Here I Am (...or should it be "Here Am I"?)

...At college.

Yay.

Nay for late profs.

Yay for internet in the library.

So yay in general, I guess...

:)

Curiouser and curiouser...

I just realized that I am starting school next week. While this has produced in me a myriad of feelings (not to mention a sudden scramble for my books...), it's not exactly how I expected. I feel nervous, yes, but it's more...anticlimactic is really the word. All my years of high school building up to this single moment, and, *poof*! I still can't find a book bag to suit my needs...

College isn't going to be much different than high school, I feel. Oh yeah--except for that part about how I'll be in a classroom with other people, and have a teacher and stuff--and I'll be learning how to talk with my hands. XD But books are books, and papers are papers.

And algebra is algebra. Ah, yes, my old nemesis, we meet again. Maybe I'll actually begin to understand you a bit...And then we shall no longer be enemies. :)

Twu Wuv & Mawaige...

So.

Like, a bunch of my friends are getting married.

...I feel old.

Ahh, Mr. Eliot...

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

I don't have time for blogging now. But I love this poem. Wish I had time to put all of it here...

I'll get back to blogging...eventually. Right now instead of being profound, I'll settle for copying the profundities of others... Like Mr. Eliot here.

Prayer Request

My little sister Mercy was taken to the hospital yesterday (she is three). She had the flu which turned into pneumonia; one of her lungs is completely filled with fluid, and it permeated into the cavity around the lungs and the heart. She's in critical condition in ICU, knocked out on antibiotics and morphine. She is on a ventilator. They're hoping they don't have to do surgery to drain the fluid from her; hopefully the antibiotics will take care of that.

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. I'm actually really concerned about my siblings; my parents let slip something about "if Jesus takes Mercy", and they all freaked out. I'm kind of mad at my rents for scaring the kids with that. I have faith that it's not as bad as that, and that Jesus is going to heal her.

Please pray, and thank you in advance. The last person I posted about for prayer, Cassie, is doing much better, and will hopefully be coming home soon. Again, James 5:16.

Peace.

update

My brothers and sisters,

Thank you so much for praying...GOD IS GOOD!!! My cousin Cassie and her friend were airlifted to a hospital last night, their breathing was really shallow. But this morning they became conscious! My cousin has a broken pelvis, cuts, things like that, but she's going to be okay!! They might even take her off the ventilator today! Originally we thought Cassie was the passenger in the car (the passenger sustained substantially more injuries than the driver), but it turns out the other girl's mother came in before my aunt Peg and incorrectly ID'd them--Cassie was really the driver. God is good--her boyfriend had gotten out of the backseat and into a different car right before the accident--he would have been dead, because the backseat was completely gone.

Thank you all so much for your prayers to our Awesome God! Please continue to pray that this will be a wakeup call to my cousin, and that she'll cry out to Jesus to save her!

 

Love you all,

chelsey
 

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Guys,

My cousin Cassie was just in a serious car accident in North Carolina--she was a passenger in a car that was hit by a bus. She is now unconscious, being rushed to the hospital--they've airlifted her, her breathing is really shallow... Though her parents are saved, she is def not... I'm trying to trust God, please pray for her--she is 17 and living in open defiance of Him...Thank you all, please pass this on to anyone you can!

 

love,

chels
 

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Stuff

I've been too busy to blog. I now work six days a week, almost six hours a day (and of course the six hours I work are the ones that are smack-dab in the middle of the day), and I'm so behind in my lesson plans that it's not even funny. Sometimes the kids read the stories before I do... It's a good thing I have a good memory (only when it comes to literature), and if I read a story three years ago and haven't looked at it since, I can still write up questions for it from memory. *Sigh*...if only my brain worked that way with math...

So now I'm back on facebook. It's nice to be connected to everyone, since I'm now an alumnus, and don't see everyone on Thursday anymore. The winter concert is tomorrow night, and I was listening to them all practice last night--I miss singing! :0(

I'm starved, I have to go eat before I keel over; I don't know when I'm going to get a chance to blog next...

Master Yoda's Conundrum:

Chelsey is wondering...

...about happy mediums.

Is there such a thing as a happy medium?

Is there such a thing as a medium?

Is there such a thing as happy?

Hmmmm

A misunderestimation, and good news for the fish

Well, as you all know, Bush is only going to be president for a few more days; and though not everything he has done was memorable, he has certainly left us with a substantial volume of memorable quotes. Don't get me wrong: I'm not picking on the man--I have nothing personal against him: bad grammar and misspeaks (whatever the heck they are) can happen to us all, and after all, he is a politician and a product of the American Education System....

I'll resist comment: it would ruin it. Some of my favorites:

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office,"
-- to Israeli journalists in Washington in an interview published May 12, 2008

"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again,"
-- Nashville, Tennessee, September 17, 2002

"I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today ... He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me,"
-- Nashville, Tennessee, May 27, 2004

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace,"
-- Washington, June 18, 2002

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we," -- Washington, August 5, 2004

"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office,"
-- Washington, June 26, 2008

[Ok, ok, I know I said I wasn't going to comment, but, heck! I had no idea the national security crisis was that bad!]

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully,"
-- Saginaw, Michigan, September 29, 2000

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country,"
-- Poplar Bluff, Missouri, September 6, 2004

[Uh, me here again: all I have to say is, "WHAT?!"]

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
-- Florence, South Carolina, January 11, 2000

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test,"
-- Townsend, Tennessee, February 21, 2001

"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law,"
-- Tucson, Arizona, November 28, 2005

"They misunderestimated me,"
-- Bentonville, Arkansas, November 6, 2000

I'm not blogging.

I feel guilty that I haven't blogged since the sixth.

So here I am. Blogging.

Hey, if Elisabeth can blog about cottage cheese and snow boots, at least I can blog about not blogging!

There, I've done my duty to my blog. Ok then...I'm, uh...gonna go back to not blogging now. See ya 'round...

I'm so weird

I'm so weird.
This morning I was awakened by my cell ringing--not by its usual alarm clock ring of the Hallelujah Chorus (why the heck did I pick that ringtone to wake me up?), but by its actual phone ring.

"Hello?" I sat up groggily.
"Uh, Chels, I have kind of a weird question..." the voice at the other end said.
Nothing new. "Shoot," I replied, rubbing my eyes.
"Uh...What's the plot of Much Ado About Nothing?"

Oh boy; you ask me this in the morning?

"Umm," I mumbled, "you'd better get a pen and paper..."

Five complicated minutes later, I was done. And I don't think she understood quite everything--and I don't think I was quite clear, either; it is, after all, Much Ado About Nothing. She should be very happy that she wasn't asking for the plot of The Comedy of Errors, or Midsummer Night's, heavens forbid.

Which brings me to my point: I think I'm the only person I know who would get a call in the morning, asking for the plot of one of Shakespeare's craziest play. I'm just weird like that, that I know stuff.

Yeah, I have mad skillz.

They've fallen and they can't get up; or, The Lakeland Disaster; or, "Whoops..."

So, the Fresh Fire Ministries website has put out another statement, after all these months. Apparently Todd Bentley is filing for divorce, refuses counseling, and is NOT down with being held accountable for his actions. As my friend Andy says, hard to resist an "I told you so"--but this is as close as I'll ever come, I think; I might not have the gift of compassion, but I'm not heartless.

I'm just glad there's now one less joker on the streets, leading people astray. Now everyone, not just people with a bit more discernment than others, can see the truth for themselves (I hope).

I pray for the redemption of Bentley, for real this time, and for the countless others he's impacted--for "good" or "bad".