Reasons for Reading

Concepts and ideas that I have that are still in their infancy, or thoughts that I've just started wrapping my mind around are more fully developed and explored through books. I almost consider it laziness, acquiring a better understanding by taking the hours of work an author puts into exploring the different facets of these ideas. I justify it however by my acceptance that it is useless to reinvent the wheel, and that all great accomplishments are based on the work of many unseen, unheard, unpraised individuals.

More updates

Horray for present day! I got some desperately needed clothes, a jump drive, some electronics soldering stuff (yay!), and a bunch of books and gift certificates. A pretty decent haul overall. A few more quick updates and then sleep time.

Religion - Church hasn't been doing a lot for me recently. The last three weeks it just kinda feels like I'm going through the motions. Faith for me is like a rubber band, some times I'm really religious and other times I'm not. Its when I'm not that I eventually get pulled back. I really like that aspect of my faith. /End Religion

My nephew Aiden's Baptism was really awesome. I hope to have some pics up as soon as I get some. Since Lucas and I are both godparents, we were joking that lucas was the god "mother". Everyone laughed when he pretended to be gay in his response. This went on a couple of days, and when I got back from Stl, I found my dad seriously getting mad at him whenever he did this! I guess I know where I got my homophobia from.

Back again

Well, I think summarizing is the easiest type of journaling, so I'll do that to catch everyone up on the events of the last month. After a 7 hour car drive, I've had plenty of time to think and catch myself up with what has been happening.

Easy stuff first..

School - I probably will have another semester's patch of gray hair to add on to my collection. I'm 89.5 % sure that I can add another 4.0 semester on to the pile. I guess that's good, but it really doesn't feel like much of an accomplishment. /End School

Work - I haven't checked my email since the end of finals. I kinda got the schedules filled and did what I had to get the hell out. I'm expecting an inbox full of people bitching about what I did and didn't do. After some thinking in the car today, and seeing how easily John jumped the ResLife boat, I realize how pointless my job really is. Empowered with this knowledge, I intend to treat it as such and no longer worry or care about my performance. I will do all I can to keep my job within the office hours that I setup next semester. /End Work

Relationship - I left my "other half" at Rolla today around noonish. We have spent almost every waking hour together (and several non-waking hours...*wink*wink* If you are John, Ray, or Brien, be sure to ask about the shopping I did in Norman, OK.). In the last week, we spent 2 days on a train, and 2.5 days with each other's family. Its like coming home and sleeping alone after spending 6 months in a dorm room with 4 roomates, the room is just too empty. The trip was well spent. We tied up a lot of loose ends and I learned a couple of things that I didn't know. To clarify, we are basically stepping down our relationship to "dating" status. It sounds like this will work a lot better. I get all of the fun stuff and none of the relationship "How are we doing/Where is this going" crap to deal with. I also get a chance at the other 3 women in rolla who are NOT taken, NOT fat, and NOT Rolla princesses. We'll see what happens. /End Relationship

Well, there is definetely more, but I'm really tired from the drive home. More later hopefully!