Snow
It's snowing in knoxville. I just walked through the middle of the courtyard over to the computer lab and I believe that literally half the people gathered there had there hands occupied by ice cream cones. Love it. Something about snow, no matter how many times you've seen it, draws you in.
Right now I'm procrastinating writing a speech which is due tomorrow evening. The speech is actually very simple: introduce yourself. But, for some reason I find it difficult to start a speech about myself, especially when there are so many things I'd like to tell people, but I'm limited to two to three minutes. I'll start working on it here in a moment. I have the entire suite to myself tonight because my roommate went home sick and my suitemates have a social life and will be back goodness knows when.
I heard two girls with backpack front pockets full of "Hillary" buttons and stickers talking in the elevator. The one girl commented on her way out that "when you get up on Sunday morning you state your religious preference. But when you go to the voting booth you make your presidential preference....gotta know the difference." Interestingly enough that's the first somewhat political conversation I've heard since I've been at school and I also happened to be holding a freshly printed absentee ballot in my hand at the time. I'm not sure if I agree with what she said however. Seems to me that your faith should play a role in who you choose to elect. Now that is not to say that you should elect an incompetent person who happens to be a Christian, but the way she said that just sounded as though you can put each part of your life in little separate boxes that never touch each other. Your faith should at least be a consideration in your daily choices. I can see where she's coming from, however I'm not sure I agree with her.
Still trying to decide if i'll stay at UT next year or not. I may want to stick it out but I just feel like I'm being pulled in a lot of different directions. I want to be at home(i'm not homesick though), but the private colleges there I fear are probably too expensive. I'm considering switching to be an English major, but I also want to hold out and see if I get into College Scholars here and can then create my own major...ughh who knows. I'm fairly certain I may want to teach, and that can allow me to major in english but at the same time later allow me to take my teaching into the mission field which I am really drawn to. Who knows....i've got time to figure things out.
Peace.
Right now I'm procrastinating writing a speech which is due tomorrow evening. The speech is actually very simple: introduce yourself. But, for some reason I find it difficult to start a speech about myself, especially when there are so many things I'd like to tell people, but I'm limited to two to three minutes. I'll start working on it here in a moment. I have the entire suite to myself tonight because my roommate went home sick and my suitemates have a social life and will be back goodness knows when.
I heard two girls with backpack front pockets full of "Hillary" buttons and stickers talking in the elevator. The one girl commented on her way out that "when you get up on Sunday morning you state your religious preference. But when you go to the voting booth you make your presidential preference....gotta know the difference." Interestingly enough that's the first somewhat political conversation I've heard since I've been at school and I also happened to be holding a freshly printed absentee ballot in my hand at the time. I'm not sure if I agree with what she said however. Seems to me that your faith should play a role in who you choose to elect. Now that is not to say that you should elect an incompetent person who happens to be a Christian, but the way she said that just sounded as though you can put each part of your life in little separate boxes that never touch each other. Your faith should at least be a consideration in your daily choices. I can see where she's coming from, however I'm not sure I agree with her.
Still trying to decide if i'll stay at UT next year or not. I may want to stick it out but I just feel like I'm being pulled in a lot of different directions. I want to be at home(i'm not homesick though), but the private colleges there I fear are probably too expensive. I'm considering switching to be an English major, but I also want to hold out and see if I get into College Scholars here and can then create my own major...ughh who knows. I'm fairly certain I may want to teach, and that can allow me to major in english but at the same time later allow me to take my teaching into the mission field which I am really drawn to. Who knows....i've got time to figure things out.
Peace.