Ways to make yourself miserable.

1. Count your troubles, name them one by one - at the breakfast table, if anybody will listen, or as soon as possible thereafter.

2. Worry every day about something. Don't let yourself get out of practice. It won't add  cubit to your stature but it might burn a few calories.

3. Pity yourself. If you do enough of this, nobody else will have to do it for you.

4. Devise clever but decent ways to serve God and mammon. After all, a man's gotta live.

5. Make it your business to find out what _(insert name)__ are buying this year and where they're going. Try to do them at least one better even if you have to take out another loan to do it.

6. Make sure you get your rights. Never mind other people's. You have your life to live, they have theirs.

7. Don't fall into any compassion traps - the sort of situation where people can walk all over you. If you get too involved in other people's troubles, you may neglect your own.

8. Don't let Bible reading and prayer get in the way of what's really relevant - things like TV and newspapers. Invisible things are eternal. You want to stick with the visible ones - they're where it's at now.

- Elisabeth Elliot

Her wit never fails to make me laugh. It's funny on the first reading, but on the second it ceases to be because it's like looking into a mirror and having someone else dictate to you what they see on the inside. Go ahead and try to see how you score out of 8. 

Anyway, really thank God that my presentation is finally over. THE presentation that has given me sleepless nights and so much frustration. But I don't know if I've used up all my brain cells for it that I'm suffering repercussions. My brain has chosen to shut down whenever it likes. I think it's taking revenge for being overworked. [Note to Brain: You need to get up the motivation to finish up some reports before the winter break. Otherwise I'll be lying dead under a mountain of reports in January.] But it's awesome that winter semesters always seem so much shorter than summer's. I'm already in the 7th week now! Where did Time go? But the busyness of this semester is keeping me from missing home, so that's all fine and dandy.