The Onion

They should at least try to make the second picture look realistic.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53239

howdy...

So I had to do this report on spanking...Sweden banned it in 1979..weird...yet 26% of parents in that country still practice it, or at least that was the number that admitted to it. The article we had to read annoyed me because it was trying to argue that because Sweden is "progressive" in matters such as marriage, sex, and taxation...they must be right about spanking too. I mean clearly any belief that is progressive is right. Anything old and non-progressive smacks of the primative and is automatically wrong. duh...idiots...
Well anyways, I really don't get why I can write a 3 or 4 page paper for this class in less than an hour...and yet I still have to spend hours writing english papers of the same length...it makes no sense.

Life-a roadtrip without directions

Alright, it's about time I did a couple of things: let everybody know whats up. Some would say I need to settle down and see a psycologist, but, we'll see... Anyway, here's whats up, right now, today, untill the plan changes, someone gets shot, something gets blown up (literaly or figuritively), or I get arrested (I don't know why it would happen, but hey, this is life). Right now I am in Saline, MI (my home town) at the library. I'm sleeping at my parents and eating real food (those of you who have been kept up-to-date know that this is unusual). Tomorrow I plan on driving back to Kalamazoo in the afternoon/evening and moving in with the notorious Computer Tom so that I may continuae the search for employment come monday. It's beginging to look like the trip to Tenesee with never come to be, at least not right now, although I'm now the proud owner of 56,000 frequent flier miles which may just become the spring board for the greatest spring break trip ever.
My stories are many, long, dramatic, and funny. If you guys want me to (if you wish to listen) I could start a blog and recount them to you. Things such as the motel from hell, the nights in the car, my first kiss, dodging the parking police, trying to learn to skateboard, getting lost in indiana, talking philosophy in Cincinatti, living down by the river, the perils of a camp stove, the drama of being afraid of emotion, or the strugle of objectivity in an all to subjective world.
If you guys want to hear 'em pipe up. I have this hunch you will, but may it be the people's choice!

New Addition to Our World...

As you may have noticed, we have another member of our blogger community now. John Novak has proven himself to be a worthy member of our group over the past few months so he has now been initiated into our exclusive blogging thought exchange....yeah...well I'm not very good at speeches, so anyway, John is now on this blog, and he can be called John because the previous John (my brother) is now dubbed Paco by his affectionate seminarian buddies. And because Paco will not be contributing to this blog for the next few months due to the strict policies of the seminary...or something like that. So I am sure John will post any time now to complete his addition to our ensemble (I think that is supposed to be French). Wow, that makes 11 of us! This must be the best blog...ever! Is there a blog like this with more poeple on it? Well they aren't as cool.
Even though most of you are gone and we don't see you and we get bored and sad, it's good to know you are still out there. (Not to be sappy...but it's true that we feel lonely without everyone. Right, LCC people? That's what I thought.)

Bonnie's Place

Live from J.J.Wohlfert's:

That's right, this is coming during the last 3 minutes of my lunch break at work.
My co-worker (to use a Tomism) Tony told me about a restaurant near LCC campus called Bonnie's place, which sells really good food at very reasonable prices. For instance, he said that last Monday he went and got a 1/4 hamburger, fries, and a drink for $3.50!! I guess it is some Monday special where you get a big discount. So all that food, and really good food he says, and close to campus (about a block from LCC). We should go check it out sometime, my LCC buddies (and anyone else who would like to). I hope everyone is having a good life and is enjoying school. Peace out!

money...

Since the last two posts have come from my lovely fingertips, I figured I would post again.
I talked to a lady from Finlandia last night and she said that she would work on getting the finacial aid stuff sent to me. She said I was getting some $3500 scholarship and maybe another scholarship, but she wasn't sure what I was getting for aid. I think that tuition is 16,000, so I'm at around 12,500 right now. Central would be around 8000 I think...I'd have to look at the thing again. Northern would be around 11,000 plus whatever aid they would give me. I really don't care...I really just want to be on my own again, and at college. I wonder what I should do if the colleges end up all costing around the same amount...I haven't really thought about what I would do then. Sorry for thinking out loud, and I'm really sorry if you actually read to the end of this.

I saw my cousin Rapheal today...didn't even know he went to lcc...then i saw this really annoying guy from my art history class last semester...grrr he is sitting in the computer lab. I talked to Sarah from IL today on gmail chat. And I am not pleased with facebooks new features...they are stalkerish and creepy...too much info. Anyways ya'll are coming to the Italian thing right? Ok this has been another boring day in the life of Sarah. c-ya

little people

Um the last few days have been interesting. We mostly hung out with seminarian people and mostly ate jade garden food. I smoked a cigar on thursday. It was pretty much gross...like i said at the time, it's like drinking a bonfire. I did, however, smoke most of it. Last night we had a long discussion about what we all thought of each other in high school. I think I was not really friends with you guys during some of the drama that went on...cause I don't remember it at all. It was funny to hear now though. School is started and I am a little freaked out with all my online classes. Monica wants me to be manager, so I'll probably do that too, on top of classes. I'm sorta kinda teaching myself Italian though I haven't got that far....too lazy. I think that the next thing I make/paint will have Italian words in it.

Events in the Life of Marnee

Here are pictures from my road trip to D.C. and some sisters we had a retreat with. They are the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará. Wonderful sisters! Also there is a glimpse of our re-modeling, a picture of Kenric and Joel using their musical skills and a really neat Catholic Cathedral in Toledo.
The Brian Flynn one may come later.

One more thing, if you haven't heard yet, Angela Koenigsknecht and Jerome Waldron are getting married!!! He proposed on Saturday and now she is wearing a beautiful diamond ring :)

Weather (Got Idea from Kenric's blog)

It is such a beautiful thing.

Many times it is sunny and hot and humid (like today, and yesterday, and tomorrow, 90s), and other times, it is cloudy, thunderstorms, just not what you want to be in most of the time, you could get killed!)

Time for some serious stuff, I guess.

Up until recently, it has been nice and easy on this blog much like the sunny weather we have been having. Now, we have had thunderstorms like crazy. I don't want to point fingers at anyone, but it isn't me. I am trying to stay out of this argument, maybe I created this post to have people not pay attention to the taunts/whatever of the other post. But since that won't work, I guess I have failed. Now, for the mushy stuff: since SKR left, not much has gone on, so I miss them whether I show it or not. Ok, I told you it was mushy. Well, I am going to go to B Fly's concert tonight. See ya in 10 or so days.

To our Buddies far away!!

Hey Guys! It feels like you have been gone forever! You all need to come home...why does it have to be another month away?? Well it looks like you are having some crazy fun over there though, that is good. We are still not doing anything crazy over here...I haven't even seen Pirates of the Carribean yet! (Which means I have to shut myself in another room when everyone else wants to talk about it). Anyway...here are some pictures from the Grand Opening at the Ark (since that is the only major event that I can think of). Actually, when I went to get these pictures, I realized these are not the ones I wanted, so I will have to get those other ones to send you. But these are a small taste I guess.
Also we are doing a lot of re-moldeling on our house, y'all will have to come see it when you get back. And we will have to do lots of other things too!

Okay...here are some better pictures.

I found this interesting on a page from Myspace.

How on earth can they expect students to pass?

It's not the fault of the student if he fails, because the year ONLY has 365 days.

Typical academic year for a student:

1. Sundays - 52, Sundays in a year, you know Sundays are for rest.
Days left 313.

2. Summer holidays - 50 where weather is very hot and difficult to study.
Days left 263.

3. 8 hours daily sleep - 130 days GONE.
Days left 141.

4. 1 hour for daily playing - (good for health) means 15 days.
Days left 126.

5. 2 hours daily for food & other delicacies (chewing properly & swallowing) means 30days.
Days left 96.

6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social being) - means 15 days.
Days left 81.

7. Exam days - per year at least 35 days.
Days left 46.

8. Quarterly, Half yearly and festival (holidays) - 40 days.
Balance 6 days.

9. For sickness- at least 3 days.
Remaining days=3.

10. Movies and functions - at least 2 days.
1 day left.

11. That 1 day is your birthday. How can you study on that day??????!!!!!!!!!!
Days left = 0

How can any student pass?

GAHHHHH!!!!!!

hey people seriously, what is going on at home...and you can't call to tell me...or email I demand real mail...now...ok...now...actually i miss home...everyone is leaving here and it is going to be us and a bunch of non-english speaking people.

liver sandwich

Did you know that working in a dinning room is a good way to get weird compliments? I have been told that I look "studious" ( by japanese people), "very pretty" ( by little kids), " slender" ( also japanese people), and that I am a "hard worker" ( german people and chinese people). Yeah, I also get called "dearest", "sweetheart", "sweety", "hun" and "hunny" by the servers. I feel like a dog, or else a doll. Mmmm... I had strawberry short cake after dinner and it was good.

We're still alive I guess?

Hey, I guess I haven't posted in awhile, so it's about time. Thought I'd let you know I'm doing well out here. I love my job, the people and the environment. Almost every chance I get within reason, I go hiking. I've included some pictures of hikes. On my last weekend, I went with some people from the Lake House where I work on a 13 mile hike through Black Canyon. It was a great hike, but it was tough because my pack weighed about 40 pounds and I wasn't used to the weight. The others didn't pack enough water, so we had to filter some. The water was the tastiest, most chillin mountain snow runoff water I've ever had!
Ok, so the first picture is of a hike that Sarah went on with me and my co-workers. We ended up 8 miles away from where we thought we would be and there were bear prints all the heck over the place. To scare off the bears, we sang the whole way and took this crazy picture. Ooo we also forded a small river because we're just sweet like that.
Lets see, the second picture is of the campsite we stayed at in Black Canyon. There was a waterfall about 50 yds. down, so we watched the stars come out while we went to sleep to the sound of water...it was wondrous. Hehe, great word.
Third picture, me with some people hiking to Shoshone Lake. The last picture is of someone I went hiking to Fairy Falls with. We were crazy and climbed up the side of a cliff, seriously. On the way up, I was using a rock about the size of a basketball to pull myself up, it came loose and almost fell on the guy that I was hiking with. On the way back down, I fell about 5 feet and scraped up my legs pretty bad. Good times. At the top, we found hidden falls that no one else sees and sat at the edge of the waterfall pondering life. Further on on the trail, this crazy guy did a breakdancing flip thing over a boiling mudpot and almost died. This is the same guy that told a van full of British people that he just proposed to me and I said no. Weird. The British people proceeded to give me their advice on marriage and asked us to send them a wedding invitation. Yeah, it was great.
Anyway, I hope you're all doing excellent. Keep me in your prayers. I'm having a sweet time out here, but there's so much evangelizing that needs to be done! And of course, I keep ya'll guys in my prayers! Send me out some burned cds if you want...I could use some songs...and Tom, enough of the "this is what guys look like when they see Rachael." Yup. God bless and peace on earth.

Command and Conquer

Sarah, your picture looks great on the wall of the Ark! We are now planning on re-upholsering the boothes, so we will probably look to your picture for color ideas. Everyone loves the room upstairs Kenric!! They think the colors are great and a lot of people have been impressed with your pictures. Way to go!
I hope you guys are not tired of work yet. What will you do for the 4th? Big parties?
Remember, don't drink, but you can smoke all the cigars you like!
Now it's off to work I go. Oh yeah, Healing Mass tonight!

So I will post again?

Yesterday was Neil and Amber's wedding. I had a fun time. Didn't really dance that much until the very end. Neil and Amber hit a deer right before they got to their hotel. And now they are on their way to Hawaii (yup, they are going to the hospital in Hawaii).

Ben is back. Saw part of the game two of Pistons and Heat with him. They won, but the Heat stalled the pistons in the third game.

We saw X-Men 3, with 15 or so people. I saw Nick Pobocik from Veritas there and we talked for like a minute.

I think that is all that happened since I last posted.

So I am the only that is posting now?

Adam said this, but I think it shouldn't be true.

The Reasons:
1. There are 10 people who can post on this blog, and only 3 of them can no longer post. But are you sure, they might be alittle busier, but if they don't talk to us on the phone, this is the only way for communication. Granted, these three people probably post the most, especially Rachael (you post hog)

2. Ben is coming back soon, so he will posting like crazy, maybe.

3. Because I decide who posts and doesn't posts.

May 8th

Well Today is Rachael's birthday...as many of you already know...so well what are we going to do about it?... I haven't been shopping yet so I still can get her a present...any ideas EMAIL me. Mmmm.... I really feel like painting. But I need to study...gahhh well HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHAEL!!!! YOU ARE NOW 19 YEARS OLD WHICH IS PRETTY OLD....AND STUFF.

Work is a lonely place to be...

but it's my last day, so I can probably deal with it. File cabinets are being carted out all around me while some of my coworkers stand by and watch. The tables once full of deforestation pamphlets are now empty and only the mohagany tabletops remain. People keep giving me random tasks like vacuuming or moving boxes. The walls once plastered with satellite images of Baghdad before and after the bombing, the Amazon rainforest over the years and other satellite maps are now just empty and way too white. The group in my office space is splitting up; half are moving across the hall and the upstairs are moving in. People are gossiping about who is taking whose stuff and other petty stuff like that. Earlier today, I had to train someone who is almost a grad student to do my work and I've had to train the higher-ups how to use the copy machine, how to send faxes and how to get the mail! (yes, they've been in this building for 10+years and don't know where the mail room is) So, today is just a weird day and I wish I was along with the crew going to get John. 3 hours 10 minutes left and I'll see ya'll tonight!!