Wise Foolery (Sophomore Year)

Well seeing as it's been...a while, I figured I'd write something up to talk about life. Bullet point form:
1. God is good
2. God is really crazy freak'n good
3. Life with chronic health problems can be harder than I could have ever imagined
4. Having good friends, to sound Churchy brothers and sisters in Christ, makes the going a lot easier
5. Coffee (yeah, no need to say more...but really it says more than a thousand pictures (which means more than a million words if you can do math))

Right now I'm "working" i.e. sitting at a desk in the library. Since my last posting I have managed to inadvertently pick up a second job so I am now a "circulation clerk" at the library and a barista at the campus coffee shop. Suffice to say I love both, the first is 30% work and 70% paid study hour...the second is making coffee for a bunch of Canucks. However, being the genius I am I thought I had time to work two jobs, lead an Impact Group, and study full time...when I finally got done saying "la la la la laaa" and pulled my fingers out of my ears God make it a bit clear that this was a terrible idea and he had better plans. I had to finish out my term which involved being sick in bed for a week, too weak to go to meals...slightly humbling...and some friends really carrying me through. Christmas was the best I've had in a long time. I got to see everyone except for my sister who is on a little island in Africa (of whom I am often jealous when the temprature dips to -40 F here)...including seeing my charming and only occasionally screaming nephew.

Random new paragraph starting here because I don't really care and it's not a paper. Christmas also involved visiting the beach with my friends and later my family...more amazing coffee of the Pacific Northwest (the best I've ever had)...driving trucks on back roads...breaking trucks on the beach...towing trucks with bigger trucks...and getting in some good reading and rest.

Third term (we have four terms in each school year), it has involved doing 5/9th's class load, which is far more reasonable giving me time to actually think about what I'm learning, work a few more hours a week, and take naps when my health demands it. Um...it's flown by, like I can't believe how quickly it's gone. Oh flashback, at Christmas my doctor found a supplement that allows me to have dairy and eggs, so now I'm only a vegetarian. Beyond that it's been good, I got to go on a retreat to Banff with some other youth ministry folks (see the picture I'll insert once I'm done typing this). Yeah, I just got done with a restful term break. Being in Discover last year I never got a term break so these things are new and wonderful and confusing.

Health wise it's not been so amazing. Things have been up and down with me feeling anything from 90% down to around 50%...average somewhere around 75-80%. Of course drug problems come with their price, so having a couple jobs is a good thing. I don't really have much else to say on that other than that it's hard and demands a lot more faith than I have at times. So I've got a term, a modular class, and then I'll be back in the good ol' U. S. of A. in May.