So, last night, under the constant prodding of a few friends, I was peer pressured into seeing a horrible movie (no, not Taxi... no, not Friday Night Lights either... yes, you in the back? Absolutely) it was The Grudge. Not only was it basically the same thing as The Ring, but it didn't make sense. The whole movie plodded worse than a constipation and stunk even worse at the end. So, to cleanse our palettes afterwards, Chuck, D-Rock and I watched Ocean's Eleven... much better.
As for today, I had no classes so Katie and I took the afternoon to go to Columbus and register for our wedding. First, we went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and enjoyed the splendors of scanning whatever we wished. It was fun for a little bit, but then I just wanted to get home and relax and watch my taped Survivor. Anyways, after we took a break for dinner, we went to Target and registered there. Target was a little more fun because I got to pick some DVDs and toys to scan, but was still not as fun as really getting all those things. The great thing about it all was that I not only (finally) got the Roper album, but I got Jimmy Eat World's new album and F-Zero GX for my 'Cube. So, when we got back, I've been taking a relaxing evening watching Survivor and Return of the King (the animated one), whupping Chuck's butt at F-Zero, and listening to some great music. Boy, does it feel good to be the weekend... Whats that? I have a midterm with Dr. Shirley on Monday? Oh, shnikes, I have to get to studying tomorrow! Only, if Zelda doesn't call for me to rescue her (I'm already at the Fire Temple, in about 3 days playing time, how's that for kicking butt). Anywho, I'm off to bed to read some more Dark Tower and listen to the rest of JEW.
Peace
"Hello Lamewads, I'm with you
Raise your fists if this rings true"
- Roper
Yes, as the title attests to, our flag football team won another game today against the Pi Kappa Phi pledges (score one for the non-greeks!) Although we were being pushed around (and for those who have come to the games, they know) and the freaking refs will not make calls in our favor (both Alex and Matt got tackled) we still rocked the game with our amazing skills. All in all, it was the most physical flag football game played this year. After we finished the game, I have spent the evening relaxing and watching tv (Scrubs is the greatest show!)
Yeah, so today I found out that my 12-15 page paper for Dr. Cook's class is due the day after my 12-15 page paper for Dr. Shirley's class, yippee, i love being a senior! I really have nothing else to say, I've been sitting here at my monitor for 20 minutes and have not written anything since that last sentence, so I will holla back later!
Just like the title says, and like I've been trying to tell people for years now, I know that music is a way to experience and worship god, but it is not the only way, nor should it be the most prominent. For, we are constantly told that we are to worship God all day long, and when you place it in only the context of music or that feeling that people get when they are singing songs. Worship should not be based on a person's emotions. If we based our worship on emotion, then I would not have worshiped God in at least 2 years. Worship contains the focus of God in our lives, whether we are worshiping while we type a paper, or talk on the phone to our best friends. I say this, because we can worship while doing these things as long as we are proclaiming the Gospel through our lives and words. This doesn't mean reciting your "testimony" (I'll write about my qualms with that some other time), it means that we need to be the hands and feet of Christ, by exemplifying his love to all who we encounter, THAT is true worship.
Anyways, today I had a pretty cool day, I turned in my paper, and I think I did pretty well, now I just have to prepare for a little presentation for my Apostolic Age class tomorrow. I got to register for next semester, and I got in all the classes I wanted, but it turned out that the creative writing class that I was in was a poetry class, so I dropped it instantly in order to take another religion class, yippee hooray! Ok, now I really have to get to work on that presentation, its nearly done, I just have to piece it together into a working statement.
"Come thou font of every blessing
tune my heat to sing thy grace
streams of mercy, never ceasing
call for songs of loudest praise!"
- a great hymn (don't know who it is by, but if you have to sing for worship, I suggest you use hymns)
So, if you've read the previous posts, you know that I highly enjoyed Super Size Me. Well, I had written an entire ethical argument for it yesterday, that I found really entertaining, but today, I just want to say that I've been finding more and more called to the idea of creating equality in all foundations of life, and sometimes for me that will have to mean giving up things I like. I have already given up Taco Bell due to ethical issues and now, I am researching into what other things I find to be against my foundational beliefs. Interesting isn't it? When you begin to look under the skin of a lot of companies, you find that what seemed to be a nice family friendly company actually abuses child labor laws in other countries. I don't mean to sound "holier-than-thou", I'm just trying to explain my convictions.
Considering my convictions, I feel I must explain more on my thoughts of Judgment Journey. I was actually able to go on Friday night with my crew, and found that when you spend 45 minutes scaring people from hell, only to spend (at most) 3 minutes explaining Jesus (without even mentioning his sacrifice or the responsibility that comes with the decision), I find a huge disconnect. Yeah, I'm sorry, I said it before, so I'll quit now!
I hate musiChristian.com! I PRE-ordered the Roper cd from them, and the Roper Cd came out last tuesday, and they havent even mailed it yet. So, now I have cancelled the order and I refuse to use them any more! Anywho, I have to run to BSU Encouragement Team, I'll try to give another more upbeat post later tonight!
Ok, I'm really pissed, this is the third time I have tried to write this freaking post, the past two times it has all been erased because of my stupid computer. I don't have time to rewrite the post because I have to write a paper now. I will do my best to do it tomorrow sometime so that you can get the awesomeness of those posts before you die of anguish from waiting.
Peace
I just had a really good weekend! First, I saw the school play "Pippin" on friday, and boy was it good! After that, my group was able to make Judgment Journey (see earlier post) and were luckily scared into being saved by Jesus from the scorches of Hell. Yesterday, Katie's parents came, and I spent all day hanging out with them, and then when they left, Katie, Chuck, Noelle, and I watched The Ladykillers, which was quite funny. After that, Katie and I watched Super Size Me, which was like the highlight of my weekend, it is a great documentary of fast food! Now, I'm going to read Fast Food Nation, and decide which fast food restaurants I'm going to give up, trust me, its pretty gross. Today, Kate and I went to 1st Methodist LaGrange, and then I spent the rest of the day there preparing and doing youth for my Youth Ministry class. We made a Labyrinth for the youth to go through and experience chaos and then finding Jesus and his help in the midst of chaos. I thougt it went pretty well. Anyways, I have to write a 5 page paper now, so I'd better get onto that!
Oh yeah, I realized that you can't leave messages unless you are a member, so if you have comments, please email me or IM me!!! I LIKE RESPONSES!!
yeah, so me, Katie, Alejandro, Ryan, Derek, and Dani had been planning to go to Judgment Journey all week long, and so tonight we all headed in my car and made our way out there at 9:30, after all our stuff was done. So, we got there at 9:56 (thanks to a wrong turn by me), but they decided that that was too late (even though the signs say it was open to 10). So, after we talked to them and tried to convince our way in, they still let us go. How sad is that? They turned down our souls because we were too late? Isn't that what the whole thing is about? Saving people's sould before its too late? Yeah, I know i'm being whiny, but i have the right to be, because since we didn't get to go, the boys and i went to wal-mart and bought 2 pounds of tortilla chips and salsa, and we have eaten nearly all of it.
I know what some of you are thinking... "Hey, isn't Judgment Journey a bunch of bulls***?" To you i would respond, "Abso-freakin-lutely!" Not only is it incredibly theologically inaccurate (if any of you really believe the Left Behind books and believe them, you really really might want to relook at the theology behind it) but I also have come to despise the idea of scare tactic ministry. Not only is that theologically inaccurate as well(remember that Jesus preached a ministry of love, not of fear) but it plays with people's emotions and forces them to make decisions at a highly emotional, non logical state of mind. If you need more reasons, just ask me, i just finished a paper on scare tactics, id be more than happy to email it to you. Anyways, i need to be getting to bed, Frank is standing in the corner making me scared, so id better go.
Oh yeah, by the way, I've been rocking the Dark Tower books by Stephen King, and I highly recommend those as well, they freakin rock!
"Nazis, I hate these guys."
- Indy
have you ever wondered why the times you need to do work most is the times that you don't want to do work at all? I think it is just a way of our minds telling us what God has known all along - school and homework aren't necessary. God wants us to learn through experience, and while we may learn theories from books and maybe how to look up stuff, but I find that most people would benefit from apprenticeships. Its something I've found more and more reasonable the more I consider it. Although, it might be hard to really set up all of these apprenticeships, but you know that some jobs would need less supervision than others. I mean, lets call for a reform in jobs instead of making people go to college to succeed, let all people have a chance, not just those who learn from books. Hey, while we're at it, lets go for communism while we're at it. Everyone knows that that is better than stupid democracy, then we wouldn't have dumb ol' elections to worry about, nor would we have money problems to worry about (theoretically), and everyone would be equal... what's not to like about that? Its what Jesus would have wanted! Who's with me? (I really just wrote this blog to get people to respond on put some responses up so I feel loved).
Grace and Peace
"Sometimes the bravest thing of all is to hope"
- Brave Saint Saturn
Yeah, so today I'm starting to work on my massive project for Dr. Cook's Apostolic Age class. Basically, everyone in the class has to pick an apostle and do a 12-15 page paper on them, plus we have to do a presentation for that apostle. The thing is, I volunteered to do my presentation (basically an outline of your paper, given in front of the class to make Dr. Cook happy) next tuesday! Yippee, so now, I am taking a break from reading the Apocryphal books of Paul and the Nag Hammadi library. I mean, its really interesting, but I just dont much like doing a whole bunch of work. I love classes and learning, I just hate having to do all the outside work like papers and such (don't get me wrong, I love reading the books for class, just not the follow up junk).
Anyways, in TV news, I think everyone with a brain needs to be watching the following shows: Scrubs, Lost, Mythbusters, Survivor, anything on Tech TV, Reno 911. Yeah, I love these shows and just had to get that out, if you have time, watch them!
Ok, I need to get back to work.
"Everyone wants their freedom now, Somehow."
- Tree Ring Circus
So, i listen to radiou.com religiously every day and now they have a contest to win a trip to San Fran and hang out with Roper, who is like totally one of my heroes. So, ive been getting all my buds to call with me every chance we get, but weve only been numbers 1,2,9,12,15, and 17.... ARRRGH I have to win this contest! Today has been a rough day. two bad(ish) grade on a paper and a test, but at least i get free ice cream for it (yea for gambling), and ive got three huge things due three days in a row!
So, i decided to take today off and then im diving in tomorrow until i die of exhaustion. Anyways, Chuck and i are totally rockin the Mario Kart: Double Dash tonight, while listening to radiou, but futurama comes on at 11.
I missed Scrubs thanks to this comedian who was here at the college - eric o'shea, he was pretty good, but im sad i missed my show. Tomorrow is Lost though, and that will be ok. Now, its back to Mario.. peace
"We dream, we cry to Amplify"
- Roper
"You rose from the ashes like a phoenix with a heartache"
- Kids in the Way
(yeah, i like quoting my songs, ill do it pretty often if you dont mind)
And it begins!
I decided after reading ol' David Boozer's blog that I needed to get onto it myself and keep people posted on my life. First, I'll answer the question everyone is asking... "Connie Darko?!" Yes, you read right. It is a nickname from a good friend (and fellow suffering Religion major senior) Lindsey Matthews, and yes it comes from the movie Donnie Darko, which everyone must see in order to be called a human being.
Onto life... my classes are harder than the crust on my underwear, but I still love LaGrange College. For those who don't know, I am engaged, and preparing for a summer wedding a week after I finish up here. Sooo much fun! As for being an RA, I must say that we have some great freshmen guys this year and they like to come up and hang with me and Chuck to watch Futurama and play Donkey Konga (I tried to have this name be Rock Lobster, for those of you who know).
Also, BSU has a flag football team this year, and boy do we rock the house in our pink shirts and gayish nicknames (Chuck is Sassyfrass, I am Dandy-Lion, Raunchy Ryan is Tutti Frutti), basically its tons of fun, and we finally won a game last wed 56-20! We have a game tomorrow at 5:00 pm EST, so if you want to wear a pink t-shirt in support, and even show up, you would be more than welcome, we love our supporters.
Last Friday, I saw Roper in concert, and he rocked my face off, everyone needs to go get his album "Brace Yourself for the Mediocre" it came out today and I give it my full support.
To wrap up, I will do my best to put my random thoughts up and keep you updated on my Amazing life... ha
Peace
