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I don't know what it is about today, but I had some major flashbacks to drama/choir. I was driving to school and do you know what I heard? "Luck be a Lady Tonight." For those of you who didn't know, that is from the musical "Guys and Dolls" which happened to be our spring musical at BHS. So as I was going to class, I was thinking of my awesome dance moves and practices for that. Then when I was driving back from school, I heard songs I did in Jazz Choir. The songs were "Thank You," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Flight of the Bumblebee," "Yesterday," and "Java Jive." We sang all of these and they came one right after the other! WHAT ON EARTH?!? I do kind of miss singing in a Jazz group and performing on stage. I guess if I wanted to I could get back into it...but maybe in a little while. I don't think now is the right time.

In other news, today wasn't as bad as it could have been. Luckily I remembered the geographic features of the United States and all 50 of them for the test today. There were only like 25 or so questions, but I think I did pretty well. I spelled some things wrong.....stupid POTOMAC river! Now I am just going to eat dinner and do homework later on. After I procrastinate of course! But if you plan to procrastinate, you're not really procrastinating. Are you? Then it would just mean that you are planning to do homework in a different amount of time than you're original idea. Therefore you are not putting it off, you are simply moving it up. Think about that! YES! Look at Mr. Smartypants Scott figuring out things in College! I guess I'll go now. Have a great day everybody!

P.S. I found a funny joke. Enjoy!

" A peanut walks into a police station to make a complaint claiming he was a salted."

What's going on?

First of all, I would like to say that I am pretty happy today. One really cool thing that happened was that I completed my collection today of those tiny green aliens you get out of those quarter machines! I have been trying to get all five since I put my quarter in and got one of those cool little dudes playing basketball. Now I have one doing gymnastics, one doing Karate, one lifting weights, and one that is rowing...Either that or he's planning on doing that one event on American Gladiator where they hit each other with bowstaffs...Either way, I am pretty psyched about my alien dudes.

The next question I have is, what's with all the animals in my neighborhood flocking toward me? First it was that cute little puppy who I got to attached to. It mysteriously disappeared...I'd like to think he found a nice family and is doing fine. Now there is this little cat who is desperate for attention that keeps visiting me when I get home, come out of the house, etc. The cat just keeps rubbing himself against me, climbing on me, and meowing at me. It's a cute cat, but frankly I am not ready for that kind of relationship. I tried to explain to the cat that it should go off and find someone else. It can be happy elsewhere. It just meowed at me and started to climb onto my leg and rub it's head against my hand. *sigh* Next thing you know birds will be starting to hang around my window and whistling at me.

As far as School goes, I would like to quote a friend of mine this week. "I am at that point where it's like, 'Crap, college is hard!' " Indeed it is. There's papers, tests, reading, and all that fun stuff I have to do. I am hitting myself in the head because I chose my schedule, and I really should have thought better. The problem is because of the scholarship, I can't drop anything AND if I do, I won't be a sophomore next year. I guess if these are the best years of my life, I should get used to this.

Other than that, I got some D-Con....A little present for those furry creatures in my house. I read what it does to them on the back. It's really cruel and sick...And I hope that it works and they all die! Sorry, that was kind of morbid of me. Anyway, I hope you all are having a great day. Be safe!

Food

I don't understand why I am hungry after I just ate something. I had supper and I ate a Chicken/Mushroom Pot Pie. I could only eat half of it because I was, "so full." I may have been full because I was eating peanuts and cheetos before hand.... but that's not the point. I finished that, and then Michael decided he was going to cook pizza. I told him that I may have a piece if he made some. When it was ready, I took my piece...which turned out to be two. I was doing homework at the time, so I ate my pieces while trying to figure out the average of these silly numbers. You know what? I was still hungry! Did I take that as a sign that I may be eating out of stress or comfort?!? ABSOLUTELY NOT! I went and got some Pop Tarts. Then while having Pop Tarts, I decided that I need something salty to counter-balance it. Therefore I am here now eating pop tarts, and cheese its. At least I decided to lay off the Cherry Coke for right now and am drinking sugar-free cherry Kool-Aid. Thanks mom!

I also broke two of my drinking glasses today and ran out of paper plates :-( I can get more, I just felt like announcing this to the blog-reading world. While I'm announcing things, I'm singing along with "My Favorite Things." Does anyone have a problem with that?!? As Julie says, "When I'm feeling sad....I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don't feel so bad!"

Procrastination!

I am Procrastinating! I have thought it over, and I think that I can go over my English before class, and I can do my History Homework between the time of lunch and class. This whole weekend I was trying to get myself to do it. Then I got distracted by the TV, internet, going places, and my doggies. I think Binks and I are starting to bond again. We have been talking, and I think he understands where I am coming from. I offered my apologies and truce to him by scratching his really itchy places. I know where at least 3-4 of them are. He was very grateful, often thumbing his foot or making expressions with his doggie face.

You want to know what I do when I procrastinate? Well, first off let me tell you that I collect tiny aliens. They are these little alien figurines that you get out of the quarter machine at Wal-Mart or Kroger. Michael has a Darth Tater. It's basically a Mr. Potato Head that looks like Darth Vader from Star Wars. What I did was put these little aliens all over his head and make it look like he is being attacked by a bunch of little aliens. Then I got my picture phone out and took pictures. Michael joined in the fun, and we also put a little umbrella in his hat and at various times took pictures of him with an MTSU shotglass, levitating various objects, and of course Michael listening to me put on a play with it.

Given the choice of History or playing with Mr. Potato head that looks like Darth Vader....I pick the later. God speed to you all!

P.S. While Michael and I were watching TV, a mouse ran across the floor. I don't mice or rats or little furry things that run around the house.

Welcome back, Scotter! (Part Two)

Feeling very stressed on my first day of school, it seemed like there was only one way to go. Actually, it was more like praying that it wouldn't get any worse! The next day I had three classes. I had Research and Argumentative Writing, College Algebra, and Survey of World Civilization II. In the words of the famous announcer Dierks McPunitar, "Let the Games Begin!" (I made up that name because I have no idea who first said it)

My first class was Argumentative Writing. I didn't feel that it would be too bad, because I enjoy writing. Something weird and unusual happened. I picked the same time for this class that I had picked for Expositry Writing last semester. I was looking for my room number and it turned out that I am in the exact same room I was in last semester! Interesting, isn't it? My professor for that class was very jovial. He was obsessed with someone's laptop that was brought in, but overall I can see that this will be a good class.

With that feeling resonating inside of me, I went out to go to College Algebra. I didn't know what to expect of this, because I haven't taken Algebra by itself since 8th grade! Don't get me wrong. The last course I took in math was Calculus, so it's not like I haven't used it! It was in the nursing building which took me forever to find. It turned out to be an interesting class. The women that is teaching it is a little hard to understand because of her accent. Despite all of that, I understood what we were talking about! Looking on my day, everything was good. Now it's on to History.

I got into class, and was worried that it would be really difficult. It will be a lot of work, but the professor is really cool. He seems like a funny guy, and he is willing to help. Right when I got home, I opened all of my books that were still pre-packaged. I am not dropping any classes!

Things seem to be going well. I'm pretty happy with how everything is going. Michael and I even got to play some darts last night. It kind of bummed me out that he beat me 3 out of 4 games.....oh well. You can't win them all!

Welcome back, Scotter!

I was worried about today because it's the whole, "Calm before the Storm" theory. To start off with, it stared raining last night and continued throughout the day. My first class wasn't until 1:00 this afternoon, so I did have some time to sleep in and relax. However, there was also a lot of time to worry about where to find the classes, what the professors would be like, and so on. Finally the time came to go to school.

I had two classes today. Topics in Physical Science and Survey of United States History II. A friend of mine is in Physical Science with me, so that is pretty cool. I don't really know what to make of that class. The professor seems really nice. He is very passionate about learning, science, his family, and he told us that we will leave the course learning not only physical science, but also philosophy and asking and answering the really tough questions of life. He was a football coach, an athlete, and an actual research scientist. He means business! It's the class that you are afraid to sleep in our give the wrong answer...at least so far. As he put it he is either, "All wet" or "a lot of fun." Either way it will be interesting.

After that class, I walked in the rain to history, with my broke umbrella. History class is REALLY big. Roll itself took more than 5 minutes. I got in there and this women professor is....well....let's say that she is very enthusiastic about what she does. We went over expectations and all the homework we have to do. A certain amount of chapter(s), a book outside of class, then exams and paper(s) coming up. In the midst of this, I was feeling very overwhelmed. Then I just laughed. I wrote in big capital letters, "BRING IT ON!" Ha! TAKE THAT STRESS!!! The professor seems really nice and is willing to help. I just have to take a deep breath and say, "It's college."

I have three more classes to go...hopefully in those classes I will find something that a little lighter. If it's all nuts this semester, then I may be gaining the freshman 15 in the next 4-5 months! I will just say this....BRING IT ON!

I think the best thing to do is to just write on here until I figure out what it is that I want to say. You would be amazed at the type of things that suddenly come to mind once you just let go and start writing, or rather typing in this case. I once started writing about how I was really bored and then it got into a question of what the purpose of life was. It makes you wonder about the Purpose of life and then the purpose of your own life. Do both coincide with each other, or does everyone have a specific purpose that will ultimately fit in with the absolute purpose in life? I think the second is more true. After all, it's not all about us. Is it? That's not to make light of life to think that no one person can make a difference. I believe that if we are to make a difference, we should realize that the difference will not be reflected for the better of the person. Rather it will be reflected for the better of the ultimate purpose. The reason why we are all here to begin with.

See what I mean? Stuff just comes out...Rather it makes sense or not is beyond the point. Let's try to talk about something different, shall we? I love my dogs. They are very weird, but also very loving. Lindy will just stare into my eyes for a long period of time, and Binks' whole personality will come alive when I just through a blue ball across a lawn. If I am gone for a couple of days, they will cry and bark like they haven't seen me in years! They are very spirited it's true, but they also are very aware of what's going on. They know the right times to beg, the right times to sleep, and they know when to come near a member of the family. For instance if I am bored or dad is just sitting there, Lindy will come and try to climb on a lap, or Binks will start speaking to you asking if you want to go outside and play fetch. Yes, Binks speaks. I just wish he would stop correcting my grammar...

Well, I hope you all had fun reading my blog! That is if there are people out there reading it. I hope there are. :-) I wish you all the very best and I hope you have a great rest of the day!

Passion 2006

Here comes the big post. I would like to tell you Passion '06. Just try to imagine about 18,000 college students from all over the world coming together for one purpose. As the conference put it, the purpose is described by Isaiah 26:8 which says, "Lord, we love to obey your laws; our hearts desire is to glorify your name." There were students from all denominations, states, countries, and personal backgrounds that came to this conference. It was held in Nashville, and there are many different ways to describe how big it was. There were FLOODS of people coming up and down the streets. Every single seat at the GEC (Gaylord Entertainment Center) was filled. As Louis put it, "I'm glad to see so many college students in one place who are sober!"

Despite all the people there, we also had some time to get into small groups and also to hear various speakers. I will not talk about all of them, I will just mention what I got out of it. The most practical and applicable part that I took out of this conference, was when I went to the Breakout called, "Habitudes." The session was described as, "It will focus on truths regarding how to best lead yourself, connect with others, and lead your team." It did that through giving images that help to give you a clear picture of different types of leadership and organization techniques. The six images are the mirror effect, rivers and floods, Paul Revere Principle, Bit Market, Big Rocks First, and Life Sentence. I loved this workshop because I learn through pictures and this helped me a lot. All of these I loved, but the one image I liked best was Rivers and Floods. They are both bodies of water, but floods damage and rivers are useful in many ways. Rivers are flowing in one direction, with a single purpose. Floods go everywhere and cause unspeakable damage. Just think of Katrina or the tsunami's around the world. This image also gives the impression that in our ministry we start off as rivers. We have clear focus and great clarity. Then we try to take on thing after thing, it ends up flooding. The questions are, "What is your River?" and "Are you starting to flood?"

If you want to learn any more about this, go to www.growingleaders.com. Habitudes was by Dr. Tim Elmore. I personally do not have the books, but this has helped me out. There is so much more to say about the conference. We talked about how BIG God is and how SMALL we are. It just blows your mind. There was a lot of focus on suffering and the fact that we have the potential to change history. Personally that kind of freaked me out. Although you have to remember that God is bigger than you think. I know I'm guilty of putting him in a box. If you have any more questions, feel free to comment. I hope you all have a great rest of the day.

A big post is soon to come....I just need to collect my thoughts so that I can give a full, and detailed description of what happened with Passion '06.