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| It's been rather a long time since I posted. Here's a quick run-down. We survived our first earthquake and nothing got broken. I finished all my schoolwork for the summer. Addison's sister got married and we were out helping and what not; it was a good trip. I turned 26. I finished my practicum at the end of August. Since then, with no schoolwork and no practicum, just my job, I've been splitting my time between deep-cleaning my house and just relaxing. I've watched tv, played video games, worked on a puzzle, slept in frequently, and read a lot. I've read all the Harry Potter books, the Dark is Rising series, and I'm just finishing up all the Little House on the Prairie books. Plus a few miscellaneous books. I've also gone to a few baseball games and yesterday we went to a water park. I've really enjoyed being able to relax. Fall quarter starts in a week and I think I might be ready for it. All in all, life is feeling better than it has in a while. | | |
| It's nice when the not-so-good things in life get paired with the pretty good things. For example, there may be smell coming from my kitchen sink that strongly resembles a dirty diaer or outhouse, but I found the pair of pants that I've been searching for for like two months (someone (*coughcough*Addison*coughcough*) apparently hung them up on Addison's side of the closet, where I thought I had looked, but apparently hadn't looked close enough). My client may have no-showed this afternoon, but I did a pretty good training presentation at practicum today, I think (on dealing with gender roles with a Christian couple in marital therapy). | | |
| Tody I started my last Mrs. Pollifax novel, so I went to the library and picked up six Jane Austen novels. It's odd, I've read Pride and Prejudice several times and like it quite a bit, but never picked up any of her other books. But now I will. It's nice to not have reading to do for school. | | |
| I have decided (not that this is new) that I really love the internet. I have this inner thirst for knowledge that the internet helps me fill. I love coming across news articles and learning about random things. Admittedly, there isn't much depth to my knowledge usually, but the breadth is quite extraordinary (not in any real sense, but it feels remarkable to my narrow world of school-work-home). And more than that, when I really need or want to know something, it's there. Yes, you have to sift the information and consider your sources etc. etc., but I would be somewhat surprised if there's a question out there that isn't addressed somewhere on the internet. Recently, I've been particularly appreciating it for helping me learn about my knee problems. I went to the doctor last week and he diagnosed me and even wrote it down for me (how would I remember chondromalacia patella otherwise) so I could research it on my own. So I've found out loads about it all, and the construction of knees and leg muscles and more exercises to strengthen it and other factors that might be related. And then, since I really shouldn't be doing walking or running for exercise (I stupidly did so last night and am sincerely regretting it today), I've started swimming at the gym. So I looked up fitness pool etiquette, since I didn't know the proper behavior for fitness pools, and that always makes me anxious. Then I found out which stroke burns the most calories (no real consensus on that though) and which would be best for my knee (unfortunately, not the breast stroke, which is what I'm best at--I can't swim in a straight line doing freestyle). All this information would have been so much more difficult to get ahold of without the internet, if I even could have found it. What wonders! | | |
| "Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me. I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!" | | |
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