Friday, January 16, 2004

 
I have felt so unmotivated to blog this quarter. It's not like my life isn't interesting or anything. My creativity has been dampened, it's suffocating. Where is my muse?

Here are those pictures that I promised:


Notice the glazed look on their faces, they're playing Smash Brothers 64


Rachel uses her claws to tear into Kyle...


This causes Kyle to snap like a twig and leave in a big huff.
Now I get to go watch LOTR 3!

L8ers

Unknown @ 9:57:00 PM

 
Laundry is seriously depressing me, I'm not going to go into details because it'll just make me more depressed about it but yeah. :P

In other news, I got two Frodo playing cards in the mail...yeah, turns out my brother bought them off of E-bay and didn't change the primary address so they got sent to me.

I took some funny pictures of my 3rd floor people playing Smash Bros. tonight, but too tired to put them up. Maybe tomorrow.

Will still be 4 chpts behind in Bio tomorrow.

Progress Report

And how are the rats doing in the maze?
The big fat one with the baggy pants
Appears confused. You shout.
You tell him to keep running.

A pretty girl's got him by the tail.
Now she's going to dissect him.
The instrument glitters and the beads
Of perspiration on her forehead.

The others are still in the maze
they study the stars, defecate,
Do the tango, make valentines,
Salute the general, wear mourning bands.

Her long fingers find no resistance,
Already she's got his heart open...
I don't know who this girl is?
Neither does he, the spellbound one.

--Charles Simic


I saw the movie "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton" with the TC group, it was good, cute, funny, some really obvious parts, and it was a whole different experience watching it with an auditorium full of my peers. Yup. That's about it.

I was looking through my saved .doc of this blog because I wanted to check and see if I had blogged this poem already or not, and I don't think so but it was really interesting briefly glancing through them. I'm going to enjoy reading them someday when I have the time.

Unknown @ 2:23:00 AM

 
I remember now why it's a good idea not to post a poem per day. It takes so much time to find decent ones. A lot of the poetry that I read mean nothing to me, nothing happens when I read it, it's so boring. Finding exciting, innovative new poetry is sometimes an elusive dream. Although, finding one particular special thing of anything per day is still hard on its own. One good picture per day? I have enough pictures on my screensaver to last a while, much like my collection of good poetry, but after a while, it becomes an actual activity, "Uh oh, time to go look for a new poem for the day." Anyway, posting a picture per day would be a much greater hassle than a poem, since I'd have to photoshop it, save it, FTP it, then finally img src it. I think I'll resort to poetry/picture/links or whatever more or less randomly from now on. And as for the image survey thing that's been up for practically a year or something, I've left it up there because people are actually still voting on it.

And this poem is a cool random snippit. The last line is cute.

-do poems feel naked without a title?-

How beautiful you are,
when viewed from a distance.
your teeth sparkle
like something sparkly.

Oh, to kiss your elbow
is to taste those tasty candies
with exciting little sugar granules
and a centre that bleeds di-hexide propalmanganate.

wash your hands then take mine
and we can go skipping.
i will pretend to fall,
so you can trip on my head
and read me romantic poetry in the hospital.

--Jason Grohan

Unknown @ 3:56:00 PM

 
Alright...after a long absence, I think I will try once again to post a poem a day. Mostly because I just really want to post this one poem by Elizabeth Browning. Blogs have so far been not so fulfilling I think because I have the cloud of updating my IV page with what happened over in East Asia hanging over my head. Once I get that over with, I think I'll feel a lot more freedom to blog about other stuff.


Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries,
And daub their natural faces unaware
More and more, from the first similitude.

--Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Aurora Leigh, Book Seven, lines 821-826


And this bring to mind this scripture that I've been paraphrasing several times in the last week or two. It's a long scripture quote, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 but one that I just see as so relevant and truly, it deals with the fact that yeah, the message of the Gospel is honestly ludicrous, but "For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe."--1 Cor 1:21
It's amazing and a miracle when someone who was lost, puts their trust and their faith which was given by God, into Jesus. And you know that the faith is from God, not only because it says so in the Bible, but because what they are believing in is so incredible, that nothing but the power of God could make it possible. So yeah, I recommend everyone read the passage, and if you don't have a Bible, download E-Sword, for free of course.

Unknown @ 5:33:00 PM