Civic Duty?

Okay, so I've been drafted. To be on a jury. Yup. You heard me. I haven't even turned 18 yet (that's on Friday) and they've already sent me my jury information in the mail.

So I guess I should be all excited because this would be a great experience and I can help our legal system and blah blah blah, but all I can think about right now is the fact that I don't have time to take a week or two off of school to sit in court right now. Ha, fat chance.

So I'm sort of hoping this thing falls through and they find something wrong with me so I don't have to. Is that bad? Maybe it's just my initial reaction. But yeah, you can all call me names and say I'm a bad citizen, but it's just how I feel.

[EDIT] Okay, so I have to admit, now that the original shock of it all has worn off I I really do think it would be cool to be a juror. I was more just freaking out with respect to my schooling, etc. Just so you don't think I'm totally apathetic towards the whole thing..... [/EDIT]

P.S. Has anyone actually ever been a juror before? If so, what was it like? I really don't know a whole lot about the procedure.

Yay!

So I got my laptop back today. I don't think I posted about this on here, but I bought a laptop for school at the beginning of August, and by the beginning of September it was giving me major problems. It wouldn't start up sometimes, and blah blah blah. So I called the technical support line, waited on hold for 40 minutes, and they sent me a new AC adaptor (the power cable thing). It worked for 2 weeks and then started doing the same thing. SO - I called the technical line again, and said I wanted them to take it in and fix it. So about a week or so ago they took it.

I was really worried though, because I hadn't backed everything up on it yet, and it had my Vancouver pictures and some school stuff on it, and I wasn't able to get on it in time to get it all off...it wasn't working. SO I was praying and hoping they wouldn't have to wipe the hard drive, but thought they probably would.

Anyways, I got it back today (quick service Acer - brownie points for you...but not for the laptop problems in the first place, lol) and thank goodness they DIDN'T have to wipe the hard drive. They gave me a new main board, which is apparently a big part of the laptop, but I don't really know what it does. Anyways, I'm just glad it was under warrenty and that I still have my stuff.

Anyways, that's my story for tonight, and now I have to get back to some midterm studying! Adios!

Technical Update

I have been informed that only registered Bloggers can comment on my blog. This is just an update letting all you non-Bloggers know that you can now comment. Enjoy! Hehe.

Thanksgiving

Lost for words with all to say
Lord you take my breath away
Still my soul, my soul cries out
For you are holy

And as I look upon your name
Circumstances fade away
Now your glory steals my heart

You are holy
You are holy Lord

Evermore my heart, my heart will say
Above all, I live for your glory
Even if my world falls I will say
Above all, I live for your glory

With all my heart I'll say
I'm living for your name
With all to give you praise
We're living for your glory Lord

-- "Evermore" by Hillsong

I've been thinking along the lines of "what I'm thankful for" this weekend, and today, this song came to mind. It's one of my favourites, (and was the inspiration for my blog title...) and really reminds me of what I'm thankful for and why I'm here on earth.

Even though it's rough, and circumstances don't always go as we wish they would, God's always there, ready to wipe our tears away - an everlasting friend - and all he asks in return is that we live for him and let the world know how great he is. It makes me speechless. I can't even understand that love. That's probably the point.

Minority

Right now I feel very much like a minority. And yes, I knew this was going to happen, but hey, it's sort of discouraging nevertheless. University can really drain your faith, I'll tell you that. I mean, having almost everyone telling you that your worldview is wrong...well, it can be a little frustrating.

Not only that, but they also wrongly represent your point of view. I mean, not mentioning it is one thing, but when they mention it and skew it completely wrongly that really bothers me. I mean, if I did that in an essay I'd probably fail it.

Okay, so you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Here's an example: Just today my CSI (Childhood and Social Institutions) prof connected "honour your father and mother" (from the Bible) to beating children and child cruelty in the history of children - way back when when it was a "Puritan" worldview and they believed that children were to be seen and not heard and blah blah blah. Oh, and they tagged John Wesley (who I happen to think was a pretty cool guy - so was his wife) on to that as well. So now, countless people are going away with a wrong impression.

I don't know. I guess I shouldn't complain if I'm not going to do anything about it. Maybe I should say something. Or something. I don't know.

Wow. I never quite realized the entirety of the Ugg boot craze until today. When I saw half the girls on campus wearing them.




Why are these are such a craze? Could someone explain it to me? Because I'm not getting it.

Day #2

So I saved my "day 1" post for day 2. Why? Because on day 1 I had a class scheduled for 3 hours, and was in class for a grand total of 15 minutes. The prof went over the course intro and said "Alright I'll see you next week." So it was sort of difficult to judge based on that.

Today wasn't much better though. I had class scheduled from 9:30-10:30 and a tutorial scheduled from 10:30-11:30. The prof was 10 minutes late for class (followed by a whole string of students), kept us in class for about 3o, and cancelled the tutorial. SO - so far my university career (in class) has been fairly slack.

As for the reading and assignments, I'm already getting nervous. I'm used to getting all the year's assignments piled on me at once (I had 4 years of that at AMDEC) but the whole University thing has got me sort of spooked. The fact that the prof. said we'd get 10% on stuff when we got 90s in highschool didn't help. Bah.

Anyways, that's my little update for you. I'll let you know how the rest of the classes this week go...I really wish the profs would start teaching stuff though. It's just putting us farther behind and pushing stuff down the road. Oh well. I'm a first year student - what do I know?