per a delightful request of an un-named sister-in-law (haha good thing i have two!), i shall document a day in my life. hmmm the question is WHICH day!? lets do wednesdays:
8:15- alarm goes off. i push snooze a million times until...
8:30-finally i roll out of bed, and have given myself 45 minutes to get ready for the day.
8:30-9:15- shower/basic self-maintenance, struggle with indecision about what to wear and how to do my hair, a quick gathering of books for the day, double pat pockets to make sure i have my key/ID, grab my phone and wish my roomies a nice day.
9:15-9:30-grab a coffee if the line at Commons isn't long, head over to the gym for chapel (if it is a lucky day, i meet cousin jonathan), find my seat. Yes, i have a seat. it is predictable and the same. and with the risk of a serial killer reading this and finding out exactly where i sit for chapels and sniping me, its on the right-hand side, second set of bleachers from the front, four rows up.
9:30-10:15- song worship, chapel speaker, quick hellos to friends on our way out (we're hearded like cattle at the end...and i think if someone yelled "FIRE" it'd be a perfect example of mob-mentality and i'd probably get trampled cuz of my shortness. needless to say, i have never yelled "FIRE")
10:15-12:00- I hang out, do homework, grab a bite to eat if i feel so moved...to be perfectly honest, i always want to go back to my room for a nap, but it never really works out like that...
12:00-1:15- Stats class. ugh. this is the epitome of terrible in my day. well its mixed feelings cuz i sit with some fun kids. so this class consists of half-listening, teaching myself the problems, passing notes to the kids to my left or right and laughing at the dumb baseball boys and their immature humor haha.
1:15-1:30- i walk from McNally to Sutherland, either with a friend or on the phone. or FAKE on the phone...but thats in case i'm passing someone i don't want to talk to, i just pretend to be in the middle of a super deep conversation so they feel bad for doing/saying anything more than a simple nod or wave in my direction. its foolproof. then when i get to Sutherland I talk to Liam. he's my friend. our classes are right next to eachother. he helps me with spanish homework sometimes. which cuts it close cuz...
1:30-2:45- Spanish! y me gusta este clase mucho. we do lots of talking in spanish...always good in a language class. My profesora likes me a lot and calls me "Susana." I have good friends in that class, and i love the language so good times all around.
2:45-7:00- this is my biggest gap of time EVER. besides when i sleep. I am normally pretty hungry at this time, cuz if i didn't eat before stats...i haven't eaten all day. but I don't want to eat at 3, cuz then by the time all my friends want to eat dinnner, i will have already eaten. *sigh* So i grab a fruitsnack pack from my room, gulp some juice, and maaaybe have some honey-mustard pretzels (i just had to re-type that word like 4 times to get the correct spelling...). Anyways...i do my homework for my next class and find a friend to have dinner with. then I head over to Business 207
7:00-9:50- Criminology class! WOOHOO! this is why i picked wednesdays...so i could tell you about my favoritest class and profesor EVER. She's a Probation Officer (what I wanna do) with kids in LA. we basically sit for close to three hours talking about crime, gangs, punishments, laws, and lots and lots of stories from her and other classmates. its amazing. i ask lots of questions. cuz it fascinates me to no end. pretty ridiculous =)
10:00-12:00-If my teacher isn't too tired, me and another girl will chill afterwards and talk about life, relationships, the job, the stress, the joys of life...everything basically. I was included in this talk inadvertantly a few weeks ago, and i am so blessed by it! I love Miss G (my prof) SO much. she's super awesome and real.
12:00-who knows when- I go back to my room, get ready for bed, eat some more random food, talk to the roomies about any random experience...or not so random. sometimes i just talk about whatever... if i have hw due the next day, try to work on it, check email, facebook etc...chat online and then fall asleep with my phone out texting one of two friends. (we enjoy late-night texting haha)
There you go. thats my day. tis wonderful, and i love it. Wednesdays are my fav!
any questions, let me know...i'll be here all week...actually year. well forever if we're being completely candid. love.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
no homework!?
I know, I know...how could there be NO homework! and the truth of the matter is, there IS homework. i COULD read the syllabus far in advance and do all my reading for the next million weeks...OR spend time updating my blog. i chooooose...hmm this is hard...ok, the latter. But to be equally as truthful, I don't have anything due today. so I figure if tomorrow doesn't come, why should I have done extra homework? this is why I take one day at a time. Brilliant, if you ask me.
But since you didn't (ask me, that is)...I shall resort to talking about other things. Like my life.
Facts:
1. I love my job. I wonder how some people wake up in the morning and dread going into work EVERY day. can't even imagine. Yes, sometimes I get tired of the endless service of people who think my sole purpose for exsistence is to make sure that their steak comes out medium rare and not well done. But seriously, my job is like one of those puzzles. I am given clues, a problem to solve, the tools to do it and all i have to do is figure out which tools fix which problem and how to make the most money off of it. and i enjoy the challenge. and the money, if we're being completely candid =)
and through all of the good-natured mocking of my beliefs (Oh suzy, you're going to spend your weekends knocking on doors and telling people about Jesus), the powdered-sugar fights (that cook has it coming to him...) and the teasing of my personality (Suzy you're like one of those dolls with a string that you pull on the back and she just starts talking and doesn't stop)...i think they kinda like me deep down =)
2. I love my school. and i mean, with not a class before 10:30 am, no class on friday's and friends in every class...how could i not!? And speaking of classes...i have one starting in twenty minutes. bleh. which means I may need to cut this post short. or just archive it and come back later. yes, thats what I'll do. so this portion up to this point was written prior to 12 noon, that which follows will be at a later date =)
aaaaaand I'm back! it is now the next day and turns out i DID have homework to do...i just forgot. and I know that sounds lame, but it seriously is the worst feeling ever. I was all excited cuz I thought I had finished it all, didn't even cross my mind to do 10 verb conjugations for spanish... and i was so ignorantly celebratory. *sigh* maybe I should invest in a day planner.
I am actually going to wrap this up because if not it will probably never get posted.
But on a more spiritual note... I have really been encouraged lately by a good friend and some close family to really keep in mind the promises of God. I get so discouraged sometimes when I feel that my value and my worth are not very high. and that is when i'm looking at how my circumstances aren't producing tangible evidence of how much I matter. And it gets me down. But God has laid out so many promises for me in His Word and I am going to share a few with you.
-Daughter, I am with you wherever you go. (Gen 28:15)
-I will never let you go, even when you are walking through you're darkest valleys (matt redman song: You Never Let Go)
-If you were the only person on the earth I STILL would have come and died for you.
-You are beautiful because I made you, and you are Mine. and I never make mistakes (from You are Special by Max Lucado)
-There is now no condemnation for you, if you walk after the Spirit and live as I did. (Romans 8:1)
-if the ocean were ink, the sky a scroll and someone wrote from the beginning of time to the end, it would not come close to describing the love I have for you. (the hymn: The love of God)
if only i can remember these all the time.
blessings xoxo
But since you didn't (ask me, that is)...I shall resort to talking about other things. Like my life.
Facts:
1. I love my job. I wonder how some people wake up in the morning and dread going into work EVERY day. can't even imagine. Yes, sometimes I get tired of the endless service of people who think my sole purpose for exsistence is to make sure that their steak comes out medium rare and not well done. But seriously, my job is like one of those puzzles. I am given clues, a problem to solve, the tools to do it and all i have to do is figure out which tools fix which problem and how to make the most money off of it. and i enjoy the challenge. and the money, if we're being completely candid =)
and through all of the good-natured mocking of my beliefs (Oh suzy, you're going to spend your weekends knocking on doors and telling people about Jesus), the powdered-sugar fights (that cook has it coming to him...) and the teasing of my personality (Suzy you're like one of those dolls with a string that you pull on the back and she just starts talking and doesn't stop)...i think they kinda like me deep down =)
2. I love my school. and i mean, with not a class before 10:30 am, no class on friday's and friends in every class...how could i not!? And speaking of classes...i have one starting in twenty minutes. bleh. which means I may need to cut this post short. or just archive it and come back later. yes, thats what I'll do. so this portion up to this point was written prior to 12 noon, that which follows will be at a later date =)
aaaaaand I'm back! it is now the next day and turns out i DID have homework to do...i just forgot. and I know that sounds lame, but it seriously is the worst feeling ever. I was all excited cuz I thought I had finished it all, didn't even cross my mind to do 10 verb conjugations for spanish... and i was so ignorantly celebratory. *sigh* maybe I should invest in a day planner.
I am actually going to wrap this up because if not it will probably never get posted.
But on a more spiritual note... I have really been encouraged lately by a good friend and some close family to really keep in mind the promises of God. I get so discouraged sometimes when I feel that my value and my worth are not very high. and that is when i'm looking at how my circumstances aren't producing tangible evidence of how much I matter. And it gets me down. But God has laid out so many promises for me in His Word and I am going to share a few with you.
-Daughter, I am with you wherever you go. (Gen 28:15)
-I will never let you go, even when you are walking through you're darkest valleys (matt redman song: You Never Let Go)
-If you were the only person on the earth I STILL would have come and died for you.
-You are beautiful because I made you, and you are Mine. and I never make mistakes (from You are Special by Max Lucado)
-There is now no condemnation for you, if you walk after the Spirit and live as I did. (Romans 8:1)
-if the ocean were ink, the sky a scroll and someone wrote from the beginning of time to the end, it would not come close to describing the love I have for you. (the hymn: The love of God)
if only i can remember these all the time.
blessings xoxo
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