The Search for Happiness

Hello cyberland! Hope that everyone is having a good New Year. Being done with Grad School is amazing! I've been doing my best to goof off: playing guitar everyday, finishing art projects, renting movies, catching up on recent news, spending time with friends, reading quality literature, getting to the gym, and promising myself that I'll practice some piano at some point, too! Sigh. This was my first typical weekend that was homework free. I still have that nagging feeling like I should be doing something else...it's great to finally have some freedom to do the things that I want ;)

My ASU job starts up again in a week. I'm grading two classes this semester and definitely looking forward to the ongoing stimulation of reading OTHER people's homework and papers! (with no deadlines hanging over my own head) I got paired up with my very favorite professor from the Early Childhood program: Billie Enz. She runs amazing, challenging classes that are well-designed to apply to everyday practices. She also showed me much kindness, flexibility, and genuine caring as I was trying to get homework/papers completed while living in the hospitals. I am looking forward to the opportunity to continue working with her! Yea ;)

I wanted to share a really great messsage from church last week. It's about happiness and completely sums up my happiness theory: I choose to be happy. It's a great message. Hope that you get a chance to listen--and that people enjoy when I post this type of stuff.

"THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS"--Brian T. Anderson, 1/3/10 (Audio and Notes)

xoxo Jess