quote of the day

I LOVE saturday morning soccer...

Carson: "What's the score now?"
Me: "I don't know man, I'm not keeping score."
Carson: "What? you don't realize it's always getting tied?"

quote of the day

"Halloween should be a day where we honor monsters and not get mad at each other."
-Micheal Scott

Fame

Fact: humans are obsessed with other humans. I have a few autographs hanging on my wall from famous athletes mostly. The average human will wait in line for hours for the chance to shake hands with someone who's won a game or wrote a book or been on tv. Why do we want their name hanging on our wall? Well, I can tell you why I waited in line for 4 hours to meet Lauren Conrad. Because she's AWESOME. I've watched her on tv since my senior year in high school (which was her senior year in high school too) and have followed her fashion career to this day. Now, fashion is something I couldn't care less about. But LC is just as beautiful and wonderful and nice in person as she is on tv. I can dig celebs like that. She was so appreciative of everyone that was at her book signing (all 500 of us!) and took the time to chat a little with everyone. LC rocks at it, but I don't think I'd ever want to be a celeb. You have to look cute all the time and get bugged by creepers like all of those LC look-a-likes that were at Barnes and Noble. Now I'm gonna go read her book and learn 6 different ways to wear the same black dress. fabulous.

quote of the day

Brooke: "Remember when it was fall and we did stuff?"

Brittany: "Everytime I hear Mighty Ducks I think cartoon."
Me: "That's Darkwing Duck."

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I think this has every bit to do with the rain outside and yes that's rediculous, but I'm just so over school. I haven't touched my thesis paper since last May. My plan was to have it done by December. oops. I know I shouldn't be this way because I often come across those people who practically wish their life away because they want to move on to some new job or marriage or kid or fun activity for the weekend. I usually want to punch those people in the face and then blog about how everyone needs to calm down. But sadly I am that person, today at least. Truth is I've loved grad school. I couldn't have made a better decision with my life, I've been having a ball. But when you teach the same class twice per semester, no matter how much you love rock climbing and undergrad students, it starts to get old. One of my current classes takes SO much busy work that grad students straight up don't have time for. I feel like I'm constantly working on stuff for that class and it will never end and it's annoying. Pretty sure I'm just ready to not be a student anymore. I'm a different kind of student as it is, but still the same idea. As a result of all this unmotivation and negativity towards school, I tend to live for the weekends. As for this weekend, the roomie and I will be going to Raleigh to live with Brooke and meet Lauren Conrad. That's right. We get to say what's up to the Laguna Beach/Hills star who I've followed on Mtv since high school. I get it, not everyone appreciates this and it sounds totally lame. But Lauren isn't some drama queen from Jersey. She's actually really talented and stuff. We will more than likely profess our undying love for her and she'll realize we should be best friends. I've actaully dreamed that before....

quote of the day

Erin (text message): "So I had a really disturbing dream last night that you were pregnant and Erica was crazy."

Getting Younger

I limped into work this morning with an ankle/foot injury. Not from fighting a bear or jumping from a building or something cool. It's from kickball. One of my fave professors asked me to be on her kickball team because a lot of the team is going to be out for this one game. People, this made me happier than anything could. See back in my day, on Limestone Elementary's field day, the 5th and 6th grade class played each other in the most competetive game of kickball you've ever imagined. It was insane. The 6th grade teachers usually cheated because lets be honest, a 5th grade win is so not cool. So 6th grade rolled around and it was finally our turn to be on top of the kickball sport but we lost. To this day I'm convinced they cheated. We talk a lot at work about how getting old is a horrible thing and I get made fun of for still eating chicken fingers and fries and I get yelled at for being in my 20's. I can't help it that I love kickball and drink soda at breakfast and still dress up for halloween. Life's just more fun that way.


Quote of the day:
Co-worker: "Getting old hurts. Shutup Katie."
Me: "But I have a kickball injury."
Co-worker: "Are you 5?"

White people go to Jacksonville

Yep I'm that blogger that comes home from a mission trip and talks about how awesome it was and how it changed my life and stuff. So get over it. 7 of us manchester creekers went on down to Jacksonville Florida and helped out with 2nd Mile Ministries. They're an urban ministry serving in the worst neighborhood in the city. Actually the neighborhood that we stayed and served in has the highest murder rate in Florida and it's the worst school district in the nation (based on test scores). Most of the groups that come down to help out are in the minority in the neighborhood and people usually ask, "Where did you get all these nice white people?" I felt like that was the same reaction for our group as well. A lot of the community folks walking past us as we did our street projects would stop and ask which group we were with and would thank us for doing the work which I thought was really cool. I've done urban ministry before, and usually the thing that tugs at my heart is the reality of how much "stuff" I've got compared to someone else. It's good to be thankful for my stuff and my family and friends and my living situation, but this time that fact really didn't stick out. What got at me was the parable in Matthew 25 when Jesus teaches that what we do for his people is really what we do for him. What I've learned about parables is that He cares more about our hearts than anything else. I don't expect to change the world or expect to see complete justice for the poor or oppressed people in this world, but I can and should have a heart for the poor and oppressed and care about injustice because God does and He hasn't forgotten about them. He hung out with those people when He was here. The people that don't have it all together, the people who don't have anything at all really. When you go into the urban areas, you want to change their situations and fix all the problems. I would've loved to have gone down to Florida and seen some lives changed but it didn't happen. But I think that we all saw that Jesus wants our hearts to form more to His and care for the things he cares for. So that's a good week indeed.