Is it summer yet?

Shoot dang... I am pretty much the worst student ever. I am sitting at work, which is pretty much just four hours of scheduled study time. But what am I doing right now? NOT STUDYING. I am just so ready for the summer... I love all my classes, but I am just burnt out on reading for right now. As much as my trip to Philly was AMAZING, it has made being in Waco just that much harder. Don't get me wrong, I love school ... I just so happen to have found my heartbeat in Philly and I am ready to go back for a while. I just have to make it through a whole bunch of reading and writing, with a couple of finals mixed in and then I will get to go back.

So, anyway, here are some random thoughts to share:

(1) In my liberation theology class, one of my peers mentioned that she feels the need to self-edit all the time in order to be accepted by our patriarchal society. Interesting, eh? Especially because I can see little evidences of that in my own life. Example: when I was in Philly having a conversation about women in the church, it was me talking with 7 adult males. I found myself not saying a lot of things that I wanted to because I didn't want to be labeled as a femi-nazi. Even though I self-edited, I still got jokes and comments for the rest of the week. I know that they weren't meant to be hurtful, but it makes me wonder what would've been said about me had I felt free to say what I think. Maybe its not just women who feel the need to self-edit....and maybe self-editing isn't necessarily a bad thing... just some things to think about.

(2) I get to see in a manatee in for the first time in just a few short weeks! Get excited!

(3) Is it fair for families to have the power of attorney to change the wishes of a person in the even that he/she should become a "vegetable"? Me and some friends argued about this for almost an hour at lunch the other day (ya, superficiality isn't something we do well), and it became pretty heated. It seems ridiculous to me that if I have explictly expressed my wishes to be taken of life-suppot in such a scenario, my family can still legal keep me on. Maybe I am just being selfish. Thoughts?

(4) I love chocolate pudding. A lot.

(5) I really feel like God it calling me to walk out in faith for my future by NOT applying for seminary/social work schoool and NOT taking the GRE. Crazy, huh? So now the question is: what next? Here are some possibilites: move to Georgia for a couple of years and intern at a church (pretty strong possibility), be a part of a new Community Life program through AIM (though I don't know where the dollars for that would come from), maybe just move to India for a while, work for a non-profit...shoot, there are so many possibilities! Feel free to contribute to the list :)

(6) I have the best roommates in the world.

(7) God is really good at convicting me ... and sometimes I really don't like it. And I try to ignore it. And then he shoves it in my face.

(8) This is the longest post ever. If you are still reading, you must be as unproductive as me :)