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Sunday, March 31, 2002

Easter Weekend

It's late and I'm tired, but it's been a good day. A good couple of days, in fact--life hadn't been going so well, but Good Friday was a much-needed lift. It's an annual tradition to have a Good Friday Rally here, and for the last two years I've been involved as a musician and organizer. The best part about the whole event is unity--people from all over campus who don't know each other find that they have a common bond in Christ. And this yields some amazing fruit. For example, this year New Life, one of the campus churches, was in charge of the music (think rock band with electric guitars, drum set, the whole deal) and was looking for more singers. I joined them (sidenote: two of the guys in the band led music at last year's rally as well, though back then it was just Ben and I on acoustic guitar, Kyle on djembe, and all three of us singing) along with a girl named Lauren (whom I didn't know). I ended up hanging out with her and her friends for hours after the rally. Another cool part of the rally was prayer; imagine a couple hundred college students praying together for our leaders, friends, etc. in the middle of campus! That night I also spent a lot of time with my roommate Emily, which was exciting because she's usually home during the weekends planning her wedding. We don't get to spend as much time together as we'd like. So that was fun.

Today was a great day for music. (Come Wednesday I'll be doing the tech thing again, another 60 hours in a week and a half inside the theatre; I'm getting the music in while I can!) I decided to record all of my original songs--that I could remember, anyway--and ended up quitting after getting around two hours of material on minidisc. My voice was tired since I'd sung earlier for a couple of hours as well, and my fingers were dying from playing the guitar. And there are still songs that I didn't record. But I feel refreshed now, and I'm excited to go home for church in the morning and spend some time with my family.

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