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Name: jenny
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Chicago
Birthday: 12/10/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: coffee, art, traveling, my family, school supplies, tea, music, rain, sweaters, books, 3x5 cards, europe, french fries, playing the piano, j's milkshakes
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
11/17/2005
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| word on the street is that i don't update anymore, so here goes...
i've had a great summer...i'm home with my family in auburn. after being scattered all over the country, we're all in the same house...it's so great. i love these people.
my work plans for the summer...hmm, how should i put this? have not gone how i planned. you know- come home, work, make money for school...that's the gist of it. but after applying everywhere, interviews, waiting, waiting....still nothing. it's taking me awhile to come to terms with 'not doing anything' for the summer. but i guess God knows what he's doing... i've loved spending pretty much constant time with my family, after a long hard year. i've been able to really relax and enjoy the seattle summer weather. and (ok, here come the homeschool jokes) i've been reading for next semester. i'm taking 19 credits and trying to whittle down the studying time. plus sys theo is much better with homemade meals and a comfortable couch. i got to make an unplanned trip to wisconsin as well. sky lodge (the camp blair's working at) needed another girl counselor for their jr. high camp. God provided the money for me to go, so i bought a ticket, and flew out the next day. it was amazing to get to know the girls in my cabin, and i got to stay a few extra days to get some time with blair.
i'm really starting to look forward now to getting back to school (not so much the papers, but my friends, boyfriend, the city...). i'm coming back early and going up to wisconsin to see blair (anyone in chicago on august 12th who wants to pick my bags up at the airport for me?). can't wait to see everyone.....
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"the christian life is one foot in front of another. it's not very glamorous, it's very hard, it's not fun. but it's right."
~mr. quiggle
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fall of icarus, breughel
About suffering they were
never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. "musee de beaus arts" w.h. auden
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|  ok, i know, i know. i'm terrible at updating this. so here's the reader's digest version of my life the last few weeks...
school, of course. i registered for classes on wednesday> historical theology II, systematic theology I, french (!!!), pauline epistles I, old testament historical literature II (1,2 chronicles, ezra, nehemiah, esther- with the wonderful prof. wechsler. let's just say i voluntarily signed up for another 7:30am class).
i got a job! (actually two). 1) babysitting for a sweet family -3 yr old and a newborn, both girls. every thursday night. 2) babysitting for an armenian family in the john hancock building. 62nd floor, 4yr old girl, 2yr old boy. wonderful. i also interviewed at borders on michigan ave, but had to turn them down, because i now have two jobs. when it rains, it pours.
i might be staying in the city this summer! i'd be working full time. a few of my friends from school are staying, so i'd probably have an apartment with my friend elise...we'll see what happens.
spring break in one week! going back to seattle- blair's coming to visit for the first five days. oh man, i'm so excited. christy's coming for a week of my spring break...wahoo!
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