thoughts from the couch

you better believe i'm watching the real world: brooklyn.

today:

meeting my online class at 5
going to new life at 8


i am really enjoying my schedule of classes.
-spanish II
-advanced creative nonfiction
-computer applications
-applied anthropology
-gospel choir
-voice lesson
-seminar: the virtual life

and the timing is so nice. lots of during-the-day free time to get coffee, write, do homework, chat with friends, and
be a part of campus. i only have this semester and next semester to do all i want to do in college. time to make it happen!

i'm still praying for another job.
i need to make my bed.
i have a lot of embarrassing moments.
i have an unrealistic love for brendan frasier.

confession!

i HAVE to see "he's just not that into you"
and revolutionary road.
and slumdog millionaire.
and the curious case of benjamin button.

red box, can you expedite these??

mostly for me

things going on right now

-there is a pile of stuff in my room, waiting to be unpacked
-i started to get sick again and am DETERMINED to not let it happen
-i am watching karate kid part II and i'm feeling funny about it.
-i think i am addicted to french fries
-my foot is sprained. yes, my foot and not my ankle? true.


things that need to go on today

-seriously, i need to unpack
-rewrite statement of purpose and concentration curriculum
-post for my virtual life class
-not be bitter at my boss for only scheduling me 2 days this month. really.
-water my poor, neglected plants
-maybe i should go swimming since i can't run on my wonky foot?
-organize my week
-make my bed
-prepare
-pray
-paint my nails

things that will go on regardless

-practice for the national anthem around 5
-ear candy meeting at 8


if you remember, please pray that i find another job quickly. tomorrow begins the frustrating search.


p.s. new york was an absolute blast. more on that later, i'm sure.

come on! it's new years time!

happy birthday nancy!!

is it seriously already 4 in the afternoon?

am i seriously still in my pj's and, after a short stint downstairs making mac&cheese, back in my bed because it's so cold in my parents house?

yes? yes. yes!

i am listening to myspace music, waiting on laundry, and thinking about a lot of things. like how last night i got to dance in the new year. haha! what a fun time!

side note:
due to a difficult financial time, i am about 10 albums less of where i want to be, and, subsequently, have resorted to listening to whatever i can on myspace (which i have previously deemed the "butthole" of the internet, but now i somehow feel like i should retract that statement since i am hearing new music without actually having to buy new music. it's not SO bad.)


i'm really, genuinely excited about 2009. there is a lot of real promise, hope, faith. i feel like the Lord is saying, "just keep asking, and wait on me!" and i'm thrilled. because that's all i can do in my life right now.

over the span of this coming year, i will have figured out what i'm doing this summer, and DONE it. i will have taken my last classes of college. i will have worked over my resume and talked to mentors and searched and listened about my next step post-college. (that is scary but terribly exciting, because it could be ANYTHING! and i'm up for anything!)
this time next year, i will know what my next step will be. it could be the smallest step, or the biggest step! but i will know. i will have watched the Lord put people in my path to guide me, aid me, and be the church to me. i say this confidently not because i think i deserve it, but because i need it! if that makes any sense at all. i need the Lord in every detail, so i am asking and waiting, and i am truly looking forward to seeing Him unfold things before me. He does not disappoint.

surrendering your own strength and understanding is the scariest, most humbling, most freeing and rewarding conundrum ever. a conundrum to wrestle over with every new day.


2009 is thick with possibility, like all the thickness of a great song or grass-scented summer air. that's how i feel about it.

and i get to start it out by playing music with some great people in new york city.
also:
-metropolitan museum of art
-buying a scarf
-pizza!!!
-starbucks
-photographs
-fancy dinner with my pals
-new lip color debut

i wish you all a joy-filled and blessed new year!

maybe i should get out of my pj's.
-sam