Cafe Victoria

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!

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..

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!

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.

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

Dear Vic, When you are completing your capstone project for the graduate program remember these words of wisdom quoted in Sharyn Salvin Miller’s Spring 2007 newsletter written by Parker Palmer from Let Your Life Speak:

“Vocation does not mean a goal that I pursue. It means a call that I hear.
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it.
I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”

I see you completing your dreams and knowing deep in heart where to give your spirit.

Ahh, the last day of the spring semester. Tonight is graduation. I have the role of the floor manager. Which is a lot of fun by they way, because it takes me back to my theatre stage managing days. Que the music and starting the show on time! This weekend is the annual family tradition of watching the Indy 500. For the first time my parents are driving down here to watch it at our place, as my sister comes into town to do final Bridesmaid dress stuff. I am looking forward to it! Of course, the best part about living in 2007 is you can “DVR” the race and start watching it at 10am or 11am instead of right at 9am. Ahh..but if you asked my sister and I if we went to church while growing up, the answer to that would be no..there was a Cart race on. Go Michael Andretti! Break the curse!

Welcome to those who are visiting my site for the first time. Matthias and I just sent out Save the Date cards with the wedding website on them which links to my blog. Hi!

Matthias set up this grad school blog for me that will ultimately be used for my final capstone project.

Life is good. So far on my blog I have been writing about significant moments in school like finishing a class, or something fun at work and in life. I also try to write about random stuff but mostly it is reflecting. I cannot wait to show you Sonoma and of course share the big day.

As you read more on my blog you will find I have been working on my graduate degree in College Student Affairs, that I work at Napa Valley College as the Student Activities advisor and I have made some awesome trips to Germany. My new hobbies include tasting local wines, taking vacation days, watching NASCAR, American Idol and America’s Next Top Model and eating dark chocolate.

Hope to see you soon!