SoulThirst

In Seattle this morning, where local time is 8:13am. I actually was up by right before 7:00. I guess that's the nice thing about flying out west... it seems like you're getting to wake up earlier. Ah, the false hope. This morning a whole bunch of trucks resurfacing the street outside woke me up. >.<

Driving up to Vancouver later in the morning/early afternoon... I'll "blog" on the Clie & upload those later. Anyway, below is the sligtly longer blog from yesterday while on the plane:

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17:20 PST
Sunday July 20, 2003

[Originally written in-flight]

At this point, I’m about 1 ½ hours to go in my flight out to Seattle, out of a 4 hour flight or so. Time actually passed by rather quickly. It wasn’t the most pleasant of flights; the seating is somewhat cramped, the plane small, and a baby in the back who wails incessantly. Also the rather heavy-set man sitting in front of me constant leans back far enough to disturb the screen of my laptop as I’m trying to type. Still, it is good to be here, it is good to be flying out.

Earlier I was thinking & journaling, about this whole perplexing concept of “vacation.” I don’t know if I can rightly call this trip “vacation.” My week will actually be fairly full, with social dinners, get-togethers, a wedding, & assorted appointments to all take up my calendar; it’s not like I’ll really have that much “down time.” Still, being that it is a change of scenery, a change of activity, it’ll be good. I had felt a bit guilty about looking forward to leaving, as if the mere fact that I was looking forward to it meant that somehow my life & ministry in Chicagoland was tiresome, a burden, or “bad.” In truth, it is actually none of the above, although I do admit that, with the amount of activity going in the past few weeks, as well as the constant meeting/presence of people, I have not felt very “settled,” or at ease. I feel like I’ve wrung every last drop of “outgoing-ness” out of me in having to meet with people, smile, and entertain, that the introverted part of me has been severely craving something a bit more “natural” to my personality. But I guess unless I fly myself out to opposite coasts, there’s little opportunity while in Chicagoland to actually “get away” for that more quiet time. [There goes the baby again… crying with all she’s got >.<].

So yea… I guess I am looking forward to this week, to get a change of pace… and just getting to see more of life & the world around me than just CCMC & Illinois. I think I’m landing & going straight to a dinner party tonight. Then tomorrow, driving up to Vancouver, hopefully seeing Josh Koh, and maybe my friend Megan too. Then I get like another day or so in Seattle before flying back to Maryland on Thursday. Friday, I’ve got appointments galore in the day, and my Friday night- the first without youth group in a year, I think- I’m hoping to get together with some old friends. Then Saturday is my youth pastor Joseph’s wedding, which will be loads of fun. Saturday night is my night to see Kary again & catch up over this past year. Then Monday night, I fly back to Chicago.

So that, in a nutshell, is the itinerary of my week away from Chicagoland. I’m not sure how much online time in Seattle I will have, as my grandma’s old house is now a rental property, and I shouldn’t be clogging up the phone line the whole time & all. Most likely I’ll just have daily access to e-mail & blogging, and hopefully will be more regular in updating… which makes me wonder, given that it’s been almost 2 weeks since my last entry, whether anyone still actually reads this thing. *pokes*

At any rate, time to amuse myself with a game for the next hour. Ah… gotta love the 7-hour battery life of the T40 XD

posted by Andy Chang @ 10:25 AM