I'm Not Dead, I Promise

Stardate 9/13/13
 I'm still here. I promise. But when you have two full time (ish) jobs it's hard to keep up on everything.
Now some of you are going "two jobs? I thought she was going to school?" and you are right. I have always considered school a job. I don't get paid for it in money, but I get paid for going in knowledge. Plus I'm there for 5-7 hours a day, therefore, it's a job.

I'm going to try and catch up on my second and third weeks of school, so this post might be kinda long. Please bear with me, I have some really awesome stories.

First, college.  College is a weird place.  Some classes are so hard that you have a headache afterward, and others are so easy you sit in class and scroll through Pinterest. I obviously don't do that. Why would I do that? That's a horrible thing to do. STOP JUDGING ME! Oddly enough, my favorite class is the one I have to go to at 7:30 am. My teacher is awesome, but I already told you that.  Statistics is a stupid class. Today we reviewed what a line was. I feel like I'm in Junior High again at points in that class.
Walking up to campus is hard to. I live just off of my campus and there is this giant hill in between me and all of my studying. I have the option to walk up a nearly vertical hill, or to go up 300 stairs.  Guess which one I do more often. The first week of school I gave myself shin splints from walking up to campus and then back and forth around campus all day.  So, I have been taking the bus up to campus a lot more recently.  Busses are good things for people without cars, expect that describes every college student that has a class at 8:30am, so it gets pretty packed sometimes.

Second, work. I have the bestest job in the entire universe.  I am basically a part time teacher, and I absolutley love it. I'm majoring in Elementary Education, so this is a really good thing.  I am working with the older kids at my school and they are suprisingly well behaved. It really scares me actually.  They shouldn't be so well behaved. The kids just a grade younger than them are bonifide monsters some days, so why are they so good.  THEY ARE PLANNING SOMETHING DIABOLICAL! DONT MESS WITH ME!!
My coworkers are fantastic. When I told them that I had to ride the bus to work they all looked at me like "You poor thing! How could you do something so arduous and dangerous? We are going to make sure that very soon you no longer have to do that and we will always give you rides home." They are all super nice. And the guy that I work with in our grade and me are finally getting used to each other. Like we actually talk and joke now.
My boss is the best. The other day I had an appointment that would make me late to work (since I have to ride the bus) and I told her about it and she came and picked me up at the clinic and drove me to work so that I wasn't late to work. How many bosses will do that?

Thirdly, life.  Life really sucks sometimes. I look forward to working, WORKING! Honestly, sometimes its the best part of my day.  Stress creeps up on me from everywhere. It doesn't help that I keep hurting myself.  I have mentioned them before. Shin Splints, Toe, Hands, you know.  My hand got really bad one day, and I was in a lot of pain.  Hammy and I came back from FHE and I was nearly crying because of the pain.  Hammy asked me if I wanted a blessing, (she lived here last year so she knows people) but I told her no, because I didn't know anyone that I trusted enough to give me one.  I didn't know who was worthy and I didn't want to burden anyone. I took a shower instead, and got chastised.  I got told pretty definitely that I was being stupid. I got this distinct impression "You don't have to trust them. You have to trust me. You have to trust me enough that I will send someone to you that is worthy to help you and that even if they weren't completely that I wouldn't deny you blessings for their mistakes." I started crying.  I humbled myself and asked who it was that i needed to call so that i could get help.  I got told the Elders Quorum President. Remember, this all happened while i was showering.  I got out and we called and he came with his roommate (who had only had the Melchezidek Preisthood for two months) and gave me a blessing.  They were so great and nice. The next day the Pres. also took me to the clinic to have a doctor look at my hands and see what was wrong.  We made them cookies.  This experience was very special for me, becuase I have never really had a trial that tested my trust in the Lord. Now I have.  My hands were better within two days and I know without a doubt that it was because of that Priesthood Blessing and my faith that they got better that fast.
We still don't know what was exactly wrong with my hands, probably an allergic reaction of some kind. I'm doing experiments to find out.

So besides the stress of school and work, I'm doing pretty good.  Things happen, and I am about to start something really scary but will benefit me in the future, but i know that I have the ultimate authority on my side and that I can get through anything with Him besides me.

-Korrin

P.S. I sent out letters to my three missionaries and forgot to put the return address on. I feel really stupid.