My Morning Ritual
4:45 AM
The alarm goes off.
4:54 AM
The alarm goes off again.
5:00 AM
My alarm goes off — it is distinctively less pleasant than the one Rosina uses.
5:03 AM
Rosina’s alarm goes off yet again.
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Skip forward more than a half-hour of repeated alarms going off.
5:33 AM
Absently, I hug Rosina gently as I attempt to wake thoroughly enough for morning [...]
The Landscaped Yard
Hesitsantly, I knocked on the front door. There was a doorbell present, but somehow using it would have taken too much away from the occasion, and I really didn’t want to kill the mood. After all, I’d been planning this for over a month now.
When she answered the door, I couldn’t help but to think [...]
Vegetarianism Issues, The Crazy Dude, and a Published Secret
“A #2 with a coke, please; but, if you could, hold the meat and add extra lettuce and tomatoes.”
“You mean you don’t want the meat?”
“That’s right. I’m vegetarian.”
“Would you like to get the vegetarian sandwich meal instead?”
“No, I don’t particularly like whole grain bread, nor do I enjoy the particular type of veggie-burger you [...]
Skateboard Accident
So I’m sitting in my top floor office with a window (I’m just special like that, apparently), working off my three hour recording session for our weekly thirty minute podcast by reading Dilbert cartoons, when all of a sudden I hear someone screaming at the top of his lungs. Due to a certain someone [...]
Worthy of Attention: Taking Stock of Reality: Life
Life.
Odd how life keeps continuing, despite what may happen at any individual point. Never would I have guessed how my life would end up had one taken the time to ask me about my thoughts of the future way back when I was still in grade school. Life is such a difficult thing to anticipate.
Notice There’s No P in Mnemosyne
But there’s truth in a-Lethe… [groan]
Brr. It’s somewhat chilly tonight.
On my way to the cafeteria, I noticed a small, purple flower off by the wayside. It was alone, surrounded by green leaves, green vines, and green grass. I had to step more than a few steps off the sidewalk to be able to reach [...]
The Exam-a-Gram
I received an e-mail last night informing me that I had an ‘Exam-a-Gram’ waiting for me in the campus ministry department.
At Spring Hill College, an ‘Exam-a-Gram’ is a small bag full of treats of various kinds: chips, candies, bars, etc. The idea is that a loved one or family member will buy you an ‘Exam-a-Gram’ [...]
A Lack of Substance (or: From Flaky to Wiki)
I just finished my calculus midterm.
What I like most about take-home exams is that while taking the test you can listen to OCR songs and play games of chess and scrabble at the same time. Plus, if you get stuck on a problem, you can always sleep on it and try again the following day. I think that whenever I finally [...]
Hurricane Ivan
“It is as though we’re fleeing Saigon circa 1975.” –Matt (aka The Blessed Lunatic)
Such was said as we pulled out of the driveway of Spring Hill College to our salvation from the upcoming flood: Matt’s house. To tell the truth, at the time it did not seem to be that big a deal. I’ve experienced [...]
An Interesting Day
Today was an…interesting day.
This morning, I awoke to a knock on the door. Before I even opened my eyes, Dorek had unlocked the door, and Matt walked into the room. “Oh, sorry, guys; did I wake y’all up?” Matt’s accent is distinctively not Southern, but he still occasionally lapses into the vocabulary of a Southerner. [...]
