Fast forward.

I feel like I'm stuck in fast forward. A day only seems like a few hours and a week really feels like a couple of days or so. I'm normally always anxious for something to finish up so I can jump on to the next adventure that I had lined up. In all honesty, there's only been a handful of times in my life when I was without restlessness, especially the year leading up to me moving over here. I spent 2010 trying to get it to speed up, and now I'll spend 2011 trying to get it to slow down.

Yesterday, our Mexican friend who has recently "adopted" us, came over last night and cooked us a diner of T-bones, mashed potatoes and vegetables.  Although I like to think Josh and I can hold our own in the kitchen, no product of our cooking skills could hold a candle to what Sofie brought to the table. Some of our Canadian friends came over as well to eat with us and play a few hands of poker. It was all in all a really good night, I'm glad we have them often.

Today, Bearden and I, along with the rest of the 1st semesters,  were rostered to run Chapel this morning.  We both got up early so we could get their first and have dibs on camera ops. It turned out to be a smart move, Bearden wanted to run the main camera (camera 2 = follows the speaker  or worship leader at all times) and the camera I wanted is set up on a platform in the back (camera 3). It does the long pull out out shots and close up on the instruments. While using it, I had to toss aside everything I have learned about setting up a good shot and was told to put shots out of focus and even shake the camera to make it look sporadic. Once it was all cut-in it actually gave it the trendy Hillsong look.

I did some running for the first time here the other night. Not to bad. I couldn't measure how far I ran seeing as I was running in a circuit around the neighborhood, but it's probably just chump change compared to the 15 miles I used to run weekly. This song was the first on my shuffle. Turns out it's actually a really good choice for night running.