I realized yesterday that I forgot to tell another story about the grapes.....but I figured you were all probably tired of hearing about them anyways. Well! Today I spent about five minutes at Career Day here in Glass Hall. It's just not my thing to get all dressed up and go around and talk to people whose companies I don't give a crappety-crap crap about. (Sorry, I went into Strong Bad mode there). He he. Today in my Outdoor Education class we had a guest speaker who talked to us about the state parks and stuff like that, and I actually enjoyed it. We learned about being a state park superintendant, where you live at the park in provided house and get utilities paid and all kinds of crazy stuff happens cause you take care of the campsites. You start out at $22,000, and you move around a bit. He asked how many of us would like to start out doing that and move around after 2 years and me and one other guy raised our hands. I think it would be pretty fun. I honestly still have no clue what I am doing when I get outta here but I am getting more options opened up, and they all seem great and have to do with my one of my favorite things in the world--the outdoors! I am gettin' so excited about my first backpacking trip that is coming up after this weekend. It should be great.

My neck and arm is really sore from that little accident I had on the board the other day. But its feelin' better. I am going to be getting my new bike next Monday!! YESS!!! I am stoked about that. Can't wait. Okay I don't have anything else to talk about right now, maybe I will write more later. Finish it up a bit.

till then ta ta

Okay well I am back. With some air in my lungs and some quotes in my soul to give out. I have three. Okay, I just had my first Ultimate game! And my team (we lost, I think, 13-1! or more. Yeah, though we scored the first point. Found out later that these guys play every single week on Thurs. nights till like 1 or something.) did great!!!! They rocked my world. Some awesome catches. And my pal Eric kept the spirits up throughout the game. And we had four girls, so we all (us girls) got to get some practice in. Normally, guys don't throw to girls--EVER. Tonight, however, they had no choice. AND WE DIDN'T LOSE JUST BECAUSE WE HAD SO MANY GIRLS OKAY!!!! So don't EVEN think that to yourselves, you members of the male species. Yeah, so, now that that's out of me......

Yeah, I had to go BACK to Career Day cause my pal Karissa showed up on my way back to my dorm. I got nervous and went into the lab to hibernate and hide from all the suits. It was scary. And I noticed that when girls get all dressed up and wear those heels, ya know? they seem to walk faster. Cause you can hear 'em walkin' over like a mile away. And it's like,"Clock, clock, clock, clock, clock!!!" really fast-like. Weird. And they all look really serious. But I saw one girl jazzin' it up with a white pinstriped suit-dress thing so that was NEAT. Okay I am really sweaty so I need to get cleaned up.

"NO! Death, dying, remains, grief....grief, remains....."--Kristin, telling me about this poem that I thought was about someone leaving but was actually about someone's death.

"No, no, they're already dead."--Kristin just now when I was writing 'dying' instead of 'death.'

"....like those curb dogs...."--Joe Zickafoose, last week at Chi Alpha trying to describe skater kids.

"Down with Christian bubbles!!!! Up with............no bubbles?"--Sarah and Rachel at leadership tonight

"How about.........gun racks on every car?"--Jerod, trying to come up with what we as a generation of leaders want to pursue this year

Emperor's New Groove quote of the day:

"I'm not going to drop it, you FOOL! I'm going to DRINK it! And after I turn back into my beautiful self, I'm going to KILL you!!!!!"--Yzma as kitten

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I got to go wakeboarding today, thanks to my lovely bud Kristin, who kindly gave me a ride to work after we went, and right on time! It was so fun, my second time, and I had a blast. I got up right away which was good, but fell quite a bit since I was trying to figure out how to go in and out of the wake using my toes and heels and stuff like that. I finally figured out the mechanics in my head today after a lot of thinking and picturing. I learn like that. Before I get the hang of something, I have to understand how it works. So with the wakeboard, I had to figure out when it is and when it isn't okay to have the tip of the board facing the boat, and how you move it right or left. It took me a while. I was thinking too much about snowboarding. When I learned how to drive a stick shift, I made my boyfriend at the time, Stephen, who was teaching me, create a makeshift "engine" on the floor (he used various tools and some washers and other junk) and he showed me what happened when you shifted, like what the clutch allows to happen, etc., etc. My pal Micah gave me some pointers, but also watching him and Kristin helped me figure it out a lot more than talking did. Micah was awesome; he did all kinds of flips and spins and twists, and even a fashion pose. I got a bunch of pictures of him in the air. Too bad we had to go so early; I would have gone for another run. I quit before cause before I face-planted trying to get over the left side of the wake (which meant using my toe-side--eeek!) I didn't let go of the rope in time and it yanked on my shoulder---OW!!!! We also got to throw some grapes at Kristin and Micah while they were boarding, something I guess is a new past-time with them since they had grapes last time they went. Kristin and I had gone over to Micah and Curtis (and Josh and Thomas and Corey's) place to make them breakfast but no one was there except Micah. We had bought a huge bunch of grapes and Kristin goes,"Do we want these?" to which Micah replied,"Yeah, we'll take 'em." Apparently they had a blast throwing and trying to catch the grapes in their mouths, so on the way to the lake Thomas calls us up and goes,"Hey, can you guys get some grapes?" So we turned around to find a grocery store somewhere in crazy Branson.

Uh, I don't know if they are getting my bike for me or not at A&B; they still haven't called me back. I want it by this weekend so I can maybe go to retreat and ride with my campus pastor Joe again. That would be sweet. I am gonna hassle 'em. See what's up.

I bought a homestar runner tee shirt and got it last night when I came home in the mail. The two front desk workers were like,"What IS that?" and we told 'em to go to the site and watched, quite amused. They liked it. I have been telling my friends at work about it that I know may like it and they all (those who have gone) love it.

Well, I heard the Justin Timberlake song on the radio on the way to work the other day. My roommate gave me a ride (what a SWEETIE!) and I told her about the whole thing with Dani and then it came on the radio! I like it, it's pretty good. The best thing about it is, is that now, a Justin Timberlake song reminds ME of my sister, instead of the other way around. She was so cute singin' that to me.

I realized the other day that I wanted to recommend some books you all may have NEVER heard of. First off, a children's book author that I started reading in the 4th grade. His name is John Bellairs (well, he's dead now) and he wrote such works as The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring, among others. Read 'em all! I did. They are great, and I just recently discovered a website dedicated to him and found out that he was a devout Catholic. Interesting! Next, a horror author you have probably heard of, Clive Barker, wrote a book that my sister and I read a LONG time ago, called The Thief of Always. It is a children's book, but it is marvelous. I read that in 8th grade, and moved on to the 800-some odd paged Weaveworld, which is kind of gruesome and sexual. Kind of like a Christian watching a rated-R movie with violence and sex. Not exactly bad every time--I just know that I read it twice and liked it a lot, a few years back. So there ya are.

"Hey, nice cart!"--Micah, to some old lady today in the grocery store on our grape-quest

"Ain't nobody love ya like I love ya, bay-bee...."--Justin Timberlake in his new Michael Jackson-tinged song

Emperor's New Groove quote of the day:
"For the last time, nobody ordered a giant trampoline!!!"--Palace guard