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Name: Kaitlin
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Chicago
Birthday: 6/18/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: playing the piano, flute, hanging out with people on my floor
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/2/2005
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| Kaitlin's boss: Hey, Steve and I are going on vacation for 10 days. Would you want to take care of my car while we're gone?
Kaitlin on the outside: Sure, why not?
Kaitlin on the inside:  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| So, I keep trying to resurrect this thing and then failing miserably. So no promises that I'll be writing anything again soon, but for now be excited.
Um, so it's summer and I'm away from home all summer for the first time. Well actually that's not completely true because I was home for 3 weeks, but now I'm back in Wheaton until Christmas break. And I won't see my parents again until December, which is sad.
Why would I do this to myself, you ask? Well, it's basically because God dropped this amazing internship in my lap and wouldn't let me say no. I'm teaching private piano lessons to six special needs kids (Job #1), and I'm loving it. The kids are very very cute and I love watching them improve, even though for some of them progress comes very slowly. I have two students with Down Syndrome, one autistic student, one student with a motor processing delay, and two students with learning disabilities involving their memory and visual discrimination. Doesn't that make me sound smart and amazing? I'm not really, and I'm doing a lot by trial and error to see what works and what doesn't, but I'm learning a lot and having a lot of fun. And I have a really great supervising teacher to bounce ideas off of, so that helps a lot.
I'm also working in the office of the school that I'm teaching with (Job #2), which mostly involves stuffing mailings (I've literally stuffed thousands of envelopes this week. Thank goodness I don't have to lick them.) and doing odd jobs like watering pianos (did you know people did that? I did, but I still think it's interesting.), cleaning studios, answering phones, etc. It's actually quite fun because the people I work with are great, particularly the lady I share an office with, who is hilarious.
Right now I am working at my other job at the library (Job #3) where I mostly just sit at a computer, which is why I have time to write ridiculously long Xanga entries. I work here about 8 hours a week answering people's questions and filling printers with paper. You should be jealous. Well actually, you shouldn't because it's not that exciting.
Yes, in case my handy numbering system didn't clue you in, I'm working 3 jobs. But I have to pay rent and save money for a car so it's okay. When I'm not at work, which is actually more of the time than you would think, I'm hanging out with my friends who are here for the summer or practicing for my senior recital next year (scary!), or talking on the phone, which isn't happening so much right now because I accidentally used all of my June cell phone minutes (oops), and June isn't over yet. So call me some time, but preferrably on a weekend or after 7 pm Chicago time.
So that's my life in a nutshell so far. Kudos to you for reading this far. Now it's back to Job #2, which means mailings mailings mailings.
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| Kaitlin Martin
Kaitlin.R.Martin@wheaton.edu
I am writing to inform you that based on your group's housing average and
the average of the other groups that applied for the same size house, your
group qualifies for the 10-person House
(group #1) for 2007-2008. Congratulations! Your housing appointment time
is Tuesday, February 20 at 3:00pm in the Housing Office (SSB218). At least
one member from your group must be present at this time to confirm your
acceptance of the house. If you have any questions, please feel free to
contact me. And again, congratulations!
Nancy Harrell
Assistant Director of Housing
YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| It's on days like this that I wish for something more, that I'm tired of being tied down to this place where sin distorts and I can't see God clearly. Thanks, God, for reminding me that this place isn't all I was created for.
From The Weight of Glory by CS Lewis:
"And this brings me to the other sense of glory- glory as brightness, splendour, luminosity. We are to shine as the sun, we are to be given the Morning Star. I think I begin to see what it means. In one way, of course, God has given us the Morning Star already: you can go and enjoy the gift on many fine mornings if you get up early enough. What more, you may ask, do we want? Ah, but we want so much more- something the books on aesthetics take little notice of. But the poets and the mythologies know all about it. We do not want merely to see beaty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beatuy we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses and nymphs and elves- that, though we cannot, yet these projections can enjoy in themselves that beauty, grace, and power of which Nature is the image. That is why the poets tell us such lovely falsehoods. They talk as if the west wind could really sweep into a human soul; but it can't. They tell us that "beauty born of murmuring sound" will pass into a human face; but it won't. Or not yet. For if we take the imagery of Scripture seriously, if we believe that God will one day give us the Morning Star and cause us to put on the splendour of the sun, then we may surmise that both the ancient myths and the modern poetry, so false as history, may be very near the truth as prophecy. At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in. When human souls have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. For you must not think that I am putting forward any heathen fancy of being absorbed into Nature. Nature is mortal; we shall outlive her. When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive. Nature is only the image, they symbol; but it is the symbol Scripture invites me to use. We are summoned to pass in through Nature, beyond her, into that splendour which she fitfully reflects."
It's that One that is the splendour reflected by Nature that I wish I could see more clearly, instead of the split second glimpses with which I must be content for now. But praise God that I do get those glimpses and that I know there is an incredible and incomprehensible God that I can trust and who refuses to let me go. It's that God that I am trusting in today. He sees my situation, He cares, and He will be Lord over it.
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| Have you ever felt incredibly sad, and you don't really know why? I've felt that way for the past week pretty much straight. Sure there have been times that have been better than others, but I just feel like there's sadness hanging right over my head all the time. I know it's just because I'm really tired all the time because of this stupid virus that I have, but it still really sucks. I hate feeling like I'm constantly at the verge of tears and feeling like everything in my life is going horribly, even though I know it isn't. I know things are going to get better eventually, but it's just a little hard to see right now... | | |
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