Monday, October 20, 2003
have so much to say i don't know where to start, it's been a really busy day...let me try to organize my thoughts so i can do this in a coherent fashion.
ok, first part of the day was pretty normal, woke up, did homework, went online, went for class, went for lunch...after that's when the busy part starts. had another rpp today (that thing where i'm a guinea pig remember?). you know how in movies scientists do their research in these dark, danky labs that pretty much look like prison alleys...well, today's rpp was in the basement of the psychology building (my 2nd home, tolman hall)...it was literally like walking into the dungeons on my way there. the corridors were narrow and deserted, and led to all these different rooms with their doors tightly shut. it was lit by white flourescent lamps, but still somehow had that dim, dingy look...if i had been in a movie, there would have been scary music playing in the background. but whatever, dramatics aside, the rpp room itself was nice-looking, and it was over pretty fast. they tested my typing speed..."the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" etc...then asked me a bunch of questions and it was done.
went for english lecture after that, my teacher's still on his "paintings" series, so he turned all the lights off to show us slides, and it was really hard to stay awake, didn't help that my 2 friends (one on my left, the other on my right) were nodding away, and the friend on my right (kelly) just gave up trying and put her head down and slept through the entire thing. not that it made much of a difference staying awake anyway, coz i have no clue what my teacher was trying to put across. should have brought my computer with me, coz i had a review session for my psych midterm at 5.30 (my english class ends at 4), so it's quite pointless to walk back to the dorm only to have to leave it again. needed to go to the library to read a book that's on one day reserve so i can't check it out, but i need to make notes in my computer, and since i didn't have that with me i decided to just go back to my dorm. went back, sat down for a while, then had to get up and leave for my review session.
review session lasted till 6.45...was walking back for bible study and i started chatting with this random guy who came out of the review session as well, talked to him about the psych classes he was taking, and it was only at the end of the conversation i found out he's not a psych major even though he's taking 4 psych classes (that's twice what i'm taking!). crazy.
yeah, then had bible study...today's study was on temptation, got into some pretty deep questions. why does God allow temptation over and over again, how does it serve to glorify God if we decide not to give in to the temptation to cheat and end up getting a C on the test? some hard questions raised...and we had a good discussion. it was really funny, about 15 minutes into the discussion, my next door neighbor mike suddenly came in and said, "i've been hearing you talk for too long, i'm going to join in"...we all kind of stared at him for a while, and then i blurted out, "but mike...it's an all-girls group". ha, how embarassing...we told him the guys were meeting on the 8th floor and he could go join them if he wanted (he's not a christian), and apparently he decided to, so that's cool! it's also cool that bible study is in my room, coz though my roommate tracy doesn't take part in the actualy study, she's there passively listening to everything we say. after everybody had gone back, i was telling her about my english class and how i was falling asleep, and she said, "temptation! you've got to watch out!". ha...which all goes to show that she does absorb something from our discussions after all. (chris: fawey loco!) yeah...now i'm blogging after a pretty eventful day. tomorrow's my long day so it's going to be equally exciting, plus i'm going to jenny's house for dinner...she's my bible study group leader, invited me and tracy over for dinner.
oh, got some bad news...the mentoring place called to say they can't reimburse me for my tb testing coz they had budget cuts, now i'm $20 poorer for no good reason! sigh...
oh, finally got my photos online...it's really cool, snapfish develops non-digital pics and puts them online for you, so go check it out.
new photos
email add: eirelav_conundrum@yahoo.com
password: valerie
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ok, first part of the day was pretty normal, woke up, did homework, went online, went for class, went for lunch...after that's when the busy part starts. had another rpp today (that thing where i'm a guinea pig remember?). you know how in movies scientists do their research in these dark, danky labs that pretty much look like prison alleys...well, today's rpp was in the basement of the psychology building (my 2nd home, tolman hall)...it was literally like walking into the dungeons on my way there. the corridors were narrow and deserted, and led to all these different rooms with their doors tightly shut. it was lit by white flourescent lamps, but still somehow had that dim, dingy look...if i had been in a movie, there would have been scary music playing in the background. but whatever, dramatics aside, the rpp room itself was nice-looking, and it was over pretty fast. they tested my typing speed..."the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" etc...then asked me a bunch of questions and it was done.
went for english lecture after that, my teacher's still on his "paintings" series, so he turned all the lights off to show us slides, and it was really hard to stay awake, didn't help that my 2 friends (one on my left, the other on my right) were nodding away, and the friend on my right (kelly) just gave up trying and put her head down and slept through the entire thing. not that it made much of a difference staying awake anyway, coz i have no clue what my teacher was trying to put across. should have brought my computer with me, coz i had a review session for my psych midterm at 5.30 (my english class ends at 4), so it's quite pointless to walk back to the dorm only to have to leave it again. needed to go to the library to read a book that's on one day reserve so i can't check it out, but i need to make notes in my computer, and since i didn't have that with me i decided to just go back to my dorm. went back, sat down for a while, then had to get up and leave for my review session.
review session lasted till 6.45...was walking back for bible study and i started chatting with this random guy who came out of the review session as well, talked to him about the psych classes he was taking, and it was only at the end of the conversation i found out he's not a psych major even though he's taking 4 psych classes (that's twice what i'm taking!). crazy.
yeah, then had bible study...today's study was on temptation, got into some pretty deep questions. why does God allow temptation over and over again, how does it serve to glorify God if we decide not to give in to the temptation to cheat and end up getting a C on the test? some hard questions raised...and we had a good discussion. it was really funny, about 15 minutes into the discussion, my next door neighbor mike suddenly came in and said, "i've been hearing you talk for too long, i'm going to join in"...we all kind of stared at him for a while, and then i blurted out, "but mike...it's an all-girls group". ha, how embarassing...we told him the guys were meeting on the 8th floor and he could go join them if he wanted (he's not a christian), and apparently he decided to, so that's cool! it's also cool that bible study is in my room, coz though my roommate tracy doesn't take part in the actualy study, she's there passively listening to everything we say. after everybody had gone back, i was telling her about my english class and how i was falling asleep, and she said, "temptation! you've got to watch out!". ha...which all goes to show that she does absorb something from our discussions after all. (chris: fawey loco!) yeah...now i'm blogging after a pretty eventful day. tomorrow's my long day so it's going to be equally exciting, plus i'm going to jenny's house for dinner...she's my bible study group leader, invited me and tracy over for dinner.
oh, got some bad news...the mentoring place called to say they can't reimburse me for my tb testing coz they had budget cuts, now i'm $20 poorer for no good reason! sigh...
oh, finally got my photos online...it's really cool, snapfish develops non-digital pics and puts them online for you, so go check it out.
new photos
email add: eirelav_conundrum@yahoo.com
password: valerie
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