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Name: Natalie
Gender: Female
Interests: long walks in the middle of snow covered roads with hands on the verge of frost bite
learning about random things like curling-the sport
Expertise: I wish
Occupation: Student
Industry: library, for now
Message: message me
Member Since:
3/3/2004
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| I'm once again listening to the wierd CKUA music. Sometimes I really love this radio station and sometimes their stuff is just to wierd. But it is my favorite homework station. That chapter of my life has closed, for now on (I hope) it will only be DE studies for me. Yesterday was my 23rd birthday I feel like I should be too old to care if I have a cake, but I really wanted one and so I was glad that Christopher bought one even though we didn't eat any until today. I didn't care really if we ate it it, but I was comforted just knowing that I had a birthday cake. Actually we went out and had drinks and some dessert with friends. It was really fun, and I opened my gifts at the restarunt. Then us girls watched a Jane Austen movie. I had a horrible time sitting through it though because I was so exhausted from work and from staying up with the chess nerds the night before. Apparently our time at Prairie has taught us something about community as we have had a constant guest living with us for a week now and continuing until we leave for Kansas. Right now my life is in an interlude between school and a real job. Actually I'm very thankful for the chance to do something new and different for me. I'm a house painter currently. Actually I'm a "painter's helper" I'm not sure that that is the official title but I wish that it were. Basically I do whatever Christopher tells me to and that I can. I'm not a stranger to painting, but my experience is mostly inside. For the past couple days I've been decked out in safety glasses and gloves, both that are to big for me and a breathing mask and earphones. I climb on scaffolding toting around an electric sander. I've pushed my arms to the limit of what they are capible of and had to come to terms with my weakness. | | |
| The end is drawing near. I can feel it and it is mentioned at almost every public event. At church this morning the sermon was great. Last night at the banquet during the prayer I had the sudden realization that I'm a senior, this is it. Thursday I sat in my last class ever, actually I'm happy about that, I don't want to do any more school. I thought it was fitting that the discussion was about faith and reason which has characterized alot of my Prairie classroom experience. I thought it was appropriate last night that in our class president's speech she made mention of all the change that we have gone through in our time at Prairie. CMFX has been named something different each year but one that I have been here and two of our years saw major changes in the Prairie curriculum. This coming Friday I will work my last day at the library. Although this is only my second year I did spend last summer at the library as well. I feel possessive of the T.S. Rendall Library because of my time there. I shifted every book and washed every single bookcase in the 262-900 room last summer. I've seen myself change here. I came at 18, never having lived away from my family, never having lived outside of Kansas, never even having been out of the mid-west. Now I'm married and a resident of Canada with a second family that is about to leave and spread out. This is the end of what I've known was coming, but would have never guessed to be the almost 5 years ago that I first came to Prairie. Its been good, I wouldn't change most of it even if I had the choice. Things change so much even from year to year that I can only guess where we'll all be at this time next year. Relationship dynamics change and our situation in life changes.
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| I love listening to the radio, it's free and most of the time it's local. I hate satellite radio. I just heard on the radio there is a snow fall warning, but the computer says its supposed to get up to 6 and be mostly sunny, although looking outside I wouldn't be surprised about the snow. So anyway...I heard on the radio the benefits of these foods, its like drugs and calories all mixed into one.
ice cream- eat for relaxation
apples fight diabetes
cherries help you sleep
chocolate fights tooth decay (I'm not sure about this one)
strawberries help reduce chances cancer
I have a friend who is a blog-aholic, although she is in denial about it. But I think its cool to think that these smart people write and then have connections with others that they may or may not know. It is very odd to feel like you are friends with someone you only know through their writings, but its cool at the same time. I need some random interesting blogs to read.
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| All last summer I looked for a bike in the price range of $10 with a basket and couldn't find one. Yesterday Christopher and I went to pick up his passport in Calgary and on the way home we explored the suburb city of Calgary looking for a mall that a sales lady had mentioned and we went down a random street and saw a thrift store. I love thrift stores so we stopped. I wanted to look for a punch bowl for a friend's recital and I found one that was lovely except I couldn't find a ladle to go with it and I came around the table of kitcheny things and Christopher said "look Natalie I bike" and I said "buy it for me" and then I looked and it was Edith in all of her retro glory. She is blue which is my favorite color and she has a basket and she actually works and the chain doesn't fall off like Bicyclia that I tried to rescue last year. Anyway I'm very excited to have my little bike which reminds me of the wicked witch of the west in the Wizard of Oz. And also we had driven Stanley instead of trying to take the neighbor's car like we sometimes do so there was actually a way to bring home the bike. It was a beautiful thing, I think it was providence.
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| I feel like it is already reading break, mostly I think because I have my homework for this week done, except for studying for a test.
Tomorrow I'm playing in the Drumheller Music Festival, 2 pieces. I don't really know why I thought this would be a good idea, it obviously is not, as I don't feel ready. I'm skipping basically everything tomorrow to go for the day.
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