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Monday, 24 September 2007
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Sophomore Year!!
Back to good old LBC, and not a thing has changed. Well, I'm a sophomore now. That's different I guess. The only thing that's really much different is that I'm learning firsthand all the woes of taking God & the Bible at 8 am on Monday mornings....and....other reasons. That's all I'm going to say for that one, except that if tough classes build character this one's going to make me a Joan of Arc by midterm time!
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention the other thing that's different. There's bells in the chapel steeple now that ring every half hour. Except they're not real bells, it's just an electronic recording, and not a very good one at that, so when you hear it makes you think more of someone beating on frying pans or garbage can lids than anything else. Yes, it really is that terrible. I would say you should hear it for yourself, but I wouldn't wish something that mean on anyone.
Now for the good stuff -- I have no classes tomorrow so I'm taking the day off and going to Root's with Dave and Tiffani! Should be pretty fun....
Saturday, 22 September 2007
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Folder 1 of family vacation photos
General family/scenery photos: 44
Baby photos: 55
Folder 2 of family vacation photos
General family/scenery photos: 47
Baby photos: 92
Interesting, isn't it? The baby isn't unique to the vacation experience, but for some reason it wins the photo numbering contest hands-down. I was looking through some of my photo files today and was struck by this. I'm wondering if following your kid throughout the day with the camera can give them the idea that every move they make is wonderful, in which case before long you are going to have one heck of a spoiled kid on your hands? Being excessively photographed and videoed doesn't seem to do anything real constructive for them in the way of making them behave better or feel more loved (if it did, we'd notice a remarkably drastic improvement in kid's behavior all across the US since digital cameras became so popular!). And what about those of us who were born in the dark ages of the 70's and 80's, and even the early 90's, whose parents because they did not have access to the technology (or simply because they had more to do in a day than sit around snapping pictures of us) did not record our first, second, and one-thousandth smile to post on the internet or burn on DVD for every living relative in the family? I'm definitely sure that the number of photos in our family album of my early childhood is under 10,000. Hey, my self-esteem may never recover--I can sue someone for this I think! .....JUST KIDDING! Yes, the first 5-10 years of my life went pretty much undocumented by today's standards--and I think I turned out ok in spite of it.
Friday, 24 August 2007
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Aaaaaaaaah I have not written in such a long time. These things [blogs] are so much fun when you start them and so annoying for ever after that. Not that I have much to tell you and not that I will probably be any more consistent with writing once school starts. I'm looking forward to it in a way, but I know I will probably be taking that back by next week when I have piles of papers to write.
Thursday, 10 May 2007
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Elizabeth came to visit at LBC this weekend. It was great to see her. She and I and Elisia went to see Spiderman 3 - which I wasn't super excited about doing at first since I haven't seen the first two movies - but I enjoyed it pretty well. I can see why so many people like it - just enough action for the guys and enough drama for the girls. There were so many fight scenes though that it got boring after a while. Well, the end of the movie is kind of sad - Harry Osborn bites the dust - after he and Peter make up of course. They just can't let the guy die mad at the hero. He was also horning in on Mary Jane, so the producers had to get rid of him somehow. Cardinal rule in movies: if two guys are after the same girl, and one of the guys is the hero, say goodbye to the other guy. He's a goner.
Other than that, very good. I'd like to see the other two movies now....
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
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"Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching."
- Dogbert
