Name:Kristie Country:United States State:Illinois Metro:Chicago Birthday:9/3/1985 Gender:Female
Interests:music, sports, dancing, singing, laughing, loving, playing, people, waterpolo, soccer, swimming, climbing, exploring, flirting, reading, poetry, driving, partying, having fun, siniging in the shower, playing in the rain, eating in diners with jenny, being contagious with tone (which they still don't get haha), staying up with laura and getting slap happy (toothpick is 6cm) (also flying whales!!!), scategories and wine with my second family (the Peterson's) and screaming and arguing about answers at the top of our lungs, driving fast down the highway (or driving anywhere) with the windows down (wind in my hair!) and the music blastin, walking along the lakefront (like i used to with jacky), late night dance parties in my room with cait and deb, road trips (CEDAR POINT!! The Dells!!), Listning to the tribe play in the Stacey's basement (or anywhere) and helpin them with their music......... Expertise:read all_i_want_is and red_brilliance Occupation:Student
This time last year I was prepping to leave for Italy. thats weird to think about. And I was freaking out, super anxious not knowing what was going to happen or what it would be like. This year, I'm facing the rest of my life. I don't have a job for sure, and the one I want comes with many ups and downs and having to work to raise my funds. Yeah, I'm a little nervous, yeah I have NO IDEA what my future holds, but I don't feel the same way I felt last year. The thing I'm most anxious about now is if I have to move home and work for my Dad, thats the LAST thing I want to do. And yeah, I'm nervous about going into ministry if I get the job with Greek InterVarsity. Yes, I'm nervous about the fundraising process, and the responsibility of being in ministry, feeling like I have to know everything and have all the answers. But at the same time, I'm facing so many more unknowns, and bigger ones than going to Italy for a mere two months, and I'm not quite as scared. Its funny, writing this now, and looking back I can see even more of how God used my trip to Italy. I could look back last fall, when I had just gotten back and see some of what He did in me that summer. He showed me really that He is all I need, and that I could depend on Him, and that even if I moved to a foreign country without my community He would be with me. But now I'm also seeing the experience He gave me in facing the unknown and the daunting future.
Found this article in the financial times. Hope it provides others with same amusement. lol.
Come on US, invade Canada – before others get the idea
Peter Watkins, Toronto, Ont M4V 2T4, Canada
From Mr Peter Watkins. Sir,
It has concerned me for some time that the current US administration
has failed to see the benefits of invading Canada instead of wasting
its time invading Iraq and now apparently considering an invasion of
Iran. The US has no more oil. Canada has enough to satisfy US
demands for the next 100 years. The US needs electrical energy and
fresh water. Canada has lots of both. Canada flooded 30 per cent of the
province of Quebec to sell electricity to New York and all that fresh
water in the Great Lakes would satisfy the thirsty ethanol crops in the
Midwest. As climate change intensifies, a highly efficient shipping
route, the North-West Passage, is opening up, and the US can’t have
Canada control that critical asset or the oil under the Arctic ice cap.
Conquering Canada would be easy – on any day, there are more
tyres on cars in Manhattan than there are Canadians. As with Iraq, it
is simply a matter of showing that Canada is harbouring
weapons of mass destruction and building nuclear weapons. Falsified
discovery of “yellowcake” from Niger will not be necessary as a pretext
for invasion. Canada has dangerous “yellow snow”, secretly deposited by
Canadian men in winter. “Don’t eat the yellow snow” is a warning every
child is given from birth. There would be an immediate
response from the United Nations Assembly if the US presented this
danger to them. Think of all those nuclear reactors that Canada has
built. It would be easy to create the perception that Canada was
selling, or better yet, planning to sell, the technology to evil-doers.
If the WMD argument is wearing thin, there is justifiable retribution.
In 1812, those terrorist Canadians invaded the US, sacked and burned
Washington and butchered US citizens. Surely it is not too late to
retaliate. The trick is to keep enough Canadians alive to protect the
National Hockey League (NHL). There may be a better solution without
bloodshed. Let’s get Canadians to vote to merge with the US. This is
simpler than it might first appear. Just create a US separatist party
in Canada for the next election and offer every Canadian US$1m to vote
to merge with the US. This money would only be paid if the vote carries
and, of course, would be tax-free. It would be a small amount to pay to
acquire Canada’s mineral and timber resources and save the billions of
dollars the US has spent on the Iraq war to date. There is
some urgency for the US administration to proceed quickly as the US
dollar is falling like a stone, and China or Russia might get the same
idea. There would be no better way to recycle over a trillion dollars
of devaluing US Treasury bills that China holds than to use them as a
down payment in the purchase of Canada. Let’s just hope a hedge fund
doesn’t figure this out.
We just lost our soccer final for intramurals, I definitely could have played better. :( Oh well there's always next year, and indoor! Thats my favorite. :)
