( dating meme thing--bizarre )

today's picture theme will be: steve. this is because steve goes back to america in two weeks and will not return.


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so today i was a church leader. it went pretty well, and i'd do it again i think. i had a moment of anxiety before the service started, when i was standing in back reading over the stuff i'd be reading aloud and i realized that i never asked where i was supposed to stand during different parts. blocking, i guess:) i should've asked about blocking. ( Read more... )

the three movies i grew up checking out from the library the most often ( Read more... )

hey! they were talking about me on npr today. you too, wonkakillskids.

( what did they say? )

did i mention that i fell in love on saturday? i don't think i did. his name is jorge drexler. he's from uruguay. he only speaks english semi-fluently, but that's ok, cause i understand spanish mostly. he was singing live on a show on npr. have you ever had an immediate emotional response to someone you can't really explain? this guy wasn't even ( Read more... )

i'm having another of those weird moments where i feel older than i ever have at the same time as feeling like i'm in high school again. ( why, helen? i'm dying to know... )

i'm so excited:) i thought i had to work on friday, in which case i'd have had to miss my great friend lonna's senior chapel (as a senior at my school, you're given the opportunity to sign up to plan and speak at a friday chapel if you want. this was the thing paul stripped to his boxers during, apparently). anyway, i haven't been to school since ( Read more... )

today at work, a very cute boy asked me to help him find something. not cute in that "yeah, and he knows it" kinda way, but in the... um... other way? he had the look that i'm usually attracted to, anyway. even though i didn't remember ever seeing what he was looking for (oil for his lamp to keep him burning burning burning), i took him to where i ( Read more... )

so i was looking more today at china stuff. i got a lonely planet guide book for china for christmas. i haven't even sent in my application yet, and i'm already getting nervous. going to england was one thing. i think the mentality there suited me well (more polite than friendly, but very very orderly). china... well, that's a whole new ballgame, i ( Read more... )