lately i've been trying to write only positive things in the old blog, but today i'm just so frustrated, i can't help but complain.

this research project is driving me nuts!!!! first, i was hoping to get 30 surveys, and i only got 20 (which is really out of my hands, since i can't translate them for clients). now i'm trying to write this outline for the discussion section, which is more of a hassle than anything else. i swear it's impossible to put all the information i have to discuss into an outline. most of the subjects i have to discuss are all throughout the discussion section, so there's no good place to put it in the outline. i first just stuck it somewhere, hoping that my professor would just assume that i'd talk about it throughout the section, where it was relevant, but she did not. she told me not to break it up. now, how do you make an outline without breaking things up? isn't that the point of an outline?!? (i know this is probably not making a lot of sense, but i must get it out anyway) so i just emailed my professor and politely asked her if she could help me out, since what she told me to do didn't make any sense (of course, i didn't say that... even though i really wanted to). we'll see what she says.

*sigh* ok, complaining session complete. i really do have so much to be thankful for. after today, i only have 10 more days of my internship, and after friday, only 10 more days of classes! woo! this means that in less than 6 weeks i'll be finished with my first year of grad school, and in less than 9 weeks, i'll be moving back to lancaster!!! hooray!!!!

oh, and one more thing... it's SPRING!!!

so much school work to do...

so little time...

so many happier things to do (like get ready to move back to lancaster!!!! hehe)...


it's getting to be that time of the semester... when lots and LOTS of things are due... like a HUGEMONGOUS research project (that i have very little motivation to do). unfortunately, all i can seem to think about lately is moving back to lancaster. yesterday i actually spent about 45 minutes drawing a floor plan of my apartment and deciding where i was going to put all my furniture and pictures. yeah, i did. i could have been working on all of the school stuff i have to do, but nope, i drew pictures instead. no one can say i don't have priorities!



i think i'll try to get some work done now... wish me luck!




love to all...

10 weeks til i'm officially a resident of lancaster county again!!!!


i could not be more excited!!!!

great news!!!!


i just got a call from the apartment complex in lancaster...



i got the apartment i wanted!!!! and i can move in on may 26th!!!!! yay!!!!



now all i have to do is schedule classes down there, and wait to see if i can go back to work at fulton (which depends on jon, the guy i used to work with, getting a full time job... so ya'll can pray that that will happen, since it will benefit both of us. see, i'm not being totally selfish... hehe)


i will leave you with these words from Psalm 139:1-10:

"1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast."



love to all...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;


the old has gone,


the new has come!



-2 Corinthians 5:17



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i was in lancaster this weekend for miss abigail's wedding (which was loads of fun... and she was so BEAUTIFUL!!!), and i was reminded once again why i love that county. i was so blessed by the wonderful weather, and even more wonderful friends...


it might not be so hard to leave bloomsburg after all...








(i will miss ceejer and greggy lots, though!!!!!)

the past few days have made me realize that i'm really going to miss bloomsburg... this place will always be home... *sigh* my heart is torn...


nelson mandela once said, "there is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered". this is true, but i must add that returning to such a place can also reveal how you've remained unchanged...







it's gonna be hard to leave...