I'm not sure, cause it's never happened to me before, but I think this is what it feels like to get used. I hate this soul-sucking ephemeral city and its kids with haircuts from magazines.

In the words of Ben Folds, give me my money back... you know the rest.

PS The Bravery SUCK.

1. I am preaching tomorrow. My dad asks me every time he goes away, and I guess he finally talked me into it. If I'm going to be a pastor, I've got to be able to preach. I believe this will be my first "real" sermon, though I have taught Sunday School before. Am I nervous? Not really. For one thing, my parents church is really small right now ( Read more... )

I have difficulty being excited about music lately. I don't really care what makes the year-end list and what doesn't. I don't even care much about Sufjan anymore ( Read more... )

If anyone doesn't know yet, I will soon be moving to Philadelphia.

In related news, I've just discovered that Philly is the home of M. Night Shyamalan. I discovered this while reading about The Village at RottenTomatoes.com. If you haven't seen this film yet, you might not want to read the rest of this post.

Does anyone else think The Village ( Read more... )

I know this won't make sense to anyone but.... STUPID CONTRACT! Oh well, it's only money, right?

So, I went to this thing a couple days ago about graduate school. I know it might not apply perfectly to seminary, but I feel like it was somewhat analogous. One of the things the presenter said was, when applying to grad schools, you should apply to at least two "safe" schools, two "reach" schools and two "in-between" schools. I am having a ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting article on the supposed evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds ( Read more... )

Does anybody have any suggestions for some good Anime? Or even better, is there a website or something that has a list of "Best Anime?" I really love the stuff, but I'm pretty ignorant as to what is considered "essential" or even good quality examples of the genre ( Read more... )

So, I'm back in Portland after Moochfest Midwest/East Coast Tour 2005. The day after I got back, there was a call from the IRS. Because of Hurricane Katrina, they have converted several call sites to FEMA, which means they need more people around to actually answer tax law questions. So, they asked me to come back. Not an exciting prospect by ( Read more... )

I decided a long time ago that I didn't want to have the internet in my apartment because I would waste too much time on here. Well, I found out a couple of weeks ago that I can (sometimes) patch into a wireless network from my living room. Sure enough, my suspicions have been confirmed. I've been wasting a lot of time lately going to stupid ( Read more... )