my fantabulous weekend

this weekend was great! on friday, i had a lazy day at work since most of the students had a car wash and i didn’t get many calls. so i read a lot more from my books (beloved, captivating, and the canterbury tales; i plan on starting the davinci code very soon cause i want to read it before i see the movie.) for secretary’s day i received a gift card to a store! so i went shopping during my lunch break with mary, the lady who used to be the receptionist here. that was fun, and i found cute stuff (that i would have never chosen to wear for myself!). then i went to her house to babysit (lol) her 14 yr. old son since she had dinner plans and he wanted his girlfriend over. i got free chinese out of the deal, and it lasted for 4 meals!
then later on that night, we (me, pam, cat, sarah f., leanne, and ben) went to a gay bar (another lol) to hear a band play. i forget their name (well, i actually never knew it), but i liked them cause their instrumentals were really loud. i couldn’t hear the vocalist, so i’d like to hear him one day, but i did say “hi” to him before he went onstage, and it was good.
then pam and sarah went dumpster diving, and i like to ride so i went with them. i promptly fell asleep in the car and woke up at 230 ish cause they’d just dropped me off at home.
then i got up at 930 ish to return the clothes that i couldn’t fit (cause i didn’t have a lot of time to try clothes on when we’d gone the day before), and got ready for lenore and nathan’s wedding at 2. it was sweet. i cried. lenore looked beautiful! we ate, we partied, we took pictures with the bride. it was nice. i saw a lot of old faces, such as keisha and linda and shirley. that was cool. then we got home around 6. there was a demonstration for the invisible children of uganda at georgia tech in atlanta that i, leanne, pam, and shawan went to. we slept in a park, about 400 of us, playing music and writing letters to bush and the senators to do something about it. it was cool. i’d forgotten that i have allergies, apparently, and woke up with my nose in the grass and unable to breathe. it was great! someone with a dog named tank saved me from blowing my nose into my sweater. i truly thank him.
we had to wake up at 630 that we may take a picture in the golden sunlight. we waited until 7. there was no sunlight, but we took a picture anyway. when it’s published, you may find me about 6 people over next to the atlanta sign in the nighttime shot and underneath the “n” in atlanta in the daytime picture. they kept coming over to me, what can i say?
we got back to athens around 830. leanne took a shower and brushed her teeth and did her hair. shanka got chinese food and watched the incredibles (one of my fave movies). we got to church and it was nice. we had a speaker named ken houts on our breakthrough sunday. he’s funny. we had lunch (charlie made some amazing food!) and there were about 20 people who showed up. that was sweet. then we went back to church for the conference. i really enjoyed that. his message was that we are a miracles waiting to happen in someone’s life, and if we hunger for God and His purposes, He’d gladly use us to impact others. his advice? go up to someone and say “hi, my name is shanka. i am a wonderful, loveable, likeable person.” but not in a prideful way. just in a psalms 139 way. if we are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made, then we should be so very confident and expectant of God’s working hand in us. so yeah, i liked it.
then, what else? we went home and watched “friends”. you know how we do. alicia had made it home by then, and we invited shelby over, and i fell asleep before she got there, and woke up at 230 this morning on the floor in the living room (so i’ve gone almost 2 nights without sleeping in my bed!).and this week is just going to get sweeter! i’m finally cleaning my room tonight, we have a softball game this tuesday, i don’t have choir practice this wednesday since it’ll be youth sunday (though i love practice), i should hopefully finally get paid this thursday, i may either go to a dance party or see b. reith in tennessee this friday, and saturday will be our super cool birthday blowout bash. i’m excited!