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Something That Grinds My Gears

Posted on Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

… is when my sleep is interrupted for a stupid reason. It’s one thing for me to forego sleep voluntarily. It’s another thing to wake me up to be dumb. It’s not funny to me.

*cough* Kat *cough* Sarah

Perserverance

Posted on Monday, November 28th, 2005

Such a strange trait, this is. It can be both a virtue and a vice, depending on the situation. I’ll take perserverance for love as an example.

Perservering for this can easily turn into stubbornness (or downright obsession). If the reasons are wrong, or the match simply incompatible, things won’t happen (or, rather, they shouldn’t), and the agony of waiting for what will never come is so painful. In many ways, I am a stubborn person, myself, and I have tasted this bitter fruit many times.

Perservering for love can also be the most rewarding thing in the world. When patience pays off and things fall the right way, it all seems so worthwhile. It should be fairly apparent that I have yet to really experience this. At least, in the boy-girl kind of love.

The person-God kind of love is an entirely different beast. Christians believe that perserverance for this will always be rewarding. Whether the reward comes now or later stands to be beyond our control. But it’s so hard to remember this when there are so many distractions.

Tonight at Elevation (we had an evening service due to a booking conflict), Brandon spoke of this Christian journey and how it is long and difficult. We know that there will be trials along the way, and that we will face temptations to abandon it all and forsake God. I’m not perfect, and sometimes I give in or give up; the wind is strong against me and I’m not always strong enough to stand up to it. But I think (or hope) that for every step back, I manage to make more steps forward. Brandon challenged us to stick to our journey and to pay attention to the meaningful signs along the way. I really hope that I can do this.

Shortly after Elevation, I went to see “Walk The Line”, the movie about Johnny Cash. A lot of the movie focused on his perserverance for his eventual wife, June Carter. It was so endearing to see his commitment through his troubled times and through her marriages (and so much more). I really hope that I can find that, too. Well, maybe not so much the perservering through marriages and all that jazz; you get the point, I think.

Hm. I should just continue being patient, I guess.

Hodgepodge Post

Posted on Saturday, November 26th, 2005

1. Pre-job pay raise: So I went to campus on Thursday and I met with the prof who will be supervising me next term and explained to him that the salary he mentioned was far below the Co-op average. That said, I also expressed my understanding that, being involved with a research project, there are financial constraints. While the job isn’t about the money, being in school for a year straight has done considerable damage to my bank account and I would sleep better if I had a bit more breathing room. He was very considerate and agreed to bump up my salary a little bit. Whew!

2. Pre-job-related stress: Almost immediately after that agreement, he asked if I had a laptop. He explained that the computing resources were fairly slim and that he could not guarantee access to a computer at all times. Frig.

3. Record streak: It seems that I went on a bit of a tear over the past little bit, posting at least once a day for 16 days! I suspect that it wouldn’t have kept up, especially with finals around the corner… so I’m glad it has already ended.

4. Finals: Done on the 16th. And, thanks to an unrelenting amount of work throughout the term, I don’t foresee a great deal of cramming this time around. I think I’ve got a good handle on the concepts of all of my courses and it’s just a matter of making sure I remember all of them for the exam. Yay!

5. Stolen content: Kat pointed out that my new site design looks like my housemate’s. While not intentional at all, a visit to his site substantiates her claim. In my defence, lots of sites have graphic on top, content on left, and navigation on right. πŸ˜›

6. Keiths: Speaking of my housemate, I hung out with him, his girlfriend, and Keith on Friday. So that made for two Keith Alberts! (We remarked that I should change my name to Maria or Maria should change her name to Justin.) For the first time in my life, I sat down and played a game of Settlers. Keith (not housemate Keith) won, and I was tied for second. I don’t think that’s too bad considering it was my first time and I was picking up on strategies after I saw them enacted by the other players… Then we watched Star Wars III. Yeah, I know, we’re cool.

7. Embassy website: I’m getting tired of it already. While it does meet the requirements that were laid out back in August when I was designing and building it, those requirements have been changing throughout the course of the term. Accommodating these new requirements, however, isn’t particularly easy; in fact, it has made me want to redesign the site entirely from scratch again. I guess people aren’t too off the mark when they say that I’m a perfectionist and stubborn about it. lol πŸ™

8. Long lost friend: Jasmine came down from Ottawa and I was able to do lunch with her and a few others from the Embassy! It was so nice to see her again after she got sucked into the netherworld of married life.

9. Queue to exit: I’m hungry. πŸ™‚

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