Ushering in fall

Life in Athens is in full swing for me this Fall.

Week one of classes has come and gone and I thoroughly enjoyed the get-out-of-jail-free card as far as homework goes. It's picking up and along with it, so is my procrastination. I am a senior this year and am still convinced procrastination is they way in which to produce the best work. There's no two ways around it. If any of my professors read this my chance, I'm not talking about your class, of course.

This semester marks a first, I have scaled down to 4 classes. Though I'm still getting the hang of managing empty time (there's something about being filled to the brim with things to do that get things done), I am confident there are plenty of things that could fill my time in place of those one or two missing classes, a few of those being a very cute little future guide dog puppy (her name's Irish), Athens church small group, being 21 (modestly, of course ;-) ), etc.

I am excited to announce I'm doing a few things to beef up my resume in my last two semesters that will hopefully send me into my career path with a few more weapons...tools? I am getting back into writing for the University of Georgia's newspaper, the Red and Black and am editor for a class-produced magazine (in the works). Excited :).

But for now, I'm off to try one of Athens best, Cali and Tito's.

Love.

Coffee and Newness

I'd love to get the hang of writing a blog. It makes me feel poetic, pensive. I feel like it would somehow solidify my calling as a writer.

I'm sitting in the best little coffee shop I've found in Athens thusfar. It's called 2story and as far as I can tell, 2story and I are going to be buddies: study buddies, blog buddies, prayer buddies, laughing buddies, date buddies?

It's cute; makes me feel a little more anchored with all these changes going on. I always thought I'd be someone who is relatively accustomed to change, like maybe I'd greet is more like a welcomed guest than an unwanted cable guy. And so far, I have. For the most part, I have found myself welcoming the new apartment, new town, new responsibilities, new job, new school, new food, and new atmosphere with wide open arms. I'm leanring what freedom is and what it isn't, how there is One who offers freedom inexpressible. I feel myself tapping into it. It has very little to do with the tangibility of newness and much more to do with the opening of my heart. I'll keep you posted.