4.30.2005
Live It
Think biblically...think biblically...think biblically. That's hard enough to do. But to live biblically...aaahhhhh...how I fail! How I long to be with the Lord...to not wage war against my sinful flesh any longer...I hate my sin, I do...yet not nearly enough.
posted by Bolo |
12:26 AM
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4.27.2005
Good Enough?
"God, you're not good enough for me." I told Boss that although I'd never voice that horrible thought with my lips, my heart and my actions do more than enough to communicate that to my Lord. Wow. Think about it. Isn't that what we communicate to God when we sin?
posted by Bolo |
4:41 AM
2 speakage
4.24.2005
Leakage
Do you hear that? It's the sound of my cranial cavity leaking cerebral fluid. Research papers do that to me ;)
posted by Bolo |
11:50 PM
0 speakage
4.23.2005
I'm Gandalf!
Dr. Wellum's syllabus said I need 8 sources for my Theology III research paper. I think I've got nearly 30...but I may need a few more. Seriously. It'll be fun writing this thing at the very least :) I can tell myself I'm being Gandalf-like in my research by pretending to scour the scrolls in Gondor's library, rifling through obscure texts in an attempt to pin down the identity of the One Ring!
Yeah...whatever gets me through the paper, right? :) (Hey, if Scott watches the movies while studying, I can pretend to live 'em out.)
posted by Bolo |
3:56 PM
0 speakage
4.22.2005
Where to Look?
I sat there in my car last night and contemplated the current state of things. My conclusion, after sifting through the crazy schedule, the research papers, and stress, was a sobering and humbling one, yet strangely sweet at the same time. I realized that I've become distracted. Distracted from what? Simple: the only thing that counts.
In various conversations since I've been here, I've often told people that I've felt at least somewhat removed from the "politics" that sucks most other students in. As much as I hate to admit it, that removal is less easy to maintain these days. It's a subtle deviation that causes my eyes to shift their focus from Christ and Christ alone to circumstance and all that life brings. In essence, I lose focus from that which is my fixed point, my goal, and I begin to live life according to all the tosses and turns that life brings.
The ancient Hawaiians used to traverse thousands of miles of open ocean to find tiny little dots of land in the middle of the Pacific. One of the techniques they employed in their navigational method was to use the stars as guidelines, because the stars were considered to be fixed points that would not move. They knew that if they did not have such a point, they would become tossed off course far too easily. Winds, swells, and currents would all conspire to confuse and drive them away from their proper course, and unless they had a fixed point which they could look to for constant guidance, they could find themselves needlessly reacting to every shift of wind, every large swell, and every current. Now, it's quite obvious that they could not always use the stars; in the day, such a technique was impossible, and even cloud cover at night would ruin their ploy. Yet, they still would check the stars at every opportunity, for the stars remained their fixed point, their guidance, their representative goal in the midst of all the turbulence the Pacific could conjure up and conspire to throw at them.
Right now, I feel as though I've forgotten to check my fixed point. Life at Boyce can often bring with it many distractions, neither of which I'll detail or enumerate, both for my sanity and for the sanctity of those involved ;) Suffice it to say that I've definitely felt the tosses and turns of life, and though I know they'll not go away, I know that there's only one solution to my supposed troubles: Jesus. He is my guidance, my fixed point. If I live for anything other than seeking Him and joyfully obeying Him, what do I live for? If I lessen the reasons and motivations I have for doing what I do by living by my own wisdom (heh...that's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one) rather than His, how could I possibly think that life would go well with me? *Sigh*...it's hard to remain focused right now, especially with the end of the school year quickly approaching. Summer decisions, papers, finals, paperwork...all loom with crushing demands. Yet, how will I deal with them? I'll look away...and turn to Christ. That's how I'll deal with life.
posted by Bolo |
12:38 PM
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4.20.2005
Out of the Frying Pan...
You'd think I'd be tired of typing. You'd think I'd have nothing left to write. You'd think I'd not care to write a post at four in the morning. Hah! Think again ;)
If there's one thing I'm learning all over again in the midst of the crazyzanylil'orphanannie week that this one is turning out to be, it's that it is a sin for me to procrastinate. Gah. The other day (whenever that was...can't really remember), I was telling Chip that I wish I were more task-oriented like Scott. Chip said that it was fine for me to be people-oriented, and that in the end, people were more important than tasks. Hmmm...strange...I don't really feel like that right now...but you know, he's probably right. It's just that I have to realize when the tasks must be done, and when people must be acknowledged. *Sigh*...right now is not the time for such contemplation...that'll come later, probably sometime next week, when the papers are done and all I have to worry about are...*gulp*...Finals.
posted by Bolo |
3:58 AM
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4.17.2005
Weak and Weary
I can't remember the last time I've felt this worn out. Well...if I think hard enough, I probably could...but I don't want to think about such things...too tiring. I was talking to Kim and Amanda yesterday, and Kim asked me how I'd been doing. I told her that if Jesus were to come back soon, very soon, I'd have no problem with that. I just wanted to crawl up into God's lap and lay there. I feel tired of fighting sin, tired of feeling sinful, tired of sinning. I come to loathe the things I must do and the ways I fail at doing them...over and over and over again. I hate the dissatisfaction I feel within my heart, as if God were not enough, as if He were not truly satisfying. Is He not the vine, the living water, the spring of all I long for? He is; yet I ignore Him. *Sigh*...I hate feeling so exhausted, and knowing that the season of exhaustion has not yet fully exhausted itself.
Amanda said that she was encouraged to hear me say that. She'd been reading something similar just the night before, about how it is proper for us to yearn for Christ, and how such yearning comes about from being weak and weary of our battles with the world. I thought to myself, this is encouraging? How ironic, then, that I feel as though I'm throwing around piles of dung everywhere I go, especially when asked how I'm doing.
I shouldn't be surprised by that, though. When I see someone I dearly respect tell me that they're hurting, suffering, and struggling in their sins, I am reminded that they are just as desperate for Christ as I am. What's more, I am struck at how much more like Christ they seem to me in their moments of weakness than I am by their moments of apparent strength. *Sigh*...I'm still exhausted, but if that exhaustion drives me all the more to grip the cross with every ounce of desperation I can muster, then I pray I become even more weak and weary before all is said and done :)
posted by Bolo |
1:03 PM
1 speakage
4.16.2005
Preview Weekend
One word: exhausted.
posted by Bolo |
12:30 AM
0 speakage
4.15.2005
Congrats, Andrew & Sandi!
Woooooohooooooo! Thanks for wearing the shirt, Andrew...I'm glad I was well represented :)
posted by Bolo |
4:38 PM
2 speakage
4.14.2005
The Concert
About 24 hours ago, I was lying down on Rob Smythe's bed. He was giving me a personal mini-concert, and I was sharing whatever was running through my head in between each song. It was a good time; we both communicated our hearts in the ways we're best equipped to do so. At one point, I told Smythe that he takes whatever he's been thinking about for a month and distills it down to several minutes of song, and that that song hits you hard. It's a good thing he does that, too, because otherwise I'd almost never figure out what he was really trying to say..."yeah...ummm...hmmm...well...the gospel...it...it's the gospel...and...well...yeah...don't forget...uhhh...we shouldn't forget it....yeah...hmmm."
Just kidding ;)
In all seriousness, I love Rob. He and I differ greatly. I just realized recently that he's about five years younger than me. He's younger than Malia. Malia! How's that for perspective? Anyway, I digress. There's a freshness to Rob that many people don't see. He's one of the most genuine people I know, but often times that gets lost in the shuffle, because he's definitely not smooth ;) That's no bash on him, either, 'cause he'd be the first one to say it. *Sigh*...Rob Smythe...like I said a while ago...I'll be one bitter person if I'm not around to see him fall in love...Andrew I could handle, 'cause I still got all the appropriate details. (In the eyes, buddy, in the eyes!!!) But Rob? Yeah...uhhh...yeah...
posted by Bolo |
11:52 PM
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Sanity
This is a random tidbit: during my Math (yes, Math...ugh) test on Monday night, one of my teeth got chipped and a good portion of it fell out. Hmmm...the incisor? I think so. It's the vampire tooth on the left side. Anyway, only part of it fell out, and the rest of it looks stuck in there like some nasty piece of reef.
'Nuff of that :)
Eeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaarly this morning, I came home to see Mon on the couch, watching the Home & Garden channel. I knew we'd end up talking for a bit; I didn't quite think we'd end up talking for over an hour and a half. No biggie, though, 'cause I don't often get to talk to my sister, and so any time we get to catch up, it's always good for us. We talked about the youth group at my church, the Galatians study I'm doing with the youth (it's going well...they're asking TONS of questions...Gary, I can hear you saying, "no such thing as bad student, only bad teacher"...hehehe), the Student Leadership interview I had yestermorn, our niece(s?) and nephews, the conversation I'd had with Rob just an hour or two prior, missing home (yeah...it's hard for all of us...*sigh*), their adoption process, and life in general. As difficult as it's been at times, I realize that my time here would be much harder without Dave and Mon. At this point, I think it's safe to say that they're not as key to my sanity and survival as they once were; that doesn't diminish the blessing that they are to me. Even now, to be able to talk to Mon in the wee hours of the morning helps keep me grounded. Out of everyone here, she's the only one who truly understands what it's like to miss home the way I do...the way we do.
posted by Bolo |
11:57 AM
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4.13.2005
Interview Intrigue
I had my Student Leadership interview this morning. I think it went well; I hope it went well. Even if it didn't, I've come to realize at least one important thing throughout all of this: one of the ways this school year has contrasted from the last one is the manner in which my relationships have grown and deepened. Last year, I got to know a lot of different guys, and in some of those relationships, there was formed a certain depth that I leaned heavily upon. This year, those relationships have deepened to an even greater extent, and I only see that trend continuing. This year, however, I've found that I didn't really get to know a lot of new guys. That's not to say that I didn't meet new people; that theory would get shot down in a heartbeat were it revealed to public scrutiny. What I mean when I say that is that I don't feel like I was able to reach out and really care for others the way that I think I could have.
Now, whether or not I ought to have reached out more, or even if that would have been possible given my life's circumstances, is open to debate. I won't address that now. What I will address is the notion that I wouldn't want that to be the same next year. That's one thing I told the interviewers for Student Leadership. One phrase in Scripture that continues to cajole and convict my soul is what Paul says in Romans 12: "Let love be without hypocrisy." Do I truly love my brethren? Am I loving them for Christ's sake, with Christ's love, through Christ's strength? Do I constantly point them away from me, instead having them gaze into the glorious beauty and scathing scandal of the cross of Christ? Do I desire for them to fall more and more and more in love with our Savior, and in doing so desire for His kingdom work to be fulfilled in their lives?
I don't know the answers to those questions. I don't know whether or not I'll be here in a year, or even in a month (relax, that was just my little nod toward God's sovereignty, not any hint that I'll be going anywhere...believe me, I'm on pace to graduate from here in 20**...no telling what will happen between then and now), so only time will reveal what God's will has already planned out. Hmmm...yeah...I guess the curiosity that grips me now is how I'll be looking back upon this upcoming school year in a year's time...ya know? Will I love without hypocrisy? Pray that I do.
posted by Bolo |
12:25 PM
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4.12.2005
Discus!
An observation: 3 on 3 frisbee played on a field that can hold a game of 8 on 8 frisbee is really fun when everyone that's playing is considered to be a good player. You get really tired, but who cares? Scott does...poor guy...hey, my next score is for you, Mr. President :)
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11:55 PM
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4.11.2005
Sad
I'm silly. I just realized something. Brian's leaving, and I won't be there to see him leave. He said that every time he eats at Gina's, every time he and Uch hit up Sushi King for a late nighter, every time he walks to his car in an empty Ala Moana parking lot after work...he thinks about how many more times he'll do those things...not many. The thing is, I'm not there with him to enjoy the last vestiges of life at home. Japan is just a few months away, but the immensity of the task before him makes it all loom like the nothing else in his life ever has. Several months ago, when he drove away from the airport after he dropped me off, it didn't even cross my mind that it might be a really long time before I saw him again. *Sigh*...I wish I could pull another one over his head by not telling him I'm coming home in the summer...what a bummer...I can't :(
Talking to Brian just now only heightened the awareness of how deeply our lives arer changing. After talking to Andrew earlier this evening, I was thinking a lot about how much we've each meandered along our respective paths in life, sharing what we could, yet knowing that God could take us apart at a moment's notice. And my, how He has. The reality of God's gracious hand directing our lives in separate directions and yet greater distances has not caused bitterness; quite the contrary, it's caused gratefulness! The same grace that has guided each of our lives down separate paths has allowed us to still remain intertwined in a way I can't quite explain. As I talked to those two monkeys earlier (hey Sandi, if you get a monkey some day, can I help name him?), I thought about how insane it is that we are where we are, and that we're going where we're going. Wow. Who'dathunkit?
Hmmm...that five-year plan...hmmmmmmmmmm...
posted by Bolo |
2:40 AM
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No Comment
Taken from Wired's Furthermore archive.
Princess Bride
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles were married Saturday in a civil ceremony at the 17th century Guildhall, and the marriage was then blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Their decades-long affair endured the prince's first marriage to Princess Diana and constant tabloid scrutiny. Charles and Camilla confessed "manifold sins and wickedness" -- words from the Book of Common Prayer -- and pledged to be faithful in their marriage. Camilla is now Princess of Wales, but because of public sentiment for Diana, she will be called the Duchess of Cornwall. When Charles takes the throne, Camilla will be queen, but opinion polls show 70 percent of the population is opposed to "Queen Camilla" so she will be known as "Princess Consort."
- Associated Press
posted by Bolo |
12:45 AM
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Excerpt
The following excerpt was taken from a journal entry I wrote earlier today. Er, yesterday. Whatever.
Your nearness, Lord, is indeed my only good. In my mind, I lay at the foot of the cross, embracing it with a desperation that only comes from those to whom You graciously reveal Yourself. I see the depths of my sinful heart, knowing that my gaze cannot pierce its black gloom. I see Your brilliant, shining glory, knowing that I cannot long gaze upon its surpassing beauty and strength; I do not yet have the capacity to do so. As I ponder the wonder of the cross, the only thing I can seem to do is to hold on to the truth that in Christ, the depths of my sinful heart are not only pierced by the surpassing glory of the Son, they were also claimed by Him and were made and are being made Holy. That is the power of the wrathful, merciful cross I embrace.
posted by Bolo |
12:25 AM
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4.10.2005
Word
Psalm 119:57, 58
The Lord is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words. I sought Your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your word.
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
1 Samuel 2:7 - 10
"The Lord makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts. He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with nobles, and inherit a seat of honor; for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and He set the world on them. He keeps the feet of His godly ones, but the wicked ones are silenced in darkness; for not by might will a man prevail. Those who contend with the Lord will be shattered; against them He will thunder in the heavens, the Lord will judge the ends of the earth; and He will give strength to His king, and will exalt the horn of His anointed."
Psalm 73:21 - 28
When my heart was embittered and I was pierced withim, then I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand. With Your counsel You will guide me, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strneght of my heart and my portion forever. For, behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You. But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works.
Mark 8:34 - 38
And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."
Amos 5:8, 9
He who made the Pleiades and Orion and changes deep darkness into morning, who also darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is His name. It is He who flashes forth with destruction upon the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
Hosea 11:8
"How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, all My compassions are kindled."
Psalm 92:12 - 15
The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green, to declare that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
Hebrews 12:3 - 7
For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him; for those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives." It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with Sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Nehemiah 8:8 - 12
They read from the book, from the law of God, explaning to give the sense so that they understood the meaning. Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the law. Then he said ot them, "Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved." All the people went away to eat, to drink, to send portions and to celebrate a great festival, because they understood the words which had been made known to them.
Psalm 34:8, 9
O taste and see that the Lord is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! O fear the Lord, you His saints; for to those who fear Him there is no want.
Revelation 5:11 - 14
Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing." And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under teh earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever." And the four living creatures kept saying, "Amen." And the elders fell down and worshiped.
posted by Bolo |
1:17 PM
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4.09.2005
Position
The Christian life is learning to live out practically what we are positionally in Christ. That's what Brent Thomas said (or close to it). I like that a lot :)
posted by Bolo |
12:32 PM
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4.08.2005
Not Separate
Yesterday, Mike and I discussed how we go about dealing with the various frustrations that are particular to our educational institution's campus. To be more precise, we discussed the various frustrations that we feel are particular to our educational institution's campus. At one point in our discussion, he asked me how I can really see myself on this campus. The question came about because...well...quite frankly, I don't fit.
My response was one that was immediate. The answer to that question has been one that has guided me throughout the entirety of my experience here. In all honesty, it's guided me for the past five and a half years of my life, and I doubt that outlook will change very much over the rest of my life. It comes down to something simple: joyful obedience. I told Mike that no matter what circumstances come into my life to try and redirect my course, I've got to strive to obey the Lord. That doesn't change if I'm in a place I'd rather not be; the circumstances do not outweigh the command to be obedient and walk in righteousness. Furthermore, I cannot see how I could justify separating obedience from joy; the very command to obey is one that is rooted in joy (look at the entirety of Scripture...it's there, no doubt about it).
On a less happy note, I've got a toothache, a sore neck/shoulder, and a slight lack of sleep because of the two. I get to work eleven hours tonight, and then try to sleep for a few before going in again at 11 tomorrow morning. Hmmm...joyful obedience, right? Right!
posted by Bolo |
12:04 PM
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4.07.2005
Quotable
An evening of coffee with Darren always produces an interesting quote or two. Those quotes become particularly bad when I've got a pen and a piece of paper handy ;)
Him: "The girls I'm most attracted to are always a lot like me."
Me: "Hairy in the face and chest?"
posted by Bolo |
1:27 AM
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4.06.2005
Sacrifice
Psalm 51:14 - 17
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; then my tongue will joyfuly sing of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may declare Your praise. For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken spirit and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
David is crying out, pleading with the Lord to cleanse him from his sin, David's infamous sin with Bathsheba. The sinful ordeal was one that Nathan had exposed after David himself had tried to hide his adultery with murder; not exactly the monarch's most shining moment. Today, as I thought about my own sin, I saw in verse 17 something that struck a nerve: a broken spirit and a contrite heart are the things that God desires, the sacrifices that God desires. Yet, how can I offer up to the Lord a broken spirit and a contrite heart? I mean, really...how can I offer such things up to Him in such a way that they would please Him?
In the very first verse of the psalm, David asks of the Lord to blot out his transgressions, "according to the greatness of Your compassion." How great is the Lord's compassion? We who live on this side of the cross know that His greatness extends even to the death of Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
What spirit was broken more than Christ's? What heart was more contrite (in the sense of awareness of sin and the hatred of it) than Christ's? None. We, in and of ourselves, cannot offer up to the Lord spirits of brokenness and hearts of contrition that He would delight in; rather, we do so not only through Christ, but we do so in the manner of Christ's work that reached its apex upon the cross, where He was broken and bore our sins for us. The only sacrifice that would truly please the Father was the sacrifice of His own Son, and any other sacrifice prior to Christ would only serve to further highlight the surpassing sufficiency of Christ's excellence and glory as the Lion and the Lamb. It is in Christ that we are delivered from bloodguiltiness, in Christ that we sing joyfully of God's righteousness, in Christ that see the greatness of God's compassion, in Christ that our spirits are truly broken and our hearts are truly made aware of our sins to the point of contrition.
What a sacrifice, indeed!
posted by Bolo |
11:34 PM
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4.05.2005
Note to The Boys
Uch, Boss, Kev: call me.
Scott: Letter has been delivered, and Shipley now bears the goods. Just picture Alistair Begg saying, "Two-Timothy."
posted by Bolo |
2:50 AM
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Manners
I've an inquiry, one that requires some of you to actually post some commentary, if you actually have any thoughts that are generated by the said inquiry. In short, it's this: what does it look like when we live our lives in a manner worthy of the calling with which we've been called? Paul says this in his epistles at various times and in various manners, and it's something that's been on my mind for the past several days. Am I living my life in such a manner? Is my life reflecting my Savior's death and resurrection? If it isn't, what must I do to make it so?
For those of you who truly know me, feel free to comment away. Even if you don't truly know me, feel free to comment; as of late, I've felt a deep need to be more open and honest with myself and with my sin, and if someone has any sort of helpful insight, I'll be more than happy to embrace it. I suppose you could say my inquiry is twofold, since I'm trying to see how life ought to be lived in Christ, and how my life matches up to that standard. I suppose you could consider it a healthy sort of self-examination...in a sort of public way :)
posted by Bolo |
1:44 AM
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4.04.2005
*Drool*
Macromedia's Studio MX2004 with Flash Professional is considered to be software that approaches the four-figure range in price. Thanks to eBay, however, yours truly managed to get the whole shebang for a pittance: fifty dollars. Talk about fun!
posted by Bolo |
2:03 AM
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Linkage
I want one. At the very least, it'd scare the chickens out of Kawamura :) Don't you agree, Andrew? It'd definitely be more realistic than any drawings (aaahhhh, memories!) we could come up with.
Whoa. Seriously...whoa.
I slept through Chemistry in high school. You think I'm joking, don't you? (Hey, for those of you who don't...ssshhh!)
When you're down and feeling like nothing's going right, take your frustrations out on...Gonzo :)
posted by Bolo |
12:08 AM
1 speakage
4.03.2005
Query
This is going to sound very random, but does anyone know of a cheap way to obtain Macromedia's Studio MX 2004 or near-equivalent? I've looked on eBay and I know I qualify for a student purchase directly from Macromedia, but I figure asking around for a cheaper means can't hurt. If anyone knows anything...lemme know.
posted by Bolo |
10:08 PM
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Note to Self
John: your cell phone does not automatically adjust with Daylight Savings Time the same way it does when you're driving and switch time zones. You must turn off your phone and then turn it back on again in order for the time change to take effect. This is an especially good thing to remember when your cell phone serves as your only alarm clock, and you must set your clock forward (which causes you to lose an hour of sleep, unless you oversleep, which would then cause you to be late for church and work). Why this note to yourself, John? Think back to this morning. Think back to Monica knocking on your door. Think back to your explanation that your cell phone should have adjusted to the new time automatically. Think back to your realization that your cell phone did not do so.
Oh yeah.
posted by Bolo |
12:59 PM
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4.01.2005
Linkage
*Gulp*.
Top 100.
No, this won't work on me, but you're welcome to try ;)
posted by Bolo |
8:24 PM
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Sprain Pain
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. After five hours and a bunch of rounds, all I can say is...well...ouch.
Spring Reading Days, for all intents and purposes, has arrived. What's on tap for the first days of Reading Days? Well...with the aforementioned ankle/eggplant-colored joint now being a prime factor in calculating the festivities, I'm thinking that I'll soon be in bed, with my foot raised high, no doubt feeling somewhat like a Dufflepud from Clive Staples' Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Once done with my restive, unfestive state, perhaps I shall embark upon something I've not done in a while, like finish up Hamlet or initiate another jolly jaunt through Clive Staples' crony's The Lord of the Rings, which I'm well overdue for. So yes...reading...eating...those are undoubtedly inevitable for the initial stages of my Reading Days. As for next week? We shall see...yes, we shall see :)
posted by Bolo |
7:01 AM
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So yeah...I just found out I'm going to be headed to Canada (Toronto) for part of Spring Reading Days. (Other than Scott O'Neal, who really reads, ya know? Well, not even Scott will read too much, methinks...but that's something else entirely.) It was one of those last minute crazy things that rarely happens but is very cool when it does. *Shrug*...more on this later, I promise :)
On a slightly sillier note, the solution to the Problem I faced today was a simple one in the end: I didn't choose a hall to play for, and instead stayed an unbiased referee for the duration of the tournament. I'm glad I did; Daniel (the other referee I had recruited to help me) and I both agreed that the level of play...uhhh...was...ummm...less than stellar...if you want to call it that...yeah, less than stellar :) I must say, however, that watching the girls "play" was almost as fun as listening to them shriek during their "play." Brooke's hall, in particular, provided a great deal of entertainment :) Although they didn't win, they definitely got the Spirit Award from yours truly. That, or the number for Kahi Mohala...*cough*.
As for the rest of the day's happenings, I realized again that my body is not as...uhhhh..."youthful" as it once was. My ankle is sprained, and being that it just happened on the way to work (don't ask how...please...well, you can ask, but don't expect an answer), I'm not sure how bad it is. Ankle sprains are like that; you can never really tell how bad they are until the next day. We'll see, though, 'cause I gotta do a bunch of rounds tonight, and so I won't have a chance to really rest it until I get home in the morning. Ugh. Paaaaaiiiiiiiiin!!!
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I've got a brother and five sisters. The irony in that? I've
got five nephews and two nieces.
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"I don't know what that means, but because I'm a Mac owner, I do it."
-Ryan Szrama
"I'm trying to be regenerate."
-Ivy Warriner
"Pink is pink. Peach is not pink."
-Janet McClurg, in response to her color-changing husband
"How many dumps did I have to take today? I took a lot of dumps today."
-John Michael LaRue, talking about ultimate
"I hired a campaign manager to win the Servant Towel award. People
like that don't deserve to win it."
-Michael Butterworth
"I don't think I could quite drop the "Mohler" no matter how many
marriages I go through."
-Katie Mohler
"However, in hindsight, I think it might have been better to have told
him in front of John MacArthur, so that dad would just say, 'Grace to
you.'"
-Katie Mohler, on the spillage of the beanage concerning a little
incident which we do not name
"He told me, 'Look, we won't be remembering this at your thirtieth
wedding anniversary. And yes, I'll be around then. I'll be ninety,
but I'll be around.' And I said, 'Are you telling me I won't get
married for twelve more years?'"
-Katie Mohler, on conversing with her father
"So basically, his name is Big Joe Danka."
-Aaron Ruszkiewicz, on little Magnus' naming
"Ok, he walks loudly."
-Katie Mohler, on how exactly her father "runs"
"Of course I start to breathe after somebody passed gas."
-Ryan Szrama
"I have a way with old women."
-Josh Reid
"Jeesh just told a story about being hit on by an old lady."
-Adam "Moon Pie" Godfrey
"It wasn't sweet, it was creepy."
-Michael McCollum, on why the Sunergos Sweet 'Stache Discount wasn't
given
"I'm like a fountain of wit...or the fertilizer of said fountain."
-Katie Mohler
"Holy crap...we lost 99 - 48 in the season opener? I see they stopped
worrying about updating the score list."
-Ryan Szrama, commenting on his alma mater's basketball team
"What can go wrong on Appreciate a Dragon Day?"
-Lori Wanman
"Do you enjoy making people feel retarded? You behave like that is
your job in life."
-Jessica Cimato
"Stephen sounds so smart when he's on the phone; what happens when he hangs up?"
-Peter Sieg
"Well, I've got a lot of Facebook friend requests."
-Andy McClurg, responding to an inquiry on how his first three months
of pastoring at IBC have been
"If you were mooned while you were marooned, you would be a mooned
marooned Moon."
-Michael Jenkins
"Can we call you 'Special Dark'?"
-Stephen Mobley
"Extra-skinny h2o, half-steam half-ice, no whip."
-Me, on how to order water at Starbucks
"It's you to an unsanctified T."
-Adam "Moon Pie" Godfrey
"It's like a workout, having a conversation with you."
-Adam "Moon Pie" Godfrey
"I shot the French Press..."
-Ben Hedrick, sung to the tune of I Shot the Sheriff
"Hey, thrower thrower thrower...hey, thrower thrower thrower...huck
thrower, huck! Huck thrower huck!"
-Off White
"Well, you're her boss, and she's your...your...your whatever!"
-Anonymous, talking to a guy about his girlfriend
"It's hard to fill a gas tank on the shoulder of the interstate in
4-inch heels while someone is mocking you with a camera, but that's
what happens when you don't think the gas gauge 'really means it
yet.'"
-Catherine Huffman
"It's been a while since I took Geometry. It's been even longer since
you took Geometry."
-Peter Sieg, to me
"You know what else is strange? Looking at a total stranger who looks
totally familiar, then comparing life stories only to realize that
you are the only common link. It was six degrees of John
Letoto, and it was hilariously awkward. I think it's fair to say we
both blame your camera."
-Catherine Huffman
"You're going to die soon, anyway."
-Rob Smythe, to Dr. Betts on Dr. Betts' birthday
"I'll be away from my desk, invoking a John Maneuver."
-Stephen Mobley
"It's likely but unlikely."
-Ben Hedrick
"There are limits on what I will forge for you, Mr. Letoto."
-Jessica Vaughn
"The three worst words in the English language: 'As a brother.'"
-Pablo Butterworth, discussing...well...duh
"Well, it's not 'earlier' now, is it?"
-Ben Hedrick
"It's her boyfriend's car, actually. I'm a creep, aren't I?"
-Anonymous male visiting from Hendersonville, when asked, "You know
what car she drives?"
"High-fructose corn syrup, here I come!"
-Josh Reid
"Man, she's finer than a frog hair!"
-Josh Reid
"I forgot 'go' starts with a 'g.'"
-Heather Seagle
"Where's my phone?"
-Christin Simpson, while talking to me...on her phone
"Aaahhh, the wisdom five sisters impart...I still get my kicks, but I
don't get kicked."
-Me
"Yup. I get all dressed up to go to the grocery store or City Hall or
whatever. It's kinda funny. If I'd done that during seminary I'd
probably be married to a preacher-boy right now. Whew! That was a
close call!"
-Dana W
"I don't want to see this on your blog."
-Ryan Fullerton
"John's a little coffee press, strong and brown. Here is his handle,
here is his frown."
-Ben Hedrick
"Oh shutup, voicemail person!"
-Stephen Mobley
" 'P' as in 'purgatory.' "
-Stephen Mobley, while on a sales call
"You didn't make her cry, she chose to cry."
-Stephen Mobley
"Being older and still single makes you more single...more single than
say, Katie Mohler."
-Johanna Tollefson
"You just called me a chunker!"
-Christin Simpson
"We're talking about logic and about the law of non-contradiction in
Worldviews, and I'm pretty sure there's a law that says, 'If there's
food being given away, and Letoto is present, then Letoto is eating.'
"
-Peter Sieg
"My hips don't move; I'm a Baptist."
-Christin Simpson
"How do you end a call like that? 'Your cow's dead, call the paddywagon.' "
-Christin Simpson
"Yeah, the pee phrase kept coming out of order...something about how
he peed in worship, it confused me."
-Katie Mohler
"Yes, I'm precious and all that."
-Katie Mohler, on paternal emotions mixing with her college enrollment
"Do you have a numerical number for that?"
-Stephen Mobley
"I like how we just had an extended conversation about Ryan's
buttocks. Actually, I don't really like that."
-Peter Sieg
"That's Hawaiian Harassment, and I don't have to stand for it."
-Stephen Mobley
"Shipping will be extra to Hawai'i, Alaska, or any of the other
non-contiguous U.S. states."
-Stephen Mobley
"In some northern countries, they can use their watches to tell the time."
-Christin Simpson
"They never know whether to come out the front or the back."
-Jackson B. Riddle, on zits forming in his earlobes
"I think Letoto needs to start calling Ben, 'Sugar'."
-Andy Lowe
"Could you translate that out of Letototian?"
-Lauren Farmer
"Tell me if Taryn's had any reading-books-about-boys-with-muscles
moments lately."
-Me
"I will be back Tuesday, I'm looking forward to my spanking."
-Michael Butterworth
"She was bigger, so she was able to do stuff. No, she wasn't
big-boned, she was Hispanic."
-Ryan Szrama
"More liquid in your system makes the boogers come out faster."
-Allison Poplin
"Mmm, Chapstick!"
-Allison Poplin
"It's like my car was trying to do a yoga pose...my car was doing a
headstand in a ditch."
-Christin Simpson
"The first step is admitting you have a problem; the first step is
admitting I'm a stupid haole."
-Christine Robertson
"I said 'teached,' man!"
-Christin Simpson
"I'm wondering how lucrative my five-star hotel will be on Mount Doom."
-Pablo Butterworth, at the beginning of a game of LotR Monopoly
"Oh! I didn't know you could get boils there!"
-Thomas Amos
"Actually, what I was thinking was, 'I wish Tina Crouse was a couple
years older.' "
-Anonymous
"He's already got a girl. It ain't like she can't see he's fat!"
-Me
"Yes, Christopher, God will even raise you from the dung of a polar bear."
-Dr. Mohler
"I've got fans all over."
-Lauren Farmer
"I'm having my own personal hot flash right now."
-Bobby House
"Toto - The Kermit analogy fails because in this picture Kermit is
actually with a woman!"
-Dave Theobald, on why I couldn't be Kermit the Frog
"Taryn Walker, Sarah Alliett, and one more big one I can't think of."
-Pablo Butterworth
"I mean are people thinking it'll up their chances of winning the
Servant Towel award by taking me or something?"
-Lauren Farmer, on the Spring Banquet
"I'm not a liar...I just bend the truth without realizing it, that's all."
-Christin Simpson
"The mint is just a vehicle for the chocolate."
-Emily O'Neal, on mint chocolate-chip ice cream
"Oh, my arm pits are sweaty! They're sticky, and I don't like it at all!"
-Amanda Ledbetter
"I've been married for five years, and I think the gospel's way easier
to understand."
-Dr. Joslin, on women
"One girl, six locations. That means she's either got a really active
social life, or she's just fat."
-Richard B. Hardison
"You know what the worst game to play with my family is? Monopoly.
Try getting a whole bunch of Jewish people together and see how that
turns out."
-Jon "Jew" Borofsky
"Are you dressing Katie Mohler?"
-R. Lauren Duncan
"They asked you if you needed a nudge after they jostled you?"
-Andrew
"I get my vocabulary words from the President's speeches."
-Michael Butterworth
"I really like the smell of gasoline."
-Katie Mohler
"You know what I can't understand? People who come here to work out
and take the elevator."
-Bobby House
"But if there was no Jesus, we would worship you."
-Nick Crouse
"Gomez, you're Hispanic?"
-Matt Svoboda
"'Shocking the glutes?' Did I just say something about his butt?"
-Lauren Farmer
"You know the party's gone south when you start singing Twila Paris on Karaoke."
-Moon Pie Godfrey
"It smells like armpit, it tastes like armpit, it is so gross!"
-Lauren Farmer
"I've had the passion, I just need the purity."
-Emily Dick
"I'm going to get ready and ask my wife, 'Do I look all right?
Letoto's going to be there!'"
-Warren Kesselring
"I wake up each morning and think, 'What would Letoto wear?' and I put
on lots of flannel."
-Ricky Hardison
"You're a collector's item. Why would they want to get rid of you?"
-Sarah Cress
"So for me, once they're out of the minor stage I can go for the young ones."
-Christin Simpson
"I pulled an SBTS and used a bunch of your pictures without
asking...only it was on our blog, not a magazine. Thanks."
-Emily O'Neal
"I just wish I would have peed, I wish I would have, just that one time."
-Taryn Walker
"You and Rev on recruiting trips? I like that tactic; it's going to
bring pretty, single girls to Boyce College."
-Michael Butterworth
"Little-known fact: clean boogers are actually white."
-Cole Harper
"I keep forgetting your hand is there. I'm like, 'Hello!'"
-Emily Dick
"I have boyish charm. Just 'cause I'm hairy doesn't mean I don't have
boyish charm."
-Jeff Pearson
"If anyone ever thinks about buying a leather jacket from Wal-Mart,
it's a bad idea."
-David Borreson
"Oh no. I just remembered I didn't flush their toilet this morning!"
-Chriyus Davis
"When she was pushing, and I saw the head coming out, I thought to
myself, 'It'll be a miracle if she ever walks again.' "
-Chriyus Davis
"What's your type, Hawaiian? 'Cause it could be a while around here."
-Lauren Farmer
"I was trying to remember: did I forget, or did I never know?"
-Andrew, talking about his father's birthday.
"What do you mean we're going to be a big bump on the skin?"
-Naomi, after Gary told her she was going to grow up warped, and she
went to look up what he meant
"Stop flashing everyone!"
-Carla
"I didn't know I was going to see everything!"
-Carla, on being in the birthing room during a birth
"Which would suck!"
-Aaron Montgomery, in reply to my comment about his being in
heaven...before his marriage
"Have you heard about that new detergent for blacks?"
-Alison Ostrander, meaning black clothes
"I just realized how incredibly bad it looked that I knew there was a
good tree to climb by Mullins."
-Michael Butterworth
"You know what I want to see you pull off? A jacket with boardshorts."
-Scott O'Neal
"It seemed like it was something that wasn't widely understood. Or
maybe that was just because I was talking to Sean Malinger."
-Andrew
"And I didn't get stuck out the window, I was trying to see the stars!"
-Emily Dick
"Is Scott the white-haired guy?"
-Brandon Stern
"The only thing that's running through my head right now is that I
really hope I don't fart."
-Kristy White
"Ok, I found my date. I call that mannequin."
-Katy Cavaliere
"I have those socks! But they don't go that high up on my legs."
-Andrew "Stretch" Holley
"And I wasn't eating ice cream, either. Don't tell her that."
-Scott O'Neal
"I would love to play with Rob Smythe because I would feel so smart."
-Emily O'Neal, on playing Taboo
"I had someone ask me, in class, in front of a whole bunch of people,
why I wasn't married."
-Christine Robertson
"Let me rephrase that: A woman with a big ol' 'fro, not a big ol'
woman with a 'fro."
-Chriyus Davis
"Let's talk about you sweating in the shape of a heart. I think
that's romantic."
-Lauren Farmer
"We're sharing lunch now, and this is after your sweaty romantic activity."
-Lauren Farmer
"Huh...wow...well, it does bring to mind that sermon Dr. York preached
toward the beginning of the semester, and in a not-so-abstract sense,
you may have hit the skin on the head."
-Me, to Matt Teves
"Mmmmmmmmm, good morning, David Beckham!"
-Kat Foxworth, to a picture on a wall in her hall...every morning
"Who needs coffee in the morning when you've got David Beckham to wake
you up, right? Just like coffee, he's strong and hot."
-Me...to a flustered but nodding Kat
"Who's the brown one?"
-Emily O'Neal, when looking at a picture and forgetting a certain
brown friend was at her family's house in Columbus
"A world where John Letoto is embarrassed and doesn't know what to say
or do is not a world I want to live in."
-Michael Butterworth
"Abby marches to the beat of her own flute."
-Scott O'Neal
"I love ultimate frisbee, it's my favorite of all the games. If I
could, I would marry it, and I would be Mrs. Jennifer Frisbee."
-Jennifer Miller
"What's a 'good game'?"
-Katie Mohler
"Do you know what I used to do with this stuff when I was little? I
used to give myself french manicures with it."
-R. Lauren Duncan, while holding up a bottle of Liquid Paper
"It's a good thing my kids aren't gonna have tails."
-Trey Fuller
"How do you think that small?"
-Karis Land, when she saw my handwriting
"I like to curl up in the bathroom."
-Pablo Butterworth
"I love the alphabet song, it's a universal song. Well, I guess it's
not a universal song, it's in a different language."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"We're not dumb, we're secretaries at Boyce College!"
-A.D.
"I'm full and I'm dripping out all over the place."
-Dr. Ewart, during a dorm meeting message
"Sounds like a bladder control problem."
-Heidi Marlene Johnson, in response to Dr. Ewart's statement during
dorm meeting
"Do girls just walk up to you and give you food?"
-Sharon Rivers, while I was munching on some monkey bread from Casey
Cashell
"So he slept with me. It was kind of awkward."
-R. Lauren Duncan, about...something
"Dude! When we were talking, she wasn't looking...she was gazing!"
-Boss
"When it's just people being married, you can kind of dismiss it, but
when there are babies growing inside of people...well that's just a
different matter altogether."
-Scott O'Neal
"That's too much chocolate for you!"
-Bobby House III
"Dude, there's a lot of white people up here."
-Kawika, on being in Indiana
"This is great, I don't fall asleep here! There's just so much to grasp."
-Sandi, on the sermons at their church
"I miss you. Especially when I see a badly-dressed male."
-Heidi Marlene Johnson
"Actually, Kason may be following in your footsteps. Last night he
had a thing tied around his head and went to sleep with it. You know,
that ninja look."
-Lisa, to me
"You can't get hurt tonight, you're the only muscle we've got!"
-A certain manager at a certain store
"He's not the only guy, we have Alex. No, wait, Alex doesn't count.
You're right, he is the only guy we've got."
-A certain coworker at a certain store.
"She's the manliest girl I know."
-Christina Thompson
"Now this is no knock on Ryan, but you're a much better looking guy
than he is, and if he can get a girl, so can you. In fact, you're
better looking than most of the guys here."
-Nathan Fulllerton
"Hey, she's a minority, you can marry her...you can make slanty-eyed
kids together."
-Scott O'Neal
"How's the Letoto fan club going? You must have more fans now that
Uch is off the market."
-Goose
"It was the hottest thing I've ever touched...it was as hot as the sun!"
-Robbie Byrd, explaining why he dropped a plate
"I just told Goose...the code word for 'gameover'...'Monopoly Man!'"
-Me, to Leonard, during a conversation about their new endeavor to
take over the airsoft world
"You can take the John out of Government Service, but you can't get
Government Service out of John."
-Goose
"Michelle and I have decided to renew your friendship for the next 12 months."
-Goose
"Use the phlegm, John, use the phlegm!"
-Boss
"How do I join the 'Poked by John Letoto' club? I don't even go to
SBTS, and I'm plagued by the Totopokes."
-Jeff Cavanaugh
"Yeah. But you're a sophisticated jerk."
-Kev, in response to my telling him that I'm a jerk
"I thought about you the other day when I was organizing my shoes. No joke."
-Joel Gasparotto, to me
"No. But several kids."
-Anonymous, in response to the question, "Does...have a love interest?"
"I'm glad it's been a year since I stepped into your life and all
sorts of craziness ensued. Wait. That didn't sound right..."
-Me
"I think these are unthawed."
-Scott Bidwell, commenting on the uncooked chicken
"You mean frozen?"
-Matt Crawford, in response to Scott
"Is Bert holding up his underwear?!?!?!"
-Brent Gambrell, when Bert had washed off in the lake to get the mud
out of his...underthings...since the mud was placed there by a certain
Hawaiian
"He's the closest thing to Black I got here!"
-Trent Davis, a Cedarmore camper, commenting on how a certain Hawaiian
was the most ethnically similar person at the camp
"Nice body!"
-Whitney McClain, to an anonymous Cedarmore male camper, after they
collided at the volleyball net while going for the ball
"I could take you...to a movie."
-Another anonymous Cedarmore male camper, to Whitney, after she was
explaining her mad basketball skills to the group of students
present
"It's my bladder!"
-Jearf Johnson, when looking at his phone as it rang
"John Letoto, you've got more politics than Episode I."
-Pablo Butterworth, when discussing with me the possible (and
impossible) relationships on campus, and the influence (real or
imagined) I have upon them
"At the wedding reception, I heard Stephen Curtis Chapman's I Will
Be Here being played over the speakers. Typical christian wedding
stuff, really. Then I heard the line that goes, 'I will be here, to
watch you grow in beauty.' With my warped sense of humor firmly
assessing its place in the world, my mind immediately translated that
into, 'I will be here, to watch your growing booty...'"
-Me
"Ok, I think I'm going to go for a walk now. Are you at work? I'm
asking you to take a walk with me...I thought I might drop your books
off. I was making sure someone would be there if I did. I'm NOT, NOT
asking you to take a walk with me. Oh my goodness! I just read what
I wrote up there."
-Sarah Cress, from a chat log with me over Instant Messenger
"Here's what I think. If I'm a man, and my wife's a doctor, I golf every day."
-Chriyus Davis, on how Andrew should spend his time in Pennsylvania
"Did he sound winded?"
-Will, after I got off the phone with Andrew...on a certain night...
"Dude, I get paid to dig my nose!"
-Boss
"I don't do that, that would be too unmanly."
-Anonymous Male, said while filing his nails
"More of an acquired taste than kim chee."
-Will, commenting on his appreciation for Hawaiian music
"That's right...I think I should celebrate the day by getting slammed
with Shirley Temples."
-Christin Simpson
"Thanks to you, I'm now known as 'the odds are good but the goods are
odd' girl."
-Christine Robertson, expressing her gratitude toward me for her
blossoming reputation
"Hurry, before the smears come out!"
-Kason, commenting on his need to get to a bathroom stall
"All right everybody, feel flee to crap your hands....wait"
-Andrew Strickland, while leading worship
"She's perfect! She's just like me; there's nothing wrong with her."
-Lisa
"I don't think he'll be spending any nights with you. He has a better
bed partner now."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"I stole de baby from de stupid Daikini!"
-One of the Brownies from Willow
"I stole de baby from you while you were taking a pee-pee!"
-Same Brownie
"Oooohhh...your eyes...your whiskers...I want to kiss you!"
-Drunk Brownie from Willow
"No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher."
-Gary
"It's probably providential."
-Chip Collins
"One more wave."
-Andrew, said while three fingers are held in the air
"Well basically..."
-James McCray
"I wanted to burn the whole thing to the ground."
-RAM, Jr.
"If she's Princess Leia, you're the rogue scoundrel Han Solo stealing
her away from all the decent guys."
-Pablo Butterworth, said to me a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away
"Young men, wholesome and gay. No, just wholesome."
-Dr. Mohler
"Hey! How are you doing?"
-Rob Smythe
"I have two local haole guy roommates who are super tall. I can stand
on the bed and they are still taller than me. But at least I fit in
the bathroom!"
-Boss
"So for the girls, there are only the big singles left?"
-Aaron Filippone
"The girls I'm most attracted to are always a lot like me."
-Darren Thomas
"Hairy in the face and chest?"
-Me, in response to Darren
"Oh, cuss word!"
-Moon Pie
"If you don't realize that Paul Butterworth is singing an 8 minute
long karaoke, there's a lot of things you aren't going to realize."
-Pablo Butterworth
"These *are* my dress socks. They're clean."
-Goose
"Before the throne of God above..."
-Jonathan Leeman...singing
"I hope you sit next to a big, fat person on the airplane."
-Michelle
"Piss on a biscuit!"
-Fritzy
"I saw Toto, and he's black!"
-R. Lauren Duncan
"You know one day you're actually going to kill me, and I'll be
laughing in heaven as they throw your butt in jail."
-Pablo Butterworth
"I couldn't have stood out more if I was riding a brontosaurus through there."
-Jordan Cole
"Can she have a man?"
-Me, said to waitress, gesturing toward Poenie
"I am irresistible to men..."
-Poenie Tree
"Rat has a goosebite! Rat has a goosebite! Rat has a goosebite!"
-AJ, after Goose got a haircut with a nasty ratbite
"Are you pouring some kind of cleaner on the floor where he farted?"
-Tyler Ratliff
"She shook his butt before she shook his hand!"
-Me, on a certain young lady here at Boyce
"Would you look at that BUTT?"
-Pablo Butterworth
"It hurt. I begged him to stop. I cried afterwards."
-Pablo Butterworth
"He speaks and it is as if a writer or poet is speaking to us,
sentence fragments and all. He could totally destroy your life and you
would love him for doing it. (Not that he goes around destroying lives
or anything.)"
-Mike Hilliard, speaking about the Token Hawaiian at Boyce
"Paul, I think we should mate."
-Katy Barnes, to a not so anoymous Boyce male during a game of
Psychiatrist
"You're classic, not metro."
-Elizabeth Foster
"I need ocean."
-Me
"Oh, I have some!"
-R. Lauren Duncan, in response to me
"Me not saying something and you not writing it down are two
completely different things."
-Dr. Draper
"The entire night I just wanted to jump on those lips!"
-Chris...something
"I hated you when I first met you."
-Scott O'Neal
"Barring a lighting strike at the lottery we call, 'New Student Orientation'..."
-Pablo Butterworth
"Do you know why I'm taking his class? One of these days he's going
to die teaching and I want to be there for it."
-Pablo Butterworth
"I have a man-crush on Tom Cruise."
-Pablo Butterworth
"I feel like the loose Jenga block that is easy to pull out."
-Michael Butterworth
"I was childish, foolish even. She makes me feel alive."
-Allison Poplin, posing as Michael Butterworth
"Hey John. How are you sexy? As in, 'How are you, sexy?' Not, 'How
did you become sexy?' "
-Pablo Butterworth
"Stop vacuuming my crack!"
-Chris Sellers
"That's a hot outfit...Letoto, if you were any
taller..."
-Melissa Hermoso
"You smell like my mom!"
-Fritzy, to Banana Republic's favorite Red-Headed Stepchild
"It's Allure for *men*, people!"
-Banana Republic's favorite Red-Headed Stepchild
"Oh Uncle Johnny, I didn't know you could look so handsome!"
-Kayla, when looking at my Kindergarten picture...when I had hair
"We don't want a lot of Scripture to bog us down."
-Michael Butterworth
"I would've introduced the front of my boot to his Specials."
-Billy Reddick
"You remind me of my friend Deanna; she's a female bodybuilder."
-Kristina Pelhank, to me
"I was taking down the donkey from the Nativity scene in our kitchen,
and I thought to myself, 'If I drop the donkey on the floor and it
breaks, then I can tell people that I broke my ass on the kitchen
floor.' "
-Pablo Butterworth
"You see, the difference between me and you is my mouth gets me into
trouble, and yours gets you out of it."
-Aaron Coffey, to me
"The Geisha sleep in certain positions so as not to disturb their
elaborate hairdos, and that's what I was just doing."
-Michael Butterworth
"Excuse me, I do NOT have that much cellulite!"
-Sarah El-Masri
"I don't want to be tied down and have my time consumed by someone
there to say, 'I love you,' to and having to hold hands and shop
together and eat with and no one to hold and cuddle with. I can play
XBox all night long, baby!"
-Pablo Butterworth, said with biting sarcastic wit
"Please stalk me at your earliest convienence."
-Sarah Cress
"There's a two year-old flirting with me!"
-Ashlea Davenport
"I used to have a neck, then something happened."
-Bobby House
"Can I buy three blacks from you?"
-Pablo Butterworth
"Finally, I got up and read my bible; I figured that would put me to sleep."
-Chip Collins
"You're the ugly girl!"
-Candace Boyd
"No, I don't have a jackhammer or an 18-wheeler, but I bet John Moody
does...or at least, John Moody knows someone who does!"
-Scott O'Neal and me
"I grew up with that but in Spanish."
-Liz Mejia
"One day the three of us will be married!"
-R. Lauren Duncan
"We're Portuguese, so we're kinda hairy. But this guy was like a
bear! I had to check the filters after he got out of the pool! And,
he was BIG!"
-Matty Teves
"Noses and ears never stop growing; you're in for a treat, Pablo."
-Me, to Pablo Butterworth
"And who brought Taryn Walker to Boyce College? That's
right...............the Holy Spirit."
-Pablo Butterworth, implying..................something
"That's a good length, that's pettable."
-R. Lauren Duncan, while petting my head
"There's small, there's large, and there's John Letoto Size."
-Kristy Miller
"Uncle Johnny I love you! I'm licking your eyeball!"
-Kason, just after my sister told him that it was time to get ready
for bed and that he had to tell his Uncle Johnny "goodnight," but just
before he licked the phone so as to pretend to lick my eyeball
"Mr. Herringbone understands."
-Katie Mohler
"Corn?!?!?!?! When did I eat corn?"
-Anonymous man in public bathroom, heard by Dr. Rainer, re-told by
Katie Mohler
"Whenever I want to find you on Facebook, I just do a search and type
in, 'butt,' and you come up."
-Me, to Pablo Butterworth
"The chocolate chip in the cookie."
-Leonard, in reference to my tan in comparison with the rest of our
family
"I told Kris I felt like a banana in a bowl of milk."
-Leonard, in reference to playing poker in Las Vegas at a table with 8
white guys
"I promise, I really did check him out before I started dating him!"
-Jewel Graham, on a supposed background spirituality check
gone...uhhh...obviously nowhere
"So I was typing to you and there was dead silence on the phone and
forgot I was on the phone with my mom and she randomly started talking
and it startled me."
-Sarah Cress
"Who's the one whose name begins with a 'J' and ends with an 'N'?"
-R. Lauren Duncan
"Jane!"
-Katie Mohler, in response to R. Lauren Duncan
"I went sniffing once."
-Katie Mohler
"Can you use that in a definition?"
-Sarah Cress
"Go shopping with him and you'll never be satisfied with another man's
shopping again."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"They had her fork here and I ate it."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"What's a thesaurus? Is it like a dinosaur?"
-R. Lauren Duncan
"Every outfit you wear is a statement."
-Scott O'Neal
"Do you guys have a money-changer in the temple?"
-Pablo Butterworth, inquiring as to the whereabouts of an ATM at
Southeast Christian Church
"He likes to sit in my drawers."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"It's like the military here, I have to say, 'Yes, sir!' to my roommate."
-James Losey, about me
"I can't believe you said 'makeout' in front of my mom!"
-Heidi Marlene Johnson
"I live for embarrassing my friends; that, and Jesus."
-Me
"I'm gonna go to the bathroom and fill up this water bottle. Not in
that order."
-Pablo Butterworth
"I eat soap for breakfast."
-Sarah Cress
"I like your hair. It's all going to burn in the end, anyway."
-Rob Smythe
"The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
-Christine Robertson, on Southern Seminary's relational prospects
"Puritan Paperbacks? Sounds like a football team or something."
-Janal Prybys
"More than enough Torneros to go around; that's a good thing."
-Pablo Butterworth
"I'm a Samaritan; shun me! Just meet me at the well at 3 o'clock."
-Dan Mack, who is half-Jewish
"This is the first time she's been publicly traded on the Girl
Exchange, and her stock has gone sky-high."
-Pablo Butterworth, talking about a certain Boyce College...person
"Hold me like you used to."
-Pablo Butterworth...Boyce male who's never dated
"This isn't fair--Prybys only got on your wall of quotes because
pretty much anything that proceeds from her mouth is notably
retarded."
-Jessica Cimato
"And afterwards, we're going to play Balderdash."
-Brooke Anderson, to Bobby Wood
"Oh, I love that movie!"
-Bobby Wood, in response to Brooke Anderson
"They have male stores?"
-Katie Mohler
"She looks like...uhhh...some sort of stuffed animal."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"You're just upset because you can't put that on Facebook."
-Michael Butterworth
"Yes, it's my purse."
-James Losey
"There's a stomach virus going around, and every girl on my hall has
been inflicted with The Terror!"
-Kristina Pelhank
"You're like a reality t.v. show...I want to turn the channel and walk
away, but for some strange reason, I can't."
-Sarah Cress
"John gave me a good wedgie."
-Pablo Butterworth
"I won't say whoooole falsehoods..."
-Scott O'Neal, implying that partial falsehoods are ok
"I own too many nice ties not to go to the Spring Banquet."
-Michael Butterworth
"God blessed me with great hair; I'm counting on that to bring me true love."
-Michael Butterworth
"This song was written for my future wife...which is none of you."
-Rob Smythe
"Next year you'll be in the zoo."
-Josh Mimbs, to Aaron Coffey
"I hope I don't get married 'til I'm in grad school so I can pick up
undergrad chicks, too."
-Michael Butterworth
"I have a new vein on my leg. I feel like an old woman...one of those
blue nasty ones."
-R. Lauren Duncan, who was referring to the vein, not to an old woman,
when speaking of it being blue and nasty
"Are you even there listening to my pitiful pleas?"
-R. Lauren Duncan
"May it not be said of me, 'Methinks she doth protest too much',
because really I'm just raising a voice for all of us you choose to
mercilessly poke numerous times throughout the day."
-Jessica Cimato
"'Cause all my good-looking genes can't override someone who's ugly."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"I have some ligament in the car."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"I lost it from all the throwing up I did."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"He's a Filipino knockoff!"
-David Brandt, commenting on me
"No, I'm just occasionally superficial...but not vain!"
-Chris Sellers
"You're a rent-a-cop? Can I rent you?"
-Sarah El-Masri, to me
"You know, if you keep breathing like that when I talk to you about
girls, you're never going to get married."
-Me, to Pablo Butterworth
"I don't sleep with him any more...John, he's older than me, he's
older than you."
-Pablo Butterworth, in reference to his Zoomer
"She's not the kind of guy you'd go for."
-Me
"I can't explain the honor of having two quotes on your profile. It
gives one the sense that they are going to be somebody. Wow."
-Jessica Cimato, to me
"From this angle, I can see everything!"
-Michael Butterworth, commenting on my shirt
"Can I suck some of your blood so that I can be a pirate?"
-R. Lauren Duncan, to me
"If I was bored and had a lot of spare time, I would count how many
pictures of Lauren Duncan I had on my computer."
-Pablo Butterworth
"You are not going to put that on Facebook!"
-Pablo Butterworth
"I don't feel comfortable with you saying that and wearing those shorts."
-Nick Crouse
"They're *macadamia* nuts!"
-Ryan Travis
"Hey, Lance was telling me about this job at the hospital. They
charge you nine dollars an hour!"
-Brian Buck
"Do you think they slimmed your dad down for that picture?"
-Ryan Szrama to Katie Mohler, in reference to the portrait in Heritage
Hall
"Are you ok? I just wet my pants."
-R. Lauren Duncan
"I just want to marry a pastor."
-Blind Brandon
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