Niki is here!

She is here! On my bed reading Catch-22!!!! WHAT EXCITEMENT. I didn't imagine those years upon years of friendship, she truly does exist.
Anyway- my soul is very happy for her presence and mostly everything feels good and in accordance at the moment.


Also, tomorrow=DONE WITH THIS HELL OF A SEMESTER.

And I've decided to train this summer for Philly's half-marathon. Pumped!!


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Hurl

I feel like I need to hurl. This is the second time today and it's from my delicious Panera Bread dinner (although my chipotle chicken panini wasn't pressed for enough time...). The first instance was caused by finishing a 5k which is a much better story. I guess it would have been even better better if I had actually ralph'd instead of just almost doing it. Maybe next time.

Anyway. FINALS. But more importantly: the city tomorrow! I'm pumpedpumpedpumped. And also NIKI on Wednesday. Finally. My soul was slowly dying from the inside out because of the absence of this friend of mine. Seriously.

So life is almost good again despite strange weather changes and impending black ice. Thank goodness for journals, Paul Edinger, and prayer (what of it!?).

Number 2!

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Taebo

I always feel a little bit more like myself after working out.

IC and Operation Smile!!!!

The Facebook group is currently up to 58 members, including the president of Operation Smile on campus.
SHE SAID SHE WAS INTERESTED IN DOING A JOINT FUNDRAISER WITH US!!!!
I am so excited.
SERIOUSLY. This is awesomeawesome. Because we are actually making this work.

I have also scheduled a screening for January 4th at my Parish at home, which will be viewed by Youth Group and YG parents. The YG adviser has also promised 50% of proceeds from their annual bake-sale to Invisible Children.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Invisible Children on Facebook

So I created the Ramapo Chapter of Invisible Children today on Facebook. Meaning technically it's more my chapter than Ramapo's right now, because it isn't officially affiliated with the school yet.
Paul is contacting the girl tomorrow about having that done for next semester.
The group on Facebook already has 15 members (hopefully this number will balloon...we are still waiting for 223 people to reply, and Paul has not even done his invites yet. Also, I created the group at a weird hour..)...so we're hoping for the best come tomorrow!

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Invisible Children: The Rough Cut

My Invisible Children DVD came in today and I just finished watching it for the first time out of (hopefully) many times with many different audiences.
Reading about something terrible and seeing something terrible are incredibly different. I was touched when I first began to learn about the Invisible Children of Uganda, but the experience of seeing is what will really make people take action.

I really hope that my plans for Invisible Children at Ramapo are successful. This movement is so new and so unheard of that I know with a lot of time and dedication any one of us can actually make a difference. Which today, is incredible. Albeit horrible because the situation in Africa is disgustingly ignored.

I'm going to start by simply showing the video to as many people as are willing to watch it. I'll go to rooms or invite people to mine, because the word has to be spread regardless of how it is done.

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