Well I have one week left of college. No, really. Next Thursday I'm finished. Done. That's all she wrote.
And I am screwed.
I'm procrastinating on working on my SMP as we speak. Or as I write. Whatever.
Life goes on.
I do have one thing on the forefront of my mind, but I don't think I'm going to talk about it here. Its been done to death and no one needs my two cents.
...on the other hand... I can't decide if over saturation of information helps or hinders. But enough of that.
I have a brilliant idea for a website, of coarse with help from the other members of my digital art class. It is virtual monopoly for Ocean City. I am ever so excited.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Momma Always said Life is like a Box of Chocolates...
...you Never know What you're going to get.
I've been thinking a lot lately.
I've been thinking about graduating and how I'm going to miss people. And How I'm surprised to find i realize I won't miss others.
But what has really caught my attention as of late is how there is such amazing amounts of pain in the world. And I really want to make it all go away. Not away from my sight, really and truly gone, never to come back. I know people need pain and suffering to become better people or some bullshit like that. But There is WAY too much in this world. I read a blog written by a woman in Iraq. Recently she wrote about how women are being raped in Iraq by the police force we are supposed to be training to make the country safer. And the government we propped up there is trying to cover it up and hide it. I don't know what to do. People who are more realistic (read: Pessimistic) than me would say there is nothing one tiny little person can do in this huge mess. I disagree. There are hundreds of stories of people who single handily made a difference.
Unfortunately for me, I am most definitely one of those people. Doesn't mean I can't try. But I see so much Pain and such a huge mess every where I Look. I see friends who are in pain and I see behind them the whole planet is on fire. I don't know where to start.
But tonight i was thinking about a couple of friends, and some of the shit that is going on. And I was thinking how some writer was describing writing as a slow process. Every little bit counts. I wish I could remember who it was but she was describing her brother writing a paper on birds and how her father said he just had to do it bird by bird. He was complain about how it was such a monumental task and he didn't know where to start. He just had to go bird by bird. That got me to think why not apply that to much larger problems. Start small. I can't fix Iraq or any one today. But I can hold my friends in my arms when they need me to. I can start here, now, in every little way I can think. I won't make the whole world a better place. I'm not that naive. I can't stop a country from being raped by my home country, let alone a single person far away. But that doesn't mean that I don't care, or that I don't want to do something about it. I'll just have to start small. Work my way up.
Work Bird by Bird.
I've been thinking a lot lately.
I've been thinking about graduating and how I'm going to miss people. And How I'm surprised to find i realize I won't miss others.
But what has really caught my attention as of late is how there is such amazing amounts of pain in the world. And I really want to make it all go away. Not away from my sight, really and truly gone, never to come back. I know people need pain and suffering to become better people or some bullshit like that. But There is WAY too much in this world. I read a blog written by a woman in Iraq. Recently she wrote about how women are being raped in Iraq by the police force we are supposed to be training to make the country safer. And the government we propped up there is trying to cover it up and hide it. I don't know what to do. People who are more realistic (read: Pessimistic) than me would say there is nothing one tiny little person can do in this huge mess. I disagree. There are hundreds of stories of people who single handily made a difference.
Unfortunately for me, I am most definitely one of those people. Doesn't mean I can't try. But I see so much Pain and such a huge mess every where I Look. I see friends who are in pain and I see behind them the whole planet is on fire. I don't know where to start.
But tonight i was thinking about a couple of friends, and some of the shit that is going on. And I was thinking how some writer was describing writing as a slow process. Every little bit counts. I wish I could remember who it was but she was describing her brother writing a paper on birds and how her father said he just had to do it bird by bird. He was complain about how it was such a monumental task and he didn't know where to start. He just had to go bird by bird. That got me to think why not apply that to much larger problems. Start small. I can't fix Iraq or any one today. But I can hold my friends in my arms when they need me to. I can start here, now, in every little way I can think. I won't make the whole world a better place. I'm not that naive. I can't stop a country from being raped by my home country, let alone a single person far away. But that doesn't mean that I don't care, or that I don't want to do something about it. I'll just have to start small. Work my way up.
Work Bird by Bird.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Come in, Come in! We Won't bite...
... until we know you better.
So Last weekend, I saw the new bond film. Not bad. I can't say that it's my favorite bond movie or movie in general. It dragged a little, especially around the poker part. The film makers were trying to build up suspense around... a poker game. They tried. They tried hard. And they almost succeeded. But almost wasn't good enough.
This Weekend was Pursuit of Happyness. This movie was good. It is a movie that you have to see once or twice a year and then anytime that you feel like you can't do something or the world is out to get you and a mean and horrible place. And it got the message "you can do anything you put your mind to, regardless of how bad things look" without being terribly preachy. So two Thumbs up.
Also this weekend, of more important note, Janice Came Down! YAY! She came and hung out and it was good.
And it was pointed out to me that I didn't get in before Midnight any night this weekend. Let me Explain. Friday I saw a comedian who was amusing and vague forgettable, except that he sold tee shirts that had one of his punch lines on it. The punch line was "you Look fat when you cry." Lovely. Then LQ 22, Jess, Dan, Cathy and I all went and hung out in Jeremy's office until something like 1:30. And I Stole Jess from Dan. Mwahaha!
Janice was there too, but she had to go to bed. Cause when you graduate from college you become 10 years older. It's sad really. She was so young...once.
Saturday was interesting. I got in at 5 in the morning. I blame the Wii. This is an addictive machine. That and the Cards that Oscar gave Josh. Also, I have crazy and amazing friends.
And Sunday I was "productive." I found the Site report for The Gallows Green. Commonly know as Campus Center.
And the Oscars. They happened. Helen Mirren and Martin Scorsese won. And that makes me happy. But I don't care. I didn't watch and Didn't really care about any of the films made this year.
And now I really have to go to bed.
So Last weekend, I saw the new bond film. Not bad. I can't say that it's my favorite bond movie or movie in general. It dragged a little, especially around the poker part. The film makers were trying to build up suspense around... a poker game. They tried. They tried hard. And they almost succeeded. But almost wasn't good enough.
This Weekend was Pursuit of Happyness. This movie was good. It is a movie that you have to see once or twice a year and then anytime that you feel like you can't do something or the world is out to get you and a mean and horrible place. And it got the message "you can do anything you put your mind to, regardless of how bad things look" without being terribly preachy. So two Thumbs up.
Also this weekend, of more important note, Janice Came Down! YAY! She came and hung out and it was good.
And it was pointed out to me that I didn't get in before Midnight any night this weekend. Let me Explain. Friday I saw a comedian who was amusing and vague forgettable, except that he sold tee shirts that had one of his punch lines on it. The punch line was "you Look fat when you cry." Lovely. Then LQ 22, Jess, Dan, Cathy and I all went and hung out in Jeremy's office until something like 1:30. And I Stole Jess from Dan. Mwahaha!
Janice was there too, but she had to go to bed. Cause when you graduate from college you become 10 years older. It's sad really. She was so young...once.
Saturday was interesting. I got in at 5 in the morning. I blame the Wii. This is an addictive machine. That and the Cards that Oscar gave Josh. Also, I have crazy and amazing friends.
And Sunday I was "productive." I found the Site report for The Gallows Green. Commonly know as Campus Center.
And the Oscars. They happened. Helen Mirren and Martin Scorsese won. And that makes me happy. But I don't care. I didn't watch and Didn't really care about any of the films made this year.
And now I really have to go to bed.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Here's lookin' at you, kid
This week has been ridiculous.
Starting on Valentine's Day, Jess showed up to tell me that Dan had become violently sick the night before. He was so bad that he was sent to the hospital, and would not be available for dinner that evening. He's ok now, but this meant that Jess was single on Valentine's day, though not the way I had jokingly planned. I had joked the weekend before that she should break up with Dan for the day and come hang out with me and we would revel in our singleness. Well we still hung out, and had Indian food and that was nice, but I still feel bad about the circumstances.
The other thing that was strange about Wednesday is that I kept forgetting the date and what day it was. When I was signing into work, I had to sit and think what the date was. Clearly, Valentine's Day has lost all meaning for me.
Oh well.
But Friday, that sucked.
I wanted to go to the comedian, the movie, fencing movie night, or drive people to Medieval Times, I had an over abundance of choices. What did I do?
I talked about my SMP all night with one of my advisers. Till 11 o'clock PM. And while it was good that i did this, it made me focus a little bit more, and there was good Thai food, still would have rather done one of the other things on the list. Let's hope tonight is better.
Starting on Valentine's Day, Jess showed up to tell me that Dan had become violently sick the night before. He was so bad that he was sent to the hospital, and would not be available for dinner that evening. He's ok now, but this meant that Jess was single on Valentine's day, though not the way I had jokingly planned. I had joked the weekend before that she should break up with Dan for the day and come hang out with me and we would revel in our singleness. Well we still hung out, and had Indian food and that was nice, but I still feel bad about the circumstances.
The other thing that was strange about Wednesday is that I kept forgetting the date and what day it was. When I was signing into work, I had to sit and think what the date was. Clearly, Valentine's Day has lost all meaning for me.
Oh well.
But Friday, that sucked.
I wanted to go to the comedian, the movie, fencing movie night, or drive people to Medieval Times, I had an over abundance of choices. What did I do?
I talked about my SMP all night with one of my advisers. Till 11 o'clock PM. And while it was good that i did this, it made me focus a little bit more, and there was good Thai food, still would have rather done one of the other things on the list. Let's hope tonight is better.
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