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Name: Joy
Gender: Female
Interests: My True Love Jesus Christ........and talking with friends, shopping, working with little kids, baking, Bible quizzing, youth group stuff, reading, hiking (or anything outdoors), looking at stars, softball, volleyball....
Expertise: Doing the cha-cha slide.....haha
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
8/9/2004
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| Let me just start by saying that I LOVE three day weekends and appreciate them so much more now. Oh wait, what's that? I haven't been doing school 5 days a week since freshman year of high school? Haha, that's right. I forgot that my high school only had school four days a week, and now I actually have classes Monday-Friday. Kind of. This semester I only have classes MWF from 8-4, and then my practicum in the local high schools TTh. I start that on Thursday, which should be fun. And interesting, since I've never actually been in a public high school (except, of course, for taking the SAT and ACT).
Anyway, life has been pretty great lately. Winter break was *amazing* and gave me a lot of time to just think through things toward the end. God is so good, and allowed me to really let go of some things that had been bothering me for quite a while. I have a habit of just holding things in until I can't hold them anymore, and then I just completely break down. Well, Christmas break gave me the time to just let myself break down. Now I'm back at school and better than ever, so thankful for every breath and thankful for all the amazing friends I have here. I'm loving my classes so far (I'm getting into some of my major classes now), and I am just soaking in every opportunity I get. Next weekend I'll be going with the freshman class cabinet on our retreat, and I'm really looking forward to that. God has blessed me in so many ways, and I take that for granted so often. I'm really just learning though that He is good in every area of life and I need to jump on that and thank Him by living life to the fullest. Whether that's by taking care of my body and working out more, or making sure I'm staying on top of my homework, or spending enough time with friends rather than constantly stressing out, I can glorify Him just by thanking Him in that way. I love finding new ways to glorify Him and thank Him for the beautiful works He's done in my life.
Well, I need to go. Time to go hang out with my guy! Have a great day and God bless!
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| Why am I on here? Or rather, why are Facebook, Xanga--basically anything that isn't homework--so addicting? Oh well, as long as I'm procrastinating I might as well enjoy it.
It's a rainy Monday. I wouldn't mind so much if it were just, I don't know, colder enough that it would be snow! Oh well, at least I got a little taste of snow when I went to Boston last week. And when I returned and found 4 inches of snow on my car at 3 in the morning. Yay! haha. Mmmm, ok, enough on that...
Well, basically I love this holiday season. But now, rather than being at Sinclair and being done with finals by Thanksgiving, I am bombarded with homework and finals now. Two weeks before Christmas. Wait, no, finals aren't until next week. Now is just getting all my notes together and starting to study for finals. But it's hard to motivate myself since it's an entire week away. Such is life....at least I have my pretty Christmas lights up around my bed.  This semester has gone by so quickly, but it's been really good. I've made some amazing friends here at Asbury, and am looking forward to future semesters when my classes are more focused on my major. I did enjoy my classes at times though, and it will get better--and harder.
Well, time to stop procrastinating and go read some Hemingway. Or some Fitzgerald. Or Brave New World. Or maybe just look up some terms for my western civilization class.
Have a jolly Monday!
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| Hey.
So, I never get on this thing anymore, and I was reading through my posts from 3 years ago when I first started this, and decided to check my subscriptions. And apparently, some of you still post. (I actually have another Xanga that I post on now just to keep people in my church updated while I'm at college.) So, I decided I would go ahead and say hello to everyone and see how you're doing. 
Hope life is going well...maybe I will start posting on this again, but no guarantees. I'd love to hear how any of you are doing though, so feel free to message me on facebook or drop a comment on here! Oh, and if you care, I'm going home on Tuesday! Can't wait! I never knew I could look forward to Thanksgiving so much. I really love home-cooked food. Really. I do.
Ok, sorry this is so short, but I'm going to bed. Have a great night, and God bless!
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| 9:15 in the morning and I'm posting on Xanga. Yeah, I really can't sleep anymore...although I still think I need it.
I can't believe I graduate in 17 days! That's so crazy. It seems like I was just a sophomore, taking a crazy amount of classes and stressing over every little thing. Now I'm a senior with 12 years of school behind me, including 4 AP tests; 3 times taking the ACT; 3 times taking the SAT; 8 years of Bible Quizzing; 4 years of SLAM Team; trips to Canada, Mexico, LA, Arizona, Florida, NY, and more; 2 brothers' weddings; and tons of memories. So weird. Being a senior feels a lot different than I thought it would. Hehe, I thought I had senioritis last year, but I've realized that no one really knows what it feels like to be a senior until you actually are one. Then it's crazy! I never knew that I--Joy, the perfectionist, the overachiever--could have so little motivation and stress so little over schoolwork. Oh wait, I guess I still stressed plenty. But now it's nice, because I'm no longer handcuffed to my art history books (something like 1200 pages covering everything from ancient aegean art to postmodern art)! Art history was hard...definitely one of the most humbling classes I've ever had...but it was a good experience. I won't always remember the dates, and probably won't remember the artists and titles, but that's ok, because at least I know that I tried something new. And...now I won't ever regret not getting an art history degree in college, after going through all that.
Ok, now I'm going to wrap it up and get ready for my day. Too much sentimentality in this post. Goodness, you'd think I was a senior or something!
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| Wow, another post and only a week later! What is the world coming to? All right, so really I'm just bored and I have to finish up my 5 hours in the language lab and have nothing else to do in here. Anyway, thank you all for the comments you left on my last post. Very encouraging, and they provoked some good thoughts. The past week has been a great deal better, and last night I had a good talk with a friend about different things...things that actually required me to think and formulate my own opinion. It's been so long since I've had a deep discussion with someone, and it felt good. This weekend was a huge blessing for me personally, because I was able to participate in the 30 Hour Famine, which really showed me firsthand what it means to fast and pray. It was a good experience, and I was really challenged every time I thought about my hunger to focus not on myself, but rather on those less fortunate, and lift them up to the Lord in prayer. I also had the privilege of being able to hear the C&MA President in Lebanon speak at our Missions Fest, and he had some amazing sermons. It was so good to hear his thoughts, and about "growing like a cedar in Lebanon." (Ps. 92:12) So, next week is spring break for Sinclair. I'm really pretty excited. I'm looking forward to just relaxing and having time to clean my room and organize my schoolwork from the past few years. It's somewhat organized from sophomore and junior years, but the homework I have from this year is all out of sorts. Time to get working on that one! (I'm sure my mom is very happy to hear me say all this!) I'm also hoping to get some good reading in (I have two or three books I've been working on for quite some time), and my mom and I are hoping to get some scrapbooking done towards the end of the week. I hope the week will be as productive as I'm hoping for! Well, have a wonderful week everyone, and God bless! | | |
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