Top Five For This Moment…

Well it has been years and years since I’ve updated this baby. Thought I would give all of you faithful readers an update on what is happening in my life, what I’m thinking about, what I’m doing.

1. I took the GRE a couple of weeks ago.  Yep friends, that’s the Graduate Records Examination. I am planning on going to graduate school at some point in my life to eventually get a doctorate in clinical psychology.

2. Also a couple weeks ago–I randomly went into a yarn store downtown as I was waiting with a group of friends to get a table at a restaurant and, coincidentally, it was the one night a month that the store hosts a men’s knit night!  So I will be joining these gents in a week as we sit around, eat junk food, and knit to our hearts content!  And the stuff that these guys were working on was incredible…

3. I’ve been interning at a residential treatment facility for people experiencing mental illness.  I love it.  The folks there are really great–both staff and residents.  I’m excited because I think they might want to hire me after my internship is up.  I would love to be able to be there.

4. I am crushing majorly on a girl.  And she knows it.  It’s pretty sickening.  I love it.

5. This is maybe the thing that I’m excited for the most.  I’ve been going to an Orthodox church for the past couple of months.  I was raised in Protestant Evangelical churches and spent most of my main growing-up years in a Baptist church.  I loved this church and the community that surrounded me there.  I love that my understanding of God grew so much in my years there.  However, I felt no real sense of connection or commitment to the Baptist church.  When I first started college, one of my hopes was that I would be able to visit many different types of churches and eventually find a denomination that felt like home to me, and now, for the first time in my life, I feel like I have found a home.  Though Orthodoxy is not simply another “denomination”–it’s so much more.

More to come.  Thanks for reading.

Procrastinating…

So I’m procrastinating on writing a paper… and so I thought I’d put up a picture of the project I’ve been working on these past few months. It’s a pair of socks for my roommate Tom.

How beautiful is that? I haven’t been knitting much since I’ve been home from Europe. It remains one of those here and there things. Maybe posting this will give me some initiative to finish up soon!!