An Ode To Existence

bluegrass anyone?

nickel creek is coming to cary on oct. 3!!!! woooooooooooohoooooooooseeerrrrsss!!!! can't wait to see that with d-rock and whoever else decides to join us. just gotta find the money for the tix :P

so it's about midnight, and i'm checkin my email. what do i see? something from the dean's secretary informing us that the add/drop period is now over and it's too late to rearrange your schedule (thanks for the heads up guys!). the problem with this is i'm taking a grad/independent study course with a prof, which means i need a permission number to officially add it to my courseload. i got one last semester, but that was before summer, and stuff got packed up and moved around and left behind, and now i have absolutely no idea where that number is. not that it would matter cuz it's too late to change my schedule online anyway. so now i'll have to go waste some time at the dean's office on monday trying to get this figured out. hope i don't have to argue with anyone too much. that would just be bad. you gotta love how they spring this stuff on you though.

other than that, it's been a good week. another crazy, hectic one, that has me about to pass out, but it's been good. i'm starting to get to spend some one on one time with my freshman guys and getting to know them, which has been real cool. i love hearing peoples' stories, and especially love hearing about how God has worked in their lives. good stuff.

tonight cru had a 'fajitas & frisbee' social, that was fun times. wanna guess what we did? played ultimate, ate fajitas, and enjoyed each others' company, hehe. some state and campbell peeps from john, dorsey and jaime's clearwater beach project came over to visit, one of whom was the illustrious casey (don't know your last name case, sorry!). though i had never actually met her until a week and a half ago, i've known of her and know much about her because she forms the triumvirate with e and mar. the three amigos of state, or something like that. so the clearwater folks plus me and walsh watched 'spies like us' at our house and chilled for a bit after that. a nice, relaxing cap to a fast paced week.

for whatever reason, that organizing bug hit me at 2 in the morning, which is why i'm up right now. finally hole-punched all my notes and handouts and put them in folders. nervous energy i suppose. i need to sleep though. pizzles and blizzles to my nizzles.

you have one wing
i have another
seeking shelter like
sister and brother
through the winter and
through the summer
like one angel we'll fly....far away

sounds: lifehouse - everything
food for thought: my journal

givin it up, Nati style

yo phil (aka p diddy), i don't have a clue as to if you ever read this, but it don't matter much. thanks bro, for being that messenger of peace for me tonight. what an encouraging conversation. you're a brotha like no otha. pz and God bless.

sounds: burlap to cashmere - eileen's song
food for thought: mr. ghosh has a lot to say about egypt

monday monday

man, it's only monday and i'm already tired. this is not gonna work, i need to find a way to get some energy. and how about some money too? my parents made me pay the rent this month, which i was not expecting. that, plus the four hundred fifty freakin dollars i had to spend on books this semester has me staring at the red ink for the first time in my life. this is getting ridiculous. i know i'm taking five classes, but one is an independent study with all original manuscripts, and one is computer science one. for cryin out loud, how can they make me spend $150 on an intro class? not cool. gotta get my hours figured out and start working this week.

on a happier note, i got to see a bunch of friends from gburg last thursday at state. we laughed, we cried (not really), we had fun times. it was extra cool cuz i got to see mar (who was in argentina with me) as well. so me, her, e and kelly went out to applebee's and grabbed something to eat after the meeting, and then i got to see e's new apartment. very nice. methinks her closet is definitely as big as my entire room. ok, so i'm exaggerating, but not by much. it was good to see them again, i've missed hangin with those folks. perhaps i'll be able to rustle up some fun with them this weekend as well.

dude, everybody out here has been screamin their heads off about this drought they're having. i heard something like there was only 43 days of water left and thought that was kinda amusing. not that it's funny that they're having this heat wave and it's jackin the crops. but for reals, do y'all know what a drought is? out west, we go a whole year without rain, no complaints. anyways, that whole apocalyptic drought mess ended last week with a noah's ark redux here in north caky. i think it literally rained for 7 straight days. and by the end of it all, walsh had 2 inches of standing water in his car, thanks to a leaky sunroof. classic :)

yesterday i starred in the upcoming midsouth regional christmas conference video. yeh, that's right. i'm going back to hollywood. well, that's what jay keeps telling me. he's doing an internship with the video section of the regional office, and somehow they put him in charge of making the video for conference. so, being the veteran of one of his previous school films, i got pulled into this one too, but it was fun. i did a little running, which was probably good for me. need to exercise more.

so i had my first (short) paper of the semester due today. labor day, of all freakin days. we're not even supposed to have class! everyone else is out, but no, the dukies gotta have class. so i stayed up half the night doing what i thought was the reading for this paper. the syllabus says we're discussing chapters 3&4 on wednesday, which leads me to the conclusion that the paper is about chapters 1&2. then in class i find we're discussing the whole book. might wanna email the prof and explain that to him, if for nothing else, so he won't spend too much time trying to figure out why i didn't talk about half the book. what a way to start the semester, hehe.

oh yeh, duke football beat ecu, 23-16. oh hell yeh!!! it's on now baby :) pizzles to my nizzles. God bless.

sounds: smashing pumpkins - rhinoceros
food for thought: in an antique land - amitav ghosh