I can't believe that this semester is drawing to a close. It seems like just days ago that I was unloading my my car and moving into a room that hadn't been lived in for weeks. Like just yesterday that I was starting my first day of classes. And now it's over. My (first semester) of my sophomore year is over. I've learned a little, I've lived a little, I've loved a little, and I've lost a little. All in All I think that this has been an experience un like one that I will ever have again.

I experienced the Joy and Frustration of working with the Ladies in Financial aid. I took a peak into the mind of Dr. Woodruff--and ran for the hills screaming. I have started and renewed friendships that will hopefully continue to grow and prosper. I've argued with Jesse Brown over Forester Village more times than I would like to admit. I've studied lots, and studied not quite enough. I've been an el-ed major, a youth ministries major, a YM and Recreation management DOUBLE major, and finally just a plain old Rec Management major (not all in one semester but pretty close).

Who knows what this summer will fully hold...I just know that I will get to minister to kids, to play with them, and to love them. However God chooses to unfold this summer will be just as exciting of an adventure as the last twelve months have.

Next year I'm hoping and praying for a little more stability, a little more assurance, a LOT more organization, and a little more focus. Well I doubt that I'll be adding anything to this for a very LONG time.....So in the mean time, as my dad always says......"Grow in Grace".

~Jamie~

I can't believe that this semester is drawing to a close. It seems like just days ago that I was unloading my my car and moving into a room that hadn't been lived in for weeks. Like just yesterday that I was starting my first day of classes. And now it's over. My (first semester) of my sophomore year is over. I've learned a little, I've lived a little, I've loved a little, and I've lost a little. All in All I think that this has been an experience un like one that I will ever have again.

I experienced the Joy and Frustration of working with the Ladies in Financial aid. I took a peak into the mind of Dr. Woodruff--and ran for the hills screaming. I have started and renewed friendships that will hopefully continue to grow and prosper. I've argued with Jesse Brown over Forester Village more times than I would like to admit. I've studied lots, and studied not quite enough. I've been an el-ed major, a youth ministries major, a YM and Recreation management DOUBLE major, and finally just a plain old Rec Management major (not all in one semester but pretty close).

Who knows what this summer will fully hold...I just know that I will get to minister to kids, to play with them, and to love them. However God chooses to unfold this summer will be just as exciting of an adventure as the last twelve months have.

Next year I'm hoping and praying for a little more stability, a little more assurance, a LOT more organization, and a little more focus. Well I doubt that I'll be adding anything to this for a very LONG time.....So in the mean time, as my dad always says......"Grow in Grace".

~Jamie~

I just BS'ed my way through three excruciating essays, with the hopes that the professor would take pitty on my poor damned soul, and give me a few undeserved points. I'm so thankful that class is over with!
(oh! and FYI, my poor soul is not really damned.....actually it's heaven bound!)

Screw it....Screw it all!`

"at this point....there is no point."

"no point in steering now."

"i'm going to fail.....i accept it, you should too."

"comphrehensive exams can go to hell."

"where Philosophy will be the ultimate torture."

"i can't do any better than i've already done.....but i can do worse."

news--good or bad...you decide

had an email from dad yesterday....good news....he signed the form i needed for the financial aid people....perhaps i will becoming back next year.....at least i hope so.....i had something else to say, but i just forgot it....a kid from my high school committed suicide on friday, so if you think of it--pray for unity in the schools....and that this can be used to further the Kingdom......something else...what was it?....hmmm...oh well, must not have been too important. nite all!--wait i remember! my aunt is having an auction....and i have the opportunity to purchase some much needed furniture for hopefully reasonable prices.....yeah for second hand furniture!

highlights from this weekend:

-Stitch: "Did you know that a magnum is also a gun?"
-Seeing Saca-J and Parkay and Zippo and Thriller and Uno and.......
-Meeting new people!......there were even a couple of HCer's!
-playing volleyball with stitch (who knew that "EEK" could be so funny?!)
-Stitch hitting HERSELF in the face with the volleyball......followed by Trigger hitting himself in the knee with the volleyball(it must run in the family!)......and then of course pelting Vanessa in the face!
-Beating their team 15-0; 15-2; 15-11.....GO US!
-"It's been genetically proven that if your parents can't have kids you most likely wont either"......that's right another stitch moment was close at hand! (are we seeing a pattern here?)
-The cynical "straw ride" with Magnum, Shooter, and Saca-J.....and everyone else
-Talking with Saca until 3 in the am
-FREE pizza! Yeah baby!
-Playing Apples to Apples....oh Cleaver!
-Playing endless games of knock out...
-Scoops remote controlled pop machine....
-Reminiscing!
-Just plain being at Michindoh!

I'm so excited for this summer!

Tu cara mira como un grano giganta

i like hooded sweatshirts a lot.....probably more than i should.

Another cut and paste from my Xanga site...

FRIDAY!

i'm so excited that it is finally Thursday....all week my internal calander has been off, but it's made for a very interesting week! Tomorrow is friday...and can i just say that i'm exicted? no? well too bad! I'm excited! not only will i get to take another exam early...but i'm also going to the Michindoh Staff Retreat! I'm going to take Vanessa up with me (from The WU (that's indiana weslyian university for those of you who were wondering!)..).....I've never met her before, but it'll be fun to get to know her before staff training in a few weeks. I'm really excited too see all of my camp "buddies" from last summer.....It'll be really different without Capt., and Oops, and Klondike there this year.....but I'm sure that Scoop and Birdie will do an amazing job....not to mention the fact that the other core counselors for this summer are amazing people......I just can't wait to see what God has in store for us this summer! I really hope Zipps and Timber will be there tomorrow, i really miss them.....we really should have mad a better effort to get together this semester....oh well. i guess it's like they say.....hind sight is 20/20. So i just realized that any one who is not educated about Michindoh, probably thinks i'm crazy.......these arent' imaginary people i'm talking about....they're camp names....i have one too....it's Ditto, if you want to know why i'll tell you......i also just realized that i use these .........'s alot.....hmmm....i wonder what that's all about. I'm pretty sure that this is the most random entry that i have ever made....well actually maybe not, but i'm just really excited so i wanted to put it on paper...or rather screen! I hope that all of my fans have an amazing day! it's so gorgeous outside~85 degrees. remind me why i'm sitting inside in the AC wearing a sweatshirt? You don't know? well neither do i! maybe i'll go outsid now......ok I'm done. That's all folks. there's no more to be seen......why are you still reading this? why am is till typing this? that's it.....this is the end.....hey it's like that matthew west song. what's it called? oh yeah, the end......that's because this is the end....really now stop reading! I MEAN IT! leave....ok i'm outty!



haha bet you thought i was serious......well that's because i am serious......bye!

a reiteration.....

there's nothing better than kids on a rope!

Unending Song!

have you ever really wanted to blog....and then you finally sit down to do so.......and then experience "bloggers block"? yep definitely experiencing it now....i just thought i'd let you know that!

AAAAAHHHHH!

this evening i experienced one of my first, "very nearly a panic attack" panic attack. and can i just tell you.....it was not fun! >:o(

a random excerpt

There's a great story about a chronically depressed man who went for help to the psychologist Carl Jung. Jung told the man to cut his fourteen hour workdays back to eight, then go directly home and spend his evenings alone and quiet. SO the man spent every evening behind closed doors, reading the works of Thomas Mann and Herman Hesse and playing Mozart and Chopin on his piano.

After a few weeks the depressed man returned to Jung, described what he'd been doing, and complined at his lack of improvement. Jung responded, "But you didn't understand. I didn't want you to be with Hesse or Mann or Chopin or Mozart. I wanted you to be completely alone."

The man looked horrified: "I can't think of any worse company".

Jung replied, "Yet this is the self you inflict on other people fourteen hours a day".

That kind of self-hatred hangs like a cloud between Christians and the Father of Lights. We are horrified at the thought of a silent retreat. We are so immobilized by self-loathing that we neutralize God's Spirit in us, chocking off the nourishment meant to make us grow and blossom and bear fruit

excerpt taken from:Brennan Manning's, Posers, Fakers & Wannabes (unmasking the real you)

another lazy day here at HC!

so tonight lisa and i decided to scrap any chance of homework and instead eat taco bell and watch tv; oh, and make cookies. it was a good idea.....except for the fact that i ate WAY TOO MUCH taco bell, and cookies and now i feel like i'm going to throw up all over the place. UUUUUGHHH!!! :o( another less vomitrocious note....i went to walmart today too buy Bed Knobs and Broom Sticks, they didn't have it......but they did have Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on VHS for $6, and American Sweethearts on DVD for $5.50, so that was pretty cool. and of course i bought them, but i haven't watched them yet because we were watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.....another tear jerker, sometimes i wonder if i'm really having these emotions or if it's all just scripted. but i really don't care i like the show anyway!......then we watched another ALIAS. i just realized how weird that show is getting....and how sad it is that Sidney has no friends outside of the CIA....and then i remember that it's just a show, no not just a show....an AMAZING show! and i get over that real quick too.

i think i'm going to go watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Kari and let my taco's stew.........UUUUUUUUGHHH!

May Day!

i just realized that it's may. here's what may means to me (first published on my xanga site):
............................April Showers Bring May Flowers..........................

it's april.....almost may! may means........

a whole lot less stress,

a whole lot more fun,

a whole lot more sun,

new amazing memories,

and CRAZY KIDS!!!!

YaY for may!
(....wait maybe may means more stress.....hmmmm....either way: Yay for MaY!)

on lighter note....

i apologize for the ohio state look to my page.....i'm getting there!

i'm at the end of my rope......now i'm going to hang myself!

i have had it with these dorms!!!!! GRRRRRR! first we have warm water whenever the hot water heater feels like working. then someone cooks their popcorn for at least a half hour and we lose our microwave. we've had a water balloon thrown at our window in the middle of the night: now our screen pops out. the stinking guy upstairs has a basket ball hoop in his room and plays at midnight. the ladies next door choose to be loud when i choose to sleep. and to top it off! someone just through a rock at our window and broke it!!!!!!! i am fed up!!! Praise the Lord! i get to live in the forester apartments next year.....only two weeks left....only two weeks left....only two weeks left....only two weeks left....only two weeks left.......*mumbling incoherently*........