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I think I have the flu, or people are also telling me that I possibly have a sinus infection. Either way, my head is about to implode and everytime I cough my head feels like a bass drum during a high school marching band competition. Everything I do now takes twice as long to do. Things like walking, typing this blog, talking, thinking, laughing, and just generally everything else. I can't remember the last time I felt this bad. I feel like I'm too tired to even try and fight it, which normally I just pretend like I'm not sick and keep going until the sick decides to leave. This one has me beat. Beat like....something that is typically beaten..badly. So that's my life right now. Congested, coughing, feverish, achy, and just all around bad.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Ms. Baikie, Ms. Gillian Baikie, please see the attendant to claim your free granola bar
Well, somehow or another, I've managed to once again pick the returning spring break flight that ends up being super delayed. It's becoming something of a spring break tradition for me I think (See last year's post about this same time). Well This time it is a little different though I have to admit. I'm stuck in Denver, which frankly, is much more appealing to me than being stuck in the Cleveland, Ohio airport. I do like airports. I love watching the people and talking with different people, like the security guard who told me that I had a nice smile and that it was almost as big as his, which was a bright start to my morning.
Contintental Airlines had some equipment malfunction so the inbound flight which was to later turn into my outbound flight never quite made it. So rather than leaving from Denver at 9:40, I now get to leave at 11:50. Wheee!!! Again, it's not that bad because I was going to have a 2 and half hour layover anyway in Cleveland, so basically I'm just spending that layover time here in Denver. Plus, since it was technically the airline's fault that we're stuck here, they brought out a special "We're Sorry!" Snack cart, because apparently there is no layover long enough that can't be made up with Doritos, Chewy Granola Bars, Milano Cookies and Dr. Pepper. I defintiely swiped multiples. Hey, I'm just trying to let them make their amends...with snacks. And they gave me a coupon to get either Free movie headsets, a coupon at the duty free shop, or a free alcoholic beverage on the flight. Too bad my 21st birthday is still 5 weeks away. Not really, Who doesn't want duty free items!?!
Well that's my airport spring break update. hopefully this trip will not end up being a repeat of last year's disaster. Yikes!
Contintental Airlines had some equipment malfunction so the inbound flight which was to later turn into my outbound flight never quite made it. So rather than leaving from Denver at 9:40, I now get to leave at 11:50. Wheee!!! Again, it's not that bad because I was going to have a 2 and half hour layover anyway in Cleveland, so basically I'm just spending that layover time here in Denver. Plus, since it was technically the airline's fault that we're stuck here, they brought out a special "We're Sorry!" Snack cart, because apparently there is no layover long enough that can't be made up with Doritos, Chewy Granola Bars, Milano Cookies and Dr. Pepper. I defintiely swiped multiples. Hey, I'm just trying to let them make their amends...with snacks. And they gave me a coupon to get either Free movie headsets, a coupon at the duty free shop, or a free alcoholic beverage on the flight. Too bad my 21st birthday is still 5 weeks away. Not really, Who doesn't want duty free items!?!
Well that's my airport spring break update. hopefully this trip will not end up being a repeat of last year's disaster. Yikes!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Someone hire me.
well here I sit, once more in my favorite coffee shop in Denver staring out the window at the hustle and bustle of Regis University which happens to be right across the street. Clearly Regis students are not on spring break.
My trip home has been great. Very relaxing. When I got home friday, my family and my aunt and cousin went out to get some good Mexican food and then my parents and I went to the Boulder Theater (obviously in Boulder) to go see Chick Corea. He's a jazz musician that's had something like a forty year career and he is absolutely amazing. He's been doing alot lately with latin/flamenco music, and this concert was nothing but that. They even had a professional flamenco dancer come out for some of the songs. It was pretty much beyond words. I'll just leave it at the fact that it was the best concert that I had ever been to (jazz or otherwise).
Then on Saturday, we went over to see my grandparents which is always a treat and then went shopping for an outfit for me to perform in. Perform open heart surgery I mean. Just kidding, we actually ended up just getting an outfit for me to wear for the Concerto Concert which by the way is coming up quickly. yowzas! I'm excited! Then after that we ended up going to see the Ballet. They performed Prokofiev's Cinderella and it was gorgeous. The denver center just built a new opera house which is also where the ballet performs and it's amazing in there. All of the seat backs have these little computer screens that give the synopsis of what is going on during the ballet and should you be seeing an opera, it would give the translation. Neato!
Oh my goodness also when we were out shopping, I ran into an old friend from high school that I hadn't seen for a really long time. And she apparently is getting married at the end of next month. It was kind of weird, I have a hard time getting super girly excited about things like that. For whatever reason, the first thought that pops into my head is "why?" Which makes me sound like I have no heart at all. Maybe I just feel like I'm so young and don't have any prospect for that sort of thing that it's hard for me to understand. I never really pictured marriage being a huge deal in my life. Honestly it's easier for me to picture myself as a 30 something that's still single than it is for me to picture myself married. I know that's pretty weird, but eh, someone's gotta be the crazy old single lady down the street that the neighborhood kids talk about right?
Well anyway, so that was pretty much my weekend. Today I made up my resume and have been doing some internship hunting. I have an interview tomorrow so pray for that. I'm excited to see where God takes me with this internship. On another note, I wrote out my support letters for Peru, which I will address and stamp tonight and we'll see from there. Oh yeah, I also randomly printed out an application for mission work with the Lutheran church. Basically, I'm going to send it in and if something comes up, then it will come up. I put on there that I am interested in Latin America and available in June of 2007. There are some churches in Venezuela. I've always wanted to go visit there. Who knows what will happen.
I surely don't know. I'm just interested to see how things turn out.
My trip home has been great. Very relaxing. When I got home friday, my family and my aunt and cousin went out to get some good Mexican food and then my parents and I went to the Boulder Theater (obviously in Boulder) to go see Chick Corea. He's a jazz musician that's had something like a forty year career and he is absolutely amazing. He's been doing alot lately with latin/flamenco music, and this concert was nothing but that. They even had a professional flamenco dancer come out for some of the songs. It was pretty much beyond words. I'll just leave it at the fact that it was the best concert that I had ever been to (jazz or otherwise).
Then on Saturday, we went over to see my grandparents which is always a treat and then went shopping for an outfit for me to perform in. Perform open heart surgery I mean. Just kidding, we actually ended up just getting an outfit for me to wear for the Concerto Concert which by the way is coming up quickly. yowzas! I'm excited! Then after that we ended up going to see the Ballet. They performed Prokofiev's Cinderella and it was gorgeous. The denver center just built a new opera house which is also where the ballet performs and it's amazing in there. All of the seat backs have these little computer screens that give the synopsis of what is going on during the ballet and should you be seeing an opera, it would give the translation. Neato!
Oh my goodness also when we were out shopping, I ran into an old friend from high school that I hadn't seen for a really long time. And she apparently is getting married at the end of next month. It was kind of weird, I have a hard time getting super girly excited about things like that. For whatever reason, the first thought that pops into my head is "why?" Which makes me sound like I have no heart at all. Maybe I just feel like I'm so young and don't have any prospect for that sort of thing that it's hard for me to understand. I never really pictured marriage being a huge deal in my life. Honestly it's easier for me to picture myself as a 30 something that's still single than it is for me to picture myself married. I know that's pretty weird, but eh, someone's gotta be the crazy old single lady down the street that the neighborhood kids talk about right?
Well anyway, so that was pretty much my weekend. Today I made up my resume and have been doing some internship hunting. I have an interview tomorrow so pray for that. I'm excited to see where God takes me with this internship. On another note, I wrote out my support letters for Peru, which I will address and stamp tonight and we'll see from there. Oh yeah, I also randomly printed out an application for mission work with the Lutheran church. Basically, I'm going to send it in and if something comes up, then it will come up. I put on there that I am interested in Latin America and available in June of 2007. There are some churches in Venezuela. I've always wanted to go visit there. Who knows what will happen.
I surely don't know. I'm just interested to see how things turn out.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle!
what is it about getting away? the simple act of just removing yourself from a location obviously won't solve a problem, unless the problem lies within the location. For instance, should you happen to be standing knee deep in a tank full of leeches, then removing yourself from that location will probably help alot. But other than that, really. We try so hard to deal with the struggles of everyday life, to deal with work, school, family, friends, and everything else in between and then eventually, as if we didn't know it before, we find that we can't. We just go until we get to that place where you just "have to get away."
I think I've reached it. I'm ready for Spring Break, I'm ready to go home and not worry about my Anderson life. Sometimes I feel like I kind of live in two different worlds. When I'm home, I'm home and my Colorado life is my Colorado life and every pressure or struggle or whatever from my South Carolina life can't touch me. I of course realize that I have to keep up with the South Carolina world because those pressures will still be there when I get back, but it's like I'm Mario, when he gets the star for a little bit. You can just fly through the level. Who cares about the goombas or the Koopa Troopas, they can't touch you when you're invincibile.
So that's basically what my plane ticket home is. My temporary invincibility. As whatever as it is to move 1500 miles away to go to college, sometimes it's really nice to know that my South Carolina world is far enough away that I can escape it when I need to, but also to know that it and the people in that world will still be there for me when I need it and them to be.
so that's my first thought of the day, just the whole "I'm ready to go" thought, and I suppose my next thought somewhat stems from that. So...I'm getting older and I, naturally, have grown as a person. I was reflecting today now that I am a senior junior (I technically have the credit hours for a senior, but I will graduate still in a year) and it's really interesting to me to see how my outlook on alot of things has changed. I've always kind of been the uptight one when it comes to schoolwork and my future and though I believe that that side of me has served me well. I'm not sure I would have tried so hard in different things if I wasn't that uptight about grades. Well, I feel like I've loosened up alot as far as my future plans go. Before, I would absolutely freak out about not knowing where I was going to end up in life, or if I didn't know every last iota of information about what was going to happen. But now, I don't know...it's just different. I'm not concerned so much about knowing exactly where I will be and what I will be doing in 2 years and all that stuff. I have absolutely no idea what is going to happen. I might end up doing interior design, I might find something else to do and never look back. mission work has been on my heart alot. Maybe not as a lifetime thing, but definitely for a few months or years or decades...who knows. Sometimes I try to think about what I would do differently if I could start all over with the college search and major/minor decision and everything, but everytime I come up with the same conclusion- I don't think I would change anything. Maybe I won't end up in Interior design, but that doesn't make my experiences these past 3 years pointless. I guess I just don't see the benefit in starting over, when I can just build on to what I already have. I think I picture it kind of like a house. My house so far has been great, exactly what I've needed, but maybe (in the not too distant future) I'm going to need something different or bigger or...whatever, so why should I move to a new house that won't contain the same features of my old house that I might still end up using later? Just add on! Besides...that saves the trouble of getting a realtor anyway. So that's my second thought of the day. Basically, I'm ok with not knowing, and I actually somewhat enjoy the not knowing (much to my former self's surprise). Who knows?
I think I've reached it. I'm ready for Spring Break, I'm ready to go home and not worry about my Anderson life. Sometimes I feel like I kind of live in two different worlds. When I'm home, I'm home and my Colorado life is my Colorado life and every pressure or struggle or whatever from my South Carolina life can't touch me. I of course realize that I have to keep up with the South Carolina world because those pressures will still be there when I get back, but it's like I'm Mario, when he gets the star for a little bit. You can just fly through the level. Who cares about the goombas or the Koopa Troopas, they can't touch you when you're invincibile.
So that's basically what my plane ticket home is. My temporary invincibility. As whatever as it is to move 1500 miles away to go to college, sometimes it's really nice to know that my South Carolina world is far enough away that I can escape it when I need to, but also to know that it and the people in that world will still be there for me when I need it and them to be.
so that's my first thought of the day, just the whole "I'm ready to go" thought, and I suppose my next thought somewhat stems from that. So...I'm getting older and I, naturally, have grown as a person. I was reflecting today now that I am a senior junior (I technically have the credit hours for a senior, but I will graduate still in a year) and it's really interesting to me to see how my outlook on alot of things has changed. I've always kind of been the uptight one when it comes to schoolwork and my future and though I believe that that side of me has served me well. I'm not sure I would have tried so hard in different things if I wasn't that uptight about grades. Well, I feel like I've loosened up alot as far as my future plans go. Before, I would absolutely freak out about not knowing where I was going to end up in life, or if I didn't know every last iota of information about what was going to happen. But now, I don't know...it's just different. I'm not concerned so much about knowing exactly where I will be and what I will be doing in 2 years and all that stuff. I have absolutely no idea what is going to happen. I might end up doing interior design, I might find something else to do and never look back. mission work has been on my heart alot. Maybe not as a lifetime thing, but definitely for a few months or years or decades...who knows. Sometimes I try to think about what I would do differently if I could start all over with the college search and major/minor decision and everything, but everytime I come up with the same conclusion- I don't think I would change anything. Maybe I won't end up in Interior design, but that doesn't make my experiences these past 3 years pointless. I guess I just don't see the benefit in starting over, when I can just build on to what I already have. I think I picture it kind of like a house. My house so far has been great, exactly what I've needed, but maybe (in the not too distant future) I'm going to need something different or bigger or...whatever, so why should I move to a new house that won't contain the same features of my old house that I might still end up using later? Just add on! Besides...that saves the trouble of getting a realtor anyway. So that's my second thought of the day. Basically, I'm ok with not knowing, and I actually somewhat enjoy the not knowing (much to my former self's surprise). Who knows?
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