Facebook

Since I am lacking mostly any willpower - I am giving up random facebooking for lent. It is now only allowed for fifteen minutes each day. Which, sadly, is a big step in my social networking addiction.

Warm-up

It's funny how juxtaposed, skewed, and mixed up my impressions of myself are.

..I usually like to think that I am humble, but then I get mad at those are aren't "as humble as me". 

..I throw pity parties for myself when I am stressed, only to remember that everyone is stressed and I should not feel victimized because of it - its a part of life.

..I think my life is "so bad" sometimes - I have a house, my health, and friendship. If you think about it, how many people across our broken world can say the same thing?

Sorry Charlie.

I realize that my last two posts have been kind of whiney and boring. I apologize. I plan on writing something worthwhile soon.

A List

• I am a paper-writing machine.
• My googlereader is screaming at me because I haven't had time to read anything this week.
• I hate psychology. God made my mind complex for a reason - and I prefer to leave it up to others to try and decode the mysteries of the brain.
• I learned how to use a meat slicer today. Turns out an ape could do it.
• Rock climbing makes me sore.
• I pick fights with my best friend when I am crabby.
• I am going home this weekend - and super excited.
• Spring break is fuzzy - but what can go wrong if I'm with people I love?
• This blog entry is really just an excuse to not write my psychology research methods proposal. I'm writing about art therapy to make things slightly interesting - if they weren't  I would probably just stick my head in the oven.
• That was morbid, I apologize for my sick humor.

2:17. Hope this post is legible.

Wow. 

My head=fried. A kind of bad feeling is when your stomach drops because when you look at your syllabus to see when you should start writing that huge paper due in a while - you see its due tomorrow. Ouch. 10 pages-6 pages=4 pages to write in the morning.

Bad idea=going to a friend's to "do homework". Even if you all are completely on board, the fact that we are together means we won't get much done because we're such goofs.

Ouch=getting out of my car at 1 in the morning and completely wiping out on the ice. And then having no one around to help me up or dust me off. I wish I was 12 years old and my mom would let me cry about it and then give me a neon band-aid. We don't even have any band-aids in our apartment, we suck. And so does the food I've been eating (pasta, toast, eggs, and more pasta) that sucks too. 

H2O continued

watch this:

A World Without Water

Water for All

The problem with my public administration class is that in order to study, I have to research public policy, global problems, and non-profit organizations - and then I just get real interested in all the issues and then really sidetracked. So something that would normally take me two hours takes at least four.

flowthefilm.com

I really really want to see this documentary. Perhaps I can add it to my list of incredibly lethargic things to do this weekend. 

If you check out the movie's blog page - back in August they featured my youtube video, The Garbage Patch, which I though was strange, I didn't know it had gained that much attention.

Anyways - don't let private corporations monopolize a life giving public resource. Companies are making money off of something that many in our world can not even afford to dig up out of the ground.

"The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns." (water.org)

*stepping off soapbox, now*

Prison Break

"It was a custom at the Feast to release a prisoner, anyone the people asked for. There was one prisoner called Barabbas, locked up with the insurrectionists who had committed murder during the uprising against Rome. Pilate gave the crowd what it wanted, set Barabbas free and turned Jesus over for whipping and crucifixion."

The Message - Gospel of Mark

I am Barabbas. I am the criminal worthy of death - whose deserved punishment was instead taken on by an innocent man - the Son of God.

Furniture.

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Genius

click that button and be happy.

I Lack Coordination

I have stumbled through this entire week. Up stairs, in friendships, down stairs, through interviews, in parking lots, in school work, out of bed..
Both metaphorically, and most definitely physically.

Boyfriend.

Bret Mckenzie.

Alexander McQueen

Dead Batteries

Unlike every other day during a Michigan winter - today was not completely overcast and gray. Instead, it was only mostly cloudy; but I'll take what I can get. I decided to head to the shore with my camera and crossed my fingers for a decent sunset.

I love the lake in the winter. It is such an alien landscape... thousands of splinters and shards jut up from the frozen waves for as far as the eye can see - only to be interrupted by dangerous looking patches of smooth black ice. Its really quiet... which is something you don't really expect at the shore - no waves hitting the sand or crashing into the pier. 

I shot a few subpar photos when I was waiting for the sun to hit the horizon as a way of distracting myself from how ridiculously cold I was.

Then the sun broke through the clouds - the shards of ice like prisms, catching the bright pinks and magentas that painted the sky over the horizon.  The cold blue-gray landscape suddenly came to life, the icy terrain acting as a mirror to the sunset in the distance.

I got out my camera to take a photo and it wouldn't turn on... the battery icon blinked at me and reminded me how big an idiot I was to not charge my dSLR before taking it out to shoot.

So I was left to appreciate the beautiful and fleeting moment without hopes of capturing it on my memory card. I was forced to appreciate the here and now, and not take the transient for granted.

I was reminded that sometimes it is best to get out from behind my lens, and looks at God's creation through the eyes that he created .. the ones on my face!

Shut Up

There is a catchphrase game somewhere unbeknownst to me in my apartment that keeps telling me how many points team one and team two has.