you like me, you really like me...or else you're really, really bored and you find my rambling strangely entertaining - at least more entertaining than staring at the wall - or you're a procrastinator just like me...thanks, greg, for caring whether or not i blog. nobody else does. ;p (okay, that's not true...sorry mel...and susan)
anyways, i haven't had much to blog about, but i guess i can just ramble like i usually do.
last week, we painted the house and my place...caused quite a mess (took me a whole day to clean up my place, and it's still messy...but i like my colors!)...and a stink. i feel like i've been breathing in fumes for the past week, and it's totally made me more conscious about everything else i breathe in...especially when i'm driving and there are a lot of buses and trucks around. there are times when i can picture my (limited) brain cells gasping for oxygen, wheezing, "help me, help me!" or, "i die, die, die..." (think a bug's life) ...which is my excuse for what i did today. i was in the biomed library at school today looking for journal articles for a presentation, and i left a whole bunch of papers somewhere during my wandering the library stacks. i didn't realize it until i got home, when i couldn't find them anywhere, and i realized that i remember looking at them at school, so they must be there somewhere. i needed these articles for my paper due tomorrow (which isn't done yet, which is why i'm blogging, of course), so i lasso my brother into driving me back to campus (thank you, art, i love ya!). (on the way there, art reminded me of the time we took a sports medicine class together at berkeley...art, the business major...just pass/not pass for both of us, just to take a class together, and we ended up getting the same grade on the midterm. the prof was handing them out during lecture, calling out names alphabetically, and he actually announced in front of the class that we had gotten the same grade, the highest midterm grade among the pass/not pass students, which makes me wonder how many there were, and no, we didn't cheat...we had a good laugh about that...like art said, "good times, good times..." anyways, i digress...) so i get to the library, and thankfully decided to go up to the checkout desk and ask if someone had turned anything in instead of trying to retrace my steps...and someone had turned it in!!
okay, so the sad thing is that i can't blame in on the paint fumes 'cuz i've done something similar before, though that time, i realized it before i left the building. sigh...is it 'cuz i'm getting old?
on that note, i was hanging out with judy (my michigan roommate) on saturday (another birthday celebration - she took me out to dinner), and we were talking about what's going on at the church in ann arbor when she told me that the freshmen that came in the last year i was there are graduating this year. made me feel old. in passing, she told me that the church had a team coming to la for an urban missions trip they do every spring break (called urban plunge). last year, one of my friends came out, so i had a chance to see her, but this year, i didn't hear of anyone i knew coming out. so on sunday, i was at mosaic and callista was sitting next to me. during worship she kinda nudged me and said that a bunch of michigan people had just come in (they were wearing michigan sweatshirts and stuff)...and yeah, you guessed it, it was the team from my old church. besides pastor peter, i recognized one guy who was a freshman when i was there, the only senior on the team. heaping coals...good to see them, though. ;p