Saturday, July 12, 2003

 
Don't you hate it when everything logical and reasonable says that you should get up right that minute and get ready and go to bed, because you need the sleep, but for various complicated reasons (laziness might or might not be one), you rebel and instead casually find other things to do to keep you awake. I'm one of those really weird people who when they get really stressed out, bewildered, sad, or guilty about being lazy, go into a crazied cleaning streak that can last anywhere from 1/2 hour to 3 or more hours. For about two weeks now, I've had this huge pile of clothes that I've shuffled from my bed in the daytime, to my chairs at night (so I can sleep on my bed) and it was so bad that I thought I lost my make up bag for about 2 days before I found it on my bed under the pile of clothes. The only way the pile diminishes is from the bed or chair to my body and then at the end of the day, to the floor. So I spent some time tonight after Dan left and randomly cleaned the bathroom mirror and faucets, my mirror in my room and picked up and put away pretty much 80% of my clothes. So you can see a nice rectangle of my floor now :). Whenever I rebel against my logic in going to bed, I always feel like I should just forget the whole sleeping thing altogether and just pull an all-nighter. Why not? I have to get up at 7:30 tomorrow anyway so I can go pick donut peaches at 8.

But I guess I'd rather not fall asleep playing mini golf later.

Unknown @ 12:25:00 AM

 
I like just surfing the web. I just spent a fair chunk of time watching 2 minute clips on MSN news about Iraq and various other news. Then, as it so often tends to happen, I gravitate towards wedding stuff. And this is what I found.

*drools* I like. :)

Unknown @ 8:13:00 PM

 
Praise God! The Bible study went swimmingly and I felt that God answered my prayer because everyone was pretty talkative. As promised, here's the notes that I used for the bible study for those of you that weren't there and wanted to study it on your own.
Bible Study on Faith

It went super quick though, since there was so much reading of scriptures, it didn't take as long as I thought it would. I'm going to have a super busy weekend. Party on Friday, eat pho and play mini golf with Dan, Megan and Megan's friend Nick on Saturday, Bethel in the morning then right after service I'm going with Dan's whole family to a Student Ambassador picnic thing near Dalles. Yup yup, so I should get to bed and get some shut eye. I feel like I want a change of template, but it's hard finding interesting ones!

Unknown @ 11:43:00 PM

 
Um yeah, so like no one was doing the belaying? LOL, it was hooked up so that it automatically retracted into the wall as you climbed up, so it was probably easier than it would be at REI because of the tension. It was pretty easy, I did the easy and medium sides of the wall and they only let you do it twice, which I didn't know or else I would have tried the hard side. It's fun, but just don't look down.

Leavenworth is 3 hours from the Tri-Cities though. Amazing I know, but it's right smack dab in the middle of the Cascades:


Anyway, yeah, I'm excited for Bible study tomorrow night. Alice's house @7:30. I tried to think of questions that I would feel inclined to answer, since the main reason Bible studies are not as enjoyable as they should be is that people just don't talk. The symptoms that occur the most and are deadly to a Bible study are 1) Being tired. 2) Blanking out. 3) Getting stressed because the time spent doing Bible study could be used to do something else.
At school it's almost inevitable to go to a Bible study with one or more of the above 3 symptoms. But making a conscious effort to focus on learning something out of the Word and making that time spent in fellowship one of growth and not just going through the motions really makes up for any problems I have when I start out. I'm even more excited though for the next Bible study I'm going to lead though, I already have the topic :).

Unknown @ 9:32:00 PM

 
Spent pretty much the whole day either talking to Dan, listening, and working on a Bible study for Wednesday. Yeah, I'm leading Bible study this Wednesday, my first ever. I'll post the outline of my notes when I get done with them, but if you're thinking of asking me how to prepare a Bible study...don't ask me. I have no idea. A good resource to help you though would be E-Sword. It's completely free and pretty easy to use (I think, haven't really worked through it yet but Dan has it). The coolest thing about it is that you can download a bunch of different versions of the Bible and compare them side by side. The only downside to this is that you have to spend some time going through the huge list of things to download and you have to download all of them individually. I think it's going to be really useful though, an electronic Bible is awesome.

Unknown @ 1:34:00 AM