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Name: i have a common girl name
Country: United Kingdom
Metro: Aberdeen
Birthday: 11/16/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: singing in my car baxter, organizing my school supplies, looking for life outside of america, watching scottish weddings outside of king's cathedral, listening to bagpipes, loitering under the stars and riding 'the bus of death' through aberdeen.
Expertise: being stubborn, being humbled, reading like a fiend, proclaiming my love for barack obama/coldplay/ace of base, keepin' it real and awkward at the coolest college in the world--and it's time to take it global to the university of aberdeen in the fall of 2005!
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Hospitality
Message: message me
Member Since:
7/5/2005
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| well it's time. time for me to go. to georgia, that is.
i'm starting my year as an intern for Young Life in georgia at one of their camps called sharptop cove. it runs from friday until next august. i probably won't update cause i get lazy, but everyone can send me emails or find me on facebook!
for i know the plans i have for you, declares the Lord. plans to prosper you, and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. jeremiah 29:11
i feel like that verse is a cliche christian verse cause everyone always uses it to reassure themselves that God has a plan for them, but it's true. i have no idea what i'm doing right now or next year, but i do know that whatever it is, God has a GOOD plan for my life, and for everyone. and that's awesome.
i like to give advice about books, so hear this now:
The End of Poverty-Jeffrey Sachs
fantastic book about how our generation can take practial steps to end poverty and to help other countries become economically stable and independent--changed my outlook on how i can be a part of the solution
God's Politics-Jim Wallis
hey christians--God isn't a democrat OR a republican. check this book out and learn that issues like education, racial and gender equality, poverty and the environment are things that God calls us to care about and change.
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| For once, I'll reserve my comments about the United State's poor showing against the Czech Republic in the World Cup to get to more important matters.
Graduation was a week ago, and Stephen Colbert was fantastic as our commencement speaker.
And I was quoted in a St. Louis newspaper about him coming to Knox...please read the last line of this article, and compare it to my last xanga entry...investigative reporting has "improved" with time, indeed.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/DCEF711FBD79AC868625718100166995?OpenDocument
It might be time to shut down the xanga again...
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| Little Knox College rates big names as commencement speakers
By Lucinda Hahn
Chicago Tribune staff reporter
Published May 22, 2006
The president of Knox College, Roger Taylor, wouldn't want you to think he's gloating.
But he is.
That's because Knox is proving to be The Little College That Could --
could land the nation's coolest commencement speakers, that is.
This year, Stephen Colbert, star of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," will address the Class of 2006 on June 3.
Which may or may not top last spring's coup, when Sen. Barack Obama flew in from the capital to speak to Knox's Class of 2005.
Obama's appearance prompted a flurry of calls and inquiries to
Galesburg from other college administrators -- including one from the
dean of students at Harvard Law, Obama's alma mater -- demanding to
know how a quiet school of 1,245 students, set amid Illinois' western
cornfields, had nabbed the It guy of the Democratic Party.
"I loved it," Taylor recalls, clearly relishing his role as a sort of
Santa Claus to Knox's senior classes -- which present him with a wish
list of speakers in the spring preceding their graduation.
Getting Obama was a feat. But getting Colbert? That even impressed Obama.
"He said, `What? Stephen Colbert? How did you get him?" said Taylor,
recalling an exchange he had with Obama when he saw the senator in
December.
Indeed, Colbert's buzz has been near-deafening ever since April 29,
when his acidic roasting of President Bush at the White House
Correspondents Dinner -- with the president and first lady in the
audience -- garnered mixed reviews but unequivocally positioned him as
a speaker who will pull no punches.
So, how did Knox get him, and Obama before him?
Not with a hefty fee -- Knox doesn't pay its graduation speakers. But
the college has a couple of well-placed moles -- influential alums --
at its disposal.
One is former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta (Class of '71) -- who
is as connected as anyone in Washington, D.C. Once Podesta learned that
the senior class had requested Colbert, he e-mailed the comedian.
"I'd been on a panel with him at the HBO Comedy Festival, in 2004, so I
shot him an e-mail and put in a plug," Podesta says. "I think I just
told him it was a great place, with a great history and student body."
In Obama's case, Podesta saw the senator at a function in Washington. "I think I bent his ear a little bit," Podesta admits.
Two other Knox alums leaned on Obama too: Illinois state Sen. Don Harmon ('88) and Skadden Arps attorney Charles F. Smith ('84)
In both cases, Taylor had issued a formal invitation via letter,
extolling Knox's abolitionist history. The college was founded in 1837
by social reformists opposed to slavery, and in October 1858, Abraham
Lincoln made his strongest anti-slavery argument to date in Knox's Old
Main hall during the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate.
Old Main still graces Knox's campus, and it's the only still-standing
site of a Lincoln-Douglas debate. That's not a bad backdrop for any
commencement speaker -- including the one Taylor hopes to, and probably
will, land for next year.
"I've invited," Taylor reveals, "William Jefferson Clinton."
Knox College
What: a private liberal arts college.
Where: Galesburg, Ill., 45 miles west of Peoria.
Size: 1,245 students (from 46 states and 46 countries).
Tuition: $27,606
History: Founded in 1837 by social reformists from New York led by
Rev. George Washington Gale, a renowned Presbyterian minister.
Name: Knox was probably named after either John Knox, the
religious reformer and Calvinist, or after Gen. Henry Knox, the founder
of Knox County and the first secretary of war. Some historians say it
was a compromise of both.
The big debate: The fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate was held at the school's Old Main hall Oct. 7, 1858.
The almost debate I: Bob Dole and George Bush were scheduled to
debate during the 1988 presidential primary. Glitches in Dole's
equipment nixed the event; Bush addressed the crowd instead.
The almost debate II: Barack Obama and Jack Ryan had planned to
debate at Knox during the 2004 U.S. Senate race. But Ryan pulled out of
the race.
Seat of honor: The college owns a chair that Abraham Lincoln sat
in, and Old Main hall is the only site of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
that's still standing.
Past commencement speakers: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, Rev. Jesse Jackson, former University of Chicago President Hannah Gray.
*Thats right. Knox is bringing Stephen Colbert as our graduation
speaker. now hopefully, no one in my hometown will keep thinking we're
a community college in Tennessee.
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| yeah updating isn't my spiritual gift--5 months ago today, i was returning to america from scotland......
*one of my favorite authors, Peter Orner, came back to knox again to do a reading of his new novel. i'm excited to purchase. i fell in love with his writing at the beginning of my 2nd year at knox when he read from his book "esther stories". check that bad boy out. holla!
i got accepted as an intern for Young Life and i'll be spending the next year (september 2006-september 2007) working at a YL camp in Georgia (SharpTop Cove). so thats hot. i'm fundraising, so be prepared if you get a support letter 
psychology senior research is "coming along" and should start coming along at a much quicker pace since my poster session is next Thursday.
who ever said spring term senior year was relaxing?
oh thats right--kaye and i avoid our work and watch enough law and order: svu to be able to recognize the episodes within 30 seconds of the opening credits.................oh knox college, how i will miss you and love you.
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| travelling is always such fun...
1)
flight from aberdeen-paris delayed 1 hour because of excessive wind
(probably would have blown my little jet right into the North Sea)
2) if flight from aberdeen-paris was on time, i would only have 25
minutes in paris to get to my connecting flight to cincinnati (take 2
trains and 1 bus to get to international wing)
3) flight from aberdeen-paris arrived in paris 1 hour late--big PROPS
to the people @ Charles de Gaulle since they met my plane on the runway
and grabbed me and one other family and physically drove us, on the
runways, below planes taking off, to our gate.
4) flight to cincinnati was delayed 1 hour since a de-icer on a wing
was ''faulty''. our plane was used to transport U.S. athletes to greece
for the summer olympics last summer--very luxurious seats and fantastic
service
5) back in springfield, catching up on mail, grad school information
(i'm not applying till fall of 2006) and playing with the puppies.
6) already missing scotland...thanks to rachel, laura, tom, ryan,
sarah, scott and tiffany for staying up with me till my taxi came @ 4am
on friday morning...even if tiffany was a little ''worse for the wear''
7) thursday night was probably one of the best nights i've had in aberdeen--thanks guys for a great time!
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