Okay...breathe in, breathe out...you got something done...it's okay...just rest now....
*sighs* Welcome back, readers. I'm still trying to comfort my fried brain...why it's breathing, I don't know..but...okay whatever...blog post!!
I haven't applied for Graduation yet...I'm working on my recital; I've picked some pieces out...I haven't applied to Camp David yet...I finished my apps for DU and MSU, I finished compiling my portfolio for DU and MSU (I still have a wee bit left with that, but nothing too hard or time-consuming),...
I did my spanish!! And went to the Dentist...I wrote the essay for MSU...I did my 5 pages (front and back of college lined paper) of calc homework...
and not on my list, but completed...chores. :) and piano practice..and blogging!! And I worked today...well...this morning, anyway...
Sorry...my brain is still trying to recuperate...I'm not really all here...hence the ellipsi..
Oh, my choir teacher is gonna try to find me a song that I can voice at my senior recital, since I love to sing..
And ...today marked the last full day of President Bush's 8 year term. God help us now. I'm not the biggest fan of Bush. I think he made mistakes. But...he IS human. And whether he did the best thing, at least he DID something. He did what he thought was right. History will be his judge, but I at least will honor him for his commitment to doing what he thought was best...he certainly wasn't trying to run a popularity contest.
We'll see how Obama handles. I sincerely wish him the best of luck in his first term. He's gonna need it. I hope...well, my first wish would be that he actually has some sense in him and rules moderately. I'm not sure that'll happen...so if it doesn't, then I hope he rules so rottenly that people will not re-elect him. What I REALLY don't want is for him to rule just moderately enough that he gets re-elected to a 2nd term. I really don't want to have him as my Commander-in-Chief if I join the military in 4.5 years.
okay...laters...everybody watch the election, even if you hate Obama. It's historical..it counts for school credit. :)
It's okay, my sweet brain. You will recover...
Monday, January 19, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Stress...
YAY!!! This is my 100th blog post, if you are interested. I'm happy. :)
So school started on Monday for me. My first day in Calc 1, and we had to take a quiz. Basically a review of what we should know already, but what we would most definitly know by the end of the semester...Luckily it wasn't graded, cause...well...I got 1.5 out of 7 correct..
Woohoo!! I had my first english class yesterday..it looks to be a decent class...our first quiz is on Thursday...we have to list the first name of every other student in the class...that should be exciting...
Okay, so I'm a wee bit stressed...I have to plan my senior recital...apply for graduation through SHEM, apply to Camp David, finish apps for DU and MSU, finish portfolio for DU and MSU, do 4 spanish lessons, go to the dentist...write an essay for MSU....oh...and somewhere in there, I have to do school homework...
all that has to be in the next week, so I must needs beg off of writing more, and go to work.
laters..
So school started on Monday for me. My first day in Calc 1, and we had to take a quiz. Basically a review of what we should know already, but what we would most definitly know by the end of the semester...Luckily it wasn't graded, cause...well...I got 1.5 out of 7 correct..
Woohoo!! I had my first english class yesterday..it looks to be a decent class...our first quiz is on Thursday...we have to list the first name of every other student in the class...that should be exciting...
Okay, so I'm a wee bit stressed...I have to plan my senior recital...apply for graduation through SHEM, apply to Camp David, finish apps for DU and MSU, finish portfolio for DU and MSU, do 4 spanish lessons, go to the dentist...write an essay for MSU....oh...and somewhere in there, I have to do school homework...
all that has to be in the next week, so I must needs beg off of writing more, and go to work.
laters..
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Lewis, Tolkien, and School
Bah humbug. The Christmas season was delayed me from posting. So...until I get back in the swing of a schedule, here are some quotes from two of my favorite authors, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.
LEWIS:
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
TOLKIEN
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
"What has it got to do with the story? Where is this place? Why emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs?" ~On a cover painting for The Hobbit that depicted a hill, two emus, and a Christmas tree.
"I begin to feel that I am shut up in a madhouse." ~On hearing that the artist of the aforementioned painting had not read The Hobbit
"Charge 'em and they scatter!" ~On driving a car among other vehicles
Hope you enjoyed some of these!!
I start school tomorrow. I'm still going part time at home, part time at the college I was at last semester. This semester I'm taking 8 credits at college. A five credit Calculus 1 course and a 3 credit English Composition Course...woohoo. Calc 1 is 4 days a week, 75 minutes/lecture period. Ick.
LEWIS:
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
TOLKIEN
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
"What has it got to do with the story? Where is this place? Why emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs?" ~On a cover painting for The Hobbit that depicted a hill, two emus, and a Christmas tree.
"I begin to feel that I am shut up in a madhouse." ~On hearing that the artist of the aforementioned painting had not read The Hobbit
"Charge 'em and they scatter!" ~On driving a car among other vehicles
Hope you enjoyed some of these!!
I start school tomorrow. I'm still going part time at home, part time at the college I was at last semester. This semester I'm taking 8 credits at college. A five credit Calculus 1 course and a 3 credit English Composition Course...woohoo. Calc 1 is 4 days a week, 75 minutes/lecture period. Ick.
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