Monday, April 26, 2004

I had the craziest weekend! I finally started my regular hours as a Security Monitor, and so I worked on Fri from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. Then I went to bed and got up at 8 on Sat to be at my 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. orientation for my India trip. I took another catnap and at 11 p.m. I went to work until 7 a.m. on Sun. I then slept the whole of Sun away, getting up at 5:30 p.m. So in conclusion, my schedule is all screwed up AND I got none of the homework I needed to do done because I was way to tired to function.

Thursday, April 22, 2004

I feel like the ultimate failure. I have absolutely NO discipline whatsoever, and sometimes my dreams prevent success in my reality. It sucks. If only discipline was something you can gain by snapping your fingers and whoosh, it comes in! I wish it were that easy.

I'm waiting to hear about my scholarship for India from the NSEP people. I am so anxious and nervous! I really feel like I need it and I worry that somehow my application won't be good enough. I just hope God puts some divine intervention in the Nominating room so that they can see that my time in India is only the beginning of some great times in South Asia, though I don't know what those adventures may be yet. I'm just happy that my life is crazy busy these next two weeks, so I can hopefully kinda forget that one of the most important decisions in my undergrad life is occuring now.

My sister and her friend came up this past weekend to see the "Kelly & Clay" concert. It was fun, and its ALWAYS fun to see Leah and Steph get all flustered and excited about the music and the people. I always think its so funny and cute the way Leah is so shy most of the time and then when she encounters celebrities and stuff she gets all aggressive and forward and outgoing! It's cute.

Does anyone know where I can get a cheap guitar?

Thursday, April 15, 2004

O.K, strange life. So much has happened the past few weeks, I can't even begin to tell you about it. But I will try. My mom had a stroke. She's ok, but I went to Madison for a week and it totally uprooted my schedule! I still have a Hindi midterm to makeup, among other things. I am soo ready for the semester to be over. 4 more weeks!

While I was home, Leah gave me this book, God's Gift to Women by one of the Ludys. She had given me another one of their books before, but I hadn't read it until now. Its soo cool! I really liked it, and it has now inspired me to read all their books and go on a retreat in Colorado right before I leave for India. Its kinda rash, but I think it will be fun. Plus it would be good for me and Leah to spend some time before I leave.

Today, while I was walking to Coffman, I saw a huge crowd of people and a police car. I was curious as to what was going on, so I went over and this radical crazy preacher was trying to inspire all of the U of MN kids into believing in God. Now, if done properly this is a really positive thing. However, he decided that the way to bring people to Christ is to promote racism, sexism and hatred to the student body. He was making all sorts of derogetory statements to Islamic students in the audience and calling them terrorists. Then, when he was part of a discussion with a girl about the Bible and theology he promptly pronounced he was "no longer going to speak with the women". he was "done with the women". He picked one super goth guy dressed in all black with spikes on his backpack and said something about how he was evil, and he was wearing a cross! He said sheepishly that he was a Lutheran, and the preacher went off on how Lutherans aren't really Christians to this group of people. I love that people like this try to spread the good word of God and all they do is promote hatred and negativity instead of positivity and tolerance.