regarding relaxation and stuffed chicken

I am sitting at home, hearing thunder rumble in the distance, and smelling the scent of vegetation soaked by 24 hours of rain. My dog is barking at another dog across the street. I am waiting for my parents to be ready to start a movie. It's good to be home, not thinking about much for a couple of weeks. Summer didn't leave a lot of time for rest, between classes, jobs, more jobs, etc. etc. If I were in EL at this exact moment, I would probably be knocking on doors trying to recruit frosh to come to IV.
No offense to those of you who are doing that right now, but I am very much enjoying not having to think and worry about it. You will do a wonderful job, and I am with you in prayer.

I cooked a delicious dinner tonight (no humility here). Thinking up extravagantly creative and original recipes is one of the ways I enjoy relaxing. Tonight it was chicken breasts, stuffed with ricotta, parmesan and mozarella. I covered them with tomatoe sauce and cheese, baked them, and served them with pasta and sauteed zucchini. I would have taken a photo to post, but most of the food was eaten before I thought to.


Anyway, that's the charm of my domestic life these days.

"it's hot" or "a really boring post" or "Tim is killing time before dinner"

Really hot. It hasn't gone below 90 in East Lansing now for three days. It's nice to have sunshine, and I enjoy heat, provided I have a way of escaping it. Too bad that living in a dorm room and working in a bakery do not provide anything in the form of airconditioning or swimming pools.

I had trouble sleeping last night. I'm not sure if it was the heat, or my itchy brain that kept me awake. Probably a pleasant combination of the two. I put movies on to help me sleep. I got through all of "The Matrix: Reloaded" and part of "Napoleon Dynamite" before the sand man won out.

This posting is really boring. I think I will change the title. No, wait. I will add a secondary title.

I did find a really crazy/cool website last night. It is here. Apparently this guy just follows the Newsboys around the world, and records his exploits on the internet. Kinda funny and surreal. I am glad that other people do these things, so that I can enjoy them vicariously, as opposed to wasting time doing it myself.

Speaking of travel, I am considering joining the Peace Corps when I graduate in a year. I would like to work at their project in Jordan. It would give me good overseas experience, and hopefully increase my odds of getting into a hot grad program. It's strange to be thinking about life more than a semester in advance. I hope I don't have one of these "quarter life crises" that you hear people talking about. I am having too much fun living on the edge to go into a crisis. In a month, I will be in Bangladesh. In a year, I could be in Jordan. After that, who knows?

I must think of a time to go on my grand adventure journey. Here is a map of how I would like to go. (I start in Pakistan, and end in Europe...)
Interested in coming along? Let me know.