Thoughts from the shallow marine environment in my mind. Coal could be found if it were a lagoon...
I went to the itty, bitty, over priced grocery (which I get a discount at, woot!) and bought food for my room! I don't have to go hungry anymore. My metabolism was complaining about only eating 3 times a day. I would try to stuff myself as full as possible to make it last until the next meal. That's pretty tough to do when I'm used to my mom's AMAZING home cooking and this is..um..anyway. :P
I'm out of toilet paper. I don't exactly know where to get more. Well I do, but the RA is pretty much never here when I am.
I found an awesome mutant pretzel in my pretzel bag! I wonder what its powers are...
My phone's T9 dictionary does not have the word pretzel in it.
I MISS GEOLOGY!!! Holy Cow, like SERIOUSLY. I yeeearn for more information! Diagrams on the board, textbooks, notes, fellow smarty pants Geology nerds. This is SO the major for me. :)
I met a guy here who minored in Geology. He overheard that I was majoring in it and he got excited. No one here understands what he's talking about. I hope we get more chances to talk!
The guy who lives in the room directly above me was the source of the irritating bass vibes being pounded into my brain the first few days I was here. He's my supervisor at work (supervisor really isn't a big deal here) and he told me today that someone clued him in that I was living in the room under him. Thank you whoever that was!! Music was at a much more reasonable level today. :)
People enjoy slamming doors here. I was wondering why, in particular, they were slamming the one closest to me. Turns out it's a stairwell and when people push through the door really quickly it rams into the wall...a mere 3 inches through the wall where my pillow rests. :P
We had a staff meeting last night, we're starting to do a staff assigned cleaning schedule of this building! Woohoo! Those showers were *shudder* hopefully they will be clean soon! (I wasn't brave enough to do it).
Hmm...the snow here is powdery and beautiful. I saw REAL icicles for the first time in a long time! Pretty epic daggers. :)
I walked to work this morning in the moonlight and saw some really cool, fresh animal tracks in the snow. It's so neat living here. I'm apprecitating the scenery much more than a few days ago. I'm lucky I got to be here when it snowed! Sometimes I'll be walking somewhere and I'll just stop, look around and think. "Woah. I'm IN the Rockies. IN them. The surround me on all sides and their splendor is SO magnificent. I especially love the cloud shadows on them. It really is very beautiful here. I feel at home amongst such incredible geological structures. I can't wait to explore them this summer. :)
Apparently Seattle is THE place to be from. I hear other people say, "I'm from Georgia" "I'm from Michigan" and they don't get any reaction. I say, "I'm from Seattle" and immediately whoever I am talking to, their face lights up and they exclaim, "I LOVE Seattle!" "I've always wanted to go there!" "I loved visiting there!" "Does it really rain 9 months of the year?" Seriously. I love it. I love saying "Oh man, Seattle is the greatest! You would love it!"
I've also heard many a time, "Oh you're majoring in Geology? Well Colorado is the place to be!" :)
The people here are so nice to me. I feel like I've known them all for a lot longer than 2 days.
God is working wonders in my life. I'm really beginning to deeply acknowledge how much he loves me and how much he wants an intimate relationship with me. Bare bones, no mess, that's what he wants. It's so not complicated once I really got down to it. I feel like the complications are just there to confuse me and draw me away from my real potential in a relationship. He created me to be with him! Nothing else. He just wants me to love him and accept his love. I feel like this time in Colorado is really accentuating all of this. God's got something really cool planned and I know that if I can grasp it, I will change for the better and never be the same again. I hope beyond a hope. :)
I love talking to God about Geology. I feel like he's the only one who really understands me. I mean, he must love my nerdiness because this is the way he created me! :P I sit at the dining table a lot and just babble silently to him about "compressional forces" this and "original horizontality" that. It makes me smile that I have someone who gets exactly what I'm saying!
Whew. That was all rolling around in my mind at once. :) Good to get it spelled out and written down.
Work every day until next Wednesday. I have a double shift on Easter... 6-2:30 and then 5-9. It will be a long day. I'll just get to celebrate Jesus' resurrection by..chopping lettuce? :P
Man, this whole eternal perspective thing is soooo nice.
It's 10:00! Time to get to bed!
Rachel
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