Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Entertaining Angels

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

-- Socrates

Monday, September 15, 2008

Love the One(s) You're With

Dani Beth's most recent blog is an encouragement to me. Well, they are words that should encourage me, and remind me of what I already know.
Maybe it's just simple reinforcement. I'm not sure.
But I appreciate it all the same, and I marvel at God's timing.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Something Heavenly

Yes, it has been a while since I last posted. I hope you missed me.

Lately, the song "Whatever You're Doing" by Sanctus Real has been more than encouraging to me. In fact, it's been the song that encourages me to not to lose heart at times. For better or worse, life is progressing forward and God is bringing me along for the ride. It's not easy. In fact, I find a lot of the time things breathed directly from the mouth of God are often some of the most difficult things to do, swallow.
Nevertheless, I am here. I am finding joy more often, and finding that it is oftentimes much more accessible than I would have myself believe. It is encouraging to me, now, at the end of my day(s), to sit and realize that the day is done and I have some joy. Or at the least, peace. It's comforting, and it's encouraging.
School is in full swing, now, and I have gone to every class once and worked on classwork for every class at least once. I am also experiencing what it is like to not have the monies to pay for foods and other necessities. That is an experience. That is an experience.
I have also begun to re-evaluate my position on "Casual Dating." It was first a very logically-driven thought for me, but now that I'm experiencing it in the practical, I'm beginning to wonder more about it. If I ever revise my policy, I might let you guys know, or I might forget. Anyhow.

"Beware the bareness of a busy life."
-- Socrates

I think it's a good quote.
Love,

geoff

Sunday, August 24, 2008

With thankfulness and devotion, to you, our purple white and gold

Empathy -- 1. the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it 2. the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to,vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts and experiences fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also the capacity for this
Empathetic -- involving, eliciting, characterized by, or based on empathy

Sympathy -- 1a. an affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things wherin whatever affects one similarly affects the other b. mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it c. unity or harmony in action or effect 2a. inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord b. feelings of loyalty; tendency to favor or support 3a. the act or capacity of entering into or sharing the feelings o interests of another b. the feeling or mental state brought about by such sensitivity 4. the correlation existing bewteen bodies capable of communicating their vibrational energy to one another through some medium
Sympathetic (1) -- existing or operation through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association 2a. appropriate to one's mood, inclinations, or disposition b. marked by kindly or pleased appreciation 3. given to or marked by, or arrising from sympathy, compassion, friendliness, and sensitivity to others' emotions 4. favorably inclined 5a. showing empathy b. arousing sumpathy or compassion 6a. of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system b. mediated by or acting on the sympathetic nerves 7. relating to musical tones produced by mpathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Nobody said it was easy

Life has been going crazy fast lately. Crazy fast, everywhere. Moving out, moving in, moving other people in, checking people in, training, laundry, friends at night, the Olympics -- oh, the list could go on and on.

Fortunately, I've found myself a small pocket of time here and now to put just a small somethin' somethin' up. Things are going okay, but like I said, crazy fast. I think in the next few days things will slow down and get easier. But for now, a lotta lotta isn't all giggles and fun. Good news is that I'm really enjoying my apartment. That is great news, and that my roommate hopefully moves in today. But, we shall see, we shall see. Hopefully yes, but you never know, sometimes, with this guy, hahaha...

Okay, thanks for reading lovers.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Like endless rain into a paper cup

So, the vacay was good. I liked very much this last visit to Mexico, mainly because I got to do all the things I wanted to do. That, my friends, was fun. Snorkled, kayaked, cliff-jumped, swam, volleyballed, soccered (actually footballed), ate, drank, was merry. Pretty decent get away, if I do say so myself.
Problems, though:
  • wicked nasty gash on my left foot. I think it's from sand volleyball
  • the runs. That's right, I have diarrhea. Sorry if you didn't want to know, but now you do
  • dry skin. My skin is all itchy and dry, I think it's from the sand, salt, and sun

That's about it, I think. So, yeah, 'twas a good va-cay.
Did manage to discover a brand new pair (new to me) of sunglasses on the ocean floor, though. They're very...chic, very Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, very Paris Hilton. Not very Geoff, but they're free and they work, so they'll stay until they break.
This week I have two assignments due, a quiz, and a final, all between now and Thursday. Wish my freaking luck. As of right now I still have an 87.5 out of 200 on my midterm. Not real sure what I did wrong, so I'm hoping the final grade for the midterm still hasn't been posted yet. Haven't heard anything from my prof, but word on the street from one of my classmates is that they have been posted. I sure would like some confirmation.

Good night friends

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Battle Without Honor or Humanity

This is my new favorite song in the world.
And, to clarify, I never stated in my previous blog that "casual dating" is all that I wanted out of life, just that my thoughts had brought me to those conclusions. Thanks for the advice everyone, but I wasn't writing with the intent on being a...player or something for the rest of my life. Just writing out my thinking. But thanks all the same.
I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do.


Adios amigos

-Edit-
This video is pretty epic too, it's the trailer for Kill Bill. One of my favs, without a doubt.


Adios, for real