In reponse to Nathan, who says the weather report is lame...

My OA leader (that hiking trip) e-mailed me this.

I got a chuckle out of it.



Let's brew some controversy.

And with a high of 51...

Today was literally the coldest I've been yet.

Its 36 outside right now. Wow.

In the middle of October. Insanity.

Homecoming

Literally! I'm coming home on the 28th! Yay! :)

Best news I've had all day.

For the first time in my life...

Going to church is hard. :/

There is really only one church in Princeton that I can go to. There are two within walking distance, but one is Catholic, and the other is too far away (and I'm not sure it would be better anyway)

So I go to this church, its at 945 on sundays, which was never a problem back home. I could always make it up that early, but for some reason here, I am always exhausted.

So I go to church, and I love the music, its fantastic, I have some friends there, so I don't feel left out, but the pastor is horrendous. Like really bad. They only way to describe it is to imagine Jim Carrey as the Riddler giving a sermon. He makes me want to punch a baby, myself or him. I'm not sure. He makes me want to do the opposite of what he says, or get up and leave, or scream at him, or the congregation for listening to him. The entire service is spent by me praying to be open minded and try to get past the aesthetics and focus on the message at hand, and how to apply it to my life. But its such a struggle.

After service, we go eat brunch and take communion together. This is the one place where the food is worse than a dining hall, and thats saying something. The people are like hyenas, or vultures, or some other relentless creature. There are some people who are very nice and sweet, and I love spending time with, while others act like its a miracle that I showed up that week. Its like they expected me, as a college student, to be off impregnating someone and getting drunk simultaneously. The pastor pats me on the back and calls me champ (shudder) and people constantly ask me intrusive questions, and go way out of their way to make me feel welcome, which makes me feel more awkward than I already am.

Church shouldn't be this hard... sigh.