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WOW, I feel so revived today . . . I got more then 10 hours of sleep last night!

Unfortunantly i didnt get back to my room last night until after 2am, so I slept through church this morning . . .

Some of you may ask why it was that I was out so late . . . and there is really only one answer that I can give you . . . Yesterday (Saturday) was Disney Day!!

What Disney Day entails is about 300 or so Master’s students all going down to DisneyLand and spending all day, or at least part of it, in the park. I rode down with a coupld of friends and we were parking in the lot at 7:40am, and leaving after a great time at around 1am . . yes ladies and gentlemen, we were down in the park for all 16 hours it was open!! And I would dare say we all had a blast, although its hard to know how everyone else really felt after the day cause we were all so stinking tired lastnight when I was dropped off.

A few of the things we did included riding Pirates twice, Indiana Jones nearly twice . . . it broke down as we were in line for the second time, saw the show at the Golden Saloon . . . with about 100 other TMC’ites, and walking I-dont-know-how-many-miles around the park from ride to ride to ride. We also spent lots of time in line talking and laughing at the stories of past years at DisneyLand or other random things that came to mind.

Got to know the poeple I was with a lot better and I hope that they were able to get to know me too. I feel that there was a lot of questions about me and what I thought of certain things and not so many for the others, but that might be the consequences of being the only guy in two vehicles full of students. Yes, thats right . . . I spent most of the day with 8-9 ladies, two who visiting friends, five I am friends with, and two I didnt know before.

Overall a good time, and I think we built some good friendships and opened some interesting dialougue.

 

Otherwise . . .

I suppose that this isnt enough, beings that it has been a couple of weeks once more since the last time I wrote anything. So I will try to go over a few things that have happened . . .

One of the more exciting things was actually on Friday, because of a funeral he had to run sound for, Bryan was only able to run rehearsal/line checks before he had to leave and go setup at GCC. So that left me running sound for Chapel on Fri . . . scary! See I had never done that here, all I usually do is watch and help with just about everything but the mixing . . . and now its my job to do it!!

All in all it went well, except for a little problem due to a miscommunication, wherein all I did was mute a mic that I had been told to, only to have it try to be used when I was muting the rest of the board. Nothing big and really considering all the other things that could have gone bad, the morning went really well.

In preparation for Sat, Friday was Disney Dinner on the Intramural Field with a Disney music background and then a bit later we watched Mulan. Good times, we set them up and I got to run both events as well. So Friday was busy, but fun, with lots of hands-on time. I loved it!!

Looking back even farther, pretty much everything has been fairly normal . . . class and work and other such busyness . . . sleeping little more then I have to, working on everything as soon as I can but usually just before it is due . . . I dont know . . . its pretty normal for this semester.

Probably about a week and a half ago or so, I was feeling really overwhelmed. School work was piling up, people were having problems and coming to me to either help or fix them, and several problems at work seemed to trackback to me. I was ready to quit . . . just up and leave.

Currently everything is ok, things are great and there isnt any reason I can think of to leave. But I am struggling to try to understand how it is that I lose it like that. I think the answer lies in the lack of consistant application of the truths that I know to my life.

Pray for me this way, that although I dont understand what is going on, when things start happening around or to me that it will be ok. God is still in control no matter what is going on. I know this, and I remind others of it all the time . . . but I forget when it is my turn. Also praise God for the few friends who do remind me of this when I need it.

Something else more recent is that I have been asked for advice in a situation that I dont know a whole lot about, meaning I really dont know what to share or how to guide. I told them that, so they dont expect a whole lot . . . but still it would be nice to be able to help as best I can.