Friday, May 09, 2008

It's been a long december...

Not that anyone will read this, but for my own exoneration, i must post. it has been more than 5 months since my last. I have thought of a few things since then, and so i will share.

1) Due to some recent occurrences in my life, i have recently been asking the question: what do i do when someone says something they think is funny (very obviously so through their own hysteria) and I don't. Do i laugh even when it doesn't feel good? (this is a post that i started and now I have no idea what it refers to. can't remember who thought they were funny or anything. joke's on me i guess).

2) But I do remember this one. The extra 'O' as i entitled it. When i began writing papers this April, I noticed a new friend in my life. It was an extra 'o' (the letter 'oh') in any word that regularly contained an o. For instance, i frequently wrote youo instead of you, and I'm g-chatting with a friend right now, and I wrote foro instead of 'for.' It is incredibly annoying, especially when considering that in my last 5 weeks, i have written over 55 pages in papers. That is alot of extra 'o's i assure you. It kind of pisses me off actually. very annoying. my spell check earned its keep to say the least.

3)rest. this is something that I did not do from August-April. not really at all. I worked non-stop. worked myself into the ground really. i justified working on the house after church on Sundays (and every other day, really) as it not really being 'work.' I considered only bank work and school work to be actual 'work' (what a legalist, right?), while in reality, the house project was my #1 idol. I gave it everything, and it took it too. and it didn't give me much back. what a false God. so typical of our idols, they promise us everything, the demand everything of us, and they give us nothing in return. i shouldn't be surprised, and I'm not.

but i have rested these last 4 weeks on Sunday, and it has been wonderful. I re-met my wife and discovered that we are on the same team after all. I have learned more about my idols of performance and approval than i ever wanted to. i have felt rested, and at the same time very very tired (probably a hangover from the previous 8 months). i am grateful that school is over for the semester, that is for sure.

and i hoope (that shouldn't have 2 o's. see poiont 2 above. neither should that word) that there are more of these little post toasties forthcoming.

7 Comments:

At 4:48 PM , Blogger keely said...

people still read.
so write.

 
At 5:22 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

People also still pogo stick. I pogo sticked in the 8th grade for my "end of the year" "show and tell" "but don't show me that" event. I think it was a stint, even. I pogo'ed until I broke both my knees on the trashcan. I think Billy Prater pushed me into it. I still claim that. I also claim rumples. And bagman gambits.

 
At 10:55 PM , Blogger Unknown said...

thanks for sharing. hope to see you guys soon! :)

 
At 10:05 PM , Blogger sarah corbin said...

why are my messages not showing up????

 
At 1:09 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, you and your imprecatory psalms.

 
At 12:06 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are you going to wait another 5 months before writing again?!?

 
At 8:22 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, I get it....you only write once every 5 months. Ok....very cool.

 

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