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ramblings from a hotel lobby

Jonathan Chant — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:22:11 +0000

So I’ve already been up for 7 hours (minus the hour and a half I was asleep on the plane) now and it’s only 11 in the morning. Good ol’ 7 am flights forcing you to leave the house at 4 am.

So I’m in St. Louis now for the tri-annual Urbana conference. Except I’m not quite there yet. As told in the title, I’m in the lobby of my hotel, leeching off the free wireless right now. My hotel room isn’t quite ready yet, so I’ve got some time to kill. So what am I going to do? Boast.

I’ve got the best friends world. I don’t know if I say this enough, but I am so blessed to have the friends that I do. For example, take 12 days ago. Just another average middle of exam period day. Trying to study during the day, had a meal together with the housemates, and had a great worship team practice at church that evening. But unbeknown to me, there was going to be more in store that night. Even though they were apparently so loud, I didn’t notice 15 or so friends congregating on the floor below me while I studied. Sometime that night (not really sure, I think it was around 10, but who knows), Tianne comes up and lures me away from studying with a cheese break. Who can say no to cheese? So I go downstairs and I’m greeted with a “cheesecake”, wine, fruit, chocolate fondue, and some of the greatest people in the world for a surprise birthday party. Absolutely floored. I wasn’t expecting it but it was awesome. Really made my day. Like I said, I’ve got the best friends in the world. Thanks guys, you have no idea how much you all mean to me!

warm fuzzies

Jonathan Chant — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:03:31 +0000

when you have your first drink of the day and the way you can feel it just travel through and coat your insides
getting a phone call from a good friend
a good piece of stinky cheese
putting on a warm pair of worn-in jeans fresh from the dryer
hot chocolate with some good friends
getting mail, real mail, not credit card bills or junk mail, like a letter or postcard from a friend, or like a signed John Mayer photo (that I got yesterday)
a good piece of meat
seeing people you care about experience happyness (yes, I know that’s spelled wrong, see if you can figure out why)

What gives you the warm fuzzies?

last beautiful autumn day?

Jonathan Chant — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:28:38 +0000

It’s 2am, and I’m still up…why? I don’t know, I never seem to go to bed before 1 these days.

Interesting weekend. Thanksgiving dinner at CCF on Friday. Great times. Good food + food for the soul. Very unproductive Saturday. Went out for lunch with the parents and my grandma before she heads back to HK. Very yummy dim sum. Weird one minute hail downpoar during the lunch. Small group that night. Awesome night of sharing. So blessed to have this group to be supported and encouraged by. Beautiful Sunday. Especially after teh cold snap we had last week. Good hot chocolate from a new place across from the AGO. Very friendly owner, Renee. He even gave us a free tart each! Definitely going back. Delicious experimental supper with Giz: eggplant & chicken. First time for both of us with cooking eggplant, but came out pretty good. Worth repeating for sure. Ended off with school work with Nicola at Bahen…fun times…psyche! (90′s kid anyone?)

Been really struggling with my laziness lately. It hasn’t been just not doing what I need to do (namely school), but just not caring either. Been sharing (or I guess complaining) with lots of people. Sorry if I talked to you about this and sounded very self-absorbed. Thank you for the patience to listen and thank you to those who have prayed for me. This weekend, started to turn around a little. On Friday, talking with Andrea, hearing how she’s handling her busyness at work, having the right attitude: it’s all for the glory of God. Something I desperately needed reminding of. Wish I could say I started working hard after that, but as I said before, very unproductive Saturday. Got back into school mode a bit today. A good start, but not a great one. Hoping I can build on this for the rest the year. All for you Lord, for your glory.

falling autumn

Jonathan Chant — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:39:26 +0000

It’s that time of year once again. When the leaves change colour, school work builds up, and you don’t know what to wear in the morning because it’s cool in the morning/evening but warm in the afternoon. Stupid weird fall weather.

Great night last night. Scrumptious pizza and seafood at John’s Italian Cafe with many many friends, a little “surprise” cake and presents for the birthday gal and guy: Gizelle & Jon Chan, topped off with a viewing of “The Last Kiss.” Interesting movie about relationships, about how bad they can get messed, but also of how you mend them. Favourite line: “You can’t fail if you don’t give up.” So true.

Still struggling with getting up early so I can do my devos and just start the day off with God. Was suppose to wake up for the See You At The Pole prayer meeting at 8 this morning, but ended up waking up at 9:30 and missing my first class…*sigh*. I hope I can get into waking up early soon! Though I did wake up so late, I had a nice surprise found under my door: this food section from today’s TO Star which had this lovely full page pic/article of my favourite food: CHEESE! Thanks Giz, that made my day!

One last thing, many birthdays today: Happy Birthday Grace, Jon Chan, & Gizelle! Hope you guys have a good one!