another one of "those" days...

today is another day when i wish i could open my head up and let my thoughts spill out through my fingers and find their way to the screen...

not sure if i will have another time to write about camp, so i better give details now... i get to work at a camp for the baptist association in and around seattle... the camp is called fuel and will actually be in canada... i will be a small group leader (sort of, i guess) for 8 sr. high girls... i'll be leading group discussions and such... it's patterned after super summer arkansas, but i never went, so i don't really know... the staffers will leave for camp on sunday and then the campers will come to camp on monday and it ends on friday... so right now i'm in seattle (or in the suburbs) helping get stuff ready for camp... i'm having a lot of fun, but i'm kind of in this weird state of mind... no words to explain it... when the possibility of camp first came up, i was so excited and had this huge anticipation... now i'm really feeling almost a non-reality about it... i know some of that is just that things are not fully in place... lots to do before then...

another thing in my head is a huge question looming over my head... more times than i care to talk about right now i was asked today about what i was going to do with my life... i think i'm going to start saying "underwater basket weaving." i know it doesn't make sense that i'm in school to do ministry and yet my job is at a retail crafts store in the framing department... i have a bachelor's degree in journalism/advertising and i'm not using it... i'm really hoping that the time away and being at camp will give me some huge clarity about a lot of stuff...

this may sound a bit strange, but i really just want a hug... there are times in my life when i just want to be wrapped up in a hug - the enveloping power that a hug offers... i want to know everything will be fine... and not just fine, but great...

okay, so i'm really tired of trying to figure out how to write out what's going on in my head... i'll offer a bit of randomness and go to bed...

today i got to label stuff with a label maker... this was very fun... i declared that the coolest technology ever invented (for today) was the label maker... i punched in what i wanted them to say, hit a button, and like magic, the label spits out and there is even a button to push to cut the label... it was very fun... but then tonight we were making name tags, and i must admit... the laminating machine is pretty cool... so maybe it's a toss-up... but really... to think about how far technology has come in the last decade... and i think the most fascinating machine of all (and quite possibly the most frustrating) is a fax machine... wow... a sheet of paper goes into a machine, the machine spits it back out and sends all the information along phone lines and then spits it out of another machine on a piece of paper... (or something like that...) crazy...

random movie quote of the day - as it was talked about today... the "A" and "B" are character names that are omitted... 500 points...

A: We have stuffed many pinatas for your birthday celebration!
B: How many pinatas?
A: Many pinatas, many!
B: "A", would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?
A: Yes, "B". You have a plethora.
B: "A", what is a plethora?