I'm totally procrastinating on my work for class at 7:15...so here's a game to play!

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play.
Step 2: Write down the first line from the first 20 songs that play or close to it.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Cross out the songs (or similar) when someone guesses correctly

1. Take my photo off the wall if it just won't sing for you.

2. I never had no one that I could count on.  I've been let down so many times. - My Best Friend by Tim McGraw

3. Yeah!  Here we go!  I don't want to take up anybody's time.  Just giving my opinion with a rhythm and a clever rhyme.

4. This is the place where I sit.  This is the part where I love you too much.

5. There she goes.  There she goes again.

6. Welcome to Canada, it's the maple leaf state.  Canada, oh Canada, it's great! - Oh, Canada by Five Iron Frenzy

7. Whenever this world gets the best of me, and it all goes wrong, I count down the hours till the time we meet, and I move along. - Happy As The Sun by Tyrone Wells

8. Goodness, sometimes things get bad.  But I swear I'm doing all I can.

9. From the top to the bottom, bottom to top I stop. At the corner, forgotten, in the middle of my thoughts.

10. Time stands still for no one.  I know this is true.

11. The sun set on a perfect day, but then arose only to say it's wrong...there's something wrong.

12. Something in the way she moves or looks my way or calls my name.

13. Rain, rain on my face.  Hasn't stopped raining for days. - Flood by Jars of Clay

14. A cold winter sun, my feet on the ground.  A pale winter city, numbness for sound.

15. I got chills, they're multiplying.  And I'm losing control, cause the power you're supplying...it's electrifying. - You're the One That I  Want from Grease

16. Your love is better than ice cream, better than anything else that I've tried.

17. Time, ain't nothing but time.  It's a verse without rhyme.  Baby, it all comes down to you.

18. Tell me you've had trouble sleeping.  That you toss and turn from side to side.

19. Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner.  Sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city I live in, the city of angels.

20. Failure, my friends have all left, and I'm still here.  Like a hotel chain, birds still savoring my senior year.

Enjoy trying to figure these out...it's a lot of what I listen to regularly...and a couple of random ones in there too...

Man...life's ridiculous.  Have you ever noticed how everything seems to hit at once?  That's how it seems right now...and I don't really know how to deal with it.

It's not like I'm having a crisis in my life or anything, just a lot of stuff going on with me right now.  School is stressful...and it's funny, cause I can't seem to bring myself to actually do work.  What's wrong with me, I don't know...but it's getting annoying.  Once I get started it's not as bad, but getting started is the problem.  I don't know what to do with myself.  Getting all of my hours done for teaching class is stressing me out too...26 more hours, and 4 more weeks...not good, especially with Thanksgiving in there.  Math and chem are stressing me out too...I'm just not understanding as much as I should.  Math is better than chem though...go figure.

Boy stuff is getting old too.  I've pretty much dealt with Nick and his new girlfriend.  I'm happy for them...it was little strange to see them kiss last night though...random, I know.  Tony is taken care of too...not too much awkwardness after the rejection, thank goodness.  But man...I keep having these annoying regrets about the whole thing.  Not that I really want to date him or am interested...more like I just wish that I could've liked him cause I'm tired of being alone.  Or single...not alone, cause I have friends and God (wow, that sounded cliche).  And there are some wierd vibes that I'm getting from some other guys...but who knows what's going on there, cause I certainly don't.

The power outage at Biola last night made for some interesting events.  I ended up driving Whit, Jamie, Jeannette and myself to Barnes and Noble to do hw, and we ended up sitting in the corner of the little kids' section doing math and stuff...how random is that?  It was fun though.  Jeannette and I got to talk a little bit about stuff...I enjoyed it a lot.  She's an awesome girl.  And then I ended up coming back once the power came on and watching A Walk To Remember with Holly and Jessica while I did more math (a recurring theme in my life).  So, all in all, it was a good evening...but random.

I turned 21 too...that was interesting.  It's surprising how expected it is that I'm going to go out and drink now.  I'm on contract...but even those who are on contract seem to expect it, which is strange.  I just don't want to compromise my morals...especially since I've given my word.  We went to dinner for my birthday last Friday...it was funny.  I had no idea that TGIFriday's ties balloons in your hair on your birthday...but apparently it's true, cause that's what happened to me!  Here are some pics from dinner:

My present from Granite...lovely, eh?

Anyway, I have to stop procrastinating now and go do some work for teaching class tonight.  Later gators!

Currently Listening Sweet Right Here By SHeDAISY I DareYou see related

So, my life is ridiculous right now.  I think I say this every time I post...but this time I really mean it.  I have hit a new low on procrastination...I have a lab notebook due tomorrow morning, and I have yet to finish any of the labs due.  And there's a test in that class Thursday...have I started studying?  Yeah right.  Pathetic...that's what I am.

School's going fine I guess.  I'm just really burnt out.  Torrey was supposed to help, but it most certainly did not.  I got caught up on sleep, but not on work.  And this teaching class that starts this Wednesday?  Wow...way to scare me out of my mind.  I actually have to teach a whole period of high school chemistry this time.  AHHH!!!  But, the teacher I'm observing seems really cool...I just talked to him today, and found out that he and I go to the same church...random!  Kinda exciting too....

SOS Appreciation Banquet was a couple of weekends ago.  Way fun.  Here are some pictures:

This is me and my friend David...our hair matches!!!

Tea likes to pretend to kiss me...goof.

Jenna and I looked beautiful...what can I say?

The hottest car: Riley, Jenna, Andrew, me, and Nick...oh yeah!

Anyway...it was an awesome time.  Way fun...and kinda sad.  But we all enjoyed it!

Next update:  random pictures from my life, and possibly of Ashly Hicks' bridal shower (oh baby were we hot!  ).

Currently Listening The Beatles 1 By The Beatles Just kidding...I'm listening to Winn Galloway's cd: The Gun Play EP...AMAZING! see related

It's been forever and ever since I've updated.  Not many people actually read this, but it's helpful for me anyway...so here goes.

Summer ended sooner than I thought it would...and took longer to end that it seemed it ever could.  SOS started...amazing, exciting, wonderful, tough, the hardest and most stressful time of my life, the greatest blessing I've ever received...what else can I say about it?  My students are great!  I seriously love each of them, which seems kinda wierd since I've only known them a short time...but it's true.  And those SOS leaders...I think it was said best by Andrew Bucek: we're like family now.  Not seeing them every day like before is hard (now that SOS is over).  But I'm seeing how amazingly close we still are...and how much I treasure our friendships and the time we've spent together.

School has started.  Classes are interesting...way better than last semester.  Not that this semester is going to be easy...not by a long shot.  It's probably going to be the hardest semester yet...but wow.  It's going to be great.  The highlight is definitely Christian Thought 1 with Dr. Thoennes.  That man is amazing...he has such passion...he truly is a man after God's heart if I've ever seen one.

Mara is gone.  If you don't know Mara, you have definitely missed out.  I think she is probably the most influential "adult" of my college career so far...and now she's gone.  She was the director of SOS for 3 years, and now has moved back to Minnesota for a new job that she's going to absolutely amazingly wonderful at.  But I miss her a ton already...and she only left Friday morning.  I can't wait until October...she'll be back for a visit...it's going to be one of the highlights of my semester, for sure.  Those people in Minnesota don't know what a treat they're in for with her coming.

Today was Mandz's 22nd birthday.  Kris and I (and Mandz kinda) spent a good 9 hours yesterday making cake for her party today...and today we all spent another good...oh...4 hours making dinner...carne asada, rice, beans, chips, salsa, guacamole...and I must say that Carolyn is amazing...what a cook!  It was great though.  I think Mandz had a good birthday...so that made it all worth it.

Anyway, tomorrow is church, so I should head to bed.  Gotta get up in the morning!  Love ya! 

Currently Listening The Great Adventure By Steven Curtis Chapman Don't Let The Fire Die see related

I've grown to love these quotes...just thought I'd share!

"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."  ~ Anais Nin

"No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky."  ~ Llewelyn Powys

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."  ~ Diane Arbus

"What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best.  Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling.  For these may come from a deeper level than feeling.  God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard."  ~ C. S. Lewis

"Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage."  ~ C. S. Lewis

"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."  ~ C. S. Lewis

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."  ~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks.  Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them."  ~ Anonymous

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time."  ~ Calvin and Hobbes

"When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive."  ~ William Barclay

"Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places."  ~ Anonymous

And there are many more...maybe I'll share more later...love ya!