Done.

I knew going into this weekend it would be a rough one. I was right.

Rather than focus on all the crap that's happened so far, I think I'll talk about the bright spots.

1) I have some incredible women who pray for me and believe that this step I've taken is the Lord. Their encouragement this weekend has been invaluable.

2) My God watches out for me. I learned a hard lesson the easy way this weekend when an editor caught a big mistake the reporter I was working with on a big story this weekend wrote before it went to print. I got a call from the main source for my story saying we did a fantastic job this morning. It could've easily been a phone call to cuss me out had they not caught it. Lesson learned: never put your name on anything you haven't read through all the way.

3) I got to hang out with a really cool photographer yesterday. We talked about more than photography, though. He tackled race relations in the U.S., religion (I think he's a non-practicing Jew and his wife is an athiest), MU classes, news reporting and the great outdoors. I'm fascinated by the people I get to meet on a daily basis.

4) I got my stuff out of storage on Friday. It's nice to have all my "stuff" in one place.

5) Best of all, I went to a meeting for Christian grad students on Thursday. I met some awesome people that I'm excited to get to know, plan to carve out an hour a week to meet for prayer and Christian community, and was super-excited to look around and see a bit of diversity in the room.

Now I've got to go write a paper that's due tomorrow so I can work on my Dreamweaver website building skills (for another class) in the morning.