On the Verge

Paula goes in to the hos­pi­tal tonight, and baby should appear some­time tomor­row after­noon (around 5pm is what the doc­tor esti­mat­ed).

Woohoo!

By the way, a few days ago I men­tioned that an alum­na from our Chi Alpha group at Stan­ford is a final­ist in the Miss Sin­ga­pore Uni­verse com­pe­ti­tion. Nathaniel Rice (one of our cur­rent stu­dents) found a blog that men­tions Ade­line’s involve­ment twice (on March 12 in a spir­i­tu­al sort of con­text and once on March 21 in a fun friend kind of con­text).

an excerpt from the Fri­day March 12 entry: One of the girls, Ade­line, left the deep­est impres­sion in my heart… [skipped some stuff] i respect her and look up to her.. she got this spark in her eyes when she was shar­ing her expe­ri­ence.. as if she was liv­ing life with such pas­sions~! I told her i was feel­ing pret­ty ner­vous, and she said..“remember i said beau­ty is a qui­et and gen­tle spir­it?” I said “yeah” as her group’s top­ic was about what beau­ty means to them(everyone had to intro them­selves with name and age, and a few words about their top­ic in front of the judges). Then she smiled and said to me, “You have that beau­ty i was talk­ing about — a qui­et and gen­tle spir­it.”. I was pret­ty touched, i smiled and said Thank you and hugged her, and i was close to tears.. it’s just amaz­ing! She was­n’t like most of the oth­er con­tes­tants who could be pret­ty self­ish at times, or hyp­o­crit­i­cal, or bitchy. She is so sin­cere.. and true.. and so pos­i­tive.. and she is just a few years old­er than me and already liv­ing life the way she wants! She just touched my heart in a way.. =)

I’d like for Chi Alpha to take cred­it for Ade­line, but she was already pret­ty mature before we even met her…