Thoughts...

Tests, Papers, Getting to class

Due dates, Presentations, Finals

Engagements, summer jobs, weddings

End of the year parties, swimming, hiking

Movies, sunny days, laughter

But the only thing I can think about right now

Is how am I going to convince one health director who looks like a turkey

That I'm healthy enough to go to Thailand?

I just want to go

Adventures Throughout The Internet

It's been raining for two days. My roommate and I haven't done anything but read books, draw and watch a movie every now and then.

It's been absolutely beautiful.

Here's some other beautiful things:

The Candy Shop from Whitestone Motion Pictures on Vimeo.

One of the most intense/beautifully made videos you'll ever see.

Then you'll be inspired to change the world

(Also check out the soundtrack!)

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

--Apple Inc.

Looking at this blog makes me want to get married

Inheritance by Graham Cooke

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

--G.K. Chesterton

Drops like Stars by Rob Bell

Tiger Rising by Kate Dicamillo

More crazy cool things that you can fin online: bit.ly/creativeinternet

You Gotta Fight For What You Want (Adventures With Rabies)

Today, I'm walking down an alleyway on my way to class because, as usual, I'm late. Then, I happened to spot my buddy Tempest next to a dumpster holding a yardstick and a pack of chewing gum. She's looking down at a metal grate on the ground which covers a sewer underneath.

"Whatcha doing Temp?" I greet Tempest but she's got a look of sheer determination on her face.

"Pooks, I'm gonna be rich! I just gotta find a way to get those quarters out!" She then points through the grate to show me two shiny quarters teasing us a few feet underneath us.

At this time, History of Modern Latin America has been forgotten. There's a chance of us getting rich here and I'm talking Washingtons here.

We start working with the drive of diamond miners as we lower the yardstick with a giant wad of citrus gum stuck on the end into the sewer but each time we come up empty: our hands are too big to fit through the holes and we're only a few inches too short. "A stick! A stick! Get me a stick!" I run to try and find a good stick to lengthened our yardstick. The first one is too thick to fit through the holes so I try to find another.

At this time, some of the administrators of my university enter the alley, finished with a meeting. They see us cheering and groaning as we get closer and closer to our prize and shake their heads at the street urchins who will do so much to get a few cents. "Oh the lengths some of those kids will go to pocket a few cents," is what I'm sure they were all thinking at the moment. They just don't understand.

It's at this time when I realize that I have a class I'm supposed to be sitting in right now. I make Tempest promise me to update me on her status and head towards caudillos and socialist parties.

About ten minutes later, I receive a text from Temp:

"Found a thinner stick and taped it [onto the yardstick]...when I went for the second one, a raccoon popped its head and stared me down."

Unfortunately, our get rich quick days were ended by the master bandit himself. And you wondered were all the change thrown into fountains went.

God's Just Having Disco Night At The Bowling Alley

There's a storm raging outside tonight

Bright flashes of light, loud rumblings of thunder and shuddering as the house quivers under the torment of beating water

Tonight, I'm doing homework by flashlight

Not because the power went out but because it's too beautiful of a storm to ignore