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This past week was such a blur. But it was also very exciting. Filled with constant highs and planning to the extreme, I'm so blessed it happened, but so happy its over.
The biggest part of the week was being able to spend it with my new bff, Dawn Eden, who, as most of you should remember, is an author I'd discovered a few months ago. Her work really spoke to me because it is about turning your life around after dead-end relationships and learning what it means to live as a single woman. Plus, she lives and works in New York which only helps me to like her more. For me, her book, The Thrill of the Chaste is everything that I have been learning and trying to tell others about living single life to the fullest for years now--only someone finally put it down in writing. And lets be honest, its so much better than anything I could have ever written.
Jamie and I picked her up from the local airport on Tuesday and were able to eat lunch outside because the weather was so beautiful. That night Dawn spoke on chastity and promoted her book to over 100 people at the Newman Center. The day next was spent at the university's Sex Out Loud event--the Theology of the Body table was a definite minority. But certainly a needed minority. If there is one thing I have learned through my media courses its even when you don't even think you can make an impact, you should still be there--make and appearance, let others know that someone out there is thinking differently. Dawn was able to experience Kmass on Wednesday night--probably an event that was incredibly overwhelming for her (well, if not for her, it was for me. Rock on NFK 93, there were so many of you there!) I'm glad she was able to go, because its certainly not a mass you can find anywhere else, and its good to have an idea what colleges are doing to reach people where they are.
Just writing this is making me nervous to leave. Oh grad school...
How amazing it was to have Dawn stay with me. Not every day does someone you view with such respect accept an invitation to hang out in your apartment, talk to college students, go out for coffee, join you at adoration, try to convert your friend (jaykay....sort of), meet your peers and loved ones, and share your breakfast cereal.
Thanks Ms. Eden. I can't even imagine what its like to give up your days off work to travel across the country to try to tell others how important chastity is--on little sleep no less!
Ruth and Ashley drove down from the Chicagoland to hear Dawn speak, as well as to give me hugs.
Dawn and I at Sex Out Loud.
p.s. I'm in the Daily Illini....again.