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Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Quick Thoughts

Starting with a quick link: a highly entertaining blog entry from my roommate Tait. So why hasn't the rest of the house gotten into the whole blog culture?

Answer to prayer in a highly unexpected way: A couple of days ago--last Thursday--my friend Ryan called me and asked if I knew anyone who was trying to sublet a room. She and her sister had sublet their apartment out for the summer and she needed a place to stay beginning on Saturday; since she only needed a place to stay for a month and I'm leaving for France this weekend, she's going to take my room and I'm not losing out on my entire rent for the month I'm gone. So that was a definite answer to prayer about finances. Cool eh?

This past Saturday was the first of the weddings this summer--for me, anyway. I currently know 21 couples who are getting or have gotten married in 2003/04 (though when I tried to count the other day I could only remember 15 names--I know I'm forgetting some). If that isn't scary, I don't know what is. The wedding, which was for my friends Seth and Theresa, who have been dating practically their entire lives (5 1/2 years), was fun even though thanks to traffic and my inability to figure out exactly where the church was located, I was a half hour late. But I managed to make it in time for the vows, which is the important part. However, the DJ at their reception was horrible. Tips for future DJs: 1. Don't play large blocks of the same kinds of songs. Learn how to mix it up--in other words, playing the "Hokey Pokey," "Chicken Dance," "YMCA," etc. in a row gets annoying, especially if you follow that with another group of (mostly bad) fast songs and then a set of slow songs and end everything there. 2. If people request a chance of pace, don't tell them that you'll play what they ask later and not do it. 3. Learn how to mix in a few songs written in the last five or ten years. 4. Little kids at weddings will dance to anything if they feel so inclined. You don't have to try to cater to them the entire night.

I saw Matrix Reloaded that night after the wedding--a mini-review is soon to come.

Que la force soit avec toi.

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