9.20.2003
well, i would have liked to get a bit more done tonight, but i am pretty satisfied with the amount of things that i did get accomplished, so? i certainly won't complain. this place is starting to feel more like my own place rather than just somewhere that i am staying.
i am much looking forward to the added time and freedom i will have to be more involved in my writing and my photography. even if it is just writing in here more, which i am sure it won't be, i am at least looking forward to that, as i do enjoy writing. it will be a lot nicer when i am fully settled, and i don't have to worry about trying to get all that nonsense done.
i managed to get the living room all cleaned up, get all the misc. junk that was just lying around put away, or at least out of the living room. so, there's one room that's mostly on its way to being done. i put a few pictures on the wall, and that sort of thing. managed to get a couple boxes unpacked and put away in my room, although by no means is it close to being finished. oh, well, it'll get there soon enough. i need some bookshelves and things like that in order to really finish unpacking, i think. other than that? it at least feels nice to have the living room mostly done, and feel like we can hang out in there w/o having to worry about having a bunch of stuff lying about.
on a somewhat funny side note, i rented two movies the other night. one of them is stuck in the vcr that my roommate's parents gave to us. it just won't do anything. it won't play, it won't eject, nothing. the vcr turns on, and then does nothing. hmm... somewhat vexing. i believe that the vcr may have to give it's life in order to save the live of the video. yeah. stupid vcr.
well, i think that's about all i have to say for tonight. it just feels good to start to feel settled. its a good feeling. i think i am going to read a bit before i hit the sack for good. i have quite a stack of books to work on. i am reading The Chamber, by John Grisham, which i have read before and like most of his lawyer novels, is quite good. i am also determined to finish reading Things Unseen, by Mark Buchanan. i have started it a couple times, and for various reasons, never managed to finish it. its good, just a little slow at points. i am going to finish it! i am also going to start reading The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan, which i was supposed to have read for my classic lit. class last semester, and never did. i wanted to, i just didn't have time, honest! also, i have a latin textbook, and some vocabulary cards, and i determined to get started on teaching myself latin. just haven't gotten around to that yet. oh, and that doesn't even count the books that i need to find and be reading for my distance learning class. hmm... lots of things to read...
anywho, i already said i was done once, but i mean it really now, so? g'night all...
i am much looking forward to the added time and freedom i will have to be more involved in my writing and my photography. even if it is just writing in here more, which i am sure it won't be, i am at least looking forward to that, as i do enjoy writing. it will be a lot nicer when i am fully settled, and i don't have to worry about trying to get all that nonsense done.
i managed to get the living room all cleaned up, get all the misc. junk that was just lying around put away, or at least out of the living room. so, there's one room that's mostly on its way to being done. i put a few pictures on the wall, and that sort of thing. managed to get a couple boxes unpacked and put away in my room, although by no means is it close to being finished. oh, well, it'll get there soon enough. i need some bookshelves and things like that in order to really finish unpacking, i think. other than that? it at least feels nice to have the living room mostly done, and feel like we can hang out in there w/o having to worry about having a bunch of stuff lying about.
on a somewhat funny side note, i rented two movies the other night. one of them is stuck in the vcr that my roommate's parents gave to us. it just won't do anything. it won't play, it won't eject, nothing. the vcr turns on, and then does nothing. hmm... somewhat vexing. i believe that the vcr may have to give it's life in order to save the live of the video. yeah. stupid vcr.
well, i think that's about all i have to say for tonight. it just feels good to start to feel settled. its a good feeling. i think i am going to read a bit before i hit the sack for good. i have quite a stack of books to work on. i am reading The Chamber, by John Grisham, which i have read before and like most of his lawyer novels, is quite good. i am also determined to finish reading Things Unseen, by Mark Buchanan. i have started it a couple times, and for various reasons, never managed to finish it. its good, just a little slow at points. i am going to finish it! i am also going to start reading The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan, which i was supposed to have read for my classic lit. class last semester, and never did. i wanted to, i just didn't have time, honest! also, i have a latin textbook, and some vocabulary cards, and i determined to get started on teaching myself latin. just haven't gotten around to that yet. oh, and that doesn't even count the books that i need to find and be reading for my distance learning class. hmm... lots of things to read...
anywho, i already said i was done once, but i mean it really now, so? g'night all...
i am finally able to get back to readin Get Fuzzy... today's was just way too funny, especially for those of you who know me, and know where i'm from and where i went to school... i swear we had conversations almost identical to this! lol...
well, it's been a bit since i've written on here...
got all my stuff to the appt., so that is a nice thing. to say that we are completey moved in would definitely be an overstatement at this point. there is a whole lot of organizing and arranging left to be accomplished yet.
slept in to a leisurely 10 am, and then spent most of the rest of the day working on my truck. which still insn't quite done. wasn't exactly what i wanted to do, but? it needed to be done, and i must say it was a nice day for it, so? i can't complain. and, i got all the harder stuff done.
getting adjusted to living on my own. i certainly won't say i don't like it. the silence is certainly nice, although almost unnerving at times. i am sure that will pass. i am just too used to being around people. so? it is all good. i read an interesting post that was talking about how people who live on their own maybe don't try as hard. was certainly good food for thought. so? made me think. read it if you like. i don't want to do that, really; i want to learn how to be me.
there's some more food for thought. ever wonder why we have to learn who we really are? you would thing that, of all the things that we might know, that this would be the most certainly, and something that certainly wouldn't have to be learned. after all, if we are all unique, and all individuals, (as everyone tells us we are), then who can possibly teach you how to be you? i don't know that i have a good answer to this question, as usual. i just seem to pose them, with no real expectations except maybe to make you think and ponder why you too don't have any good answer to it. then i can at least commiserate with you... lol... anyhow... this whole thing of learning to be yourself is partly something that has been fabricated by our culture and society, and is partly to do with that we all run around trying to be like someone else. now, while it is not a bad thing to have role models and people that you admire, it is a whole other thing to attempt to be just like someone. admire, learn, and apply to yourself. don't just try to be them; it's coping out on yourself, and will also do nothing but frustrate you to no end. this has been perpetuated by our culture as well, with it's habit to always lift certain people up as idols, so to speak. anyhow... i think that is most all that i have to say about that, at least for tonight.
as for now, i think it is time to go home and get all this grease off of me, and starting making my house my home. i also want to get the 'net hooked up tonight. i have a phone line now, so? what's stopping me? nothing but me. so, i am going to fight the symptoms of what was previously discussed by myslef and others, at least until about 9 o'clock, at which point i will prolly be too tired to cane any more, and will prooly stay up too late playing reading my novel and eating junky food. lol... at least i am honest about it, huh?
got all my stuff to the appt., so that is a nice thing. to say that we are completey moved in would definitely be an overstatement at this point. there is a whole lot of organizing and arranging left to be accomplished yet.
slept in to a leisurely 10 am, and then spent most of the rest of the day working on my truck. which still insn't quite done. wasn't exactly what i wanted to do, but? it needed to be done, and i must say it was a nice day for it, so? i can't complain. and, i got all the harder stuff done.
getting adjusted to living on my own. i certainly won't say i don't like it. the silence is certainly nice, although almost unnerving at times. i am sure that will pass. i am just too used to being around people. so? it is all good. i read an interesting post that was talking about how people who live on their own maybe don't try as hard. was certainly good food for thought. so? made me think. read it if you like. i don't want to do that, really; i want to learn how to be me.
there's some more food for thought. ever wonder why we have to learn who we really are? you would thing that, of all the things that we might know, that this would be the most certainly, and something that certainly wouldn't have to be learned. after all, if we are all unique, and all individuals, (as everyone tells us we are), then who can possibly teach you how to be you? i don't know that i have a good answer to this question, as usual. i just seem to pose them, with no real expectations except maybe to make you think and ponder why you too don't have any good answer to it. then i can at least commiserate with you... lol... anyhow... this whole thing of learning to be yourself is partly something that has been fabricated by our culture and society, and is partly to do with that we all run around trying to be like someone else. now, while it is not a bad thing to have role models and people that you admire, it is a whole other thing to attempt to be just like someone. admire, learn, and apply to yourself. don't just try to be them; it's coping out on yourself, and will also do nothing but frustrate you to no end. this has been perpetuated by our culture as well, with it's habit to always lift certain people up as idols, so to speak. anyhow... i think that is most all that i have to say about that, at least for tonight.
as for now, i think it is time to go home and get all this grease off of me, and starting making my house my home. i also want to get the 'net hooked up tonight. i have a phone line now, so? what's stopping me? nothing but me. so, i am going to fight the symptoms of what was previously discussed by myslef and others, at least until about 9 o'clock, at which point i will prolly be too tired to cane any more, and will prooly stay up too late playing reading my novel and eating junky food. lol... at least i am honest about it, huh?
