"IV should not yield to demands, including the payment of ransom or other extortion, issued through the use of hostage taking or extortion."
Hmmm. I signed the release. I'm no legal expert, but it sounds like there had to be some danger of a volunteer being taking hostage so that the policy got put into the release form. Probably not from Summit, but from some of the overseas trips I can imagine that's a legitimate thing to worry about being liable for. Anyway, intriguing.
I had an interesting day.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
You are jealous of my pseudo-knowledge
I know that's why.
Anyway, there's some drama and some other silly spring-related shenanigans. Drama in the dorms. Involving my roommate. Silly things in NCM. Good silly. I completely blame spring.
School-type things have faded to nil. Also known as there will be very little school type things done in this term.
Running-type things are suffering under the "week and a half of running left. Blah." Yeah, I don't feel like really caring about getting any better. I'll run my half marathon, but I'm really not worried about time.
The leadership retreat was bomb, let's just say that. A very good thing to do for the weekend, and I wish it hadn't ended.
The upcoming weekend will be less amazing than usual because of fewer people and fewer planned events. Friday Caleb and Jacob are going up to Vancouver Washington to table at a student fair and talk about how to stay Christian in college and also scouting for future ducks who may also want to be NCMers. However, they will miss Bethany's 25th birthday party which is sad, because it will be awesome. The theme is 8th grade dance. that pretty much says it all. Last year's theme was 1983 and the pictures were amazing and awesome. However, because of the party there will be no regularly scheduled movie night.
Saturday I am going to sleep in and run 10 miles if the weather is nice. If not, I will go to the library or something. The weather has been stormy lately. Saturday night is International Night performance. I need to remember to get my ticket and also find someone to go with so I am not completely lame. Int'l Night is subject to being ditched in case I get another offer. Such as girl movie night at Jenell's while our boys are out of town.
Sunday will be usual, but again no Caleb and Jacob so slightly less awesome. The usual traditional Sunday morning is that me and Caleb meet downstairs and walk to the car and I am bright and chipper and talkative about how beautiful of a day it is our how fun _____ was last night. Then we go pick up Jacob and Kyle and I greet them similarly and they kind of roll their eyes. I make a silly comment and get picked on for being a girl at some point during the drive, funny stories from the weekend are re-told, the boys talk about sports. It's a very comfortable time for me. I love Sundays.
Taco Bell is a stand-by, so of course we'll go th is week, but we will probably not play golf since the boys are gone and they usually organize/drive. Also Caleb is the only other lefty and I borrow his clubs. The guys should be home for dinner though.
Wow. I didn't realize until one weekend last term when they both went to Gresham for an Africa trip meeting how much we miss them when they're not here. Of course I think that weekend we chose to just not do anything instead like replacing our usual activities with girl time.
It's like when intramural basketball was over in the middle of last term and the next Monday I was really bored and lonely.
It's great having friends. I think that's one of the reasons I'm so excited to stay busy this summer is so I don't miss them too much. Bonus though! I am moving back to Eugene the 9th of September and I think and all of the NCMers will be back by then as well, since the kick off football game is August 26th and of course they can't miss that. Imagine the parties we will have since there will be no school work until the end of September! And after Res FA training, which I hear is super mind-numbingly boring and obnoxious, I can head over the HQ and chill in the warm Oregon evenings.
What else is going on? Well, I had a sort of long talk with Marcy yesterday and then talked for Fred on the phone for about and hour today, so that's cool. I totally think my little sister is freaking awesome. Ummm meeting with my FIG professor again tomorrow morning so that's cool. Also, Jacob is leading the talk on Thursday night at re:generation so that will be cool; he's kind of nervous about it. I will have to duck out of the Point early in order to walk over there. Hopefully we will be done in time to watch the office at HQ; I missed almost the entire thing last week because the Point went really long but I walked over there in time to see the very last little segment. It was a bummer because last week's episode was completely amazing.
Anyway, there's some drama and some other silly spring-related shenanigans. Drama in the dorms. Involving my roommate. Silly things in NCM. Good silly. I completely blame spring.
School-type things have faded to nil. Also known as there will be very little school type things done in this term.
Running-type things are suffering under the "week and a half of running left. Blah." Yeah, I don't feel like really caring about getting any better. I'll run my half marathon, but I'm really not worried about time.
The leadership retreat was bomb, let's just say that. A very good thing to do for the weekend, and I wish it hadn't ended.
The upcoming weekend will be less amazing than usual because of fewer people and fewer planned events. Friday Caleb and Jacob are going up to Vancouver Washington to table at a student fair and talk about how to stay Christian in college and also scouting for future ducks who may also want to be NCMers. However, they will miss Bethany's 25th birthday party which is sad, because it will be awesome. The theme is 8th grade dance. that pretty much says it all. Last year's theme was 1983 and the pictures were amazing and awesome. However, because of the party there will be no regularly scheduled movie night.
Saturday I am going to sleep in and run 10 miles if the weather is nice. If not, I will go to the library or something. The weather has been stormy lately. Saturday night is International Night performance. I need to remember to get my ticket and also find someone to go with so I am not completely lame. Int'l Night is subject to being ditched in case I get another offer. Such as girl movie night at Jenell's while our boys are out of town.
Sunday will be usual, but again no Caleb and Jacob so slightly less awesome. The usual traditional Sunday morning is that me and Caleb meet downstairs and walk to the car and I am bright and chipper and talkative about how beautiful of a day it is our how fun _____ was last night. Then we go pick up Jacob and Kyle and I greet them similarly and they kind of roll their eyes. I make a silly comment and get picked on for being a girl at some point during the drive, funny stories from the weekend are re-told, the boys talk about sports. It's a very comfortable time for me. I love Sundays.
Taco Bell is a stand-by, so of course we'll go th is week, but we will probably not play golf since the boys are gone and they usually organize/drive. Also Caleb is the only other lefty and I borrow his clubs. The guys should be home for dinner though.
Wow. I didn't realize until one weekend last term when they both went to Gresham for an Africa trip meeting how much we miss them when they're not here. Of course I think that weekend we chose to just not do anything instead like replacing our usual activities with girl time.
It's like when intramural basketball was over in the middle of last term and the next Monday I was really bored and lonely.
It's great having friends. I think that's one of the reasons I'm so excited to stay busy this summer is so I don't miss them too much. Bonus though! I am moving back to Eugene the 9th of September and I think and all of the NCMers will be back by then as well, since the kick off football game is August 26th and of course they can't miss that. Imagine the parties we will have since there will be no school work until the end of September! And after Res FA training, which I hear is super mind-numbingly boring and obnoxious, I can head over the HQ and chill in the warm Oregon evenings.
What else is going on? Well, I had a sort of long talk with Marcy yesterday and then talked for Fred on the phone for about and hour today, so that's cool. I totally think my little sister is freaking awesome. Ummm meeting with my FIG professor again tomorrow morning so that's cool. Also, Jacob is leading the talk on Thursday night at re:generation so that will be cool; he's kind of nervous about it. I will have to duck out of the Point early in order to walk over there. Hopefully we will be done in time to watch the office at HQ; I missed almost the entire thing last week because the Point went really long but I walked over there in time to see the very last little segment. It was a bummer because last week's episode was completely amazing.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
The Population Bomb
Hmmm, sounds very Malthusian I know.
Blah. I'm sitting in International Environmental Issues class which is a completely bogus class. I don't think I'm going to learn anything that I didn't learn in Intro to Intl Issues. I'm not sure whose fault that is. I think prof. Marten's fault maybe, because he was so personally interested in environmental aspects. Maybe also just the system- I wish people didn't have to take Intro, I knew almost everything from that class from 240 and 260 and what I didn't I'm having to re-learn here.
*sigh* Fortunately, this is the last completely silly Intl class I have to take and the last 100 level class I'll have ever.
Ranting aside, this is a pretty sweet term. The class I'm in now, while boring, is neither as boring as Intro or as ridiculously early in the morning. Africa studies and Diversity are all listening to guest speakers and the assignments pretty much just require showing up to class and there's no real reason to do the required reading. FA training is...fine.
I really want to go to Africa.
I also kind of can't wait till the Marathon. I ran 8 miles yesterday and felt amazing. I run so much faster now than I did before. It's exhilarating. Also, it was sunny and hot last night so I dug out a pair of shorts that I never wear and tied my dorm keys to my shoelaces. It was a beautiful night for a run. Bonus: the shorts I found work great so I will probably not be buying running shorts in the near future. I will however probably be buying a new sports bra soon, mine has seen a lot of use.
Not bonus: I forgot to put my keys back on my keyring so when I went to take a shower I locked myself out of my room and was stuck out in the hall in my robe. Fortunately Alexsondria helped me call the RA on duty to let me in.
In other news, this weekend will be awesome: NCM regional Leadership Conference. Sunday night after we get back I think I'm going to a ballet performance.
Here's hoping I hear back from the ICY people pretty soon.
Since I'm completely bored and don't have any actual schoolwork to do I am working on: my voter registration stuff, Summit registration, improving my speed reading, returning staff application for TBC, IJM stuff, French, running, and reading more books for fun.
Yay!
Blah. I'm sitting in International Environmental Issues class which is a completely bogus class. I don't think I'm going to learn anything that I didn't learn in Intro to Intl Issues. I'm not sure whose fault that is. I think prof. Marten's fault maybe, because he was so personally interested in environmental aspects. Maybe also just the system- I wish people didn't have to take Intro, I knew almost everything from that class from 240 and 260 and what I didn't I'm having to re-learn here.
*sigh* Fortunately, this is the last completely silly Intl class I have to take and the last 100 level class I'll have ever.
Ranting aside, this is a pretty sweet term. The class I'm in now, while boring, is neither as boring as Intro or as ridiculously early in the morning. Africa studies and Diversity are all listening to guest speakers and the assignments pretty much just require showing up to class and there's no real reason to do the required reading. FA training is...fine.
I really want to go to Africa.
I also kind of can't wait till the Marathon. I ran 8 miles yesterday and felt amazing. I run so much faster now than I did before. It's exhilarating. Also, it was sunny and hot last night so I dug out a pair of shorts that I never wear and tied my dorm keys to my shoelaces. It was a beautiful night for a run. Bonus: the shorts I found work great so I will probably not be buying running shorts in the near future. I will however probably be buying a new sports bra soon, mine has seen a lot of use.
Not bonus: I forgot to put my keys back on my keyring so when I went to take a shower I locked myself out of my room and was stuck out in the hall in my robe. Fortunately Alexsondria helped me call the RA on duty to let me in.
In other news, this weekend will be awesome: NCM regional Leadership Conference. Sunday night after we get back I think I'm going to a ballet performance.
Here's hoping I hear back from the ICY people pretty soon.
Since I'm completely bored and don't have any actual schoolwork to do I am working on: my voter registration stuff, Summit registration, improving my speed reading, returning staff application for TBC, IJM stuff, French, running, and reading more books for fun.
Yay!
Monday, April 14, 2008
I Believe in the Sun Even When it's Not Shining
Yeah, that is a line from a Barlow Girl song. I listen to that album all the time lately when I'm running. It's amazing. I RIYL: girl power, amazing stuff about God, running in the rain.
Also, when I was listening to that song earlier on my RECORD 0:42 4-MILE RUN today in the pouring rain/hail was when I was thinking about what I was going to blog about. I had some great thoughts. I either don't remember them or don't feel like reconstructing them.
Also, this term its RAWKSOME! That is a contraction of "Rocking Awesome". Mostly I think this because of the weather, the awesome people that I have gotten really close to, my fun classes for once, and the fact that I feel like things are finally coming together for this summer and there's no horrible cloud of awfulness or things I have to do hanging over me. Yet. Just wait till my midterms and my term papers are due.
It's great to know where I'm living next fall and that I will be employed. Also, I sent off my application for ICY Africa today and my feeler email to LMBC about possibly getting funding. James knows when I'm coming to TBC. I have a plane ticket to AK. I have several leads on places to store my crap for the summer as well as places to stay/ways to get to Portland at the end of the term. One of them may involve taking a free detour to Seattle and watching the Mariners play. Yes, exciting I know.
More locally, I haven't fallen behind yet in my classes, I'm staying on top of my "Slavery Still Exists" committee that I decided to head and we are meeting on Thursday, and I'm making good progress in running, getting over my cold, and in speed reading.
That is all for tonight, I'm going to go to sleep and get a good, full night's rest.
Also, when I was listening to that song earlier on my RECORD 0:42 4-MILE RUN today in the pouring rain/hail was when I was thinking about what I was going to blog about. I had some great thoughts. I either don't remember them or don't feel like reconstructing them.
Also, this term its RAWKSOME! That is a contraction of "Rocking Awesome". Mostly I think this because of the weather, the awesome people that I have gotten really close to, my fun classes for once, and the fact that I feel like things are finally coming together for this summer and there's no horrible cloud of awfulness or things I have to do hanging over me. Yet. Just wait till my midterms and my term papers are due.
It's great to know where I'm living next fall and that I will be employed. Also, I sent off my application for ICY Africa today and my feeler email to LMBC about possibly getting funding. James knows when I'm coming to TBC. I have a plane ticket to AK. I have several leads on places to store my crap for the summer as well as places to stay/ways to get to Portland at the end of the term. One of them may involve taking a free detour to Seattle and watching the Mariners play. Yes, exciting I know.
More locally, I haven't fallen behind yet in my classes, I'm staying on top of my "Slavery Still Exists" committee that I decided to head and we are meeting on Thursday, and I'm making good progress in running, getting over my cold, and in speed reading.
That is all for tonight, I'm going to go to sleep and get a good, full night's rest.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Love is in the Air
Not really.
Well, maybe for some people.
I am reading in French "Love letters of the 17th century" so there you go.
Also, today is beautiful and sunshiny and I am done with classes for the week and don't have any real homework!
So I made a plan for re-learning (reapprennant) French instead of paying for or auditing a 5-credit, 5 day a week class. I'm hoping my way will save on time and money. I was able to borrow Caroline's $130 French 1 textbook and bought the grammar text and a verb book. Then today I went to the library and got some French short stories. I'm really not gonna focus on speaking properly because the placement test is all written.
My plan is to devote two hours Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to working on French, starting next week, and hopefully take the placement test in week 8 and hopefully get into 201 (or higher!) so I can take it next fall (or next winter!)
It would be totally awesome to get into 202 or 203 'cause then I would save like $1100 per course, but I kind of doubt that it will happen. Really, I need to finish 300 level French or test out of it, and I need to have 3 semesters of it to have arts and letters credits, so it would be completely legitimate to audit or test out of 200 level. But really, I could just teach myself everything in the world and not have to go to college, so where does that kind of logic leave me?
So we're learning about strategic learning in my FA training class and I was really happy to learn the in fact I am a really awesome person/ student! I could elaborate, but, you know, there isn't a whole lot more to say.
Wowza.
Ummmm Weekend plans are, as always, full and ridiculously awesome. The weekend started last night with Caleb's Birthday Party/ The Office is Back extravaganza! during which we had too much fun playing Catchphrase, eating food, watching the Office, playing Star Wars Battlefront Republic (or something like that) on playstation, general shenanigans, hanging out talking till 1am ish. Most people left by ten so it was just the most awesome people who were there till the bitter end.
Tonight is the Godfather 2 and maybe 3 (wow, long night, I may make a game-time decision to not go.) Tomorrow is completely ridiculous because I have the UO Leadership Summit from 9am till 4:15pm (yay free T-shirt and food!) and the NCM/ Chi Alpha video scavenger hunt supposedly from 3 to 6:30, which I will be very late for, and then the LA missions trip debrief/ dessert at Ryan's house goodtimes.
Sunday is usual madness, although apparently the Master's golf tournament is on and Caleb is obsessed so we may go to the 8:30am service in the name of him not missing watching golf. It will surely be an interesting day.
Also big news is next weekend I am attending the regional NCM leadership conference at Camp Tadmore in Lebanon, OR. It should be most excellent.
So one of the things in the back of my mind for this term is to apply for scholarships, but that may not happen. We'll see. I kind of feel awesome about my free room and board next year ($8000 ish, or more, if you consider it is a single room with the deluxe meal plan) and pretty sure that State Farm will renew my merit scholarship, so I wont have too much less money next year than this year. Also, next year it may be easier to apply for scholarships because a) I will be and upperclassman with declared majors, and 2) there are lots of study abroad scholarships, which is something I'm still planning on for fall 2009.
Hmmm, yeah, I'm gonna go lay out in the sun and work on my verb conjugations.
Well, maybe for some people.
I am reading in French "Love letters of the 17th century" so there you go.
Also, today is beautiful and sunshiny and I am done with classes for the week and don't have any real homework!
So I made a plan for re-learning (reapprennant) French instead of paying for or auditing a 5-credit, 5 day a week class. I'm hoping my way will save on time and money. I was able to borrow Caroline's $130 French 1 textbook and bought the grammar text and a verb book. Then today I went to the library and got some French short stories. I'm really not gonna focus on speaking properly because the placement test is all written.
My plan is to devote two hours Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to working on French, starting next week, and hopefully take the placement test in week 8 and hopefully get into 201 (or higher!) so I can take it next fall (or next winter!)
It would be totally awesome to get into 202 or 203 'cause then I would save like $1100 per course, but I kind of doubt that it will happen. Really, I need to finish 300 level French or test out of it, and I need to have 3 semesters of it to have arts and letters credits, so it would be completely legitimate to audit or test out of 200 level. But really, I could just teach myself everything in the world and not have to go to college, so where does that kind of logic leave me?
So we're learning about strategic learning in my FA training class and I was really happy to learn the in fact I am a really awesome person/ student! I could elaborate, but, you know, there isn't a whole lot more to say.
Wowza.
Ummmm Weekend plans are, as always, full and ridiculously awesome. The weekend started last night with Caleb's Birthday Party/ The Office is Back extravaganza! during which we had too much fun playing Catchphrase, eating food, watching the Office, playing Star Wars Battlefront Republic (or something like that) on playstation, general shenanigans, hanging out talking till 1am ish. Most people left by ten so it was just the most awesome people who were there till the bitter end.
Tonight is the Godfather 2 and maybe 3 (wow, long night, I may make a game-time decision to not go.) Tomorrow is completely ridiculous because I have the UO Leadership Summit from 9am till 4:15pm (yay free T-shirt and food!) and the NCM/ Chi Alpha video scavenger hunt supposedly from 3 to 6:30, which I will be very late for, and then the LA missions trip debrief/ dessert at Ryan's house goodtimes.
Sunday is usual madness, although apparently the Master's golf tournament is on and Caleb is obsessed so we may go to the 8:30am service in the name of him not missing watching golf. It will surely be an interesting day.
Also big news is next weekend I am attending the regional NCM leadership conference at Camp Tadmore in Lebanon, OR. It should be most excellent.
So one of the things in the back of my mind for this term is to apply for scholarships, but that may not happen. We'll see. I kind of feel awesome about my free room and board next year ($8000 ish, or more, if you consider it is a single room with the deluxe meal plan) and pretty sure that State Farm will renew my merit scholarship, so I wont have too much less money next year than this year. Also, next year it may be easier to apply for scholarships because a) I will be and upperclassman with declared majors, and 2) there are lots of study abroad scholarships, which is something I'm still planning on for fall 2009.
Hmmm, yeah, I'm gonna go lay out in the sun and work on my verb conjugations.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Jammity Jammin'
Welcome to Spring Term at U of O! It's looking to be a lovely term indeed. I am taking Africa Studies, Diversity, International Environmental Issues, Speed Reading, and my FA training class! WOOT! College is fun guys, I don't care what you say.
In related news, Easter and subsequently Spring Break were both awesome! Unfortunately, I am too lazy to give a more complete explanation, but I'll just say that it was really nice to be out doing service.
Ummm....officially downgraded to the half marathon from the full marathon. It was just getting silly how much time I had to sacrifice in order to do something that's just for fun and then I'd be too tired to do school stuff. Otherwise running is awesome. Maybe next year I'll go for it again.
Well, I could summarize everything else in my life but I just don't feel like it. This weekend is cool 'cause tonight is movie night and I think Jessica might come. Also, I get to sleep in tomorrow. And work on stuff that I haven't done all week. Sunday will be awesome because of my Harvest-Taco Bell-Run-Dinner@Ryan's schedule. I love Sundays.
I wish I had something more substantive to talk about but I do not. I need to go eat food before movie night. Ta.
In related news, Easter and subsequently Spring Break were both awesome! Unfortunately, I am too lazy to give a more complete explanation, but I'll just say that it was really nice to be out doing service.
Ummm....officially downgraded to the half marathon from the full marathon. It was just getting silly how much time I had to sacrifice in order to do something that's just for fun and then I'd be too tired to do school stuff. Otherwise running is awesome. Maybe next year I'll go for it again.
Well, I could summarize everything else in my life but I just don't feel like it. This weekend is cool 'cause tonight is movie night and I think Jessica might come. Also, I get to sleep in tomorrow. And work on stuff that I haven't done all week. Sunday will be awesome because of my Harvest-Taco Bell-Run-Dinner@Ryan's schedule. I love Sundays.
I wish I had something more substantive to talk about but I do not. I need to go eat food before movie night. Ta.
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