The Importance of Absurdity
Friday, October 10, 2003
 
This breaks my heart. It really does. I'm so blessed that I've been given to opportunity to go anywhere I want. My 'rents have always said "If you can get in, you can go". And I know that it's only because a)we have Duke money and b)my mom went back to work full-time. Sometimes I feel bad that I'm not looking at any state schools. I could get into all of them, even Chapel Hill. I feel that I ought to save my 'rents a ton of money. But at the same time, I feel like, since I've been given to opportunity to go elsewhere, I should use it. I feel very strongly that God wants me elsewhere. And I feel so blessed that I don't have to choose right now whether to follow my dreams or my bank account. God is so good to me.

- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 7:54 PM
 
Michael Peterson was found guilty this afternoon. And I just don't even know what to say.
I know that I haven't talked about the case since May and that was on purpose. I had an earlier post about it and because of all the media attention, random people were ending up here, reading what I'd written about it. Normally, I wouldn't be opposed to that at all, but due to the nature of the case and the fact that a jury still hadn't been chosen at that point, I decided that it was in everyone's best interest for me to delete the post. My thoughts on the matter couldn't do anything to help it and had the potential to inadvertently cause "trouble". I also decided then not to post about the case again until it was over. And now it's over.
My mind keeps spinning, not sure where to go. There's part of me that, all along, knew he was guilty. There's part of me that wished, not so much for his sake as for Guy and Cindy's, the Ratliff girls', etc's sake that he wasn't guilty. There's that part of me that knows that justice is being done. There's part of me that wants to cry because someone's dead and someone else is spending the rest of their life in jail. There's that part of me that thinks there wasn't sufficient evidence to convict him. Most of me that wants to hide from tomorrow's headlines and tonight's news.

- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 4:50 PM
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
 
I'm very very happy now. Why, you may ask, am I happy with a weekend like I'm going to have? Well, despite having to work tomorrow, taking SATs Saturday morning, working all day Saturday, babysitting Saturday night and thus missing the chorus concert that I promised I'd be at, and using my day off and a school day to visit 2 colleges (Richmond and William and Mary) that I don't want to attend, I get to see my GSW friends on Sunday! WOO-HOO! The best thing ever is that we all have birthdays right around each other. All the viola girls have birthdays between August and October. Neda's party was in August. Joanna's party is Sunday, Emily's is next Saturday. My GSW party (yes yes, I'm a nerd and having 2 seperate "parties", one for GSW kids, one for Pirates) is probably gonna be the weekend after my bday. I love my GSW kids. They're so much fun! Yay for GSW! Haha, although, considering we all live in like a 30 minute radius of each other, you'd think we'd have gotten together more often. Oh well!

- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 9:54 PM
 
Mixing it up a bit...

1) What's the weather like in your part of the country today?
2) What's your favorite guitar chord?
3) What's your favorite part about fall?
4) What cd are you listening to right now?
5) Should Miami and VA Tech be joining the ACC?

- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 3:42 PM
Sunday, October 05, 2003
 
Just so that everyone knows, I suck at driving a stick. I would advise not being ANYWHERE near me the next time I try (except Chris, of course, though we may want to use my car!).
Anyone remember how crazy my life was around this time a year ago? Maybe not...some of you didn't know me then, some of you didn't really care. But things are getting just as crazy now and I've decided that I don't like it. I mean, yes, it is nice to be finally working and making some money. But already, my job bores me. I can only make but so much of a difference in someone's life by serving them ice cream, you know? My interaction with the customers can only go but so far. I found out Friday that a ton of places at the mall are hiring. I'd be perfectly happy working at Bath and Body works or the Candle place or something.
School is also just kicking my ass right now. I absolutely adore all my teachers except English. The school had absolutely no business giving a first year teacher to AP English 4 kids. He student taught AP last year, but no first year teacher should teach AP. Especially not senior English. And because he hasn't learned yet how to manage time and discussions and such, we're getting overwhelmed with work that wouldn't be overwhelming if it was spread out. Basically, if you had a bad weekend (say, Thursday-Monday), you're screwed for the quarter, which kills your chances at your reach school. Oh, and that's the other thing. He refuses to work on college essays yet. Does it matter that by the time he gets to them, it'll be pretty much too late for the early decision kids? Or kids like me that are trying to get everything out by November 1? And because I'm visiting my last school on October 14, I'll only have a little more than 2 weeks to do it all. Which sucks.
The one really cool thing that's sorta keeping me busy is FCA. It isn't quite making me busy yet, since we've only had one meeting. But I can definitely see it taking up a bit of time come winter and such. I adore it. I love the kids doing it and I love that there's finally something for me to go to at school besides Young Life (especially since we have no youth group!). I'm just sad that we didn't get anything started earlier.

- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 4:30 PM
 
All I have to say is...

HI CHRIS! Thanks again for the driving lesson! And ummm, sorry for screwing up your tires! ;)

- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 3:19 PM

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