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Hi!

I am in Woodinville for the first time in over two months. It's only for four days of which half of one is already gone. So, 3.5 more days: beautiful people to see, wonderful friends to enjoy, and a 2000 word comm theory paper to write. Mmm! That spells fun with a capital-F!

Bye!

Today was a crazily wonderful day!

In realistic terms I do not have time to write but the prep for my midterm will wait for just a few more minutes.

After nine consecutive hours of sleep I dashed like a popsicle to the gym at 7am. If I didn't enjoy sleep so much I think I would be an avid proponent of morning workouts. There's something relaxing about waking up to 160 pounds of pure metal attempting to conform to gravity. But you won't let them. And your body awakens to the feeling of hundreds of muscle fibers ripping apart only to rebuilt throughout the day. I could go deeper into imagery and such but... I really would rather study for my midterm so on to the next chapter of the day.

HKIN lab was on body composition where the little electro scale told me I was 50% fat and the hip waist test told me I was high risk for something..... Hmmm. The scale was askew and the hip waist test was accurate, though I don't know what I am at a high risk for... and, no.. really. I am not 50% fat. Thanks.

1100 I strolled to the Mars' Hill office to find out if our romantic international issue had arrived and alas! I arrive and I find no papers.. just James. He tells me the heart wrenching story or our paper's woes at the printer. Battles with transparency... size... ultimately our two heros (James & Christo) had to drive all the way out to Delta to save the paper. and they were victorious! It's the most unique issue yet! I can't wait to show you all! Specially designed for the right hand impaired out there.

So the day continued on. I started studying for my human kinetics midterm (friday morning at 800am, prayer much appreciated *thanks!*) I got through hypokinetic conditions then started into cardiovascular disease (CVD) and was so freakin' inspired to write! It was like my brain just turned on and all these ideas I have been trying to think of and consider just fell from my head and started to make amazing sense. Everything from current relational woes to what I want to do with my career to what my final article will be about for Journalism. It was so exciting! So I took 30 minutes before my journalism class just writing, resting in the sunlight coming through my window, and enjoying the endless dance of thought God initiated in my mind through CVD's. I'll post whatever came out on raw material.

Journalism was amazing as well. I have this class with my friend Kevan who is always a joy to be with. In our editing groups we discussed different ethical cases. There's something about ethics that ignites a passion within me. I had the best time discussing and debating with my group, the landline tapestry heartstring explosion.

After journalism I went for an early dinner with my good friend and dorm sister, Sarah Rostami. What an amazing woman she is! Her non-christian parents put her in a private Christian school and she bucked tradition and became Christian there. That's so amazing to me because it seems the typical story is people are driven further from Christianity through experiences at private schools. But God found her and stole her heart. Now she leads an amazing life and passion and devotion for Christ.

Then there was geography lab. We got to color maps of BC. Oh, it was hideous fun!

Then on my way home at 900 I picked up the paper. It's just soo relieving to see it out on the racks waiting for the students. And when they talk about it over the next few days... esp. if it initiates deep conversations. Then it's all worth it.

and THEN! I ran into a friend at my exit to the dorm and found out he's going to come to my place for a day or so of reading break! So adding him to the mix of fun that will be this weekend! I am so psyched!

Life is amazingly good even with midterms and papers dangling before me. God is so good and filling my heart with a small understanding of the rest and peace He gives when I rest in His arms and cast my worries and cares on His capable shoulders.

OH!! And the BEST news of the day! A HUGE praise!!!! My friend who has been dealing with depression for quite some time now e-mailed me this morning:

" I am seriously doing SO awesome! I'm going to stop going to counseling and here are the reasons: I have felt 100 percent like myself for about a month now, my counselor said she has no concerns about me right now, and my doc gave me the okay. I feels so amazing to be back to normal and I have just been so filled with joy from God! I love life right now like I haven't in like 2 years!"

AHHH! Isn't that AWESOME!?!!!!?! I have been on this higher plane of praise ALL day! And seriously, the only reason she is doing this awesome is because of God! The minute she placed Him as her only priority He took her by the hand to this awesome new shore where she knows intimately the joy and love of our Living God!

so rad!

and now after all this excitement and goodness I get to have more with my hkin textbook!! I know I'm such a geek for loving studying so much, but hey... that's who I am. And I much prefer that God gave me a love for studying than a love for slacking.

God Bless and I will see some of you this weekend!!

a few reasons for the serious lack of bloggage in this blogging environment:

1) Internet has been down in my dorm since Thursday.
2) It's production weekend....!
3) All my extra time (which doesn't actually exist) is spent elsewhere.

Next weekend is reading break! And I'm going to write a paper! I am stoked because my topic is actually something that interests me greatly (which is a good thing):

Persuasion in Photojournalism!

Communication Theory in everyday visual communication. Oh, it will be good. Or at least a fun excuse to study some professional photojournalism.

In other news, my very first article is being published in the up and coming issue of the Mars' Hill... and it's in the sports section. Weird, eh? Never thought I would be a sports writer. But, hey! It's a clipping and that's what I need.

much love fellow space cadets!