Wedding web page

FYI -We updated the wedding web page: http :// www . worch . com / wedding. (You’ll have to type the address manually, we don’t want a direct link on the web).

We will try to add more information when we can. Have a great day!

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3rd year..

Yahoo..finished another paper..this time I feel tired. The third year of grad school has officially set in. I remember hearing from other third years that the second year was the hardest one to get through. Ahh.. I’m going to have to say the third year might be the one. We’ve got A LOT of reading and papers to write. So, if I do not sound as excited as the year before..imagine you’re on a steep hike..and you have not reached the level part yet. This year is going to feel like a long hike to the ocean. Hmm..I will keep you posted on what hike I am on. Right now, I feel like I just started the Muir Beach hike. Great view to go with a great book, just lots of questions to answer.
On a fun note: Yesterday, we saw my life long friend Christine and her Husband Quoc’s new baby. Another life long friend, Kristina came down and we joined others in celebrating Nathan’s arrival to the Do family. I am soo happy for them. Let me tell you, it is an amazing feeling when you see your elementary school playmate holding their first child.

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Enough time?

Wow, I just realized while working on my response paper for the counseling book ‘safe people’ that it wasn’t until I was in grad school that I started to act and feel like I cannot waste time. There have been days where if I messed up or if someone else did, it would cause me to go over the edge. I would get soo frustrated. I cannot mess up, I do not have time to explain it again or fix it. I just don’t have time!

Then I thought to myself last night, what if I approached my homework, my projects at work and my relationships thinking there is always enough time to do something well?

hmm..

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Ani show, Warfield, July 2007

Yahoo! My 11th time seeing Ani Difranco. Thanks Marta for always wanting to go and being an awesome friend! As I was driving back from Moss Beach this morning listing to Ani’s latest album Reprieve, these words stayed with me all the way home. Thanks Ani for always writing what many of us feel.

“Just show me moment that is mine
its beauty blinding and unsurpassed
make me forget every moment that went by
and left me so half-hearted
cuz I felt so half-assed.”

— Ani ‘Half-assed’


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Background

While on the path of studying Student Affairs I would:

Write papers:

  • At the Sunflower Café in Sonoma Plaza.
  • At the Acura dealership in Fairfield while waiting for car service.
  • At Factor 5 in a spare desk across from Matthias.

Often feel:

  • Overwhelm
  • Excited
  • Supported

Discover:

  • How much I love watching people socialize and connect at cafés.
  • How much I love and believe in community college students and their experience.
  • How much I enjoy reading on our front porch.

Often drink and eat:

  • Green and Earl Grey tea.
  • Dark Chocolate

Procrastinate with:

  • Doing laundry.
  • Writing a blog entry for my web site…

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Six degrees of separation

In less then a month Sony will be releasing the hot new video game Lair for the Playstation 3. The cool part about this release is we are all connected to the makers of this fantastic “Jurassic Park in realtime” game (as Matthias Worch describes it). The talented Matthias Worch, my fiancé and his amazing artists and programmers are ready to entertain you. So..here is your six degrees of separation. You know me, and/or Matthias, I know Matthias, Matthias was instrumental to Lair, Lair commercials are arriving every day on the t.v. & in magazines, Lair becomes famous—Yahoo, so are you! Ahh so now you can say “you know someone, who knows someone, who worked on Lair.”

For more information on Lair visit: http://www.us.playstation.com/Lair/

And to top if off, Sony has knocked off $100.00 of the price of the PS3. Sweet!

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Reporting in

Reading: Big Questions Worthy Dreams, Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith by Sharon Daloz Parks
Enjoying: Time off from work, sleeping in, staying up late, sharing meals with family, friends and Matthias.
Thinking about: The wedding
Looking forward to: Going to the All-Star Game in San Francisco
Listening to: IPOD shuffle
Watching: Hell’s Kitchen, The View

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Welcome Summer

Today is the longest day of light. With the Summer Solstice, I often think about how after today the days will get darker. With darkness, comes light. The Summer Solstice reminds me to slow down, to reflect on what I bloomed in the spring and to think about what I will plant this fall.

As I leave APU for the last time, I reflect on how I learned the difference between qualitative and quantitative studies (the one with the “n” is using numbers in research). The difference between listening and attentive listening, and how to move your college students from feeling apathy to activism. But most important, I learned the importance of being there and encouraging each other along the grad school path.

I know I will miss this place. APU is a unique campus. It challenges you to believe in something, either Jesus, God or just yourself. Whatever you do, have faith.

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Change

  • Dale Earnhardt Jr. no longer driving the #8 car.
  • Warmer summers.
  • Losing weight.
  • The focus of the Iraq War.
  • Assumptions.
  • Friendships.
  • Knowledge.
  • Energy.
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Ani and YouTube

This week’s high: finding Ani on YouTube. Miss, you inspired me to go looking for my favorite artist on YouTube. Here is Ani playing a beautiful song from her latest album. I am hoping to see Ani next month with Marta. If we make it to the show, it would be our 10th time together seeing Ani. If I had a soundtrack for my life, you would hear Ani DiFranco playing in the back ground since freshman year of college.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9VHpdmIrFM

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