I am still alive.

  The capstone proposal is submitted.

  I feel like my life is a runaway freight train with me running behind it holding onto the caboose railing.  But I'm pretty sure God is the engineer, so we should be ok.

  I won first in brown belt kata at the Oklahoma City tournament.  This is a landmark event of my life.  I have been competing with Wansai Ni for 5 years.  This is my first time to win first in anything!

  Should I go visit Erica and do her spring cleaning over spring break or should I go on the BCM mission trip to Shreveport?

  I got a cricket cellphone, free texting and calls.  I don't get the best reception sometimes, but I'm happy with it.  918-933-2303.

  Winterjam was incredible!  My favorites were "Arise My Love" by Newsong, Brandon Heath, and Toby Mac.  Toby Mac was the most incredible performance I have ever seen live, with the possible exception of the laser light show at the Grand Coulee Dam.

  RSU's men basketball team is doing extremely well.  They are ranked number one in the nation for schools their size, have had only one loss the entire season to a team they later beat, and are already in the semifinal round at the conference tournament in Lubbock.  I seriously think they might go to nationals this year!

  I have discovered a good, free puzzle site.  www.jigzone.com  All the fun of puzzles without having to take over the kitchen table!

  Good night all!

Another late night post

  Why are most of my blog posts written late at night?  I do tend to be more contemplative in the evenings.  I think that's a good thing.

  Punyou had two seizures this evening.  The first one was about a mintue and a half and the second was a little less than a minute.  They were about thirty minutes apart.  His whole head would shake, back and forth not up and down, and his eyes wouldn't blink.  We'll call the vet in the morning.

  I think I'll go take the computer and U.S. history II CLEPs tomorrow.  Yeah for CLEP tests!  Everybody pray for me.

  Mama found my old violin shoulder rest--hallelujah!  I haven't been too happy with my new one.  It pops off whenever I really start hugging the violin to me.

  Hillcat basketball is having a great season!  The men are 6-0 in conference play, 12-0 overall.  The ladies just won their 6th game in a row last night and are 4-2 in conference play, 10-4 overall.  They both play St. Gregory's tomorrow.  I'll have to leave right in the middle to go to band practice at church, but I'm hoping to catch most of it.  I sat with Ethan, Mae, and her boyfriend Aaron at the last home game.  Mae played basketball in high school, so she was able to explain all the ref's calls, which was awesome because they're totally incomprehensible to me.

  I had a very productive day today.  I applied for 6 different jobs, filed the quarterly report for the Rogers County Republicans with the State Ethics Commission, renewed the club's registration (with the $52.50 fee) with said Commission, took the sample U.S. history CLEP, cleaned my room (some), worked out, and stretched.  I should have cleaned my desk, but I didn't.  Oh, well, tomorrow.

  I now have three of my textbooks in: Orientalism and Comparative Politics for my Comparative Politics class, and an Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry for my Poetry Writing class.

  I'm really enjoying a book Julie lent me called Stealing Elections by John Fund.  It's challenging my some of my views on absentee ballots and extremely interesting.

  I try to remember to ask this something-resembling-annually: who all reads my blog?

News

  In case anyone was wondering, the score for the ongoing Hillcats versus Wayland Baptist (men) basketball game is 91-63.  Ladies already beat the female Waylands earlier this evening.  We rock!

  I have been thinking a lot about my employment situation. Next semester I only have classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  My first thought was I wouldn't have to work weekend nights anymore!  However, knowing what Christine and Renae are like and the fact that Brenda has been trying to get off nights for a year now I concluded that I would have to quit to get off nights.  I would really like to get a part-time job within the social science field in order to have my foot already in the door when I graduate in May.  However, a well-paying part time job, like a bank teller, wouldn't be so bad.  So, I was thinking at this point that I would quit in January.  However, I knew that as soon as school is out Renae is going to be pressuring me to work more nights.  In fact, she already has me scheduled an evening and a night next week just as soon as my finals are done.  Nights on the weekend are ok, but I really hate them during the week.  Add to the mix the fact that over Christmas break I need to write my Capstone proposal and get together my Rothberg application, I decided that it would be really nice not to work the month of December at all.  So, I gave my two weeks notice last night.  I feel very relieved, but still very nervious about finding another job.  Pray for me, please.

  Mama bought me 2007 office!  Yeah for no more writing in Notepad!

  OK, I'm almost done with writing my Research Methods II final, but it won't finish itself.  Pray for my finals, too!  Love y'all!

 P.S. Final score was 104-76.  Hillcats rule!