Happy Birthday to a Friend

Pocky in hand, she leaves Sue B. in the later evening

Bound for a library where she'll study all night through

I watch her go while I stave off another yawn and

Then I have to brush my teeth for bed

The feeling that we would be closer friends now

If only our sleep cycles were synched up

I'm glad whenever our paths cross on campus, we're very busy girls

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I'll try to capture every minute, the feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really know what's passed me by?

Each time I leave her without showing my love, unknowing

She's slipping through my fingers all the time.

Half way through school, she and I both agree that we are

Unsatisfied with the friendships we have made

Then when she's gone I don't commit to investing in ours

And I sense my love is limited

What happened to those wonderful friendships?

The ones we once dreamed that we would find

Some aspects we did have, but most we didn't

And why, I think I know

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I'll try to capture every minute, the feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really know what's passed me by?

Each time I leave her without showing my love, unknowing

She's slipping through my fingers all the time.

Sometimes I wish that I could grow devotion

And live it out effortlessly toward her

Slipping through my fingers

Pocky in hand she leaves Burton in the later evening

And I run outside to join her for a while

The Uninvited Tenent Song

He's climbin' in your air ducts
He's munching your cereal
Tryna find a home so y'all should
Evict the mice from your dorm
Evict the mice from your dorm
Evict the mice from your dorm
And hide your cereal
All the way on the top shelf

You don't have to come scurry through
We've had it with you
You've been evicted
You've been evicted

So you can run and tell that, run and tell that, run and tell that
To your home-mice, home-home-mice

We found your droppings
You've left them here like gifts
You are so gross
You are really gross - for real

So gross so gross so gross so gross
He's climbin' in your air ducts
He's munching your cereal
Tryna find a home so y'all should
Evict the mice from your dorm
Evict the mice from your dorm
Evict the mice from your dorm
And hide your cereal
All the way on the top shelf

You don't have to come scurry through
We've had it with you
You've been evicted
You've been evicted

So you can run and tell that, run and tell that, run and tell that
To your home-mice, home-home-mice

Disclaimer: they're not this cute.

The Right Way to Use a Staple Remover

Apparently, there is a right way to use a staple remover that does not involve ripping off the corners of stapled paper with the remover's teeth. Once the correct technique is mastered, the staples remain adhered to the staple remover and thus do not need to be put aside between each use. This is especially helpful when removing staples from a pile of packets 36 inches high.

The technique for the correct usage of a staple remover would be difficult to detail here. I advise learning it through practice as I did. Your new found appreciation for this little device will surely surprise you!

The staples really don't move!

Songs that Stuck

Sorry I haven't posted in a long while; I haven't had time to blog, and as you can imagine, that leaves much less time to watch shorts for Film Friday. 

Here are a few songs that were stuck in my head this week. Let me know what you think.

Tom's Diner

Suzanne Vega

My Rollercoaster

Kimya Dawson

No Rain

Blind Melon

Film Friday the 16th

Sorry if these seem a little depressing... More cheery films coming soon! :)

Grace (2009)

Genre: Black Comedy

Run Time: 2 minutes

If you can tolerate this until the end, I think you'll chuckle a little.

Grace

 A Rusted Heart (2009)

Genre: Animation

Run Time: 4 min

The girl in here reminds me of my friend Jennifer. Especially the part with the frantic wave.

A Yellow Thumb

Do you remember the basil plant I bought last summer? Refresh you memory with Anonymously Anomalous Number 4. Well, the update you never had in September was that my basil plant tried to commit suicide a few times by jumping off my window sill. I did not allow him a very healthy existence. In the end, I had him put down so he could escape the misery of being taken care of by me. 

In May, less than one year after I adopted my Basil, I found myself responsible for 20 large plants in my workplace. I don't think my employer ran a background check on me. 

Yesterday at work, I could not find two of the plants. There were only 18 in the entire building! Two were gone, completely disappeared. I hope they did not choose the same resolve that my basil plant once chose. I hope the best for those two- that they ran away and found a quite contrary lady. A better one than me.

Film Friday 15

This first film could have starred myself and my room mate after one of our Naruto marathons :) Click for more from Wong Fu Productions!

Kung Fooled
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 5.5 min



Too Fast
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 4 min

Alana and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Super Chunk

 I went to sleep in the sweltering heat and the fan blew hot air on me and I rolled over all night long so no single side of my body got too sweaty and I felt like I was cooking in an oven as a rotisserie chicken and when I got up half an hour before my alarm, I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

I woke my room mate twice as often as usual this morning while readying myself and I forsook breakfast for the sake of avoiding the death gaze she does so well for an individual in a semi-conscious state. That gaze is petrifying.

On the walk to work, I realized I was overdressed and felt spiteful at the person who told me that today would be ten degrees cooler than its actual temperature. Yuck! Sweat!

At work, I had to spend time in the basement pulling files. There was a dead mouse last time I had to go down there, but today, in my flip flops, I had a run-in with Mr. Cockroach. I also had a run-in with Pervy Janitor, who wondered aloud whether or not I felt safe in the basement by myself.

When I picked up my package from the post office after work, the man behind the counter scolded me for not putting my P.O. Box in my address. I don't like being scolded.

At bible study tonight, they had crunchy peanut butter instead of smooth peanut butter for our dinner PB&Js. Crunch peanut butter is so... amazing!

I had never even tried it before! I just figured that since my mom always bought smooth, it was the superior spread. Plus the jam was strawberry, for which I was very grateful because I know I don't like grape from actual experience, not assumption.

Also, the basement wasn't so bad. I got to sea and hear a brawny man dancing and singing "All I want to Do" by Sheryl Crow in a strange key in which I've never heard any song sung before!

Furthermore, my being overdressed for the outdoors paid off today because the A/C at work was a bit unbearable and I would have been shivering all day long were it not for the pants.

I really like my room mate and she is quite understanding of my need to be up 3 hours before her in the morning.

Even though I was sweaty last night, I got a full night's sleep.

As you can see, today was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for honesty. I may have gotten carried away with exaggerations.

Fourteenth Film Friday

I think this one is delightful! So delightful that we don't need a second film this Friday! Oh wait, I just ran out of time... Hope you like it!

Jumper
A budding friendship may be very short lived. 
Run time: 5 min

Jumper

Film Friday the 13th - Back with a Vengeance

Remember to click the link below the photo. I know, it's been such a long time!
 
Scarlet's Witch

Genre: Fantasy

Run Time: 17 min

Scarlet's Witch

Drawn

Genre: Adventure?

Run Time: 10 min

 Drawn

Relationship with God

I want to know, not just in my head, but also in my heart, what a relationship with God is. I want to understand how to practically pursue such a relationship. I suppose it starts here: God as Teacher and I His disciple.

Things to Do Over Spring Break

In case you've exhausted your resources:

1. Reset the clock that has been horribly wrong. Watch for one minute to make sure the time actually changes.

2. LARP (Live Action Role Play). You are not LARPing if you are impersonating a narrator.clothing and scream, "Lightning, lightning, lightning!" You must wear medieval

3. Get lost in a park.

4. Make a bucket list and work on completing it.

5. Fill your friend's locked room with balloons. You have to blow them up under the door, tie them off on the outside of the door, and let them go into the room.

6. CHUBBY BUNNY!

7. Reorganize the contents of your refrigerator.

8. Reorganize your friend's unlocked room. Optional: Continue to live in reorganized room over entire break. Act confused when your friend returns, assuring him/her that the room is indeed yours.

9. Think about puppies.

10. Search for the rare and endangered moosealope. Sightings have been made in GVP.

I hope you're not running out of procrastination techniques!

SSM//OSB//HorseRaceAcrossArabianDesert

SuperSecretMission//OperationSpringBreak//PhaseOne

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Soak, Wash, Rinse, Sin

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order [garnished, decorated]. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

Matthew 12:43-45

This unclean spirit did not return to a body that was emptied of its sins. The body to which it returned was actually garnished to suit this spirit's tastes: secret desires and entertainment of temptations adorned the interior. When the unclean spirit returned to this man, it found a body empty of Christ's presence. 

Why would an unclean spirit even leave a man if it were not Christ that had cast it out? One reason could be to deceive that man into believing he had achieved some form of holiness on his own. If the man resolves to be a better person and attempts to overcome his sin on his own power, he will only be able to make an outward show of his righteousness. On his own, he has no power to cleanse his inward being of unrighteousness. I suppose this unclean spirit left in order to allow that man to believe he had succeeded in overcoming sin without Christ.

I keep finding myself in a sin cycle. I pray that God will grant me a better understanding of His gospel. He is the only One that can change me on a heart level.

Film Friday 12

I know I skipped last week, but I thought you had more than enough to chew on from Film Friday 11. This is going to be my last post for another short interim. I'm back at college doing field work and studying (see my posts labeled  Ethnography).

Being Human (2008)

Having supernatural powers might seem like a pretty good thing. But as the two young men in "Being Human" discover, the greatest gifts often come with the highest prices.   

Run Time: 7 min

Telling Mark (2008)

Mark's co-workers have been acting a little strange towards him as of late, and he and his wife, Carlotta, are determined to find out exactly what's going on. Run Time: 10 1/2 min

Spider (2007)

Jack and Jill are always hurting each others feelings. But like Mum said, Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Run Time: 9 1/2 min

 

These three films share a common thread, evoke similar emotions, and resolve in diverse ways. Obviously, I approve. Do you? 

More Bowls of Life

Thanks Mr. Gee from Flickr :)

The Puppy Bowl

A Dirty Bowl of Handsome Life

Chilled Bowl of Ripe Life

Teacup Cozy

Ode to Jill

This is a rhyme about my roommate Jill
She hails from Buffalo, but doesn't root for the Bills
She'll be out on the quad with her slacklining skills
She is a fun person, she's really chill

Jill is the kid in the corner popping vitamin pills
She's certified to save drowning people, she doesn't need gills
If you offered her a pickle, she might take a dill
She loves her mom's chicken noodle soup when she's ill

But wait there's more, if you're reading this still
Yeah, the really great thing about my roommate Jill
Is she wants to live according to the Lord God's will
Nah, she's not your everyday run-of-the-mill
Jill

Nah nah na-na-na-na Jill
Nah nah na-na-na-na Jill

A Surrender Song

Take this life,
     make it Yours
All I am,
     Lord I'm Yours
For all You are
     is all I need
My desire
     is Your will for me

I couldn't find these lyrics online. 
It leads me to believe that Dustin (someone please tell me his last name) wrote this.