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Name: ordinaeriegirl
Interests: capturing life and beauty... through filming, photography, drawing, writing, and playing music. gazing into a starry night sky. being lulled to sleep by a thunderstorm. hanging out and partying with my amazing friends. sleeping... sleeping is good.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  nylibertyfan 2
MSN: cross8eyed@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  cross8eyed
Member Since:
7/3/2004
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| I have to get back to finishing my notes on Aeschylus' Oresteia... but here's a quick thought:
While singing in church today, something hit me. Despite going to a different church every Sunday since I've gotten here, How Great is Our God has been sung in every worship set. Maybe--just maybe--God knows that I need to be reminded? 
Indeed, our God is great. Despite His undeniable presence in my life, it is easy for me to doubt it at times. Yet thinking about all the stuff God has brought me through in these past few weeks at Biola is pretty amazing. How great is our God!
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| Torrey kids, I dedicate this to you:
Writing Well
Retracing my steps
Unearthing the forgotten
Dreams of burnt pages
Happy Labor Day, people! While I would suppose that Labor Day is meant to be a sabbath from work, I am taking this day off to get some stuff done. Alas, my undiscovered ADD led me to write a blog post. 
So... what to say?! So much has gone on... so many memories created... some that I wish I could erase from my mind... but that's life--I guess. There are times I feel overwhelmed by how much I am loving this whole experience--it is really quite amazing... and I can only praise God for everything He has done. Of course the work can be daunting (like the time I had to finish reading & taking notes for thirteen chapters of "The Odyssey" the night before it was due)... but, I'm going to sound like a nerd, I love it so much! Yeah... so that's my little summary on my college experience so far.
Watched Moulin Rouge the other night with a group of friends (you girls are the bomb!)--amazing. I feel like I'm on a hangover or something--like, WOW.  The movie hurt me and disturbed me... it inspired me and taught me... I just can't quite express it. But, as Chels put it, it was like being on a carousel. My head's still spinning...
Okay, I'm going to head out to lunch now... New Yorkers, count your blessings. It's MAD hot right now... like... bleh.  That's been a little harder to adjust to... but whatever. I'll be home for Christmas.
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| Had my first college class today.  I won't go in depth, but I will say that I have been thoroughly humbled. I am surrounded by brilliant people and I really admire them... it makes me nervous and excited all at the same time. It is crazy to think that I will be spending the next four years with this group (for this class)--let the party begin! 
God continues to shower me with His love--I am always amazed at how He continues to desire my wandering heart. I have such a hard time focusing... it is such a temptation to put friends and academics before Him. The past two weeks have been crazy... two orientations right after another are quite tiring, to say the least. Yet that is where God shows me that I need to stop shouldering all my burdens and just surrender them to Him. Sometimes I can't understand why it is so hard for me to surrender. I mean seriously, isn't it just logical not to have to carry everything yourself?! Yet I am so stubborn and proud--I get stuck thinking that "I can do it all"... ah, what a weakness! But Grace abounds... and because of that I am still pressing on. Thank you Jesus.
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| ... I'll be posting at home as a post-highschool/pre-college kid. My, aren't I sentimental?
I leave for the airport in around one hour. Craziness... this is finally happening. Okay, I better go finish off the gazillion things I need to do before I go...
'Til next time.
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| It's 4:42 AM, I'm editing a video job that needs to be done post haste, thinking about one of the gazillion questions I need to answer for the Honors program pre-college workout, trying to stay awake, and thinking about the few days that I have left in Buffalo... days that are quickly fading away. It really hasn't quite hit me that I am going to be in college in less than a week. Wow, I'm finally "growing up".
Leaving home scares and excites me--all at once. I'm a jumble of nerves right now... bordering on panic, to be more exact. All the pre-college work that needs to be done (reading and/or taking notes of the Iliad and Manalive, and reading a
writing textbook... plus completing the LONG exercises for 6 of the
lessons from the book... oh joy) constantly reminds me that I am definitely not Superwoman. But then again, I'm learning that that's okay... I don't need to be. "Be still my soul..."
There is so little that I can express through the written word... but there are times when I stumble across a gem that puts into words my very thoughts--and in a way that I could only dream of doing:
O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.
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