I'm Back...

ok ok so I lied in my last post when I said I would update more. I have totally been slacking on my blogspot blog...beetween myspace and facebook and all the other addictions that I'm now trying to recover from I have forgotten about this one. I'm surprised bethany hasn't takin' away my llamas or nathan hasn't put me on the update please list. So far the semester has gone by fine. I started film production 1 this semester and I'm starting my first group exercise short film in the next two weeks. Film production class is mad expensive I must say.

Super 8 film camera for production 1 :$125
LaCie d2 extreme hard drive with triple interface and 250 GB: $220
balck and white film stock: $8.50 a roll (1 roll = 3 min 15 sec.)
going back to your highschool for your 10 year reunion as a successful film director: priceless (LOL a girl can dream can't she)

Other notable classes

Advanced topics in cinema studies: Representations of the body
Film production 1
Film Theory
Performance of Liturature

new post

Ok so here is an update...yesterday I turned 21. Yada yada. Tonight I had a gathering of sorts to watch Donnie Darko but my speakers on my TV aren't working properly so it ended up being the first annual Apple Sauce chugging tournament. 8 people competed for the grand prize a, norman Rockwell calender complements of State Farm insurance in Fairfield. I ended up losing the first round horribly. The winner was my friend Francis who ended up eating 3 2/3 cups of apple sauce the quickest. Between all of us a whole 6 lbs. can of apple sauce was consumed in under 15 min. Good times. Now if only we had a funnel and a tube we could have made an apple sauce bong...LOL. Just a thought. I have the most interesting parties I must say. I have pictures to document the occasion they should be on facebook sometime soon if you have facebook. If not I'll probably put a link to it from Myspace and if you don't have myspace or facebook....use your imagination.

heaven?

I'm sorry guys that I have not been updating. Craziness has taken over my life. Last night I got 3 hours of sleep and wrote a 19 page script/outline/character bios/short treatment for my writing for short film class. And that was just last night. One more week and I'll be in heaven. Actually tonight has been great. To celebrate me surviving the week I watched a movie, ate an actual meal, took a nap, there was a chocolate milkshake involved and a shower is always good too. So now I'm full, awake, and clean. Which makes me very happy. This could be heaven.

My so called CRAZY life....

So here is the latest news....I'm a slacker for not making it to convo and I'm sorry I missed you all. I had a job interview on Saterday afternoon which ended very well and I got the job...YEAH!!!! Anywho....I start tomarrow and that makes me soo happy and relieved. Saterday night I went to a party hosted by a couple of guys from my church. I don't know all of them real well but I do know 2 of them cornelius taylor and scott taylor. Both fabulous guys... as are the others. They have came together to start a string of themed parties of the non-alcohoic variety on one of the big party streets in town and we have already amazed the nieghbors by our having a good time desipte the lack of alcohol. It amazes them still. If you want to check out there web page it is super cool. It is located on my side bar. See you all thanksgiving break...Love ya!!!

What I learned from my crutches...

This week I bacame a cripple. My friend Anthony said that the thrue story on how my condition came to be was to lame so here is his version.

RANDOM PERSON: Oh my god! What happened.

ME: Well I was walking down this back alley the other night when a team of super ninjas attacked me from the north...

Now while that is hilarous and quite fun to say to people the truth is I was walking down my stairs at my apartment and missed the last two steps all together and on top of that there was a rug on a lanolium floor at the bottom that got swept out from underneath me and caused me to fall and twist my ankle which in turn sprained it.

CLIFF NOTE VERSION: I'm a clutz and can't walk down stairs.

but being on crutches has taught me something. As i do like to take away one lesson from any bad experience.

1) Trying to get around is hard so I am forced not to do as much= God is saying slow down
2) It took me a 30-45 min to get from my class, to the advisors office which is in the same floor of the same building, and out to my car which is parked like right outside. During this procces I have never had so many pep talks with myself to get from one place to the next and was so happy to get to my car. By the time I got to my car I was almost in tears= God is teaching me endurance and patience.
3) A sprain is never as painful as the rest of your body feels at the end of the day with crutches= Doctors are stupid and I would like to take these crutches and....oh sorry I'm sure there is a lesson in there somewhere. Find out for yourself.

Also this weekend is a busy one tonight I'm reading in an INTERFAITH POERTY SLAM and tomarrow is the Intervarsity semi formal. I'll tell you how they went next post. toodles.

C-Dale a blessing?!?

When moving to Carbondale I had many things already assumed about it like 1) Party town 2) I'm living on my own! (I'm going to die) 3) I don't know anyone :( How in the world am I gunna meet anyone?
Well I soon found out that C-Dale might just be a blessing in disguise. It's only a party town if you party...there are a lot of other super cool things to do. Living on my own isn't all that bad (well until rent is due and then is sucks) and I have meet some amazing people who I love to death. I love Intervarsity and my church down here. My classes are going well and even though I have days that I don't want to go to them and would rather stay in bed ( tuesdays and thursdays. My 8:00 am class days) I enjoy them for the most part. I know this may be a crappy generic update but it's still true and you liked it and you know it.

PRAY PLEASE!!!

I just wante to post somethings that are happening in my life and around me that need prayer.
First off, I need a job. Desperately. I am broke beyond belief. I have a possible interview on tuesday thanks to a friend who will try to help me out. Please pray that all of that goes well.
Also my campus is under attack lately. A month ago there was a hate crime on our campus towards some one who is homosexual. Their dorm room was trashed and hate slogans covered their room. Now another thing is going down on our campus that worries me. I recieved a email from patrick who is leader of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship that will explain it better than me. So I will post a section of said email...

This next wednesday (the 19th) Judy Shepherd (MatthewShepherd's mother) is coming to speak on our campusregarding hate crimes (her son was killed in a gayhate crime). A church called "Westboro BaptistChurch" is coming in to SIU to protest her talk,citing her as the "Mother-from-Hell". This group is preaching hatred. To see for yourself, look at:http://www.godhatesfags.com/ and more specifically their publicity for the event in Carbondale:http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/sep2005/20050927_shepard-carbondale.pdfThere is also going to be a group on campus peacefully counter-protesting Westboro's protest. This group is asking for tolerance of life-styles and life-choices and are against ignorance. They are going to try to have as many people as possible where the church is protesting to try to choke out the church and their message.The church and the reverend who is leading them is going to be representing Christians at this event. If many people see this, they may turn further away fromGod than they already are. InterVarsity, as an organization, doctrinally believesthat God Loves everyone and wants everyone to repentfrom all their sins, including those of a homosexualnature.We are organizing an all-day prayer meeting to ask Godto intercede at the protests and to have His nameglorified at the end of the day, showing His Truth. The meeting will consist of half-hour blocks of timefrom 8 am to 8 pm of at least 3 people.

It bothers me deeply that someone would take the bible and warp it to meet their own agendas and further hate. This is also not good for fellow christians on campus and everywhere due to this man saying he is a christian and preaching hate. It angers me to no end. I just ask that you please take time out of your day on Wensday to pray for our campus and its students. I also ask you to pray for the leader of the group that he may turn from his hatred and know who God is and that God does not call men to hate but to show love and to show "his" love to the world. He may think that through his hate he is empowered but hate does not give us power. it has power over us. I just pray that he sees that and realizes that we must get our power from God and not hate. It breaks my heart to see a man with such power and influence with other people to not us it for God, the real God of love. And it makes me wonder what has happened in his walk....in his life to lead him to this point. My heart breaks for him as well as for the people in which his hatered is directed toward. I just ask you to please remember us and pray. Thank you.