update: 18 days, 3 essays, 2 take home tests, 2 finals, 1 paper, 1 exam, and 1/4 book to go!! the numbers are shrinking!

i've found it interesting to observe my ever-evolving concept of "sleeping in" since coming to college. it began as something that could definitely go on until midday or later, and has slowly changed in my couple of years here. sleeping in is now what i did this morning...8am. i can hardly believe it myself, and even more surprising is how rested i feel.

grandma! i got my passport in the mail. thank you for sending it so quickly. to everyone else, oh the passport stories i have to tell.

i pray that you have a blessed Good Friday and Easter weekend.

found out that one of the papers i had due is now cancelled. the prof decided to make it due for just the grad students in the class...heeheehee. it'll stink to be a grad student one day, if this class is any indication. i'm pretty thrilled, though. the book that i have to read within the week is a little interesting but mostly too dense to understand. lifting was so draining today that all i could do at one point was sit on the floor and try to get up enough energy to do the next exercise. this new cycle didn't seem so hard yesterday...i've decided that i want to run the chicago half-marathon in the fall, but i know it would be so much easier if i had someone with whom i could do the ten week training. i'm much better with a partner to motivate me. i have a huge exam tomorrow and i'm battling apathy with schoolwork. i really just want to go home, but i still have two and a half weeks of classes. i am going to need to work really hard over easter weekend, unfortunately. and the more that time goes by, the more i realize that -- despite how truly excited i am about my family moving back to the states -- my trip home is going to be hard. it's going to be sad. at least i'm beginning to deal with that now.

twenty five days, nine take-home tests, three papers, two exams, two finals, and one book to go! boo yeah!

great job, gospel choir! i really enjoyed tonight's concert! today was great -- after lifting this morning, some of us went up to the dance studio with dr walters and actually practiced flexing. i kidd you not. and the man is insane -- he's definitely at body building level, and he barely had to move anything and you'd just see muscles coming out of nowhere! it's not going to work exactly the same way for the girls in the class...but hey, it was fun.

my parents leave for spain on monday, my sister is currently on a beach somewhere in an exciting place...and i'm in illinois. it'd be really easy to feel sorry for myself right now, but i won't, because this is the day that the Lord has made! and he placed me here, for some reason that only he knows! so i will live here, hopefully in every sense of the word live. it's hard sometimes, though. no, it's hard a lot of the time. the world seems so vast, and the here and now so insignificant. but God is gracious in all things, including his desire to use me in his will, which is something i was so happy to talk to bonnie about over lunch. i don't know why, but i'm excited for college group tomorrow.

one of my highschool classmates is going to have a baby. there are not words.

i slept ten hours last night. ten hours!! i think i caught up on the lack of good sleep since spring break. i went to a beautiful wedding shower yesterday for the soon-to-be-wife of joel beckner. i really enjoyed watching steph, the ever gracious hostess, as she was blessed by many women from church. tonight i have another shower to attend/host...too much marriage floating around! yikes! though i've decided that i'm much more adapted to this stage of life than i was when my friends first started getting married. when they start having children, though...that'll be another story.

now off to study the english reformation. wish me luck...

Happy Birthday, Grandma!!

tomorrow's friday! hip hip hooray! this evening i met once more with the most incredible dsg on wheaton's entire campus. you just WISH you were part of this dsg. seriously. i love those girls.

i'm looking forward to this weekend. i'm hoping there's not TOO much going on. i'd like to sleep. a lot. in fact, sleep has the capability of being the most looked-forward-to part of this weekend. =]

work, work work.

work, work, work, work.

it never ends. ever. i'm such a wimp. it's not even 10:30pm and i'm ready to crash. ah, old age. i hit twenty-one and look what happens to me.