A Complaint and a List of Dreams

I'm sitting in Law and Ethics and I've concluded I'd better do something constructive and exercise my brain cells because this class is certainly not contributing to my mental health. My professor is droning on and on about copyright laws and it's so hard to listen when I think of all of the things I could be doing right now. If I could do anything, what would it be? I'd like to be at home in my room with a good book in one hand and a warm cup of tea in the other. I'd like to be 3/4 of the way up a mountain, looking up to the peak, excited about the challenge that lies ahead of me, happy to be physically exerting myself. I'd like to be running with Titus, watching the beauty of his form as he gallops ahead of me, his feet just grazing the ground, his nose, like an arrow, leading his body to hit the mark of its choosing. I'd like to be in the middle of a busy newsroom. I'd like to be standing on my snowboard at the top of a mountain. Drinking just-squeezed orange juice in Florida. Buying vegetables in Paris. Eating a mango. Meeting my future husband. Picking up the keys to my own apartment...
If this class is the worst thing I have to complain about right now (and it is), I'm sitting pretty. And I am. God has been so gracious to me. He plopped me into an new job, opened up an internship at the Calgary Herald 4 months ahead of schedule, and has, in a very general way, filled me with the joy of Christ. I'm really busy, all of the time, but I don't feel too overwhelmed and he has truly kept me from feeling desperately disorganized or hopelessly out of control. It's at this point that I really have to keep myself from sin, from feeling like this is all due to my own intelligence and I have to be careful not to grasp for control of things in my life that God has clearly told me must be left to him.
I'm reading a great commentary on Ephesians by MLJ and I'm committed to hunting down a beautiful copy of 'War and Peace.' I'm still spinning The Weepies on my ipod mixed in with a little Skillet and Alexisonfire.
Tonight, I head to Toronto to visit with Jen and we'll share some good vegetarian food from Fresh. Sweet potato fries, ummm.
I've posted some pictures below. The last two are of Titus and his blood, respectively and obviously. He's got kidney failure and is not expected to live too much longer though he has been in great spirits for about five days now. His bumps have grown considerably since his diagnosis.