Rain in the Desert

Recent events in my life that may or may not have contributed to the blog drought.

1. Unemployment. I resigned from my job at Brookcreek Learning Center. As of next Wednesday I will no longer be employed. This decision is bittersweet. It is going to be so nice to have 12 hours a week to: do homework, go for a run? (what is that, i have completely forgotten), or get a coffee with a friend and chat a while. But I am going to miss those kids. They have a way, in spite of their snotty noses and slimy hands, of wiggling their way into your heart. I am especially going to miss the naughty kids. They just want someone to love on them. Hmmm...

2. Westside '08! I am going back to YouthFront Camp West this summer, holla! I am hoping to be the wellness director which involves applying Band-Aids and love to hurt knees, giving out meds, and dealing with homesick campers. Some cabin leaders (and by some, I mean myself last year) would send their distraught, homesick campers to the nurse to deal with. haha...what goes around comes around. But if that position doesn't work out with camping regulations, I will be an office girl. You know, "Thank you for calling YouthFront Camp West, this is Kayla, how can I help you?" Either position would be fab.

3. Jayhawk for life. I was accepted to KU school of nursing which I will begin in the fall! I might have broken Rachel's ear drum when she read me my letter over the phone because I was in Hesston when the letter came. She forgave me and then screamed along in excitement with me.

4. Goodbyes. My bff Alicia and fellow roommate moved to Germany this weekend. No seriously, Germany. She is studying abroad until July and is already missed. Since she moved out, we assumed that a new roommate would move in. So far, 4 days later, no roomie. Rachel is worried that I am jinxing us now that I have put it in writing. Hopefully not.

5. Real Reason. The real reason that I have not been blogging is that the necessary dialogue has been missing from my head. I didn't understand why blogging had become so difficult when I tried to write something. There was no material in my head. I was talking to a friend who recently starting reading my blogs. He said that after he had read a bunch he started narrating his own life like the blogs had been. This made me realize that that is what had been missing. I had been going through life without keeping my eyes open for good material and narrating it as it happened. Then I started getting bogged down with all the material that I could possible write about because it had been so long since the last blog. See the dilemma. Hopefully, I can get the creativity flowing consistently for a while.

So all this to say that I am deeply sorry for not posting for so long. I hope that you will forgive me and continue to be the great readership that you are.