Intro Post

Dear World,

I am so excited! I don't know what to say! Haha. This is really telling. I am an extremely passionate, excitable person. I get energized about everything...from the mundane: Yay! I'm going to a party! to the strange: OMG! BED! I'm going to sleep. Woop! So, it makes sense that I am super stoked about starting a blog. Something else that contributes to this excitement is my personal favoritism in communicating through writing over speaking. I consider myself good at communicating, although I often find myself struggling for the right word to use. I also tend to mess up grammar and commas. (Sorry grammarians)!

Since this is an intro post, I'll tell a little bit about myself. I am planning on graduating college soon, then moving on to big bad graduate school (dun dun duuuuun)! I am terrified. I know I'm smart enough. I mean, I've made it this far in college. Grad school, I've heard, is a whole 'nother beast. Ulp. I guess I consider myself academic. I genuinely enjoy studying, really learning in general. I do well in school now, but my first few years of college were rough. I had to learn "how" to study for me, personally. (Tactile learner - yeah)! I also started off pre-med. I found out I don't enjoy science. Sadly, it showed in my GPA. I started working my freshman year, which actually improved my study habits.

The next major component of my personality which negatively contributed to my studies is my love for people. My strengths on Strengths Finder are Activator, Developer, Individualization, Positivity, and Woo. Friends say those are "people" strengths. It's true. I have the spiritual gift of prophecy. If you don't know what that is, or don't believe in spiritual giftings, it's basically the power to see potential in others and encourage them. Sometimes, I wish I could be a professional encourager...not a cheerleader per se, but one who walks alongside people in life and objectively helps them sort through what's going on their life. (I want to go into counseling, yes).

I'm kind of getting tired of writing now. *cutting to the chase* I loooooove to work out, and God blessed me with love for fruits and veggies (and unfortunately sweets). This translates to a passion for exercise (hooray)!, a large consumption of the healthy stuff, but also frequent noshing or pounding of sweets. The lattermost is becoming a problem. There's nothing wrong with enjoying sweets, but there is when I enjoy sweets en masse, frequently. As a result, I'll probably talk about those types of things a lot. Yay for accountability!

Oh! Last thing: I'm taking Latin, and it's the closest thing I have to the bane of my existence. 1. it's tough. 2. my first prof for that class was awful (poorly laid foundation. boo). 3. it takes a long time to prepare for as a result of my confusion in the middle two Latin classes. But, huzzah! I am in my final semester of it...with a bunch of classics majors who basically speak the language. Poop. Meanwhile, I'm in the corner quite literally sitting in my Latin dictionary trying to keep up. In spite of these negatives, we are all advanced enough to work through literature. I do enjoy that aspect of it. Translating broken up sentences about war and truth isn't  nearly as much fun as working through the great church father Augustine. I LOVE Augustine. He's so down to earth and funny. He would be one of the people I would bring to dinner if I could invite X number of famous people to dinner. (Surely you've been asked that question before?) Anyway, yadda yadda yadda, I am making it through the class because his book Confessions changed the way I think about God and His grace when I read it three years ago. Now, I get to experience his work all over again, with a fresh, Latin-y perspective.

Okay, I'm finished now.
Nice to meet you!

Earnestly,
Tyler