A Facebook Note

Random Thoughts on Life, the Universe, and Everything

Just some random things I've noticed that I do. Can anybody relate to these?

- You know those times when you're walking down the street and realize that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you're supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

-Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?

-Do any of you know the feeling where you watch a movie that you watched when you were younger and then you suddenly realize that you had no idea what the heck was going on when you first saw it?

- I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

- Have you noticed that we seldom use lol for actually laughing out loud? Usually we just say it when we're mildly amused. Or when we have nothing else to say. Kinda the same concept as telling someone you'll brb....you're not really going anywhere, but neither is the conversation and you're tired of coming up with stuff to say.

- Answering the same letter 3 or more times in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.

- I've always struggled with this.....How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

- Are there really people somewhere in the world who first get in the shower and then turn on the water?

-Why is it that during an ice breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....

- There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you're going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

- I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

- Sometimes I'll look at my phone to check the time three times in a row and still have no idea what time it actually is.

Seriously?

And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to......Barack Obama!

What?

That is what I'm asking myself right now. As far as I can tell, Obama won this basically just for being Obama. And because he can talk a good show. He has a lot of skill with words, but as far as I can tell America still has yet to see his many promises fulfilled. I think for this award actions should speak louder than words. According to a Yahoo news article, Greg Mortenson, a missionary kid and ex-army medic, and Obama's main competition for the award, has "made it his mission to build schools for girls in places where opium dealers and tribal warlords kill people for trying. His Central Asia Institute has built more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a mission which has, along the way, inspired millions of people to view the protection and education of girls as a key to peace and prosperity and progress." I don't know about you, but it seems like this is more what should be rewarded at this time.

If Today Was Your Last Day (Nickelback)

My best friend gave me the best advice
He said each day's a gift, and not a given right
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind
And try to take the path less traveled by
That first step you take is the longest stride

If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had, if today was your last day?
What if, what if, if today was your last day?

Against the grain should be a way of life
What's worth the price is always worth the fight
Every second counts, cuz there's no second try
So live like you're never living twice
Don't take the free ride in your own life

Just for the record

http://mylifeisaverage.com/

is an awesome website. You should check it out. :)

Dabar

"In the beginning God created order out of chaos with the spoken word dabar."

This is how the Heilsgeschichte, which is German for Salvation History, begins. The Heilsgeschichte (which means that you basically tell the whole Bible story) is the signature assignment for Biblical Literature, a class unique to Hesston College. At the end of the semester you have to be able to say or write the Heilsgeschichte, which is unique to each person. If you say it it usually takes about an hour.

Honestly I am really starting to enjoy this class. It is a lot of work, but I really like the professor (Marion Bontrager). He actually developed the curriculum himself and came up with the Heilsgeschichte and everything. He's having it officially published sometime soon.

Today we talked about dabar, which is basically the concept of saying something and having it happen....it implies a great deal of power. Dabar is the "word" of Isaiah 55:11- "....so is my word that goes out from my mouth. It will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."

catsup

So.....I have been at Hesston for about 5 weeks now and I thought I might want to actually catch you all up on what's been going on, instead of just dropping random funny quotes here and there. So.....let's see. The classes I am taking this semester are: Physics I, Organic Chemistry I, and Biblical Literature. Three classes seems like a light load but really I stay pretty busy. I also get an hour of credit for being an RA and an hour of credit for Chorale, so with those I have 14 hours this semester I believe. Speaking of being an RA, I am really enjoying it. I love my girls, they are all really awesome. One of the un-perks to being an RA is that I have to clean the bathrooms, but at least I get paid extra for that. I also work as a lab assistant/TA for the Intro to Chem class. I continue to try to transfer to the Applebee's in Newton but the one in Salina is not being super helpful. But I intend to keep trying. Between classes, studying, and working I manage to find some free time. I spend some of this free time playing basketball, hanging out with people, watching movies, Newells or Drubers runs, etc. However, my first choice for spending free time is to hang out with Darin, who's still living in Newton finishing his flying and working at Braums. And I'd have to say that about sums up my life right now. Hope I didn't bore you all too much :)

Chapel

Ken Rodgers: "Now this piano is 100 years and we just had it restored. The insides were all worn and cracked and chipped. It needed an organ transplant."



Think about it.....

Marion again :)

*said in a sort of squawk* "My pen is hot and dry!"

Chorale

Bradley Kaufman: I'll be back in a second. While I'm gone, all of you can think about your life and what you want to do with it.
chorale members: Ouch.

Decontextualizing

Today in Bib Lit, my professor, Marion Bontrager, was teaching about literary pitfalls to watch out for while reading the Bible.

MB: "Now let's talk about decontextualizing. This means taking things out of context and not looking at what it is really talking about. For example there was the student who was failing all his classes. He was homesick, depressed, and behind on his inductive. In desperation he turned to the Bible for advice. He opened it randomly and read the first verse his eyes hit on, in Acts chapter 1. "Now Judas went and hanged himself". 'Hmmm...'the student thought. 'I'll try that again.' He then opened his Bible to Luke 10:37 - "And Jesus said to him, 'Go, and do thou likewise.'" One more try....and his finger stopped on John 13:27. "What you are about to do, do it quickly!"
*Marion waits for laughter to die down*
"Now that's decontextualizing."

Bib Lit

Marion Bontrager (prof) : "Jonadab....I like that name a lot. Sounds kind of like a swear word. Jonadab!"

Do It Anyway

THE PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS OF LEADERSHIP - by Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered - Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives - Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies - Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow - Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable - Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest people, with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds - Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but only follow top dogs - Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight - Build anyway.

People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them - Help them anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you may get kicked in the teeth. Give the world your best anyway.

If better is possible, then good is not enough.

RA retreat

"If you can't learn how to do something right, learn to enjoy doing it badly." - Neal Friesen, RD

Meh

So I just realized I haven't blogged in over a month. And I really don't have much to say anyway. Let's see......

Camp Good News was a lot of fun :)

Still working at Applebees about 35 hours a week.

I go back to Hesston in 15 days. Super excited!

and that's about it.

Maybe I'll feel more talkative later.

Crazy Love

"A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief." - A.W. Tozer

"Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?"
- Francis Chan, Crazy Love

The CYIA curse

(Larcyn was annoying Ruth)

Ruth: Sticky notes upon you!!

krow

So, in case any of you are not up to speed on my life, I started at Applebees in Salina on Monday. So far it's going pretty good. I think I can make it through a couple months there at least! :) The people are cool. Right now all the stuff I need to learn is pretty overwhelming. I lie in my bed at night and it takes me awhile to go to sleep because all the knowledge they tried to cram into my head that day is still swirling around in there. So pray for me please that I'll learn everything I need to know and that I won't make any huge mistakes and not very many small ones along the way. :)

Tim (last year): "There are times I think CYIA is a tiny foretaste of what heaven will be like."

Erin (my partner last year at CYIA): Are you coming to CYIA this year, Rachel?
Me: Afraid not. I had to join the real world and get a job to pay for college. :(
Bekah: *in mock shock* Are you saying CYIA isn't the real world?
Erin: I think CYIA is a taste of the real real world.
:)

Back from Oklahoma....

(quotes from my crazy but awesome family)

Me: Hey Mom, is okay if me, Sarah and the Hannahs go to the mall?
Mom: Well, what are you planning to do there?
Me: I don't know, just hang out.
Mom: Define "hang out."
Me *getting slightly exasperated with my mother's questioning*: We're planning to go find some drug dealers and buy stuff to get high on.
Uncle Lance: Well, how much money were you planning to spend?
:)

Sarah, walking through the mall, starts singing the beginning of "Disturbia"
Sarah: Sorry, every time my brain isn't occupied, that's the song that comes on.
Me: So it's kinda like your brain's elevator music....

Me and Sarah: Unicorns!! (private joke)

Uncle Dave (aka Silly Bomya): lomph!
(don't ask)

Life gave me lemonade and I can't imagine why.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while....not much to say I guess.
I'm still not doing much, just looking for a job with not much luck.
I drove my grandparents out to Colorado for the first part of this week, then went with my whole family to Oklahoma. Both trips were for the high school graduations of various cousins.
One of these days I'll think of something to write about.
Right now though, I'm just a little bored and a lot happy.

Home.....

Hesston's graduation was Sunday, so I'm home now. I miss my college family. So this post is the year, summed up in inside jokes.

My group has so many little things we do or say.... I'm going to go home and do all these things without even realizing it and nobody will get it. So here's a heads up for y'all....if I say or do any of these things just ignore me.

"Heck no, yayno!"
"Friction....."
"Ah, sheba!"
"Thet ther's funny raght ther, Ah don't ker who you air"
".....and then I found 5 dollars."
"Sticky buns!"
"Toolbag"
"Punk"
"Son"

if I talk and end random words with the -er sound, just ignore me

when watching a movie:
if I finish a bottled drink of some kind I might very well throw the empty plastic bottle at the TV
I will probably tell you the movie was made in Oregon
I might very well make random sniper noises

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Happy birthday to my favorite twin cousins! It's not technically your birthday here, but it is there.

One More Thing :)

I was made to love You
I was made to find You
I was made just for You
Made to adore You
I was made to love and be loved by You
-Made to Love, by tobyMac

Bittersweet

Finals week: This week is stressful, exciting, sad, wonderful, hard work, fun, and exhausting all rolled up into one. It's a bittersweet feeling.....so nice to have classes over with, but so sad to have to say goodbye to everyone.

Let's recap the past few days:
Last Friday (not technically a part of finals week, but whatever): First part of the Cell Biology Final Exam: the Essay *ominous music*. We just had to sit down and write about the Central Dogma of Molecular Genetics (if you really care to know what that is, ask me about it sometime. I'll tell you waaaaay more than anyone should know). I wrote for nearly 3 hours on this thing. But it was a relief to have it over.

Saturday: Collapse, hang out with friends, etc.

Sunday: 3 fire alarms (false alarms) in about a 17 hour period: 2 a.m., 4 p.m., and approximately 4:30 p.m. The two afternoon ones involved standing outside in the pouring rain. Also, tornado warning! Definitely an interesting day, weather-wise. Unfortunately, it was never bad enough that we Kansans felt the need to go down to the basement (i.e. we never saw a tornado on the ground heading our way)

Monday: Reading Day - Rachel spends a good portion of the day sleeping.

Tuesday: (today) 2nd part of Cell Bio final- multiple choice. Also, Receiving-of-the-Final-Grade-for-Cell-Bio, because Hugo is very prompt in his grading. I got 58 points out of 60 on that huge essay (super exciting!) and an A overall in the class! YEESSS!

Looking ahead:
Wednesday: No finals for Rachel. Relax, finish up chemistry lab reports, and study.
Thursday: Chemistry and Speech final. Speech is pud, hopefully I'll do well enough on the chem final to keep my grade at the borderline A it is now.... :/
Friday: No finals for Rachel!!! Woot woot! Hanging out and packing up.... :(
Saturday: Back to Salina for SVHE graduation. Then back to Hesston for last night with my family here :( :( :(
Sunday: Hesston's graduation. Saying goodbye to everyone, some just for the summer, some til who knows when....maybe forever. Sunday is going to be the first time I've seriously cried since my last basketball game, which was over a year ago. :'(

lyrics

Give me Your eyes for just one second
Give me Your eyes so I can see
everything that I keep missing
Give me Your love for humanity
Give me Your arms for the broken hearted
ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me Your eyes so I can see
-Give Me Your Eyes, by Brandon Heath

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom....

Indescribable, Uncontainable
You placed the stars in the sky and you know them by name
You are amazing God
All-powerful, Untamable
awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God!
-Indescribable, by Chris Tomlin

I will dance, I will sing
To be mad/ for my King
Nothing, Lord, is hindering
This passion in my soul

But I'll become/ even more undignified than this
Though some may say it's foolishness
And I'll become/ even more undignified than this
Leave my pride by my side
-Undignified, by Chris Tomlin

I've been spending way too long checking my life in the mirror
and bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
but my breath fogged up the glass
so I drew in a face and I laughed
-I'm Yours, by Jason Mraz

And I'm acting as if
this blue sky's never gonna rain down on me
And I'm telling myself
this true love's never gonna leave me lonely
Unless there's something I've missed
I'm acting as if
-As If, by Sara Evans

So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You can stand through the pain
You won't drown
And someday what's lost will be found
if you stand in the rain
-Stand in the Rain, by Superchic(k)

While cleaning out old files on my computer, I found an old random writing by me and Sarah. So I thought I'd stick it up here...

THE INSANITY SHOW

RACHEL: Welcome to 'The Insanity Show! I'm one of your hosts, Rachel, and this is your other host, Sarah.

SARAH: Hello everyone! Today we will be interviewing some of the characters from Star Trek. Say 'hi' to the camera, everyone!

SPOCK: *raises eyebrow*

KIRK:*combing hair* What? Are we on? *looks up* Hello!

DATA: 'Hi'

PICARD: Hello.

SARAH: So...hi. What's up?

SPOCK: The sky, the clouds, the ceiling, the s-

SARAH: Maybe I should rephrase that. How are things going for all of you?

DATA: What things?

RACHEL: *slaps forehead* I told you we should have stuck to humans...Anyway, on to the first topic. Ahem. *pulls out script, reads* 'How Kirk Is Pathetic Without Spock.' Interesting.....

KIRK: WHAT!?!?!

SARAH: That's what it says.

KIRK: I'm not pathetic!

RACHEL: The polls disagree.

DATA: Based on the fact that I do not know either of the two, may I be excused from the discussion?

SARAH: Certainly. The lobby is down the hall and to the left. *Data leaves* You too, Picard?

PICARD: I'll stay.

KIRK: Yes, stay and join me in the glorious battle against offensive blond sadists!

PICARD: *to Sarah* Where did you say the lobby was?

SARAH: *repeats directions* Back to the discussion.

KIRK: I am NOT pathetic!

RACHEL: Oh yeah?

KIRK: Yeah!

SARAH: Then how come in The Search for Spock, when, I might point out, he is not around to correct your mistakes, you blow up your ship?

KIRK: Um....

RACHEL: And, in the one movie he is entirely not in, you die! Twice!

SPOCK: *looking interested* Is that medically possible?

KIRK: Shut up, pointy ears!

SARAH: Actually, I like the ears.

RACHEL: So do I.

SPOCK: This could be the first time that someone has.

KIRK: No, there was that giant bug-thing from Devil in the Dark.

RACHEL: Do you have a point?

KIRK: *nods head* That only freaky bugs and geeks like the ears.

SARAH: Watch it, fat boy!

KIRK: I'm not fat!

RACHEL: For fear of losing one or more of our guest stars, I think it's time to end this discussion.

--------COMMERCIAL BREAK------

RACHEL: Well, we're back, and after 10 minutes of assuring Kirk that he is neither pathetic nor fat, we will be resuming the discussions. So....next topic: 'What Was Your Least Favorite Episode?' Kirk?

KIRK: Probably A Private Little War.

RACHEL: And why is that?

KIRK: My hair got messed up!

SARAH: You also get attacked by a giant poisonous monkey-thing, if I remember correctly.

KIRK: Yes! That was how my hair got messed up!

SARAH: *cough* egotistical *cough* And your least favorite episode, Spock?

SPOCK: Same here.

RACHEL: *sarcastically* What, did something happen to your hair, too?

SPOCK: No, I was shot.

SARAH: That sucks.

SPOCK: Every time I beam down, there's always something lurking around down there that says, ' I'll aim for the Vulcan.' Everything always seems to happen to me.

RACHEL: That's probably because things can happen to you that would kill humans.

SPOCK: So, basically, I'm a reusable target.

SARAH: With cool ears. At least you're not an extra.

SPOCK: A what?

RACHEL: An expendable crewman.

SPOCK: Huh?

RACHEL: You know, a redshirt. One of those guys that you beam down that never beams back up.

SPOCK: Oh, them.

SARAH: By the way, you've survived about twenty things that would have killed some of them.

KIRK: What about me? Am I invulnerable, too?

SARAH: No idea. Spock is always around to save you.

KIRK: WHAT!!!!

SARAH: Er...I appear to have offended you again.

KIRK: Have you forgotten the episode where he tries to KILL me?

RACHEL: You're right, McCoy probably saves you in that one......

KIRK: WHAT!!!!!!!!!

RACHEL: Your ego is very easily bruised, I see. End of discussion! *sigh* And will someone please get Data and Picard back in here?

-------COMMERCIAL BREAK-------

SARAH: And we're back, and by now it seems that Data and Picard have decided to show up. *glares at them*

PICARD: What?

DATA: That mechanism in the lobby refered to as a 'vending machine' is most interesting.

RACHEL: What a coincidence, our next topic will discuss an interesting machine as well. Ahem. 'Did The Enterprise Look Better In The Old Movies Or The New Movies?

KIRK: Old.

PICARD: New.

KIRK: No, old.

PICARD: New.

KIRK: Old!

PICARD: NEW!

SARAH: STOP IT!

(Kirk and Picard cease fighting to look at her)

RACHEL: Can either of you give us a reason why it looked better either way?

KIRK: The old one is a classic. The new one is all .... weird.

PICARD: Just 'cause yours doesn't work doesn't make mine weird.

KIRK: What do you mean, doesn't work?

PICARD: It can't go three episodes without a transporter malfunction, or a major power loss, or something blowing up! Now, it could just be that you have a horrible chief engineer-

KIRK: My chief engineer is better than yours, thank you very much!

PICARD: Your chief engineer goes home and gets drunk!

KIRK: Oh yeah? Well, your chief engineer goes home and reads kiddie books for a children's program!

PICARD: *stands up* Say that again, you miserable little-!

KIRK: Come and get it, Baldy!

(They lunge for each other)

RACHEL: Picard, Kirk! Calm down! There's no shame in kiddie pro-aaaagh! *she ducks a flying chair* Spock! Data! Please control your, um, emotional friends!

(Spock and Data sigh, get up. Relative chaos ensues)

SARAH: Commercial break! Commercial break!!

---------COMMERCIAL BREAK---------

(Sarah and Rachel are back in their chairs, looking very disheveled. Data and Spock are sitting calmly. Kirk is unconcious, complements of a Vulcan neck pinch, and Picard has been duct-taped to the wall.)

SARAH: That was..... exciting. *nods to Spock and Data* Thanks, guys. Spock, are you sure humans can't learn to do that neck- pinch thing?

SPOCK: Positive.

SARAH: Darn, it'd come in handy if we ever do something like this again.

DATA: Now what?

RACHEL: Now, we either get two magic markers and some lipstick, or we lock them in a room full of overenthusiastic Trekkies.

PICARD: *with his mouth duct-taped shut* MMMMMMMM! MMMPH!

RACHEL: Fine, I'll relent. I need a knife....or better yet, a phaser! Fun! *steals Kirk's phaser and points it at Picard* How do you aim this thing?

PICARD: MMMMMMMMMPH!!

RACHEL: Oh, here's the button. *phasers off duct tape* Cool!

PICARD: *falls on floor* Mmmmph!

SARAH: Can we be a little more mature from now on?

PICARD: Mmmm-hmm.

SARAH: *removes remaining duct tape* That'd better be a yes, 'cause we still might use the Trekkie idea.

PICARD: Mercy!

RACHEL: Get back in your chair, Captain. No, ex that. Go get me some ice water.

(Picard goes into lobby, comes back with a bottle of water)

PICARD: Will this do?

RACHEL: *takes bottle* Perfect, thanks. *pours water on the still unconcious Kirk*

KIRK: *wakes up* Gahhh! *pats his head* YOU KILLED MY HAIR! Do you have any idea how long I worked to make it perfect?!?

SPOCK: Two hours, eleven minutes, and seventeen-

SARAH: Spock, have you ever heard the expression T.M.I., meaning Too Much Information?

SPOCK: I am not familiar with that phrase.

SARAH: I didn't think so. Anyway, end of discussion!

-----------COMMERCIAL BREAK---------

RACHEL: Now, this is almost over, and we're just going to ask a few more questions. As a precaution, we've duct-taped Picard and Kirk to their chairs.

KIRK: This is so undignified.

SARAH: Tough luck. Okay, the first question is: What is the most annoying thing that has ever happened to you?

KIRK: This interview.

PICARD: Same here.

RACHEL: Wimps. Data?

DATA: Coping with emotions for the first time was 'annoying'.

SARAH: I'd call that traumatic, but, hey, whatever works for you. Spock?

SPOCK: I am incapable of experiencing emotion.

RACHEL: Fine. If, God forbid, you were human, what would annoy you?

SPOCK: Out of curiousity, what makes you think I'll tell you?

RACHEL: I still have Kirk's phaser.

SPOCK: !!?!!?!!?!! Are you an interviewer or a villian?

RACHEL: I'm an interviewer who's tired of not having her questions answered.

SPOCK: So you're a villian.

SARAH: Well, if you're too chicken to answer the question...*grabs Kirk's communicator and opens it* Hello, Enterprise?

SULU: *from communicator* Sulu, in temporary command of the Enterprise, here.

SARAH: Send Dr. McCoy down .... with a HAPPINESS SYRINGE!

SPOCK: No! I'll answer!

SARAH: You just did.

SPOCK: Not fair.

RACHEL: Okay.... next question. What is one thing, like a belief, concept, or theory, that is always true and relatively universal?

KIRK: My good looks.

SPOCK: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

RACHEL: Psh, clearly neither of you have watched Star Trek III. Both wrong.

DATA: E=mc2.

SARAH: Wow, that was original. Picard?

PICARD: Interviewers are annoying.

SARAH AND RACHEL: We try.

SARAH: And here is the final question: If you could have one wish, what would it be?

KIRK: To get out of this #&$%#@&#! chair!!!

RACHEL: Language, language! What wishes would everyone else pick?

DATA: To be a real human.

SARAH: Thanks, Pinocchio. Picard?

PICARD: I would wish for....HAIR! *sobs*

SARAH: Jeez, and I thought Kirk was bad.

RACHEL: You, Spock, would no doubt wish for something logical?

SPOCK: Indeed.....

SARAH: Well, what?

SPOCK: I wish the interview was over. Who knows what trouble the ship's gotten into while we were down here!

RACHEL: Wish granted!

SARAH: See you next time, folks, on 'The Insanity Show!'

KIRK: And somebody get rid of the tape!

A Facebook Conversation between Bekah and Rachel

Bekah's status said : Bekah Loewen and Mandy would be very good at reforming heretics....if we had any heretics to reform.

Rachel: you can reform me

Bekah: are you a heretic?

Rachel: for you I could be.... ;)
I'm a member of the church of the Deity-ness of Facebook
I constantly spend time with Facebook and I don't believe
anything is true unless Facebook tells me it is

Bekah: that sounds pretty serious

Rachel: I could go on a holy war and kill MySpace users if you want....

She squeaked......

A random story:
Hesston College was hosting a dinner with a guest speaker on energy conservation. Hugo, our Cell Biology professor, told the entire class that he would like it if we would go.
Me *raises hand* : Hugo, could we get some extra credit for going maybe?
Hugo: *for some reason finds this extremely amusing* Oh, Rachel! There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, huh? Well, alright, since Rachel was enterprising enough to ask, if you go you can have 3 points extra credit.
Me: Could we make it an even 5?
Hugo: *still chuckling, pats me on the back* Don't push your luck.
----------later that week, at the dinner-------------
Tara (who is in Micro Biology instead of Cell) : So Hugo, I hear the Cell students are getting extra credit for this. What about us Micro people, huh?
Hugo: *looks at me and Tara and chuckles* The squeaky wheel gets the grease. She squeaked. You didn't.

Now my entire Cell Bio class calls me "Squeaks"




A random quote:
Kari *writing a chemistry lab report*- "I would call the color of this chemical 'grape-Jolly-Rancher-after-you-spit-it-out' purple."

Rachel's Book of Quotes

I’ve realized that a lot of my favorite quotes are from Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I find that fact slightly amusing and it also makes me wonder if this is indicative of something. Oh, well.

MY VIEWS ON LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING

LIFE:
“My life has no purpose. My life has no direction, no aim, no meaning. And yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out! What am I doing right?” - Snoopy

“Reality continues to ruin my life.” - Calvin

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” – Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Life gave me lemonade and I can’t imagine why.” –from Lemonade by Chris Rice

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you items you never asked for and don't always like." - Lemony Snicket

COLLEGE:
“I’ve learned that your college friends become a kind of family. You eat together, and have movie all-nighters. You laugh, you cry, you fight; you do absolutely nothing together until you cannot seem to remember how you ever lived your life without them.” – a Facebook bumper sticker

“I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.” - Calvin

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” - Calvin

"Hesston College is like a shoe factory. They bring you in, fix your soul, and send you out in pairs." - overheard at Hesston. Not sure who first said it.

(subcategory: Drubers) Charlie Brown: Let's go to the doughnut shop.
Snoopy: What a coincidence! I knew I heard a doughnut calling me.
CB: I hope the shop isn't closed.
Snoopy: Doughnuts never call from behind locked doors.

POLITICS:
"It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams

Lucy: “You can't drift along forever... you have to direct your thinking. For instance you have to decide whether you're going to be a liberal or a conservative. You have to take some sort of stand. You have to associate with some sort of cause.”
Linus: “Are there any openings in the lunatic fringe?”

PEOPLE:
(from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)
Penny: “He's a really good looking guy and I thought he was kind of cheesy at first.”
Dr. Horrible: [under his breath] “Trust your instincts.”
Penny:“But, he turned out to be totally sweet. Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface.”
Dr. Horrible:“And sometimes there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.”

“I love mankind! It's people I can't stand!” – Linus

(subcategory: guys) “Idiocy is the essence of the male mind.”- Calvin

THE UNIVERSE:
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” - Calvin

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – Douglas Adams

MYSELF:
Hobbes : "What are you doing?"
Calvin : "Being cool."
Hobbes : "You look more like you're bored."
Calvin : "The world bores you when you're cool."

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." - Kurt Vonnegut

~~~ Care more than some think is wise~~~
~~~ Risk more than some think is safe ~~~
~Dream more than some think is practical~
~Expect more than some think is possible ~

“Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference." - Calvin

FAITH:
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

"That tomb was empty so that your lives don't have to be!" – Dustin Galyon

“A girl's heart should be so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him in order to find her.” - unknown

“God promised He wouldn't give me more than I could handle, sometimes I just wish he wouldn't trust me so much.” – Mother Theresa

RANDOMNESS:
“If you are bored, then you are boring.” – an HC professor’s nine year-old son

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a rather long, involved story so if you'd like you can just skip to the punchline and get the exciting part without the boring explanation. :)

Over the past month, Hesston College has been going through the process of choosing RAs for next year. The RA (resident assistant) is a sophomore who is in charge of a mod (section of about 8 rooms). They plan mod activities, provide leadership, advice, spiritual guidance, and assistance to all the girls/guys in their mod, especially new freshman. Sometimes they have to be the bad guy too, and enforce Campus Lifestyle Standards. My RA, Tessa, is amazing! And so is my good friend Abigail, who is also an RA. Seeing them in action made me really want to be an RA next year. So I underwent the application process. You had to fill out an application and have an interview with Resident Life staff. They also evalute you and talk to your RA and other people about you. I applied, but I wasn't sure if I would make it. I felt qualified and I knew the Resident Directors all liked me (an important factor), but I also felt like maybe I'm not a big enough voice on campus. I'm not a student ambassador, I don't play a sport or sing in Bel Canto, etc. So I thought I might get lost in the shuffle - especially since twice as many girls applied as there were positions to be filled. But I figured it wouldn't hurt to try. Friday they sent out the letters telling you whether you were selected or not. I didn't dare to open mine at first. But then Kendra, one of the RDs, asked me if I'd checked my mail yet. She had a big smile on her face. That made me wonder....so I went up to my room and opened my letter. And literally shrieked.

The punchline (in case you didn't want to read all that stuff before):
I'm RA of 2CN (the name/location of the mod) next year!!!!!!!!!! That's the mod I'm in now and it was exactly the mod I wanted! And my amazing roommate, Laura, is the RA of the mod across the hall from me, my sister mod! It could not have worked out any better.

Now here's a cool thing: I hadn't been feeling excited about coming back next year. Many of my close friends here are sophomores and won't be back next year. Other close freshman friends are transferring to other schools. I was depressed and slightly jealous all week. I felt like I was being abandoned and was not looking forward to coming back to school "alone" next year. But the whole time, I could never bring myself to consider anything but Hesston. I felt....I feel....like I am supposed to come back next year. So I asked God to help me with my depression and jealousy and to help me be excited about being here next year. And wow, He does not dissappoint! He answered that prayer in a huge way! Now I can't wait for next year!!! I'm so excited to be an RA and hopefully make as big a difference in my modling's lives as my RA friends have made in mine.

And that is my semi-exciting (if long) story.

LOL

Ah, it does my heart good to know that painful irony is still alive and well.

At last

Something I heard in chapel that I can actually take with me:

"If you are bored, then you are boring. " ~the speaker's 9 year-old son.

If you don't like the weather in Kansas...

...wait 5 minutes and it will change.
Two weeks ago, it got up to the upper 80s.
Last week, there was a tornado watch.
This Friday, it blizzarded (if that's even a word!). Hesston got about 8 inches of snow!
So yesterday, some of us were bored and stir crazy. Since we couldn't really go anywhere because of the icy roads, we decided to walk over to Mount Hesston. Mount Hesston is to Hesston kinda as Indian Rock is to Salina (at least when it comes to sledding). The people who go to HC who are Hesston natives say that Mount Hesston is a big pile of trash and junk that the city decided to cover up with dirt years ago so they could build a park next to it. They say there's entire cars under there. But what matters is that it's pretty high and really steep and makes for good sledding.
Being college students, we didn't really have any sleds. But that's ok. Being college students, we're also pretty ingenius. We found a wide variety of substitutes.

Things That Worked Well:
~the one actual sled we had
~the sled that we stole...er, borrowed...from the middle school kids who were also sledding there
~lids of those big plastic storage boxes (the kind that go under your bed or in your closet)

Things That Worked Fairly Well:
~a large cardboard box
~a plastic garbage can lid
~a large garbage bag filled with Styrofoam peanuts*

Things That Did Not Work:
~laundry baskets

*This was a very random addition to our sledding adventure. Donny found it in our mod right before we left and declared it his sled. He went down the hill on it once and it actually worked. Unfortunately, the bag ripped and shed most of its contents all over the hillside, making further experimentation with this "sled" impossible.

A plauge on lethargic Mennonites!!

Ok, I can't blame it completely on the Mennonites, because people tell me that there are some Mennonite churches that actually have life in them. But there are times I get so sick of this school! You see, yesterday in chapel, a group of college-aged musicians based out of Minnesota called CTI Ministries led us in worship. Now, chapel at HC is usually so boring. The last one had been one of the art professor droning about African-American art. So when I came in and saw big speakers had been set up, and drums and electric guitars on the stage, I got a little excited to see what chapel was going to be like. And when the band started in on the opening chord of their first song, a big smile spread across my face. This is my kind of worship! We actually sang modern worship songs instead of old hymns nobody knows (there's nothing wrong with hymns, don't get me wrong, but on a college campus, there's not much energy in that kind of singing really). I was excited! But as I looked around, I was surprised and then disgusted: hardly anybody was even singing. Nobody was standing, or moving, or clapping, or ..... praising. Soon the band started in on "Mighty to Save" which is one of my favorite worship songs. I almost stood up, even though nobody else was. I knew that if somebody started, other people would stand up too. But I chickened out at the last second. I tried to focus on this amazing opportunity to worship God, but a part of me kept screaming inside at my fellow students "How can you sit there with bored looks on your faces!?!? This is incredible!!" My friend and I actually went to talk to the musicians immediately after chapel ended, told them it was incredible and we wished we had stuff like that more often, and apologized for the rest of our school.

Still, getting to sing like that was awesome. And next time, I'm standing. Even if nobody else does.
Saviour
He can move the mountains
Our God is mighty to save, He is mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
My Jesus conquered the grave, Jesus conquered the grave

Nostalgia

"Kokomo" is playing in our bathroom as I type this.

My roommate was playing "My Girl" on her computer yesterday.




Ah, CYIA........

Crazy Random Happenstance

This is mostly for you Michaela....and anybody else who remembers my comments on Jenna's blog a week or two ago. When I kept quoting a children's book. So today for speech class, we went over to the preschool in town and read to the kids. And I guess what book I was given to read to them - yep....Dr. Seuss' ABC. How cool! I was pretty excited. Crazy random happenstance, that......

One last thought: I was sooo happy to see everybody here. After being separated from them for only a week. I didn't realize how much I missed until we were actually reunited. It makes me wonder how I'll ever get through the summer.... :)

Because Michaela told me to blog about it.....

SPRING BREAK:

Otherwise entitled: Epic Scenery Overload For A Girl Who's Lived In Flat, Boring, Ocean-less Kansas All Her Life.

The Blue Ridge Mountains. The Atlantic Ocean.
Walking down the beach in the shallows + Hiking all over the place in the mountains for 2 days + Hanging out with Nara = an awesome spring break.

And that about sums it all up.



P.S. There are plenty more pictures where these came from. Hopefully if you copy and paste these links into your browser you can see my Facebook albums. And no, I'm not techno-savvy enough to just make them actual links. I could probably figure it out but I don't want to take the ti- wait a sec, what's this button here? Hmmmm......*Rachel experiments with button* Haha ok never mind about copy and paste. Just click on those suckers.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=65744&id=724143438&l=e1406df389

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=65752&id=724143438&l=7676b0a9d4

Spring break!!!!!!!

For anybody who doesn't know (or anybody who cares) I'm spending most of spring break in North Carolina with my cousin Nara!!!! I'm so excited! I fly out tomorrow afternoon, so prayer for smooth travel would be appreciated.

How did I get so lucky? Well, that's a slightly long and complicated story. You see, I've been looking forward to spring break for a long time, but it was for a different reason. The chorale here at HC (of which I am a member) was going to go on a 10-day tour to California, Oregon, and Washington! And it wouldn't have cost us students anything. So that would have been an AMAZING trip! Unfortunately, it got canceled. Great sadness. But before I could get really depressed about this, I got an email from Nara, asking me if I had any plans for spring break. If I didn't, she said, how about coming out to see her in NC? That is about the most amazing alternative plan ever! So I am super stoked!

This reminds me of that one song by Jo Dee Mecina. In my case, the coin came up heads. :)

Heads, Carolina; Tails, California
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean
Where? It don't matter, as long as we're goin'
Somewhere together - I've got a quarter
Heads, Carolina; Tails, California

"Middlest"

Sitting in the lounge:

Abigail: Hey Rachel, do you know what the middlest verse in the Bible is?

Me: No, what?

Abigail: "It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man." (Psalm 118:8)

Me: That's a pretty good middlest verse.

This night doesn't look too promising....

It's not a good sign when you're writing a lab report, and you've typed two and a half pages so far.....and you still haven't included everything the professor wants in the INTRODUCTION!

Marion Quotes

Marion Bontrager, who has been a Bible prof at Hesston for over 40 years, ate supper with our mod at our mod parents' house. He's hilarious.

"There are too many Yoders in the world. We need to de-Yoder-ize the place!"

*talking about his 9 o'clock Bib Lit class* "It's like a resurrection experience every morning! And I'm not Jesus, I can't raise the dead!"

more....

~~~ Care more than some think is wise~~~
~~~ Risk more than some think is safe ~~~
~Dream more than some think is practical~
~Expect more than some think is possible ~

.....who I've been

Do you ever have days when you really don't like yourself? When you see something in yourself that frustrates and annoys you?

Lately I've been noticing the passive/aggressive ways in which I subtly punish people who don't do things the way I want them to. And I don't want to be that way. I hate manipulation, and drama, and people who can't just take life as it comes while just being easygoing about everything.

One of my guy friends here has become a model for me in the way he is content with everything and takes life as it comes. He is so refreshing to be around for that reason, and there are times I could do with taking a page out of his book.

blisters and laughs

We went over to the middle school and played dunkball tonight. I discovered I can barely dunk on an 8 foot goal and I can dunk pretty consistently on a 7'9". Which may not sound that great to you all, but I was happy, considering I'm barely 5'6 and a girl. Who doesn't have the genes for jumping at all.

A refreshing perspective.....

"Barack Obama is not a microwave move. Just cuz we elected him doesn't mean all our problems are going to be fixed instantly."
-"MaMa Brenda" at an HC chapel
(Brenda Matthews - a Mennonite motivational speaker. Oxymoronic much? haha but she was really cool. She's this lady from Chicago who is really loud and upbeat and described herself in her speech as "just a sista from the hood.")

And again

We had choir again today, and I have more Ken quotes for your reading pleasure.

*walking up to the door of the music building*
Ken: Hello Rachel!
Me: Hi Ken....how are you today?
Ken: I'm feeling quite whippy! *sees another choir member* 'Allooo, Matt! (in a British accent)


*At the beginning of practice, while taking role*
Ken: Oh, and Zac's not here.....I have no idea where he is; I think he's in purgatory.
Another choir member: I heard he was in Nebraska....
Ken: Oh.......well, same thing.

Oh Ken.....

Ken Rodgers, chorale director at Hesston College, is a great guy. We all love him to death. But he's.....unique. He's a real airhead (I'm not being mean, just stating a fact) and he's got a unique sense of humor. So here are some Ken quotes. Often these pop out randomly in the middle of practice.

“If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it!”

*at the end of a rather lengthy joke* “When they opened up the female bear, they found the remains of the Austrian. So, that led them to conclude that the Czech was in the male…”

"I think the Tooth Fairy and the Sugarplum Fairy work against each other—or maybe they’re in cahoots!”

“Who let the cows out? Moo, Moo, Moo-moo!”

“This music is hard! It has notes!”

"A lint roller! I love lint rollers!"

*right before a performance* "Turn to the person next to you and tell them 'You're great!'"

Happy birthday to me........

My birthday was good: a lot of Settlers of Catan playing, some movie watching, some K-State cheering (that wasn't so good....), some doughnut-eating, and as a "grand finale" a McDonalds run.
Then on Sunday I got some delicious homecooked food.

My pinkeye is all better!

The highlights of my b-day:
1. The voicemail from Nara (*singing the Captain Zoom birthday song* "Hey, Rachel....it's your birthday!")
2. Talking to Russ and Jenna on the phone.

A Sudden Realization

It is an extremely ironic and amusing fact that rugball is sport that is pretty much unique to Mennonite Colleges.

http://www.goshen.edu/rugball/howtoplay.html

Glad to be me

I just looked back at this past week and realized that a lot of stuff happened that could qualify this as one of my worst weeks here. But I'm happy and contented and didn't even realize until now how truly glad I am this week is over. Why didn't I realize this? I'm not really sure....
Some possible reasons I'm so happy:
1. MY FRIENDS: I seriously have the best friends in the world. Ever. When my pinkeye was really bad and I was depressed and hiding in my room because I looked awful, Birky, Jayme, and Abigail brought me cupcakes and made me laugh. Later in the week, when something happened that could have been really bad and upsetting, we just laughed and kept having the time of our lives, because we know that no matter what, we're all this together.
2. My family: It's great to know that you guys love me and are behind me no matter what. Thanks for getting me medicine and bringing it part of the way here.
3. My personality: I'm pretty easygoing and I take stuff in stride pretty well.
4. My Savior: With God's grace and help I can get through anything, I can turn anything around for the better, I can DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.

And that's why this week didn't actually suck, even though it should have.

+ and -

So I have pinkeye. In both eyes. Oh joy.


On a happier note, Tyler (Birky) gave me my birthday present today (a bit early)
I scanned it in.....
Pretty sweet, no?
the boy's got skills

"Our song"

I now have so many songs that, for the rest of my life when I hear them, I'll think of someone here.

Birky: Put A Girl In It by Brooks and Dunn, I'm Still A Guy by Brad Paisley, and She's Country by Jason Aldean (just for one line though)

Jetca: Caramelldansen by a Swedish pop group (I originally heard this song on a Japanese anime....go figure). Vida (which is Spanish techno.) Also So What by Pink.

Peter: (just about any song, really, will make me think of Peter singing it. But I'll narrow this down.) Friend Like Me from Aladdin, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, The Circle of Life (just the very beginning part) both from The Lion King, Albuquerque by Weird Al Yankovic (and any other Weird Al song) and When I Grow Up by the Pussycat Dolls. And See You Again by Hannah Montana. Wow, I'll stop now, I could go on forever.

Tara: Right Now (Na Na) by Akon (haha that's kinda bad actually. But its true.) Also Hot 'N Cold by Katy Perry.

Jayme: Addicted by Saving Abel (wow, that song is actually pretty bad. Still, every time I hear it I'll always remember Jayme).

Laura: Gotta Be Somebody by Nickelback. We call it our roommate theme song.

Tyler D: Whatever You Like by T.I. (Just because of one line)

Malerie (one of my "across-the-hall-roommates") I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas.

Last year at this time, I never would have imagined....

....the incredibly weird but incredibly awesome friends I'd make here.

Like Peter.....I never would have imagined I'd be walking to Subway with a guy wearing sunglasses and a headband, who was riding a unicycle.
Neither did I think I'd go to sing at a church service and at the potluck afterwards get in a huge argument about who would win, the Silver Surfer from the Fantastic Four or Jean Gray as the Phoenix.

Or Abigail and Jayme.....never did I think I'd go down to do homework and instead end up having a huge hour long water fight all over the campus.

Or Birky......I've never gotten my name drawn for me in graffiti as a birthday present (on paper, no worries). Nor did I think that anyone could jump high enough trying to block my three point attempt that he kicked me in the face. Neither have I ever met anyone who texts things like "Oy vey" or "chop chop"

Random facts

It's 63 degrees outside - I wish I was home, I want to ride a horse.....

I'm becoming one of "those people".....a coffee person. I love coffee people though, so this can only be a good thing.

I'm going to North Carolina for spring break!!!!!!!!

In a Nutshell

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." - Kurt Vonnegut

Ditto

"God promised He wouldn't give me more than I could handle, I just wish he wouldn't trust me so much."
-Mother Theresa

........until we cried

The best Sunday morning ever!

The first part may be summed up by a conversation.....
9:04 me: "We've never gone to this church before...what time does it start again?"
9:04 abigail: "We're about 5 minutes late but it's ok....we made it. Oh, and you have got to see the bathrooms at this church. They're amazing."
*13 minutes later*
9:17 me: "Either they only had a 17 minute service or that church does not start at 9....."
9:18 jayme: "I kinda wondered why that usher guy in the foyer gave us such a weird look when we walked in. I thought he was just mad because we were 5 minutes late."
9:18 me: As it turns out, he was mad because we were an HOUR and 5 minutes late."
9:18 abigail: "Well, at least check out the bathrooms before we leave."

The second part.....
*Driving home in the car*
abigail: "I just found two dollars, you guys!"
*After arriving at Hesston....walking through the parking lot*
abigail: I'm going to throw this trash away......oh no! I just threw my money in the dumpster!"
jayme: Two dollars is a lot of money, Abigail..."
After much deliberation, Abigail decided she was going in.
abigail: "I can't find it anywhere! This is so disgusting!!" *gags*
jayme and i: *alternating between laughing so hard we can't breathe and taking pictures with our cell phones of her in the dumpster*
abigail: "You guys are awful friends! I give up!"
*walking back to our rooms, abigail sticks her hands in her coat pockets*
abigail: "Hey look.....it's my two dollars......"

My stomach still hurts from laughing so hard.

So glad I dropped it......

Today.....
Unnamed person: *proclaims triumphantly (not sarcastically at all)* "I got 6 of those 40 Bib Lit word definitions done today, and it only took me an hour!"

For once not on the receiving end.....

Me: Has anyone else seen this sweet idiot video....wait, I mean internet. Not idiot.
Peter: *Mocking* Talk much?
Me: Well I was looking at you while I was telling the story, and for some reason the word idiot just popped into my mind. *Smirks*

Sniper

Our group........
Midnight picnics in the Arboretum, piling on the blankets and taking along the hot chocolate and cappuchino, talking and laughing about nothing, watching the frost-covered grass sparkle in the light of the full moon.
Watching Mulan reciting every line along with the characters, then skipping back to the scenes with the songs and singing along at the top of our lungs......multiple times.
1 a.m. runs to McDonalds, where, to satisfy the guys' appetites, we get about 15 McChickens and manage to really annoy the late-shift workers there.
Resolving to just say goodnight after a movie and go to bed, then ending up talking for 4 hours about everything from faith to politics to family to money.

You leave your family to go to college, then you leave your family to go home.

Saccharomyces cereviseae

5 Cardinal Sins in a Hugo Class:

5. Holding a scalpel like a machete or a dagger instead of a pencil.

4. Taking books out of the lab. Also, being rough with the books. ("What have you been doing with these things? Playing Frisbee?")

3. Knowing "something about the material, but not KNOWING the material. There is a difference." (Our Zoology class got a very stern lecture about this after the class average on an exam was like 59)

2. "Ingesting the reagent and spitting it back in the tube. Or dropping your doughnut in the test tube." These are greatly forbidden by the lab syllabus.

And the worst of all possible sins:
1. Calling yeast cells "little bugs" instead of Saccharomyces cereviseae. And there's no excuse for not knowing this is forbidden : the syllabus specifically instructs us not to do it.

Hugo quote: "Am I right, or are you wrong?"

Hesston College II: Spring Semester

Back.........
Break was good. I loved seeing family and friends. My cousins from Maryland and Oklahoma came at various points in the two and a half weeks I was home. Also Nara, Jenna, and Russ were back, so it was great to see them!

Sleep was good. I think I was catching up.....most mornings I did not emerge from under my covers til 11, 11:30, if someone didn't wake me up sooner.

Dental procedures were not good. Getting my wisdom teeth was painful and annoying. But I really healed pretty well with no complications.

Christmas was good. I'll put a present list up here sometime. It was kinda amusing.

Coming back was good. I missed everybody. A lot.

Class schedule this semester is weird. I have an 8 o'clock class every morning except Thursday. MWF I am in class from basically 8-4. Tuesday I have Cell Bio lab from 8 (but he wants us there at 7:30) to "10:50 and beyond" to quote the syllabus. Basically it's just until we get done. But then I have nothing. Thursday: nothing but Chem lab.
I think I'll teach myself to like coffee.