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Just finished reading The Firm by John Grisham. Kind of a yawn, though. I think next I’ll be reading a collection of Ibsen plays.

Because I can’t seem to break 200,000!

My top score now is 190,600.

Wrote Heather a letter entirely in Spanish :)

I have already lost 8 pounds this summer; I started at 141 and now weigh around 133. I feel that I am not in top shape, as far as athleticism and the little pooch situation (grr) so I am going to keep going! Lots of bike riding, strength exercises, and when I go back to school, group fitness classes at the gym.

http://issuu.com/offshoot/docs/issue1

WOO HOO!

Just made pasta with broccoli and chickpeas for my family the other night. The pasta was flavored with EVOO, red pepper flakes, garlic, and lemon, and it was DELICIOUS. I have a cheese fondue recipe I need to try out ASAP.

Getting into the habit of reading The Bible is difficult at first, but when I almost decide to skip it now and just go to bed, I feel the Bible pulling me like a magnet. So weird!

I read three chapters a night in The Access Bible, which is great because it has footnotes explaining the weirder cultural stuff.

Tonight I just finished the book of Judges, so tomorrow I’ll be starting Ruth on page 382. Will probably just read all of Ruth in one night, since it’s only 4 chapters long. It’s a good story, I actually read it in an English class before.

I’m not studying for the test, but I need to practice more sophisticated conjugations, and I think this might help.

Went to the Bible Study again tonight, even though I had to go alone/didn’t know if I would know anyone this week. I got there and didn’t know a single person. Realized again actually how painfully shy I am with people my own age but tried to work through it and introduced myself to a couple people. Lindsey I. came soon before worship and sat with me, which was nice, and I met two kids after the study was over. Study itself was on Genesis 37, about this messed up situation with Judah’s lineage; showing by contrast how much the world needed (and still needs) Jesus. The speaker made a statement about how a lot of us claim to know Jesus but aren’t always following His ways, and that it’s eventually going to embarrass us. So true, and could be discouraging, but prompts me to want to always be a good and Godly person, always kind and compassionate and generous.

It’s “off-shoot”

Check out my previous entries for details on submitting!

Looking for entries for my PDF-zine. They can be 72dpi images of your original art, fiction/non-fiction up to 2000 words, or 10 poems per entrant. For more information, visit my blog post: http://brineandpine.blogspot.com/2009/07/pdf-zine-now-accepting-screen.html

There’s not really a theme, just submit anything that you like to make or are most proud of!

Mikaela is a little girl I met while helping to run a week-long VBS. I’ve seen her 2 weeks total of my life (1 for each year that my church visited North Carolina for Student Life) but she has become an important person anyway. I miss her and I lost her phone number, but recently found the paper where I wrote it down, so I’ll have to call her very soon.

Writing Heather a letter right now, using one of the last of my pink stationary with an “M” on it, a present from a relative.