Just Eatin' Up Time

What a long Christmas. Christmas Eve with the Farr's, Christmas morning with my immediatel family, Christmas night with the Willhite's, and then today with the Wheeler's....exhausting.

The Wheeler's are at my house right now...about ready to leave actually. We played like 4 rounds of this DVD game called SceneIt. Well, they played it....I didn't do much; I'm just really worn our I guess.

As much as it has been relaxing hanging out at home, I need to find stuff to do. I'm looking into getting some reffing work at the indoor soccer. Not only because I need money, but because I just need to find something to do, haha.

I find my thoughts returning to Biola a lot. I love my family, yes. I really enjoy spending time with them. It's just that I have a life down in Los Angeles now....new people....my age, heh...opportunities in all sorts of forms....I don't know, I just miss it.

For some reason when I am home with my family I feel less motivated...less driven to do things. When I'm by myself--like I was for 4 months down at Biola--I really feel driven and motivated to do things. I think this is pretty easy to explain: when I have parental units over me and no obligation housing and food it is easy to get lazy....I just feel like it's about time I start really taking care of myself--I hate feeling so incapacitated.

What I really need now is a job...heh. I'm going to try a lot harder this semester to get a job...not going to be as picky either. It's about time I start earning some income. I think next year I'll be able to get a job as an editor at The Chimes, but for next semester I just need to work on getting some nice on-campus job to get a bit of cash.

I also have to start looking for internships this semester. I want to be set up with something before I hit next summer. I'm going to look at internships in both Oregon and California....I'll just see where God takes me.

That's all for tonight folks,

Just shootin' them down

That's right...two down, two to go. Finals I mean. I took math yesterday and Anthropology today. The Anth didn't feel as good as I'd of hoped, but I'm not too worried; I have a pretty solid A in that class. The math one was about normal I guess...whether I get an A or a B in that class is resting on the result of that test, so it's pretty important.

So tomorrow I got my journalism final bright and early in the morning at 7:30. The next day is my art final which I am not worried about at all. I have like a 95 in that class and the tests aren't that hard.

In case anyone hasn't seen this yet, here's a link to a funny little thing I made in celebration of Christmas and me coming home:
http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=033ce7b679a3ff99d351573G20061209





Toodles!

Finals Stretch

So here we are folks. Just finished up the last class of the semester. Currently am enjoying the last weekend of my first semester at Biola. One last thing to do....finals!

I'm not too worried about any particular final right now. I think I pretty much know what my grades are going to be. I'll likely get 4 or 5 As, and 1 or 2 Bs. Probably the most important finals are in my Convergent Journalism and Math classes...I have a low A in Convergence and a high B in math....so the result of the final will be pretty important.

Nevertheless, I'm not stressed right now. As long as I get some good studying this weekend and next week I should be good. I'll probably have to study the most in my Anthropology class, just because there's always a lot of information to know.

So anyways, I'm excited to come home. Can't wait to get all wet and soggy again in the rain.......cuz.., you know, this 80 degree weather in the middle of December is just...just...so horrible...*snicker*

Well, talk to you all later.

I Finally Did It

That's right, I know what you're thinking..."Michael, you're crazy...." But hey, you know, it had to happen sometime.

Yep, finally went to the library and pulled a college cram session. 4 hours baby! 4 hours! Just sitting there, listening to music, occasionally chatting to a few friends next to me. Finished 2 essays and a Chimes article! Wow! You know what that means? That means I have no more assignments left this semester! That's right! Bring it on finals, I'm ready for ya!

Lol, I have know idea what you guys were thinking when you began this article...I just wanted to get reactions. Really I'm just in a good mood. There is nothing left for me to do other than study for tests. Such a relief.

And the funny thing is, I can totally see God in all this. Last night I prayed that He'd give me the motivation to get the rest of my work done. In God-like fashion, He made it so: My computer turned out to not be working today, so couldn't sit in my room and play computer games like I usually do when avoiding work. Furthermore, my interview for the article went so well that I just felt inspired to get that thing written.

All that led up to me doing what I bragged about not doing before: heading to the library to work. While I was there, friends showed up (including a pretty nice girl :) ), and as it turns out, having company around you really motivates you. No wonder people have study parties! It really works!

So yeah, totally worked out today in the most coincidental-it-must-be-God kind of ways. Excellent!

Almost home ya'll , almost home!

Christmas Party

Had a lot of fun at my Church's college group Christmas party. We had food, a white elephant gift exchange and we watched Charlie Brown's Christmas. I brought my friend Mike along too...he seemed to have a good time. Anyhow, here are some pictures of the event.
















Mike and I in front of the "fire" .Mike and I, as well as some girls from the
college group that happen to live in our dorm
building. Plastic tree...

Oh yeah, Charlie Brown's Christmas and people hanging out

December 1st

Wow, just winding down here. I have a few more short papers, and then finals. Then that is it. That's it...I will have finished my first semester in college! That is two weeks folks, from this day.

Today a pretty nice day. 75 degrees, clear skies...no wonder I forgot it was the first day of December today.

I got all my classes scheduled for next semester yesterday. I'll be taking 17 credits, which is one more than I took this year. 4 of the classes are Mass Communication ones (for my major), 1 is Spanish, taking a PE class (soccer of course, heh), and the other one is a general ed Communication class.

The Christmas tree lighting at Biola is tonight. Our biggest Christmas tree-like tree in front of the music hall is all decorated. Should be a good hot chocolate sipping event.

So yeah, a lot of random thoughts there. But yeah, hope you're all doing fine. Going to be great to come back home.