Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts
across like floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the
remembrance of happier times. There have been joys too great
to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which
I have not dared to dwell; and with these in mind I say: Climb
if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought
without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may
destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well
to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.
--Edward Whymper,
Scrambles Amongst the Alps
I am longing to re-read Call of the Wild. And other London. And Muir. And Kerouac. And Whitman. And others.
if only I had time to sit. and read.
i really don't know what's going on with me these days. I just don't want to have anything to do with school. I think I'm going stir crazy. This summer will be good for me.
wish i were in the land of cotton
...away, away, away down south in Dixie...
that song makes me nostalgic. when I hear it, it makes me think of my dad, because he used to sing it all the time. I think I've been going through withdrawls
I am:
The Yankee or Dixie quiz says:
"You are 100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?"
mwa haha...
You are - Texan!
You are proud - damn proud - and deservedly so. You live in Texas - or you are a natural born Texan who has been kidnapped and taken to some other state (probably Utah, Idaho, Montana or somewhere in the bible belt - or maybe Austrailia or some other former British penal colony).
How Texan Are You?
look away!
look away!
look away to Dixie land!
Everything is fine, nothing is broken
- Homestar Runner
it's like 5:30 am and I am
laying down:
on my Therm-a-Rest in the floor of one of the upstairs rooms in the SAC...I'm so proud of myself for staking out the room and "reserving" it with my stuff until I could get Allan and Neil and Jordan to come join me. I've been waiting all year to get one of these rooms. I think that's the only reason I haven't left yet.
listening to:
Elias, by
Dispatch
or maybe
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by
The Darkness
or maybe
Such Great Heights covered by
Iron and Wine
or
ack the song keeps changing
should be working on:
CivArts paper: due at 11am; 4-6 pages, currently at 4 1/2; still lacking final revisions, bibliography
and
Contemporary American Religion precis paper; due at 1pm; 10-15 pages, currently at 10; still lacking
Part IV: Personal Response to the Worship Analysis and
Part V: A Reflection on the Learning Process
but instead:
remote-desktopping the laptop back in my dormroom (yep, I've officially verb-ed the way you get onto another computer over the intranet.) because Rog's computer doesn't have
e-Sword or my Outlook email account...
also spacing out and reading the lyrics that keep automatically popping up every time a song changes in
iTunes c/o
EvilLyrics and being mesmerized by the crazy new visualizations c/o the
White Cap plug-in.
but really, now the sun is starting to come up. I'm getting off the ground and back to work.
...but first...
favorite away message of the night:
AutoResponse from gstreet4life:
Believe it or not, in Christian music "artist"
TobyMac's song, "Get This Party Started,"
there is a line that goes:
Somebody shut me up!
...I'd gladly volunteer if nobody's
taken care of that issue yet.
yep, that's right, TobyMac was on campus last night. and I'd rather write papers than go to the concert.
"perhaps there's a relation between your lecture and the amount of hot air in the room"
the moment of shocked silence that followed this comment was eventually broken by applause from the students of Dr. Kemeny's Contemporary American Religion class.
the funny thing is:
i think maybe Jordan wasn't joking.
well,
as quick as the snow came, it went. ...all except for that igloo which is now just a melted lump of mud and ice in the middle of Lincoln Lawn. it snowed almost a foot overnight on Saturday, and two days later it was nearly 70 degrees outside. i took a few pictures of the snow-covered trees, because we usually don't get snow this wet, so it's not often that we see so much weighing down branches.
check the pics here.
currently playing:
The F Stop Blues,
Jack Johnson live at Bonaroo. i've finally started uploading music from my external to Rog's tablet, and it's pretty refreshing to have something other than Damien Rice and Jars of Clay to listen to. Since I've been borrowing Rog's tablet I've listened
Worlds Apart about 15 times. ...not that that's a bad thing...
taking a break from:
a ridiculous paper for Dr. Tilford. while both of the books (
The Wannsee Conference Conference and the Final Solution: a Reconsideration by Mark Roseman and
Fatherland by Robert Harris) were on interesting subjects and overall pretty good reads... I don't think they really have much in common, at least as far as a review essay tying together their main themes is concerned.
The Wannsee Conference is a historical background on the events leading up to the secret conference where Nazi leadership planned how to commit mass genocide on 13 million Jews, and
Fatherland is a "what if?" novel based upon speculation on what the Reich would be like in 1964 if Hitler had won WWII... While there was some commonality between the two, it is still irritating to have to treat a work of fiction as historical fact, as per Dr. Tilford's assignment. Since Dr. Tilford asked us to write on something that pertained to our specific major, I am writing on the nature of civil religion (as defined by
Robert Bellah in Civil Religion in America) and how the tone set in the formation of the Nazi party evolved . sounds boring, eh? well, it is. at least right now, at 2am the day before the paper is due... anyways, I better write a bit more.
what a nice day...for studying.
listening to:
The Waifs,
Highway One (Live)
I am definitely enjoying having a computer that has a functioning sound card. check out
RadioioACOUSTIC on iTunes
Internet Radio. It's under the "Americana" genre, and it's a pretty good eclectic mix of acoustic guitar songs.
awesomely new link:
yes, the phrasing
"awesomely new link" would suggest that the link is only made awesome by its newness, but verily verily I say unto you, the link is in fact made awesome by its target. check out the blog started by my step-father (and Pastor):
drmikemiller.blogspot.com He intends to write Christian perspectives on relevant and contemporary topics. I'd thoroughly enjoy helping him get some traffic and comments.
here's to my future (and final) college roommate:
gstreet4life: hey
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Auto response from pogchAMP83: it wouldn't be Grove City without the rain
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pogchAMP83: shart arp
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Auto response from gstreet4life: actually, it would still be Grove City even without the rain.
It would just be atypical...
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pogchAMP83: ware nart frarnds
pogchAMP83: we should get fish next year
pogchAMP83: 2 of them
pogchAMP83: mine's gonna be named woodchuck
pogchAMP83: you should name your's sprockets
pogchAMP83: hey are you there
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Auto response from gstreet4life: actually, it would still be Grove City even without the rain.
It would just be atypical...
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gstreet4life: yesh
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Auto response from pogchAMP83:
holycrapitssnowing
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well, it was raining...
so the snow that Jordan has been forcasting got here last night...
It's a beautiful day!
the sunrise was nice today.
it only rained hard until about 6am
but sadly, I am just heading to bed.
so i officially hate my security shift:
please note the time of this post. enough said.
I'm not sure why I signed up for a job that only has hours between midnight at 7am. It cramps my Fridays and totally ruins my sleep patterns for the entire weekend. plus it just seems like such a pointless task anyways. I just sat for most of the last 6 hours and watched the first 6 episodes of
Arrested Development season 2 and most about half of
The Usual Suspects... I saw a total of 10 people the entire time I was working.
oh well, the semester's almost over, and I'm trying to get a better campus job for next year.
and now it's time for a 5 hour morning nap. goodnight...er...day...
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