Wednesday, November 4, 2009So today I'm going to rant about plans, particularly the ones I made and will make for course selection and my schedule.
I planned my Wednesday schedule with the idea that I would actually do work if I was forced to wake up early for my 8AM Math 114 recitation. Looking back at that decision, I can only say one thing: LAWL.
I only go to math recitation because I have to take the quizzes then... and because Victor actually checks attendance. Of course, the work we do on our homework problems is great too, but is it enough of an incentive to wake up at 7:30 for recitation in DRL when I'm totally not a morning person?
Let me answer that. NO.
But even in this, God is good, because thanks to Daylight Savings time now, it's actually wonderfully bright when I wake up in the morning. I can only say that it's kind of chilly, but that leads me into my first two praises for today:
1) Praise God for scarves!
So I think that Pastor Young's anecdote about hearing his mom's voice telling him to cover his neck has definitely gotten to my coordinating habits. O.o When I woke up this morning, I immediately knew that because I was cold, one of the best ways to fend off a cold was to cover my neck. So I pulled out my warm multi-colored scarf and did just that before I even went to wash up. It is absolutely wonderful walking around outside with a warm neck and just the breeze on my face. :3 Yay scarves!
2) Praise God for Nestle Hot Chocolate in Hill Dining Hall.
So I usually bring my thermos down to breakfast just because I like to drink hot water to fend off cold hunger. You know, the feeling of hunger that you get just because you're cold? Well, today I noticed the packets of Nestle Hot Chocolate that Hill has next to the coffee, and boy, did that make my morning. After my omelet and bagel, I had that thermos of hot chocolate to look forward to! Mmm! ^__^
Right, so post-breakfast brings me back to what I was saying earlier. So my plans to work during my free time before the recitation and my 12PM lecture, right? HA! For the past two weeks, these plans have always gone down the drain. Especially since it was so cold today, I decided to crawl back into bed and take a nap... all the way until 11:30.
Afterwards, fifteen minutes before class, I was walking down Locust Walk to get to ARCH and I saw one of my GCC freshmen sisters, Christine. I did the usual friendly greeting, commented on how cute her pink plaid scarf was, and went along my way.
It was then I realized that I had completely forgotten to ask about how she's been feeling since I remembered from our Freshmen Lunch that she was feeling kind of feverish.
It was a palm-forehead moment fersure, especially since on Sunday I had planned to trust more in God's healing abilities and really lift up my sick brothers and sisters in prayer.
HOWEVER. God is good. :)
3) Praise God for chance encounters on Locust Walk!
So the wonderful thing about Locust is that there's heavy traffic between classes. As such, after EALC105, I was headed back to Hill, almost at VP, when I saw Christine again! And that was my second chance to see how she was doing. Since I was done for the afternoon, I offered to walk and talk with her to her next class, even though she insisted it was super far away, in Leidy. However, it was totally worth it because as I said, I love autumn weather and crisp fresh air. We got to talk a lot about how she's been feeling (keep praying for her, she thinks she's gotten worse and will be going back to Student Health Services today!) and how her schedule is this semester. All in all, it was such a blessing to be able to just chat with her mid-week since we rarely see each other outside of church days.
4) Praise God for His subtle interventions.
My encounter with Christine actually did much more for me than I would have ever imagined, and it really just reminded me of how God works in completely unpredictable ways. So after walking Christine to her biology class, I went down Spruce, through that MBA conference center thing, and came back onto Locust Walk, which was when I saw it.
"Course and Majors Fair- Houston Hall of Flags, 12PM-2PM"
So I bolted over to Houston Hall to check out one booth in particular- East Asian Languages and Civilizations and East Asian Area Studies.
I picked up some pretty informative brochures about the major and minor for each, but the coolest catch was this course that I'm sooo excited to take! In fact, as soon as I got back to the room, I decided to twerk my schedule a bit and drop China in the 20th century, which I figured I could and would take any other semester anyway, for this 20-person seminar.
But yes, back to plans.
5) Praise God for His perfect will.
Plans. We all make them, but it'll be so interesting to look back at this post next semester and see where God really took me, because He really knows so much better about where I need to be than I do. And thank God that He does, because I seriously get so lost in this journey we call life. :3
Praise the Lord! ^__^
I planned my Wednesday schedule with the idea that I would actually do work if I was forced to wake up early for my 8AM Math 114 recitation. Looking back at that decision, I can only say one thing: LAWL.
I only go to math recitation because I have to take the quizzes then... and because Victor actually checks attendance. Of course, the work we do on our homework problems is great too, but is it enough of an incentive to wake up at 7:30 for recitation in DRL when I'm totally not a morning person?
Let me answer that. NO.
But even in this, God is good, because thanks to Daylight Savings time now, it's actually wonderfully bright when I wake up in the morning. I can only say that it's kind of chilly, but that leads me into my first two praises for today:
1) Praise God for scarves!
So I think that Pastor Young's anecdote about hearing his mom's voice telling him to cover his neck has definitely gotten to my coordinating habits. O.o When I woke up this morning, I immediately knew that because I was cold, one of the best ways to fend off a cold was to cover my neck. So I pulled out my warm multi-colored scarf and did just that before I even went to wash up. It is absolutely wonderful walking around outside with a warm neck and just the breeze on my face. :3 Yay scarves!
2) Praise God for Nestle Hot Chocolate in Hill Dining Hall.
So I usually bring my thermos down to breakfast just because I like to drink hot water to fend off cold hunger. You know, the feeling of hunger that you get just because you're cold? Well, today I noticed the packets of Nestle Hot Chocolate that Hill has next to the coffee, and boy, did that make my morning. After my omelet and bagel, I had that thermos of hot chocolate to look forward to! Mmm! ^__^
Right, so post-breakfast brings me back to what I was saying earlier. So my plans to work during my free time before the recitation and my 12PM lecture, right? HA! For the past two weeks, these plans have always gone down the drain. Especially since it was so cold today, I decided to crawl back into bed and take a nap... all the way until 11:30.
Afterwards, fifteen minutes before class, I was walking down Locust Walk to get to ARCH and I saw one of my GCC freshmen sisters, Christine. I did the usual friendly greeting, commented on how cute her pink plaid scarf was, and went along my way.
It was then I realized that I had completely forgotten to ask about how she's been feeling since I remembered from our Freshmen Lunch that she was feeling kind of feverish.
It was a palm-forehead moment fersure, especially since on Sunday I had planned to trust more in God's healing abilities and really lift up my sick brothers and sisters in prayer.
HOWEVER. God is good. :)
3) Praise God for chance encounters on Locust Walk!
So the wonderful thing about Locust is that there's heavy traffic between classes. As such, after EALC105, I was headed back to Hill, almost at VP, when I saw Christine again! And that was my second chance to see how she was doing. Since I was done for the afternoon, I offered to walk and talk with her to her next class, even though she insisted it was super far away, in Leidy. However, it was totally worth it because as I said, I love autumn weather and crisp fresh air. We got to talk a lot about how she's been feeling (keep praying for her, she thinks she's gotten worse and will be going back to Student Health Services today!) and how her schedule is this semester. All in all, it was such a blessing to be able to just chat with her mid-week since we rarely see each other outside of church days.
4) Praise God for His subtle interventions.
My encounter with Christine actually did much more for me than I would have ever imagined, and it really just reminded me of how God works in completely unpredictable ways. So after walking Christine to her biology class, I went down Spruce, through that MBA conference center thing, and came back onto Locust Walk, which was when I saw it.
"Course and Majors Fair- Houston Hall of Flags, 12PM-2PM"
So I bolted over to Houston Hall to check out one booth in particular- East Asian Languages and Civilizations and East Asian Area Studies.
I picked up some pretty informative brochures about the major and minor for each, but the coolest catch was this course that I'm sooo excited to take! In fact, as soon as I got back to the room, I decided to twerk my schedule a bit and drop China in the 20th century, which I figured I could and would take any other semester anyway, for this 20-person seminar.
But yes, back to plans.
5) Praise God for His perfect will.
Plans. We all make them, but it'll be so interesting to look back at this post next semester and see where God really took me, because He really knows so much better about where I need to be than I do. And thank God that He does, because I seriously get so lost in this journey we call life. :3
Praise the Lord! ^__^
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