Finally Friday

Classes have been going for two whole weeks now, and I must say that I am still not used to the busy pace. I have class four days and week and hope to relax on Fridays, but today is just not going to be one of those days! I am going to go study for a while and work in lab after that.
Despite the LONG hours of class and extended time on campus, there have been highlights to everyday this week. I have been pleasantly surprised by the lack of time that I spend just sitting around. God has provided friends and dinner dates galore to insure that I am not too sad over "the loss of a loved one" as Mary Katherine so put it. That, of course, is a bit of an exaggeration. He (Adam) is not lost, just a few hours away and I will be seeing him very soon (Thursday afternoon actually, the countdown has begun)!
So, as I said many exciting things this week. Monday Ashley was in town from California so she and I ate at an amazing restaurant downtown called Fire and Ice. You must check it out. It is a very modern place with cool colors and good customer service. The meals are of the stir-fried variety and you fix them yourself by selecting meats and veggies as well as pastas and potatoes from a smorgasbord of choices. I myself chose chicken, shrimp and scallops along with broccoli, oranges, onion and a spicy teriyaki sauce. After making these selections you cart your bowl to the grill where the "grinning grillers" fry up your tasty meal. Our griller was grinning indeed, he even sang us a song (in an attempt to learn the lyrics) but I could not recognize the song. Perhaps he should just stick to his day job.
After dinner, Brittni and I took our first trip to WalMart as roomies. Eighty dollars and a lot of food later, we were settling in at the apartment.
Tuesday brought many more blessings. It was the first night of summer Bible study. Jenny and I are co-leading a Bible study for college girls and to my delight it is in our apartment!! So Tuesday Brittni and I picked up the apt and I made HOMEMADE peach cobbler. I wish now that I would have taken a picture of it; I was so proud! However, perhaps it is best that you didn't see what it looked like--the pan was a little too big so the crust only covered a very small section of the cobbler. Despite this, it was VERY yummy. We served it with ice cream and I must say it was a hit.
It was getting close to 7, the cobbler was done, the apt was clean, and there were only like 2 girls here. I was starting to get a little concerned, but not overly surprised: it seems that this is the way things often go. Oh me of little faith! In less that five minutes five people arrived!! Giving us a total of nine. We were not only blessed with numbers, but with incredible conversation. I learned so much from discussing the message from this previous Sunday on singleness.
I should have probably posted solely about that message earlier in the week.
One of my favorite quotes from the message was this:
Love desires that which honors God in another's life.
That is a big definition of love to live up to, but one that we can each use as a litmus test of our love for others.
As the girls left Jenny and I were in the kitchen cleaning up. We both grinned from ear to ear and almost did a little dance. "You know Jenny," I said, "I think that this is how Bible study is supposed to be."
I can't wait until next week. Jenny is making homemade cookies and spinach dip and I will be leading. Remember me and the girls in your prayers.
So that was Tuesday, Wednesday Jenny and I worked out after class and then I hung out at the BCM for a while.
Yesterday, oh yesterday was such a long day! Brooke and I went to step class around 5:30 p.m. I must say that for a person with no coordination step class is quite a challenge. I kept up for the first few steps, the ones that consisted of putting your foot up on the step and taking it off, but I was pretty much lost after that, especially at the end when she began to add mumbos (or something) and pivots and twists just for fun. I found myself marching in place and hoping that not too many people noticed that I was facing the wrong way! Despite my inadequacies, it was a blast and a really good workout--definitely feeling the pain today.
Well, I am off to open lab to look at slides of fungus and plants, then MK and I are having coffee this afternoon. Tonight holds many exciting things as well of which I must update you at a later time :-D