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| oh the joy of working... will i ever find a boss where our relationship conisists of mutual respect? i sure hope so. read this please. i concur. guess what. i'm going to spend the summer out of the country! dominican republic, here i come!!! (well, in a few months.) i am very very excited. and also a wee bit scared. but it's a good scared. like "the fear of God" scared. tonight matt wertz is playing a free concert in ames. i'm down. until then... | | |
| tomorrow evening i leave for minnesota. just visiting for the weekend, staying with my good friend specs. it's been a real long time since i've been up. i honestly can't remember... oh! it was when i went to see kate and when we went and saw cartel... that was her birthday present for me. (and a very nice present it was.) so that was like september i think. i was supposed to go up last month but there was snow. hopefully the sky holds it's bladder for the next few days. that'd be really nice. i am bringing my friend alyx up with me this weekend. she is my co-worker at journey's, a really cool girl. this will be the most time we've ever spent outside of work together. hopefully she doesn't think i'm a nut.
i had today off from work. normally i have wednesdays off, but this was a weird week. and it felt weird having today off. i didn't do a whole lot. made a a bunch of returns, stuff that was leftover from christmas that i had been forgetting about. so know i have four new giftcards to spend at various locations. and new nikes. that i surely didn't need. but i was returning two pair so they only ended up costing me three dollars, so i felt it necessary. (it was not.) this is what they look like.
when i walked into the store my old co-worker chris was standing talking to my boss. what a neat guy. he's just an extremely bright guy, so wise, so honest. then we walked down to a different store and ran into ben, another old co-worker. it was neat to see all three of those guys. i miss those guys now that i have a fulltime job elsewhere. i basically spent most of my summer with them. so that was fun. then i went with my mom and her friend megan to see juno. good movie. i dunno that i'd give it "best of the year" or anything just yet. but it was quality. 27 dresses comes out this weekend, i am rather excited to see it. very much a chick flick. but that's sort of why i'm looking forward to it.
welp, january 15th was supposed to be the day that TIME told everyone whether or not they'd be asking them on as summer interns or not. i've not even been called for my phone interveiw yet, so i'm thinking it may be a few weeks yet before i find out for sure. that's okay. not like i'm anxious about it or anything. not anxious at all...
until then...
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| word vomit. (according to UrbanDictionary.com)
A point in a conversation where you say something that you really didn't mean to.
I told Robin that I saw Mike with some girl at the movie theater last night. It just came out of my mouth like Word Vomit. why do i even open my mouth? don't say it if you don't mean it. did i mean it? oh man. maybe being gone a summer would do me some good.
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| so tonight my father asked me "so, why do you want to go to the dominican republic this summer?"
whoa. well, this will probably be the last summer of frivolity that i can allow myself before finally having to suck it up and call myself a true adult. not that any of it would be frivolous.... that's not the word i'm looking for... and i would be getting paid... sort of. but this is the first time in my life when i have had the desire. i have been such a homebody for most of my life. i am a creature of habit. i seek the comfortable and the familiar. that's why we hang out at my house. i like it better that way. and to be in charge of other human beings. whoa, still getting used to that idea. not that their lives would be in my hands, but i would certainly be giving some direction. i think i could do that. no, i know i could do that. i'm certainly not saying i'm most qualified for the job because there will always be someone that could do it better than me. but what's different in this situation, is that my heart has changed a little. two years ago you ask me if i wanted to be in charge of a bunch of snot nosed high schoolers doing a construction project in 95 degree weather i would have said f-off. kidding. i would have laughed and told you that was crazy talk. but this year the thought is actually extremely exciting to me.
so what are the drawbacks. welp, for starters, i already know of at least two weddings i'd be missing. i'm not in either, and they aren't best friends, but certainly ones i would like to attend. also, there's the annual fourth of july party, which i have missed a few times before, but that's always a good time, (they don't celebrate that in the DR.) then there will also be a reunion for the GAP class which was the college sunday school class my dad co-taught when i was growing up. most of those kids have all gotten married and have kids that are in grade school by now. it would be really neat to see who showed up for that. would it be worth missing all that?
yeah. yeah, i think it would. spending a summer in service to others. devoting that time to the Lord. i really do think it would be worth it. it scares the crap out of me, but i think it would be pretty amazing. i don't really feel like the adventurous type much. traveling is great, but so is coming home. but to call somewhere else home for a summer. to share my room with new strangers every week. to wake up every morning at 6am. to sweat under the hot sun. to brush my teeth with water from a cup. to follow a schedule not made by me. it sounds excellent. and the prospect sounds pretty thrilling. i sound like i'm for sure going. a spot hasn't been offered to me. i don't even know that it will.
the prospect is neat. i am praying about it. praying that my intentions will be true and my motives will be pure and i will be thinking with a heart of service. service to Christ and to his body.
until then...
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i despise how the youth of america has become so nonchalant. "yeah i went to juvie, yeah i'm on probabtion. big deal." yeah, it is a big deal. now, i'm not the most motivated person in the world, this much is obvious. but seriously, i know you're only 16 and life is a cakewalk. take some freaking responsibility. especially when people are expecting you to screw up. prove them wrong. give people a reason to respect you. geesh.
some days... no. most days i forget what a wonderful thing the body of christ is. what a wonderful family.
until then...
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