Saturday night, prior to going to Applebee’s, I was running from the car into my room to grab my wallet so i could pay for my food. We were hungry, so i was trying to hurry. There is a staircase leading up to the second floor that comes between the 2 doors on the bottom….. I typically duck under this to go into my room rather then walk all the way around it…. anyway, my perception apparently was a little off. I slammed the top of my shoulder into it rather hard, and it hurt a great deal for a few seconds. It remains bruised now. It hurts when things touch it… like seat belts. that is annoying. Don’t worry, I’m going to be ok.

I did Camera 3 in chapel today. It was actually enjoyable. I hated being on it during the FX show…. but when you have a grip and can go off sticks it’s a lot more fun…. although the arm holding the camera gets very tired after awhile. Anyway, I was happy because I got a lot of good shots…. that was the other thing frustrating during FX… got good shots of Southside when they played, but was next to impossible for me to get anything good that wasn’t already on one of the other cameras. Oh well.

Oh yeah… ummm… sunday night…. we played Halo. It was a lot of fun. It continues to be the best game ever. I was the victor all but one time.. because we played on Boarding Action and I hate Boarding Action and therefore hardly ever play it.

I am going to the beach this weekend! With some other people. Not sure exactly who all is coming at this point… but yeah. Pretty sure I will be going to Venice Beach, and maybe Casperton if I am able to get directions to that. Aubrey has said she will try to get them for me…. so a special thanks to her for that ;). She also suggested Venice beach as a cool beach to go to. So hopefully she’s right 😉 I am excited. I haven’t been to the beach in quite some time (note: about 2 months ;))

Anyway, I hope you have a great day.

Today has seriously felt like saturday ALL day today. I don’t know why, it’s really weird. I feel like I will have to wake up and go to church tomorrow, but I don’t. Weird, weird weird.

Tonight was pretty cool. I went to a college and career type thing that the pastor of the church I go to was having. The other people who went from here were Karen, Karissa, Craig, and Johnny. It was a lot of fun. Also met a bunch of people there, mostly people from Florida Southern. It was quite enjoyable. I already forget a lot of people’s names, but, oh well. There was one guy who looked exactly like Dennis (of FIF)… he was pretty cool. Also met Katie (who was very cool, my most extensive conversation of the night was with her), kelly, amy, carolyn (lynn? lin? line? I don’t know how to spell it), some other girl whose name I forget… Dan, and Wes. Wes was quite amusing, also. They had a very cool VW bus, which we rode in to go to the movies to see Phone Booth… which I was very excited about, because i wanted to see it tonight, but then when I remembered about the church thing I was kinda bummed cuz I didn’t think I was going to go see it. So yeah, when.. I think it was carolyn mentioned that they were going to go and see it, i was quite emphatic about the fact that I wanted to go 😉

Was it everything I hoped for? Not really. I liked it though. I expect that most people will not be overly thrilled with it. It is obvious that it was low budget, and it’s kind of predictable if you know how to predict this type of movie (there are no characters there that don’t need to be there. Every character who says something has some kind of important role in the movie, it follows the reverse of what is a standard movie plotline, etc, etc… ;))

Anyway, I liked it, I would see it again if someone wanted to go see it.

That’s all I have to say for tonight 🙂

It was mentioned in a comment on here yesterday that I “may want a girlfriend soon.” And… all I have to say to that is….

soon? that’s not quite right. how about right now? or better yet, a couple months ago? I’m done with the whole patience process. Unfortunately the vast majority of girls are evil. And I don’t like evil girls.

And every non-evil girl I find is either already dating someone else or at the very least is already interested in someone else…. or maybe just doesn’t like me 😉 That’s probably it. They sense my interest and then grab the next guy they see and make them pretend they are dating. It’s all an elaborate facade.

In other news…. I was disappointed in Sonic last night. I got a cherry limeade… there were no actual cherries OR limes in it though. This is a first. I hope it was just a fluke and they have not stopped putting them in. Because that made them awesome, as opposed to just good.

And I am going to do laundry today! I have needed to for almost a whole week now.. but don’t worry… i only rewore clothes that probably shouldn’t have been reworn last night when I had to go over to the studio… and that’s only because i had to be wearing all black. So yeah. I’m sure that impressed all them girls in there 😉 There’ll be a line outside of my door tonight… and I’ll be able to take my pick.

Ah.. if only it were true.

Derek Webb’s cd is pretty good. This is the first time I’ve REALLY listened to it.. even though I’ve had it for over a week now.

I have no roomate for next year. Chad and Matt are supposed to be my suitemates, but as far as my actual room, the person who was going to backed out on me, and I didn’t have time to look for a new person, though later that night after the deadline for the forms I found someone who would have wanted to. Oh well. A little randomization never hurt anybody. Actually, it probably has, but I get along with most people I think, there’s only a few people I presently know on campus who I would not want to room with, so hopefully that is a good representation of the entire student body, and my chances should be pretty good ;). I think it is.

I have my schedule for next semester worked out. It’s looking pretty awesome. Intro to Mass Comm, Intro to Audio Production, Advanced TV Production, Media Ethics, Broadcast Workshop, Principles of Ethics (yes, that is 2 ethics classes… go figure), Christian Thought 1, and Tae Kawn Do. Yes, Tae Kwon Do. Clearly that will be the most insanely difficult class ever.

Tonight is friday. Maybe I will go to a movie for the first time in weeks. That would be fun. Oohh… Phone Booth comes out tonight. We’d better go see it. Or else.

Ok, I think this post is long enough now. I’ve just been kind of rambling on for awhile now.

Bye then.

I spent a good deal of time outside tonight. It was enjoyable. I went out to the little area between where the chapel is and where the cafeteria is… and I played guitar for awhile… about an hour i guess. It was fun. I kinda sat for awhile, then walked around. One guy stopped and listened for a bit…. and then left. 😉 I watched people as they were passing by and stuff… no one passed by too closely, except the guy who stopped, because well.. the sidewalk is a bit of a ways from where I was. But anyway, as I was nearing my completion… 2 of my friends… well, acquaintances really.. I don’t know them all that well, and don’t hang out with them very often… walked by… they are dating, so, yeah. anyway, i just thought of how perfect they really seem for each other. Which means something coming from me, because I rarely feel that 2 people that are dating are really meant for each other 😉 I don’t know why I’m writing about that, I guess it just made me feel like maybe it’s possible, because a lot of the time I don’t think it is.

Also, later I was talking on the phone outside… and when i got off… i just smelled i guess the general smell of the outdoors…. and it’s a smell i really associate with camping for some reason… and therefore with Cornerstone. So it has renewed my desire to be there. or to just camp… haha… I would definately go camping if I had a tent and someone to go with ;).

Oh yeah, if you’re bored, be sure to check out the FIF Studio Cam! http://www.onewaystudio.net/webcam.html

They are recording stuff for their final album… which is to be titled “The End is Near”. It sounds cool. And Douglas TenNapel will be doing the artwork for it! which is awesome. I like Douglas TenNapel….

Here is what is on the cam right now:




All right. Have a great day.

Well, I was going to post a new picture… but my camera is being dumb and not working. Oh well, You will have to wait until tomorrow.

Anyway….

People are funny. Ever have someone complain to no end about how someone does a certain thing, or doesn’t do another thing, and yet has no qualms with doing (or not doing, respectively) the same things themselves? Like say they go to church, and this particular day someone isn’t going, just because they were tired and wanted to sleep in. Clearly, this is not a valid excuse. Now, a few weeks later, the person who made this judgement wakes up, decides they are tired, and to go back to sleep rather then go to church. This person feels nothing wrong with this, though just a few weeks before it was very wrong of the other person to do so. I guess it’s pretty amazing what perspective can do to your understanding. Depending on how from what angle you are seeing things, any given situation can be vastly different. Just something to think about.

Oh yeah, and there are a few people who may feel this specifically applie to them. Well, in a way, yes, it does… but not really. There are enough of you that I feel as though I am posting about people in general.. and therefore, it is about you, but not soley you, and not you specifically. 😉 So don’t take offense or anything….

Oh yeah, and I lost my book bag. That sucks. I had 2 books and a notebook and some important papers and stuff in it. I have no idea where it could possibly be, as I speciffically remember bringing it back to the room, and NOT taking it back out with me the next day… but it is nowhere to be found. Ah well.

Have a great day.

hmmm… only one comment on that? oh well.

Today is another day that flew by. In fact, I still have a little bit of work that I need to do for tomorrow. It won’t be hard… I just have to do an inner monologue… so basically… I’ll take a minute of my thoughts… edit out anything too personal to do in class… and write that down 😉 How exciting… people will know my inner thoughts. Actually, that’s kind of frightening for them. It’s bad enough *I* have to live with them, let alone share them with others 😉

Oh yeah. I was at the mall today, because my roommate was looking for the new Shane Bernard cd. Family Chrisitian failed to have it. So we went to FYE (note: pronounce it “fyeh”, no, that is not it’s actual name, but it is a good thing to call it.) Anyway, as anyone who has ever heard of this store knows, it is a horribly, horribly overpriced store. like… when stuff goes on sale… it’s ALMOST as low as you can get it if you go to almost any other store. Anyway, I walk in there today… and as I’m looking for Shane Bernard, I see the new Brave Saint Saturn cd…. which I thought was cool, cuz it wasn’t there when i looked for it last tuesday. Anyway, I picked it up and looked at the price… $15. As opposed to the $17 I paid at Family Christian. Does anyone else see something wrong with this? A store KNOWN for being hideously overpriced is selling an album for LESS then the Christian store? Good ‘ol corporate Christianity.

In other news… I have been reading Romans.. and… I came across a chapter which I think makes for good discussion. It is Romans 9. Below is the speciffic portion of it I refer to.

Romans 9:11-23
Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad – in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but bnuy him who calls = she was told, “the older will serve the younger.” Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?” But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed its, ‘why did you make me like this?'” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath – prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of His glory known to the objects of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory…?”

So clearly this is the issue of Arminianism vs. Calvinism. Thoughts, ideas, comments?


Godspeed.

“Incandescent moon is shining just for you, tonight.
Shimmering, a golden halo, does it follow just beyond your sight?
Sigh… You’re an angel wanting wings for flight, tonight.
Baby’s Breath, in the waxing light.
Glassy seas of blue.
I will dream of you.

Let’s close our eyes till Daylight comes.
Baby’s Breath, and Chrysanthemums.
So beaming blue these dreaming skies,
In soundless sleep now close your eyes.
‘Till Daylight,
‘Till Daylight comes.

I keep feeling, that the strangest peaces is all around.
In the speechless, in this quiet, Angels never make a single sound,
Sigh… Baby’s breath and Lilacs so profound.
Softest moonlight making garlands, forms the crown.
Glassy seas of blue.
I will dream of you.

Let’s close our eyes till Daylight comes.
Baby’s Breath, and Chrysanthemums.
So beaming blue these dreaming skies,
In soundless sleep now close your eyes.
‘Till Daylight,
‘Till Daylight comes.”

-“Babies Breath,” by braveSaintSaturn