good.

things that are good:
- seeing a friend after 5 months of "facebook-ing."
- driving across Iowa
- getting ready for camp
- coming up with fun crafts
- reading a new book you've been waiting for
- having a friend say hey randomly
- having a hang-out date with a certain archaic-German friend...

God is good, all the time.

me gradue.

Well, it's official. I are a college graduate.

I even made my parents proud... ;)

Fraulein friend is a graduate, too...

And so is Shannon-friend.

And Rosh, too!

(And, of course, just a few other people). Fun was had by all on graduation day, I am sure. It was a lovely day, great weather, all that good stuff. Click here for more pictures if you're interested...

Oh, if you want my camp address for this summer, post on my blog and I'll get it to you.

Raise your hand...

if you like Sufjan Stevens.

Because I just discovered him, and I like him much!!

Baby-ness!

Well, the day finally arrived and Roshelle had a beautiful baby boy! Here he is when we went to visit, wearing cute little mittens so he doesn't scratch his face :) They say he's a happy baby, and I would agree.And this happens to be Sarah and me, making our "We're excited to be aunts!" faces. We took a lot of silly pictures, I love her.

This is it. Today is the last day of classes. Only exams await me.

Hope you are well.

life should be...

...more like this....

...or like this....

I'm working on remembering the good times. The good people. The good situations. Because right now, frustrating papers, frustrating people, and frustrating schedules are going to be the end of me. 1 day until the weekend, 6 days of classes, 14 days until graduation.

snippet

Liliana pushed the dress into the corner of her closet and shut the door. She had moved on in life. She had asked for a normal life, and she needed to stop thinking of the past life. It was the past, after all.

"Let's go!" Lewis called out from the kitchen. She came out and noticed him standing near the door, his hand on the handle. He turned and pulled his hand away. "You're wearing that?"

She looked at her black suit pants and red sweater set. "What's wrong with this?"

He laughed. "Go put some jeans on."

"Stop making fun of me," she protested. "You don't know how hard this is for me."

"Whatever," he shooed her into the bedroom. "Just put some pants on, we're only going to Applebee's."

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, by Wendell Berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion - put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter weekend my friends.

When peace like a river attendeth my way;
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say:
It is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
let this blest assurance control:
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate
And hath shed his own blood for my soul!

My sin, Oh the bliss of the glorious thought -
My sin, not in part, but the whole
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more
Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Oh my Soul!

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll.
The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul!

it must be true

I got that letter in the mail today, the one about exit interviewing for loans. Along with it was a lovely statement of the loans that I need to pay back. And it was only for about half the loans that I have.

My heart stopped. I had a sad look on my face. Mark hugged me and offered to burn it for me.

I must be graduating. That's a scarier thought than I had anticipated.

6 random things

(I stole this from numerous people, but it sounded like fun!)

1. When getting ready in the morning, I dance to Latin music, even in front of the mirror while blow drying my hair.
2. When I get angry or frustrated or stressed, I clean things. The kitchen is usually the cleaning area of choice.
3. I regularly watch a Spanish telenovela (technically, a soap opera) since I watched it with my Costa Rican family all last semester.
4. I listen to Black Eyed Peas music.
5. If I could be anywhere in the world, it would be in an indigenous island off the coast of Panama.
6. Baseball season marks an exciting time of the year for me - it means baseball watching with my dad and it feels like more worthwhile watching than anything else on TV.

There they are. Your turn.

...the highlight of tour...

I forgot to mention pretty much the most exciting thing that happened on tour... you get the picture ;)

Jiggity Jig.

Hello. I am back from tour.

We went all over the place: Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota. It was a busy tour, for sure, but it was good. Fun to get to know more people.

Now it's back to the grind. Only 7 more weeks until graduation...eek! Somehow in there I have to write 3 major papers and do a lot of other stuff, too!

Hope you're well.

Spreak.

Hello all.

Today I leave for Spring Break tour with the Band/Orchestra. It shall be an adventure, that is to be for sure. We begin with an 18-20 hour drive up to Canada. Hopefully things will stay interesting and we'll be able to get enough sleep, all at the same time!

You may not hear from me for a while, depending on if I get internet access. If not, have a good Spring Break or week and a half or whatever time of year it is for you.

Also, props to Justine. She broke my stalemate. I vowed to make no more posts until someone commented, and then she went and commented (without knowing about my stalemate)!

bendiciones.

...oh, heresy

So, today I realized that my Heresies class is pretty hilarious. So, in honor of his hilarity, here are a few encounters with the class, many which involve the professor....

Encounter 1: Professor: "And where do you place the Bible?"
Student: "On the head of Judaism and the butt of Catholicism."

Encounter 2: Professor: "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"
(students have no idea how to answer)
Professor: "Depends on what kind of dance."

Encounter 3: Professor: "Calvin says, are we born equal? No, we are not!"

Encounter 4: (premise: discussion on the feeding of the 5,000 and whether or not Jesus fed exactly 5,000 people)
Student: "No, it wasn't exactly 5,000."
Professor: "How do you know?"
Student: "I was there."

Encounter 5: Mark: "I just performed a miracle. I could be a saint!"
Tim: "Does that mean we get to kill you?"

As you can see, the class offers a lot of interesting interaction. It makes up for some of the experience we experience at times. Maybe it's geeky theology humor, but it makes me smile.

My Inspiration for the Day

"And what does the Lord require of you? To do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God."

Update

Hello my friends.

I, your bubble-popping friend, will be the Day Camp Coordinator at Inspiration Hills this summer. That's right, they're entrusting me to be in charge of small children! Yippy!

As you may have already guessed, this was the big decision I had to make this week. After much deliberation and consultation with many people, I came to the conclusion that I could go for it. I'll start looking for a "real job," as they call it, while I'm there.

Since it's official, I thought it would be exciting to share the news with all of you :)

growed up

they say there comes a point in your life when you have to act "grown up" and you have to make your own decisions. No one can tell you what to do.

Well, I don't like it. Basically, I have a job-related decision to make this week and I'm still wavering back and forth on what to do. I'll probably be able to say more next week, but at the moment, it's all "up in the air" as they say.

In other news, I just wrote a paper proposal in Spanish because I'm going through withdrawal from not writing assignments in Spanish. I miss it so much, I wrote my assignment in Spanish and then put the translation in English at the bottom - both for my sanity and to find out what the professor will do. If anything, it made me smile.

Now, off to read about pietism and heresy. Tomorrow, 80's day in HPER class!

Todo es bueno, bueno es todo

Well, it's all good, my friends.

No, I don't have a job...yet. But I have found lots of possibilities and my resume and all that jazz is almost done, so I'm starting to feel better. At least the process has started, the ball is rolling, and so on and so forth.

Life is good. All is good, good is all.

4 questions summarize my life

...to summarize where my brain is, answer these questions:

1. A 1000kg car travels down the road with a constant velocity of 28 m/s due north. What is the net force on the car?


2. What was one of the main tenets of the Eastern Orthodox paradigm of mission?


3. Who was Tertullian? What makes him theologically significant?


4. What will I be doing when I graduate?

all i have to say is...

"Hi, my name is Two K's,

I rode the short bus...

So check me out!"

(apologies, I'm not in this picture, but it's the bus I rode)