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confession: i am not a cook.

apart from measuring ingredients (which is quite a reach in itself) and pouring them into a bowl or container of some sort, i am completely clueless when it comes to preparing food...that's edible. i mean, when mandy and i made pasta yesterday, i had one job to do: heat up the rolls. unfortunately, the tops of the rolls came out a little singed :) my lack of cooking skill is the reason why i chose to forgo making dinner by myself last night - at least until some odd hour way past dinner time when i could go down to the kitchen and stumble my way through heating up a lean cuisine frozen dinner :) (i don't think the public that is all of the occupants of lolley hall are ready for my solo cooking debut :) ) taking pity on me, mandy invited me over to her house for dinner...where we had a very healthy mix of chicken strips, buscuits, and fries...from bojangles :)

it's nice living in wake forest...especially because my two best friends live there (one, not for much longer :( ) and i would venture to say that my place is almost exactly half-way between the two, which makes it convenient to "house hop." :) oddly enough, i recently found out that the two of them both share the same house number, 2801. but anyway...i love my two best friends. they've been very understanding and compasionate about my moving from (insert a semi decent adjective here) rolesville to wake forest, taking me in and giving me a "home away from home." also, i can (and do) show up in my pajamas :)

after eating bojangles last night at mandy's (which i think just may become my next food obsession...goodbye, chicken taco salad!), i went to the casbarro house to play guitar hero and watch wipeout with vince. after vince beat me (surprise, surprise) in a few rounds of GH, we watched a pretty disappointing episode of wipeout (basically, a recap of the season so far).

then we went to goodberry's for ice cream and ran into anthony, my thirty something friend from the greece trip. anthony makes me jealous, plain and simple. :) he's been all over the world (mexico, india, israel, greece, and coming soon...brazil!), sharing the free gift of salvation in Christ. he also informed me that dr. catanzaro, team leader and biblical counseling professor at southeastern, who has lived in brazil for a few years, told the team that brazil is the most beautiful place you will ever see. anthony also told me that the brazil team has one open spot because someone dropped out...making me envious of the lucky guy or gal that takes their place. i had a dream about a year ago, while i was taking intro. to missions at southeastern that made me think about going on this trip...but that's a story for another day. :)

right now, i'm at home, washing clothes, and getting ready to shower. the shower in my dorm is not so desirable :)