why is nostalgia so fun?

i just went down to my calendar to read through the entries around this day in the last 6 years. 6 years is a really long time. i joined xanga on 5/4/2003. i was 17 years old, finishing my junior year in high school. that seems like such a long time ago.

also, i just realized that i moved to miami 10 years ago. 10 years ago, i was starting my 8th grade year in an entirely new culture, and i was depressed. 10 years ago, i discovered nichole nordeman.

today, i am at work at my full-time job, waiting until 7 when i can clock out, drive (in my borrowed stick shift toyota tercel) to pottstown (where i spent my whole childhood) for a bible study to see the most randomly awesome group of friends and wrap up a series on the grace of God, which is something that i've been trying to wrap my head around since childhood.

everything moves in circles.

by the way, where is my morning view incubus cd? i haven't seen it in years?

dear xanga,

words cannot express how sorry i am for leaving you the way i did. i promise that my return is not just because work blocked facebook on our computers but also because i really miss blogging. but mostly, yeah -- it's because work blocked us from getting on facebook.

love,
abbyjean

plans for the weekend:

• possibly get a new phone at KOP mall
• go to Koinonia tonight!
• lauren and jake's wedding tomorrow! (hang out with pam and jeremy there)
• test drive chester's car/maybe buy it...
• sunday morning church service at bible fellowship
• after 2nd service, "interview" to lead ConneXion (our competition are the kontzes! weird!)
• thane teaches on Hosea 4 at ConneXion in the evening

i think i'll be writing a whole lot more now that work took away our facebook privileges. i've also jumped on the twitter bandwagon -- and so has nearly all of my department! exciting new (and old) toys.

rules:
* grab the book nearest you. right now.
* turn to page 56.
* find the fifth sentence.
* post that sentence along with the title of book and author.

"'There may be a bit of reckoning against Jem for the matter of a hare or so, if anybody was bound to keep their eyes staring open, and niver to wink--but Jem's been a-sitting here drinking his can like the decentest man i' the parish, since before you left your house, Master Marner, by your own account.'"

Silas Marner, by George Eliot

so, i don't get blogger. at all. i have figured out how to post a blog entry. that's about it. i will be sticking with our beloved xanga indefinitely.

wow, i can't believe we're moving out this thursday already!! the apartment is not nearly packed up enough, and i don't have enough boxes. i am so excited! i love moving and changes so much. we checked out the berean apartment today after church. it's even nicer than the one we're in now. that will be a fun memory.

finally saw "the dark knight" last night with thane, brad, kristin, and isha. it really was as good as everybody has been saying! i was so impressed with heath ledger's portrayal of the joker. it's still creepy when i think about it. anyway, reallly good movie.

after the movie, we went to applebees. brad works there now, so we got a really good server -- michelle. well, michal, but nobody can pronounce that. (amanda, do you remember your jewish friend? i remembered her from caroling!) she looked so familiar, and we mentioned pbu, and then she said she had a friend that went there. and i knew who that friend would be before she said her name.  what a small world. well, what a small town.

yay. a movie made by Christian people that's not reeking of "YOU NEED TO BE SAVED!!!" and/or sucky actors. (no offense, kirk cameron.)