Update: Prayer Request
A quick update: I have been posting about once a week on theotherjournal.com, so if you get a chance you can check them out. I can’t vouch completely for the good quality of those posts… mostly I’m just trying to sound more intelligent than I actually am, and I come up with cheesy titles that I write at 3am or something. But there might be some valuable gems hidden somewhere in them.
I got the co-editor position of the news section of the college newspaper. It’s been a learning experience; I think I’ve gotten better at writing, and interviewing, although I’m still not very confident of my interviewing skills. But I have learned how to construct a news piece relatively well, and then the editing portion of putting together the section is relatively easy, especially after having to work with a much more flawed program for yearbook the last three years.
Why I decided to write today however is because of a prayer request. I found out on Monday that my mother was going in for surgery Tuesday morning to have a hysterectomy. First I wasn’t even quite sure what it was and so I called my grandma (the nurse!) and she explained. I did end up talking to my mom, who told me she had cysts on her ovaries. Not to mention she’s had six pregnancies… (quite a few miscarriages) and so her cramping and bleeding every month is pretty bad. This will improve her “quality of life,” I guess you could say. I talked to her just now, she was drugged all night and so didn’t sleep, so she was pretty groggy, but the surgery went well. It took a little longer than expected; there was some leftover scar tissue from her previous C-section surgeries, and some other unexpected things the surgeon encountered, but everything went successful. She will have a period of 4 to 6 weeks of recovery, but she’s already trying to walk around and stuff so I’m guessing she’ll recover pretty fast. Part of the reason she had the surgery now is because she’s unemployed; which ironically is convenient, considering the amount of work she would have to miss if she was working. But, part of the prayer request is that she can find a job after she recovers.
And, one more note about me: I’m going to be home in a week and a half or so for Spring Break, which I’m really excited about, but only half of the break will be spent at home, the other half I’m spending with my boyfriend at his house in the Detroit area. Hopefully meeting the parents won’t be that bad! We’ll be in Portland for our four month anniversary. Haha, I realize that’s not that big of a deal, but it’s kind of exciting. Yay for the cold Oregon coast as a romantic outing!
Alright, that’s all from me now. Maybe I should talk about my classes, since it’s almost half way through the semester; I guess I could say that I don’t like my philosophy classes as much as I hoped, and I really like my sociology class. I have a lot of reading all the time; last week I didn’t read at all for one class, so that was fun catching up over the weekend. I’m not so worried about the philosophy part as of right now, because I remembered the person who encouraged me to take philosophy said that the old stuff was kind of a drag, but what was really exciting is the contemporary stuff. That’s why I’m at Calvin, because eventually, once I get the basics of the historical philosophy down, I’ll be able to interact with what’s going on in the philosophical world right now which is pretty cool. Yay Jamie Smith! Oh, speaking of, I didn’t get the summer research job I was hoping for. Partly due to the economy, which is weird that it would affect me in a way, but also I just don’t think the idea was developed well enough and that Prof. Smith and I had the right characteristics to do it in a manner that the teaching institute would want, i.e., an end product of curriculum. It would be more theoretical than anything I think.
Okay, now I really am done!
