It’s Friday morning; shall we do a little weekly update?  We shall!

1. Yesterday in the campus Dining Hall, I bumped into (literally — my body hit his body) a man speaking to the President of our University which caused the man’s bowl of chicken tortilla soup to be slosh over onto the President’s suit.  I profusely apologized; he laughed.  At this time, I’m still employeed by the University.  I’ll keep you updated on future developments.

2. Travis Cottrell was on campus yesterday to lead worship in chapel.  If you don’t know, Travis leads worship at Beth Moore’s events.  Because I’m staff, I was on the front row.  For 55 minutes, I had to resist the urge to hold up a sign that said “HOW DOES SHE GET HER HAIR SO HIGH?”  It was a long morning, but I persevered.

3. I’ve never mentioned this, but sometimes I dream in words.  Like, when I’m having a dream at night, I “read” it instead of seeing it.  I’ve done it several times this week and, one night, I dreamt about people’s Facebook statuses, specifically Cate’s.  It was kind of awkward the next day when I made a comment about something she had written in her status only to realize that I had dreamt it, not really read it.  She was confused.

4. I just did a search to find out if I should use “dreamed” or “dreamt” in the above mini-paragraph.  My research revealed that “dreamed” is more common in American English and “dreamt” is more common in British English.  In other words, I must now begin finding ways to work the word “dreamt” into my daily conversations.

5. I’ve spent a lot of time with both Cate and Marisa this week which means my head is about to explode with wedding information.  Last night, Marisa and I made a list of everything she needs for the wedding and reception and it stressed me out so bad that I jumped out of my chair and said “I really need to dance right now!”  We turned on some music courtesy of my iTunes and danced around my living room for a bit.  I felt better when we were done.

6. This is sad, but since I had mentioned it already, I’m going to follow-up about it.  Aviean’s dad isn’t living with us anymore as of earlier this week.  I had hoped it would work out for her sake, but it didn’t.

7. This means that Snuggles y Cuddles are, once again, the reigning males of the house.  They’re hoping I never get married because they’d rather not abdicate their throne again.

8. Speaking of my never getting married, one of my college girls, Anna, has mentioned to me on several different occasions lately that she hopes I never get married so that I continue to have my evenings open for my college girls.

9. Anna also asked me yesterday if I ever get “blog fan email” asking for more stories about her.  The answer was no.  But I promise you that, within seven minutes of posting this, I will get a text from her that says “You mentioned my name twice on the blog today!!!”

10. Speaking of my college girls, we had the most interesting Life Group this past Monday night.  A few of my girls were sick, so all of the girls who were there — with the exception of one — were seniors (I cannot talk about the fact that a large portion of my college girls are graduating in May because I refuse to acknowledge that it’s actually happening).  Cate joined us, too, and as we did prayer requests, we ended up having a really deep discussion about fears that come up during major transition stages in life such as graduating from college.  There were some tears involved, but it wasn’t too bad because, prior to our conversation, we had baked brownies and removed them from the oven before they were fully cooked in order to enjoy them in their gooey state.

11. Speaking of that, one of my college girls has to write a paper on her observations of any group she belongs to.  She picked our Life Group and, as she started to walk out the door on Monday night, I asked her if I could see the “observations” she had written down during the night.  You’re going to love this:

a.) Conversations over brownies (gooey) and milk about how life is going.

b.) At times it can get sensitive as we discuss how God changes the events in our lives.

c.) Each girl gives insights on problems (unless you’re me, I usually keep my mouth shut).

d.) The one thing we all have in common is that we were part of the last leadership team of Starlite Ministries.

e.) Later in the evening, things get competitive as Dr. Mario ensues.  Occasionally yelling occurs because of various winnings and losings.

Y’all thought I was joking when I told you about our obsession about playing Dr. Mario but you should know by now that I would never joke about something that serious.