Last full day in the USA

Yes, today is my last full day in the states. Tomorrow at 6pm I will board a bus and head up to camp in Missanabie, Ontario, Canada (a little bit north of Wawa on the map). Training will continue for another week before camp actually starts. I can't believe it is almost here.

I'm trying to have as few expectations as possible, since some of the things I already assumed are wrong. But I am excited to see how God will use and grow me this summer. I found my theme verse a few weeks ago in church. "Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God." 2 Corinthians 3:5. I feel so incompetent and unable to face the job ahead of me. But I know God has called me here and placed me here for His plan. He is the one that will help me and He is the one that will be doing my job.

It is with this confidence that I am excited for this summer. If you would like to receive email updates, leave a note with your email address and I'll add you to my list. Bye for now!

Becoming nocturnal...and other things

A few late ISD nights have turned me into a creature of the night. I stayed awake for near 24 hours, slept about 5-6 hours during the day, and looks like I'm staying up all night again (it's 4:50a and we are leaving for breakfast in one hour, before we present). And the crazy thing is that I'm awake. Yes, maybe a little sleepy and definitely lacking proper cognitive functioning, but overall, I feel alright.

I fear that tomorrow I will want to sleep during the day and stay up all night to get my homework done. So, in order to get my body out of this cycle (which it got into quickly), I plan to take maybe an hour nap in the day, stay awake and do homework, then go to bed around 10pm. Hopefully this works.

Now, onto other things. Since I'm not sleepy, I decided to check my friends' away messages. 6 of the 27 on have no away message up- no fun! 6 have some sort of message about being asleep. 5 have some general "away" message. 6 range from "grr... >:O" to "I'm performing a science experiment...Can I write an 8-10 page research paper in one night? We'll find out...ready...GO!!!"

And 4 have a some sort of quote. There's Hebrews 12:11, a Walt Whitman quote, a Steven Curtis Chapman song...and the last few lines of this poem.

In looking for it online, I saw it on many inspirational and "healing for women" sites. I'm not sure what I think about the whole poem, but I must say I like the lines that my friend selected for her away message.

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong, and you really do have worth. And you learn... and you learn with every goodbye... you learn...

That's where I am in life. I don't need someone to bring me flowers- I know that God has already planted His own flowers in the garden of my soul. Cheesy, I know, but it is 5:15 in the morning...

Freeze

Well, the code is now frozen. No more updates can be made to the application. We still have some DB changes and cleaning to do, but after 23 hours awake and 19 hours of working on ISD, I am going to bed. Goodnight!

Escape...

I have escaped the dungeon and am headed to the baseball game...shhhh- don't tell the guards!!