Tonight I am so bogged down with work that I have no choice but to simply stop. Sometimes you just have to drop everything and take a step back. So tonight, I'm doing that with a brief blog update. And I'm also celebrating the first day of fall with my roomates by drinking hot apple cider and eating popcorn!
My top 3 from this past week (besides my birthday, of course):
1) the Farmer's Market. I really love walking through fresh markets and buying produce....what a perfect way to spend a crisp autumn Saturday. I savored some tasty homemade peach ice cream that reminded me of childhood, as well as buying some lovely tomatoes, onions, crispy lettuce, and a thick loaf of crusty sourdough bread. The twins got similar items, so we had a delicious lunch that consisted of the best BLT's you've ever tasted.
2)Babysitting. I babysat for five great little kids Sunday evening. Apparently, my name is circulating around the families in my church, which is pretty sweet, because I make far more money in a few hours of babysitting than at a few hours of my job. Not to mention that it's a billion times more enjoyable.
3) Moments of rest. I was pretty sick for the first half of this week, probably due in large part to my continual lack of sleep. Being a night person who has to be at work early every morning has not turned out so well for me this semester. Tuesday morning, as I sleepily slogged through the Dewey Decimal system, my shuffling iPod gave me a sermon by Tim Keller about the importance of rest. I found this was interesting, considering my constant lack of rest, but I thought little of it for the rest of the day. I should interject here that my lack of rest was more than simply not sleeping... I was spending very little of my time alone and very little in prayer and contemplation. Sadly, when life gets hectic and crowded the first thing to go is typically solitude. So back to Tuesday...that evening, as I was praying, I got the strong sense that I was supposed to wake up early to spend some time alone with God. Of course, I complained at length about this idea, considering how late I was already going to bed, but with a sigh, I set my alarm a half an hour earlier than my typical dreadful awakening.
In an ironic twist, I awoke two hours later than my alarm the next morning, which was twenty minutes past the time I was supposed to be at work. I bolted out of bed and frantically scrambled to get out the door, followed by a mad dash across campus to the library. I went to apologize and explain my situation to my boss, but after hearing my faint, scratchy voice, she said, "You sound really sick. Why don't you just go home instead of working today?" I tried to protest, but she would have none of it...so I had to go home.
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My top 3 from this past week (besides my birthday, of course):
1) the Farmer's Market. I really love walking through fresh markets and buying produce....what a perfect way to spend a crisp autumn Saturday. I savored some tasty homemade peach ice cream that reminded me of childhood, as well as buying some lovely tomatoes, onions, crispy lettuce, and a thick loaf of crusty sourdough bread. The twins got similar items, so we had a delicious lunch that consisted of the best BLT's you've ever tasted.
2)Babysitting. I babysat for five great little kids Sunday evening. Apparently, my name is circulating around the families in my church, which is pretty sweet, because I make far more money in a few hours of babysitting than at a few hours of my job. Not to mention that it's a billion times more enjoyable.
3) Moments of rest. I was pretty sick for the first half of this week, probably due in large part to my continual lack of sleep. Being a night person who has to be at work early every morning has not turned out so well for me this semester. Tuesday morning, as I sleepily slogged through the Dewey Decimal system, my shuffling iPod gave me a sermon by Tim Keller about the importance of rest. I found this was interesting, considering my constant lack of rest, but I thought little of it for the rest of the day. I should interject here that my lack of rest was more than simply not sleeping... I was spending very little of my time alone and very little in prayer and contemplation. Sadly, when life gets hectic and crowded the first thing to go is typically solitude. So back to Tuesday...that evening, as I was praying, I got the strong sense that I was supposed to wake up early to spend some time alone with God. Of course, I complained at length about this idea, considering how late I was already going to bed, but with a sigh, I set my alarm a half an hour earlier than my typical dreadful awakening.
In an ironic twist, I awoke two hours later than my alarm the next morning, which was twenty minutes past the time I was supposed to be at work. I bolted out of bed and frantically scrambled to get out the door, followed by a mad dash across campus to the library. I went to apologize and explain my situation to my boss, but after hearing my faint, scratchy voice, she said, "You sound really sick. Why don't you just go home instead of working today?" I tried to protest, but she would have none of it...so I had to go home.
I got a couple of unexpected hours of restful solitude that morning in a way I never could have planned. God moves in mysterious ways....
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Music of the week: Bob Dylan and Patsy Cline. I suppose I'm feeling rather folksy.
Book of the week: the final Harry Potter. I know, it's absurd that I still haven't read it.
