driving through campus with the windows down and blasting music is a lot fun. We've played frisbee twice since then. The first time was on the fields next to the stadium. It was very very muddy. We played on the stadium football field on Sunday. It's very nice to walk and run on, but take a dive on it, lots and lots of pain. I have a habit of sliding onto my knees after a running catch. That kinda rips the skin off your leg. I did it last year, and you think I would have learned, but nope, I did it again. I now have 3-4 inch diameter burn on my leg.
In other news, I had to withdraw from a class for the first time. I was failing badly. It was a really strange situation for me. I was really disappointed because that means I have to be here at IUP for classes over the summer, for both sessions. I really wanted to be back home over the summer, so it's very disappointing. If I can I'm going to try to come for a week or two at some point, but I can't manage more then that.
If you guys think of it I could really use prayer. I've been really struggling with trusting God especially with the recent class situation. It's been very hard not to become depressed. So if you could be praying for me I would appreciate it a lot.
It was a very interesting day today. It was visiting day, ie tons of highschool kids with parents taking up precious parking spots, plus there were 4 notable alumni, including Chad Hurley, who founded YouTube. And you know how much IUP tries to milk non-famous alumni for all they're worth, so famous ones get pumped up a lot. It's kinda annoying. I mean he was addressing the business college, and he graduated with a freaking Fine Arts degree. C'mon.

Today is a good day. . . to live

Wow, have I been neglecting this blog lately. I know I sound like a broken record, but I've been very busy. And next week is going to be a dozy. I have four exams, two essays, a group project, a group presentation, and thirty-five some odd statistics problems. However, for today, it's all good. Yesterday REC (the church's college age ministry) had a hot chocolate outreach. I was helping to get it setup and as we were boiling water and beginning to mix the hot chocolate, I tasted the results and found it to taste really, well, bad. I thought perhaps that it needed to be stirred more, but after an extended stirring, it still tasted bad. I looked at the packaging and realized that someone got Nesquick powder, which is to make chocolate milk. Not good for water. So someone ran to the nearby Giant Eagle to get the proper stuff. After that I had to go to class, and then returned after it was done and had fun hanging out with people and giving out hot chocolate. But I didn't get back to the Bassler's until around 5:30pm and I had left for class at 7:30am. So I was on campus for about ten hours, and I was running all over the place so I was really tired. I went to bed pretty early. This morning I went to accounting class and got my first test back. I was rather disappointed when I got an 85. But, apparently 80% of the class failed. Badly. I was going to say something about how I was a bit disappointed, but as people began saying what they got (15, 10, 39) I figured I should keep my mouth shut. The teacher is a bit of a jerk, and basically said he didn't care. He's not all that bad of a teacher, but his opinion is that students are lazy stupid idiots. Which, may be somewhat true, but it's a little stereotypical. Class ran for about 15 minutes, then some woman came and the professor had to leave. He has missed 2 classes already, so my opinion is rather low of him. Anyway I got to leave early and it's a gorgeous day outside, so I'm in a pretty good mood.

So much time, so little to do (I wish)

Yep, it's been quite a while since I updated this. Sorry about that to all my rabid fans. I've been extremely busy the past week and a half. I haven't eaten breakfast or lunch all week because I ran out of food and I haven't had time to go shopping. I had 5-7 page paper about Taoism due on Monday. Sixty some odd problems for stats class that take 10-15 minutes a piece. A quiz on Wednesday. Lots of random stuff for my hardware support class. Two exams on Thursday. The kicker was that the one exam was scheduled outside of class time so that meant I had class from 8am-11:15am, then a little break, and class and an exam from 1:15pm-4pm then another exam from 6pm-8pm. The second exam was for stats class. I didn't really study for it. I get there and it's in Stouffer Auditorium and he is giving tests to several classes at once. We line up and he hands out the appropriate test. I started the test, and started panicking because it was really hard. I was like "I am so studying much harder next time." I got about half way through and for some reason I looked at the front page and realized that he gave me the wrong test. No wonder it was so hard. I walked up and he gave me the right one after apologizing. Ah, there we go, much better. A lot easier. I finished it in like 15 minutes. So then I got back to the Basslers, and pretty much just crashed and went to bed. I had been getting up between 3-4am to work on homework and I was really tired. Fortunately I had nothing due for today so I got to sleep a bit. I'm planning on hitting the Walmart after class.

Thursdays Are Fun...not

So since I haven't had anyone comment and it's been like a week (hint, hint) I figured I would update again. It's been a very busy week so far. Quite miserable actually. It has snowed nearly non stop since Friday. I mean EVERY single day. I am very sick of cleaning my car off 3 or 4 times a day, slick roads, and slow traffic. Yesterday, I had accounting and history class. My history teacher is crazy. You know Vizzini from Princess Bride? That's him. Doesn't look like him, but sounds just like him. Today was quite a day and it started a lot earlier then I planned. My nightstand is rather close to my bed around 3 inches or so. Last night around 2 am I rolled over in my sleep and smacked my head on it. Hard. I shook it off and started to go back to sleep when I noticed my fingers after they had touched my head where I smacked it. There was blood all over them. Blood was all over my pillow as well. So I got up and held a tissue on it for a few minutes, and then put a band-aid on it (which was a little awkward given that the wound was in my hair). I got up later and went to school. It was snowing hard. Again. In my second class, stats, about a half an hour into it someone walked by shutting all the classroom doors. The prof looked oddly, and one of the girls near me explained that a girl had passed out in the bathroom. What was really weird was that I recognized her. I'm pretty sure she was in my math class my first semester at DCCC. I couldn't figure out why I recognized her until our prof was talking about SATs and he asked her when she had taken them. In 2003. That click it together. So then I left class and went to the computer help desk to have my WebCT password reset so I could log on. After that I went to my final class, in which we installed windows (snore). I walk back to my car in the cold windy snowy outside, get in, turn the key and. . . nothing. I left the lights on. So I asked the next guy if I could get a jump, and he finally agreed (I could tell he didn't want to). So 15 minutes later I was finally headed back to warmth. Stupid snow.

Whew, glad that's over!

As some of you know already it's be quite a week for me particularly over the weekend. I'll start at the beginning though. I went home for Christmas break without meeting with my adviser, primarily due to the questionable finical status I was in. I was unaware however that I could not register at all until I did. I found this out when I tried to register about 2 weeks before classes started. So I emailed my adviser but she didn't get back to me until this Thursday a day after classes had started. I went in on Tuesday and Wednesday to see if she was in and she never was. I talked to someone in the department and was told that only my adviser could help me. She had office hours on Thursday so I thought I would run in then and try to get this sorted out. Unfortunately I didn't remember her hours right and I missed them. So I sent another email, which she replied to and told me that I wasn't on her list. She sent a email to the department secretary and after confusing me with someone else they figured out I was right. So she set up a time to meet on Monday. So then came the weekend. Friday night at six o'clock was the rehearsal for Ryan Joseph and (now!) Shelsy Joseph's wedding and I was a groomsman. So I google mapped it and left around 3pm. After about 30 minutes I realized that the directions were sending me in the complete opposite direction. So I turned around and started the other way. Realizing that I was going to be late I began to go a little fast. Problem was that it was snowing pretty hard. After about 20 minutes I was going up a hill and as I crested it I lost all traction and spun off the road into a snow drift. I was stuck. Fortunately a guy with a big pickup truck saw me and turned around to pull me out. I was much more cautious after that :-) I arrived about an hour and change late but so was everyone else so I pulled in just as they began rehearsing the procession. I jumped in line coat and all. Afterwards we headed for the rehearsal dinner. After following Angela all over Williamsport because she doesn't know her left from her right ;-), we got to the restaurant and enjoyed a very nice meal. All the groomsmen were housed in the basement of Shelsy's aunt. The room was a literal shrine to the Miami Dolphins and Dan Marino. Posters, wallpaper, lamps, everything. But the really cool thing was that there was a huge home theater system, which meant lots of late movies :D. So the day of the wedding came and it went quite well. Our tuxes were so great. We all wanted to keep them. The reception was good, aside from an embarrassing dance with the bridesmaids. And my trip home was pretty good as well. Whew, that was a lot of writing. Sorry to babble I'm sure it was pretty boring but hey.