i don't think anyone's reading this anymore, especially since i've been so inconsistent, but...it helps me remember stuff, too.

last thursday, we had our farewell get-together for annie at kenny and jimin's apartment. just ordered versailles, shared and prayed a little, and hung out (tried to play pictionary, but that fizzled out). it was good to see people, and it's been so long since we've sat down and tried to pray together...it was a little...uncomfortable, but in the end, it was nice.

i can't believe that annie's gone to boston. i talked to her on sunday, and it sounds like her friend's helping her out a lot...from my experience in michigan, i know that it'll be lonely for the first few weeks...actually, months. but annie's pretty social, so i'm sure that she'll do better than i did. she's already started school and checked out a church...

last weekend, esther and i hung out and we started reminiscing about our own first-day graduate school nightmares. she was attacked by her imming gabangs while she was moving her stuff, alone, to her second floor apartment on the "hottest day of the summer", and i...should i go into this now? might as well...

so i took the spirit air red eye from lax to detroit (cheaper, but was it really worth it?) and wasn't able to sleep very well on the way over. on the way from the airport to the shuttle stop where my cousin was going to pick me up, our shuttle got rear-ended (wasn't too bad, but i was jolted out of my seat), so we had to wait for another shuttle to pick us up...my cousin ended up waiting at the stop for about an hour. i was hoping to make part of orientation that day, but because i was exhausted, my cousin just helped me move into my dorm, then took me to her house and cooked lunch for me, then took me to school for the mandatory advisor's meeting. there were about 4 other students with me and this old professor (who i never saw after that day, if that gives you any kind of indication of my program) and i was totally falling asleep... after we finally ended our meeting, i ended up having to walk to my dorm, which is really far from the school of public health (usually there's a bus that runs from the central campus to the north campus...about 1.5-2 miles - it didn't look so far on the map). i knew there was a bus, but i didn't know where the stops were and how to use them, so i just decided to walk there...not a good idea. it was hot and sticky, and the walk took me around 45 minutes (i may have gotten a little lost)...when i finally got home, i took a shower and crashed on my sheetless mattress (only brought a blanket with me, and everything else i shipped). i woke up the next morning (i must have slept about 14+ hours) and was feeling faint from being dehydrated (probably from sweating so much the day before) and from lack of food. i didn't know the first thing about how to get to the dorm cafeteria, and i didn't have my student id card, so i wandered around and spent the day figuring out how to do things...all by my lonesome. this also explains why my picture for my student id card was absolutely disgusting.
that was the start of my michigan adventure...pretty lonely...rough start, but it got much better. both esther and i hope annie has a smoother experience...

this past saturday, esther and i went to elements - mosaic's communion service...that was really good, and it was outdoors, so it was cool to worship in that environment. then we went to dom's cd release party, which had a good turnout. a busy saturday, overall...tiring but fun.