remember when i said that the get up kids "on a wire album" was horrible and i never wanted to listen to it ever? well, maybe that's changed...campfire kansas has always been a good song (i even made a movie with it as the soundtrack), hannah hold on is a nice lullaby and theres some emotion in walking on a wire...etc. i guess those songs have stuck with me more than i ever thought they would.
tonight is hp IV at newport on the levee, on the kentucky side of cinci.
mike, you'd be surprised how (a) crappy grad school can be, but (b) how its the stabilty that keeps everything else going. that was my experience, anyway. if i didn't have so many dumb classes, i don't know how i would've made it through.
not sure if we'll be back in BG for thanksgiving, we may be staying in southern ohio. the forecast is 38 and sunny for our 8am turkey trot. brrrrr.
i just received word that my advisor from maryland has accepted my thesis and its final revisions. that's the last word on that out of me, i'm so glad to be finished.
fall has seemingly come and gone already, and its hard not to get caught up in the blah of work as life barrels on like a runaway train. suddenly there is only 5 hrs a day to live on, rather than 16 or whatever in school. the weekends are so valuable its ridiculous.
i read the book of galatians just recently and i recommend it for a nice pick me up, esp. chap. 5 ( i think ).
i think its awesome how stories are suddenly the blockbuster movies. lord of the rings, harry potter, lion witch and wardrobe, etc. i still try to escape into these movies sometimes...even more so than when i was a kid. i find myself speaking in analogies of severus snape more than i care to admit, though i just did.
anyone remember the mens group from 1999 that was in joel larson's apartment, (even though he didn't lead it)? i wonder what everyone is doing now in regard to their faith. so many people came and went, at times it was on fire and amazing, then it fizzled like a flash in the pan. we kept it up in some form for four years, where my conclusion was at apt. Q-4 with mike, joel, and jesse in my basement. i learned so much in the inaugural year - it changed me more than any other year.
i hope that it encouraged other guys as much as it did me.
