I am so close to being done with school! I'm so excited! These last few days have been crazy busy...I feel like I'm always a step behind. Oh well...soon the misery of exams will be over and I can rest and relax. But in reality I doubt I'll rest and relax...I'll be painting my room, packing for Iowa, hanging out with friends before I leave for the summer. But these things will be a heck of a lot better than exams and homework. I wish I had something more interesting to say, but i don't :)

Rain, Gas stations, and Ice Age

There's something about rainy days that just soothes my soul! I love walking through rain, stepping through puddles, and hearing it fall on the windows. Today as I was at a gas station (where gas was $2.75!! outrageous!), I saw the best thing ever...it was 3 ducks just chillin' stomping around in a puddle. So that is what has kept me going today despite my joints hurting (wow i'm old) and sitting through classes. In my mind, I was one of those ducks just stomping around in the puddles.

Oh yeah, and another cool thing today...we definitely watched Ice Age (en espanol) in my Spanish class today. It was great! Only thing that isn't quite as cool is Sid doesn't really have a lisp in the Spanish one.

So I only have 8 days until school is over for the semester!! Whoo-hoo!! So I'm slightly excited by that.

By the way, I believe it is wrong that at the young age of 20 that already some of my childhood memories are disappearing. The main one being Libertyland. Agreed, it sucked royally! But it still is memories...especially the carousel. Which by the way, my friend sent me an e-mail today saying that the carousel will probably bring in around 1 million dollars!!! Hopefully it will be sold and Memphis will get the money and use it to start paying off all of Willie's stupid ideas. Now, they're thinking about selling the Colliseum which is where my best friend graduated from. Man! Another one bites the dust...

I went tonight to see the Passion Play that my church does each year before Easter and typically I just go out of habit. But tonight, for the first time in a long time, I was actually moved. Anyone who knows me knows I am not an emotional person (and don't think there was major shedding of tears because there wasn't), but I was so overwhelmed by God's amazing love and grace that He shows. There was one solo that was entitled "You Humble Me" It was sung by the Mary Magdelene character. If you know your Bible, she was a horrible outcast...definitely a "big sinner". But Jesus reached out to her, loved her, healed her, and made her whole. This song was about how she realized that Jesus had just died for HER sin. His death was personal! When I heard this song I could completely identify with her. One of the lines is "it brings me to my knees" and I would agree. Although I fail the Lord so often, He still loves me and died for MY sin! "MY sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought, my sin, not in part but the whole, was nailed to the cross and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord. It is well with my soul! His grace still amazes me!

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge. I would also agree with Milton Burle when he said, "laughter is an instant vacation." Here I was sitting at a computer at school (finally having found one in which the internet actually worked!) with a million things to do and not wanting to do a one. I was just thinking how much I would love to take a vacation! Then I checked my mail from Linz. What do you know!? I laughed and for that instant I was on vacation. The e-mail was nothing spectacular. Just something she knew I would find funny. Remember that today, in making someone laugh, perhaps you are not only closing the distance between the two of you, but you are also allowing them to go on vacation and escape their reality for just a moment. On that note, here's something that will hopefully make you laugh: