Suffice it to say, I couldn't leave this journal without a proper good-bye and a means to keep the content flowing by directing y'all to my original journal, oliver_kanjo. It's bittersweet to cease writing here as there are many memories of both Missouri and Kansas in here, as well as a public record of my growth (apparently also for the NSA to look at, too). ( Read more... )

These are the very words I used to describe yesterday when I did the unimaginable (in my mind at least): I missed a day that I was supposed to present major material in class. It wasn't intentional at all - I had been up until 5:30 the morning before making sure I was set with the paper (finally brought it down under 10 pages compared to the first ( Read more... )

Anything I said in the last post about Ann, ignore. I was a complete idiot for thinking what I did, especially after the explanation of what happened ( Read more... )

Yes, the subject line is a Steve Taylor reference, for those familiar with 80s and early 90s CCM ( Read more... )

McSnowson, Snowlina, Newsnow, Hutchinsnow - take your pick. We really got it last week with 15.7 inches worth of the stuff at the college. It found it very interesting that although it didn't happen the same way, it was very similar to the first snow like that (outside of the Kentucky blizzard of 2004) that I had received at college. I was a little ( Read more... )

So many a thing has come and gone since I last was here. First, I managed to get back to what I knew I could pull off, and thus came out of last semester with a 3.25 GPA. Afterward, I took two days coming home, with a really, really packed car to the outskirts of Kansas City when I dropped off another student. Totally worth the two days when I saw ( Read more... )

You can thank my roommate for inspiring this entry. You can also thank my apparent inability to read a final's schedule straight for what will follow after I write about what the roommate inspired. You can finally thank Aretha Franklin for coining that particular flow of spelling in her song titled the same thing ( Read more... )

Tonight I learned that despite my successes, evidently there's still an area or two I'm still insecure about in my life. What didn't make sense at first was that both events tonight were practically the same thing, and yet I did better at one than the other. However, it hit me that the first event was handled better because it technically wasn't my ( Read more... )

I must admit that I'm feeling a bit like Paul writing that. You won't find this verbatim in the Bible, but after some interaction and talk last night, I realized that this is exemplified throughout the New Testament ( Read more... )

This post's subject line courtesy of the same Chris Rice song I have on repeat right now ( Read more... )