RIP

by the time you read this, it'll probably all be over, but as I type, Shvown is taking his last fishy gulps of water. He's dieing. It's kinda sad. He hasn't been eating normal for about a month and the conclusion was that held "get hungry and start, or die". well... judging by the large bump on his side and his preponsity to floating to the top and laying on his side, I think this is the end.

As a matter of irony, my fish family expanded two nights ago with the purchase of two gold fish, promptly named Oscar and Wilde. For the record Shvown hated them and while the plan was to share a tank, seeing as he tried to rip them apart through the glass, we decided otherwise for the health and wellbeing of Oscar Wilde.

A few last words about Shvown, a "eugueguly" if you will.
He was a good fish. A small fish. An angry fish, but then again he was a fighting fish. Shvown I will miss you bright red color and unnecesary shows of aggression, and I know it will make you unhappy Shvown, but I'm sure that the goldfish will be happier without you around to scare them.

Shvown, rest in peace, and sleep with the fishes.

I'm still alive : )

Good news world, I am still out there, alive and well. I keep getting e-mails from people asking me if I'm still around, and the answer is yes, I'm not dead yet!

I don't know when the last time most of you got an update was, but after my job with the city ended, I took up residence in the basement of my girlfriend's parent's house and painted it while I waited for Chris to finish with her final exam (this was last December). Then rounds about the new year I took off and headed out to California where I met up with my brother and dad. We chilled and went to Whistler, Canada to ski for rounds about a week. Here's a pic


That was cool except I missed Christine, and my brother doesn't like skiing, and by day 4 it got so warm it was raining instead of snowwing, so not only could you not ski, but walking around sucked because it was 2 inches of slush.

After returning from that trip (and smuggling an apple through customs. "Ha, take that American Security!"), I spent a few more days with Christine and my fam and stuff before having to come back to Kalamazoo for school.

And now I'm here. I'm taking 20 credit hours, so my life is studying. The list consists of: Calc II (honors), Linear Algebra, Foundations of Modern Worldview, Jogging, Physics I, and Engineering 2020- service learning in design. Its not to bad though, I like all this stuff. Chris and I are together perpetualy too, which makes it okay, because she has to work as hard as I do, so we get to not have social lives together.

I got a fish too, his name is Shvown (pronounced sh- like "sh.. be quiet" -von like "von maur") this is him


and I got a whole bunch of plants. I like plants, and so does Chris's mom so she got me the hook up. This is shvown and his cactus


and yes, shvown lives in a mason jar. I also got a plant here on my desk which is growing in one of Christine's coffee mugs (I wasn't thinking when I grabbed that mug). If Ben Phol still reads this, can you guys in St. Paul bring back my cactus from the second floor some time? that'ld be cool.

We go to the campus catholic church which is very hippie. The "halleluia" is definitley not right, seeing as thier version has verses and in the third one all the instruments cut out and everybody starts clapping and swaying. They also have a picture of Jesus in the lobby that looks suspiciously like Bob Marley, I'll have to take a picture of it and post it.

But I'm rambling so here's one last pic from campus

LCC is back.

woo woo.

Only one day a week, hopefully.

I guess that is, I will update later; if LCC becomes the bomb or something.

Comment dit-on...i hate french...en francias?

Yeah pretty much...I am totally confused in this class. Instead of teaching us French like a normal teaching class where you teach stuff, the professor is using the class like a refresher for people who already took French in high school. Which was about half of the class, before the other half of the class ( the non-french speakers) dropped out. Today she was going over some grammar stuff like we already knew it and she was just reminding us. Well hey, how bout all those French speakers join the class ahead of this class....gahhh I am going to have to study for this class a bunch and that makes me angry. Other than that I hope that I get good enough grades in my other classes... I think that I might p/f this class so that it doesn't show on my GPA ( I can do that for two UP classes).

A simple request... to plan ahead

Alrighty, I was at home last sunday. It was a little after noon, and I received a phone call from none other than Marney. The request was simple, "wouldest thou be inclined to travle great distances to come hither for a social gathering?" The clincher: its in a few hours. The real clincher: I live a few hours away. I do apreciate that you thought of me and invited me, and I do know that history tells us that I do not plan ahead and do things on the spur of the moment, and that resonablity has no room with me, but I still feel as if I have some small room to hassle you for contacting me so late. If I was someone other I would think that perhaps you didn't realy want me to come at all, and you waited untill the last second to invite me just to seem curtious, just as a wise man offers to help his wife with the dishes just as she finises.
Actually I don't care it was an honest try. And just in case anyone is wondering I'm curently living in the basement of my girlfriends parents house. And you can try to invite me again, but on saturday I'm getting on a plane to goto California, then to Canada.

Hello, anybody home?

Of course not, half of us are still up, or over at college.

Just got done with my Pyschology final exam and she graded it on the spot, and I got an 84 on it. That puts me to a 4.0 in the class with a 93%. And I know in drawing I got a 3.0 (I don't if Kenric and Sarah know this or not, but someone was complaining because they got a 3.0 in the class, because he was talking during class. He had like 3 10 point drawing, and still got a 3.0. What was your teacher's method for grading?) And film, I probably got a 4.0, Photoshop-no idea, Philosophy-still up in the air. But a good chance for a 4.0, if not, 3.5.

Anywho (I did see the Grinch the other day, both versions, the cartoon version and Jim Carrey.)

What is everyone up to, besides getting significant others or losing theirs (Paco, Ben, Tom, Sarah, and Marnee are not included.)?

Overpopulation Concerns Force U.S. To Reopen South Dakota

Here

I want to be the first citizen there, and open a business up, so the state will be better off than Michigan.

if my head breaks....

Ok so here's the plan....I just finished a geography exam and I just wrote a 3 page sociology paper...
tonight I will write my whole english essay complete with secondary sources and post it on the peer review board to get extra credit....( which I really need in that class)...
Then I get up early tommorrow and do my sociology exam, then I go to work at 11am.
On my lunch I study for my math exam and finish some homework.
When I get home from work at 9pm I crash into a little heap on the floor...then I go drink a glass of wine.
Then I go study some more for math. Then I sleep. Then I get up and go to school take a math exam and then finish my annuity project.
Then I watch tv for 5 hours straight....

The results of the elections went as planned

No, seriously, look here to prove it:
Here

I am going to get rid of my blog

My life has become too busy to operate a blog.

I am going to get rid of my blog

My life has become too busy to operate a blog.

Where's Rachaela?

I haven't heard from Rachael in a long time. Haven't been seeing many comments if at all. I just want to know if she was eaten by a polar bear or something.

hola

The last few weeks I have been hearing all kinds of things that I find confusing. First there was someone who told me that Graphic Design didn't pay well and not to go into it. Then someone told me that it is not a "hot" field right now. Someone else told me that they were told by a career guidance person that it was a 'hot' field. My aunt is in graphic design and she was making around $35 an hour when she used to work full time....in fact when she tried to quit, her boss paid for setup in her house so that she could still do work while at home. Dad says that it all depends on how good you are. Part of me just wants to quit and go into an easy money career like nursing where I know I would be good and wouldn't have a problem finding a job. But another part of me says "screw the critics, I'll be good if I have to draw 50 hands and 500 buildings a day." I will get a job....will...
Or I could just go be a missionary in some third world country...so many options....I wish that God just dropped a letter from the sky that had the instructions for your life written on it. I want to follow his will... but I don't know what it is...I just guess and go with what seems right...mmmm that sounds highly subjective...anyways art...graphic design...just seems right. Even if it doesn't make sense all the time. Of course there is always the fear in the back of my mind that I am just doing what I want and ignoring all the signs telling me to go in the opposite direction.
This has been your "Sarah is thinking out loud and putting it into writing for the whole world to see" session. Hope you enjoyed it.

A Ringing Animosity

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7933050993541682664

This is a link to the movie trailer I edited in Film class. That's right, Google has even accepted this great masterpiece.

Spoilers:
Just to tell you, I shot the matrix scene, and pay attention to what happens 38 second into it, and I am a runner too.

Spring Break in Quebec

Your first reaction to this post might be about drinking, but that is actually not the intention of it. I was just talking to a girl I recently met, Kathleen Hilker, and since both of us have some French education (me almost none, but still) we were thinking about how great it would be to go to nearby Quebec to get some French culture experience. (Now Jill Thelen wants to go too). Of course I remembered how y'all want to go to Canada anyway, so we thought maybe it would be a good spring break trip. It seems like it won't work out for this semester, and since 4 of us (her included) go to LCC, we have the same spring break. Now, I don't mean to exclude John or Paco or Ben, but I think that with that many of us having the same schedules, we can work something out for all of us. We will have to get the spring break dates for Western and St. Thomas as soon as we can. So, what do you think? And Kenric and Rachael, you should come also! If you are interested, tell us your spring breaks, and we will make something happen! Oh wait, I forgot Sarah will be at Central...well we will need to get their dates too, so that she and Jennifer can come also. And Kyle and Jarud, if you guys check this, make sure you don't have to work and get us Baker's dates. Wow, there are a lot of people and colleges represented here! This is crazy. Wouldn't it be great to have one big convoy heading out to Quebec for a week? Yes!
Even if only a few days...whatever we can work out. Is that everyone? Hey, invite anyone else you can think of too!

Whoot!

Alright, this is John rejoicing, life is officially good. Not to say it was bad, but I'm officially out of the danger zone. As of a few hours ago I am a full time employee of Portage city for the next few months. John is no longer a poor sap who is a barnacle on the under belly of society, slowing down the ship and sucking up valuable resources while contributing nothing. No, this is the case no longer, I shall now be a value adding particpant in the world, making sure that our streets are free of leaves! I can now buy food without fear that I wouldn't be able to pay rent. I no longer have to stay awake at night deciding who I would rather not pay, Dad or the government. I have an income now, and more importantly, something to do all day. Sitting around with nothing to do sounds like fun, but it gets old after awhile. And with that said, I bid you adu.

What's up with this?

Alright guys, driven priniciply by the fact that no one has made a half decent post, let alone apost in a while, and because I haven't seen or spoken to any of you in a while I'm making a post. I'm also going to tell you all what I'm doing because it'll fill some space. I think I got a job (thats right, I'm still unemployed. "how is the rent getting payed?" you ask. Well... I don't know but it seems to and I'm still alive), but any way I think I got a job. Fall leave pick-up. I'll be that guy who works for the city carrying a leave blower and riding on the back of a garbage truck picking up leaves, but its a 7-3 kinda job only five days a week which means plenty of time to go on awsome trips and hang out in the evenings with my girlfriend.

Thats a picture of her too, we went to a doughnut shop and that doughnut she's holding is about the size of a dinner plate. Her name be Christine Venner, and I'm trying to get her to come out to Fowler to meet ya'll. She's game, it just that she actually has a life and things to do, unlike me.
So now I'm going to post another picture... This one'll work,

we were making puppy chow in her room. We didn't use a recipe, so we didn't knwo how much sugar to use. It turns out that you only need, like, two cups, but we used almost the whole bag.
And I just remembered some fun stories. Right now I'm not a student as you all know, but Christine is, and she gets all sorts of e-mails about coloqium talks. She doesn't like to goto these (or more specificly she'ld rather do homework) so she tells me about them and go (they aren't mandatory or anything, I just think they are so cool). So, I'm going to the talks with titles like "auto-ionizing states and their relevance to ion-electron interactions" and others that I don't recall. But so first off it's funny that I'm going because even the students don't go, but to top it off I keep showing up at the receptions and these people are so cool about it. I'm standing around talking to professors and the chair of the physics department and they ask things like, "what classes are you in?", or "how long have you been and western?", and I just laugh and say, "I'm not even a student". Then the best one was when I went ou to dinner at Olive Garden after one of these talks with a bunch of professors, graduate students, and a visiting proffesor from Berlin. I had so much fun, these people are so freeking smart.
And now I'm goign to throw down some song lyrics because it reminds me of dancing in the park, and then take off because I'm in the library and I'm expecting a call from Christine in a sec.

it's her hair and her eyes today
that just simply take me away
and the feeling that i'm falling further in love
makes me shiver but in a good way
all the times i have sat and stared
as she thoughtfully thumbs through her hair
and she purses her lips, bats her eyes as she plays,
with me sitting there slack-jawed and nothing to say
coz i love her with all that i am
and my voice shakes along with my hands
cause it's frightening to be swimming in this strange sea
but i'd rather be here than on land
yes she's all that i see and she's all that i need
and i'm out of my league once again

Great song; Out of my league by stephen speaks

homework is totally freaking me out guys. argggg i don't have enough time. my shoulders hurt from being on a computer so much.

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.