This morning has overall been much better than yesterday. I woke up in a good mood, ate a good breakfast, and started my drive for work. The sunrise was breathtaking today. Pinks and oranges all across the sky, Casting Crowns in the cd player...it almost felt like God was talking directly to me ( Read more... )

I'm having a lost sort of morning. It is one of those mornings where everything just feels wrong. I hate mornings like this, because for the most part, the rest of the time, I am so sure of my life at the moment, but every once in a while, there is a morning that throws me off...a morning that tells me I am wrong. This morning has been exactly ( Read more... )

I was just sitting here at my desk, typing up a very lenthy report about an HIV, drug addict, who just can't seem to get his act together while on parole, when suddenly I had to stopped and was again blown away by the fact that I am a PAROLE OFFICER. Somedays life is just so...well, surreal, I suppose. A gun? Arresting people? In and out of ( Read more... )

Holidays are always eventful, but this year has been particularly wierd. I left Atlanta with one roommate, Brenda, a school teacher and Mission Year alum. When I return to Atlanta, I will be living with Kelly and Ben, two Parole Officers. Note: Kelly and Ben are not a couple. We are just three coworkers who have known each other since September ( Read more... )

Woke up early this morning to my roommate and her father packing up the last of her things and stuffing them into a tiny U-Haul. They are going to drive to New Jersey today. The walls are bare, the funiture is gone, and I am back to having no microwave. In a way, it is like I am starting over again. It is exhausting ( Read more... )

Time is moving too quickly, and so are the events in my life. I have one roommate moving out, and two more moving in. Last night, as I was laying in bed like the insomniac that I can be, I was counting how many roommates I have had since I left for college...with the two new ones moving in...the grand total is...drum roll please...12. This ( Read more... )

For the past 20 minutes I have been watching the extras on the Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants DVD. Yes, and I admit to being 24. I am currently housesitting again for the people with the 100 year old hound dog, who one minute acts like he is half dead and then the next minute I catch him up on the table. Kim's house is also under my watch ( Read more... )

This is just one of those days. Everything might as well be upside down, inside out, and backwards, because that is how it already feels. Hormones? Possibly. Lack of sleep? Quite likely. The world around me? Definitely.

If I had a band, I think I would name it "Embrace the Chaos". Good one isn't it?

More to come.

If you had told me that I would be a 60 to 70 hr/wk worker (especially as a parole officer/barista), I would have never believed you.

So, I guess I will jump on the bandwagon and participate in this...one prob...I don't think I have six friends to tag who haven't already done this ( Read more... )