March 19, 2005

  • Sorry I have been neglecting xanga . . . actually, I've just been spending my time over at Truth_Is_Reason.

    So . . . yesterday turned out to be really fun. After TOPS I went to the American Heritage Lab with Adrien. Then we ate lunch and started talking, and then we went to the Eyring Science Center to play with the science displays there. She decided to go to my next class with me, so she came to my Physical Science review. After that I went to her math class. It was kinda nice to go to a class a not pay attention at all and not get punished for it! lol. But I never want to take Math again ever. *shudder*

    Last night Mark, Dani, Lindsay, her sister Tiffani, and I went to go see The Work and the Glory. Amazing book, decent movie. The acting was alright, but I think there were anacronisms in the movie that weren't in the book. Oh well. We crammed back into car and decided we were going to hike to the "Y." (big cement "Y" in the mountains visible from down below)

    So well after midnight, we parked up near the mountain and started hiking. I learned a few things about myself (shut up I don't care that that sounded cheesy). I'm scared of heights. (shut up I don't care if that sounded wimpy) I didn't know that. I have no problem with roller coasters, air planes, Devil's Lake, or really any so called "height" in Illinois. A mountain is different. I will confess, as we walked up those steep trails next to steep dropoffs in the darkness of night, I was a little uneasy. I even at times felt that unshakable feeling like I was falling. It's like standing next to a sky scrapper and starring up at the top- you know how then you feel like you're falling even though you're really just standing on a sidewalk. That was me. And I don't know why. No one else had that problem. Oh well. Going down wasn't bad at all, so I bet if I did it again I wouldn't be bothered by it, particularly if during the day. It was just a bit of a foreign experience.

    We didn't get to the "Y" until around 2 am. It was beautiful. Looking out at the whole valley with all the little white, yellow, red, even green lights stretched across the darkness like stars. It was like landing in Chicago at night, only I wasn't in an air plane, I was on a mountain. It really put me in my place in the Universe. Here I was, this small speck on this huge mountain in the huge world with so many lights, so many people. I felt so small. I felt so . . . in the hands of someone bigger than us all. It was one of those "How Great Thou Art" moments. "O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout The universe displayed. Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art . . ."

    Anyways. We hiked down much faster and much easier. He got back to DT around 3 (we had to park the car at Dani's sisters across campus though). Some people were watching Lord of the Rings in the day room. I joined in while eating some macaroni and cheese. I was asleep by 5 am. And that was my Friday.

    "And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing; Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in; That on the Cross, My burden gladly bearing, He bled and died To take away my sin. Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art . . ."

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