This week

has been pretty crazy for no real reason. I have been lax of a lot of homework and exams, which has been great. I have had some time to rest, do dorm chores, and work on getting my arm healed. I am making great progress, I think. I still do not have full extension of my arm, but it is getting there. The saddest thing is that I cannot bend my elbow to touch my face or my hair...let's just say, watching me try and do my make-up is pretty hilarious. I have been taking those iron pills to help with my anemia. I am no less-tired than I was before, so I have no idea if they are working or not. The weird thing about the pills is that they make me incredibly not hungry. I have basically been eating nothing but Craisins for a week. I have eaten stuff here and there, but it has been about five bites. I guess taking iron pills are one way to lose the freshman 15...

This week has been what my sister and other seniors say freshman year should be. It has been the spontaneous late-night, "Hey, you want to hang out?" with just random people. Adam, Andrew, and I have been making snow cones like crazy. Andrew asked his mom to send their old snow cone maker to him (he is from Washington, so they obviously don't need a snow cone maker right about now), and we have randomly been making cherry snow cones all week. Wednesday night, I went to a Ballroom costume party (I dressed up like a Pink Lady from Grease. I was still in my sling and it was funny because most people thought that was part of my costume...) and afterward Sarika, Cimone, and I raided the HoGG party, then VDP's. Afterward, I called and talked to Jared and right after I hung up with him, my friend Kyle down the hall walks up the stairs. I thought we were going to have a pleasant two minute conversation, but we ended up talking for two and a half hours. Crazy. The next night, I went to Intervarsity. Andy's friend Erin invited me to an Office party afterward, but basically a lot of stuff happened, and the long of the short is, Erin didn't come find me to have me join them, so I didn't go. I don't really know anyone in Intervarsity. The two girls down the hall go there, but we never talk to each other except for the friendly small talk we have in the bathroom. I know one guy who is also in Ballroom and we talked for about a half hour after IV. What a cool guy, seriously. I hope we get to be good friends. Other than that, I know Stephen Hall and Andy's friend Erin. There's this girl Rahel that I have talked to MANY times and she still doesn't know my name. She pretends to care about having me feel a part of the group, but I can totally see through her act. She doesn't even care to actually learn my name, for Heaven's sake. I really just feel like I don't fit in there, and sadly, I don't fit in at any Christian group on campus. I know it's because I am not making an effort to fit in, but I think I know that these Christian groups are not what I have expected them to be. IV is the closest thing I can get to what I was expecting, and even then, it's nothing like it at all. People keep telling me I need to be become a part of a Christian community, but eh. I'm not making an effort to fit in because I don't, and they're not making it an effort to make me feel I am a part of the group. So whatever. I'll still go when I can. Anyway, after IV some crazy stuff happened and basically I ended up hanging out with Adam and Andrew for a while until I calmed down and then I was in Kyle and Randal's room until the wee hours of the morning. Last night I went over to Katie's apartment and her roommates Erin and Davia and I made caramel apples, punch, popcorn, and other such goodies and watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and Hocus Pocus. I spent the night and we had a really fun time together. It's been nice being social for a change. I think it's funny that I spend the most time with 1) A friend from junior high 2) My roommate 3) The boys down the hall and 4) My sister's roommates. Makes me sound a little lame, but I am having fun. :)

Other than that, not much else is new. Next week I have the same sort of schedule I had this week, and after that, it starts to get crazy again. I have a quiz and a huge astronomy test next Friday. What a way to spend my birthday: taking a test for the class I hate the most and having this feeling of failure over my head for the rest of the day. Oh joy, oh rapture. I am going home next weekend to see Mesquite's play and have some birthday celebrations.

I applied for a job at Youthworks!. Youthworks! is a Christian organization that prepares and operates week-long mission trips for high school students, usually through their youth groups. I have been on four Youthworks! trips as a participant where I have spent two days painting or building a house for a family who cannot afford to do it themselves (either financially or physically) and then two days working with the impoverished kids of the neighborhood in a Vacation Bible School sort of setting. (On some trips, we also did various other projects like working at a Salvation Army, a food bank, or visiting the elderly in a nursing home.) Each mission site is run by four college-age staff members: one who organizes and runs the Kids Club portion, one who organizes and runs the work projects, one who gives the talks at night and runs other aspects of the worship service, nightly fun activities, and other odds-and-ends of the trip, and lastly, the one who oversees the entire site and everything in it. These staff members work all summer (May through August), getting a new group of teenagers every week to do different projects. I just finished my application a couple minutes ago and it was really intense. They want to know your experience in pretty much every aspect. Andy got a job with them last year and he told me how crazy the interview process really is. They interview you many, many times for many different aspects of pretty much everything, and the whole process is drawn out over a period of many months. I really want this job, more than I can tell you. I have wanted a job with Youthworks! since I was a freshman in high school. I really would like the job to be the one who does the talks every night, but I will take any job I can get. Basically just keep your fingers crossed and pray like crazy that I get a call for an interview...

Happy All Saint's Day! Today is to celebrate all those who love the Lord and are working toward the glory of His Kingdom!