So, the girls met up on the holiday Monday and had a nice visit - nice is the only adjective I can think of to describe the day. I personally didn't feel like there was a very good connection and all we really talked about was babies and pregnancy. The picture I've attached should show you the reason for that. It just makes me wonder - was university the only thing we ever had in common? Why do husbands and babies change the nature of our friendship?
Tonight I'm back in Toronto for another lecture and then I have to buckle down - I must get that profile of Al Gilbert written but first I'll need to contact him! Also on my plate - an expose on immigrant farm workers in our area. That should be rather interesting. So, only three or so more weeks to go and then this full-time monkey job is finished and I can get back to what I love - school! I'm still reading through 'The Fountainhead' and plan to take up a biography on Pink next. I find biographies of Christians fascinating, particularly because of how there are aspects of all of our lives that are similar as Christians and then aspects that are so different (that sounds so silly and vague but I'm not sure how else to say it). It's those similarities that act as a source of encouragement to fight the good fight, to continue to be a light, to stive to honour God in all and then it's sometimes the differences that help me to be thankful to God for His mercy toward me. I am very thankful that He has blessed me with good friends and parents that love and support me and a sister who I love more than anyone. All of these things and the material blessings I receive are such causes for praise to God.
I wasn't sure how I'd be able to find the money to go to school next year but through OSAP God provided the exact amount that I needed to pay my tuition for the year. I am really thankful that it's God's will that I continue at Sheridan because I love it and really want to make Journalism my career. So, September is looking more and more exciting!!

We've experienced record heat here in Ontario during the last couple of days. Yesterday, with the humidity, the temperature measured 46C. Though I'm working in an air-conditioned office building, the air is horribly moist and I do find it difficult to breathe - the air is just so heavy.
Sunday I went sailing and wanted to post some pictures. My uncle's boat was beautiful - it's called Aley Cat because it's a Catalina. After spending the day on the boat I am sure I would love to travel around the world on a sailboat. It's a very freeing experience to sail through water and suddenly, when you're on open water, the horizon becomes so much broader and you're reminded the world is big.
I ran yesterday and today - the beginning of my training for "the run." I must run tomorrow morning and then again on Saturday too. So, for 11 weeks that will be the pattern of my existence!
I'm reading 'The Fountainhead' and enjoying it. I'm definately attracted to Rand's writing because of its heavy Romantic leanings - and I agree with her abhorence of Socialism. Reading Rand makes me question my attraction to Romanticism - I believe I've concluded it's the Romantic's view of nature as an eternal and living force. I think it's also their tendency to read deeply into everything in an effort to find out the reason and purpose of our existence and the existence of the universe that surrounds us.
Tonight I'll make my way down to Knox Presbyterian for the lecture. Last week's was horrible and solidified my distaste for Calvin College. The man who spoke was, I believe, a director of a centre for preaching at the college. What drivel. We spent an hour listening to his perfectly constructed sentences and his well rehearsed gestures, longing, most ferverently to hear just a grain of truth. Particularly when compared to Carson (who spoke the week before), the lecture was deeply unsatisfying. The speaker tonight is the Research Professor of Theology at Tyndale Seminary.