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Name: Megan
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: Santa Cruz
Birthday: 2/2/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: god, life, agriculture, culture, country music, cowboy boots, voicemail, flip flops, best friends, cameras, ponies, rainbows and flowers.
Expertise: counting aphid and flea beetles in the wild potato fields of the lower mainland. going to school.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Agriculture
Message: message me
Member Since:
8/3/2004
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*mwillems
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| i've heard a few requests that i need to write on this thing. i promised myself that i wouldn't blog about not blogging when i started back up again after too many months away. but honestly i've got so many things to blog about that i can't choose one in particular. so it ends up being this.
it's been a long while.
since i blogged last i've moved back into my parents house, started and finished another hectic season of potato consulting and started my last (EVER!) semester of my long, extended undergraduate degree. it's freakishly exciting to think that in one month i'll be all done. done. fin. finito. over. january marks a new chapter of my career which will consist of spending vast hours researching (i think?).
i've got this little list in a notebook about things i that i've itching to write about. and while i'd love to write about all of them now, if you hold your breath until november 29th i'll have so much time and so many words you'll be sick of me.
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| now i remember why i used to blog so often. staying up to write papers triggers all of these bizarre sides of my brain that don't get used in the normal everyday hours. i'm currently hopped up on diet dr. pepper, hot chocolate, sour patch kids and gummi worms. reading that sentence makes me want to vomit, but somehow they have provided this extra-ordinary ability for me to be absolutely not tired at three, thirty-three am. when i get home, i'm going on a strictly veggie diet to compensate for all the crap that is rumbling around in me this week.
i still have two sections...let's say four pages of my term paper to write before nine am. that's not including some serious editing and formatting. happy happy joy joy.
this week i have rediscovered two old loves: reo speedwagon and supertramp. (dad would be so proud). for some reason they have been strangely comforting as i spend 7 hours a day doing research for this paper of death that i love so much.
tonight was our last large group fellowship for intervarsity. seems unreal to think that it's all almost over. over! i got to share a little bit about what has happened this year (if you want to know the details, call me, it's personal) which was a really humbling experience. it's fun to realize how much you can change in a year, how different your perspective can be in ten short months.
well...i'm crashing quickly, so i'd better push out those last few paragraphs before i'm face down the keyboard.
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| apparently it's not cool to complain about other people not updating their blogs if you also are not updating your own.
oops.
life is weird. it's funny what happens when you actively give over control. currently my brain is attempting to ignore the changes that are starting in my heart. i plan to deal with it all as soon as next tuesday is over. i'll be surprised if i make it that long. sorry if this is vague, but i'm not even sure what is going on most of the time these days. if you need to know, we'll have coffee, face-to-face is way better than computer-to-computer. instead i'm living by my date book. counting days, finals, exams, tests, minutes, hours until my life is flipped upside down again in this crazy game of life.
leaving santa cruz is bittersweet. i've been going on and on about
being excited for going home, masking the fact that i have to leave all
the amazing people and things i've grown to love in this little hippie
town. no fair! it's made me realize that one has to make the most of
the time that you have in a place. even if, especially if, you are
there for the rest of your life. i've no regrets over coming down south
for a season or two. in fact, i encourage getting out of your comfort
zone as much as possible. it's amazing what can and will happen.
frank is serenading me as i write responses for my class tomorrow. last
one. friday i have a big ass paper due (yay!), two finals and then
wednesday (13th) i'm hopping a plane to seattle to meet mom and drive
back to abby. excited? yes! i can't wait to be back in the homeland.
i've never really appreciated being canadian until this year. it's made
me unique down here, something that i complained about a lot, but loved
all the same. i can't wait to see the farm, see the new additions to
the family and how much they have grown, gossip with the girls at
starbucks, adventure around with valley with you all, go to the lake,
get out in a potato field after the rain and see some good bugs and bad
bugs, drive down zero avenue during sunset, bbq with dad, walk with
britty, do random abby stuff that is harped on all the time, see the
grandma's, eat at timmy ho's. oh so many things!
all the same, the random things i've come to love in santa cruz will be missed. the bus rides, in-n-out runs, sitting in tanya's apartment, knitting with the ladies, dining hall pizza, 99 bottles, trader joes food, my walk home that i've come to adore, the view of creation, the strawberry patch!, the lab weirdly enough, random deer sightings, making cupcakes by the dozen, bible study "fights", all of these amazing people that have changed my life so much. so much more than i can say here.
so if you catch me going on about how excited i am to leave, i'm really covering for the fact that i can barely stand being away from this place and these people. just don't call me on it until i have time to cry ok? ok.
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Pride and Prejudice (A&E, 1996)
By Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor, Susannah Harker, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Adrian Lukis, Julia Sawalha, Alison Steadman, Benjamin Whitrow, Victoria Hamilton, Lucy Briers, Polly Maberly, Alexandra Howerd, Andrew Grainger, Sam Bloom, Bridget Turner, Roger Barclay, Kate O'Malley
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happy easter to one and all.
i'm writing this blog from my bed wondering if the throbbing pain in my foot will decrease enough to go to a kick-boxing class tomorrow morning. this afternoon, after a rather packed easter service, i was walking along at my usual speedy pace and managed to completely twist my foot going down a hill. so much fun! my big plan of the day had been to go to the gap and try on spring dresses, grab some starbucks and study for a few hours. unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately for my wallet) the gap was closed, starbucks was packed and i now couldn't concentrate due to the pulsating ankle. so it's eight hours later and i still haven't attempted to open my books and walking has become a dreaded activity.
in other news, for those of you who read this and i haven't talked to in a while, life is good! i think i probably only blog when i'm homesick, which i definately am right now. i'm missing easter candy and singing 'up from the grave' at south abby, eating paska with grandma and all the fun that surrounds this weekend. school started again on tuesday after a two week hiatus and classes will definately be interesting. i haven't gone to school this late into the year since high school and i'm predicting that my concentration levels are not going to be very high, what with all that sunshine and summer-ness outside my room.
break was good. i spent three days in palm springs with mom and dad who spoiled me with cheese and clothing. i'm excited to have them come and visit in may. something to look forward to for the next month. a good friend, christina, just left on friday and we had an adventurous time exploring in santa cruz and berkeley. work has been...great! i spent all day thursday in the field and came home with a huge bag filled with fresh organic strawberries - definately a nice perk of the job. i think the next ten weeks are going to be just crazy enough and then i'm back in abbotsford after the 15th of june! who knew time could fly by so fast? anyways, at this point, i'm probably writing this blog for no one except myself in an attempt to avoid reading and discussing anthropology (how do I do that?!?! ack).
love you and miss you all
-m
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