I pulled the old "'where are you?' phone call wake up" trick this morning. It's a terrible one for early Sunday mornings where your alarm clock malfunctions. I had a good day today though. It started off so stressful because I was running over 30 minutes late and there was nothing I could do about it. The worst thing about my involvement in ministry is that I can do 10,000 things perfectly only to have 1 action that I didn't do correctly blown up into my face. Love it. Anyways, Junior High is definitely rockin'. The 7th grade guys core group (i.e, my guys) had an all-nighter at the church Friday it was a freaking blast. I took this kid Kevin out in the turbo go cart that we aren't allowed to let junior high or high school students drive (it's a freaking 70mph beast). So I hit a turn going about 40 and I freaking flipped it! How fantastic is that, we were joking about it earlier in the night too. Luckily we didn't even get any scratches from it. Thank God for roll cages. We proceeded to give these young men their first TP'ing experience. 96 rolls, that's all I'm saying. It's weird to have guys look up to me like I look up to guys like C.J and Sean. It's starting to feel like a really natural thing for me, especially leading worship for these kids. The band is just a complete blessing for me musically and mentally, they just make things 100 times easier for me. Okay. I'm going to bed. A few other things. Mariana is great. It's hard to keep the balance right for her though because it would be so easy for me just to accomodate for her wants and needs, which she would like, but I know she can't have that happen with this vow crap. This guy Ian and I were talking about this garbage the other day. He's going through a similar situation... apparently the dating vow is a recurring theme for the women of the Element and College Small Group. It's almost stupid how alike some of them are. That's one thing I'm trying to get out of Mariana. If she's not careful, she'll end up just like these girls, and that's not what she is. She's completely different and unique and incredible and she knows that. One thing that's great about her calling me so often and getting to know me so well is that I'm actually starting to learn things about her before the other girls in the small group hear about it (which is the a complete first (usually I know NOTHING)). But it's hard for me to keep her at bay too because she wants to go see movies and go get dinner and stuff and just be near me, but she knows she can't date... which makes it my freaking responsibilty to remind her of that fact (which sucks). This concept of close distance is one that I'm having trouble coming to grips with. On a much less socially-important note. I'm really excited because not only does the new Killers album come out in 2 days, but the new Decemberists album as well. This is going to be a freaking new music overload. Speaking of overloads, I've got a mullet now. Not really... just the back has grown to a pretty fluffy length. I was really close to cutting it the other day because I had had like 10 bad hair days in a row and then I took a trip over to the greatest clothing establishment on the face of planet Earth (i.e, American Apparel) and was granted a fashion/ hair-taming gift from God. The sweatband. It's a new era folks. A new freaking era. Goodnight everyone.