What other word could be put forth that would more accurately convey the significance of this event more than a simple, and yet not so simple, “unbelievable!”?
Two things have driven me to this place: One is the fact that that I have felt a need to release my thoughts in the form of writing, and the second is that doing this by hand in a journal doesn’t allow me the ability to get all the things down that I wish to convey (to nobody in particular, largley for myself to read). My typing speed is considerably faster than my handwriting speed, and so I have come to the point where my decision is to use a weblog as a medium to accomplish this task.
In addition to the benefits gained from using this medium as opposed to pen in paper, I can make myself seem far more intelligent than is actually the case by using grammar and vocabulary that may come accross as somewhat scholarly. On a realistic note, I’m going to scratch that idea at this very instant and type as if I was speaking normally.
Today is day two of spring break. If you count the weekend, then it would be day 4. I left Raleigh on friday night and went to Greensboro where Mikey and I spent most of the weekend |>14y1/\/6 \/\/4|2<|24|=+. It was quite fun, and it always helps things to be more fun when it snows, even when confined to the indoors due to swollen feet (not myself, but my poor bro in law). It was fun to watch the snow fall, and also cool that I got to stay and hang out with Laura longer since I couldn’t drive in the mess that the mixture of ice and snow gifted the roads with. The next day, we built a snowman, then went to IHOP where I ate only 8 pancakes (all you can eat… should’ve eaten more, but… what can I say) I returned and wrote a java program that takes a name and turns it into a Blizzard Entertainment name. They seem to think that things become “mystical” and “fantasy” when you simply come up with two words and connect them with an apostrophe. Like, for instance, take a name for a place in the fantasy world (I’ll make one up): Amar Arrak. Blizzard’s instant coolification of this name would be to make it Amar’Arrak.
I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE THAT?! Are you supposed to pause where the apostrophe is? Are you supposed to just read it as one word? Is the apostrophe some kind of 27th letter in the alphabet!? I’m so confused! But the thing is, I wouldn’t mind it if they did that every once in awhile. What irks me is that 80% of the names of places have that freaking apostrophe in the middle, and it drives me nuts! So basically what the program does is insert an apostrophe into the middle of your name. David becomes Da’vid. It’s just a joke, and totally pointless. But hey. Programming at its finest.
After we had our laughs about that, I took off, because they were watching that Bill Maher religious documentary that I really had no interest in seeing, because I think Bill Maher is a tool. I also had to stop by and get some groceries for supper.
Today I drove to Columbia SC and visited Carol and Nancy. Sarah and I both went, so I got to help the pregnant lady get around. We ate at Waffle House for breafkast, and it was funny… the waitress was trying to be nice, so she randomly walks over, sets a cup of hot water on the table in front of Sarah and goes “Here honey, will this help?” To which Sarah said, out of an obligatory sense of courtesy: “Yes! thank you!” and then gave me a completely puzzled look as the waitress walked away, wondering what the heck she was supposed to do with the cup of hot water. That was worth many laughs.
Once in Columbia, we met Carol at her house, then went to CIU and hung out with Nancy at lunch time. Then we went to this restaurant/coffee shop called “The Immaculate Consumption”. I’m still trying to figuire out if that is sacreligious or not. The food was good though, as was the very strong french vanilla latte I immaculately consumed. After that, we went back to Carol’s and I liberated half a lime that was stuck in Nancy’s nalgene bottle while Sarah and Carol watched a video that showed a woman giving birth (why you would want to watch that, I’ll never know.) We hung out with Carol a bit, then headed back… taking a slight detour by missing an exit. Oh well. And we arrived home, which brings me here.
So, that sums up today. I’ll probably have more posts in the future that elaborate on my thoughts as opposed to what I did for the day, but now is not the time.
Bill Maher is a tool… and though the movie was more or less what we expected, it did give us fodder for conversation for the rest of the day. i think a lot of good conversations on what we believe and how we can be real with the world.