Just a glimpse of the Beach House on a Saturday Night...

Conversation between Katie Gallant and the Cook Out guy...

Cook Out Guy: "You going to a costume party?" 

Katie Gallant: "no"

Cook Out Guy: "You coming from a costume party?" 

Katie Gallant: "no"

Cook Out Guy: "Where are you coming from?" 

Katie Gallant: "a house"

1/26

As I'm sitting down to do my first real assignment of the semester I find myself wanting to do anything but. I'm just not motivated I guess. It doesn't help that I have no idea what the article is talking about... (that may be a slight exaggeration). I'm in a weird mood, I just want to be by myself and read or sleep but I know I need to do this assignment, so I'm stuck somewhere in between doing my assignment and putting it off. It may be that subconsciously, now consciously... I don't want to get into a rhythm or routine because that will bring the end of the semester faster and after the semester real life. A thought that as excited as I am about it, I am also really scared about.

I got an email yesterday from Time Warner Arena, saying they appreciated my application but have filled the position I applied for. This was no big surprise but got me thinking about what I am going to do after school. I started thinking about maybe not trying to get a full time job right out of school, but to travel around before starting out in the "real world." I don't know what thought scares me more. I've been so focused on getting a job and starting my life that I haven't given any thought to anything else. But the truth is when else am I going to have the opportunity to take time off and serve the Lord. It would stretch me and refine me, I would be able to see how the Lord is working all over the world... How cool is that? I would see Him in ways I have never before and be able to share His love and gain a better understanding of who he is. I haven't put too much thought into it, or really talked to anyone about it. Just a thought.

Did you know that the average 53 year old man in the US has .9 true close friends? Kind of a depressing. I don't know why I've been thinking about that lately or even why I'm thinking that far in the future. But I heard that this past weekend and its kind of stuck in my head. How does that happen? I hope I am not one of those men with only one friend, I hope I will still be able to invest in friendships and my family. weird

Praying the Lords wisdom over the different choices coming up in my life, that he would make his path known. I feel like I'm on the verge of something big, its kind of scary, but really exciting.

Nature is Neat

This is a pretty neat video...

Worry

This morning and yesterday I was kind of stressing out, worrying about things that I have surrendered to the Lord already. Thinking about how "I" was going to work them out for myself... As I was getting out of the shower I saw a little note on the mirror:

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

 Philippians 4:6-7


I knew there was a reason I put that up! Be encouraged today!

Winter Gap

Please be praying for my team and I as we take a group of our high school friends down to Windy Gap for our outreach weekend. Pray:

• That our high school friends would be able to let their walls down and have open hearts and ears!
• Limit distractions
• Cabin Times - that the high schoolers would be real and open
• Wisdom, energy, understanding, patience and boldness for all the leaders
• Let the Lord work how he's going to work. That we as leaders wouldn't get in the way or be a hinderance but rather an encouragement
• Safety - traveling and while we are there
• FUN! 

I am so excited about this weekend. Its kind of scary that I'm the oldest guy leader, I'm suppose to know what I'm doing... Thankfully the Lord works in my weakness to show his strength, and I fo sho will need his strength this weekend. HE is going to show up big time! Pray for me that I will be able to lead my team and my high school students.

Sometimes I forget how fun YoungLife is because I get so caught up in planning and making sure everything is running smoothly, but I was just watching youtubes of skits at camp and it is SOOOO much fun! Windy Gap is so great because it removes our high school friends from their comfort zones, it removes distractions, and then they are presented the gospel in a way they can understand over the course of the the weekend. There is time where we come together as a cabins and talk over what we have heard about and what we think about it all. I wish you all could experience YoungLife and see how the Lord is working through it. Its exciting to be able to see the Lord work And to get to be a part of it! 

Lord God Almighty,

Be with me and my team as we take our friends to Windy Gap. Show up in their lives like you have shown up in mine. Show me how I can express your love for them. Give me your words, your actions, your love, your patience, your wisdom when talking to my friends. Help me remember that every conversation I have is ordained and planned out by You. You are the focus of this weekend and your will will be done. Help me know when to be serious and when to be fun. You are SO good and I long for my lost high school friends to know you how I have come to know you. As a savior, friend, the only one who can fulfill my desires. You have a perfect plan for each of theses guys, they are searching, they are broken, they need YOU! I pray that they would let their walls down, that they would really take this opportunity to go deeper with Christ. I prayed that you would break my heart for my guys, and you truly have. I pray that they would be able to see you through me, as I align myself with you I pray that they will be able to follow behind me, and that I will not lead them astray. Fill me up this week so I will be able to pour out into these high school guys, not of myself but of you. Its not about me but all about you. Let all these things be in Your mighty name.

THANK YOU JESUS!
(I just spent a while writing all this down and when I went to publish it, it deleted it... But thankfully I was able to retrieve it! Lucky for you because I wasn't going to rewrite it.)

Marketing

I woke up to my alarm at 7:00 am this morning for my Religions of the World class. At 7:02 am I decided to drop that class and rolled over and went back to sleep. Its probably been the smartest decision I've made all day, if not all week.

So today in my marketing class my professor gave Harris Teeter like three shout outs. He also mentioned a hatred of Food Lion. Needless to say I think its going to be a great semester!

Here's another little nugget I found today thanks to Sarah Katherine Coley:

This passed weekend we had our leader retreat at Doe River Gorge. It was focused around a personality test... Part of me wished it would have been more scripturally based and more of a time to be filled. I don't feel like I was filled in the way that I was expecting. Although it wasn't what I expected I still feel like I was able to take somethings out of it. I found out things about myself and my teammates that will hopefully help us work together better and understand each other better. The test was interesting but I by no means think it is the end all be all. Its hard for me to look back and recall what it said without having it in front of me. We did have a good time to be together as a team and discuss the semester briefly and talk about each others scores. I am really looking forward to our meeting tomorrow night when we will come up with the plan for the entire semester. I'm really looking forward to the new leaders getting involved more this semester and I can't wait to hear their talks. As they've noticed they are going to be the only ones still leading next year, Lauren, Anna, Adam, and Myself will all be graduating. I trust that this semester especially the Lord will be preparing them to continue on next year and he will bless them more than they can imagine. I am really excited to see where Watauga YoungLife goes!

Welp I'm going to have a little QT and hopefully learn something before my next class. The Lord is good and He is faithful.

Chapstick

So a good way to ruin or at least mess up a whole load of laundry is to wash a stick of chapstick in it... Its the dumbest thing! I have orange greasy spots all over my clothes! So if you notice yellow spots on my clothes you can be a jerk and point them out, but I would rather you just let it slide. Its a bit of a sensitive subject... luckily my new shirts didn't get too much on them. Phew

Sick Snow day...

So i don't know what happened but I think I'm sick... Rather I know I'm sick. I played basketball on Monday night and afterwards I was really dizzy and weak, the when I went to sleep I couldn't sleep because my throat was sore! Then yesterday I went to class at 8 am, Religions of the World, after not sleeping at all feeling not the best and it turns out my professor is a yeller which was intensified by my headache and me being on the front row. He also had very strong opinions and I had the strange feeling that he had read through my journal and set out to disprove everything I've been learning lately. My mom told me to drop the class...

I went to the infirmary yesterday and got some meds, I don't know if they're working because this morning I feel worse than I did yesterday. And yesterday I didn't feel good at all, in fact I had multiple people tell me "You look really bad." thanks. I guess its nice that we don't have class today so I can stay home and rest. I just hope no one has a snow party or does anything fun in the snow without me. I already missed sledding last night with my roommates... If you want you can come over and bring me some popsicles and jello! Just sayin.

Yesterday, when I was buying my lunch at cascades the lunch lady (the one who is like a very fast, efficient, robot) was checking me out and she stopped and looked up at me and smiled; like she was really happy to see me. And then she asked me how my break was and told me all about hers. While she did this everyone else had to wait. I have a friend. Its always nice to have friends.

 PASSED PASSED PASSED PASSED PASSED PASSED PASSED PASSED PASSED PASSED

Peace out haters

Nitrate Won't Wait!

SO today was my first day of classes... I had Seminar of Tourism Development and Intro to Film. It turns out my semester may not be as easy as I originally thought it would be. I still have high hopes for the semester though! I have to go to World Religion tomorrow to see if I'm going to drop it or Intro to Film. I will say that Intro to Film does seem like it will be a fairly easy and interesting class. Imagine going to work everyday with a sign above your door that reads "Nitrate won't wait" this is the harsh reality of my professionals trying preserve our classic films. Its a rough life. To dismiss our class Craig did a rarely seen double point at the class, one hand slightly in front of the other and his head cocked to the side and said "and thats what we're going to talk about next time."

I've been having problems starting out a post and then starting something else or running out of time and not actually ever posting my posts... Its a rough life.

I just thought I would share two of my favorite Avett Brothers lyrics...

I wish you'd see yourself as beautiful as I see you. Why can't you see yourself as beautiful as I see you?

Stop your parents car; I just saw a shooting star; we can wish upon it; we won't share the wish made. But I can't keep no secrets; I wish that you would always stay.

1/8

This morning I was awakened by what sounded like extremely squeaky breaks or a new anti terrorism weapon. It was quite unpleasant. Come to find out it was Jonathan Head's cell phone, I don't know how he can stand it. But I didn't let it get me down as a matter-o-fact I was singing this song while I was in the shower.

I am really looking forward to this semester. Do you ever get teh feeling that you've been being prepared for something and its about to come? Well thats how I feel. There's something big right around the corner and I can't wait to see what it is!

Welp, Its pretty snowy outside so I'm not sure what I'm going to do today... I think I'll start out by reading and then maybe drink some hot coco or something.

Yesterday was the last day of Christmas.

1/7

I was watching SNL: best of Will Ferrell Vol. 2 when Drew Barrymore made an appearance... I promptly changed the channel. Gross.

ANNNNNDDDD Its Miss Carie Reeb's Birthday today! Holla

I was recently confronted about there being black eye make up in my bathroom...

I reactivated my facebook today. Still not sure how I feel about it, it may take me a while to get reacquainted to it.

beep bop dip it and hippity hop it

I'm off to Carie's birthday dinner. Later Nerds

I was out with one of my friends from high school in downtown Greensboro and he kept calling the bartender names like "Sweetheart", "Honey", and "Sweetie". I thought it was kind of funny (he was serious), I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. I haven't tried it out yet... Maybe some advice?

I feel like I have more to say than is coming to mind at the moment. There has been a lot that has been happening in the passed couple days. Including but not limited to... I originally gave up my facebook for 40 days - that threshold has passed but I can't seem to make myself reactivate it. I'm not sure I am ready for it again. I went up to DC and helped paint Marshal and Meg's new condo. It was good to get out of Greensboro, I was getting a bit stir crazy. For New Years I wanted to go up to Boone to give my high school guys an alternative to going out and partying. It was a success... If you measure success in broken windows and broken screen doors... There was one of each. If you see any of my roommates or if you are one of my roommates - I'm going to fix both upon my arrival back in Boone.

Until this semester I haven't really worried about passing all my classes because even if I were to not pass a class for some reason I knew I would always bee able to retake it. Although I have never come close to failing a class it has come across my mind that this is my last semester so I really have to pass all my classes so I can graduate!

I'm really looking forward to this semester, hopefully it won't be very stressful. A good ending to a great 4 years.

Ethiopian

We're going to eat Ethiopian food for dinner tonight... When I think of Ethiopians food isn't usually the first thing I think of; In fact it might be the opposite, starvation... I hope they have big portions because I'm starving, egh that came off wrong - I'm really hungry. I'll let you know how it turns out.