flu season is coming... this is just the beginning.

i think i'm coming down with a real cold now... like i've been sort of sick for the past few weeks, first from my horrible allergies, then they got better but i got a cough... and now, i am feverish, then get chills, my head hurts, and my body aches. plus, my cough is worse. so! in conclusion, i think i have a cold, or, i'm on the brink of getting one.

tonight i went to my first club meeting for Painters Anonymous, in the college of design. it was a nice walk over there, around 8 oclock. not too freezing, but cold enough to kind of clear your head and your lungs. anyway, i'm really excited about this club! we have a few things planned for the next couple months... we have a show/exhibit opportunity at the Stomping Grounds coffee place here on campus, a workshop on scenic murals in a couple weeks and i think helping paint the set for the upcoming musical/play or something at the theater, a day of painting at reimen gardens, and then at the beginning of October we have a psychology speaker come talk to us about visual perception and how the brain works in relation to the arts and stuff. sounds really, really cool. i am glad i am getting plugged into this group! yayyy.

Aubrey and I talked on the phone tonight, finally!!!!!! it made me so happy to catch up with her! i miss her so much and can't wait to see her on Saturday.

In other news... the art director from Insight Magazine (the magazine that is paying me and publishing a nonfiction piece i wrote about my experiences with kidney stones and how my faith transformed my life and helped me overcome the hardships that come with the disease), called me yesterday and told me he wanted a picture of me to go with the story, so he asked if i either had friends who are good with photography who could take a photo of me, or he would hire someone out here to come to me and do it. haha.. so i quickly told him that i have some friends who are definitely photography people who could do it for me. so, anyway, then he was like explaining what pose and what his vision was for the picture- me sitting by the window in my dorm, with like my Bible in my hands, and just sort of looking out the window like i'm reflecting.. haha, yeah. and he was explaining every little detail about it.. like what to wear and what not to wear haha (no spaghetti straps and "immodest" clothing, not a problem!), and to keep my makeup "natural"... lol, i dont know, i was listening to him and i just still couldnt get it through my head that something i wrote is going to be in a teen christian magazine, and i mean.. it's basically my testimony. so... yeah, i'm just really, really pumped! I'm going to have miss Jamie Letourneau take the photograph, and she will get her name credited in the magazine, so thats pretty cool too. :-)

I really miss my Pledge group from last year. That was the highlight of my week my senior year... well besides Crew! ahhh. I miss it!! :-(

I'm gonna go to bed early now... i feel like... crap.... haha.

Love.