Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on.

Well, I am back at Alma. We started our Winter Term last Monday the 9th. With Model UN and other obligations, including my classes - I have very quickly found myself never lacking anything to do.

While this last week and one half has been standard, I am rejoicing and struggling with some things:

• This year's recruitment effort for MUN has been entirely fruitful. Of 26 new students signed up for the class, only one has quit after the first week. Typically, the team sees a dropout rate of about 42%. This year has been entirely different and I am glad.
  
• For 8 days I have been highly successful at managing my time and having the commitment to hit the Rec daily. Likewise, I am trying to improve my overall health, fitness, and happiness by setting goals that I am confident I can achieve. Like last year, I want to make a lifestyle change. Not just a goal to tone up and lose some fat -I want to have a healthy routine of caring for myself.
• In happiest news, Andrew came to visit me last Friday.
  
• In saddest news, he had to go back to Ann Arbor. It gets more difficult to say goodbye everytime. It's not that we don't - we have both become familiar with it as a common theme in our relationship - but it seems to suck a little more then the last time. Surprisingly, I feel that missing him will be the greatest challenge I will face over the next week/month/year. . . who knows. I used to be good at preoccupying my mind when I missed him; now? I seem to be losing my gift. I miss him a lot and almost constantly. Maybe, the memories from winter break are still too fresh.
• On a completely different note, I need the motivation to fill out some important applications this week. I am hoping something profound will inspire me at around 9 am Saturday. Whatever divinity there may be, I hope it is on my side for this one.

Hmmm. . . . and I guess I will leave you (whichever person you are that I love so much), I will leave you with a challenge. You are responsible for finding something you love and genuinely appreciate inside of someone you do not love and appreciate. There is no time limit and there is no system of accountability, but try it. I will too.

I love you all (esp. Runibega).

Kimberly