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Name: Christina
Country: United States
State: Maryland
Metro: Annapolis
Gender: Female
Interests: Jesus, Sunny days, chocolate chip cookies, ultimate frisbee, running, downhill skiing, loving others, rock climbing, reading, drama, sign language, new puppies, swing dancing, traveling to new places, making people's day, water fights, 4-wheeling, the outdoors, music, my friends lives.
Expertise: Finding myself in sticky situations, rolling my tongue, being a professional student.... its amazing I have time for anything else
Occupation: Graduate Student, LRC Graduate
Industry: Legal/Psychology
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  Keramikos2911
Yahoo:  TinaColleen02
Member Since:
3/15/2004
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| "Mommy, when I grow up, I am going to be a princess!"
I chuckle. Expectations soon to be marooned with life's disappointments. My cynicism brings a tinge of guilt.
What are expectations for life? For some, delusions of grandeur. Others - delusions of grandeur masqueraded as noble extravagant initiatives in assistance of other, less fortunate individuals.
For the Saints, a vague, yet, obsequious response. God's purpose. Yet, as time and growth continues, this goal loses clarity rather than gaining it. So we ‘persevere’, continually compelled by the ‘purpose of God’, and continually confused as to the definition of that purpose. Clearly God has missed the mark. Perhaps we are looking at the wrong target.
Expectations. What is it we are seeking? For purity, for perfection, for justice, for beauty. For holiness. Obtainable in their purest form, yes. But only through one means.
Perhaps our expectations and desires for life are not so far off. Perhaps it is our worldview that is.
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| ...comes from some other beginning's end:
Surreal:
-Adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of surrealism; surrealistic
2. having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic: surreal complexities of the bureaucracy.
3. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a
great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous
imagery in surreal art and literature"
4. Graduating with your Master's degree and still having no idea what to do with your life.
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| Three years ago today.... Emily and I had not slept a wink... We were still dancing in the streets... snapping pictures.. waiting in line all night to watch our beloved SOX return home to us... Having our classes canceled and our city shut down to celebrate with us. Three years ago this weekend.... I was crammed into a police barricade with hundreds of thousands of other people cheering... screaming... taking pictures... laughing... ...as my beloved sox passed on floats through our wonderful hometown. Today... I am sitting at work, wondering if another soul in this whole area could possibly be as elated as I am... and finding out there isn't... ....Missing home.... CONGRATS BOYS!!! | | |
| My 'education' has lost it's meaning, yet I still have homework.... I am now a paralegal, yet it is not what I trained for... I will be in Michigan soon, yet I wonder where 'home' really is... I need sleep to function, yet I am often deprived of it... I had an important presentation today, yet had nothing of true value to present... The sun is shining outside, yet I am not there to enjoy it.... My life is not my own, yet I pretend that it is... I have unspeakable joy, yet my days are filled with complaining and protest... My Justification is perfect, yet my sanctification is flagrant... I am aware of my purpose in life, yet often forget to live by it... | | |
| Life has been quite a whirlwind since my last post. Here is my top 11 (sorry, 10 didn't cut it): 1. I quit my job at the MPD.. if you don't know why, you probably don't need to, if you do know why, there is no need to post it. 2. I went to Michigan for the Britton/Dudenhofer wedding and reunited with some wonderful friends from elementary/middle/high school. 3. Had perfect margaritas, caught up on local gossip, and generally laughed a lot with my wonderful best friend and fantastic brother. 4. Packed up the rest of my belongings in Michigan and moved them to Maryland and into my new home :D 5. Watched Casablanca and had a picnic on The National Mall with some of my favorite people. 6. Had my family at our new house for a week, accomplished a lot of work with the amazing help of them, Christin, Nate and several other wonderful friends!! 7. Threw Matt a housewarming/going away/birthday party and a surprise crabfeast. 8. Took my wonderful brother to the airport and said goodbye :( :( 9. Started back up part time with my old job. 10. Painted the kitchen with Lolo 11. Had Meredith and Anna down for the weekend, got voluntarily 'stuck' in the coolest lightning storm of the summer, watched it come in over the tidal basin, got soaked, walked and danced in the rain through the monuments, returned home for hot showers and some relaxing movies. Alright.. that is about it. Classes begin tomorrow. I have a bunch of advanced classes and a couple neurobiology classes (really excited about the last ones!!). Last semester of my Masters program... really ready to be done! Hope all is well, out there. Grace and Peace,
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