If all the rain drops were lemon drops and gum drops

Yesterday I tripped and fell while running. Well, let me be honest. I tripped and FLEW forward, landing squarely on my chest with my legs flying up over my head...yep, I felt my legs FLY up into the air. I had lept out of the way as a car came closely down my side of the road. There was plenty of room - if he/she had hugged the center line all would have been fine, but he/she didn't and I tried to give him/her a wide berth and consequently tripped over something in the gutter. I've fallen before while running (tripping over my own feet), but then I just fell straight down and stayed there. This time, I kind of skidded forward when I hit the ground. I cut up my finger and hand, and really bruised my left knee. It's all big and blue and purple and swollen. My right knee has a bruise on top with a lovely raspberry in the middle. And I have some scratches on my upper leg. I limped back to campus and a friend drove me home :)

THEN! Today I slammed my middle finger in the bathroom stall door at school. SLAMMED. I almost fell down it hurt so much! Instead, I tried not to scream (the bathrooms are very echo-y) or throw up. I went back to class and told my friend and shook it off. I now have a little bruise under my nail and I couldn' t type with my middle finger for the rest of the class :)

Maybe I should pay more attention and pick up my feet more...nah. I think the solution is to run on marshmallows and have doors made of clouds...

Pandora Internet Radio

Has taught me a couple things:

I do not like Dave Matthews Band. Sorry. Just don't.

I do like James Taylor! I know, who knew? Apparently, I've liked him for a while, just didn't know he was the guy singing all these songs I like. Ditto for Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, and Tom Petty. Dude.

I have music ADHD and Pandora is a really good fix...I live off the Shuffle feature on iPod. This is 10x better.

I have no idea how music, the internet, or sound waves work.

My hands smell like onions and I should be studying for a midterm...

But I thought I'd check in here instead :) So much more fun.

I just got back from a WONDERFUL fall break and preached my first sermon last Thursday. I ran a 25:39 -3 miler this afternoon with two great running buddies (one has 4 legs :). There's a really great vegetable dish cooking in the oven, one I'm going to be sharing with my Sunday School class tonight at our potluck (hence the onion thing). And yes, I should be studying for a midterm. I studied yesterday and earlier today and I'll study again when I get back from dinner. So I'm taking a short break to write a blog on possibly one of the most gorgeous days we've had here in a while. No rain, blue skies, whispy white clouds, cool breeze, 66 degrees, leaves changing color...

I think I want to re-decorate my room...

Lawsamercy

I'm pretty sure that at one time, that was actually "Lord of mercy" or "Lord have mercy," but it's been mashed together as the South tends to do. Quick updates on my life (Lord have mercy):

So. AGGHHH! Better now, thanks :)

I've decided to run another 1/2 marathon. After decidedly deciding that I was NEVER going to run another mile in my life. I just can't not run. Can a fish really not swim? Can a scorpion really not sting? Can a frog really not hop?

I really like Greek. It's hard and all, but kind of fun :) All of my classes are pretty okay, actually, so far. Except preaching which makes me want to throw up more and more every time I go. Every word in every book I read makes me more and more nervous! Why would anyone want to do this week after week??! I can't even come up with one sermon!

I realized my Kingdom of God description is that, in the KOG, no one will be just another Jew in a ditch (read Thurman, "Jesus and the Disinherited"). My main ethic stems from respect for human dignity, seeing that we are all children of God, and wanting right relationships with each other, with God, and with the earth. That for me is the KOG and what evangelism is about for me. Showing people a God through whom comes deliverance (salvation in Greek means rescue, being saved from whatever binds you) and with whom you can be restored and redeemed. A holistic salvation instead of just "soul salvation," which is dualistic anyway and I'm not a Gnostic, so...

Lawsamercy.

"...and went to volleyball camp most summahs!"

Word, I am excited about the return of The Office and 30 Rock. They're great shows, but they also celebrate the end of the school week and all us seminarians get together to eat cookies and chips and salsa and lay on the floor in a cramped apartment. Oh, days...

So classes start on Monday. Blech. I don't realllly mean bleeecchh, but definitely buhhhh. To clarify, I really do want to learn and grow and see what's in store. I just don't want to be graded on it. I feel like I'm old enough to NOT have someone evaluate my abilities and worth on a percentage scale. My performance determines my ability to continue and frankly, I just don't want to perform. I cannot imagine writing a paper or studying for a test or preparing a sermon (oh yeah, did I mention I'm taking Preaching this semester? Shoot me now). I don't want to, I don't care to, but I have to so I guess I will.

P.S. (and this is totally random)

I bought new soap and new shampoo and conditioner today. Something about that just makes me almost giddy with excitement :)

“Look at you, thinking outside the socks!"

Do you ever have those days, weeks, MONTHS where you feel like you're suddenly more clumsy and absent-minded than before?

Today alone I

1. broke the arm of my professor/boss's chair. Like snapped it off.

2. splashed Raspberry Ice Crystal Lite all over my shorts (that's the flavor that stains everything instantly).

3. sprayed a huge patch of the wall with anti-stain stuff while attempting to get to the stain before it set. Just shot right out the nozzle onto the wall, completely missing the shorts.

4. ran into an open cabinet, one I had just opened.

5. hung up on my sister in mid-sentence. Just clicked the off button. I was the one talking.

And the day's not done! Oh the possibilities...!