How do you make your boyfriend happy when he lives across the water and you have mountains of homework and other stuff to do then spend three hour of travel time each way and he's so depressed on the phone to talk much?
man, that made me depressed. only a little. fortunately, i don't depress easily. I refuse to not enjoy my life!
dang, i want to hang out with Yoda! why is it that we can be best friends for five years and as soon as I move across the water, now we're dating? this makes no sense to me......
"O man, it is not you who make God, but rather God who makes you. Wait patiently for the hand of you Artist, who makes all things at the proper time. Present him with a heart that is supple and docile, preserve the imprint that this artist has given you, protect in yourself the Water that comes from Him, without with you will harden and lose the trace of His fingers. In preserving the modeling, you will mount up toward perfection, for the art of God will cover what in you is only clay. His hands have fashioned in you your very substance; He will adorn you with gold and silver, inside and out, and the King himself will be captured by your beauty."
- St. Irenaus of Lyons, "Against Heresies", IV, 39,2
I feel like Hermione. I just spent like two hours in a library, a nd came out with seven books! Phew! that was a treasure to carry home. ah, well, my stack of homework isn't getting any smaller, so i'll just toddle off and tackle the mountain of school books and papers.....
another gorgeous day in Seattle! seems we decided to skip spring altogether and went straight to summer! I"m not complaining.
what is it about the sun, that makes us so happy..?
what a gorgeous day. it looks like summer down there in the valley outsid emy window! and it's so warm. I'm wearing shorts and a tank top, in February. it's kinda insane but it feels like 75 degrees out there! it's so nice and warm, the shade actually feels calm and inviting rather than cold, and the sun is like a warm caress.
my room mate and I went down the hill to go shopping and it was so much fun! not like giddy girl shopping, but errands. not a cloud in the sky, and the mountains are out in all their majesty!!!
life certainly has it's moments, doesn't it?
nothing matters right now, it's so amazing. the world is beautiful. I have great friends, a future of wonder, and whatever happens tomorrow, today was peaceful and wonderful.
haaaa....God bless us all.
Lovs to Kairanie and Yoda! and chelle and anya and Chels and becca etc.
Eowyn, daughter of Eomund: 'And would you have your proud folk say of you: "There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North! Was there no woman of the race of Numenor to choose?" '
"I would," said Faramir. And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in sight of many.
- ROTK p. 944
phew! i think i passed my history midterm. yep, think so. my hand is so sore! i have written for longer, but never as intensely! owie.
Got a new CD last weekend, Switchfoot. So good!
so much latin. I'm begining to regret taking the accelerated class. you have no time to get accustomed to anything before they throw something else at you.
anywy, guess that's about it.
God Bless!
okay, i hope I won't normally be this obsessive about this, but as it's very very recent.....
Most of you will find it very sad, but at the ripe old age of 19 I have never had a boyfriend...un
yay! Yoda and I have been best friends for about five and a half years, and decided last friday to give it a shot. Yes, I am very very happy! Just when I thought life couldn't get better.....
ah, life is so wonderful. No matter how bad things get, they can always get worse, but they are likely to get better.
Why can't every one be as happy as me? I don't know, but they should be.
anyway, yay, i'm going home, and I get to see yoda, and my moms' getting me stuff for making the Dean's list. yeah, i have no complaints about life! none at all!
"If there is nobody left for you to outdo, them compete with yourself."
-the Education of a Christian Prince, Erasmus
Wow, so early, yet what a day!
Latin exam went fairly well. I was good and went really really slow and proved all my answers, so I think i did fairly well. But the best part was that after the test, another guy in the class, Neil, followed me out, and we started talking (not for the first time) and he asked me out to coffee right then! Well, that's not the best part, the best part is that he's from Scotland, and has the exact same accent as Billy Boyd! who, I am sure you all know, plays Pippin in LOTR. hehehe!
Nice guy.
anyway, back to homework! Retreat this weekend, so much fun!
God Bless!
Latin exam tomorrw, eieeeh!! oh, wait, I know it all, okay. not that that really lightens my homework load, but oh well, at least Machiavelli is interesting!
speaking of:
"The first indicatins of the intelligence of a ruler are given by the quality of the men around him."
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"There are three kinda of mind; the first grasps things unaided; the second when they are explained; the third never understands at all."
-Mchiavelli, "the Prince," Ch XXII
"You began ill, because you began by despising everything that belonged to you."
- Edmund Burke, on the French Revolution.
Yay! I thought my midterm was today, and wonder of wonders! it's next monday! :D Happiness!
okay, so yeah, I have a serious huge amount of Latin to study for my exam on Friday, and a serious need for a job, and lots of reading for French History. Do I do it? Of course not! I sit in my room for five hours writing my own fantasy stories, and reading Harry Potter! Oh, yes, all of my academic discipline (and I had a lot of it as recently as last year, all of six AP classes and a play and a zillion other things, yes, I had NO life!) has all gone straight down the drain!
On the bright side, i'm still acing my classes. Surprising, not really! okay, i'm done.
"They say go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes."
FOTR, p. 83
wow, it's been a while. I have been pretty busy, both with just lots of stuff to do and with stressing out over needing a job! Yes, i am poor, and unemployed. grrrr.
But hey! life it still good.
i think i got all my pent up sketches out of my system which is good because now I can finish playing catch up in my classes. Yay!
Last weekend I went to SPU and sent to one really cool lecture on the Lord of the Rings, got interviewd by the school newspaper, and meet John Rhys-Davis!!! (for those of you not way up on LOTR he plays the dwarf Gimli, and he's really just over six feet tall!) yeah1!! as soon as I have pics i'll upload them for all to marvel at!
God Bless!
Aah, I have a Latin exam in half and hour and I haven't studyied...muc
Thanks the Muse! and then praise God for sending him to me. Oh, I'm not sure how everyone else will like my new pic, but I think it's wonderful, and I was so fun to do! Go on, go look again! And PLEASE, tell me what you thinkg!
oh, I feel bad. No verse for today. well, let's see. Okay, here's part of a Psalm. What I really love about it is the song that is taken from it, but here's my favorite part.
Psalm 42:5-6
"Why are you so downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise Him,
my Savior and my God."
This is so great because the writter (we're not told It's David, so I won't assume) feels so incredibly sad and lost but he finds encouragment in the very thought of God. God's love is such that even when we're so depreesed and despairing of the world, just the thought of Him and His sacrifice will give us hope. It is so very true. In all my limited experience, no matter how bad my day/week/whate
i Chir hebin a galu pan!
Laureanna
This is a verse that I just read this morning. it's from REvelation 7:15-17. Not only does it ring with poetry towards the end, but it shows the awesome fate in store for us.
"They are before the throne of God
and serve Him day and night in His temple;
and He who sits on the throne will pread his tent over them.
Never again will they hunger;
never agin will hey thirst.
The sun will not beat upon them,
not any scorching heat
For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd;
He will lead them to springs of living water.
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
Okay, some people might not like this, but I figure, if they don't, they can just not read my diary! hey, imagine that. So, I'm going to attempt to post a daily bible Verse online. Why put this on a fantasy page? Because my religion inspires me. I have no idea why my religion inspires me to draw elves and faeries and dragons, but it does. And then you all get to know me a little better, which is the whole idea right?
so, for starters this i my favorite verse in the entire bible: written by the prophet Isaiah, who also wrote the most well known prophecies of the Messiah, Isaiah 40:31.
"but those that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not grow weary, they shal walk and not be faint."
I think most people in the fantasy world can relate to longing for wings. How cool would it be to spread your mighty pinions and plunge off a mountaintop and soar "on the winds back." It's such an amazing promise.
i Chir hebin a galy pan!
Laureanna
Come Thou Fount of every Blessing
Tune my heart to sing thy praise.
Streams of mercy never ceasing
call for Songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise His name, I'm fixed upon it,
Name of God's redemming love.
Hither to, thy love has blest me.
Thou hast brought me to this place.
And I hope thy hand will lead me
safely home by thy good grace.
Jesus sought me when a stanger
wandring from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Bought me with His precious blood.
Oh, to Grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be.
Let thy goodness, like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I Love.
Here's my heart, Lord, Take and Seal it.
Seal it for thy courts above.
this is my favoite hymn, though I usually sing a rather upbeat arrangment. It has been running around my head since church this morning. Those are always great days, when you have a wonderful song in your head.
God Bless!
why am I here? I have so much Latin homework, I should just lock my computer up in a safe to keep me away from it. oh, well. It'll get done somehow.
I love Five Iron Frenzy!!! Go Christian Sca!
"rain falls like laughter from the sky." favorite song!
Life is so wonderful. I had just a really awesome day yesterday. Met some amazing new people, had fun in my classes, spent time with lots of cool friends, actually joined the archery club, read a good book. oh, and then I had a very long and amazing talk with one of my long time best friends. I love you, Yoda! not that he's going to read this or anything. hehe.
yes, God is good, and life is fun.
Spread the joy, peps!
God Bless!
Snow is fun.
Rain is wet, and often dismal.
Slush, is the bane of mankind!!!
Yes, the wonderful snow that was here yesterday, has turned to slush, so sad. Worst of all, it made me late for Latin! grrrr.
This is indeed one of those sad days in which I wish to God that I was truly an Elf, and could not only walk on top of the snow, but also that I couldn't feel cold. As it is, I'm glad for coats and gloves. I need to go do my reem of Latin homework so I can work on Terramorn some more.
God Bless!
or, as we say in Gondolin, i Chir hebin a galu pan!