The Ride Begins.

Hey hey hey! So I like to think of semesters as roller coasters (oh yes, I'm going all metaphorical on your ass; although if you want to get technical... it's a simile). They start off all slow and nice and you see the syllabus full of all the stuff you will eventually have to do which leads you up the big hill. Then you get to the top and you better freakin' hold on because once it goes over that peak it just does not stop until the end. Well my friends... I'm at the top, so here we go! I have a midterm tomorrow, a book critique due next Friday, a paper due the following Thursday, another paper due the next Tuesday... and it just keeps going. The worst part about it is that once you get to that point, it all goes by SO FAST because you are always working on something and waiting for the next deadline. Dear time, can you just chill for a while? Like what's the rush? Slow down.

In other news, I've been selling Girl Scout Cookies for my little cousin Marin. In a week and a half I sold 96 boxes for her. I should get like an honorary Girl Scout patch or something. My aunt Maya is coming down on Sunday to drop them off and we are all anxiously anticipating the delivery of these cookies. (I'm also doing my best to get my football friend, Devon Kennard, to come over while they are here to meet my cousin Shane who idolizes these guys. Devon is more than willing to do it, he's a super amazing guy, but he has to drop friends off at the airport and doesn't know what time he'll be back. Cross your fingers.)

Pastor Dan is in Oregon this week for a conference thing... I really have no idea actually. All I know is that he left us Peer and Prayer Ministers in charge of making our lounge look beautiful for our Quadrennial Review on Monday which is pretty much some really important people from the Lutheran Church coming to see what we have been doing for the past four years, how we've grown, etc, and deciding whether or not to continue our funding so that our group can still exist. So it's kind of a big deal. If we don't impress them, LCM@USC dies. AND HE LEFT US IN CHARGE! What was he thinking? So we (pretty much 5 of us) are frantically trying to make something nice of this mess of a lounge we have. Sunday night (leave it to college kids to be last minute) we are making collages out of pictures we've taken of events we've had and stuff then rushing over there to put them up. Problem is that none of us have the picture files; Pastor Dan does and he is in Oregon! It's just pure chaos. God, please help us!