Archive for May, 2003

what a ride…

May 7th, 2003

wow. i have some breathing time now. i don’t know what to do with myself! *grin* two of my classes are officially done with. the other two are sooooo close to being done. i graduate on sunday. i may wet myself i’m so excited. (ok. i won’t do that. *grin* but i AM really excited!)… but after today’s extremely stressful day, i’m gonna sleep REEEEALLY good! i realize that my stressful week may be nothing to some people’s lives, but i’ll do a short recap. monday i spent over 7 and a half hours in the dark room developing negatives, processing, making prints, making more prints, and more… so basically the chemicals got to my brain and it made me even more loopy. but then i left there with a stinkin cold (which i kinda started getting in the morning, due to no sleep) … and headed to a very emotional last ABC service (which, just like at crusade, i cried.) they all prayed for me. i cried more. hugs were exchanged. i cried even more. man i love these people! then i went home and did hours of research for my three speeches.

then yesterday i spent more hours in the dark room… went to the fibers room and worked on my fibers project for a bit…. then went home to export my final version of my documentary. then to class to have our final screening of our documentaries, where my mom came and watched for a bit. went home… had an awesome worship team practice. worked on those speeches for a bit… fell asleep.

then today.. i woke up WAY too late… worked and finished my speeches… packed up my photos, my erinhead picture board (for one of my speeches), the 4×5 camera, the tripod, and my backpack, and walked as fast as i could to my photo class… in the rain. (i’m sure it was humorous to see me walking across campus with so much heavy stuff… and then trying to open the doors was probably even MORE funny) was late for my photo class… got out of the photo class LATE (ooh. that drove me NUTS. the critique ran long… but we had to stay… so i was late to my next class because of my teacher being crabby!) … ran across campus with the fifty million pounds of things i had… gave three speeches…. took a deep breath now that the worst of my finals stuff is over with… God somehow carried me through the though stress, yet again. a little more to go. but for now.. i’m gonna SLEEP! -D

nerdy stuff.

May 4th, 2003

i should get to bed. but i have to post. why? cuz i’m a nerd. -P

so i stayed up all night last night making a slide show. i feel like a nerd in this aspect, cuz i’ve started using flash for all my slideshows. (with the help of imovie to modify the audio for the slideshow) wanna see the final product? sure ya do. click here (a word of warning.. the file is 5mb big… and is designed for a screen resolution of 1024×768 or higher. oh yea.. and it has sound.. so turn it up.)

oh and check out this webpage that sarah sent me…. the world as a blog. it’s pretty nifty. but very nerdy -P

anyways. why am i still up? i haven’t gotten any sleep…. with the exception of a couple naps in front of my computer… i need to be up in a couple hours to play the drums. *waves* have an awesome night/morning -D

God is amazing.

May 2nd, 2003

tonight was the last normal campus crusade meeting i will ever attend as an undergraduate. next week will be a ‘social night’ with some worship, then bowling in the union. tonight was just awesome. tear jerking, but awesome. it was the ‘senior night’, where those graduating were giving short talks. i gave a bit of a reflection first, then laura talked for a bit, and then greg gave another amazing talk/reflection. and then erick brought us all back up to thank us and give us each a book. God’s presence was overwhelming this week… and as i was playing the drums for our last song, “shout to the Lord”, i couldn’t hold back the tears. i realized how much i am going to miss seeing these brothers and sisters every week. i love them so much, and my life has been so overwhelmingly blessed by them! i have learned so much, and have felt God’s love through every smile and every hug from these people. (and let me tell you.. that’s a whole lotta love there!) and then after the meeting, every person who came up to me afterwards made me cry more. it was crazy. but super awesome.

then after moving the drum set back to my house, i went to george webbs with lindsay and grace. and it was a very much needed reunion/catch-up/girl-talk time…. with a lot of laughing involved of course. -D and now i’m back home, just in awe of all that God has blessed me with. thank you Jesus. you are my everything!