Too Much Homework!

I take quite a few pictures with my phone... and I edit most of them with Instagram, which is one of the most entertaining and addicting iPhone apps I've ever found.  Here are a few more I've taken in the last week or two.
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I have an interesting math professor.  She seems like a nice lady, but when it comes to teaching, perhaps her style simply clashes with mine.

Something she did recently was give us a packet of about twenty or thirty pages, filled to the brim with complicated math problems.  (Math is my most difficult subject.  I'm definitely an English person.)  My professor told us on Wednesday that the packet was due on Monday and a test would be over the entire packet.
But would she teach us how to do any of the problems?  No, because they were supposedly pretty easy to figure out and she had more important things to discuss in class... things that weren't going to be on the test.  Arrghhhghghgh.... but enough complaining.  I did okay.  I spent about nine hours in tutoring and about twelve more hours working on the packet on my own and I finally managed to do most of the homework.  Luckily for me, she didn't check whether or not it was correct.
And while the test was difficult, I passed it and will be able to make some corrections to achieve an A, so I'm currently surviving math class.
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Remember the beanbag I've mentioned in previous posts?  After ten days of owning the thing, it ripped... badly.  The problem was that there was no inner lining and the stitching on the outside fabric of the bag was very weak.  The bag was already becoming squashed.

After the ripping incident, I took that beanbag back to the store for a refund and got a similar-looking beanbag from PBTeen's website.  It was slightly more expensive than the one from Pier 1, but it's much fuller, has an inside lining and an outside lining, other colors were available, and it's much softer than the other one.

Anyway, here's my new beanbag.  It's a charcoal brown color (although this particular picture makes it look a lighter shade of brown than it is) and it's very, very, very soft.  (I'm sitting in it right now as I type these words).

The little decorative blue pillow came from Pier 1 for about twenty dollars.  It's a nice asset to the beanbag, both to blend it into the colors of my room and to provide a place to rest my head when I curl up on the beanbag.
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To your right is a picture that I took during my first Breakaway last Tuesday.  Breakaway is a big Christian worship session that occurs once a week on the Texas A&M campus.  At times, up to ten thousand students come to worship the Lord.  It's really neat.  Ben Stuart speaks each week and he's great.  He's funny, convicting, and at times, brutally honest.  Jeff Johnson leads worship, and he's always amazing.
One of the coolest things about Breakaway is the sheer amount of people who attend.  I stood on the top balcony when I was there.  Beneath me, I could see thousands of students who had come to worship God and fellowship with other believers.  It's such an awe-inspiring experience.  Every single chair on the first two levels was filled by the time Rebecca and I arrived (and we got there about five minutes early).  It's great.  It's really great.

Although I don't have the opportunity to go to Breakaway very often, it's a great thing going on at Texas A&M and I'm so glad it's there.  I'm so glad it's popular.  And if I ever have the chance, I'll invite people who aren't Christians to go and see the body of Christ worshipping at A&M.
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And finally, here's a quick snapshot of the box I bought from Michael's.  It was very inexpensive, probably because seems to only made from black cardboard, but it was exactly what I needed.

These days, getting mail has been the highlight of my week.  I love it.  My family realizes this, so I've received quite a bit of mail lately, from my mom, Amy, Ali, Nawnie, Naana, Grandma Marcia... and each time I get a new letter or little gift, I get so excited.  Mail!  It's like a taste of home.  A taste of family.

I was getting so many letters and didn't really have anywhere to put them.  They were in my paper shelf, but that's supposed to be reserved for my blog papers only (otherwise they're scattered all over my desk).  I suggested Ali to make Mom a letter box to hold all of the letters Ali writes her for Mom's birthday... and soon after, I realized I could do something similar for myself.  I'm not an incredibly creative person when it comes to making things like arts and crafts.  Besides, black is my favorite color.  I went to Michael's, looked around, and found a "Memory Box" for about a dollar.  Easy buy... and it holds every letter I've received while I've been at college.

Thanks for writing me, family. :)