Friday, Baby.

Today today today. 
Today is Friday. And I am glad about it. 

On Tuesday, I was finishing the last 60 pages of a book and writing the review. But then I got an email from my prof saying it was due Friday rather than Wednesday. Booyah! So rather than getting ahead, I went to Steak & Shake with Jess to celebrate. 

On Wednesday night I stayed up late finishing a literature review for our research project. BLEH. Have you ever heard of DropBox? It allows me and the other members of my group to share files across our computers. Lucky for me, all of the sources I wanted to use were in the DropBox so I didn't have to scour for sources. That's the worst part. 
Still, the paper took a long time to write. Rehashing the research of others who have already researched the research of others is a drag. Clinical research is not my jam. Then on top of that we had a workbook assignment. Thanks for that, prof. Maybe that was him trying to get me to not procrastinate? Nah.

Thursday I'm running on low sleep, but I had my research proposal finished for my 9:25 and I was early to class. Winner. 
Then after class, I studied for my 1:40 midterm for theories of group counseling and I think it went really well. I'm glad studied when I did instead of trying to stay up even later to study. Thursday afternoon I tried to get in the rest of my reading of Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 by Jason Morgan Ward. Not really an easy read for someone like me with, like, zero political knowledge. 
 Next thing I know, it's like 9:00pm and I have about one line written of this dang book review. Kay stayed up doing homework too and it was nice to have a buddy.  By about 12:45, I decided I was not writing well anyway. I got up this morning at 6:00am to finish, edit, etc. It's not maybe the best writing I've ever done but after the class discussion I realized I had kind of misunderstood the book in some ways. I think I wrote decently for as well as I understood the book. 

I don't watch Arrested Development, but I found this screenshot online of the show and however out of context it may be, this describes me in my honors seminar:

Spring break is inching closer and closer and closer! My background right now is the path that our cruise will be taking! I can't wait to blow up the blog with photos. Just one part of a week left and you can bet I'll be dreaming of the Caribbean. 

I've been reading Jesus Calling and My Utmost for His Highest for the Graduate [nearly] every morning this week and it's been fantastic. Check out 1 Thessalonians 5:16-19. I keep thinking about it today. 

Remember that song "Our God is an Awesome God" by Rich Mullins? There's a line that says "And the Lord wasn't jokin' / When He kicked 'em out of Eden / It wasn't for no reason / That He shed His blood". 

That idea that God isn't joking. I do think God has a sense of humor and creativity  specifically with all the creatures He created under the sea. But these words for the Thessalonians are not just tossed out flippantly. They are still relevant. We should still meditate on the words because they are from God for them and for us. 

*I keep hoping this blog will be discovered by high school students thinking about college and wondering what it's like. I try to keep this blog as real as possible. Sometimes I say "True Life: I'm wearing two different socks" (ya know, like from MTV?) or "Real Talk" (like "Coffee and Poptarts at 7am. Real talk") because this is college life. My experience is not the same as everyone else's and it's certainly not the same as the movies. And I like that. This is a real account of me.