Chim Chiminey, Chim Chiminey, Chim chim cheroo

I finally got a haircut! Woo!

It's the last day of 2005. It's been an interesting year. I finished high school, started college, and umm... did some other stuff. I've seen just about every friend I have ever kept in touch with (I've made a few trips to Michigan, I went to NM for their graduation, I of course saw my OH friends, and I made new friends at college).

I kind of want to put interesting and philosophical things here, but I've got nothing... I'm really hungry, so I'm going to go out to eat with my family now.

P.S. Yesterday I had sushi for lunch in downtown Medina. It was yummy.

Mmmm

My heart warms when I view the two DVD sets of Looney Toons that I got for Christmas. Guess what we're watching back at school, guys?

Christmas has been pretty good. I got an unprecedented amount of clothes, including two boxes of socks and a matching hat and scarf. Yay.

At church today, I had one of my weird "I must do this" feelings again, but it quickly passed. I think it's best not to make rash decisions regarding future careers in the five minutes at the end of a Christmas service. Something about that strikes me as irresponsible.

Work wasn't too bad today, either. I fully expected it to be packed, but I've seen normal Friday nights worse than tonight. (Which could be a bad thing, as the holidays are the time of the year when we get out of the red...)

I really need to work on my resume. I'd like a job in New Mexico over the summer.

Frustration

I wish I was Harry Potter and I could just call any old object to me whenever I want. The one time I'm in a learning Hebrew mood and I can't find my book. Accio Hebrew book!

Some things never change

Isn't it great when you're afraid something is going to change, but it doesn't? I like that feeling. I was afraid that my friend Jess and I's relationship would be really different, or at least, not quite the same, and I am happy to report that it is exactly the same. We sat at Panera for maybe an hour or so and compared notes about college, made fun of ourselves, and talked about the future and God (all very typical of us). I had a panini. Isn't that such a silly name for a cooked sandwhich? I thought so.

I think I shall choose now as the one (and possibly only) time when I plug the links on the right of your screen. Megatokyo and 8-Bit Theater are some of the funniest and nerdiest webcomics on the web. CNN is where I get my news at school. Finally, the last one there is Angel Rising. This is the title of the game I've been working on forever. Yes. Literally forever. Anyway, if you are at all interested, and it's okay if you're not, in the fictional musings and new ideas of this world, feel free to check it out and leave me constructive criticism.

That's it. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas.

Dear heavens...

I don't update for a week and people start having discussions with comments. Not a good sign.

Not much has been going on in chilly Ohio. I've just been working. Which has been really, really boring. There's three of us to do a job that one person would be bored doing. Oh well. I do so need money for New York.

I got my hands on Harry Potter 6. That was fortunate. I tore through it in two days and was very sad and wanted to cry at the ending. But I didn't.

Today, I had guy time with Alex, Kyle, Brooks, Corey, Tim, and Josh Noggle. It was fun. We played Risk, which I'm really bad at, but still managed to get into the last three spots. We ended it because we knew Josh, inevitably, would win and nothing we could do would stop the inevitable. We came to find out after the game that he has never lost a game of Risk. Oh ho ho, a challenge!

So I've been bored for the past few hours, having read two Harry Potter books and beaten Zelda: Master Quest. Oh yes. Smacked Ganon right back into the Sacred Realm! What now!?

I'm getting nervous about going to New York. I'm afraid I'm going to be so bored. Especially by the end. Especially hanging out with people all day every day. Drama kids can be a bit much sometimes. Maybe I'm just feeling antisocial.

I get to go to lunch tomorrow with one of my good friends, but before that, I'm getting a hair cut! Woo! (Yes, that means I haven't gotten one yet...) I still haven't decided how short I'm going to go. Alex so wonderfully reminded me that if I got it cut short enough, I could revive the spike and the goggles. Very tempting...

Goodbye.

Mood = Bleh

I'm pretty bored right now. There are a number of things that I'd rather be doing than sitting home by myself. I've already read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix since I've been back and I don't have the money to just go out and buy Half-Blood Prince. I've almost beaten Zelda Master Quest. I've done almost all of my Christmas shopping.

The problem with running out of distractions is that it means I have to deal with things that I don't really want to deal with right now. The funny thing about college is that while I'm there, I get things done because if I don't, nobody else will. Here, I don't want to call about registering for my CLEP test. I don't want to write a resume for the internship I want over summer. I don't really want to go into work today, but I know it'll put me in a better mood just to do something.

I figured something out yesterday. I'm a control freak. About a lot of different stuffs. I think one of the reasons I want to go into Youth Ministry is that I know how I want ministry done. There are things that annoy the cow out of me when a ministry decides to move a certain direction.

I think I'm going to go write in my actual journal. Keep having a good break, guys.

There's no place like home

The drive home was pretty uneventful. Thanks Cornerstone friends for suggesting I blow 20 bucks on a car charger I didn't need! Just kidding. It was kind of sad, though. I figured since I had infinite battery, would call some friends on the way to check up. I think I got seven different voice mails... It's like they all conspired to not answer the phone when I call...

Home hasn't changed much. I went to church on Sunday and enjoyed it, saw Harry Potter 4 in theaters and didn't really enjoy it all that much (they spend the first third of the movie trying to see how fast they can get through the plot and the rest of the movie is spent on action. Cool action, but action only.) Yesterday, I saw Narnia again, after reading Harry Potter 5 for about four hours... Today, I went up to the church to help out if Shawn needed me.

I wound up going through internship 101 with Tyler (for those of you who don't go to my church, the Mid school Pastor/intern). He told me how to make a resume for ministry jobs, he related a bit of his experience in order that I benefit from his wisdom. It was pretty sweet.

I still don't know what I want to do with my life. The unfortunate problem is that if I want to do one thing, I stay at Cornerstone. If I want to do something else, I need to go to a better Computer Science program. I think. I dunno. I'm pretty confused about the whole subject.

I'm gonna go help feed deacons at the Milioni house now. See ya'll.

Did you ever have equal mixtures of ice and sand on your coat?

So yesterday, around 5:15, I said goodbye to my dorm room and made the trek to Muskegon. We loaded up two cars with three peoples' luggage and arrived just in time for a taco dinner. We got up this morning, picked up a friend from school, and headed to the sand dunes for a time of joviality and sledding.

Sand dunes. I've never sledded on sand dunes, but it was quite the experience. Add that to the fact that we found two halves of a canoe on the dunes, and we had ourselves quite a blast. I highly suggest that ya'll try canoeing down a sand dune sometime.

Anyway, I'll be home tomorrow night, weather permitting. After we see Narnia, of course! Bwa ha ha! Should be fun. If don't see you sooner, I'll see most of you on Sunday!

Prayer Requests

If any of ya'll from home read this still, pray for my Christian Foundations final tomorrow morning. I've studied a bit, but we just had a study session with the Profs and I didn't study all the right stuff. Oh, well.

Sleepy time is now.

Three down... two to go...

To do list:

• Finish paper (approx. 45 min. to an hour)
• Go to CF 1 study session (8:30 - 9:30)
• Study a bit for Wellness (approx. 30 min.)
• Get hookshot in Ocarina of Time (approx. 20 min.)
• Eat (5:15 - 5:40)

The End.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel... but can't touch it

One down, four to go. The science exam wasn't too bad. Unfortunately, I have two more to go today and two tomorrow. I studied from about 12:30 til about 5, then continued studying from 5:30 until 7:30, then studied some more from 8:30 til 10. I had a few breaks for food and a "Christmas Party" with my LJ group. When I finally stopped studying, I went for a rather frigid walk around the pond, then came back and busted open the Sacred Realm, allowing an evil thief-King access to the most powerful artefact ever. You know how those days go.

Hrm... tomorrow afternoon I'm going to my friend Nate's house to party until Friday morning, when we turn around to go back to Grand Rapids for NARNIA! Yay! Then we go out to lunch, then I go home. I was going to take someone home, but she found a better ride.

I'm leaving. I need to go study for speech. Grr.

I am so tired...

of studying.

Let it snow...

Yeah, it's weird for me to say that...

I just spent the past 45 minutes or so playing in the snow while walking around the pond. Good times. It's days like today that make me remember why it is that I wear contacts all the time...

I had a read through for the one act I'm in. That went pretty well. There wasn't too much sushi, though. I was hoping for more. Directly after that, I went to my facilitator's house, driving about 50 miles an hour because of terrible road conditions. We played some great games, heard some funny music, and just had some good old fashioned hedone. (By the by, that's a greek word that comes from Epicurean philosophy. The image is kind of like senior year of high school, hanging out with your friends by the beach, and just being comfortable with each other for a while. It's a wonderful feeling.) I got to talk to his daughter a little bit more on my level. Turns out she's an aspiring fantasy novelist. She does with novels what I'd like to do with video games. We got to have a nice converation about our respective worlds. Twas fun.

Now I'm very tired and I'm going to go to sleep now. I have to get up for church in the morning. It's kind of sad that it's the last time I'm going to be there for a while. At least six weeks... Oh well.

Laterz!

P.S. By the way, I think I turned comments on so that you Xanga people can comment if you so desire. If you could try so I know if it worked or not, that would be swell.

...I'm not sure if I like having to title everything...

Another pretty day. It's pretty cold though. I have a speech journal to do, a friend to pick up from work, tons of studying of World Civ, doing a read-through of a one act I'm in (this involves sushi, though, so it's okay), and going to my Leadership Journey facilitator's house. It'll be a fun day. I like fun days.

This one act I'm in is pretty neat. It's a Japanese absurdist play and it's called The Man Who Turned into a Stick (death). Bizarre name, but what can you expect from absurdists... I play a man from Hell. More like an officer, really. At the end, I get to jump out into the audience and point my spear/stick thingy at audience members and accuse them all of being boring sticks. Woo! Anyway, it's Japanese, so at the read through tonight, I think my director/RA/friend/suitemate is going to get us Sushi. Woot!

I'm gonna go do a speech journal now.

Still experimenting...

So now I've got a little more time for updatage.

I had a really nice quiet time this morning. I read some My Utmost for His Highest and as always, Oswald Chambers had some nice things to say. I've decided that I'm not just going to read Chambers' commentary, but the scripture at the top and a little more. It was really neat today. I read Ephesians 3:7 "But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ." I think Paul meant that the things he would have considered gains as a Pharisee, things like a good reputation, a strong beard, and a good family were all just distractions from his goal of becoming closer to Christ.

Anyway, that's all the preaching I'm gonna do for now. I changed screennames so I wouldn't sound all "look at me, I'm Christian!" Today is the last day of classes. That's kinda neat. It's almost sad. I have some good friends up here that I won't see for a month. The funny thing about college is that you always have something to do. If I ever get bored, I can just go to the lounge and talk to random people. Or go for a walk around the pond. Or dance (that's legal now at Cornerstone).

I'm off to my last class of the semester!

Newness!

So, here's a post. On a new blog. I like The_Kemp as a screen name much better than GodsGamer. Let's just see how it works. It might not....