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There really hasn’t been a lot happening in life lately. I got my geometry exam back and, well, I did ok. Not as well as I would have liked, but hopefully I can make up for it on the last exam. I would feel kinda silly if I got my only B in college in geometry. It’s strange… I feel like grades are overrated and not a very good way to evaluate people, yet I still feel like I need to get good ones. I’m just full of contradictions.

Tonight, a bunch of people are getting together for an early Thanksgiving meal, since we obviously won’t be together on Thanksgiving (you know, going home for holidays and all that). It should be yummy.

My roommates are officially addicted to Diablo II, and the cheating at thereof. Just about the only time that somebody isn’t using Dan’s computer to play Diablo is when everybody is asleep. Not that I have any room to talk, considering my constant computer use. :-)

♫ Dance House Children's Songs And Stories album

I went to a Nickel Creek concert tonight, and… wow. Just… wow. Nickel Creek rocked the house! Those guys (and girl :-) are amazing musicians. I’m so glad I got to see them. They played for a little over two hours, and then came out to the front of the stage and did a three song acoustic set, ending with Be Thou My Vision. The whole performance was just amazing. It’s easy to see why Nickel Creek is so popular. Wow.

I’m about to head off to sleep, but I figured I’d throw something up here before I did. Today was a good day… I talked to the professor for my worldview class about my project, and he was very positive about it. Later on I’ll be writing up a little reflection type thing about what I learned from the project and stuff like that.

While we were talking, he mentioned how everyone in the class had said how much they really enjoyed working on their projects. I can totally agree with that. This worldview project has been one of the most fun, yet most enriching activities of my time at college. Off the top of my head, I can only think of two other times that I have had so much fun doing college-related things. One was last semester’s Intro to Graphic Design class, and the other was my semester cross-cultural to Ireland.

It’s a bit depressing realizing that I’ve spent most of my time in college classes not enjoying or feeling very enriched or enlivened by them, but trying to live up to someone else’s standards and expectations. Why does school have to be like that? It’s not all the professors’ fault at… I think it’s a problem with our educational system in general that emphasizes so much of "serious learning" and knowing The Right Answer. Being serious and knowing facts are both good things, but when they get almost the sole focus of the learning process, I think there’s an imbalance.

I wish I knew the answer to this problem, but I don’t, and unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I’m done with college after this semester and so I guess I won’t have too much of a chance to work for change. But I encourage anybody who’s still in school to take advantages of those rare opportunities when learning and life collide to produce something beautiful.

Please forgive me if the preceding paragraphs weren’t 100% coherent or well thought out… it’s Friday, I’m tired, and I’m sure some people know of other reasons I wouldn’t be thinking totally clearly. (No, I’m not drunk. Sheesh… you people. ;-) It felt good to vent. Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings.

Happy birthday to me! I can’t believe another year is gone… I’m getting so old! :-P And that’s all I have to say about that. I’ll give an update if anybody kidnaps me this year or anything like that (yes, it happened before :-).

The kidnapping story really isn’t that exciting. We were hanging around the dorm and Kristen offered to give me a back rub, and who am I to refuse a back rub? So I laid down on the floor and before I knew it, I was being blindfolded and led out of the building. They (my friends ;-) drove me around town for about half an hour while they decorated the hall lounge. On getting back, I discovered that we had gone by Taco Bell and they got me something to eat.

So that’s the kidnapping story. Now you know. Oh, and nothing that exciting happened this year. Just some yummy Papa John’s pizza and a few cards. Not that I’m complaining. Thanks everybody!

The mission code named finish the geometry exam and find some sort of answer for every problem has been successfully completed. (What, you thought I was going to tell you the real, top secret code name? Think again).

Not so much has happened in the last few days, other than some really awesome talks with friends. Hopefully I’ll have more interesting stuff to post soon.

I’m just an art-making maniac. The newest in the worldview project series - locked [self vs. self] - has arrived, ready for your eyes only (not really, but it sounds cool).

Music-related: I got the new Chevelle cd in the mail today as part of my early birthday present and man is it good! It’s quite a bit harder than their first cd in places and just as solid. Expect to see this showing up on my playlist quite a bit. :-)

For your reading pleasure (or proofreading pleasure, if you’re my mom) I’ve just posted a review of Ascension’s T.A. Project album.

In other site news, I’ve revamped the worldview section with separate pages so that it’s a little kinder to people with slower connections. Dial-up users are people too! :-)

If you need some entertaining reading, check out Kevein Burnett’s Another Language which is a dictionary of sorts of the very entertaining slang some people here at EMU use.

Yep, it’s a new worldview piece. This one gets out some ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for quite some time. It’s also the most personal and vulnerable of any of the worldview pieces so far. Go check out sadangel and let me know what you think. :-)

The worldview project page is now more fun than ever! And why is it more fun, you ask? Because you can now leave comments on the worldview pieces. Tell me what you like, what you don’t like, any suggestions or insights you might have. I want to hear from you! :-)

Don’t you wish you were in Australia right now? Me too, especially after reading how people need to shower together to help beat the drought. This is a real news article. Seriously.

Here’s another article that caught my eye: 101 things Mozilla can do that IE can’t. Yeah buddy.