Monday, October 20, 2008

If I Come Without A Thing, Then I've Come With All I Need

So like you have seen, nothing much has been going on. Well nothing that seems important enough to write about. I've been working hard at school, and trying to do as well as possible without losing my mind. So instead of talking about school more I'll mention some other things that I have been doing. I went to Yellow Springs, Ohio for a "hippie" festival. It was really neat and Luke and Michelle made a cool hut while we were listening to a band that was playing.

Another thing that happened, Bridgett and her twin sister Ashley turned 21. That was exciting. Here's a picture of the birthday girl and our friend Chad.

Oh yeah, I forgot that I didn't tell everybody, I no longer have a car. The clutch failed and I figured it wasn't worth fixing it because of the condition of the car.Also, I don't think that it would have been a safe car for the winter, I almost died twice last winter, so I was hoping for a more stable car. Now I am looking for another, and hopefully I can get one next quarter. In the meanwhile I have been using Andrew's car. It has it's own problems, but not nearly as bad as mine and is a very dependable car. I miss my car dearly, and I miss the independence and being able to help people out, but I think I made the right decision. But here is the final moments I got to spend with my car while Hannah and I waited for a ride.

Rest in Peace.
So much more has happened, and I thought of it earlier but now I forget.

This is a new band I started listening to. Andrew really likes them, and I really like their lyric style. I know I say this for every song, but it's one I relate to, and a very good song.
A Sweater Poorly Knit <----- Click Here For Song
By- MeWithoutYou
In a sweater poorly knit, and an unsuspecting smile
Little Moses drifts, downstream in the Nile
A fumbling reply -- an awkward, rigid laugh
I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between
sweeter than any wine,
and bitter as mustard greens
Light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickle bread
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

As you plow some other field and try and forget my name,
see what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same
I planted rows of peas, but by the first week of july
they should have come up to my knees
but they were maybe ankle high

Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns,
and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars
But now books are overdue and the goats are underfed...
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead


You're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
You made a holy fool of me, and I've thanked you ever since
If she comes circling back, we'll end where we'd begun
Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one

Or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken, open seed
If I come without a thing, I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

It's the Only Way to Keep That Last Bit of Sanity

So I haven't updated in a while partially because it has just been crazy with all of this school work. But other than school not too much has really happened. I went through my first wave of testing and I think I did pretty well.
Poli Sci-
97/100 (2 points short of the highest grade in the class)
Interpreting-
Presentation: 92/100
Test: 46/50
Anthropology- 76/87
And I haven't gotten my sign language test back, or taken my Coms 101 midterm. I was really nervous because this has been my worst quarter yet. Everything was(and still is) going wrong, but it looks like I am keeping my grades alright despite the personal troubles. There's more I could talk about but I have to go to class.

Music of the Week:

Paul Baribeau
Brown, Brown, Brown <---Click here for song!
I saw your eyes,
they were brown.
And all the stars
went out.
And the moon got lost,
and it fell in Lake Michigan.
And a tidal wave tore through this town

I saw your hair, it was brown
And the roof flew right off my house
And then my doors broke off their hinges
And all my walls came falling down.

You sipped your pop, it was brown
you gave me a little coca cola kisses
And my heart broke on the night that you(I) left
And there are a few pieces that I still haven't found.