2 years is a long time.

Well - over the past 2 years I have: Applied and been accepted to college, Graduated from college, Been forced to quit a job, Been hired for a more prestigious job, Taken part in planning and carrying out a 21 day wilderness expedition, Kayaked a bunch, Had countless swims while Kayaking, Started dating the most amazing woman on earth, Made countless friends, Lost track of countless others, Taught a college level class, been on a motor boat for the first time, been dragged through the water attempting to wake-board, and many other various things. I just remembered that I had this blog. Weird.

Hey! I still have one of these! Wow.

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An amazing weekend followed by the doldrums of life. C'est la vis.
While I am in a melancholy mood for some reason, I have had a spike in my creativity once again - writing abounds as do drawings. I suppose there is a good side of everything. As I left to come home I hugged one of my best friends and told her that I really didn't want to leave - she just told me that the time away will make the next time we see each other more meaningful. I hate optimistic answers but man - she hit the nail on the head - "abscence makes the heart grow fonder" seems to ring true more and more in my life.

I am looking forward to posting some of my writings again soon; since I shut down my other blog, I haven't posted any (or written for that matter). The muse returns - I hope it's in a pleasant mood rather than the droll depressing one it usually seems to be in.

A political rant will be up tomorrow. (not that anyone even reads this anymore)

It's been a day or two since I last posted I guess. Life is ok I suppose - never take a semester off when work is slow and you have nothing else to do though - you will be horribly bored. There - done with that. Now onto a few other subjects.
Friends - the past few years I've been blessed by having friendships grow and form. It is amazing to know that there are at least a few people who care about how life is going and are there through both good and bad times.
Work - I hate my job - landscaping for a boss who doesn't care about job performance is a real drag. Most of the time I work to do a good job rather than simply to get a paycheck, but it's been very tough with this job - I'll hang on though - only a few months left.
Camp - I am the Co-director of the out of camp high adventure program this summer - and am quite happy with this position - I sent in my contract today.
Politics - the primaries are over for my state now... FINALLY. No more political ads filling the TV and the mailbox until May or so hopefully. My preferred candidate lost our primary but oh well - what's going to happen - is going to happen. (it's prolly rigged somehow anyway)

I think that's all for today. I'll get on and type a rant soon hopefully.

What does it mean when a comedian/pundit can get over a million people to support him in a presidential election? People are desperate for anything other than the same old garbage that goes on in politics.

As far as politics goes - the only people I've seen who I'm mildly interested in are Mike Huckabee and Stephen Colbert - and the latter is for entertainment purposes only right now.

All I seem to do is work, scouts and class. I need a break.

Camp is camp - 6 weeks and counting.
I count several thousand dollars per night and keep a group of 16 year olds working to clean the trading post.

I'm tired and miss one of my friends who left for Europe yesterday. She'll be back in 4 weeks.

Just figured I'd update a bit.
latah.

Camp is good - I'mm tired but preparing to enjoy a summer of emptying childrens wallets through the joyous art of retail. :)

I can't wait til the 30th - I'm going to Raliegh to hang out with G.eorge and raise some hell.

drop me a line.

The end of the semester has come - I sat up last night and did 17 chapters of Business Law homework. I'm tired. I'm still working on gettina a graphics card for my computer so it will support my new monitor and I need 2 sticks of RAM.

I can't leave for camp until after the 7th due to the fact that I have an exam that day - other than that one exam, I could leave by Tuesday - other than that class I could leave Friday.

I'm exhausted - off to get some sleep before my eye exam.

6 multiplied by 9?

I've neglected this blog.
On films: I realize that firefly is not a film, but I have recently purchased and watched the whole of it and was left wanting more. I've seen several episodes as well as Serenity so I now continue to ask: "what is wrong with Fox?"
I saw 300 a few weeks back - my verdict: ok. I was disappointed in the length - they could've closed out the story better and made it a great movie to me. I thought there was too much nudity. The effects were great but they needed to focus on the story rather than making sure that every sword hit has a blood splatter.

On politics: the state of this country is frightening. Is there anyone who stands for anything? No political figure has been able to hold my respect besides Joe Wilson. I have this sinking feeling that this country is pretty much screwed due to foolish argumentation and arrogant greed.

On music: I just bought a few CD's - Relient K [Five Score And Seven Years Ago]: I'm a mite disappointed but there are a few songs good enough to justify the purchase (plus I have all of thier other CDs so why not). Third Day [Chronology Vol. 1]: A lot of repeated work but good. Worth the buy. The Almost [Southern Weather]: Amazing. Aaron Gillespe (sp?) is awesome - I hope I can put out an album like that one day. Anberlin [Cities]: Pretty close to an extension of Never Take Friendship Personal - it's good. This puts me at overr 300 CDs now. (so that's where all of my money went...)

I hope to bring the status of this blog to semi active - perhaps a post per week.

A new computer

I'm shopping for a new computer - preferably a laptop - and I think I've settled on one - the only problem with it is it's large and costs almost 3 times what I spent on my desktop.
The verdict is that I want to get a MacBook pro with a 17 inch screen (in a magazine I read it was nicknamed "the cafeteria tray" due to it's size). I've never owned a Mac but I think I would like to avoid vista at any cost. I am also drawn to them because of superior reputation in recording and video or photo editing.

I may be able to buy it before summer but it's doubtful. Perhaps during the summer.

I'm now on spring break - 1 week to work and make money. I have no life.
Some people go to the beach or at the very least hang out with friends but no - just work.

I have a cold. I hate that. I have 2 tests to take today.

Business law is a terrible class due to the fact that I can't understand the professor. (She speaks ebonics)
I like my Accounting class - go figure.

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I seem to have lost my muse. When previously I could write some decent prose I am at a complete loss for words. My mind is simply a wasteland of foolish thoughts and petty complaints of life. I have found it difficult to even complain about government, hypocrisy, and waste. This comes partially because I have been burned out and recovering but also because my mind has deteriorated from a lack of very deep and philosophical reasoning - I find "because I said so" to be more desirable to me as a response than a well thought out and structured defense.

I found that some of my writing was best while I was stressed beyond sanity and depressed from the work I was neglecting - but I also was kind of miserable so I won't do that again. I need some depth and substance to debate. I have always been a passive debater but I want to get in a discussion where there can be no answer and hash out all possible outcomes.

I have a distaste for my selections in music - I'm finding myself listening to country and wierd Al all of the time - which can cause cancer in my mind. It's time for a change. Unmerited dissatisfaction is my central theme right now. I want for very little while desiring everything.

Foolishness. I crave wisdom.
I will post this on both blogs for the sake of ease rather than writing this again in different words. Indolence.

An imported note from Facebook

Ok. So I'm back to the "hey I want to do stuff with music" idea again. I've avoided it since spring due to the music theory grades (that really was a downer). So I focused all of my energy into business. God apparently didn't care for me avoiding opportunities to play and be out there so I've had lots of obstacles with school and life in general - nothing big, just numerous. I feel a peace about playing again and don't want to screw up the gift I believe God gave me by hiding or neglecting it.As far as school goes - I'm not going to CIU again right now. I'm going to look around for this Fall or next spring.

I switched to the new blogger.
I'm in an e-commerce class being bored. To death.

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I'm in the land of the living.
I'm the co-trading post manager at camp with Timmy Maines.
I'm happy to be taking Business Law.
I'm through with this update.

Why do I need a title?

It's cold as crap outside so I feel like complaining - it was 27 when I left the house this morning.

This semester - I currently have 4 a's and 1 grade which I don't know.

Business 101 - not too bad very6 boring due to overlap with management.
Management 101 - same as Business only due to overlap with business.
Computers 170 - Boring - I learned nothing - we skipped the section on Access - the only thing I didn't know well.
Macroeconomics - Excellent if we would ever finish the class - we haven't me in 2 weeks.
Marriage & The Family - I don't really know - I've only recieved 1 grade and it wasn't good so I'm pesimistic. - A good class though, it has been interesting.

I'm ready to go back to camp. I miss people.
I'm plagued with writers block as well.

I'm alive. Not real busy - just nothing interesting going on.

Wow - this blog could almost be considered inactive. I have very little to say on it right now though.

V

V for Vendetta. I saw this movie about 2 weeks ago now and was both impressed and slightly offended by it. The views on government were very close to my own - when government gets too strong the people suffer and must take action. Views on religion were slightly offensive though partially an echo of the Nazi regime - religious based government reaches out to crush those of differing opinions rather than reaching out in love to persuade them to change. The views on homosexuality differ greatly from my own - I don't hate people of that lifestyle but I do believe that they are wrong. I believe that the only way to effectively change a persons views is to guide them to believe as you do rather than openly confront them - confrontation does have it's benefits as does violence but persuasion leaves less damage to heal.

I will be buying this film to watch it many more times - it recieves good rating. Theatrically it is amazing, excellent dialogue and writing.

I would rant on the Government of the U.S. here but I feel I have been so disconnected from the news over the summer I would be beating old topics to death.