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Name: Rachel
Interests: adventursizing in augusta. blue like jazz. chattanooga. dutch words. encouraging. fotos. ghetto fabulousness. hello kitty. india. johnny depp. kites. label makers. macs. nalgene. oy vey. peaches. que bonita. rockoperas. seu jorge. third central. u2. vaseline. wonders. xfactor. you. zoo.
Expertise: photographing your face and space. making mix cds. bustin it up.
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Member Since:
2/16/2006
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| it's christmas, holly yolly.
[some truths]
i do not update, but i will right now.
finished a semester very badly, as far as grades go. i need to be an academic.
i am home. it feels wonderful.
we made it home in 9 hours (normally 12) with a presh cape cod native driving.
new york city at new years is going to be amazing.
[most importantly]
jesus is so good. God blessings are abounding. we are imago dei.
[i wish i had]
the new sufjan stevens christmas album. arf, how i want thee.
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| c.o.v.e.n.a.n.t. college. holler from the mountain. i have started to volunteer at lookout mountain presbyterian's youth group on sunday nights. it's freaking huge. at least 50 kids at minimum. it was slightly intimidating, but God is so good and i got to meet several precious girls. i am coming home for fall break (october 13-19) i am just so excited to show my friends to my friends and have them meet and then move to an island to live for the rest of their lives... i wil be bringing my friend leigh (looks like lorelai gilmore) and tina (from brooklyn, ghetto fabulous as i'll get out). i will show them annapolis and dc, as usual. so, i totally bit it last night. coming up from the parking pit i tripped on the space between grass and cement and just fell. i ripped off all the skin layers from the front of my big toe and have a nasty road rash up and down my legs. arf. i feel like i am learning about God's faithfulness in small ways lately. i am so thankful for a roommate that is honest and broken. i miss my friends from back home, but i will be seeing them [y'all] very soon. it's a wonder that i am so blessed when i do not even see it. i saw the flaming lips and sufjan stevens in concert. it was euphoric. i think the FL lone was my favorite one i've ever been to. sufjan makes me want to marry him. he loves jesus and can play that banjo like no other. [love rach] | | |
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this pretty much represents third central. (two of my favorite little skooshers, jennilyn and anna lauren)
my hall this year is presh. there are adorable girls from the south, 3 girls from new jersey (holler, garden state), haiti and mexico. my room mate heather is a beast. she is such a good RA and such a good friend. i am very blessed to have her put up with my ridiculousness.
my classes...
youth ministry: i love this class. it is so insightful and such an amazing group of people. we use the mantra, "ministry is grace". can i get an amen-ah?
french: oui, c'est vrai. i am back in francais. it is slowly coming back to me. there are some presh southern children in there who cannot pronounce to save their lives.
doctrine: my favorite class, no joke. it is a hardcore class with discussions and
cultural heritage of the west (chow): eh, it's okay. it's a core class, so it's kind of dry. but the professor is a philosophy guy, so it makes it better.
inklings: monday nights from 7-10, we talk about/read/act out the works of cs lewis, charles williams and jrr tolkien. i'm real excited
american religious history: very interesting class, i get to visit a messianic synagogue and an orthodox one.
i am starting to be a small group leader with my friend brooklyn tina at lookout mountain presbyterian. we are peeing our pants we are so excited. plus i'm going to be writing some articles for the bagpipe which is covenant's newspaper. holler.
i miss annapolis. i miss ep. i miss interning...however, there is "continuation" as one severna park intern would say. i have gotten to see sarah hall (the aforementioned intern) and clif. it is good that i met these people in annapolis that i go to school with. they are so dear to my heart. chattanooga is better with my MD people around.
note: all of y'all coming in november with rachel to preview better get ready for the best time of your life. it's gonna be fan-freakin-tastic. have you ever heard of the mountain opry?... no? well get ready. it'll melt your face off.
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| last entry before i leave to go back to school. let's make it not cheesy, eh?
this was probably the coolest, most fun, craziest summer thus far. those are all very ambiguous words, yes, but it is because i am still processing. it was nothing i had expected and everything i could have wanted... wha?
i got to see AMAZING live music (which will not end anytime soon)
i got to deepen my relationship with Christ, and be in awe of His redemption and grace
i got to know the beautiful, soulful hearts of Godly men and women
i went on my first ever solo road trip[s]
i watched italy kick the crap out of the world cup
[locations i loved the best this summer]
kimi's patio, ram's head, brooklyn, staganaro kitchen, wilkins backporch, rachel's car, asheville mountains.
these women are what i want to be.
these boys are what make me laugh.
this girl is who i will be sharing my bed with.
i'm 50% packed. i am not bringing barely anything. just clothes, my compy and books. i like it that way. no, make that love it that way. i have learned to accept joy in simplicity.
see ya'll in chattavegas. muah. 
much love to [r, k, c, c, and m]. [ "it's like God grafted us together like peach trees" ]
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| i made a lamp for clif and lee in chattanooga. it is made out of a dressmaker's form and tulle. i made the lamp part. here it be.
i saw [[ van morrison ]] the other night in concert. very fun, very good voice, very memorable seat changes.
this summer has been gracefully added to by what i call "moments". they are short amounts of time where i feel complete peace and joy. a lot of them involve patios at night.
being at kimi's house the other night was euphoric. i love her and her patio. i might get married on that patio to her. we're that fashion forward, oh yess... talking about redemption and relationships and being three-dimensional for once in a long time makes me want to melt into soup and just steam there on the back porch, under the moon, for hours and hours.
kimi and i's phones spooned so hard that now it's flip part barely opens. yeah, that's right, they are hardcore.
i leave for school pretty soon. i am excited to do this next step, but i will miss my annapolis babies. i have made friends here that i never thought would be. that was my prayer at the beginning of the summer--to be honest with people, let them know our need for grace and make strong friendships with unlikely people. God has granted all this. he has dealt with me so bountifully,
looking at my summer, and my internship in general, all i can say is that i made a brick out of leaves [thanks, davis]. what i mean to say is that i took what was given to me and either screwed it up or made it work. i did not pour myself out, which i regret in some ways. i should have been more accessible, more introspective and less concerned with logistics. but, as it was pointed out ot me quite recently, regret has no place in a christian's life. so i do not regret it, but i have learned a hell of a lot.
i worked with the best people this summer. i feel like we are all characters from the breakfast club. and i know exactly who is who. to narrow it down, i am ally sheedy's character... i had such pre-concieved notions about all of them, and they were all squashed. we somehow got past them. i love these people, each for different reasons. cue the 80's music.
[[thought of the day]] for some reason, if you feel depressed at work but play with an airsoft gun, pretending to pistol whip someone, it makes you not so depressed.
ciao, bellas.
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