what life looks like, a list

*haven't got much time.

*only enough for bullet points and lower case letters.

*"this surprises me, too, trust me," says the grammar nazi.

*am i allowed to say the word nazi on this thing? oh well.

*i feel like e.e cumming. weird. he's a weird guy.

my life, a list

*finals. yikes. thanks, that's all.

*last night i took my philosophy final.

*garden! yay! organic gardening today at 2:30 with ryan eaton, who is crazyorganic, not the regular kind of organic. playing in the dirt=awesome. more awesome than whatever you're doing at 2:30 today. i promise you that.

*tonight i take my guitar final.

*tomorrow nothing happens.

*thursday i die.

*friday i am miraculously raised from the dead in order to go to my last preaching class and to play the smiling bear for all those folks who come to see the choir concert. i really do like choir, i promise. i will also remove a good deal of unnecessary stuff from my room.

*saturday, prom with best friend kamie.

*sunday, prom day two. yes, we have two full days of promming activities. we're just cool like that.

*monday, final.

*tuesday, final.

*wednesday, work. thursday, work.

*friday. hooray for my cousin nathan's graduation! hooray for my almost-cousin brianna's graduation! hooray for traveling to jbc! (they're getting married :) i am happy.)

*saturday. somehow, quiet miraculously, i am meant to be completely moved out, with all my stuff taken home, with my room cleaned and vacuumed (still the best word ever) and swept and empty. empty. when? i don't know. don't ask me, but it'll happen, as the administration will charge me $5 an hour after i'm meant to be out. yikes.

*sunday, DONE! so there. :)

I Love You, Chocolate

Actually...actually I don't really enjoy chocolate that much but on occasion I don't mind a good brownie and right now? Chauntel, an awesome member of our women's basketball team is selling stuff for their missions trip to Puebla, Mexico this June. And one of those things? Brownies!

I just bought one... it was amazing... and I just want the world to know that.

jamie-grace

In Which Elizabeth is Chagrined (Look it Up, Okay? Gosh.)

Who fails at blogging every day in April? I fail at blogging every day in April.

I feel like blogs where the writer promises to write more often and then complains about why writing more often is completely and categorically impossible because she has a crazy hard test in Life of Christ in the morning, and the end of school has multiple loose ends to be tied before she can pack and head home (oh, goodness, I need to think about packing), and how she's been really thinking about some different topics to write about but they just haven't materialized are totally bogus, don't you? (See what I did there? That was funny, wasn't it?)

I'm going to finish (because I really do have miles to go before I sleep) with a quote from the infamous Joseph Piette.

"I like my friends... and everyone." Okay? Okay.

Kierkegaard Pwns Your Spelling Bee

Once again, dear readers, I am sitting in the library with my mind full of lofty philosophical ideals. This time they're mostly relating to Kierkegaard. Yes, that is spelled right, although I know it doesn't look it. He's from Denmark. That's the way they do things there: with double "a's" in the middle of words. We have some double "a" words too, you know. Aardvark. So there.

Soren Kierkegaard (who is the topic of choice for my 7-10 page philosophy paper, due Monday night at 6:00) was mainly concerned with rebuffing the modern church's interpretation of Christianity. He said they had fallen away from their New Testament ideals, and I can dig him trying to get them to come back, because I fall away from my New Testament ideals sometimes, and I need to come back, too. But I never have to come back to some things because I never left them. Like what? Spelling.

That's right, readers. I, Elizabeth Reid, happen to be a top notch speller... Or, at least, my team captain, Rebecca Esquite, seems to think so. I'm signed up to spell for Upper Head in the Dorm Wars spelling bee. I feel...... nervous. I think Esquite assumed I can spell because I read a lot (and because I'm a nerd. Duh.) but I don't know how I'm going to do. I did really well at geography bees in elementary school. Does that count? Maybe I shouldn't admit this, but we're behind by a lot (i.e Upper Head is losing Dorm Wars). EDIT: And that was a lie. We're second in girl's dorms and I don't know what overall. But second is good.

I compete today at lunch. I will post again and report the results. Do you think they'll ask me to spell Kierkegaard? What about existentialism? Because I've got those down.

Elizabeth

This is our team motto: "Orange tigers, orange tigers. Rawr!!"

EDIT: 12:49 PM finds me the winner of the Dorm Wars spelling bee. Perhaps the above was just false modesty? Or perhaps my winning was luck. Oh, hey, I've got it. My false modesty insists it was luck. My winning word? Influenza. Which, in the typing thereof, I totally just misspelled. That's irony.

This Is My Face

This will be a quick post, as I have many other exciting and wonderful activities to accomplish today.

.....

That's a joke. I have homework. :)

Today is Monday, and I am sitting in the library talking to a friend of mine via text message about my, and I quote, "enchanting beauty." Have you ever seen me, blog readers? Sure, I'm pretty. I've got good things going for me, physically and otherwise. But enchantingly beautiful? I am not. I think he wants me to edit a paper for him. :D

At any rate, my enchanting beauty would rather be outside, talking to Jesus. Or in the cafeteria, talking to my friends. Or in my dorm, talking to the inside of my eyelids. But instead, like the good student I am, I sit in the library (near a window, so I can pretend I'm outside) and I begin my homework. I have a test tonight. A paper (a BIG paper) due next week. A sermon due on Monday. Consider my short post concluded.

Elizabeth

We haven't done this in a while, have we?

Easter

I know I haven't posted in a while. Had a lot of stuff going on, here's a list

2 Major tests
Global Missions Conference
Catching up with relatives in town
Considering Graduate Schools
Looking for employment for August

Speaking of that last note. I decided to go to school part time. It's scary, but it's the best choice for now. I need to start building up a portfolio of accompishments, so when I graduate, I don't have to take a few years off to do it. It means longer time in school, but better grades, less busy schedule, more Jesus time

Today was Easter, and I spent several hours today in quiet contemplation. It was a very solemn, quiet Easter, but it was certainly one that stood out in my mind, and always will.

Dorm Wars start this week...I'm sure you'll hear more about that soon. And Spring Ministry Day is Thursday...you'll hear about that soon, too! Well, See ya soon!

-Lawrence

BEDA

I have two very important announcements.

Very Important Announcement Number One:

I have a challenge for my fellow blog writers, if anyone other than me reads other people's posts. This month of April, is BEDA, which stands for Blog Every Day in April. I think we should make a pledge (albeit several days late) to have at least one post up for every day in April. If I have to do it myself.... well. That's a risk I'm willing to take. On the plus side, my posts will probably shrink if I have to come up with something to say about my life every. Single. Day.

Okay, well, I guess that's it, you guys. Oh, what's that? What is my Very Important Announcement Number Two? Sorry, we're out of time. Come back tomorrow and see. No, for real. Come back and see tomorrow. (Have I ever mentioned? Cliff hangers are my favorite literary device.)

Elizabeth