I'm transforming this into something I can use while I'm in Scotland studying abroad next fall.  
I'm going to be gone from August until December 2008. I'll be working on my honor thesis and hopefully finishing my novel during that time as well.

So until then sleep my little live-journal-- I shall awake you in the fall!

For all my older buddies in college around the nation-- I miss you all and I wish you could be here for all the amazing things. But I know all of you are having equally awesome experiences and I hope over summer we can all catch back up. I love you all!

Ah, life. I love college-- I'm in this mode, i think the only word to describe it is "Chill." Its not a lack of motivation by no means. I'm motivated and on top of things. I have come to this inner peace of understanding with myself. I love learning here. Everyday I ask o many questions, not merely in class, but of my friends as well. I question and listen and develope ideas. Open-mindedness is the key to so many doors! I have a whole new world veiw. I'm at the point in life where the main character has this lose of innocence but then come to a greater understanding of themselves and life. I see God, myself, others, the world, in an entirely different light then a little less then 4 months ago.
It's not all laid back, I go through phases of stress, but stress doesn't seem to have an affect on me lately, i dont worry as much, I don't feel lost as much. I feel happy.
Like i'm where God wants me to be.

I keep having this battles inside over my religious beliefs. I love and fear God -- that wont ever change. But now I see how much Juedism, Christianity, and Islam are all tied so closely together. and the more I mawl it over the more I realize how SELFISH it would be for ONE religion praising God to think they are ONLY right. I mean who am to say God can only reach humans in one way -- i.e. through Christ. How do we not see that God could be using Moses, Jesus, Mohammed all to reach different people. He made us different for a reason. I just think it is very narrow-minded to believe there is only ONE way to be touched by God. Allah, Jaweh, God-- they are all three the same being... and if he loves us enough to send his son (in the christian side) then why wouldnt he send others like mohammed-- all three of these religions have been twisted so much by the people who practice them, most people are missing the point completly.

but that just me and my new college phylisophical mind set.

AHHHHHHH!
...life in a nut shell;
band is done! w00t! I will miss hangingout with my band buddies-- but i dont think that'll be an issue. They remind me of friends from home. haha. I'm really lucky. Throwing marching shoes in an open field...flipping eachother...playing spider-man in the hall...haha
Oh man yesterday me, chris, and jr after SWE decided we NEEDED some skyline. (us cincinatians....you know how it is;D) We got Kev to drive us to the skyline up the street in kettering...it was sooooooo good. JR filled an entire cracker full of hotsauce...beyond the point of normal amounts of hotsauce-- I thought he was gonna start crying. haha I feel bad cause we kinda beat kev's car up...to much weight. what can I say, I've gained a freshman 30 (jk ;))

school is fine. I'm always studying-- so it feels like i should be doing freakin awesome! but pretty much i'm doing as well as I did in highschool. Which is cool with me. I'm enjoying class and not stressing to much. perfect mix.

Kev got his co-op for second semester!!!!! YAY!!! I'm so proud of him

I'll be home late tuesday, I think. For thanksgiving. good stuff. lots of food. and time off. hopefully i'll catch up with kids from home. DB, megz, laurel, i've alreayd talked to them-- i'm diffinatly finding them one time over the break.

well I have to go to breakfast now-- mmmmm my favorite part of the day, FOOD!