I got the job!

I'll be teaching beginning Greek next school year!  I've wanted this fellowship for a year now, and I've been on such a emotional rollercoaster about this... but yippeee!  I'm so excited yet extremely nervous: I really hope it goes well cause I really want to teach in a seminary in the future, and this is a good start.  4 people got picked (including Thomas Carlson, so say congrats to him at church), and a lot of very qualified people got picked.  Don't know how I got through it all, but I'm just so happy that I at least know I'll be in this area for another year or so.

Yippee! I can't stop smiling.  

I've been watching a lot of movies again lately.  Just in the last week:

First there was "Raising Helen" (cute, but it gives a bad name to Lutheran pastors: either they really are so liberal, or this movie didn't do its research), "Day After Tomorrow" (saw this with my parents because they wanted to know what would happen with the tsunamis... it could happen I suppose...), "Garden State" (a really weird movie, but pretty funny and makes you think... Natalie Portman is such a teenager in the movie), "King Arthur" (so so so so violent, I thought it was a horrible movie), "Napolean Dynamite" (really funny, I was in complete disbelief for most of the movie, the stereotype was just so extreme), "Lemony Snicket" (a really good movie, but quite dark, comparable to Harry Potter in the darkness, but no magic... the baby in it is sooooo cute), "Meet the Fockers" (funny, I always think it could happen in my family, again cute baby)... and a few others I can't remember right now.  My brain is filled with images from all those movies, I hope there's room for schoolwork.

The trip to Disneyworld went well.  It was stressful at times, but overall my parents and Jim got to know each other better, and I'm really glad we had this trip together.  We went through all 4 parks in 4 days, hitting practically everything (fast pass is great, and I loved planning each day).  The weather was rotten though, it rained everyday, and was very cold.  You had to wear a winter jacket, and gloves, and hats and scarves, though it did not snow.  But hey, it was Disneyworld, so I can't complain too much.

School starts next week, and I'm not really looking forward to it.  <sigh> I'm feeling very inadequate right now in so many areas, and wondering when the misery will end.

I'm going to Disney World next week!!!!  for 4 days.  with my parents.  And Jim.  And this was all decided in 3 hours.  This morning.

My friends, please pray for this time.  It's been really difficult for me to deal with my parents about Jim.  But for them to offer to take Jim along with us is HUGE.  It could either go really well, or very very bad.  I'm so excited, yet very scared about what may happen.  Please pray that my parents will get to know Jim well, and God will be working in all of this.  Whatever happens, I just want to make sure it's God's will, and not anyone else's. 

I thought I'd get some work done over break... whatever.

My frustrations this week has been overwhelming.  I have contemplated quitting as an RA, asking for 2 residents to be thrown out, asking for the resignation of my supervisor, moving off campus, and leaving the church and going to another one.  All very extreme I know, and I'm probably not going to do any of them... yet.

What has God been teaching me?  1) People are the source of all of my frustrations.  They are fickle and stubborn.  2) I have very little patience, and as I am a person as well, fickleness and stubborness exude when I am irritated.  3) I'm so glad God isn't any of these things, and he's the one who's actually in charge.

I finished my finals today, so there's no more work to be done for 3 weeks.  Well, at least no school work to be done.  I'm scared for what this next year will bring, as I have so many hopes and dreams, and yet right now the future does not bode well.  <sigh> In times like these, I know God is teaching me a lesson, but I don't know what yet.  Or actually, I don't really want to know because it usually involves change.  grrrr....

Today will be a landmark for me in my Trinity career:  I will have written 50 pages for my Major Project to finish my MA in Educational Ministry... all within 24 hours. 

The most difficult thing has been: staying on track and writing for more than an hour at a time!  I pretty much blank out every hour, and have to take a break for at least 30 minutes before I can get back to it.  The focus during the hour is great ( 4 pages an hour), but then my breaks get me distracted to do other things because life goes on even when I have a paper to do.  grrrrrrrrrrr....  tomorrow will not be pretty...