Things are coming together…

Today was an exceptional day!

I arrived at school a couple of hours early this morning.  If I don’t watch it, this just might become a habit.  In these early hours I was able to drill into my head some of the Math and Accounting concepts that until then had eluded me.  Because of the extra effort I put forth in these subjects, I was able to keep on top of the lectures in each class.  This was a welcome change from the slight feeling of being left behind the last few days.

I received back my first assignment of the quarter today.  It was my first Finite Math quiz which I took the other day, and I aced it!  Yes!  Nice start.  Today I also found out the hours I will be working at the IT Help Desk, and I start tomorrow morning at 8 am.  I was very lucky to land this job and I am really looking forward to working with the SFCC IT Department.

But the highlight of my day was running into a familiar face, a fellow student from the Colville Center.  She is also starting fresh here at SFCC, and I have to say I really appreciate having someone to talk with that is in the same boat as me.  (and she is very cute too!)

Well, I better get back to the books..

Fall quarter begins…

The distance inbetween posts is increasing.  Mainly because Fall quarter has started up, and I am attending a new campus.  I have never attended class at this school before and it will take a bit for me to get aquainted.  From what I have seen so far, I feel that I will fit right in here, and will hopefully be able to keep my GPA up.

Well, I will try to write a bit more in the next day or so, but for now I have way to much reading to do.

Clean driving record no more…

When my radar detector started chirping I must have been doing at least 78 mph.  Instinct brought my foot swiftly to the brake pedal to try to get down to a reasonable speed.  But the police car appeared over the hill in front of me too quickly.  As he approached me on the highway he slowed and moved to the edge of the road.  I knew I was caught and pulled to the side of the road just as the lights came on. When he came back from verifying my registration and drivers license, he informed me that I had been going 70 in a 60 mph zone.  I was surprised; I know I was doing a lot more than that when he initially saw me.  I was even more surprised when the ticket he handed me stated that I had been doing only 65 mph.

Another Mix CD for the car…

I finally got sick of the last mix CD in my car stereo and decided to create a new one.  Here is a link to this new CD.
It is a little more varied than the last few CDs I have made. It includes some Hinder, Disturbed, Adema, Limp Bizkit, Seether, Saliva, some Hoobastank, and other groups.

Compelled to speak…

A topic eludes me, yet I feel compelled to speak.  I could write about fall quarter quickly approaching, now only two days away.  If I wrote about this, I would have to say that I feel extremely prepared.  I have already purchased the books needed for my three lecture classes, and I will buy the last book on Wednesday.  I have toured the SFCC campus, even to the point of finding each of my lecture classrooms.  I won’t get lost.

I could write about moving into Spokane, which would include all the packing and organizing I have been busy with.  I could write about the new laptop I purchased the other day and about how quickly I am picking up on Windows Vista.  Yet none of these topics sound all that exciting.

No, the topic I want to talk about is the unknown.  Tomorrow I start a new journey, and no matter how much speculation I put into it, this journey will initially be new and unknown.  Will I do as well as I have the last two years?  Will I get along with my instructors?  Will my new living arrangements be without stress?  Will I earn the confidence of my peers like I was able to do in Colville?  Will I be ok financially?

And maybe it’s more than this…   Maybe as I am moving on I am also feeling loss.  Loss of friends and family.

To mom and dad…

I have many goals in life, and currently the most important of these goals is to finish my higher education.  Though this is not a spiritual goal it is still very worthwhile.  Over the last few years I have encountered many obstacles that have tried to derail me from reaching my goals.  I had a brush with the law, a dance with chemical dependency and a real tough time with a failed relationship.  The adversary has been a tough opponent.

It would be nice to be able to say that the only way I’ve been able to get through this is by my devotion to God.  But that would not be true.  I took a wrong turn off the freeway to righteousness long ago, and I’m still spinning broodies in some old ladies yard somewhere in the suburbs.

No, I’m still able to hold fast to my goals not because I have God on my team, but because he is my parents star player.  My parents’ undying faith in God and their continued, unconditional love and support are the only reasons that I am not in jail or dead.

Over the last few years I have, as some of my siblings would say, taken advantage of my parents.  I have lived in their basement virtually rent free and only recently now have the means to move on.  I have also brought shame to the family by getting arrested in my home town.

Here in this public forum I would like to bare my testimony.  I know that God is true.  I know this not from my own faith and dedication, but rather from my parents’ example.  Amen

So many thoughts…

So many thoughts are running through my brain, yet I can’t seem to find the right words to say.

Fall quarter is coming quick, too quick.  This new quarter presents me with many changes.  Last quarter I decided that it would be in my best interest to change schools.  There were many factors that led me to this decision, and I am still confident that it was the right choice.  The school I have transferred to is more than twice the distance from home.  Because of this, very soon I will be moving closer to school.  In preparation for this move, over the last few weeks I have been putting quite a lot of time into organizing and packing.

I’m highly looking forward to all aspects of change that will accompany this transfer.  New peers, new instructors and a whole new learning environment are all more than welcomed.

Summer quarter ended only a few short weeks ago and its now less than a week before fall quarter will begin.  My condensed summer has come and went.  Yet even though summer school took up a lot of my time, I still was able to stay active.  I managed to make it to the lake on a regular basis, peddle my mountain bike all around the area, and even managed to make it to the gym several times.

This boring crap about school and such is really NOT what has been occupying the majority of my thoughts lately.  I figured that if I just started writing, these thoughts would eventually find their way to the page. 

I was wrong.

Emotions and feelings…

What is it?  What is this emotion, this feeling I am overwhelmed with this morning?  In words I could say I feel satisfaction or maybe elation, but more-so I feel at peace.  This emotion is peacefullness.  My thoughts are racing…  so many thoughts…  Am I ok?  Well, yes I’m good, really good in fact.

Sometimes the heart reacts in unforeseen ways.  Events occur triggering highly unexpected emotions and feelings.  Completely the opposite of what logic would have me believe I should be feeling.

Peace, yes…  but more than that…  I know what it is.  Peacefullness is a part of it, and so is elation, but these feelings have surfaced from another act.  The act of forgiveness.

Hi! I’m new here!

So let me introduce myself.  My name is Scott and I currently live in NE Washington.  I am a full time student working towards a B.A. in Management Information Systems.  After several years spent in Alaska, and several more in Portland, Oregon, I have returned to the small town where I grew up, at least for now.

Although I am a proud father, I am currently single and have never been married.  My son Christopher, who turns ten years old this month, resides in Portland with his mother during the school year and comes to see his dad on all seasonal school breaks.

Over the last few months, while posting to my MySpace blog, I have slowly began to find my voice.  As a full time student I will undoubtedly continue to talk quite a bit about school, as before.  Yet I am quite sure there will be many exciting and unexpected paths to explore as each new day unfolds before me.

Scott’s Weblog

I am going to try out WordPress as my blog client, and move away from the MySpace blog that I originally started with.  WordPress looks like a more professional product with more powerful tools, and customizations.  It will take me a while to get up to speed, but I am up to the challenge.