Endless
How is it I am only scheduled ~18 hours each week, yet still end up working +30? It's kind of starting to get old, but I can't really do anything about it. On an average day, I have been on campus from 8am to 9pm, give or take a couple hours each way. 99% of that is in Sarkeys. Work is really stressing me out for numerous reasons. On top of that, my classes are starting to hand out projects or other big assignments that need to be done. But at least it isn't anything too big. I absolutely can't stand tech writing.
I got advised yesterday. That was nice. Now I just have to figure out my financial aid crap so that I can actually enroll on Tuesday.
Stuff
So cool!
Yesterday, I got to see THE Ed Lorenz - the brains behind the concept of the modern chaos theory. I've heard his name (he has an AMS Symposium named for him) and I knew he had something to do with chaos. It was so neat to actually see/listen to him.
After the seminar, I went to talk to Leslie (a technician) about decommissioning sensors. Guess what she did?? She gave me two huge boxes of sensors to work on. :-) I am a happy Megan. This is going to be such a tease if they don't hire me on full-time.
We have a career fair on Thursday. It's good that I'm not graduating because I won't be able to attend very much of it, if at all. There are a few people I am interested in talking to, namely the Air Force. We'll see how that goes. According to my tech writing teacher, I have an amazing resume for a technician position, so hopefully I have nothing to worry about anyway. :-)
Well darn...
The game is on TBS. Guess I won't be watching it afterall.
I suppose I will stay here for a while longer. I like looking out the windows and inspect east Norman. I love the trees. The leaves have started to change colors. I miss my tree buddy. *sigh*
Today has been somewhat productive.
My alarm started going off at 7:30 because we had a service project at the Baptist Children's Home today for RUF. Around the same time, I hear this random beeping noise and I couldn't figure out what it was. Then I remembered that I changed the sound on my pager. Something broke at work, but I couldn't do anything though I wanted to make sure everything was okay before leaving town for the day. So I ended up being a little late for meeting everyone and ended up just driving there myself. It was a group of about 10 or so and we did various things like pick up scrap metal, weedwhack, paint a fence, etc. I strained a shoulder muscle while picking something up awkwardly, so now I have an aching pain in my left shoulder and I can't turn my head to the right or lift my arms above my head without it hurting. Hopefully it will go away soon! After we were done, we met up at Andrew's park for pizza. It was a really great day to do work and talk to other people and relax (at least for me). I am very glad I was able to go.
For the past few hours, I've been at Sarkeys working on german and my synoptic project and emailing about the bible. I am really excited about my synoptic project - "The Effects of the Non-vertical profile of a Radiosonde on its Measurements." I have about 100 more pages of journal articles to read (out of the 200 or so total.) And I'm really excited about discussing stuff in the Bible with someone. I love getting questions that make me think because otherwise I most likely wouldn't think of those things. So, thank you so much for doing it! (you know who you are.) German is also going really well. I like the language a lot. I missed two days within the past week, so it was kind of hard to get back into it. We have our midterm next thursday and friday... that should go well.
As for the rest of the day, the OU/KU game starts in an hour. I will probably watch that and knit/crochet. :-)
Movies movies movies!
Pretty busy day. Worked from 7-10:15. German was at 10:30, for which I had to turn in a movie summary and homework and then take a vocabulary quiz. I finally got the nerve to ask her about rescheduling a test due to a conflict with something that isn't exactly a good enough reason to do so, but she said I could if someone else needs to also. So that was exciting.
From there, I went to Financial Aid to turn in my long awaited tax papers. Found out that I have to have specific information from my mom about her income, even though she is in Australia. Great.. She also told me that I have the option of claiming independent status, but I have to go through this long process of letters and interviews and all this junk... something that will be long and tedious. So I need to think about that more.
I went home after that and wanted to take a nap after lunch, but ended up watching the first few episodes of Friends. Then fell asleep. Carilyn and I were supposed to go to watch Batman Begins at 4pm at Meacham. That movie definitely wasn't what I was expecting it to be, but it was fun. Our friend, Jessica Richards, got engaged last weekend!! There was an engagement party last night and we stopped by on our way out. She told the story of the proposal. *sigh* It was so cute. Except afterward I started thinking of a proposal story I was told in January or so, which made me a little sad.
After that, it was time for Girls' Movie Night with Carrie! We watched Pirates of the Caribbean (my first time to watch it without falling asleep!) It was much smaller than the last one (8 girls versus 30 last time.) And of course, with this group, when they aren't watching the movie, they are staring at bridal magazines. That didn't help my case any. haha. So I ended up gushing about some things... to the extent that Carrie told me I wasn't allowed to come back to girls' movie night!!! I know she was kidding, but I do need to stop talking about him. STOP IT Megan!!!!
Sleep time comes soon...
"You are approved..."
:-)!!!
A quite stressful day ends with two great things:
1) I am now a member of Christ the King Presbyterian church
2) I received a very special postcard
My interview went all right... I think they could tell I was nervous. I don't like being put on the spot!! Afterward, I thought of some things that I could have said. I got a little worried because after the actual interview part, they asked me to leave the room while they conversed. I was thinking, "Great... they don't think I'm ready." But then they invited me back in and we discussed the vows of membership. It made me so happy to finally have everything over with. I've been attending for three years and have had my membership info in since March. But now, I am officially a member :-)
I got home around 10pm and decided to go check the mail. I noticed a postcard in there that looked like junk mail, but I recognized the handwriting. Then I saw who it was addressed to. Then I smiled. Then I cried. Then I actually read the postcard. Cried again. haha. It was a wonderful, wonderful ending to such a busy day.
Eeeeeek
I am FINALLY having my church membership interview!!! I am really excited, but really nervous at the same time. Presbyterians take church membership MUCH more seriously than Baptists, so I really have no idea what to expect. For my FBCPV interview, it was very simple - a few questions to "ensure" that I was a true believer, which was followed by baptism a couple Sundays later. This same interview process goes on with 5 year olds that "proclaim their faith and get saved," so maybe that tells you what it was like. Anyway, I am meeting our pastor, Mike Biggs, and one of our church elders, Danny Cary, at the church office at 8:30pm. I'm mostly nervous because when I am asked questions in situations like that, normally I say really stupid things (I know at least one person reading this can attest to that!) So we'll see how that goes :-)
It has been a really long couple of weeks... so hopefully things will clear up soon!
The Other Bush
Yesterday, I was listening to the radio and heard a news blurb that Jeb Bush is encouraging school-age children to read "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe." He is suggesting this because of a contest that coincides with the release date of the movie. Overall, the program is to provoke kids into reading. I know that it would encourage me to read a book if the movie was coming out in a few months! (I did that with the first LOTR)
Apparantly, people are making a big fuss about it. When I read/watched this when I was little, I had NO idea that it was any type of reference to God and the Bible. I still don't really understand how it is. If people are getting upset about this, then why not get upset about the Lord of the Rings stuff since people insist that it is full of biblical references? Just doesn't make sense...
Another confusion...
Why are gay rights becoming such a big big issue now? There have always been gay people in society. I guess they are more open about it now, but the problems seem to escalate as years pass. I have known several people relate the treatment of gays to the segregation and such of African Americans. Ummm...yeah I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that African Americans were treated much worse than gays. And they were allowed to be married. Guess why? BECAUSE THEY MARRIED PEOPLE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX. That's what marriage is. Arrrrrgh. You can't redefine marriage. You can't marry a dog. You can't marry a book. No matter what. Just leave things alone! STOP IT!!!
Marriage wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the Bible. There would be no reason for it. It is supposed to point us toward our union with Christ. Bride and Bridegroom. Opposite. Not the same. I don't know... the thought of gay marriage (or homosexuality at all) just sickens me. I know that their sin isn't any greater than my sin, but it makes me uneasy. It's just not natural.
Disappointment
So I'm sitting here reading news online and I come upon a link to an article about President Bush talking to the Palestinians. Here is the quote:
"President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it."
At first glance of this, I was thinking "hmm... liberals sure aren't going to like this at all" and went along with reading. Then I got to the part of "get peace in the Middle East. And by God I'm gonna do it." Whoa whoa whoa. Most Christians understand that there will NEVER be peace in the Middle East, at least until the end. So now I am really confused about him. Plus, the fact that he says all of this as if it is all because of him. He didn't accomplish any of this single handedly. Maybe this is out of context... I'm not sure. But I am baffled that a professing Christian would say that he was going to make peace in the Middle East. That just blows my mind.
