Bloopers

While cleaning out my picture file on my laptop, I found these gems. So incase you didn't get enough awkward yesterday..

  Happy Weekend!

Awesome and Awkward

Awesome:

Overhearing someone ask, "Is there Greek on campus?" To which the answer was, "Yeah, you can take Greek." Ha! Small Christian Schools, I tell yea. 

Chapel has started again! We don't have chapel during January because it's Interim, but chapel is back!   

Getting to park next to my dorm. That's rightttt! My credits mean that I am officially junior status and I can park in the nice parking lot right next door. If I wanted to I could go gaze at Willbe (my little 2-door focus) all day long from the warmth of the lobby. Gone are the days of trekking  out to him, he's right there! 

Awkward:

The alarming amount of times I must go to the bathroom because of my water bottle which I am addicted to. It's worse then ever before. I may need intervention.

Being introduced, "This is Jenni, she's quiet." ...

Changing in strange contortions to avoid the mirror right near my nook of our room. All mirrors are double sided, don't you know? Never know who could be watching from the other side. Silly people, go live your life, don't hide behind our mirror all day. 

The fact that students arn't allowed to use the art gallery bathrooms. I'm sorry, but why not? And how do they monitor this? Is there a camera? A detector that will notice I'm under 25 and automatically suspect me? Will I get a ticket? Will I be accosted by campus safety officers for using the art gallery bathroom? Silly art gallery bathrooms, thinking they are so above all other campus bathrooms. OK, rant over. 

An Awkward and an Awesome:(ooh, a twist!)

May I be honest with you? I have problems. One of them is that I seldom emerge from the shower without my legs turning into a bloody mess. I don't know why, but my legs and my razor cannot get along with a shower stall. Well guess what! This week, my legs emerged with only the slightest bit of blood (and lets face it, the  blood that was there came from left over scabs from last time). Victory!

MLK Inspiration

Yesterday I started this amazing class about modern day injustice. Awesome reading material for this class, let me tell you. Even two books by Gary Haugen (the man who started International Justice Mission, you can be reminded all about it here, it's the most amazing organization)! 

To start the class we read Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It's amazing, so many quotes worthy of repeating. 

So, instead of writing the reflection paper on MLK's letter, I'm telling you about it. And eating a chocolate muffin. And chai tea. And water. (I'm big on liquids.) Don't you find that a much better use of time? I do too. 

You should really read the whole letter yourself, but in case you find the idea of a 10-page letter daunting, I'll try to share the highlights with you. 

What I find most amazing is what he says about injustice. Obviously, this is a main focal point of his letter; the injustice of segregation, but what he says applies to any injustice throughout the world. As an advocate for Invisible Children I've heard a lot of people say, "Gee, that's terrible. But..it's all the way over there. It doesn't affect us." To such a sentiment, MLK says this, 

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

Our liberty is bound together. If one person on the other side of the globe is being treated unfairly, it is our responsibility to come to their rescue. We would want to be rescued.

Obviously, this letter is quite lengthy, and though I'd love to continue sharing quotes with you I really should write the reflection that needs to be written (and my chai tea has run out, which signals to me that I have neglected my paper long enough). But I must share this last bit with you. For the first half of the letter MLK seems almost insulted that he has been called an "extremist." But on page 6 he comes to a realization that all the greats have been extremists; Abraham Lincoln was an extremist for freedom, Paul an extremist for sharing the gospel. And so he says,

"So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.Will we be extremists for hate or love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime- the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality..The other, Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness."

And you thought MLK talk was over for January.

Awkward and Awesome Thursday

Awkward:

 My next door neighbor asking if I've lived on campus for the past month, "Yep..I have." "Oh, Seriously?" Really, Really?

 When you realize you should stop talking, but you keep talking anyways. 

Telling someone a story and not remembering where I was going with it, but they look so interested, I had to finish it, so I made something up about my Dad. 

Awesome:

KP is my new room mate. And our room is all moved around. It's nice.

Ethan visiting and bringing out a brand new futon to have, although it does lack cushions... 

No more meal plan! That's right, I don't have to eat in the dining commons any more. Serious horray. 

Psalm 34:14 Turn from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it. 

A Room Mate

This girl just moved in. 

Her name is Kristen, but we call her KP, because her last name begins with "P" and her first name begins with "K." We've been friends since we were 10. 

She's incredibly neat, you should see her closet, it inspired me to organize. Now you should see my closet. Our closets are terribly organized. 

I'm sure you'll be seeing more of her soon, but I just thought I'd drop by and introduce her. 

Spring Semester starts tomorrow, horray!

Good Things

               

 

Sweater: c/o CAbi Tank: AE Skirt: Thrifted Shoes: Khols

Include, but are not limited to...

Hot chocolate, people getting engaged, the  new game that came into the toy store (Tenzi, have you played it? Go play it), the Detroit International Auto Show, eating waffles, curling up with a blanket, pretending that I don't have to work on a project due tomorrow. 

What are your good things? 

Awesome and Awkward Thursday

Shirt: Gap Cords: c/o CAbi Scarf: thrifted Boots: DSW

Sorry, it's just too terribly blistery out of doors today. 

Awesome:

Chelsea, Michigan. It's quite possibly the most picturesque little down town I know. And it can be further improved when Ethan meets you there. Well not you, you can meet your own man-friend there. Or lady-friend, if you're a man.

Finding out that I can wear pants in Uganda. Maybe even JEANS. Did you see that, JEANS. Skirts are still coming along with me though. I can't leave out skirts for jeans. I do that to them enough. 

Two girls from across the hall knocked on my door, "We were facebook stalking you and noticed you were watching Psych, can we watch too?" 

My RA, she's just about the sweetest person you've ever met. She really is.  

My heater is fixed!! My room is warm!! Ah, what a lovely feeling. (My vent has been blowing cold air since I moved back to school, this is a seriously wonderful development!) 

Getting a great deal on my books for this semester, less than $70 for every single textbook! 

Awkward: 

 Going to say hi to someone and then standing behind them waving for a good minute before they turn around. Of course everyone else in the cafeteria turned around and noticed you waving, "hey guys." 

Realizing the Super came to fix my heat and running over to make sure you couldn't see anything questionable in my dirty clothes basket. We're good. Then looking over and seeing the massive pile of dirty dishes. We're a slob. I hope Mr. Super doesn't do his dishes either.

Dropping the very expensive, high-tech clicker while giving a presentation on Free and Appropriate Public Education. Ironically, I was just about to say "Your student is entitled to technology listed in their IEP (Individualized Education Plan) for free, but if he breaks it, you may be charged." And que the irony.