I find myself alarmingly turned off by girls wearing jeans with new balance (or some other type) running/walking shoes. maybe i just fixate too much on shoes, but what an unattractive trend.

I've been reading Blue Like Jazz in conjunction with a graduated friend of mine, Erik, who's working here for the semester before his pro baseball season starts. I think it's a great book - it's hard for me sometimes to get over Donald Miller's anti-conservative bias, but that's neither here nor there. Last night I was lying awake in bed having a ( Read more... )

Cut my hair on Saturday night.

All of it.

For anyone who hasn't ever been to WWW United Methodist Camp, it's amazing. The whole day is centered around worship. From waking up in the morning and dancing around at Praise Time until worship in the Chapel at night, your every waking moment is spent wrapped up in worshiping God. And it's indescribable. I often tell people that some of the best ( Read more... )

For this is wisdom-to love and live ( Read more... )

"I think that last night I lost my mind. Woke up this afternoon to find 'I want to be unselfish' scrawled along my wall with no memory of it at all. You slept soundly by my side while Hyde wrestled with Dr. Jekyll, but I still have no idea who was left alive ( Read more... )

I will extol the Lord at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
My soul will boast in the Lord;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
Glorify the Lord with me;
let us exalt his name together.

I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.

Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with

codykstapleton: you really can tell who a person really is just by observing them at the gym ( Read more... )

My Comrades, when I'm no more drinking, or sick with gout or palsy lie, exhausted on my sickbed sinking, believe me that my end is nigh. And die I this day or tomorrow, my testament's already made. My burial from your hands I'll borrow, but without splendor or parade. And when ye to my graveyard bring me, and follow after man by man, let no said ( Read more... )

I feel for some reason that I've turned a corner in my life today. I feel inexplicably satisfied and pleasant and confident. I feel like what will come will come, though not in a dour fatalistic sort of way but rather in a comfortable way. It's like a new door has been opened to me and I've realized my life doesn't have to always be so heavy and ( Read more... )