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so i find myself at panera anxiously preparing to write lesson plans and grade homework for my Calc with business apps class, only to find that I have forgotten a crucial ingredient: my notebook, which contains all the correct answers for grading, and in which I write my lesson-plans.

It would seem that my plans have come to a temporary impasse. Thankfully the gray skies and mist throughout and my sweet collection of iTunes music on my laptop make today an ideal day for blogging my thoughts, and the recent going ons of my life.  Fear not, I’ll continue with my thoughts on those three verses, but not with this post. (I am presently undertaking a one-word study over the verse I blogged about last time)

So whats up:

+I just turned 23. I got two cakes from two good friends. I got two things of ice cream. I went to Karaoke twice. Had dinner with the fam. Had a night on the town with the roomies and plan on watching 23 tonight (I should shoot for getting 23 people to show up…)

+On the note of Karaoke, it is one of my  new favorite past times. Let me elaborate:

normal college bars:lots of drinking, dancing-but the awkward kind that I can’t really do, jukebox, pool–all in all things that I either don’t really partake in or that I suck at

karaoke bars: singing and lots of it, dancing-but the kind that people do at weddings to Journey’s Faithfully or Bon Jovi’s Livin on a Prayer, darts, usually a lot of drinking there too, but all in all things I love (singing and goofy dancing) plus the company of friends you’ve known forever backing you up while you try O-Town’s I want it All. good times indeed.

+Jon Penn’s new CD, off the chain. Check it out at wavethenavel.com

+I got accepted into a program through Mission Year and Eastern and it is a contender for what I might do post-graduation. Not entirely sure yet myself, still praying these things through, but worth checking out for yourself or if you’re interested in where life may take me: www.missionyear.org/masters

+Mike Smith and Anne are both coming home soon from their ventures over seas. Exciting!!

+i was thinking about creativity and how I appreciate it, but really don’t have much of it myself. For examples most blogs have trendy post-mod pictures of themselves looking away from their cameras while walking along some derelict street with a guitar strapped against their backs and random graphics around the corners of the page. I got nothing.

Not that i desire to be exceptionally more creative than I am now. I would consider myself innovative, but not creative. Moreover I can emulate like no other. I can duplicate what is funny (just listen to how frequently I quote movies) but coming up with something that is in and of itself funny and original usually evades me.

+So marvel.com has just released a bunch of back issues of comics online as digital comics (Sweet) but this new addition has caused their server to fail and their website can’t be accessed (suck), so now I am forced to look at my sweet backdrop of Wolverine, Colossus, and Nightcrawler of the Uncanny X-men until I can access marvel’s homepage to find a sweeter backdrop.

That takes care of most of what has been going on, I’ll post some deep thoughts sooner (or later)

Grace and peace!