1. June ends in two days and it is...raining?!
2. I got a $25 iTunes gift card a few weeks ago, and guess what? I don't know what to do with it! I rarely buy music, and I discovered I still have $5.23 left over from my previous gift card. There's so much pressure to use your gift card right and get something that you'll really love...and I don't know what I want. Gavin DeGraw's Chariot stripped album is an option. Or Mumford & Sons (yeah, different, I know).
3. The Fourth of July is this weekend. Might I add that to the list of holidays my family doesn't know how to celebrate? What's supposed to go on? BBQs and fireworks? I might end up sitting around all day reading a book. We'll see.
4. My first federal loan payment was today. It makes me feel grown up in a slightly depressing way. But thank God for automatic EBTs.
5. There are a lot of things that haven't happened in awhile, and I think my life is craving them: a good baking streak (cookies? cake? banana bread? new recipe?), a daycation (read: day escape out of Stock-town with the bf), and a good girlfriend sesh.
6. Sandwiched between a round trip drive to the Bay (left at 7:20 am, returned at 3 pm) and the Moonlight Classic drum corps competition, D and I enjoyed a rather lazy Sunday afternoon, complete with a game of 2-player Blokus (please bf, stop beating me in everything), ice cream, and Calvin and Hobbes. Sometimes life is really really good.
7. And other times life is really crummy. Sometimes I'm researching for the School and I end up stumbling on reviews of the University. It's really pathetic, a waste of time, and I should really never do it. Stuff like this school is a joke, employers don't take your degree seriously, the only thing they're good at is marketing. Most of me doesn't believe it, another part of me knows there's a fragment of truth in our, well...not quite top-notch education.
8. And it makes me think of dumb things like being driven by profit, not being honest about our actual ranking and overall student success...but also makes me recognize that no matter the school, no matter the major, no matter the prestige, you have to be hardworking and motivated to be that student.
9. Then I think, what the crap? Of course that's how the world runs. But when my future kid is going to college, do I tell them that and say, "Push yourself if you want to succeed"? Or do I trust him to trust God and remember that you know what. Kingdom values are different. Christ followers are different. It doesn't mean we neglect academia and succeeding in our profession, but it means we left Jesus' words affect how we approach these things.
10. The past three items often just lead me to sigh, wish our world wasn't the way it was, and imagine how glorious heaven will be. Makes me think about things like Eden and redemption and shalom and how God must have intended the world to be...
Sorry the last four were Debbie Downer status.
Pacific is good at marketing, but the marketing isn't the only thing pacific has going for it. I think it is a community where good relationships can be formed and where God is at work.
ReplyDeletePeople can come out of both high and low ranked schools bitter and broken and not having learned a lot because they just wanted to play the college game. People can also come out of both high and low ranked schools excited about what God is doing in their communities and in their lives and through the work that they do. And people come out of both high and low ranked schools somewhere in between.
Keep pressing on Audrey. We are rooting for you.
I know, right? I don't know why I get tripped up over some random reviews from people I don't know when I have seen and experienced otherwise...
ReplyDeleteThanks Hayley =)