I came back to my room at midnight tonight to find all of the lounge furniture, and five or six laughing girls with cameras. There have been some reports of burglaries on campus lately, and apparently they wanted to "make sure the stuff didn't get stolen". It wasn't as bad as I was expecting--I have to admit, I was slightly concerned when Judith called asking when I'd be back to my room and then proceeded to tell me they'd saran-wrapped Rach to her chair. This was lots of fun though ... ... and you can move that furniture surprisingly quickly with several girls to help you.

*Sigh*. Man, am I going to miss these girls ...

Man, senioritis is a bad thing. I have many other things to be doing than posting, but here I am writing anyway.

I had a fabulous dinner tonight with fabulous people. It was tons of fun, and a nice break from school. I hope they like me as much as I like them .

Many bits of exciting news to share with the world (not necessarily in the order listed):

1--IT WORKS!!!!! Today, Michael and I got the phantom finger to work with the pulse oximeter (that's senior design, for those of you who have no idea what a pulse oximeter is ). It was wonderful and exciting and rewarding. There is still much work to be done, but we have accomplished our goals for the semester. It takes a bit of stress off for the next week. He's put much more time into getting the software working than I have, but combined we've put in nearly 1000 hours on this project ... and IT WORKS!!!! (I'm excited, in case you couldn't tell ...)

2--Another big thing happened this week: I took my LAST EVER 10 minute quiz. This is a momentous occasion--I have been taking these things every week since I first came to LeTourneau. As one of the guys in the class said, "It's the end of an era!"

3--I may as well keep listing lasts--I also took my last undergraduate test (yay for exempting graduating seniors from finals!). Oh, and I turned in my last undergrad paper (If you don't count the senior design report). This has been a huge week .

4--I just sent my last "weekly update" email to the floor as an RA. This is a bittersweet thing. There have certainly been tough times, but I have truly loved living on this floor and getting to know an incredible group of women. At the same time, I suppose it is time to move on to the next phase of my life ... but I don't have to like it.

5--I have been learning incredible things about God, myself, and worship in the last few weeks. However, this doesn't really fit into the bullet-point format of this list. So ... I think I will expound on that more in a later post.

Life ... actually, make that God ... is good. Even with the scary aspect of graduation and change and work, I am beginning to achieve a sense of peace about it.

Praise Him.

I'm attempting to be more diligent in updating this thing, since it seems an easy (though, admittedly, superficial) way of keeping in touch with people once I enter the real world. Besides, I like to write. And I will have more time for this kind of thing in ... what? 10 days! (18 until graduation, but really ... with no finals, I'm done with this thing called school next Friday.)

The problem with updating more often is that you're actually supposed to have something of value to share. Hmm ...

Unfortunately, my mind is so full of school and graduation and mundane details of life that I don't really have the time to sit and think about issues and interesting topics and the like. That leaves my day-to-day activities, and nobody wants to read about which classes I've attended or what homework I've done. Though that seems to be a popular blogging activity, I think I will refrain.

So maybe this regular updating thing won't work so well after all. More later, when I have something to say.

Graduation looms nearer, and I am almost to the place where I can no longer ignore that it is coming. In some aspects, I cannot wait for it to come so that I can be done with class and work and this particular kind of stress. But at the same time, from this end of things, it looks like one of the scariest things possible. I'm going out on my own. What does that look like--working every day, paying bills, cooking for myself, being responsible? I don't really know, and that scares me. I'm not a huge fan of change. Though I suppose that comes with being human.

On a more uplifting note, Israel was incredible. And um, yeah. I think I'll leave it at that. Not much I can really say about it that does it justice except that you should go sometime. I learned a ton about myself and God and the bible and history and life in general.

And, as exciting as this entry is, I am afraid I need to cut it short. Procrastination can only last for so long .

God is good.