hope you caught our show tonight, it was a lot of fun. we played tighter than we usual and suzy sang with us too, it was great. my friend kath (& her mom) made it out and it was great to see them. we went to campus polleyes for an obnoxious night of fun where the phi mu alpha people were way too loud while telling us to be quiet. tonight was just too good, too fun.
brian, i hope you're reading this: everyone left to hang out at gretchen's house, but i couldn't stay long because i have to get up for an 8AM MEETING tomorrow. seriously.
i'm very tired and not looking forward to a weekend full of school work. its been so long since i hung out with anyone past midnight and i would really, really like a few days care-free. maybe sunday, sunday, someday.
i really enjoyed tonight, glory to God.
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thumbs up: one of the final pinewood shows
thumbs down: exhausted
quote: "and i just asked eric, he told me the answer is 95%" - kozey in the middle of his teaching, making a ref. to my math major for the second time that night, wow, that will probably help with the ladies :)
cd rotation: october fall (and someone heard a few songs and asked for a copy of the mix, how cool is that?!)
rick, jesse, ray, and i slept outside last night in the field near my apartment. it was about 50 degrees and clear with a nice breeze blowing through the tent. i slept the best i've slept in weeks-maybe it was the old tent smell and sleeping in a tent like i did all last summer. i woke up this morning feeling so refreshed that i didn't even mind the math lecture at 9:30. after finishing a portion of my honors project, i rollerbladed around, saw an ex-girlfriend from high school, then stopped by my mom's work at the montessori school to surprise her and say 'hi.' i think that made her day.
i even went to covenant youth group tonight, something which i've not done since i was in high school. it was awesome, now if only i could get tim to come with me.
heidi, i read your post about changing from living off emotions to living off rational decisions, and i want to stop you from doing it! that's what girls do, work off their emotions, and while its stereotypical and may suck for guys sometimes, that's the way girls are made (hence the stereotype). you remind me too much of the girl 'becky' from 'what's eating gilbert grape' (the book, i've never seen the movie) and she is by far the coolest character in the book. "stay what you are" as saves the day would say. i want to do go the opposite direction, to move from doing things rationally to being more spontaneous and less structurued. because while this structured lifestyle may have its advantages, like getting lots of stuff done, sometimes i don't feel like i'm even living. like i alluded to earlier in a reference to kerouac, what's the point if you're living just to pay the bills? not that you can't live by emotion and still pay the bills but do you see what i'm saying?
here's an example:
whenever i go hiking with jesse, i'm the guy holding us back: we need to be sure of shelter, of adequate water, of having enough daylight, etc. jesse just wants to explore and see everything and if we have to pitch the tent at night, so be it. if we have to go for a few miles without water, so what, we'll get there. and i've certainly seen lots more cool stuff because he leads our trips, than if i would have. the night hikes in yellowstone, in carolina, in georgia, those were awesome and i'm glad he doesn't think as much as i do.
in other news, the new gordita at taco bell is good.
why do people pin upside-down flags to their clothes? you may not support our country's actions, or our president, but please support the troops. they are risking life and limb to follow our leaders' policies by trying to make a better life for an underprivileged people. why be ignorant? there are other ways to respectfully protest, i assure you. go to the union around lunch.
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thumbs up: the look on my mom's face when i saw her at school
thumbs down: 15 degree temp. drop in an hour
quote: "yeah, they all want ray's body." -ben, at taco bell, in reference to some shady ladies
cd rotation: no car :( brakes are being fixed at no small cost
this morning i sent my confirmation letter to ohio state, stating that i intend to go to school there next fall. and i'm at peace, and its good.
i decided i will no longer attend my 'audited' class so that freed up some time to work on my honors project. and after a fantastic chinese lunch from the union i worked on it some more. just two short weeks left on it!
after school i went home and ran from my apt to carter park, frisbee in hand, to play another round of disc golf. but when i got there i couldn't stop running, so i played my 18 holes real fast (into a nice headwind too) and didn't keep track of my score. the run home (about 3 miles) was a bit slower because i was tired from running earlier. but it felt great, and that's why i run.
i hooked up with ashley a bit later on this evening and we went rollerblading; he was telling me about all the cool stuff he's getting into and i'm very excited for him. if i posted it here, i don't think you would believe me. its that good. but after talking about life and what other people are doing, it feels like this summer might be pretty meaningless. i mean, who wants to work just so they can pay the rent (an idea that stretches back to the beats)? i'm looking at maybe working at ups (unless i can find a better job) and taking two classes (maybe auditing them). and i know that each will help me out but compared to what others are doing (going to cali, for example), i look pretty stupid. i hope i can find meaning in something this summer.
jesse and suzy and i worked on a song for THIS THURSDAY'S SHOW IN BOWLING GREEN AT 8PM AT h2o IN THE UNION and we got a lot of polishing work finished. now i'm sitting in the computer lab yet again, working on my honors project and studying for a quiz tomorrow morning.
it was my original idea to sleep outside in my tent near my apt. but i don't know if i can follow through with it any more. the pinewood guys all want to do it, but i have to get up in the morning and take said quiz at toledo at 9:30am. so maybe we'll camp out tomorrow night.
looks like my program just finished running. catch you on the flip side. enjoy the even warmer(!) weather tomorrow!
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thumbs up: running with a frisbee
thumbs down: leaving friends to do schoolwork
quote: "don't cut down. cut up!" -suzy, when i told her i'm not going to say 'get into it' very much
cd rotation: fsf: how to start a fire
i played a (-1) round of friz golf with slack and pat today, it was absoultely beautiful out and i hope to get another round in tomorrow. the slack master was in top form on his first time out this season, nailing a (-6) or so. he's a way cool and just started dating an awesome girl, that makes three new relationships my friends are in now. i'm happy for them, but sometimes i look around and long for something, too.
i also formally acknowledged to my friends, family, and anyone else i came across: i'm going to ohio state, and that's that.
i even started looking at apartments online. now that's scary.
our bible study was great tonight not necessarily because we studied the bible, which we did, but because we talked for a while just about God. simplicity, i'm finding, can play the biggest part in a relationship with God. leaving all the crap behind, and just following what is True. that's it.
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thumbs up: the sun
thumbs down: my red sandals turn my feet red
quote: "i like sandwiches." -three year-old chas singler, in front of our whole church
cd rotation: reggie & the full effect
i finished that volleyball video, but it looks really bad on vhs compared to my computer. so bad, in fact, that the volleyball coach called me after i gave her the video to ask why the pictures weren't very sharp. i told her that was just the vhs quality compared to a sweet resolution on my laptop screen. i felt horrible, since she paid me for making a shoddy video. but its only a ten minute video that will be played once and then never watched again. i'm kind of embarrassed to put my name on the credits.
my class up at toledo was really stupid too.
but everything was cool this afternoon. i ran with ben evans and played some basketball at the park. i ate dinner at home with the family and went with tim over to jesse's to eat some more and play the wash. brad, ben, and jenny were there too so it was a good time. the best was when we were playing cranium and tim was imitating clint eastwood by saying (with his finger pointed like a gun), "i don't like this place." it was great.
i've neglected school for too long (two days) and so i'll do a lot of work tomorrow. maybe a run or some basketball too, because you just can't let sunny spring days go by!
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thumbs up: actually seeing the volleyball team in person
thumbs down: the dang video
quote: "i think i could school them" - my fifty-two year old dad, talking about his basketball game
cd rotation: jimmy eat world: bleed american
