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there's a bunch of stuff that I need to catch you up...

1.Laptop
2.Painting Elevators
3.Procrastination
4.1984

1. Laptop
Well, I'm kind of ashamed because I know one of my new years resolutions was to write in my blog more... however Gateway has had my laptop for the past few weeks... so needless to say I havent been able to. But I have it now, and so I hope to be blogging much more frequently now.

2.Painting Elevators
Wow. God can really pull people together. Keith, Melissa, Mallory, Tanner, Ryan, Maury, Tanner, Josh, Vince, Paige, and I painted the Woods hall elevator Saturday night. It's interesting though because the group is a mixture of very artistic people and people with less art experience. I say it's interesting because everyone helped out some way. We even had mini painting lessons during the time we were there (showing people how to draw tears, correctly paint, etc). We met at 10pm and painted till almost 2am. As you can imagine, the art department is a pretty dark part of campus because of the lack of respresentation of Christ. the goal for this was to bring some light into this side of campus as well as to reach some people by sharing Christ through art. I hope and pray that it lasts for a very long time, but even if people paint over it, even if people distort it, I hope God is able to use the art to reach at the very least one person. (I actually checked yesterday after hearing some stuff... and some people def. painted over a few of the verses, which is saddening but I still have hope that it may have reached one person.)




3.Procrastination
Tonight at Bible study, we talked about Procrastination/Lazyness... which is actually one of the topics I had suggested we talk about. It's funny how procrastination and lazyness is something that so many college students have in common. I know for sure that it's a major struggle of mine. I think I'm so easy to fall into it because I'm usually pretty care-free. So there are times that I am SO care-free that I just decide to not ________. (you can fill that blank with whatever... study, call people back, write papers, read my Bible, etc.) And really that's pretty sad, I mean, I have so much to be thankful for but I put off spending time with God and furthering my relationship with my Savior because i'm tired or for whatever reason. So I am trying to get my act together and I want you to pray for me that I will.

4.1984
I finished1984 by George Orwell for the second-time. Really, this should be the real first time because the last time i read i just breezed through it quickly. It's a great book and you should read it... though I warn you that it's a bit sketchy and def. not a happy book... but it's SO interesting and almost scary when you think about how it's almost possible for it to become a reality.

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there's a few more things i need to catch you up on... but i'm so tired i'll do it later... oh, crap... there's that procrastination again...