The day that was� 1st Entry
This day, like most others, will be very busy for me. In fact my schedule is so busy that I have decided to commit myself to updating this blog several times today. Nigh unto infinity I shall post my thoughts about what has traspired within my life today. Expect many platitudinous remarks from myself regarding the events that are so important to myself. Considering that I usually only update my blog once a week, I think that this could be a unique experience for me. I doubt that this will become a common occurance for this site, but you never know. The powers of a blog for stress relief are great.Already this morning I was up before the both the sun and God Himself. Waking up at 6:20 to be at the Union at 7:00 is never fun. Many people from various campus ministries met at the Union this morning with the intent of going across the campus to chalk chalkboards with an advertisent for a seminar being held by a number of campus organizations, but started by most of the campus ministries. This seminar is about pornography and is called �The Power of Porn�. Monday and Tuesday we had a large triangular wall made of 3 x 8 peices of plywood near the center of campus painted white and with markers atached. This was supposed to be a free speech wall for students to express their opinions about pornography. Of course it quickly became an opportunity for immature comments and illustrations, which proved the point of why the Power of Porn event need to be held. Last night we were forced to take the sign down by the college administration for a number of reasons. Apperantly some members of the beuracracy were offended by having the truth about our student body revealed in the center of campus, and there were some other problems with violation of official rules about campus signage, which we had already cleared with the people directly responsible.
So this morning we were also told that we should not chalk the chalkboards in the classrooms on campus, or the professors would get angry. All we were allowed to do was use sidewalk chalk to advertise on the sidewalks right by the Union. We understood this to mean we could write with chalk around the fountain near the union also, since the winning candidate for Student Body president had done the exact same thing the week before. Right before we finished writing �Power of Porn� in 3 foot letters all around the fountain we were informed by our Campus Crusade director that we didn�t technically have permission to chalk the sidewalks near the fountain. Whoops. I do not yet know what happened with that, I hope the administration just decides to let it go, otherwise we could be the first Christian ministry kicked off campus for using the word �Porn� to much.
After the chalking incident I went back to my room and literally took a 5 minute nap before going to work. I am at work right this moment. I had to go across campus to work on a students computer this morning and was a few inches from being run over while crossing a street.
This day could prove to be very interesting. Stick with me, I will do my best to relate all the exciting happenings for the day.
02-25-2004 at 11:59 AM - second minute - 2nd Entry
One class down, 2 more to go. I was supposed to have a design assignment done for Typeography 1 today, but it doesn�t really matter because my team isn�t using my design for our final project anyways. I seriously lack motivation for the majority of classes I take in the art department. If all my classes in this department could be like Computers and Design was, then I would be a happy man. So I spent 2 hours surfing the web and looking at USB Card Reader Hard Drive combos for Mike. We are eventually going to be using an old fashioned metal print press for this class, watching another group use this press really makes me appreciate computers and laser-jet printers. I am a geek, I embrace new technologies immediately and scorn methods and objects that seem old fashioned to me, like pens and paper. It probably doesn�t help matters that this class is around priority level 16 for me. Up next, a quick lunch and newswriting class.
02-25-2004 at 02:38 PM - Step by step� 3rd Entry
My last two classes of the day went fairly well, Newsriting was interesting and blessedly quick as well. I am always surprise at how much longer my Marketing class feels than my newswriting class. Right after Newswriting I had Natural Disasters with Steel Becker. I kid you not, that is his real name. In this class I had a test which I decided not to study for, I hope that it proves to be the wise choice, and I feel fairly confident I did well on that test. You have to love a test that is all well written multiple choice and True/False questions. I think that that test was on of the best written tests I have ever taken, and I finished it in 15 minutes.
On the walk back to my room, I passed through the center of campus by the fountain, which I mention in my first post today(scroll down if you havent already read it). The sign that our crusade group had put up for students to write on about pornography was back up! I do not yet know what precipitated the re-erection of our free speech wall, but I will certainly inform you all when I find out. Our sidewalk advertisements were still in place as well, so I assume there were no serious repercussions from the college administration.
Immediately after that I stopped in at work and talked to my boss �old man Asay� and found out about a good chance to get some more hours at work for an extra project, sounds like a good idea to my empty pocketbook. Ahhh� overcommittment of time is a great thing.
Whenever I am in my room I am usually listening to some music through iTunes. My mp3 collection is a little insane, I am up to 2325 songs, 6.1 Days, 9.07 GB of music. That is a lot, I could set the library to random and listen to music for 6 days without hearing the same song twice. Excepting that I probably have several duplicate copies of the same song in there. The digital music revolution is a great thing.
I�m actually surprised by how much I have been able to write for each post today, and I hope that I am not boring all of you to death.
02-25-2004 at 07:41 PM - easy is funner� 4th Entry
I�m sitting here at work again discussing life, the universe, and everything once again.
This afternoon I wen�t buddy bowling for the house. This is a great program where we get a chance to go bowling with a group of mentally handycapped people. Each person get�s their own buddy to bowl with once a week. My buddy Chad is actually quite good at bowling, and beat me soundly in the first round. The second round was s different story, but I can�t really feel much pride for beating my buddy at bowling, especially when there was another buddy in a wheel chair who completely beat both of us at our lane.
This evening I work untill 8, and consists of cleaning more virii off student computers and obtaining the obligatory big pop from the kwik stop. Though, I am not actually getting a big pop anymore, I have been getting lemonade lately. Two weeks ago I gave up pop. Why? Because I felt like beginning to eat healthier, and loosing a couple pounds won�t kill me. So, sadly I have not had any Mountain Dew in a long time, I am expecting Pepsi to declare bankruptcy soon from the revenue they are losing.
Tonight I will see The Passion. And I expect I will be up for quite a while afterwords. Hopefully you will get one more post before I go to sleep.
02-26-2004 at 12:29 AM - so close
so close and yet so utterly wrong�
I thought I would be able to write something witty and entertaining tonight. I was wrong.
The Passion of the Christ is not just a film, it doesn�t follow any of the format of a traditional film. Even worse it�s a film that people leave thinking that they never want to see it again. This is a peice of art that conveys an image, and idea, so vividly that it has the power to bring a person to their knees emotionally as well as physically.
Right now I actually feel sick to my stomach after seeing this movie. There was no person who left that theater tonight with anything on their minds except for the very real sacrafice of Jesus.
I cannot talk tonight, I cannot type tonight, my mind needs to work its way through this. I hope all see this movie.
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