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St. James Ct.: the "street" where I live. Notice the
fountain! ...I think "Boulevard" or "Avenue" would be more
appropriate! My roommate tells me they use the middle of the
street for weddings often!
#1463. Ain't it great? The windows visible on the second
story are ours. The picture windows are in our living/dining
room, and the two windows on the right are right along my bed. 
The front entrance of the library. It's only about 7 blocks from
my apartment. As I will elucidate later, everything is on 4th
street!
The Shueys (this was taken in March, but they and their couch look about the same  ):
Below is my mass email/Update #1:
Greetings from Historic Downtown Louisville, KY!!
My new roommate (and newly-discovered kindred-spirit), Ashlea Davenport
and I are sitting in the "Old Louisville Coffeehouse" using their
wi-fi, about a block from our apartment. I like this shop already; it
has a sign on the door that says "Keep Louisville Weird-- support
independant local businesses." *grin* For the past 2 or three months,
people have been asking me what I'd be doing for the summer, and I
wasn't ever sure quite what to say. Lately, though, inspired by my
dad, and in the spirit of Peter Pan, I've taken to saying "going on an
adventure!" And that it has been!
Following 5 days of recovery after my wisdom teeth extraction, my
family + Jonathan Suit (this is why it's good to have guy friends who
are philosophy majors...aka they don't have anything to do *wink*)
packed up my little Mazda (good ol' Max) and a rental car, and drove
the 6 1/2 hours to Louisville, KY. It took us a lot longer, though,
because we stopped in Nashville to have lunch with my dad's little
sister, Robin, her husband Duncan, with their 2 adorable kids (Caroline
reminds me so much of myself, and she remembered me from last
Thanksgiving!). She says "refrigeradator" and "mandatory" it;s so cute.
They're only 2.5 hours away; I'll probably spend a weekend with them at
some point. But besides the break for lunch, we drove around the
boonies of golf-resort-just-outside-Nashville-ia when Dad decided he
didn't believe his GPS... we took quite a "detour." However, *I* was
the one in the non-air-conditioned car!
My roomate Ashlea is great, and I love my apartment. I meant to upload
pictures but stupidly left the cable back in the apartment (we're at
the "Old Louisville Coffeeshop" a block down the street. It's in a
renovated victorian home, on St. James Ct., one of the most manicured
tree-lined avenues in Historic Louisville. I'm a mile from 4th Street
Live, and literally a block over from Central Park...really in the
heart of the downtown area!! My new roommate is a real kindred
spirit-- my first view of the living room which she has SOOOO
wonderfully decorated was "The Valley of Vision" on an end table, the
entire "Anne of Green Gables" series on one bookshelf, and all
Tolkien's works on the mantle (which, for those of you who don't know,
are all in my Top 10 list)! I'm so thankful. As we carried in crates
of stuff from the cars, I remarked that it was mostly tea-- and she
answered "Oh, I love tea too!" We
have a whole SHELF of the stuff in our tiny but well-equipped kitchen.
And she asked me if I was a morning or night person, and I answered
"definitely morning..." and watched to see if that was a good thing or
a bad thing-- and her face lit up and she said "oh, that's happy! so
am I!!" So that is one answered prayer right there.
Job prospects are overwhelming...should I work full time? Two
part-time? Over on Shelbyville Rd-- like Pleasantburg or Haywood? 20
minutes across town, by interstate, but more suburbia, and
thus...bigger stores= more employment chances (and that's where Whole
Foods is, Starbucks, and World Market-- all of which are hiring). Or
should I be aiming more for places I can ride my bike to around here?
Ah!! It's a grand adventure!
I read a verse last night that God really used to grab my heart-- "Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul." (Ps. 86:4) That's my prayer
for this summer-- this "Honeymoon Summer" as I think of it (the
honeymoon couple being me and Jesus)-- that God would gladden
my heart in Him again. I've been so distant from Him these past
few months...the "creeping separateness" that Vanauken describes (A Severe Mercy)
that arises from not spending deep time with each other... It struck me
that praying or saying "Lord willing" doesn't flow naturally now.
It shocked me, but I realized I felt like a hypocrite when I did those
things-- that is not good! It isn't God who has moved,
obviously. I was praying this morning "Lord, be with me
today..." when it struck me that that isn't really the issue, is
it? He ALWAYS is with me. Jesus' resurrection guaranteed
that! The Spirit led me to change it to "Lord, draw me to walk with You today." He's there-- it's me that pulls away. I covet your prayers and can't wait to share!
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