she knows classes are back in session when...

there are so many AU students living in our apartment complex. which means... very little parking. at least thats why i think i have to park down the way between the two serious redneck trucks each night after work. because they didnt take into consideration students in their apartments doubling up in rooms. but they didnt ask me about it.

and... the sprinklers ... haha. i mean seriously is it really making the grass any greener when you are watering the sidewalk and smothering a window of the new library with agua? well, they didnt ask me about that either.


my class schedule is going to be rough! including the hours for my internship each week i will be taking a total of the equivalent of 23 hours. yuck. i officially no longer have a life.

the good news is that i found my internship. i will be working with a medical group right down the street in which they have occupational therapy as one of their rehab activities. im pretty excited. i was starting to get a little frustrated because i was having trouble finding a place that would let me come. since im not an OT student yet. but i am pretty excited about this now. except the huge amount of time that it will take out of my week. thats not an added bonus so dont confuse it.

another little tidbit of good news is that RUF got started off this week... and very well i might add. we are studying in the Psalms this semester. "Modern Problems... Ancient Solutions" John did a great job last night and the music.... oh the music. Its one of my favorite parts. Of course we had a lot of people last night because it was free pizza night, but we got a lot of names so hopefully we will be able to encourage them to come back. weve got so much going on this semseter too... besides our weekly meetings, lots of activities and several bible studies.

she starts a new year

this week the countdown begins. it started with devastation at the bookstore..
a psych majors senior year fall term book cost?... : 7.20.00.
yeah, i took them back. amazon.com is my new best friend.

I do have some hope for an internship, the thought of it and the chunk of my time it will consume each week is still a little daunting, but the good news is that doing the interning with an occupational therapist should be no problem. im waiting to get a call back from a rehab center down the street ..just a hop skip and jump or bike ride away. that would be ideal.

Saturday, as hot as it was, freshmen moved into the dorms and being the good loving welcoming college we are, of course they were accepted with open arms (but no dairy free coffee creamer), and plenty of campus ministries to carry in a box or two for them; tag line for their ministry in tow.

We were on a mission: freshmen beware.

sophie was there with RUF in spirit, but labeled as admissions staff

Rachel, Kelly, Sophie, and myself on our way to the RUF leadership get together

We were blessed to stay at this awesome log cabin/house for the night, but word didn't get passed along about the trecherous driveway... i was a little nervous, but we made it.

Kelly and Isaac:

Ryan, Johnathon, and Drew:

Just when Rach thinks she can guess Sophie's next move...

They love each other anyway:

Of course where there is a dead animal hanging on every wall there will also be chaps... and where there are chaps there is a sophie trying them on... i don't think david approved. She won't get into a nunnery in those.

All in all the meeting went well... I think we will get off to a strong start of a fall semester.
And of course there will be singing. It would not be RUF without the hymns.

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

1. Come Thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of God's unchanging love.

2. Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by Thy help I'm come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.

3. O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let that grace now like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

4. O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.

she has an appreciation for mewithoutyou

i only thought that i liked this band before. aaron weiss is the lead vocalist for the band mewithoutyou, most likely my favorite band to date. i just recently read that aaron spent time living at the simple way , which is an community based in pennsylvania. one of the founding people in the simple way is a guy named shane claiborne who wrote the irresistible revolution which is the book that i read last summer that made me fall in love with reading again. its kind of crazy how certain things can be related and one not even realize it. but it all makes sense (of course) now.

a lot of people don't care for mewithoutyou's style of music... which i can somewhat understand as the mere description of 'alternative' doesn't do it justice. i, which i am sure you have gathered by now, love it... and of course am biased and think they should be everyone's top choice. but not only am i a fan of their music, its nice to see a band truly standing behind what they believe and trying to live it out humbly instead of trying to use it as advertisement.

mewithoutYou Aaron Weiss in Amsterdam

she does not deny her inner love for the thrift store

and neither can alex.

its possible that alex and i had too much fun yesterday. we headed to some thrift stores partly in search of a dresser and partly in search of the rest of those frames that i previously mentioned. yes, its true, i admit that i was sucked into the soap opera that i happen to open up in my living room floor just two days ago. and i couldn't ignore it, i had to find out the rest of the story. you see.. i bought these frames, just for the frames. and happen to open up this lady's life. it still baffles me that someone would just toss away such key mementos of their life like that. it also humors me that i would take a trip to clemson just to go to a thrift store, not to buy frames, but to buy (18 more) the frames just for the cards inside, and i thought heck we could use the frames at some point too, they are nice frames. just a piece of glass with a four small metal clasps gripping the glass.. very classy i must say. and the woman at the checkout register decided that since i was buying so many.. she would give them to me for what.... a quarter a piece! ha. we also found out that on wednesdays at goodwill its not just senior discount day! oh no, for only providing a flash of your student i.d. you too can get a college student discount! of 10% what what. but only on wednesdays. and only if you can show you are an academic student committed to a choice institution for higher education.


yes its true. i am a thrift store junkie.

oh yes, and the guitar hero experience....

alex pretty much rocked it out...

and i got booed off the stage.