Monthly Archives: April 2002

Two Weeks in June

Now that school’s almost done, I can begin to think about the summer. In fact, I already have.
June 16-22, the youth group from Aldersgate UMC [my home church] is going down to Safety Harbor, FL [near Tampa] for a week-long mission trip. We’re not exactly sure what we’ll be doing yet, but it [...]

Almost Done, Yet Just Beginning

It’s a gratifying feeling, being almost done with my engineering degree. I’ve just leaped another couple of hurdles today, and I’ll leap a few more of them tomorrow, and even more of them next week.
Right now, I’m writing this entry in a state of near-euphoria. Some things I’ve been worrying about of late [...]

Not Lacking

If there’s anything that I’ve never wanted for, it’s self-confidence. At times, my quantity of self-confidence has bordered on the magnitude of the volume of barrels of oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or the amount of vitriol spewed for by Gary Bauer and those of his ilk. But I have one [...]

Big Ticket Items

Bah. I’m going to have to stifle myself.
See, I’ll sign an offer sheet later today–one that should have me making a bit above $50,000. For a just-out-of-college 23-year-old, that seems like all the money in the world, even though I know that it’s not.
So what are the things that I could buy? [...]