I'm writing this in response to an article written in our campus newspaper.     Your thoughts are appreciated.     I'm really looking for suggestions/things to clear up before I send this in (and figure out who to send it to.)   I know that it's a bit difficult without showing you the original article, but that's too bad. :oP    Anyone who's good with English       your polishing would be appreciated,      this is my rough draft   and I welcome red ink. :o)   

Boo!

What's a good prank you've played on someone? Or a time when you scared someone/they scared you an impressive amount?

When I was stationed in AZ, I opened up our department every morning for awhile.  Go in and turn on all the machines, unlock all the doors, etc.      For efficiency I went back and forth between rooms while they booted up. One morning I did this as always, and during my routine I noticed that one of the doors had shut.  The door closes by itself sometimes, but I thought I had propped it open.   It's a big door, maybe it moved the prop.    (Oh, another detail is that I never turned on any lights to do any of this. I like the dark.)        One of my supervisors had gone into the room and shut the door and was going to do the startup stuff for the machine in there, but when I went in  he was behind the wall that shields us from the radiation, so I couldn't see him. He jumped out and scared the crap out of me                  and I hit him    on reflex.               Not a good punch    because I hadn't had time to think to close my fist, so it was kind of a slap/punch to the face,        but   I'm told the look on my face was priceless. (You can see a little bit from the light from the machines.)       ......... How about you?

JF

Much going on for me at the moment.    Have a 2000 word paper to write today that I haven't started...  Problem is I'm not sure what I want to say yet.     Tests, projects, yada yada.

I've been meaning to apologize for/retract my American Idol rant the other day. This is from Matthew 7 -

1.	"Do not judge so that you will not be judged.
2.	"For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.
3.	"Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
4.	"Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye?
5.	"You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

I had been meaning to do so for about a week now, just other things took priority... After saying what I did, I talked to a number of people that I look up to and respect..........           and like the show. Last straw was when I heard about the show last night and the whole charity deal (except for Ben Stiller's crap at the end).  http://www.americanidol.com/idolgivesback/where/         So good for them.      And while I still just don't have time to watch the show, I will not fault the multitude of my friends that enjoy it. But my opinion on something like this doesn't really matter, it just goes to show what an idiot I can be sometimes. So, to those who I upset/offended, I ask your forgiveness.     To those who have no idea what I'm talking about, just move on. :o)

Had a long talk about different bands/music videos, etc. the other day. Bands in particular like Red where it seems there's more to them than you initially realize. Then there's the music video Savin'/Saving me by Nickelback. Some pretty interesting imagery/themes are used.      I continue to be annoyed/amused by people who will just go off about Christians listening to secular music. No wonder people think Christians are all idiots. Music is amazingly powerful and "every tribe, every tongue, and every nation" worship in different ways. Secular music is quite useful in describing someone's search for God and how things have failed in trying to do them on their own. "In the End" by Linkin Park comes to mind. Great topic for discussion. I also find it interesting that the songs have spoken the most to me lately were not Christian songs. Savin' Me by Nickelback has an interesting music video.

One upcoming project is for me and a friend to teach the class about a topic. To do this, we roleplay counselor/counselee, and I'm going to be the counselee. Our topic is anger..... So I am going to "pretend" to have anger problems which need counseling. My initial thought is that few people who read this have ever seen me angry, and generally that's a good thing.       But I'm learning/understanding that anger isn't all bad, but I've kind of rebounded from easily angered to not letting myself be angry about much at all. I disagree with the position I had taken, because there is plenty to be angry about, and anger spurs action on its behalf, so bit by bit I'm letting that happen. Accidentally put a friend in the hospital with a serious injury because of your anger and you might think that anger is a bad thing too, but that was around a decade ago.          But it will be interesting to pretend to have an issue that I've actually dealt with.

I like playing Scramble on Facebook.  It's Boggle, basically, but it also tells you the words you missed.       Good times.

Alrighty, time for breakfast then to work on my paper.

Have a great day!            God is good.
JF

EDIT: Yay, paper done. :o)

A couple church signs that I found interesting:

Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads.  

Jesus is the rizzle for the sizzle. 

God answers knee-mail.

What are your thoughts?
JF