I am filled to the brim with love for my family and friends.

500th post

graduating like it's shark week

I'm EXCITED for new things.
I'm SCARED of losing old things.
I'm JITTERY watching all these people busy-ing around.
I'm FASCINATED with all the fun things that friends are doing.
I'm PARANOID that I won't get enough time with enough people.

I'm sentimental. But that doesn't have anything to do with sharks.

He wrote The Great Gatsby. I'm teaching The Great Gatsby.

Bunnies are a theme

When I leave East Lodge, I often see a rabbit nervously hopping away from me. Rabbits remind me of Mike now. They're small grey rabbits with cotton white tails. 

I am in love with my God and my college and my friends and my church. As I write this, I listen to my closest girl friends  praying for people who don't know God. I know that I have chosen the right relationships, and I am so thankful that I have been chosen back.

When Bethany Berens announced that she and Michael were leaving Exit Downtown for grad school in Seattle, "LIFE'S TRANSITIONS" hit me like a train. If I had been Bugs Bunny, I would've painted a black hole tunnel in the wall. Instead I sobbed like a little girl.

thank goodness I'm loved

I am ineffably thankful for my friendships. I have been loved in my crappy-est so that I am spurred on to be my best-est.

At this moment, I think of Kayla, Rachel, Kelly, Jordan, Kylee, and Michael. How privileged I am to have these people! And to know there are more as well!

"The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him." CS Lewis "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." Epicurus "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine." Thomas Jefferson

Man oh man

There are 18 students on first period's class roster. I taught 9 today. I wished them happy 4/20 in jest, crossing my fingers that everyone gone was home, innocently sick.

Eight hours at school, six hours at Jimmy Johns. I don't mess. Work was fun today. I like keeping busy! I like closing! I have a really efficient dishes system: my arms are red raw and my apron is sopping wet, but the dishes are squeaky clean.

Went to Michael's. *smiley face* Hung out with the guys. Watched the 2nd half of Finding Forrester. Gave the boys wheat bread for breakfast. Now I'm reading The Help. I'm exhausted. Eight hour shift tomorrow. Kick it.