oh! 100th post!

wow, i had 100 things to say. that's crazy! thanks for staying with me through 100 mundane posts!

i went to st louis this past weekend and checked out eden seminary (www.eden.edu) everyone there was amazingly nice, they were all very welcoming and didn't just talk about how great their school was. there were about 25ish prospective students there, it's weird because i feel like i'm one of the younger students, even though there were a handful that were just out of college. i still feel like that's my age range. in my head i guess i'm still about 23. i found out that i'd have loans if i went to school there (probably about 25-40 grand range) even after an automatic tuition grant (read scholarship) and i found out that if i go to richmond or louisville that i probably wouldn't have to take out any or very minimal (like 10 grand) in loans. this is because the school in st louis, and the school i'm going to visit in lancaster, are united church of christ seminaries and richmond and louisville are both presbyterian. and since i'm presbyterian, they pull out the stops to get me to go there. apparently they are both well endowed and use that to be persuasive. so money won't be the final deciding factor, but i'd be lying if i didn't say it was important.

um. so that's it. i'm getting over the flu (or at least what my mom tells me was the flu) so i'm pretty exhausted right now. i went to starbucks this morning for some coffee and got a fun quote on my mug, so i'll end with that. thanks for reading!
"childhood is a strange country. it's a place you come from or go to- at least in your mind. for me it has an endless, spellbound something in it that feels remote. it's like a little sealed-vault country of cake breath and grass stains where what you do instead of work is spin until you're dizzy".

happy wednesday! to all of you not in state college, i miss you! lots of love and hugs
raquel