"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power to equal your tasks." -- Phillip Brooks Well, I made it to another Thursday. Only two classes left until the end of the week. Megan's leaving tomorrow morning for the symphony trip to Chicago so it's just me this weekend (and I can't wait). I have a date with my organic chem book. It will be a blast. I found out that I got a 83 on my poli sci test that everyone else did bad on (class average of 66) so I thought I did horrible since my studying was minimial to none. This is a lesson for me though. I may be able to get away with it once but next time, I'm going to have to be on top of things. New scoreboard for the semester thus far: Organic Chem Exam 1: 89 Micro Lab Exam 1: 86 Micro Exam 1: 92 Poli Sci Exam 1: 83 Two Chem Lab reports thus far: 20/20 So yeah, this semester's looking a whole lot better than last semester. Last semester was probably my worst semester ever. Physically, emotionally, spiritually, academically, something-else-ally. So I'm glad that I'm finally out of that rut because it did suck . . . a lot. My dad called me this morning at a quarter to 9 and woke me up (I should've been up already but oh well). He had bad news though. Apparently, my grandma had like a mini-stroke or something and so she's in the hospital. They did a CAT scan and found "something" in her brain and so now they are running tests. My dad got a call from my grandma's neighbor who was worried because she was acting odd. My dad went over there and said her house was disorganized (she's a neat freak) and she was very spacey, so they took her in. So yeah, prayers about that would be nice people. I love my grandma to bits. I don't know what's going to happen but I know that God has His hand on it. I'm just glad that I got to go over and see my grandma every day this summer and talk to her and stuff since she may never be the same again. ::Prayers, please:: Yesterday, I was talking to my mom over AIM and she was like "weren't you supposed to get paid last weekend?" And I said that I did but when I looked in my checking account, there was no paycheck to be found. No ISU deposit for my work-study job. It scares me. I only have $6 in my checking account now until the end of the month. I know I can get through it but I better be getting a paycheck then. Otherwise, my savings account will not be happy with me. I'm supposed to be saving that money for something really special, like a cruise or something. I guess we will see. Thus are the problems you face when you turn 20, I guess. On a happier note, today is Thursday so therefore I have the afternoon off. "Off" meaning that I have to fill it will mega-time homework for Com Sci, hall council minutes, and Master Plan bible study. But at least I can do all those things from the comfort of my own room. that's all she wrote you know you love me ;)