Sometimes there’ve been people who bug the shiite muslims out of me, and I hold my tongue and come to find out, they’ve got some real problems they’re dealing with.
Rianna in response to me not confronting Tita about the way she makes my job unnecessarily difficult at times.
Grr…
College better be better than Jesus for all the bad stuff that I am dealing with in order to get there…
My Life is a Rock Opera
Rianna and I decided that when the !Hero tour hits Boston, we are going to see it together. I love rock opera. I love Jesus. Should be most interesting.
Life: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
PBS entertained this child without cable and few things delighted be after school as much as Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. The world lost one of the greatest men in history today. I can only aspire to have the impact of the most compassionate Mr. Fred Rogers.
A strategic comparison of Windows vs. Unix, version 2.0
Rather than focus on the rude customer who kept me thirty-minutes after closing, therefore causing me to almost miss Christy taking me to church, I will share the positive of my day.
I bought the best set of portable headphones today during my lunch break. Sony’s h.ear headphones fit around the ear and direct audio down the ear canal with a bud-style speaker, instead of towards the side of your head; comfortable and minimal sound leakage. Bass is reproduced well with the back of the h.ear headphones directing low frequencies to bone of the skull.
Finding my niche in the RBCPC youth ministry is my top priority at the moment. During the leader’s meeting that followed the Tuesday night senior high youth group gathering, the junior high youth ministry entered the conversation. Rick Ouimet at Blue Ridge Community Church always stressed the importance of strong Christian high school students mentoring middle school students. Middle school students examine high school students and fervently desire to be exactly like the teenager image forced upon them by the media. The early teenage years are the most difficult. You do not know who are you, what you are about, where you are going , yet you aspire to be something so much cooler and mature than what you are in that moment. Having a "cool" Christian high school student mentor junior high students produces honest, influential relationships that only lead to positive growth. Ken appointed the three most vocal proponents of integrating the two youth ministries (me, Elaine, Tim) to brainstorm ideas for accomplishing that which we voiced. I think I found my niche.
Caleb, Christy (a.k.a. "Empress"), Denise, Elaine (a.k.a. "Europe trash"), Gilberto, and I (a.k.a. "white trash") once again conversed over flavored coffees and baked goods at one of the elite few local coffee shops after the leader’s meeting; good times.
A month of studying Postal Annex+ customers has allowed me to distinguish five unique types of customers.
After Uncle Jon’s Valentine’s Day treat of dinner at The Olive Garden and college small group, Christy and I stopped at Von’s to grab some pop-sickles (without partially hydroginated oils) before heading over to Nick Durphey’s house. Supposedly a few of the college group people were watching O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but our conversations took priority.
I talked to this guy who has been spared so many times in life that he is clearly destined to do something great for God. I could not help but think of my numerous opportunities and if there will be something more substancial in my life than all I have experienced so far.
The whole Emerson College delimma is so discouraging. Maybe I should consider changing career paths. If I do, I will be like every other college freshman who has not done anything to work towards their destined job. Architecture and teaching intrigue me almost as much as new media. Honestly, my recent design concepts have failed to transform from desire into actual production again. I just want to take my design skills to the next level. Maybe my inability is a sign that I should reconsider my current career goals. Maybe not.
Two Postal Annex+ customers complimented me today on my performance. They made my smile grow even wider. Slowly, I am learning to love my job. Confidence in all the different processes is building and I am learning to manage my life in the precious four hours between returning home and going to bed. Thank you God for contentment, guaranteed hours, an incredible manager, and an impending pay raise after three months. All things truly work for good. I doubt that any of the other businesses that I applied to before Christmas would have offered the benefits and security of my job at Postal Annex. Patience, once again, proves itself as a useful asset.
What goes bump in the night and freaks out this southern guy? How about the aftershocks of a 5.4-magnitude earthquake.
I hope that three degrees fails as miserably as Microsoft Bob. Okay, I am just really jealous because I know that there will not be a Mac OS X version.