Sunday, February 24, 2002
well hello there! got back form g-burg about three hours ago, and i have accomplished the following: turning on my computer, using the restroom, unpacking, watching the second half of the duke vs. st. john's game, using the restroom again, checking on sports occurrences over the weekend, and checking my email (twice). things left to accomplish: 200 pages of history reading, a five page history midterm paper, a holocaust paper rewrite, some random web assignment for my holocaust class, and whatever homework i need to read for spanish tomorrow. i reeeeeeeeeally want to take a nap, but i don't know how good of an idea that would be. we'll see what the future holds.
dude, this weekend was awesome. despite my lack of sleep during the past two weeks, i managed to stay awake for the entire drive with courtney. we talked pretty much the whole time, and she's a very talkative person, so my job was pretty easy. you can learn a lot about a person during a six hour car ride, so i took advantage of the opportunity. i already knew she was an awesome person, but i now have a new appreciation/perspective, or something like that. plus her mom gave me cookies when we stopped by her house on the way back today, and they are deeeeelish! :)
anyways, when we got to the chalet where we stayed for the weekend, only one other person (stacey) was there. it was 8:30, but the thing that made it weird was that all the clemson folks left around 2 or 2:30, and it's only a two and a half hour drive from there to the 'burg, so we were wondering what had happened to them. turns out the people at the rental office had given them the keys to the wrong chalet (twice), so after two fruitless 15 minute drives up the winding mountain, they went out to dinner before attempting for the third time that evening to find the right chalet. it only took them until 9:30, but we'll let 'em slide on that one, hehe. seeing [almost] everyone again was the best. it's amazing, the bond i've formed with these people over the last 9 months. i didn't know any of them when i arrived on project june 4.2001, but after those ten weeks, i consider them to be my dearest and best friends in the world. i'd do anything for any one of them, because i love them, and [i hope] they know it. i won't continue to bore ya with the details of our gallivanting around town, but it was a pretty chill weekend. spent most of our time hangin at the chalets and talking, watching dumb and dumber (top 10 movie EVER!), in fellowship, and just worshipping God for the gift He's given us in life and the friendships we have with each other.
i also got to go back to the restaurant i worked at over the summer. we all ate dinner there on saturday night, and i saw most of the co-workers that i wanted to say hello to that night. it was really cool seeing how their faces lit up when dave, haley and i (we all worked there) walked in. business has picked up majorly since we left at the end of summer, and everyone seemed to be doing well. when i think about how unusually slow business was during the summer while we were there, i realize that it must have been because God wanted us to have time to talk with the people there. if the restaurant had been as busy all summer as it was supposed to be, we would never have been able to sit down and chill with them, have the conversations we did, and have as much of an impact on their lives. it was kind of frustrating at the time, cuz we all needed money, but what is that in the grand scheme of things? God always has something bigger and better planned, it just takes us a while to figure out what that is. in my case, that happens 9 months after the fact, but it's all bueno in the sueno. all that plus shawn hooked me and dave up on our dinners and gave us an extra plate of chicken fingers. awwww yehhhhhers!
so as we're all getting ready to leave this morning, todd is backing out and hits the car of some people in a chalet next to us. leave it to todd to make a last second contribution to the weekend spice-o-meter. it looked really bad at first, but forget thee not that modern cars have bumpers made of plastic, so they just popped it back out. it's still scratched and barely dented, but much better than it looked. i wonder, what's the use in a cheap, hollow, plastic bumper? i could kick one and make it fall off a brand new car, so what good is it gonna do for you when another car hits you? not much in my humble opinion. memo to all car manufacturers: stop being so bloody chinsy!
i would write more, but time is slipping away rapidly. gotta make like a tree and leave! God bless.
sounds: shane bernard - ancient of days
food for thought: the art of war in world history - edited by gerard chaliand
dude, this weekend was awesome. despite my lack of sleep during the past two weeks, i managed to stay awake for the entire drive with courtney. we talked pretty much the whole time, and she's a very talkative person, so my job was pretty easy. you can learn a lot about a person during a six hour car ride, so i took advantage of the opportunity. i already knew she was an awesome person, but i now have a new appreciation/perspective, or something like that. plus her mom gave me cookies when we stopped by her house on the way back today, and they are deeeeelish! :)
anyways, when we got to the chalet where we stayed for the weekend, only one other person (stacey) was there. it was 8:30, but the thing that made it weird was that all the clemson folks left around 2 or 2:30, and it's only a two and a half hour drive from there to the 'burg, so we were wondering what had happened to them. turns out the people at the rental office had given them the keys to the wrong chalet (twice), so after two fruitless 15 minute drives up the winding mountain, they went out to dinner before attempting for the third time that evening to find the right chalet. it only took them until 9:30, but we'll let 'em slide on that one, hehe. seeing [almost] everyone again was the best. it's amazing, the bond i've formed with these people over the last 9 months. i didn't know any of them when i arrived on project june 4.2001, but after those ten weeks, i consider them to be my dearest and best friends in the world. i'd do anything for any one of them, because i love them, and [i hope] they know it. i won't continue to bore ya with the details of our gallivanting around town, but it was a pretty chill weekend. spent most of our time hangin at the chalets and talking, watching dumb and dumber (top 10 movie EVER!), in fellowship, and just worshipping God for the gift He's given us in life and the friendships we have with each other.
i also got to go back to the restaurant i worked at over the summer. we all ate dinner there on saturday night, and i saw most of the co-workers that i wanted to say hello to that night. it was really cool seeing how their faces lit up when dave, haley and i (we all worked there) walked in. business has picked up majorly since we left at the end of summer, and everyone seemed to be doing well. when i think about how unusually slow business was during the summer while we were there, i realize that it must have been because God wanted us to have time to talk with the people there. if the restaurant had been as busy all summer as it was supposed to be, we would never have been able to sit down and chill with them, have the conversations we did, and have as much of an impact on their lives. it was kind of frustrating at the time, cuz we all needed money, but what is that in the grand scheme of things? God always has something bigger and better planned, it just takes us a while to figure out what that is. in my case, that happens 9 months after the fact, but it's all bueno in the sueno. all that plus shawn hooked me and dave up on our dinners and gave us an extra plate of chicken fingers. awwww yehhhhhers!
so as we're all getting ready to leave this morning, todd is backing out and hits the car of some people in a chalet next to us. leave it to todd to make a last second contribution to the weekend spice-o-meter. it looked really bad at first, but forget thee not that modern cars have bumpers made of plastic, so they just popped it back out. it's still scratched and barely dented, but much better than it looked. i wonder, what's the use in a cheap, hollow, plastic bumper? i could kick one and make it fall off a brand new car, so what good is it gonna do for you when another car hits you? not much in my humble opinion. memo to all car manufacturers: stop being so bloody chinsy!
i would write more, but time is slipping away rapidly. gotta make like a tree and leave! God bless.
sounds: shane bernard - ancient of days
food for thought: the art of war in world history - edited by gerard chaliand
