Crazy Day

Wednesday is my crazy day. It is about to begin once I finish my coffee. It can't start before that! I have class from 9 a.m. - noon, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m., work from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., and class again from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.. I also am about caught up on my homework. I am actually ahead in one class. My goal this week is to get ahead in every class that way my weekends are a little less stressful and more open. I am accustomed to having those free. I do have a midterm this week, and the professor keeps saying how she will have us so prepared. Well none of us feel this way. She has lectured a few times, and she is all over the board. I also have a paper due next week. I will be spending this weekend starting it, and Monday and Tuesday finishing it up. Next Friday I have a huge rock test in science, and this is not an easy one! There are fifty rocks and we have to be able to identify them by name as well as the chemical makeup of each one. I was smart and got a tutor in this class. Most people don't do well and I don't want to be in that statistic. Ok, time to go.

Strange

I wrote this long post the other day and it is no where to be found. I just noticed that it wasn't there. Strange. Anyway, I finally found my parish for while I'm here at Marian. Yay! I will be attending a Tridentine Mass. It was beautiful and I fell in love with it. It is longer than the Mass everyone is used to, about two hours. The congregation is a good mixture of young and old. I also think I have finally gotten out of my funk when it comes to a schedule. I have now exercised 3 times in the past 4 days which is great! It is tough when you get out of the habit. I feel so much better when I take care of myself. So next to God that is the second most important thing in my life. When it's not I slack off. Sound terrible? I hope not. Well I am going to go now.

Sorry for the silence.

Life has been busy! As I am sure all of you can guess. School is picking up, and I started my work study. That is interesting, because they do not offer the kind of service that most public libraries do. You are really on your own in there. They don't even have a reference desk!! Can you believe it? I know I can't. I joined the club Humane Vitae that we have on campus. This Tuesday I am hopefully going to the pro-life dinner downtown with the group. They also go to D.C. in January for the March For Life. It is really cheap so I think I am going to go!
I still haven't found a church that I like. They all seem to be missing one thing that I am looking for. They are a gorgeous church but lifeless or a spiritually vibrant church but they are lacking in the decor department. I know looks aren't everything, but I went to St. Monica's this past week and it is the ugliest church on the inside! No decorations, white walls (you know how I feel about those!), and the altar was plain with no crucifix! Now the crucifix is an interesting story. I got in there, knelt down, and when I started to pray I looked up at the crucifix to see Jesus and He wasn't there! I said to myself "Jesus please help me to not get up and leave." What they do there is carry in the statue and place it on the cross for Mass, and then take it back down! Now why would you do that? Makes no sense to me! So I am torn about that place. I am going to keep looking and pray that God leads me to the right one.

Yay!

I received an e-mail today from the secretary of the education department here at school. A lady is looking for someone to watch her 3 girls in the evenings and on weekends. Well I jumped on the opportunity and called the women. She called me back within 10 or so minutes, would love to meet me, and is having me watch them Saturday night for about 5 hours or so. Yahoo! Thank you Jesus! She wouldn't have a set schedule for me, but when her and her husband go out she will call. From what I gather I think they go out quite a bit. The education department sends out a questionnaire asking if you are interested when these come up. I just filled mine in today and turned it in! God is good, and is looking out for me :-)

It's been nice.

I have to admit that it has been nice to be home. I love knowing I am safe wherever I go. For the most part anyway. I know where I am going as well which is really nice! I hate not knowing where anything is or having to write all my directions on a sticky note. I finally found somewhere to go walking/jogging, but it is 15 minutes away, so I won't be going there everyday. For the most part things are going well and I am adjusting. When I need a break from the city I will be coming home :-)