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Tuesday, October 29, 2002 It's a Small World I ran into a friend on Friday that I hadn't really talked to since we started college--he used to go to my church and high school. It's funny: he studies at Albion and was visiting Ann Arbor because some kids from his summer project were having a reunion... and they all were at a Halloween party hosted by Phi Alpha Kappa (the Christian frat/ Dutch House/ PAK House). We had a great conversation about how we'd changed since high school and what we'd learned; he said that he's totally different from the person he used to be, and the person he was back then disgusts him now. At Thurston, he was a Christian in name but wasn't living the life, and he struggled with a lot of things. The crazy part about this was that I used to pray for him, pray that God would become real in his life and that God would change him (and this on a fairly consistent basis), partly because I could see that we were similar in a lot of ways. It worked! He even gave me encouragment about issues I'm facing right now, allowing knowledge about God to infiltrate my heart and not just my head, experiencing God rather than just knowing lots of facts about him. Wow. It's so amazing to have proof that God does answer prayer, even when he doesn't seem to be doing anything at the time. ^ Top | 5:17 PM | | | 
Monday, October 28, 2002 Yup, Procrastinating Again It's another late night/early morning in Angell Hall writing a paper (yay), and sleep looks far away... of course, I haven't actually started to write the two essays due for my midterm tommorrow (today) at 1:00pm, but they will get done, and well. It's just difficult to get started. You know, everything I said about the fear of the blank page. It's a writers' thing. Argh. I pull too many all-nighters.... ^ Top | 6:01 AM | | |
Friday, October 25, 2002 Why Don't People Communicate? So I've apparently done something really horrible, horrible enough that a friend said, "I don't think you should talk to me," but won't tell me what I've done. I honestly can't think of what it could be. He's acting as though I should know, but never brought it up himself; I was starting to get the feeling that he was avoiding me, so I said hello a couple of times (comments on a website, AIM) and even flat-out asked, "Are you avoiding me?" No answer. I finally got the response I wrote in the first sentence on AIM last night, which left me thinking ?!@#%?! And that's about all he'd say... besides "Don't be coy," as though I know what the heck is going on. From where I am right now there isn't much I can do since I already tried to talk to him twice, but it's still rather disturbing.... (And I guess a secondary funny/slightly disturbing part about this is the drama happening over AIM... lol. Yes, I really do know this person offline. That I can laugh at.) ^ Top | 2:21 AM | | |
Wednesday, October 23, 2002 A Little Story from my Cousin and Accompanying Thoughts A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. A wonderful time was had by all. The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true. A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with a proposal: "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage." she offered. "Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together." The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists. "I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes. "What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing," the husband replied, "keep reading your list." The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over top of it. "Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists." She said happily. Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you." The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept. In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us? I believe that we are happiest when we see and praise the good and try our best to forget the bad. One day my husband is going to think like that... and in all honesty, I'll probably act the same way as the wife. Real love puts another's needs above our own, and marriage requires self-sacrafice. We're such consumers today, and we think that the world should revolve around our own selfish desires. But I've been challenged to really love others, to see beyond myself, to see people the way Christ sees them. And act accordingly. I'm so far from that ideal right now... maybe someday I'll get there. ^ Top | 11:55 PM | | |
The Ongoing Computer Saga Well, I finally got Windows XP installed on this thing and most of my stuff seems to be fine--except the sweet surround sound system. Grrr. I can't seem to get the new drivers to run (and the patch doesn't want to run either), which is really sad since the system is capable of a wide variety of sound effects--and the two back speakers and subwoofer aren't working. ^ Top | 2:05 AM | | |
Sunday, October 20, 2002 More Arts Stuff Hey, this is my life. :-) I volunteered (leaving Ann Arbor at 8am!) at the last day of the annual meeting for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), which was in Detroit; my friend Mike Steelman, a former UMS intern who now works for Arts at Michigan, a department of U-M, got a total of four students to work at the conference (though only me today; basically, it means you "volunteer"--I didn't do much of anything that way, though--and then get to hang out at the conference for free). Pretty good stuff, though not everything was incredibly interesting. The mainstay of today was a business meeting, after all. But we had a great keynote speaker talk about architecture/design/art and the possibilies for new, virtual art forms and digital environment design--his company, Asymptote, is definitely something for architecture majors and artists to check out. He does really cutting-edge work. I also made some cool connections--a former VP of GM who worked for George Bush Sr. when he was prez, among other arts leaders--and experienced Motown in a way I never have before: live music from people who were progenitors of the entire Motown scene in the 60's. I saw adults dance like I've never seen--wow. They were really getting into it, and it was awesome. Heck, the few younger people in the crowd were even more excited than the middle-aged folk. We danced for around 4 hours before deciding to leave (since we'd been exhausted all day). Mike wants to bring the groups to Ann Arbor now for something similar to tonight's dance party... hopefully it works out, because people definitely need to experience this. ^ Top | 12:46 AM | | |
Saturday, October 19, 2002 Stratford As most of you know, I'm a theatre kid (and proud of it!). Last weekend was a long one since we got two days off for a break (thank God!!), so I went to the Stratford Theatre Festival and saw The Scarlet Pimpernel on Sunday and Romeo and Juliet and King Lear on Tuesday--the day we didn't see any shows we spent in Toronto. I don't know what all the commotion about The Scarlet Pimpernel is all about--it wasn't particularly interesting, and it was obvious that the play was the problem, not the production. So that was disappointing. Romeo and Juliet was good, but not amazing--it turned into a comedy, even in the parts like Romeo lamenting to the priest that he doesn't want to live anymore because Juliet is in Venice but he's been exiled, which I didn't appreciate. The high school kids in the audience seemed to really enjoy it, though, and they were a strange audience: lively, but they tended to whisper loudly through the serious parts. I heard a couple of kids commenting that during intermission that they had no idea what was being said (Shakespearean English). However, Lear was absolutely incredible. Wow. One middle-aged woman talking to her friend said, "I don't know what's going on because I don't really catch the language, but it's so intense--I love it!" I had to laugh. Christopher Plumber, who played Lear, was wonderful--I can see why he's won so many acting awards. Overall, it was a great weekend, and I had some amazing conversations with Tait and Ryan, who went with me. This is what life is about. ^ Top | 2:38 AM | | |
Computer Problems Argh. Tait spent a while trying to fix my computer (which has been dead for a few weeks--I lack the technical expertise required to troubleshoot its wierdness myself) and what does it do as soon as he leaves? It crashes. Of course. We were downloading an update that would get this thing back into decent (hopefully) shape when the computer decided to freeze. Ah, technology. ^ Top | 1:54 AM | | |
Thursday, October 17, 2002 Procrastinating From Writing a Paper as I Type This For some reason, writing in this has been much harder this year... but really, I'm not any busier than I was last semester. So why the delay in posts? Honestly, I'm not sure. I feel like I've been procrastinating more--in everything--these last couple of months than I usually do (and that's probably saying some scary things). I usually write papers the night before--an interesting habit, considering the number of papers I have to write for the English and theatre classes, but they say that a writer's worst enemy is a blank page, and it's true (according to one poet, TS Elliot, I think, "Poets have the most organized spice racks")--but lately I've been literally writing papers during and/or after the class in which they're due. They're not late since I technically turn them in on the right day, but it's a fairly disturbing phenomenon. Although I've still been getting the paper grades I'm used to (A's, if you're wondering :-) . So is this senioritis? Not really, since I'm not in a rush to get out of the college scene, just sick of writing papers and doing homework. But I like my classes, and it's been harder than ever to go. How strange. ^ Top | 3:45 PM | | |
Thursday, October 10, 2002 I'm a Hobbit! 
Frodo lives a peaceful life in the Shire until he is unfortunate enough to inherit the ring from his Uncle Bilbo. Frodo is determined to destroy the ring and defeat the Dark Lord. Though the thought of this scares him out of his wits, he still marches forth bravely into Mordor with his faithful friend and servant Sam. Take the "Which Hobbit are you?" quiz created by Cora Black! ^ Top | 8:26 PM | | |
Tuesday, October 01, 2002 Of course, this relates to the English major. According to this one I have multiple personalities. But you knew that already, didn't you? You are Carl Sandburg You see the world in a different way than your peers and are able to find beauty in the most unusual places! Take the Which Poet are You? Quiz - brought to you out of boredom and pretention! You are William Shakespeare You have a certain eloquence and stoicism about you that is juxtaposed at times with a most peculiar sense of humor. Your world is orderly and simultaneously romantic. You are able to note beauty in the old and the new. Just keep in mind that passion and order are often at opposite ends of the spectrum. Take the Which Poet are You? Quiz - brought to you out of boredom and pretention! ^ Top | 11:09 PM | | |
Quote of the Day "The truth speaks for itself. I'm just a messenger." --Lyta to #1 in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" ^ Top | 1:00 AM | | |
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