i'm accepted to ut!!!  i found out yesterday.  pretty exciting.  i remember i wanted to go there so badly when i was younger, but i knew i didn't have a chance in hell with my high school academic record.  four years later, and i finally made it ( Read more... )

as i was cleaning my room tonight, i picked up a stack of surveys i had given to my kids at the beginning of the year.  of course, they hated the surveys, as completing them required both reading and writing; however, they had some interesting answers.  one of the questions asked the kids what three words best describe them; one student answered, " ( Read more... )

loving someone is like giving half of your heart permission to sprout legs, get up, and walk around outside of yourself, longing to know where it is, praying that it's safe, and hoping that one day it'll return to you.

ok, so - not to geek out and overanalyze the office or anything, but i've been thinking about a particular scene from the premiere, and as i'm re-watching it now, it still sticks out at me.  in it, the office learns that michael ran over meredith in his car, and the group is planning to go visit her at lunch.  when pam asks angela, the outspoken ( Read more... )

camp is over...mostly ( Read more... )

last week was the best week because it was the worst week.  does that make sense?  in our weakness, He is strong, and His grace is sufficient for us.

"Think of it this way," said Helmholtz.  "Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it.  It can be done.  You can do it ( Read more... )

So this afternoon, I decided to go take a walk down the drag, and do some serious window shopping at Urban.   There are always some homeless people hanging around the drag, but today, they were practically stationed at about every third storefront.  Many of the homeless on the drag are teenagers, maybe a little older. They are sometimes referred to ( Read more... )

"And I may say some things that you don't like to hear ( Read more... )

+good movies...i recently saw black snake moan and the host.  amazing.  can't wait to see hot fuzz and spiderman 3 and like a bajillion others.
+volunteering at displace me, which is this weekend, saturday-sunday.  everyone should come!  http://www.invisiblechildren.com/
+figuring out ( Read more... )