Currently Listening A Day Without Rain By Enya see related

So, it's been a while since I last wrote anything. But, when I am home, I don't feel the pressing need to write anything here. I feel more available, in a sense. Though, now I am back at school, and I just finished reading my sister's new entry about her Christmas in Japan, and I realized, that this is a half-way decent way of communicating with those that I don't see too often.

Last night I stayed up far too late watching Forest Gump on TV. I had forgotten how good the story was. The only bit that I remembered about it was that I cried off and on throughout the film. But, this time, I was able to see the quality of the story and such.

Here is some news that may not be common knowledge: I got a grant from the Honors College that will allow me to travel to New Zealand for a few weeks this summer!! If this works out, I will be able to go visit a place that has long held my interest! The situation is still a bit surreal. I have wanted it for so long, and now that it is happening, I am beginning to second guess the reality of it. I mean it is an obvious gift from God. But, it almost seems too good to be true... I suppose that has been the pattern that I have seen when God works in these ways. Things just seem to fall in place when he is the one who is leading the way. It is yet another side of our Creator that I am getting to know.

Oi! I am just about to the end of my rope... It has extened much farther than I knew it could. Nevertheless, I am about to schlump over. It should be against the unwritten rules of the universe to have standardized tests at 7:30 on Saturday mornings.

Turns out that my professor felt my title for my paper was a bit too ambiguous. I'll agree with that. I was just having fun with it before. Now, I have to tighten the whole thing and add a bit here and there. I thank God that I really do like to research, because I am doing an aweful lot of it.

For those of you who didn't know this, I wrote a grant proposal to go to New Zealand for about 15 days this coming summer. I  don't know if I will get enough to actually make it over there. But, we'll see what happens. Tasol.

I am singing a song in my head.... Born free - as free as the wind blows - yahda da dee da da...... blah blah blah. So I don't know the rest, but that doesn't matter, because I just printed off my big paper for this semester!! I still have about 16 or 17 lesson plans to create and a comparable number of reflections to type. But I don't care! I am finished with my paper. We'll see how long this feeling lasts. Probably just until I go to sleep.

Here's to "The Multidimensional Thorn: Discordant Opinions on the Irish Barbarians and How to Pacify Them" (it's the working title)!

Currently Reading The Cricket in Times Square By George Selden, Garth Williams (Illustrator) see related

One thing that I have been perplexed by over the past couple of months is the idea of eternity past. Now, if eternity and time really have no relation - there is no time in eternity, then how can there be eternity past? And if there is eternity past then there has to be eternity future. If there is a past and a future, then shouldn't there be an end that we are working towards? In eternity, no. Because eternity is without time, right?

This is something that I have wanted to let out for a while. It is just there. I have heard the phrase used a couple of times recently, and the question pops up everytime. Now, I am back to studying. Oh the joys...