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Thank God it's Thursday afternoon! I got both of my huge assignments out of the way that I was stressing about and I feel soo good! I think I did alright on both of them, not overly confident but I feel like you shouldn't be able to be confident about assignments when you do them the night before they're due.

I get to go home tonight which will be nice. My mom said last weekend that I can't do anything when I come home so I'm really going to try to take her request and live it out. I just want to do some sleeping, read, maybe work on my 2 papers for social work (both are only 3-5 pages each) and my church in Modesto is having their associational meeting so I'm going to go to that, as well. That will be really nice because I seriously haven't seen any of the church folks in way over a month or more. Sadly, my deacon's wife's mom passed away on Tuesday. Her name was Evelyn. I'm kinda surprised I'm not more upset about it. She was a super sweet lady. She always sat in the back of the church with her family and would always give me a nice, tight hug on Sundays and when I wasn't there she'd ask about me. I guess thinking about it is making me feel a bit more sad about it. I won't be able to go to the funeral but my mom had a good idea that I think we're going to do. I'll write a nice letter to Mary (Evelyn's daughter, my deacon's wife) and we'll buy a really pretty potted plant. She was over 80 and I know she's home now with Jesus so I think that's another reason why I'm not really sad. I think I've really come a long way dealing with death.

Next week is dead days and then finals. Crazy. All I have to do next week is those social work papers and then start studying for my finals. Thankfully nothing else is due so that's a huge relief. Oh yea, on Saturday I'm coming back to Fresno for InterVarsity's very first gala. We're holding it in a church near campus and it's a black tie affair. I'll definitely post some pictures of the evening. It should be fun. We're all bringing desserts and honoring the seniors who will be leaving us (and some of them who aren't, like me) and the staff who are leaving, plus praying over the new leadership team for next year. So, it should be a lot of fun!

I think that's all I've got to say for now. Tonight is our last servant team meeting and we get to have Las Coronas for dinner...YAY for Mexican food! :)

Blessings