A song that speaks.

Not many songs create any kind of stirring deep down inside of me. I guess I don't look for meaning beyond the chords,lyrics and overall sound of them. However one of John Mayer's songs has really touched me to the core. This song made me realize that if I end up getting married in life (i certainly hope to) it's going to have to be someone who wants to go outside and do "outdoors-y/gronola-y" things like I do. There's no way I would be happy with a wifey that stayed home all the time whilst I wrote her 3x5 post cards of my adventures. I couldn't be happy always telling stories of my adventures, I would want a spouse to experience them with me.

So here's the song: 3x5 from his room for squares album. Read the lyrics and go listen to it.

I'm writing you to
catch you up on places I've been
And you have this letter
you probably got excited, but there's nothing else inside it
didn't have a camera by my side this time
hoping I would see the world through both my eyes
maybe I will tell you all about it when I'm
in the mood to lose my way with words
TODAY skies are painted colors of a cowboy cliche'
And its strange how clouds that look like mountains in the sky
are next to mountains anyway
Didn't have a camera by my side this time
Hoping I would see the world through both my eyes
Maybe I will tell you all about it when I'm
in the mood to lose my way
but let me say
You should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes
it brought me back to life
You'll be with me next time I go outside
NO more 3x5's
I Guess you had to be there
I Guess you had to be with me
Today I finally overcame
tryin' to fit the world inside a picture frame
Maybe I will tell you all about it when I'm in the mood to
lose my way but let me say
You should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes
it brought me back to life
You'll be with me next time I go outside
no more 3x5's
just no more 3x5's

for those of you who haven't been to the Ham in a while

http://blog.al.com/archiblog/2008/11/red_circle_makes_for_hue_cry.html

what the hell do we pay these people to do? spend $213,000 to paint a fucking street?!?!?!

AGU The Onion

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=46714374

funny clip

omg stats

did stats all day. at one point i was so frustrated with this one topic that i literally wrote WTF on my page of problems i was working.

skipping surgery tomorrow to study for physiology. it's unfortunate since last week i was allowed to scrub in so i could stand right next to the doctor so i could see the patients spine. oh well... such is life... 2 weeks until these post-bacs. are done.

PA School interview on Dec. 15th. In the process of getting my suit tailored. Apparently the sales woman at S&K didn't realize that me being a young and athletic dude, I needed an athletic cut suit. So i ended up with a suit that had lots of room for a gut. I'm getting all that taken out and hopefully will look nothing short of stunning for my interview! Haha jk :-P

Hard bein a god-fearin dude

So I went to a party a few weeks ago. I was asked by a very attractive young lady there what I what I was doing after the party. This wasn't just a casual hey let's go grab tea and crumpets kind of asking. I know the young lady and she's very attractive and some would probably think me silly for not responding with a quick "going to your place (this is what she was expecting)" but that's just not my style. Why is that not my style? Well for one I'm not the kind of guy that is looking to sleep around as much as possible (yes... we do in fact exist). What's more is that I declined the implied invitation because it goes against my catholic/moral upbringing. Did I say no because the bible says I should? No I said no because I believe in my faith and in the existence of a superior omnipotent being. I believe that declining said invitation is the only way to live my faith. I must say though, it is very difficult to say no to temptation when the fruits of following faith are not always apparent. The eternal life thing kinda sits on the back burner sometimes, very nondescript, and gets forgotten about as temptation sits in front of it holding up a sign that says "pick me".

I really don't know why I'm writing this.... I think I just needed to get the negative energy out.

confirmation

yep... i'm pretty sure i'm on that cyclic thing that does in fact happen to dudes. that whole man-period thing. little shit has been pissing me off and getting under my skin all day today (I doubt anyone has noticed because i usually do a pretty good job of keeping that shit on the DL). stuff that really shouldn't be bothering me. i get like this sometimes... angry/frustrated at the world for a few days every couple of months. then it passes... much like a black cloud comes to visit for in the afternoon in the summer. maybe this cloud will be gone by tomorrow. off to study stats.

Uncle Flow must be in town

In a bit of a mental funk. Everything is going well in life except for a few select items and I can't seem to focus on any of the positive stuff. Seems to be the human condition: almost everything is going well and we always find things to bitch about or be unhappy with. Maybe it's my man-period manifesting for it's once every 3 month visit. oh well... going to bed. Got a busy day tomorrow and won't have any time for wallowing.

Shits gonna piss me off every time i hear it

Watched "This Week" with George Stephanopolis. One of his guests said something that was absolutely rediculous albiet not unecpected.

It was a seemingly black woman (she had the kind of mixed skin tone where you can't tell if they are part black, hispanic, indian and i can't remember her name) but here's what she said:

"There are plenty of qualified people of color [for appointment to Obama's cabinet]".

There are so many things that go into picking cabinet advisors. Let's hope that color is not a big consideration.

You could take the present situation to the extreme through logic just to accentuate the ridiculousness of it.

Start with Obama being elected. Everyone is super ecstatic about it. Big deal because Obama is first black american elected to President's Office. Milestone because black people finally feel equal (as many have stated on video clips from election night) Now we get to picking cabinet/advisors. Statements made by some black professionals imply he should choose "colored" advisors. So they were excited and saying "finally a black president" and then the following week implying that a black president isn't enough... he needs to have "people of color" in his cabinet. What's next, we'll need to have people of color be the leaders of congress as well? Should every appointment based slot be filled with a person of "color" in order to make right the wrongs of the past? When does the color issue stop coming up? When can we stop talking about choices being made that don't have some people reverting back to the "color" issue?

Warning: White guy will use the N word in context. Freak out if you want.

So me sister was telling me about this person she heard about through a friend. This person said: "I hope obama does to white people what bush did to us!". It's a no brainer to guess what her ethnic persuasion is. This kind of statement reflects the kind of antiwhite bias that runs rampant in some of the black community. Just as some white people have spray painted "Nigger" all over shit as a result of obamas election. these kind of racist comments don't unite the country and it does create the rare occurence of feeling offended deep down inside of me. I don't understand comments like these being made by people who voted for Obama because his message is to bring the country back to center and fix a lot of problems. You can't do that be spewing devisive hate speech as some of his supporters are doing.

I understand comments like that from some white people 1) because mccain didn't win and 2) there's a lot of people that live in the sticks still growing up with racist parents. I understand the comments made by black people because they say all their lives they've grown up with people telling them they can't and with parents that have lived through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. I understand that race will ALWAYS be and issue at some level.

Some questions I'd like to ask racist black people: What did George Bush do to them? Is the economy related to this statement? (If so the economy also affected poor white people, of which I believe there are more poor white people than poor black people. It seems like a statistical thing although i have not researched it) Why is it ok to publicly wish for bad things to happen to white people just because they are white? Is it perceived that white people stick together to gang up on black people (as implied by the statement of getting back all white people for the actions of just one mr. bush) Why is it ok to talk about a white person as being a "white boy" in a rude and derogatory sense that seeks to exclude when I can't call them porch monkeys or niggers in the same rude/exclusive sense? (I don't think I'd ever call someone these; I'd resort to non racist cuss words if I felt ill about someone)

Some questions I'd like to ask racist white people: Why the fuck can't you get over yourself? You just don't understand how good a black president can be toward healing the racial issues between SOME white and black people do you (I say some because I don't feel like all white and black people have issues between them)? When did you choose to remain racist? (I've got a theory that racism is 1/2 indoctrination by parents/friends/family and 1/2 choice; in this regard the question would be appropriate to ask racist black people as well)

exactly the way i feel about politics

i lean conservative but i would say i straddle the line between liberal conservative and conservative moderate :-)

http://generationpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/11/building-moderate-identity-post.html

when it comes to some things...

some guys have all the luck...

Nablomo whatever

Went climbing today and have to freak out about a test on tuesday since i'm working tomorrow night.

thinking about the type of suit to wear to my interview... any suggestions?