It's been a while. I'm back at GBS for my 6th (and hopefully final) year! It's going great so far! I'm taking the dreaded Biology from Dr. Nadine Brown and it's going quite well so far! I actually have been enjoying the class quite a bit. I'm also "playing" (if you can call it that) ye olde French Horn again for choir against my will. I'm taking Marriage and Family Living (in spite of the psychotic, confusing, hodge podge syllabus). Add to that Ear Training I (although I already passed Ear Training II), Introduction to Philosophy, and, of course, Choir. Not too bad of a schedule, but lots of reading and busywork (especially in Marriage and Family Living)!

In other news, my barbershop has been going quite well! I have done 14 and 1/2 haircuts so far this semester and I'm scheduled to do 4 more this week (although I'm writing this in lieu of a client that failed to show up). Thank God for the extra income! It helps at Christmas time! (I know you all expected me to say that it helps to pay for dates, but in reality, homework dates are cheap so I put it toward buying gifts at Christmas time.)

I am headed for bed. I did not get my practice time done today, however I did make nearly 50 phone calls for Phonathon tonight.

One parting thought: I can have control over my attitudes and moods, but I must choose to contol them or they will control me! Oswald Chambers says that we need not pray about moods. "We will never get rid of moodiness by praying, but we will by kicking it out of our lives...We have to pick ourselves up by the back of the neck and shake ourselves; then we will find that we can do what we believed we were unable to do." It is encouraging to me to know that I do not have to have my day "ruined" by a circumstance. I can choose to kick out the bad mood and move forward joyfully! (I confess it's not as easy as it sounds, but I'm going for it!)