Thanks for the Blogging

at 05/27/08 9:20AM

I'm currently working a boring receptionist job to make some easy money before starting grad school in August. For the past three weeks or so, I have had little to do except surf the net all day. Well, I just wanted to thank you all for keeping me thoroughly entertained. When I see those names lit up on my buddy list, a surge of joy runs through my soul. I also feel slightly guilty for knowing about everyone else's life and saying very little about my own. So here goes.

I graduated from WKU last May and immediately moved to LA for some crazy reason. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But, it made me stronger and more confident and more aware of what I wanted out of life. After working as a drug counselor at a methadone clinic out there, I knew that I needed to go back to my roots and try to get into grad school for counseling.

I moved back to TN in February and have not looked back. It has been so great to be back around the friends and family I love and missed so much. I got into Lipscomb's graduate program in counseling with an assistantship which will pay half of my tuition...yay! At the end of grad school, I will be an LPC, or a Licensed Professional Counselor. I would love to be a marriage counselor eventually.

So, that's my life in a nutshell as the saying goes. Life is good. God is good. And I'm feeling content for the first time ever.

I would say that I hope you all are well, but from the blogs, I know that you are! Keep up the entertaining work...yall know I love it!

hooray contentment!

by adampual at 05/27/08 9:52AM
Yay for you! How exciting!

by begooddontspit at 05/27/08 12:33PM
that's so awesome!! congrats! =) you'll be an amazing coulselor!

by lisy at 05/27/08 7:53PM
so it took me a few minutes to realize which lindsay this was... you need to come visit cabg again soon, i don't think i even got to talk to you last time you were there. hope TN is treating you well!

by kyle at 05/27/08 10:10PM
i certainly hope that you haven't been wasting your time analyzing my posts--i already know i'm crazy! :)

by sunshinelove05 at 05/28/08 4:51AM
Just saw your message. Thanks for the compliment on the kiddos. How are you?

by SaraJones at 05/28/08 5:11PM
Glad things are going well for you!

by bookworm14 at 05/29/08 11:52AM
I have to read about your life on a blog!? What is wrong with that? Congrats on Grad school. Hope to see you soon

by niccrozier at 05/29/08 11:07PM
hey thanks for the compliments on my pics... it means alot! you starting grad school in the fall?

by kyle at 06/02/08 3:31PM
hey Lindsey! I always love your blogs in the rare instances that write them. sounds like you're doing well, good to hear! I've been a receptionist for two years now, and I'm very surprised I haven't died of boredom. they are good things, those active imaginations, let me tell you... :)

by leahhallnoats at 06/04/08 9:27AM
We started Monday night too. Are you watching the videos? I think this will be really interesting!

by SaraJones at 06/04/08 10:39AM
i miss you too! life is so crazy and it seems like going back sometimes ends up pushing you forward. ive considered moving home again just to be close to family but i don't know if ive proved my idependent self yet. glad youre doing so well and good luck in grad school you crazy thing!

by chekit at 06/04/08 4:23PM
i have it. it's definitely a little harder and more angst-filled. it's decent but it's not my favorite by them.

by adampual at 06/05/08 10:02AM
D'oh, now you'll think I'm not perfect! :-(

by nickomundo at 06/10/08 7:22PM
i'm so glad :)

by stephieweffs at 06/18/08 12:32PM
where are you? what're you doin these days? why aren't you on facebook? me and the wifey were just talking about you. and the counting crows recovering the satellites. call us. 919.649.403.

by justcallmejoe at 07/01/09 9:48AM

Procrastination.

at 05/01/07 5:05PM

Pleonast is seriously the devil. So is Facebook. I'm not on myspace, but I'm sure that one's pretty bad too. Whenever I have a paper due or a test to study for, I get on Facebook or Pleonast and browse stuff forever, until I feel bad and try to get back to my work for at least 15 minutes. Then I think, "Well I'll just look again for a few minutes as a little break for myself." What ends up happening is I look at Facebook and Pleonast far longer than I actually do work, and I end up staying up all night doing something that would normally have taken about one third of the time. Does any one else know what I'm talking about?

So, I'm going to get back to work now...at least I hope. I mean, this is just getting ridiculous.

what's to like about freud? inventing a system reductionist enough to explain everything + falsifying research + blindingly transparent logical leaps = ... lindsay likes? yes, i'm suing you heh.

by justcallmejoe at 05/01/07 6:06PM
loud and clear, lindsay. the internet is a scary vortex.

by sweettea at 05/01/07 7:07PM
i end up making gripy groups to waste time on FB.

by justcallmejoe at 05/01/07 7:52PM
come join them

by justcallmejoe at 05/01/07 7:52PM
i am doing that right now.

by steven at 05/02/07 1:12AM
Um... yeah.. doing that right now in MMTH. "I'll just look for five mins..." -- RIGHT!

by jesspico at 05/02/07 2:27AM
That is exactly what I do too. :/

by sunshinelove05 at 05/02/07 12:17PM
I feel so privileged to have received a comment as a product of this ridiculousness! i feel ya sister.

by stephieweffs at 05/03/07 10:28AM
wow...that's exactly what i'm doing right now!

by adampual at 05/10/07 8:56PM
Thanks for the picture!

by wackyzak at 05/24/07 4:44PM
Hey friend. I need to call you soon. I caught you on the Leno show, and I still haven't talked to you about Vienna!

by sweettea at 07/13/07 7:06PM
Oh wow, you really HAVEN'T gotten on here in a while. lol.
It was so nice talking to you tonight. You are really sweet and I like you. =)

by bookworm14 at 01/27/08 9:17PM
Happy birth anniversary!

by bookworm14 at 02/07/08 12:05PM
And I totally do the same thing with pleonast!

by bookworm14 at 02/07/08 12:05PM
is this lindsay S? if so this is Jessica G. Come see me!

by chekit at 02/07/08 5:09PM
oh my goodness! I want to see your booty soon! Call me!!!! :)

by sunshinelove05 at 04/03/08 10:58AM
That would be great!
YOU should be a counselor at camp this year. Hehe.
I'm back in Arizona and will be moving up to Wisconsin in two months Lordwilling.
Good to hear from you!

by bookworm14 at 05/19/08 4:44PM

I'm sick of the old entry.

at 02/04/07 12:15AM

Well right now I'm taking tons of classes, as it is my last semester in college!! Crazy! Who knows where this life takes me?

I'm realizing more and more that grad school is something I'm really gonna do. But, I definitely need a break first and that is where Los Angeles, CA comes in. Can't wait.

I've decided to totally change my mind about a lot of things, and it feels great. That's really vague, but I wanted to say it.

Done for now.

have you changed your mind about calling me back? I hope not....or do i? what?

by stephieweffs at 02/05/07 2:16PM
WOW. you're graduating in may, too? yay for you! have you looked into grad schools at all?

by jesspico at 02/06/07 11:25PM
hello, george castanza. goodbye, lindsay.

by justcallmejoe at 02/17/07 1:45AM
california...

by sweettea at 02/17/07 1:29PM
Call me!

by cinders at 02/20/07 1:12PM
I miss you.

by wackyzak at 03/15/07 12:36PM
Hey crazy!I'll be in California this summer sometime. That was really vague too but I just wanted to say it! Hope you're doin well.

by chekit at 04/04/07 9:21AM
i love CA. you should just go there and forget to come back cuz it's so awesome.

by adampual at 04/04/07 3:00PM
thanks for the compliment.

by megan_leigeber at 04/24/07 10:06PM
umm, secret?

by begooddontspit at 05/01/07 7:35AM

Life at the Barrel

at 10/30/06 1:08AM

I work with about 8 homosexual male servers. The experience has been eye opening. I've developed friendships with most of them, even though they all know exactly how I feel about it. I have struggled, though, with just how close I should let myself get to them. I don't want to ever seem accepting of thier lifestyle, but I don't want to turn them off either. It's tricky. I hope that I've been a light, but then sometimes I wonder if they think they are converting me-- (if that makes sense.) Because of this strange experience, I think I want to particularly focus on homosexuality in my counseling studies someday in the future. I want to get to the bottom of it and somehow try to help those people who struggle with it.

Go you. That's something I've been thinking about a lot lately... we've been studying "orientation" in physiological PSY, so it's been on the brain a good bit.

We actually talked about it last Wednesday.. my teacher was arguing how it's biological b/c of findings in twin studies. I brought up this argument...

You know how psychologists claim that if you have alcoholism in your family tree, naturally... you're genetically predisposed to become an alcoholic, too. We have a CHOICE as to whether or not we become an alcoholic. Why is that supposedly 'not the case' with homosexuality??

Yep, I stumped my teacher. It was pretty cool.

by jesspico at 10/30/06 3:00AM
I think homosexuality is a lot more serious than we think. It's something we need to stop joking about and start learning how to deal with. We sometimes treat them like they're somehow worse than alcoholics or drug users or fornicators or adulterers or liars. But in the end, they need just as much compassion and love from us as any other sinners. We're all sinners, and isn't funny how quickly we like to label others as worse than us?

by nickomundo at 10/30/06 7:52AM
And I agree. We've all heard PLENTY of lessons/talks on how homosexuality is wrong. We get it. Why not have talks about how to HANDLE those who struggle with homosexuality?? Aren't we supposed to help in love?

by jesspico at 10/30/06 5:40PM
where have you been! i want to talk to you! i miss you!

by cinders at 11/01/06 1:57PM
talk to johnathon hoffman, he watched some 8video set about it that really taught him alot, im thinking about checking it out too

by byron_is_dumb at 11/05/06 12:00AM
we need another deli date. or possibly 24 hours in Vienna.

by sweettea at 11/06/06 9:53PM
i'm with nick on this. we don't need to judge these people. just like any other sinner, our condemnation is not going to get them any closer to heaven. I don't discuss these issues even with my gay friends.....it is not conduscive to a meaningful conversation about salvation. is it a sin?....yes, but is it necessary for us to have all of our sins worked out before we come to the Lord?...absolutely not. i think you are doing the right thing. show them love, like they were anyone else, they don't need to know anything you think about them other than the fact that they need God's grace like everyone else.

by dave_beltz at 11/08/06 1:31PM
miss ya

by justcallmejoe at 11/09/06 12:46AM
when do you wanna go grocery shopping again? I'm trying to make it through tgiving. ;) We really should hang out sometime. Come over for dinner or somethin. what are y'all's schedules like?

by hanban at 11/09/06 9:17AM
when are we going to have our lovely girls night?

by britt at 11/11/06 4:46PM
wow, crazy that you are in that situation. it's awesome that you have not been afraid to let them know how you feel about it. i bet you are being a light.

it looks like Austin isn't the only place with a lot of homosexuals after all.

by adampual at 12/15/06 4:44PM
lindsaaaaaay! hey. christmas = awesome... this is adam

by atlantaboys at 12/28/06 10:34PM
Wow. that's ambitious. but then, you've always been a go-getter.

i agree with joe. miss ya.

by sunshinelove05 at 01/31/07 2:33PM

Fun Facts I've Learned In School:

at 09/21/06 6:28PM

1. The phrase "rule of thumb" was a literal term in the law that meant a man had the right to beat his wife with an object no bigger in circumference than the width of his thumb.

2. The phrase "mad scientist" comes from the fact that scientists used to love to experiment with mercury. If you handle too much mercury and it gets in your system, you go insane.

3. Have you ever wondered why some people say the stork brings babies? Well, I have the answer. Back in the day in Europe, storks would nest on top of roofs in the winter to stay warm. When people saw this occuring, they would say, "Well, the storks are here--there are going to be a LOT of babies this year!" In reality, the storks would sit on the roofs only in extremely cold temperatures. People during this time could barely leave their houses because it was so cold. SO they used each other to "keep warm!" Storks = cold weather = more babies!

4. There is actually a group in this country designed to decriminalize prostitution. They call themselves COYOTE. Guess what it stands for? Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics! Crazy.

5. Tennessee is number 4 on the list of most violent states in the country! That's a little upsetting. Also, the south is the most violent part of the country to live in. Go figure.

I think that's all. I find this stuff interesting, but it's cool if you don't!

It should have been "rule of wrist..."

by linus at 09/21/06 6:39PM
you are hilarious...i miss you

by cinders at 09/21/06 6:39PM
yeah, i heard #1 in a domestic violence training course i took - sad huh?

by lisy at 09/21/06 8:33PM
man, where did you learn this? i really want to know!

by wackyzak at 09/21/06 8:40PM
1, 4, and 5 are scary.

by nickomundo at 09/22/06 7:40AM
That is a little scary...

by jesspico at 09/22/06 12:45PM
It's a line from a movie, Jess. Don't worry. I don't really believe it.

Completely...

by linus at 09/22/06 1:22PM
it's only because the south and tennesse both hold Memphis.

by mrjerk at 09/22/06 4:32PM
yeah it was cool. i knew the thumb thing already--but the rest was news to me. :) thanks linds.

by sunshinelove05 at 09/27/06 10:38PM
I love your fun facts!

by stephieweffs at 09/29/06 4:31PM
speaking of new york minute, i once had a dream i went on a date with Ashley Olsen. it was fantastic.

by sweettea at 10/03/06 7:36AM
That's crazy you brought that up. I so want to go to one. What are you doing this weekend? those were fun times... :)

by niccrozier at 10/10/06 4:04PM
Lindsay. how ARE you these day? i wish that you were near enough for me to just say, "hey, lets go have coffee tonight" and it could be so.

by sunshinelove05 at 10/13/06 3:03PM
that was interesting. Thanks for that!

by cptkeith84 at 10/21/06 5:52PM

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