so i guess i'm going to europe.

this is exciting because,   it will    be

           real                         cool 
 and

                               i will             be able

                 to see                    a       lot
of
                                   interesting
         things
  and                     such                        .


finally a post, it has been long.


lets try to sort these things out and maybe we will find a cadence in the confusion.

why are we so busy?

Pascal said its cause we want to be. we are afraid to deal with what we are, lonely, sinful, afraid, wretched. so we just surround ourselves by diversions and distractions. we do not want to be alone and bored because then we would have to deal with ourselves. scary.

patience needs to be a spiritual discipline in my life. and listening.

i'm an uncle... :)



hospital here i come... :)



hA! i'm an uncle!


:)

lij.

i got a friggin 97% on my fine arts exam! but that is only before he added the extra credit i did which now gives me a 107%! who gets that on an exam!? whoa, i guess i do. anyway, happy break to all. I flippin miss my friends already, but that is okay i shall see them again some day. it is cold here, with lots of snow, but that is also okay.

I saw King Kong today. talk about the sweetest/creepiest/weirdest movie in the whole world. It had the sweetest special effects but it was surely a very messed up film, definitely worth seeing in the theaters folks. there were cool fights, rolling dinosaurs, large insects, beautiful women, heroic fellows, crummy fellows, dead fellows, and a really big gorilla!

i need to start doing G. & A. home work... oh well it can wait.

God is so much better then i can even understand. He gave me a perfect family, swell friends, and really wild-outa-control hair. He's so sweet.

”But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Psalm 5:11

that's all.

l
i
j
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i woke up early today to study and i got done early. My exam is not until 11:30. wow, this post is really exciting so far... i kinda sound like mike.

Ode to Sleep
I've decided that sleep is currently the most important aspect of my life. It has become so, ironically, from a lack of it. Weird, how the one thing that we reject so often becomes a dominant figure in our lives. I love sleep, i adore sleep, I dream of sleep; which is where the problem arises. sleep is something that I need. when I have enough of it i do not, at least generally speaking, want more of it. It is one of those elements in life that should create some peculiar form of warning if it just so happens to arise as an immediate and dangerous master, one that you are continually striving to please. when such an enemy, or better stated "misguided friend," chooses to make himself known through various forms of headaches, forgetfulness, anxiety, tiredness, and zoning-outness; the question of common sense comes into play. I must stop for a minute and confess that the only symptom out of the latter five (one of which probably not found in our dictionary) that I am suffering is that of tiredness, and more easily understood because of morning's not so surprising presence, except maybe to a Chinese man, coming through my window. Yet, for sake of argument in benefit of the others, as though they were some charity that I am somehow writing an apologetic for, I will continue to address all five of the cruel, though likely deserving, symptoms. So is this sad state of things bad? Yes. Are we entitled to fully accept it? Maybe. It is after all exam week, but we cannot get off as easily as that. Some of us (voice of the dorm fellows, particularly those who reside in Lowell) have been looking like this, hypothetically speaking, all semester long and you have no choice but to wonder if they will ever realize that there is more to life then being tired. I hope they do. But since I myself have given in to this sin of staying awake more often then I should, I will hold my breath and try my best to refrain from playing the hypocrite at least in this time and place.

Happy exam week to all, dont get stressed jus be happy!

I'm all over with.

lij.