:D I'm just havin' a glorious day, a glorious glorious day! I had my first serious chem student needing help in math lab... and I got to review moles and empirical formulas and and...oh heaven's was it so much fun. And I got my graphing calculator back. And fun camera talk at lunch. And my photography teacher loved my architecture picutures! Well, at least the stair well ones. He said the window one was a decent picture but not nearly as exciting as the other two. It added a bit of a "discontinuity" to the series. I wish he'd quit using calculus terms...lol.. he has no clue what real discontinuity is ;). *happy sigh*... Did I mention I'm having a great day? "Walking on sunshine..whoooa... walkin' on sunshine...whooa.. walkin' on sunshine, now don't it feel good!" :D I'm just havin' such a great day! Oh and Josh remembered to burn the "Bond" CD for Dominique and me. It's a very cool twist on classical music. **walkin' on sunshine..whooa..walkin' on sunshine...whooa.. walkin' on sunshine..whoooa.. now don't it feel good!!** And I'm sorta talking to A for the first time in ages. :D....**now don't it feel good!** And eating great, wonderous, awesome homemade pizza (pesto base). *happy sigh*.. ah life is good. Welp, I'm gonna fly away on my great day!!! I wish the same to thee all!!!
Walkin' on sunshine, whoa/Walkin' on sunshine, whoa/ Walkin' on sunshine, whoa/Now don't it feel good!!!
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Friday, September 24, 2004
Random thinking instead of studying...
Hmm.. So the death totals rise to 11 and may go up more as the river goes down (inverse relationship? sorry... mathy-ness %p). I still haven't had a chance to go into the town of Canton and see but it was bad. Mom said the river had gone up to the roofs of most one story buildings. A lot of buildings are being condemned. There are Ashevillians in my classes at school who have lost their homes to rock and/or mudslides. Hurricane season has been rough on western N.C. And inspite of it a glorious fall creeps upon us.
:) Fall is coming strangely this year. Only the oak tree next to Nick's barn is following the usual pattern. It always seems that the leaves change as if God had a huge paintbrush that He just allows to drip across the mountians and the individual trees such that different splotches of their folage turn until God sees fit to paint them in their full array of color. Not so this year. It seems that God is sitting back and ...... waiting? That He isn't doing the painting but He's letting the sun kiss the trees. And everyday the rays of the sun seep deeper and deeper so that on the day they reach the ground the trees will be in their full array of color. :) Interesting little muse, eh? :) It's good to muse though:):)... for now it beats the biochemical explanation all to heck...lol.. don't worry, I'll spare thee ;).
Such a mish-mash of thoughts in my head right now. I have preterite tense and extra homework assignments in Spanish to master. Two sections of Calc homework (that I'd rather be doing than the previous) and a psychotic printer that doesn't want to print my pictures so I can decide on my architechture assignment. Oh, and a speech to write for lit. And a party to go Saturday evening.. and a friend I'd like to get together with Saturday afternoon.. and 2 1/2 days to accomplish everything in. With room somewhere for Bible study and refreshing in the Word. "I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me"... *wry grin* aye, that's what God just rememinded me of. Ah yes, and my printer is healed and maded whole/ blessed by God therefore it isn't psychotic. *sigh* ah me...I guess I'd better get started on all this junk. God keep thee all! (I'm liking my archaic pronouns...can you tell?:).) BE GOOD!
Eh, one addtional thing... I got a 96% on my chap. 2 calc test...now for chap. 5 spanish grade to come back. :) Thank God for having the mind of Christ! I really am going now.... ;)
:) Fall is coming strangely this year. Only the oak tree next to Nick's barn is following the usual pattern. It always seems that the leaves change as if God had a huge paintbrush that He just allows to drip across the mountians and the individual trees such that different splotches of their folage turn until God sees fit to paint them in their full array of color. Not so this year. It seems that God is sitting back and ...... waiting? That He isn't doing the painting but He's letting the sun kiss the trees. And everyday the rays of the sun seep deeper and deeper so that on the day they reach the ground the trees will be in their full array of color. :) Interesting little muse, eh? :) It's good to muse though:):)... for now it beats the biochemical explanation all to heck...lol.. don't worry, I'll spare thee ;).
Such a mish-mash of thoughts in my head right now. I have preterite tense and extra homework assignments in Spanish to master. Two sections of Calc homework (that I'd rather be doing than the previous) and a psychotic printer that doesn't want to print my pictures so I can decide on my architechture assignment. Oh, and a speech to write for lit. And a party to go Saturday evening.. and a friend I'd like to get together with Saturday afternoon.. and 2 1/2 days to accomplish everything in. With room somewhere for Bible study and refreshing in the Word. "I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me"... *wry grin* aye, that's what God just rememinded me of. Ah yes, and my printer is healed and maded whole/ blessed by God therefore it isn't psychotic. *sigh* ah me...I guess I'd better get started on all this junk. God keep thee all! (I'm liking my archaic pronouns...can you tell?:).) BE GOOD!
Eh, one addtional thing... I got a 96% on my chap. 2 calc test...now for chap. 5 spanish grade to come back. :) Thank God for having the mind of Christ! I really am going now.... ;)
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
What a Day
:) Estoy muy cansanda. Pero hoy es buen dia. (make that "es" a past tense for me. ;) I can't do it yet :).) ...lol.. I shouldn't blog when I have Spanish in my head should I? 'Course I've been like that all day. Not in complete sentences, no, but bits and pieces come in Spanish. Sometimes I hear English and translate it to Spanish w/o trying. Weird stuff.. but that's not what makes today good...
numero uno! :D... My chapter 2 calculus test. Yes, it made my day good. I wish my labs were as easy as that test. Valerie LOVES insanely hard labs. But if you can get her labs, her tests are easy. Or at least I think so. There was only one thing that half way freaked me out. The other ones I think I'm good on. At least one of my classmates (Laurie) thought about the problems the same way I did. *shrug* That's at least two of us thinkin' like that. And one of the two of us have the mind of Christ ;) :).
numero dos!...I got help with my architecture assingment! :D Pictures of buildings are something that... well... I don't often walk through a building and stop and go "man! I love this architecture! I think this would be a great picture."... Don't get me wrong; I think there are some awesome buildings out there. I just never think photographically of them... oh heck, you get my point. So anywho, my friend & fellow math lab tutor, Nathan, hung out w/me downtown and helped me look at architecture a little differently. And he explained the metering mode/whatever on my cam. :D That was really cool...lol... I'm so ? funny? odd?... if someone will just tell what something on my camera does I'll remember it for the most part. But if I just read about it, I don't always get it. Oh, and REAL coffee. *soft chuckle* I was introduced to real coffee today. Alas, Starbucks is not real my friends, the cool double decker bus/coffee shop downtown is where real coffee is made. And it is good. Starbucks and Barney's don't make a grasshopper coffee-something-or-another to order like they do there. Strong too... well, strong enough to wake me up completely. That's coffee that accomplishes something ;). I haven't truely had that effect since Brazillian coffee... but we won't go there *innocent smile*.
numero tres.... okay so this wasn't good but it added to the overall "what a day" experience. I came home quite content and (thank goodness) fully awake from my jaunt in Asheville and headed out to feed mi caballo (horse). When I whistled for him, he just looked up and nickered as loudly as he could. Odd, he normally ignores me and then comes ambling up. I whistled again. Nick made this lurching forward attempt at walking towards me and stopped with his right hoof just barely touching the ground. Then he made a more collected attempt at limping forward that worked. Long and the short of it? I spent the next two hours diagnosing a hoof abcess, finding where on the bottom of his hoof I should make a hole for it to drain, doing so, and putting a epsom salt soak/poultice on it for the night. *yawn* mmm. Maybe I should try for that Vet. Assistant degree from AB Tech. I have nack for it..*yawn*.. but I'm taking a year off. Except perhaps to take Calc. 2. *eye roll*...I better just go to bed now :)... I need to get up earlier so I can check my boy's hoof. *yawn* Hasta luego my peeps...
numero uno! :D... My chapter 2 calculus test. Yes, it made my day good. I wish my labs were as easy as that test. Valerie LOVES insanely hard labs. But if you can get her labs, her tests are easy. Or at least I think so. There was only one thing that half way freaked me out. The other ones I think I'm good on. At least one of my classmates (Laurie) thought about the problems the same way I did. *shrug* That's at least two of us thinkin' like that. And one of the two of us have the mind of Christ ;) :).
numero dos!...I got help with my architecture assingment! :D Pictures of buildings are something that... well... I don't often walk through a building and stop and go "man! I love this architecture! I think this would be a great picture."... Don't get me wrong; I think there are some awesome buildings out there. I just never think photographically of them... oh heck, you get my point. So anywho, my friend & fellow math lab tutor, Nathan, hung out w/me downtown and helped me look at architecture a little differently. And he explained the metering mode/whatever on my cam. :D That was really cool...lol... I'm so ? funny? odd?... if someone will just tell what something on my camera does I'll remember it for the most part. But if I just read about it, I don't always get it. Oh, and REAL coffee. *soft chuckle* I was introduced to real coffee today. Alas, Starbucks is not real my friends, the cool double decker bus/coffee shop downtown is where real coffee is made. And it is good. Starbucks and Barney's don't make a grasshopper coffee-something-or-another to order like they do there. Strong too... well, strong enough to wake me up completely. That's coffee that accomplishes something ;). I haven't truely had that effect since Brazillian coffee... but we won't go there *innocent smile*.
numero tres.... okay so this wasn't good but it added to the overall "what a day" experience. I came home quite content and (thank goodness) fully awake from my jaunt in Asheville and headed out to feed mi caballo (horse). When I whistled for him, he just looked up and nickered as loudly as he could. Odd, he normally ignores me and then comes ambling up. I whistled again. Nick made this lurching forward attempt at walking towards me and stopped with his right hoof just barely touching the ground. Then he made a more collected attempt at limping forward that worked. Long and the short of it? I spent the next two hours diagnosing a hoof abcess, finding where on the bottom of his hoof I should make a hole for it to drain, doing so, and putting a epsom salt soak/poultice on it for the night. *yawn* mmm. Maybe I should try for that Vet. Assistant degree from AB Tech. I have nack for it..*yawn*.. but I'm taking a year off. Except perhaps to take Calc. 2. *eye roll*...I better just go to bed now :)... I need to get up earlier so I can check my boy's hoof. *yawn* Hasta luego my peeps...
Sunday, September 19, 2004
"Just take the green from the grass...
...And the blue from the sky up above/And if you color my world just paint it with your love."
Yeah, I've had that song stuck in my head today. But try singin' it to God. :) It's quite nice. Ya know what else is cool? We have the mind of Christ. Yeah, I know you know it. I've been told that and have known it most of my life too. But do you believe it? Do you realize that if you'd studied and done everything in your power to learn something for a class that come test time you have every spiritual right to ask God to help you on the test and talk to Him DURING the test? Seriously! It works too. Ask Him for help when you're studying about what you should focus on. Thank Him for helping you remember everything you've learned. And during the test when you come across something you feel unsure of/don't know, talk to Him about it. I did that for my first calculus test and it worked. It was a review test covering all of pre-calc algebra and pre-calc trig. And with my teacher that isn't easy. She doesn't give you the nice middle of the road stuff. She expects you to be able to do the most challenging problems. I felt completely overwhelmed by the mass of info I had to know, and while I was sitting studying trying to figure how on earth I was going to remember all the sum & difference of cosine,sine, and tangent formulas, all the half & double angle identities, my unit circle, and everything else I stopped and wailed to (rather than asked) God what was I ever gonna do? I immeadiately felt no need to look at the sum & difference formulas again. But I still felt a need to look at the double and 1/2 angle identities. So I did. Come test day sure enough there were 4 out of 10 problems that I was lost on. One was a silly logarithm rule I forgot but God rememinded me how to prove to myself on a calcy. And the other 3 were ones I tried giving up on but after asking God about He reminded me of what He had me focus on in my review time. It took me ten minutes to come to a satisfactory answer on one of them. Another did use a double angle identity but all of them were asking things/ways of thinking about math that I'd never seen before. I felt satisfied when I turned my test in. I still wasn't certain I got those 3 odd ball questions right, but I didn't have a nagging worry about them. Wanna know what I got on the test? A 91%, in the end a 96% because she had to grade it on a 5point scale so everyone would at least pass. And I'm not in a class of dummies either. The test was just that hairy. And God is just that good. And it's not just for me my dears. Don't shake your head and say "yeah, I tried that and it didn't work for me." Be stubborn and tenacious; don't let Satan rob you of what God intends for you. There are so many little ways Satan tries to rob us of God's best for us. And the sad thing is how often he succeeds. Do you realize the Father's great love for you? HE LOVES YOU!!! Yes, I know you know that. But He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. Have you seen The Passion? Everytime Jesus stood up, every lash He took, every drop of blood, was His "I love you! I love you! I'm living through this because I can't bear to see you in this pain. I love you! I love you!" And He has freed us from the curse having become a curse for us (Gal.3:13-14). All He asks in return is that we love Him, walk in His love, and keep the faith by walking in faith. We are more than overcomers through Him who loves us (Romans 8:31-39). Facts are facts but the truth is the Word of God. And if we'll speak the truth even in the face of facts that contradict it, those contradicting facts will come into alignment with the Word of God and the truth. When you become convinced of the Father's love for and towards you, you can become convinced and certain that what He has in store for you is inexpressibly good. And not just good to Him...He wants to fulfill your deepest desires, but like a good parent He won't until you're ready for them. He isn't withholding because He wants to. It's driving Him nuts to bless you beyond your wildest dreams. You just have to focus unequivocally on Him. Not because He's selfish, but because He wants to teach you and help you grow so you can receive from Him the wonderous things He has for you. :)...*sigh* There is so much in my heart about this. I pine for all my friends to grasp this, to see how important it is to focus on God. :) Above all to see how not-a-chore it is to focus on Him. Work, yes, but a chore? No. Walking in love is hard sometimes, but it gets easier.. and there is such joy and peace in it.
And as much as I'd like to continue... I must go to bed. God bless you my dears & sir. I pray that this takes hold in your spirits (Eph.1:15-20).
Buenos Noches mi amigo/as
Yeah, I've had that song stuck in my head today. But try singin' it to God. :) It's quite nice. Ya know what else is cool? We have the mind of Christ. Yeah, I know you know it. I've been told that and have known it most of my life too. But do you believe it? Do you realize that if you'd studied and done everything in your power to learn something for a class that come test time you have every spiritual right to ask God to help you on the test and talk to Him DURING the test? Seriously! It works too. Ask Him for help when you're studying about what you should focus on. Thank Him for helping you remember everything you've learned. And during the test when you come across something you feel unsure of/don't know, talk to Him about it. I did that for my first calculus test and it worked. It was a review test covering all of pre-calc algebra and pre-calc trig. And with my teacher that isn't easy. She doesn't give you the nice middle of the road stuff. She expects you to be able to do the most challenging problems. I felt completely overwhelmed by the mass of info I had to know, and while I was sitting studying trying to figure how on earth I was going to remember all the sum & difference of cosine,sine, and tangent formulas, all the half & double angle identities, my unit circle, and everything else I stopped and wailed to (rather than asked) God what was I ever gonna do? I immeadiately felt no need to look at the sum & difference formulas again. But I still felt a need to look at the double and 1/2 angle identities. So I did. Come test day sure enough there were 4 out of 10 problems that I was lost on. One was a silly logarithm rule I forgot but God rememinded me how to prove to myself on a calcy. And the other 3 were ones I tried giving up on but after asking God about He reminded me of what He had me focus on in my review time. It took me ten minutes to come to a satisfactory answer on one of them. Another did use a double angle identity but all of them were asking things/ways of thinking about math that I'd never seen before. I felt satisfied when I turned my test in. I still wasn't certain I got those 3 odd ball questions right, but I didn't have a nagging worry about them. Wanna know what I got on the test? A 91%, in the end a 96% because she had to grade it on a 5point scale so everyone would at least pass. And I'm not in a class of dummies either. The test was just that hairy. And God is just that good. And it's not just for me my dears. Don't shake your head and say "yeah, I tried that and it didn't work for me." Be stubborn and tenacious; don't let Satan rob you of what God intends for you. There are so many little ways Satan tries to rob us of God's best for us. And the sad thing is how often he succeeds. Do you realize the Father's great love for you? HE LOVES YOU!!! Yes, I know you know that. But He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. Have you seen The Passion? Everytime Jesus stood up, every lash He took, every drop of blood, was His "I love you! I love you! I'm living through this because I can't bear to see you in this pain. I love you! I love you!" And He has freed us from the curse having become a curse for us (Gal.3:13-14). All He asks in return is that we love Him, walk in His love, and keep the faith by walking in faith. We are more than overcomers through Him who loves us (Romans 8:31-39). Facts are facts but the truth is the Word of God. And if we'll speak the truth even in the face of facts that contradict it, those contradicting facts will come into alignment with the Word of God and the truth. When you become convinced of the Father's love for and towards you, you can become convinced and certain that what He has in store for you is inexpressibly good. And not just good to Him...He wants to fulfill your deepest desires, but like a good parent He won't until you're ready for them. He isn't withholding because He wants to. It's driving Him nuts to bless you beyond your wildest dreams. You just have to focus unequivocally on Him. Not because He's selfish, but because He wants to teach you and help you grow so you can receive from Him the wonderous things He has for you. :)...*sigh* There is so much in my heart about this. I pine for all my friends to grasp this, to see how important it is to focus on God. :) Above all to see how not-a-chore it is to focus on Him. Work, yes, but a chore? No. Walking in love is hard sometimes, but it gets easier.. and there is such joy and peace in it.
And as much as I'd like to continue... I must go to bed. God bless you my dears & sir. I pray that this takes hold in your spirits (Eph.1:15-20).
Buenos Noches mi amigo/as
Saturday, September 18, 2004
Bright Skies
***CORRECTION TO THE BELOW*** It has been brought to my attention that mile marker 15 in TN would be at the west end of the state which would be highly unprobable in the context below. It's more like I-40 is closed 15miles into the state of TN at whatever mile marker that would be. Thank you for your patience with my sleepiness in this post. ~ The Proprietor of this Blog~;)
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I do think the day after a hurricane is the brightest. Part of a poem I wrote kinda captures today well...
It was one of those days that makes you want to run and never stop for the pure, mad delight of it. Like at the end of The Last Battle of the Chronicles of Narnia when Aslan beacons them "Furthur up! Furthur in!" and they run and don't grow weary...aye, it's Biblical. :) And to think, such a beautiful day on my mountain side and such devastation not so far away. Nine deaths so far for Western North Carolina. I-40 is closed from mile marker 20-something to mile marker 15 on the Tenn. line. The Pigeon River washed away part of the highway and it's closed indefinately. There have been mudslides and downed trees/powerlines all over and they don't expect power to be back on for everyone 'til at least Wednesday. We're blessed they got power back to us so quickly. We only went 24 hours without. The Canton-Clyde area only had one death so that cuts down on the probability that it's someone I know or am related to. But enough of the hurricane...
I've been reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Rappaccini's Daughter for Amer. Lit. They're quite wow. I'm liking Hawthorne the more I read him...lol.. I suppose we all must have our "morbid" favorites, eh? (At least I don't like Faulkner or Hemingway *shudder*... talk about morbid..) Okay.. I'm being boring aren't I? %)
I got to catch up on the Believer's Voice of Victory daily broadcast today! :D... very good stuff. Billye Brim has been teaching on some awesome prophetic things about Jesus wanting us to be able recognize the signs of the times like we recognize the signs of the weather. I'd try to relate them here if I could but I'm still wrapping my mind around them. Billye was talking about the Feast of Shavot (sp? Trumpets) and the blowing of the shofar. I'll always think of Miss Elaine when I hear about the shofar. I love hearing it. :). But anywho... some awesome, awesome stuff. Wow.. there's been so much God-stuff on my heart lately. Perhaps a little at a time I'll share it. But I'd highly suggest checking out the link above and Billye Brim's teachings :)...
- a tuneless happy hum skips softly across my mind - I suppose I should be off checking out my usual online haunts... lol.. and sending a select few the link to my new blog so dear Becca isn't the only one reading this?...lol...*amused smile*
Hasta luego mi amiga/os!
G'night
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I do think the day after a hurricane is the brightest. Part of a poem I wrote kinda captures today well...
"The crystal clearness of September,
No cloud in sight.
Every leaf in awesome splendor,
Stark-defined by sun's pure light..."
It was one of those days that makes you want to run and never stop for the pure, mad delight of it. Like at the end of The Last Battle of the Chronicles of Narnia when Aslan beacons them "Furthur up! Furthur in!" and they run and don't grow weary...aye, it's Biblical. :) And to think, such a beautiful day on my mountain side and such devastation not so far away. Nine deaths so far for Western North Carolina. I-40 is closed from mile marker 20-something to mile marker 15 on the Tenn. line. The Pigeon River washed away part of the highway and it's closed indefinately. There have been mudslides and downed trees/powerlines all over and they don't expect power to be back on for everyone 'til at least Wednesday. We're blessed they got power back to us so quickly. We only went 24 hours without. The Canton-Clyde area only had one death so that cuts down on the probability that it's someone I know or am related to. But enough of the hurricane...
I've been reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Rappaccini's Daughter for Amer. Lit. They're quite wow. I'm liking Hawthorne the more I read him...lol.. I suppose we all must have our "morbid" favorites, eh? (At least I don't like Faulkner or Hemingway *shudder*... talk about morbid..) Okay.. I'm being boring aren't I? %)
I got to catch up on the Believer's Voice of Victory daily broadcast today! :D... very good stuff. Billye Brim has been teaching on some awesome prophetic things about Jesus wanting us to be able recognize the signs of the times like we recognize the signs of the weather. I'd try to relate them here if I could but I'm still wrapping my mind around them. Billye was talking about the Feast of Shavot (sp? Trumpets) and the blowing of the shofar. I'll always think of Miss Elaine when I hear about the shofar. I love hearing it. :). But anywho... some awesome, awesome stuff. Wow.. there's been so much God-stuff on my heart lately. Perhaps a little at a time I'll share it. But I'd highly suggest checking out the link above and Billye Brim's teachings :)...
- a tuneless happy hum skips softly across my mind - I suppose I should be off checking out my usual online haunts... lol.. and sending a select few the link to my new blog so dear Becca isn't the only one reading this?...lol...*amused smile*
Hasta luego mi amiga/os!
G'night
Friday, September 17, 2004
Just Wanted to Say....
...a big and wonderous thanks to my Rebecca for helping me tinker with the fonts. My dear you're a wonder! Lots of love!
So I've Really Done It
...I've made a blog of my very own and I have entirely mixed feelings about it. :) But here I am. We shall see what becomes of this in the weeks ahead. Well, I'm gonna go read Becca's new additions and um... find out what else I can do with this thing. :)
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