Weekly Recap.....

I had an absolute blast on Easter. I hung out with people I love and all in all had an enjoyable day. And I want to put some pics up, but I think that'll have to wait until tomorrow. As you will soon see why...

Monday: Went to school, came home, worked on my Communist Manifesto Paper and Went to a rather fun get together, came home early from said get together, went to sleep.

Tuesday: Woke up, finished paper, went to school, met with professor re:paper, fixed paper, printed new paper, went to class, went to work, came home, went to sleep.

Wednesday: Woke up, went to school, had lunch with Ashley, went to work, agreed to work 2 hours the next morning, went home, went to sleep.

Thursday: Woke up, went to work so I could sell cds for Bill Harley, Went to class, went home, went with Sarah and Kasey to help at Helping Hands at church, went to Brittany's House, had fun, came home, went to sleep.

Friday: Woke up, went to work, worked all day, went to Sarah's house and hung out, came home, and went to sleep.

Saturday: (aka today) Woke up, went to work, worked all day, came home, had a snack, goofed off online, ate dinner, watched some tv with Phil and Shanna, And am know blogging.


If you noticed something missing, I give you mucho credit. It wasn't until I was discussing with Sarah how blehish my week has been, that I realized I wasn't putting any real time aside for Jesus n me time. And boy will I let you know, I can tell. I am exhausted and I really feel that is a large part of the reason. I have been praying and reading but I really haven't put any quality time aside to really dive into God's presence this week. So I am gonna do so now.

A Salute....

I almost didn't post tonight because it already looks like I posted today, but I am sooo counting it as last night....

So... Yesterday

I was at school and in my 304 class which is Theory and Methods of History (sounds boring but it really is interesting) We were discussing how the field of history has changed in the recent past. It was a really good lecture. And to spare you all of the reliving of it I'll just say that it left me with some questions regarding the possibilities of me pursuing a graduate degree in history.

So, I stayed after class to ask my professor some questions about graduate school since I am going to a grad school workshop on April 5th at UCI. And my professor gave me great insight into what I should be looking for, and then took the time out of his day when he could've been escaping to begin his sring break by looking up stuff on the internet and explaining it to me.

I (once again) realied that I go to an amazing school. My professors are all very personable and very generous with their out of class time. They all genuinely want to see each of their students succeed, and that, I believe, is what makes them great educators. They are also amazingly talented and active in their fields of research.

I have had some really good teachers, and they have all made me want to teach, because as one of my fabulous professors says "Some of the most important instruction occurs out of class."

So I want to encourage all of my school attending readers to get to know your teachers.

I also want to salute those teachers in my life who have either made a difference in my life, or have showed me important things about being an educator. (salutes teachers :) )

This should count for Thursday Night!

Because I just got home from hanging out with my awesome friends at Brittany's House...

We played Rock Band...

I am really bad at the drums, but Candice Rocks them hardcore!
Emo is amazazing at Guitar
Brittany is just the Rock Band Queen

And I... I should work the merch booth.

That is what I did today at work. I usually don't work on Thursday but I went in to go to a ibrary sponsored concert at the Elementary School next door, and my whole job was to sell cd's. I sold 8 cds and a dvd which was amazing because 97 % of our audience was first and second graders lol....

The singer was Bill Harley and he was great. Kinda like the wiggles but soooooo much better!

I had an amazing day at school and will prolly blog on it and my night at church later...

Students of the World...Unite!

It is my sixth day in a row of posting on my blog! Yay!

Today I would like to start off my blog with some fun quotes...

“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness” -Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
-Arnold Toynbee

“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”
-Theodore H. White

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
-Charles Austin Beard

“To a historian, libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.”
- Barbara W. Tuchman

So... Those were some quotes about History... I <3 History! and some quotes about friendship and perserverance... Back to your regularly scheduled program of Random info about my day...

Work:
Today was a pretty good day. I got to pick up one hour today and 4 on Friday, so I will have a twenty hour work week.YAY!
My craft program tonight had the biggest turnout of all of them. We made Flower Pens. I had something like 16 people including a teenage guy who came over to see if he could make one for the girl he liked.. He was so shy it was cute..

School:
My Russia class was pretty interesting. But it hit me rally hard today that by studying history, I can be desensitized to human suffering. Over a million people were murdered during the "Great terror"/ Ezhovshchina (Time of Ezhov) and in class it just comes out as just another number. But these were people who had families and loved ones and it made me really sad.

I got to have lunch with Ashley today which was fun because we don't get to talk as much this semester since we only have one class together.

In my US War and Depression class we were trying to come up with economically feasable ways to solve the depression if we were in charge at the time. One guy said genocide, and the assignment was then expanded to include a morality parameter. I decided to be devious and I started a bid for a new modified socialist government. I raised taxation and abolished profits. The teacher said that if we modified my ideas they might've worked. He disagreed with my commentray on how the New Deal had socialist leanings. Oh well. I really like his class because we can be totally wild and crazy and still learn alot.

I need to clean my room and my car...that is one gial I have for my Spring Break next week.

Oh well I should go to sleep so I can go to work in the morning...

It's Just An Average Day.....

....and nothing really stands out...

I have lots (okay maybe not a lot)of things to share today.

First of all, Dan the tight guy on Biggest Loser got sent home tonight. It makes me kinda sad, first of all because he cried and everything, second of all cuz he was adorable...

Second of all... I finished my paper, even though I was super frustrated and then I went to my professor's office hours at noon (my paper was due at 2:30) and he said that I could have turned it in the way it was, but he (after being horribly mean and teasing me) gave me some suggestions on how to improve it. So I did, and considering that I didn't really understand the paper prompt at first, I was kind of proud that it was turn-in-able when I went to see him.

I am really glad that I did get my paper done and that I went to school today. I was randomly sitting in class and I remebered just how much I love history. I had nearly forgotten with all of my frustrations over my paper. But I was sitting in class and we were discussing how this one historian wrote about how there should be more freedom for historians, and class was just really fun, and it hit me... hey I do like this, I remember now.

Work was aight, and I do work every day we are open this week, but Thursday is only for a couple of hours.

I have a lot to read for tonight, both for school and my Bible so I am gonna sign off...

As appearing on myspace

I wrote this on myspace as a way to share with my numerous not saved friends on there, but I thought it would work here too as my post of the day...

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I don’t know how many people are friends with Jesus (on myspace) his myspace is :

http://www.myspace.com/iamyourhomeboy

For Easter "Jesus" blogged and here is just an excerpt from his blog...

"And then after the emotional pain of being let down by my closest friends, I was beaten for hours and made to carry that cross, your cross. It wasn’t fun, and I didn’t enjoy it, but I did it willingly, because I love you. I don’t think everyone reading this really gets that part. I truly and sincerely love you, each and every one of you. I gave myself up that night because I love you so much."

Then he goes on to challenge everyone to share their faith and how Jesus changed their lives with those that don’t know him.


So...Here I am.

I was always the outcast. Not even just at school. My family loved me, but as the sole child amongst adults I always felt out of place. I had few friends and none that didn’t want something from me. I felt condemned to be the outcast for my entire life.

One day I went to camp, I was 15 at the time. There someone told me that someone loved me enough to die for me, and that they loved me just they way I was, I didn’t need to change in order to recieve that love. I wanted to be loved SOOOO badly. So I decided that day to ask for that love to be mine.

I have been a different person since that day.

Not because I did anything more complicated than to let myself be loved by someone who already loved me. But it is a brave step to allow yourself to be loved, because when you are loved, you learn to love in return, and that requires you to be vulnerable and allow the possibility that you will be a different person.

That was 12 years ago, and while I’ll be the first to tell you that you will hit bumps walking this road of love, and you may even fall down and hurt yourself, but there is always one there who will help you up, hold you while you cry, and guide you on this journey of life.


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I was looking back at some of the posts on myspace and livejournal from years back and I realized that no matter what the actual blogs appear to say, I am a different person now than I was then. And it is a good thing, it has been hecka hard and not so fun at times, but "I can say that I've been changed for the better" (yay Wicked) and it is all because of Jesus.

This is the day...

Happy Resurrection Sunday!