but i think i will like chicago! honestly!

prob not TESOL in spokane fyi...stupid freaking rumors

i like it here, i love jp so much, but i think life in the big city would give me indescribably joy. seriously

not gonna think about it anymore. seriously. but we all know that's not possible

BARCELONA

great show! despite a short set, they were awesome! i've been feeling electronic-based music lately, but they were fabulous! and praise jesus, i'm so incredibly thankful for a roommate who wants to spend time with me. it doesn't (to me) feel like i'm being dragged around against her will. b and e were fun as well! big sharpie x's on both hands...gotta wash that off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZyGdXSCe6U

halloween cash came in the mail today...it's basically gone haha

spokane public library is so nice! well the downtown one at least. big glass wall overlooking the falls and at least the homeless people are reading books! speaking of homeless people...e and i were walking home from class today and we stopped to chat with neighbors bill and cindy and their cats. also met marv(in) and princess broken-tail. marv claims to be part indian, bill and cindy chalk his silliness up to a serious drinking problem. they like having us as neighbors. mostly because when we have parties the ambulances never make an appearance. anyways marv gave e and i 3 vhs tapes just for kicks. we'll probably watch them and then give em back. just because he might want them? haha but it was a good conversation that e and i could have. and then later on the way home from safeway he started another conversation with me. praise jesus! i want to be friends, and he seemed scared of/weirded out by me after day 1 when i freaked to find out he lived next door. ha ha

also what the heck TESOL in spokane? that's a game changer for sure! it'll be funny to see what happens in my future! really felt God telling me not to worry about what might be or might have been today in chapel. no need to freak out, but definitely praying over the choice to make. also waiting on FAFSA to hear what the fed will do for me. cause i got no jobbbb

lame. hate money so much

norman rockwell

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be and so painted only the ideal aspects of it—pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers … only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

long long day of sort of rain following a long long week.

i am tired. but not running on empty. that might come later.

i miss h and t so so much and i am so thankful for texting and phones and pictures and love and i miss them! but only like 60 days till we're reunited.

all i want to do is read. but books are so expensive and the closest library isn't so close. well it sort of is but with an out-of-order bike it's not so great.

read read read

i started a list of things to read

t is sending books from my house in a package

yippee!

also: can't wait to get home and rock it out in the car w/k8---I miss her!

shane claibourne

If this bloody, counterfeit liberation is American...

I am proud to be un-American.

If depleted uranium is American...

I am proud to be un-American.

If US sanctions are American...

I am proud to be un-American.

If the imposed "peace" of Pax Americana is American...

I am proud to be un-American.

But if grace, humility, and nonviolence are American...

I am proud to be American.

If sharing to create a safe, sustainable world is American...

I am proud to be American.

If loving our enemies is American...

I am proud to be American.

Regardless, I would die for the people of New York, but I will not kill for them...my kingdom is not of this world.

I would die for the people of Baghdad, but I will not kill for them...my kingdom is not of this world. I will stand in the way of terror and war...my kingdom is not of this world.

I will pledge an allegiance deeper than nationalism, to my God and to my family...my kingdom is not of this world I will use my life to shout, "Another world is possible"...for my kingdom is from another place. "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight...but now my kingdom is from another place" (Jesus; John 18:36).

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I don't agree with everything he says...

but it resonates deep in my being.

that was a cheesy thing to say, but it's true

i love bicycling!

love it love it love it

borrowed e's racing bike so a could use my 'user-friendly' one, and it was great! kind of like papa's but not? lower i guess.

finally chicago. settled. there is no other option. and i'm happy about it. could i be anything else? it is exactly what i always wanted, so it's no big deal. self-discipline to adjust to rules, making efforts to get out of the bubble and into the city.

goal 1: find the other 1+3ers

it's so necessary! we're gonna be there for each other next year, so I want to be friends NOW

haha

goal 2: more books, more reading.

use my intellectual gifts to glorify God

boys

suck

except that's not true. i just hate having my motives judged like i think they are. ugh

harmless interaction misinterpreted by relationship-crazy everyone.

what.ever.

i say that a lot, don't i? haha

getting my energy from hanging out and it's so GREAT!