Just flat out got a 100% on my statistics exam. It was unusally easy.

Woot!

Ali is awesome. This is her, I hope you don't mind me posting this pic. I don't know who took it, but I retouched it quite a bit; they were kind of in a shadow... Anyway, I love this picture.



Can't wait to get my wedding pics back. You'll like them.

Neverminds36: i don't file for federal aid... i have institutional scholarhsips
Neverminds36: so i wouldn't know
Neverminds36: (that sounded pompous, but wasn't meant to be)
junglebuttons: i don't apply for financial aid, my parents are loaded and i'm way smarter than you anyway. why are you even in school? you're like the village idiot.
junglebuttons: so i wouldn't know
junglebuttons: that's how i read it
Neverminds36: i know. sick, isn't it?

So last night Joel, Ellie, Carol, and I all went to Walmart and bought a large jar of pickles, drove on campus with a megaphone yelling things at people and throwing pickles at them.

Freakin good times.

I know I've posted this before, but I retouched and recropped this pic... I just love the effect the water has on the pic.

Video provided by KEKAI BOY

You're welcome.

For those interested, you can see a clip of my favorite scene from Garden State here. When you click the link, scroll down and find the movie that says "Lets Just Talk About Good Stuff."

I love everything about it, but don't click on it if you plan on seeing the movie and haven't yet... ali...

Thanks, Meg, for the link.

"If we were not so single-minded about
keeping our lives moving, and for once could
do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might
interrupt this sadness of never
understanding ourselves and of threatening
ourselves with death.

Pablo Neruda
from 'Keeping Quiet'"

M	Masculine
A	Amazing
T	Terrific
T	Tough
H	Hot
E	Exciting
W	Witty

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Taking things out of context is fun.

Things to do on trip to New York City, 2004:
1. Quotas (art snobs) - MMOA MOMA
2. Watch Sixth Sense
3. Les Miserables
4. Hour Glass Cafe
5. Central Park
6. Thrift Stores
7. Window Shopping
8. World Trade Center
9. Chickensticks
10. Fantastic #9 song.

Done and done.

Man I'm lazy.

Many of the links to my left don't even work anymore, in the blogs section anyway. And there are many that I want to add. But unfortunately, I have this weird type of laziness where I will do anything to avoid doing something productive even if it means using more energy in something pointless. Why?

Drink your ovaltine, fill your quotas, carpe diem: reverberations I need to accomplish...

It's midday and hot. Florida summers drag like nothing I've ever experienced lasting through the first week of December or so. And every year it's like I forget how long it lasts and expect September to be a little more mild, or at least a little less unbearable.

I want to see the leaves change. I hear it's majestic and shows God's bigness, but I've never seen it. Perhaps in a few years? Lord willing.

"Once I too dreamed that I might know every word of the bible. I hoped to pilot my ship across the surface of its troubled waters and know every bend and horseshoe bay. I wanted to drop a sounding line and call out its depth to my friends.

"Mark one!"
"Quarter one!"
"Half one!”
"Mark twain!"

But the sounding cry came from the heavens, and it was my own life that was measured and my own life that was known. And each time I am measured, I become a little smaller and a little less sure of myself.

I am now convinced that there is no end to these twisting waters. I will not master this river, neither its depths nor its ways. And now that I have as many years behind me as ahead of me, I have taken my pipe and seated myself by the captain’s stove to have a smoke and consider these things.

I have had to make some adjustments to my expectations.

So if not the whole bible, perhaps I could know the New Testament and come to understand the foundations of the Christian faith. And if the New Testament is too much to fathom, then maybe I could know the gospel stories of Jesus. And if not the gospels, then how about Matthew? And if not Matthew, then surely the sermon on the mount could be known. And if not the sermon, then at least the beatitudes. And if not the beatitudes, then I would like to know the first beatitude.

I would like to know what Jesus meant when he said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”

I would like to know poverty of Spirit, for poverty is all I am left with. I would like the courage to be made poor before the shattering depth of the Creator and alongside the unthinkable breadth of humanity. Spiritual poverty is all I ask for now, and it is more than I can handle.

My God, Thou hast given me only one lifetime and half of it is already gone.

Mark twain. I am hoping for safe passage."

-Real Live Preacher

Matt and Josh on "the old carney wilson:"

junglebuttons: if i ever get that fat, just rip the fat off my body.
AcousticThrenody: yes sir
AcousticThrenody: can i use a spoon?
junglebuttons: sure
AcousticThrenody: excellent
junglebuttons: just garb it with your hands and pull
junglebuttons: i'll hold on to something.
AcousticThrenody: ok

One of the most annoying pop-up ads is the one that goes:

"WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

...your computer clock may be wrong."

Um ok, then I'll fix it.

Morons.

My head hurts. My body hurts. My whole body is over 100 degrees. My voice is 10 times deeper than normal. I can barely breathe. There's a hurricane outside. I have the flu. This stupid house has no food because its owners left without stocking up anything. I can't drive to go get food because of the storm. These dogs won't stop whining.

A bad day.

On the other hand, I just saw another trailer for Garden State, featuring a song that I adore by Frou Frou. I got chills. Or maybe it's this illness i have.

By the way, I know the part where Sam (Natalie Portman) tap dances in the mansion is supposed to be funny, but I think it's one of the most beautiful scenes ever created.

"I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

-Pablo Neruda

Thanks, Ali, for the gift.

Wouldn't it be cooler if my eyes were this color instead?



I really should get to bed... Just been a little restless.