My Lymph node hurts. Last night I got home from Orientation. It wasn't too bad, kinda overwhelming, because there is so much stuff and so many people and so many choices on that campus, but it was exciting. I didn't realy do the whole making the best friends of my life thing, I don't think you can do that in a day and a half. I did meet one girl, who i ended up staying with who was pretty nice. But craziness, I was leaving the student union to get on the bus to go to the St. Paul campus to register, and I saw the Alex checking in for her orientation, and we talked for a little bit. Then after I was registered I was lost with a small group of other people and I saw Katy who graduated two years ago, so she helped us find th bus, and then I saw Brett when I was looking for a pay phone. It was crazy awesome and wierd.

Meanwhile my parents skipped parent orientation and went out and had a lot of fun. They went to the macaroni grill, and two used books stores, and the zoo and I was so jealous not nice of them.

Hello Friends, it's that time again, time for me to head off on a trip. I am heading down to the cities todayto attend orientation. I'm pretty excited, I am spending tomorrow night in the dorms, and I am picking out all my classes and getting my U card etc. I can't wait to go to college, though I am going to miss a few people quite a lot. You know who you are.

My family, Al and I spend saturday and sunday at the lake, it was a ton of fun. My aunt and uncle (who is a radiologist) from California bought a cabin nearby, and so when they're not here we can use it whenever we want, which is pretty much every weekend. We played pool and darts, went to stare at the mansion on the lake, went kayaking for a very short time, played in the lake, and visited the flea market (found a bunch of good books too). It was thouroughly enjoyable.

Well I'm off, have a lovely week, and give my regards to broadway!

Hola Amigos. Last night I arrived after a 14hr journey in a "sporty" minivan with 6 people and it was a good time. We went to the Willow Creek Arts Conference in Chicago. I was thinking when I left that I should maybe let other people go, because it was my third willow creek conference, but now that I'm back I'm so glad we went. I was prety much spiritually asleep and now I'm back and ready to go. Our people were the best too, we had Mrs. M, Stephan Stunning, Shaina, Sheila, Alex and I adn we all got along. We had two of the best talks and came up with practical changes to be made, and future goals.

The first day we ahd three speakers and some worship time. The first two speakers were awesome. Nancy beach talked about how we need to take time to be silly and creative, and she talked about RENT. Then Dewitt Jones spoke, he's a photographer for National Geograsphic, and he was very good, he showed us a bunhc of his photographs and told us to carpe diem. The seoncd day was good too, the first session I fell asleep in (oops) the second one was with the guy who wrote Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, The Man in the Iron Mask, and We Were Soilders. He was pretty good, thought he ran long and was very emotional. And then to close the conference we had this guy from a black baptist church come and he said that we would not be falling asleep in this session, because he was like our coffee, black, and then he goes, well I'm more like espresso. And it was true he was extremely dynamic.

Any who, there's probably only one person who reads my blog that this will interest, so I'm going to stop talking and shower. Have a lovely day all.

So today I did something that I've been wanting to do since before graduation. I washed my car. And now we're having torrential rains. And I had a little talk with God and reminded him that he promised he would never flood the entire earth again, so northern MN may be in trouble, but who cares, I'm moving to the cities.

And tomorrow(technically speaking) I along with five good fellow Trinity memebers are off to Chicago for a Willow Creek Arts conference. The nice tweleve hour drive will be a good time to "bond" and then be ready to rip people's heads off. But hey it's worth it every time. We might even get to go shopping. I like shopping and lately shopping like me. Which has it's up and downsides.

I got information today too about a class that i can take next year, in preparation for med school, and that's pretty cool. I'm very very excited for next year. I know it will be tough with Al still here, but I mena it's college, and I haven't spoken to anyone who has said college doens't rock until forever, so yey. And next summer I may get to be a camp counselor! i would love it so so so much. Sigh, high school is done and gone, and in the words of Greenday "good riddance."

So I haven't blogged in a while, but here we go again. It's currently the second official week of summer vacation, and I have yet to find a job. I applied at the Villa, and at Park and Rec incquired at the eye clinic and about babysitting, yesterday I picked up and application for the Shanty. So I think this is going to be another volunteer summer. I think this summerc I'm volunteering for hospice. Which will hopefully start soon, and look good on a resume, so it's not all bad.

So on Monday we got yet another cat. His name is O'Mally, and he's absolutely adorable, he's a six week old orange kitten. And he has spunk. He had a bath today, and he screamed the whole time, poor little guy was terrified.

It doesn't really feel like much has happened, although we did finish the yearbook in record time 2 1/2 days extra. That's unheard of. Last night we had a Disney movie night, and it was a good one, we watched Sleeping Beauty, and then we had a really good talk for hours after that. It seems like most Disney movie nights we end up talking for a long time. I remember my first I stayed until 3 when my parents called and told me that I needed to go home. They're good times.

In other news my parents had a murder mystery dinner party last night, and it sounded like it was a lot of fun. Pastor Randy was a Bum, Sheila (or worship and music director) was a hooker who was last seen with the vicitm, her husband was a bootlegging bar tender, Pastor Marsha was a lush, my dad was an accountant, and my mom a sadistic nurse. We got to see Sheila and Marlo come home, and they looked excellent. I really wish they had taped it, so I could have seen how they acted, it would have been interesting to see my pastor as a lush.