Saturday, January 20, 2007

Five Months

Seems like waaay tooo long a period to be away from home. How do people do it?
It seems like school was delayed a week. It was supposed to start on Tuesday, but it didn't open until Thursday at 11am because of freezing rain and snow, and because my Thursday class was before 11 it got cancelled too. So I had a few classes on Friday but they were all introductory and light.
But soon it's all gonna come rushing toward me like a herd of mad elephants. The work I mean. And I guess I'm a little excited to get back into school mode.
I really wish the cold would go away, though. It should have been like this during Christmas. I would've been in the mood for it then. But not when school's starting and I have to trudge through the sludge.. fudge budge pudge... haha got a little carried away there... every morning. But anyhow. I love my job. Best in the world.
And thanks Becks for bringing me the stuff from my family - a Chinese New Year card actually written in Chinese, with hilarious Chinese messages from Beth and Ching, 2 copies of Life!, Hello Panda (which has become a gift-pack-for-Gill staple)... and more. I appreciate it. I really do.
I have my new printer up and running! It scans and copies too! Yay. Oh and today, I neatly coiled up all the wires for my laptop and other stuff with those little twisty things they use for bread here. Nice. I am on the way to the land of the neat. Just watch me.
I just finished reading "Broken Dreams, Fulfilled Promises" by Carolyn Ros (also an item from my Singapore gift pack) and it is an amazing account of a woman's struggle to keep close to God as her husband loses his memory after awaking from a coma. It really spoke to me because the book wasn't just one big melodramatic, tear-jerking pity-fest, but she had some great stuff to say about how to stay close to God during long periods of hardship and sorrow. I thought it was a really powerful story. Look it up on Amazon.
Okay sleeepy. Gonna visit Kirsten's church tomorrow, and their service starts FRIGHTFULLY early: 9am! Haha kidding, I guess I've gotten used to 11am services. Oh whatever. Take care you all.

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