Early Wednesday, Rainy Wednesday

Well, its 7:45am and I'm not sure why I'm up and practically ready to tackle the day, but I am.

Yesterday I turned in a mid-term project: 4 essays on American higher education (essentially) - max 5 pages each, plus a cover page and reference pages (for the whole packet). Putting it together yesterday afternoon caused much hilarity for me and Candice. I'm not sure if that was because it was actually hilarious... or if it was because we were sleep deprived and out of our minds. It was a hard project. The questions left a lot of room for interpretation, and I'm still not sure if I answered them well. I think I wrote good essays, though - at least I hope so. Its going to be two weeks before they are returned..... (sad face). Anyway, when it was all said and done, I looked at this packet sitting on the table, with a title and my name on it (I even gave the essays "titles") and I thought, "wow, I'm kind of proud of myself."

I didn't have to write long papers as an undergrad. I did a number of senior projects, but they didn't include "writing." So this may be the longest set of papers I've written yet. And as I looked it with its fancy packaging (and by that I mean... the cover page), I thought, "maybe I will want to be published some day."

Crazy stuff, friends, crazy stuff.

Now, all that has to be put aside, because I'm about to read a book for that class and then generate a 12-20 page term paper on a "higher ed issue" that I discover in the book. So I will have to write longer.... p.s. I think I've written 10 pages before, but it was a long time ago and those years are kind of fuzzy... for many reasons.

So on to other matters!

Tonight I'm traveling with my Youth Ministry Team to Richardson, TX (up past Dallas) and we are going to have a crazy fun time with the youth of First Baptist Richardson before going somewhere FUN for dinner, i.e. Cheesecake Factory!

Friday night I'm going to the Alpha Delta Pi semi-formal FIESTA! I'm looking forward to spending more time with the ladies, even though I don't have a date to come with me. I don't really know any single men in the area, even if I just wanted to take them as friends (I know, I know, the Lord has a plan though, because He keeps sending me to these places). I did think seriously about taking my friend Collin (Candice's husband) because he was going to learn the "Thriller" dance this week and he's a good dancer. Instead I'll just enjoy the company of the women there and get to know them better!

So this morning I'm headed to the mall to buy a dress - a little black one that I can wear to semi-formals for the rest of my advising career. Hopefully the girls won't start to say, "didn't you wear that dress last time?" :) Its nice to think about taking a couple hours to do something that doesn't involved computers or the library!

And then on Saturday...... yep...... Baylor vs. A&M, here in Waco!

I'm so EXCITED to be at this game. Last week the Bears came back to beat the U. of Kansas Jayhawks to get their 3rd Big 12 win, and now they are only 2 Big 12 victories away from a bowl game. Crazy. 3 wins is the most they've had in the Big 12 in something like 10 years! Anyway, last week it was scorchingly hot, we'd been up since early for the parade (and up late the night prior) so we left after the 3rd. Don't judge me - Its not Greenville (where I would never leave early) because I don't know anyone there, and we were all sunburned (seriously) and sun-stroked (ok, that part was exaggerated). So we left. And Baylor came back to win by 1 point in the 4th quarter.

I won't leave early this week.

So there you have it. My latest life in a nutshell. Oh, and my new (to me) car isn't working, still. I'm taking it to a mechanic tomorrow who will hopefully fix it for less than $100. Please pray.

Blessings to you, out there.