{"id":594,"date":"2002-09-03T03:26:55","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=594"},"modified":"2002-09-03T03:26:55","modified_gmt":"2002-09-03T07:26:55","slug":"594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Well, I put up a new picture since that last one has been up since like&#8230; 2 or 3 weeks before I left home&#8230; which puts it a little over a month since I&#8217;ve changed pics.&nbsp; As you can see, my hair is actually beginning to get long now.&nbsp; This is a good thing.&nbsp; Actually it&#8217;s kind of funny.&nbsp; Like I get a 50\/50 response to the hair\/sideburns thing&#8230;.&nbsp; Half the people I come into contact with are like &#8220;hey, that&#8217;s really cool&#8230; I like it a lot&#8221;, and the other half are life &#8220;eh, i don&#8217;t really like it&#8221;.&nbsp; Personally, I&#8217;m liking it.&nbsp; It&#8217;s at somewhat of an uncomfortable length right now, but, once it gets a little longer it should be all good.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It is now 3 a.m.&nbsp; I have a class at 8 a.m.&nbsp; That means I have to be up by 7:15, and THAT means&#8230;&nbsp; if I go to sleep I get a grand total of 4 hours&#8230; unfortunately, I also had a large cup of coffee about an hour or so ago, and as a result the caffeine has me really alert, so&nbsp;I don&#8217;t much feel like sleeping.&nbsp; That wasn&#8217;t too smart of me, huh?&nbsp; Oh well, I will learn from it I guess.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I watched Major Payne just a bit ago with Ronnie and BJ.&nbsp; Of course, rather then doing the smart thing and watching it early, we started watching it at 1 a.m., so as to make it so that I had to break curfew to go over there (we&#8217;re not supposed to leave our rooms after one&#8230; luckily there is about a 2 second outside walk between our rooms) and also so that none of us would get a decent amount of sleep.&nbsp; But it was cool, they&#8217;re cool guys, and I definately plan on hanging out with them this year.&nbsp; Even if I am only using them for their cool movie setup (j\/k..&nbsp; sort of ;)).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I am really excited about this year though.&nbsp; There is so much potential I can see in it.&nbsp; I just am wanting to not waste it&#8230; I want to make the most of it&#8230; and even play catch up a little bit on last year&#8230; because a lot of that was wasted.&nbsp; Some things continue to be wasted though&#8230;&nbsp; though not by my choice \ud83d\ude09&nbsp; I&#8217;ve made it a goal this year to try and hang out with my friends from back home that are down here more often.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been succeeding with one of them (Karen), but as far as Lisa and Emily go&#8230; no.&nbsp; Not that I haven&#8217;t tried, but, they never seem to answer their phone&#8230;&nbsp; or, when they do, it&#8217;s generally lisa and she is either tired or leaving.&nbsp; Oh well.&nbsp; And Brown I&#8217;ve hung out with a bit.&nbsp; He&#8217;s just above me, so I guess I&#8217;m succeeding there too.&nbsp; Although it&#8217;s been a few days since I&#8217;ve done much with him&#8230; perhaps tomorrow I&#8217;ll head to his room.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Just&#8230; something that I have really realized the importance of recently&#8230;..&nbsp; always take advantage of every opportunity you have.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t hold out for something that COULD be when something else IS right now.&nbsp; Life is too&nbsp;short to live for the might be.&nbsp; You will enjoy yourself so much more if you live in the now.&nbsp; Keep the future in mind, but don&#8217;t live for it.&nbsp; This is really similar to what <A href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/Age\" target=_new>Age<\/A> just recently did a post on&#8230;&nbsp; I suggest you go read it.&nbsp; She did a lot better job then I am probably doing ;).&nbsp; In any case, make the most of every second you have.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>That&#8217;s all for tonight.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Be blessed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to say goodbye after all this time.<BR>The rain will fall down replenishing all of our broken dreams.<BR>And this burning tree that is withering will bloom again,<BR>Would you believe?<BR><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Goodbye, goodbye.<BR>Walk away it&#8217;s time to say goodbye.<BR>Goodbye, goodbye.<BR>Walk away it&#8217;s hard to say goodbye.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Now all that&#8217;s left are pictures on the wall.<BR>Memories and stories that are told.<BR>The more often told the bigger they get.<BR>Create a legacy last we forget.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Goodbye, goodbye.<BR>Walk away it&#8217;s time to say goodbye.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>No longer can i hold onto this defeated change in my&nbsp;heart.<BR>It&#8217;s time to sing &#8220;fare thee well&#8221; to life as we know it.<BR>My voice it will be still.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Something woke me up in the midst of dream and fantasy.<BR>Halfway there.<BR>But He always fills my cup<BR>And He lifts me up oh how He lifts me up.<BR><BR>Goodbye, goodbye.<BR>Walk away it&#8217;s time to say goodbye.<BR><BR>I&nbsp;never took the time to stop and realize,<BR>That death takes many forms,<BR>Even while alive.&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>-&#8220;Goodbye,&#8221; by Plankeye<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I put up a new picture since that last one has been up since like&#8230; 2 or 3 weeks before I left home&#8230; which puts it a little over a month since I&#8217;ve changed pics.&nbsp; As you can see, my hair is actually beginning to get long now.&nbsp; This is a good thing.&nbsp; Actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}