i always feel kind of self-absorbed when i make these kind of posts

this morning:

• i think i did pretty badly on my math midterm 2 this morning
  
• but it's okay because i can drop it and just make my final worth more... but that means i need to study study for that 65% 
  
• at the end of the midterm, my professor had a seizure
  
• i am still shocked from it
  
• i left when help came but

catalina last weekend & just... how He is so present. and good. i am learning more and more of the depth of these words. through sometimes the not-so-feel-good but always being assured that he surely is good even more. 

• IV retreat @ catalina was much needed
  
• God is amazing... really. this deserves sowwww much more than just a bullet point. but this post will be a shallow update. ask me if you wish for more :) as always
• "Remain in me, and I will remain in you." ... "Apart from me you can do nothing"
• intimacy.
• being a child in awe of Him 
• what an eventful week it has been. what an eventful weekend and week it will be. what an eventful couple months it has been. not just for me...

random:

• i had a big revelation this morning on the bus that you text with your thumb... at least... i do... on my chocolate. 
• i am almost down to 1900's on dining dollars. is that really bad. oh i mean 1990's... not 1900... haha that would be bad. 
• puha. something funny that happened yesterday: i was waiting for that shrimp taco tuesdays @ el mercado and i was a bit confused when the cashier would not take my ID to swipe it. i looked up and... in my hand, i was holding out my container of salsa to the cashier instead of my ID. and she was not... smiling. 

school/currently/upcoming: 

• my goal before thanksgiving is to go work out for once at the gym. so embarrassing how the only time i've been there is to use the bathroom. i have not stepped a foot into the RIMAC. i kind of want to go home looking like a mature prettier college student but um. hahaha. i am proud to say though, i have not bought a single article of clothing since college. 
• i just signed up for my classes for winter quarter last night. i had it all set and then started having a what's that word i can't remember. i started having a... i still can't remember. but i am set now. :) i am excited to start mornings with spanish and for my HUM class!!! 
• i am going to Mexico this weekend
• i am going ice skating this weekend ! yayy 
• i am finally going to get the notes from Vietnam translated. i am so excited :) 
• i am stokED to go home and drive and sleep in my own bed and use my own bathroom and relax with my cats and meet up with people and see how everyone's been doing and see how some have changed from college and have grown and feel happy seeing all those cute little ones at church and eat all the korean food i want and frozen yogurt and see my sister in 4 months and have a nice dinner and conversation with my parents as a growing.. young adult 
• i am pretty freaking excited for winter break when we don't have to do ANYTHING (i think) for school for a whole month. i am excited to staff for my home church's winter retreat
• my teenage years are almost over. that is insane my friend. 
• and all this is great and exciting and lovely and awesome but i need to cram for chemistry like no other. 
• i will be very happy tomorrow morning after 9:20 AM :) 

and i just took 5 more min organizing this into somewhat more organized form. bullet points! and categories! whoot. pictures later.