So tonight I am truly sad for the first time since getting back. I really miss everyone! Like all the people who used to be here and aren't anymore. I feel sucky because I seem incapable of keeping up with you all. Plus missing LASPers, Latin America in general, and friends from home. Which is random because tonight was a good night. I am ( Read more... )

So I somehow always thought being a good friend is listening to what is going on with other people and I am realizing, finally, it is equally important to keep the far away and distant loves of my life updated on things in Wilmore, Kentucky as in sharing about my own life as well. What a concept ( Read more... )

So, this semester feels like it is already in full swing and i have only been in class, uh, one day. The freshman and transfers moved in last Friday and everyone else moved in Sunday. I conducted my first hall meeting last night and attended two classes this morning. I am so excited about my macroeconomics class of all things... who would have ( Read more... )

Bad news: It's been 90some degrees out for the past week and our air conditioner died. Plus we had a random bat flying around and hiding in our house. Hoping this does not mean there are more bats within the framework of our home ( Read more... )

We are not to plan for the future, but are to prepare our hearts and minds for God's next move. This begins in thanking God for today, for his faithfulness in bringing us this far. It continues in our daily ministries which give us the very tools we need to be prepared for the future, more so than any plans we can make. In this way, when God ( Read more... )

So I go this brilliant idea that I randomly wanted to try out my hammock chair after it has been sitting around my house since I got home in May. This was followed by my dad´s brilliant suggestion to try it out in the garage. One suggestion led to another as I ended up hanging a crummy chain from a bicycle rack hook and looping it through the ( Read more... )

I don't even know what I am trying to do, seeing as claiming to bring LASP processing to a close would be a flat out lie, but I really feel like a summer of thinking about nothing but LASP needs to come to a close so I can focus on my girls this fall. Thinking about something verses letting those experiences shape how you think are two very ( Read more... )

I think I realized today how much I really hate politics. Really, really hate it. So CAFTA was passed in the House by a 219-217 vote. About a week ago only 50 some representatives were saying yes, while 160 some were confirmed nos. The remaining were undecided but clearly the nos had an advantage. Except for the stupid fact of freaking stupid ( Read more... )

So I have always loved Bobby since I was little and I am amazed at how well this song articulates so much of what I've been going through. What was really ironic is that this depressing little song about how useless we feel when we know injustice is happening and we aren't really doing anything to stop it actually gave me hope. I can't explain it ( Read more... )

So I've officially decided that next summer is not going to suck as much as this one. That has almost become the little light of hope for me as I am trying to make it through these last few weeks. It sounds ridiculous, but I am sick of this summer and instead keep wishing it was next summer. Summer in itself isn't that great. Actually, summer ( Read more... )