i'm a maine-iac!

hey folks! i'm in maine and i'm in a very expensive internet cafe so this has to be quick! i'm meeting tons of cool people. love them! i had none of my beginning-to-meet-people-quiet-kid business. very happy about that. i've started working in the restaurant. it's fun but a ton to learn. i think i'm going to really enjoy it. they don't have a computer hooked up in the dorm yet and i don't have cell phone reception where i live so my main maine communication right now has to be snail mail. computer is coming soon i hope! peace!

maine-ward bound

i'm leaving boston for maine shortly. kinda sad and excited at the same time. i had an amazing time with my friend tammy. but now, i get to go see the beauty of maine.

last night, we had a fun party. met some great people. won at trivial pursuit. cheesy dancing. random phone calls. found the magic in the number 7. best ever!

boston day

hey folks! i'm in the boston public library. dang, it's amazing! beautiful art and exhibits and rare books. love it. talked to some random guy from the west indies too. that was fun if not a little strange. i'm currently trying to figure out what to do in boston. i've already seen what i would want to see/things i know about in boston. i walked the freedom trail, went to cheers, saw fenway park, went to walden pond, went to harvard, saw the beautiful christian science church here, tried to go to the museum but it was closed. now, i'm just meandering around. i forgot that a group from my college is here so i'm waiting for a friend of mine to call me back with some of their phone numbers. that's all i can say now ... have to go before my time runs out on the computer! peace and blessings to all!

i went to the woods to live deliberately

today we are going to sit by walden pond and read thoreau.

beautiful.

i'm heading out...

tomorrow i'm heading out for boston! i'm going to see my friend tammy and hang out in boston for a couple days. then i'm on to maine ... acadia here i come! mountains, beaches, moose, and bears! can't wait!

check ya later!

just a little reminder on who i am...

... in case anyone has forgotten recently! oh, and i suppose if you don't know me well, this is a good way to get an insight into me. that is, if you go for all this temperment stuff. oh, and i'm glad you asked ... yes i did steal this idea from mary!


my personality type =

Your #1 Match: ENFP

The Inspirer You love being around people, and you are deeply committed to your friends.You are also unconventional, irreverant, and unimpressed by authority and rules.Incredibly perceptive, you can usually sense if someone has hidden motives.You use lots of colorful language and expressions. You're qutie the storyteller! You would make an excellent entrepreneur, politician, or journalist.

Your #2 Match: INFP

The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world.Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships.It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close.But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.

Your #3 Match: ENFJ

The Giver You strive to maintain harmony in relationships, and usually succeed.Articulate and enthusiastic, you are good at making personal connections.Sometimes you idealize relationships too much - and end up being let down.You find the most energy and comfort in social situations ... where you shine. You would make a good writer, human resources director, or psychologist.

What's" Your Personality Type?

still in process...

currently, i have residence in three locations. i have yet to finish packing up my room in alex(i told them i was going to be gone by the 5th...). i am dogsitting at crw. and, i have been in the country at the home of a lady i work with doing free laundry all day. that was glorious. plus, i'm storing stuff at that house; when i actually pack it up from alex :S

some splendid news: i have finished reading my first book of the summer. it was a book written for adolescents but it was still over 300 pages! at this rate, i may just yet read all sixteen books on my list for summer reading. don't worry, the books on my list are going to be fun reads. there are some that pertain to theology but they have particular interest for me so it's not like school work! plus, i have plenty of random fiction to keep me content.

now, i am considering that i should tell you the books on my list. please, if you have read any, leave me comments about how much you loved or hated it! these are in no particular order. i will probably mix it up so i read some non-fiction interspersed with the fiction.

1. artemis fowl: the opal deception (this is the one i finished today)
2. the story we find ourselves in (the second in the 'new kind of christian' series)
3. millennials rising: the next great generation
4. big questions, worthy dreams
5. a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
6. the divine comedy (maybe this should count as three instead of one!)
7. the glorious appearing (yes, i did read the left behind series. no shame. well, maybe a little)
8. zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
9. life of pi
10. a confederacy of dunces (if i can find a library from which to rent it)
11. harry potter and the half-blood prince
12. the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (in need of a library for this one as well)
13. walk in the light while there is still light
14. the four loves
15. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
16. practicing passion (yes, i was supposed to read this for a class this semester and i didn't but i want to!)

i'm also taking along some goethe, walker percy, sartre, miguel de unamuno and a book of poetry ... just in case i finish all those! oh, and krista gave me a novel called 'pigs in heaven' that i'll probably take too. as always, if i can get my hands on any hemingway, it will be devoured (literarily speaking).

maybe i just wish i was going home

i can't figure out why i'm so melancholy about leaving a place that i didn't particularly enjoy. this year has been rough for me and i'm ready for a change of scenery. but then, i get weepy (not really crying but you know, just sad) while i'm packing up and thinking about everyone leaving. i'm tired of leaving places. i'm ready to not have to pack up and leave for a while. but i know that i'm going to be doing this for the next three years at least and who knows after that. ann would tell me this feeling is because i'm a post-adolescent. it's part of me dealing with intimacy vs. isolation stage in erikson's theory of development. it's nice to know that there are psychological reasons for the way i'm feeling but i'm here to tell you that it kinda sucks. i probably don't want to pack because i know that my next destination is going to be another experience of having to meet new people and i have a hard time with that and feelings of loneliness. maybe i just have to make a decision that the coming experience is going to be different. i have to choose to adjust and respond in a better way than i usually do. an optimistic attitude is nice to have. i just hope that i can keep it during the next month.

on the up hand, i'm excited about spending time in maine. here's a little quote that i've particularly felt resonance with lately.

Our suicide poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountians, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

i'm glad to be done with the classrooms for four months so that i can trudge up those mountains and spend my time at the beach. i'm hoping for a renewal of the mind and a refreshing of the spirit.

blessings to all that are leaving wherever they are and embarking on new adventures!

well...

i decided i should post again but i really don't have much to say. i'm packing up. dropped something on my toes a couple hours ago and it still hurts. i'm very thankful that i have a lady i work with who loves me and lets me store stuff at her house over the summer. i'm not envious at all of folks who have to take a church history exam tomorrow. i'm praying for you!

amecian idol obsessed

i just need a little moment.

i love bo! i love carrie! they freaking rock my world!

k, done.

my craziness is almost complete

well, two ways to take the title. double entendre, as it were.

1. i have never been as completely stressed and insane as i have been these past couple days. severe lack of sleep paired with copious amounts of tidbits to memorize for tests and millions of papers to write. i went a little nuts.

2. i only have one more final. my first year at seminary is almost over. at times it seemed to be going quickly. other times, it dragged. i don't know how three more years of this is going to be...

nicole and kyle's song

don't know much church history
don't know much theology
don't know much about the greek i took
don't know my new testament book
but i do know
that Jesus loves me
and i know that he has set me free
what a wonderful week this will be