Now that I'm all settled in...

Here we are now. Winter 2011. My mom's birthday was Saturday and mine was Sunday. My parents came up to Marquette for my birthday and the three of us and Christy went to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings. Christy and I have been there plenty but my parents hadn't yet and they really enjoyed it.

And yet again I find myself marveled at the speed of time. I have a year left after this semester if everything goes right. I'm retaking one of my Digital Cinema classes this semester for the grade. I missed the grade point minimum for Senior Art Review by .03 repeating. Can you believe that?

This is going to be a busy semester. That's the opposite of what I thought it would be. Thanks to the retake, it's run around everywhere like a chicken with my head cut off.

I really need to keep in touch with some people. I gotten out of touch with quite a few. My mom reminded me of this fact the other day. It wasn't something I really wanted to hear but it was sobering and of course it made me realize that she was right. The problem is that they're all busy too. I think though, that if you really want to, that you'll find the time. I think that should be another New Years resolution. Reconnect with some people that I have fallen out of touch with. Just a few people here and there. Not everyone all at once of course. That would be insane. But a a few. The ones that I see but don't talk to that often for starters. Then I'll branch out. I've said that I would do this in the past and didn't but look at me, I'm writing more often (so far). That shows that I can follow through with a resolution. I won't check writing off the list by any means, the day I do is the day I'm done writing. But I AM working on it and it's time that I start work on getting in touch with people too! (If I don't turn out to be as good at it as I hope I will be, don't be afraid to beat me to it and contact me first!)

I'm going to go take a shower now because I need one and because I'm clearly not working on my homework. Sorry, that was random.

EN 400

I'm working on my english story and I'm at a point were I don't exactly know where I want to go with it. Writers hurdle. Eh, I don't really like that but It'll work for now. Not writers block because I kind of know what I want to do. I'm still curious what else is out there for ideas that I'm not thinking of. I was going to post it in here but instead, I can give you the premise. A sheriff has responded to a call that came in from the station. He get's to the car and finds the driver burnt to a crisp but nothing else that the driver is touching. Then he get's a call from another officer who's up the road. This officer was stopped on his way to the scene because there was a cow in the road and it too, is burnt to a crisp. That's as far as I am right now. It's due in progress on Wednesday so I doesn't need to be finished but I'd like to be a ways into it. One thing for sure is that I'd like to be able to write longer stories this year as apposed to when I took EN300 with this teacher. Everything I wrote was really short. Since then though, I feel that I've grown and have come to be able to write longer works. Still, I'm nervous, and I want to try every way I can to better my writing skills and story telling abilities. Anyways...that was a lot of blabbing for nothing. Let me know what you think and where you might like to see this story go.

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It's a start...

Well I'm doing a little better with this writing more often thing. It has been over two weeks since I posted last but it's still January which is a huge improvement. With good news, however, it seems there is always bad news of some sort. I have had a change of employment. The new job is fun so far. Obviously, that isn't the bad news. The bad news is that there was a reason for a change in employment. Never mind that though. That is one of the things of the past and more specifically, of last year. This is a new year. And in this new year, I discovered that I have work study which opens up a large number of possible employment opportunities, one of them being that one that I landed. I'm working at the art building as a lob monitor. I only work 5 hours a week so the dough won't be rolling in but I know that this is a blessing nonetheless and I know that God will provide for whatever he brings me through.

I'm at work currently. It's my first day on the job and I'm enjoying it. It's quiet right now. The Desk at VA/H used to be quiet but it was always an unsettling quiet. For some reason, this is peaceful. Maybe it's because there is the distant sound of chatter in classrooms behind closed doors. Whatever it is, I like it.

There's another opportunity that I'll be looking into later today at the school paper. I pray that will come through as well. I found that I was content in a bad way. I liked it there at the desk and didn't care to change even though there were possibly better things out there for me because I liked my co-workers and enjoyed seeing familiar faces as they passed by. It took a major jolt for me to realize that working there wasn't the right thing for me anymore. Now I'm here. It's virtually the same job except i'm in a different environment, I have different co-workers, and I'll be seeing different people walking by. The important difference is that this is related to my major of study. I'm learning about printers and loading paper, and minor mundane things having the do with the art world but the thing is...they have something to do with the art world. I'm keeping the other possible position a secret for now for what reason i have absolutely no idea.

I pray that everything works out either way. If I don't get a position there, at least I have this and I know that it's a blessing.

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The New Year: Two Zero Double One

2011. I don't know if I'm quite ready but no one on God's green earth has discovered time travel (probably for the better) and so I'm here, stuck with the reality that is now. It's the second of the new year. Yesterday I spent a good part of my day at my aunts for a New Years party. We ate snacks there as we normally do when we're over there, as well as watch the Rose Bowl and talk to relatives we don't get to see so often. My girlfriend was able to join us and that was a special treat for me. She had met them all once before at my cousin's wedding reception a little over a year before. Now we were all together again making googly eyes at the their few month old baby.

The party as a whole helped me to realize just how fast the year went. I know, there I am again talking about how time goes by fast. Well it does. It still feels like this last semester just got over regardless of the fact that the new one starts in a week. Perhaps it is time for me to make a new years resolution. My normal practice at New years is to state that "this year, I resolve not to make any New Year's. I have one for this year though. I read an article a while back about how to slow down time. The actual title of the article was: Become your own Time 'Lord'. Of course this caught my attention. I read through it and although it said nothing about staring into the untempered schism it DID highly suggest that I seek out new experiences rather than spending my days staring at a TV screen. This is what I want to resolve to do. All to often I am simply go through the motions of the day. Get up, brush my teeth, get dressed, go to class, and so on and so forth. Sure I play games once in a while or go for a walk but not nearly enough and as soon as I've done these things, why not document my experience here? Because I've noticed that plenty of time bridges the gap between the majority of these blog posts. And it's not like I don't have the time. I think the reason I don't write as often in between is that I fear that the little things are too mundane to write about. Thinking about it though, I can't wait for an interesting story that happened to me come along, I have to make each and every experience that DOES happen interesting in it's own right. Because not all stories are as interesting as others but that doesn't mean that the less interesting ones can't inspire lessons in life or be connected to other experiences in life be they mine or someone else's.

Happy New Year!

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p.s. The article: Become Your Own Time 'Lord', can be found here --> http://psycentral.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/time-lord-flies-perception-psychology-dr-gary-wood/