i’m so tired right now. i guess walking a mile back from the sweet corn festival does that. but i wasn’t itchy…my legs are getting reaccustomed to walking again! woohoo. it’s been an intense three days. but i’ve got a pocketful of great evangelistic stories now. i can’t say how much i’ve been blessed these past few days have been. hoo boy i’m really tired. anyhow so i went and bought books from ibx people in front of the union on thursday and one of the people didn’t show up, so i ended up getting back to allen later than i had planned. but on the way into allen i saw aaron standing in the driveway, and i said hi and asked him if he was going someplace. and he said that he was going to praise team practice at church with jacob. so that prompted me to tell him about IV and the water tables and encourage him to check out fellowships. that was some divine appointment there. then yesterday at dinner i ate with a handful of new people, but then towards the end i went to get a knife for my peach and saw a girl sitting by herself and went to join her. turns out she’s from arizona and doesn’t know anybody, so (Daisy) had been by herself for a few days. I found out that she lives in LAR and is still exploring Christianity but wants to get into a fellowship. she doesn’t intend to stay past a year and actually transfer to UCSD next year (ha dunno if that will follow thru). Nerijus showed up and ate with us too and i learned a lot about her views on corporate religion and it actually reflects me a bit…with her desire for diversity and not wanting to be confined to only her church friends. So she told me she’d like to come to TCBC with me and maybe monday LG. I got her contact info and stuff and gave it to Brittany to follow-up with. Then that night i saw Sheng from cccyg at late nighter and went to talk to him even though i was pretty sure he wouldn’t really know me at all and want to talk…but he was surprisingly excited to see me. haha it was great. he told me he was looking into fellowships and that he was really enjoying UofI. So good to hear. so i invited him to urbana LG but realized he lives in Forbes so that’s in champaign so i called this morning to ask if he’d rather go to champaign LG and he’ll be calling me back. And today i saw michelle in the dining hall and i asked her about looking for fellowships and such, but she said no not yet. so i got her contact info and gave it to brittany too. I feel like i’m doing LAR more of a service than i am for allen. hahah. i am very jaded right now from NSO events, and walking a mile back was the last straw i think. but i had offered earlier to wash all the IV shirts so i just dropped that off in the washer. gah i’m so pooped. so for some bad news, it seems that hoyoon from our chapter tried to kill himself wednesday night. he was always a bit off i think, and i think if i had known him better i might have seen that tendency in him. from what i knew of him, he was the kind of guy who sensed when people were uncomfortable with him but didn’t know how to adjust his own behavior. but he had sat at our table that morning and seemed pretty normal…he even prayed with us and i was musing about how honest and i guess for him…’heartfelt’ his prayers were. they were odd but i admired him for really meaning his prayer. something must have triggered something that night i guess. but he’s in the hospital now and we’re not supposed to contact him. i guess this way he’ll be getting therapy and hopefully, i pray, be able to do alright soon. so…i’ve been meeting even more new people, and missing this Amy Gray girl that is never there when i knock, and i’m not here when she shows up. ha shoot. i’ll find her eventually. but for now i just wanna rest. cuz i need to seriously recharge my batteries before classes start…