enjoying the end

First of all, I don't think I'm a vegetarian any more. If you can't eat meat as a vegetarian, then I guess my turkey sandwich at dinner may have officially ended my vegetarian phase (for now, anyway). Turkey just sounded too good to say no to tonight!

On another note, I have 5 papers, 4 exams, and 1 project due between now and the official end of my undergraduate career. We can only hope it's the official end anyway. I'm ready to be done, but also trying to enjoy the last few weeks here! Thursday night a group of us drove to Nashville to see Dave Barnes play at the Cannery Ballroom. It was wonderful. Dave is wonderful. Too bad he's married... We drove back in horrendous rain, forcing us to pull over once and drive under 40 m.p.h. for a good while. That was special. Fortunately, Sherm is a good driver, so we didn't die. It's things like that, though, that make me realize I will miss this a little bit. "A little bit" being the key phrase in that statement. It's time to move on, but Lambuth has been an overall decent place to spend the last 2 years. I've come across some good friends in some good people, anyway. And I'm going to have a degree. Who would have thunk?

Now it's time to really start looking at the future. The 2008 ASP Summer Staff has officially been hired. Manuals have been mailed and a staff list sent out. I'm just anxiously awaiting the phone call from my Field Coordinator (supervisor) with my county information. The 25 Center Directors are the only ones who find out their county ahead of time; every one else finds out mid-way through training when we find out who's on our staff. So this is a new experience for me, knowing exactly where I'll be spending my summer before I even leave. Also, I mailed my ASP Year-Round application last week, so that's still a definite possibility for the fall. If I'm offered a position, I will likely take it. It would give me the opportunity to be bored away from school for a year and look at seminaries... Yes, seminary.

Finally, I'm going to be an aunt to a baby boy! Kenneth and Laura (my brother and his wife) found out Thursday that they're having a boy. They're excited and ready to start buying gender-specific baby stuff. That poor baby is going to be spoiled rotten, especially by his favorite aunt!