Today was a busy day. Mondays usually are for me. I have class, work, and Chem lab. Classes were fine. We just did a quick review in WWW and I did well in tennis by enjoying myself. I did hit a ball into another classmate's head. Oops. She was cool with it. As I was in tennis, I thought that maybe next semester, I'll audit swimming class. I won't be graded on swimming but I'll get the exercise. I can use the exercise. Chem class wasn't a bother, either.

I spent lunch again at the Wesley Fellowship Luncheon. I'm not a Methodist. I don't even think of myself as Catholic anymore. I'm simply a Christian. However, I think if I do return to church, it will be a Methodist Church. They seem to have the most fun. I'm not saying the other denominations aren't any fun; they are. I went to a Baptist Sunday School quite a bit in the summer of 1988 with a friend. It's just that from my time around Methodists, I click well with them. I don't have the fear of God in me around them like I have around some Baptists, including my Baptist relatives. Today's lunch was spent singing a couple of songs that were about one's relationship with God. I sang softly. It's been years since I've sung with others in a religious manner. We also did an activity reminiscent of Brownie Girl Scouts. There are a sketch of a body and we were all to fill in parts of the body representative of ourselves. I drew a heart and a stomach. The heart was about all the love I do have to offer. The stomach was for my ability to digest knowledge. I felt happy after I left. I had fun.

Don't worry. This blog is not going to be a religious blog. It is not my place to force religion down anyone's throat. That's never been my style. The only mention of religion is so I know I have a higher power helping me in my path in life.

Now Chemistry lab was after lunch and it was a disaster! The buret my lab partner and I were using fell apart twice as we were using it. We were doing a titration experiment and the liquid was to turn baby pink. The first time, our sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solution splashed all over me. My liquid in the flask turned fuchsia when the NaOH rushed into it. Thankfully, that was just a trial run at titration. My poor partner had it splash on her as we did the first trial in the actual experiment. It made us run late. My professor had to help my partner finish the experiment because we ran over time and I was going to be late to work.

Work was fine. I helped one student and wanted to strangle another student. Don't worry, I kept my composure. The student I wanted to strangle was a snot and thought since he was from the Mid-Atlantic, he was so much better than us Southerners. The computer he was using didn't save his paper on disk all the way and it ended up losing his paper. My boss and I figured it was his disk but he wouldn't admit it. I checked out his disk. It was the problem. The snot then expected that I would recover his paper and print it out for him. I would then bring it to his classroom. Whatever! That's not my job. It was his fault because he didn't save several times as he did the assignment. I tried to be as helpful as I could but I just couldn't recover the paper. I tried. I just hope he learns a lesson from today.

Enough of that sourpuss. I'm trying to be a positive person, remember? Yeah, I know, that's hard to do many days. Especially on those days hormones kick in. I'll just end this post with Participation Positives:

• Family love & friends' love. Love to all!


• Knowing people love and care for me.


• Being alive.


• Not losing my cool over the NaOH accident today and surviving that Chem lab.


• Our animals: Lucky, Misty, Cozy, Pikachu, C.C., Ranger, Scooter, Graysie, Meroko, and Gizmo.


• Trying to stay positive, even when I feel like the world is about to crash down on me and snuff me out at times.


• I am a college student and I will have a degree one day. Hopefully, by my 10 year reunion.


• Planning on going to my 10 year re

  Posted by Shawn at October 25, 2004 8:44 PM in Participation Positives, Schooling.