poetry at its bestest!

there once was a girl named karoline
who couldn't concentrate on her exam
she tried and tried to study parasites and cytokines
but she went limp like christmas ham

she went to the library to focus
but her mind kept wandering to outside and facebook
she tried to do magic like hokus pocus
then fell asleep in the little secret nook.

finally she bought some coffee
in hopes it would wake her mind
she spilled it all on her knee
and then it was time to leave the studying behind.

the end.

musings on a study night

I miss being a little girl and riding my bike simultaneously.
I now have 34 parasites, their life cycles, pathogenicity, history, geographic location, treatment, and diagnosis to memorize.. why not blog instead though?




this picture reminds me of the song new soul by Yael Naim..

"I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit 'bout how to give and take
But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake"

youtube it/buy it/download it... :)

dreamland

I just had a nap this afternoon and woke up with the strangest feeling. It's that feeling you get after waking up and having just had a weird, bizzare dream. I dreamed that my mom confessed to me that she had taken drugs and overdosed..and that she had given me drugs when I was younger that allowed me to fly! ha! And then I started doing hard drugs. Bizzare! As I would never even go close to them.. the most overwhelming thing for me though was seeing my mom sob and in such regret and sadness because she had tried drugs and allowed me to. Especially because I've been thinking about my parents a lot lately and their salvation and daily walk with Jesus. Coincidentally (or not..), a complete stranger asked me at church today if my parents were saved, and within two seconds I couldn't talk, and tears just welled up in my eyes. That led me more to think about other families of friends where their sibling or parent doesn't really know Jesus and live a life to which God has called them to. I just want to shake them and scream something like.."You have NO idea what you are missing out on!" Then I thought about my own children when I eventually have kids and how I can do my best to raise them to love God and love others and teach them about their creator and their purpose on earth, but in the end it's really up to them what they decide to believe and live out. I think it's most discouraging when I look around and see my peers who have fallen away from God. I had a conversation a couple months ago with my friends about that exact topic and how their siblings, raised in the same family by loving, solid Christian parents that led by example, just fall away. And then I saw one of today's Sundays Secrets..

I feel like blogging

AHkdshfiadsh! I can't even believe it's been months since my last post in April. Reading friend's blogs has encouraged me and inspired me to keep this up. I sometimes feel bad because I can't seem to sustain a blog, but really, who cares if you don't post for weeks? The benefit for me is that it actually encourages me to journal on top of it, about the real, deep, spiritual stuff. As well, I always feel good after typing out a few paragraphs to the world on what's going on in my life.

I feel like I want to write a big long posty about my life since April, highs and lows, and significant things, but that will have to wait as I am currently in the libraray with my parasitology group. This is supposed to be a meeting, and I am supposed to be working on our powerpoint. Oopsies :)

Some GREAT things today...Oswald Chambers' devotional for the day. A text from a good friend. A grande coffee skim misto with 1.5 mocha pumps, cloudy rainy skies, a sleep-in, excited thoughts about Christmas, the best bowl of yogurt and granola for breakfast, a good prayer.

reading my friend jill's blog made me feel a big sense of appreciation for our long, drawn out autumn! I'm so tired of hearing everyone in vancouver complain about the rain. Rain is beauty! It's so fun putting on rainboots and my raincoat and trapsing to school :) Then coming home and putting on the kettle and snuggling up.


Here are some pictures I took with my iphone on one of my runs through the trails in late october