Thirsting for Knowledge

This inspirational image of the week is inspired by the refusal of anyone to put any more soda in our vending machines. No, I don't know why, but I do know knowledge ain't the only thing I'm thirsting for right now. :P

Monday Monday Monday....

I love this picture not only because of the strength it represents in that tree, but because it reminds me of when I was a kid and things were so much simpler.

There was no car to deal with, no homework, no Westboro Baptist Church protest near my school...but there was one complicated thing: I could not understand how this tree survived. It was in the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island. This tree, an ancient tree it was massive, was fallen over. Many of its roots (probably a little less than half) weren't even in the ground anymore -- but it still sprouted leaves in the spring, was a beautiful green all summer, and then dropped it's leaves into the pond it hung over in the fall. It was fascinating.

And, for those of you who were interested in my writing, I had an idea...and now I have created a blog for said idea. Go check it out...right now I am just creating characters for the stories, but you can go check out their Glamorous life.

Monday's Inspiration

I have had such a shitty day, so as a little pick-me-up....

It has, particularly, been a day lacking in the theme of today's inspiration.

Inspiration for the Week!

I can't explain it either.

"Flying too high with my head in the sky..."

I kind of totally missed Monday so..........this week's random picture is going to be uplifting!It's a sunset in Greece! I don't know which island, but one of them.

I was playing "Anywhere But Here" today, and "vacationing on Aegean" totally won. And it was mine. I was surprised, usually somebody tops that somehow but since the semester just started and we are all hearing this marvelous stories from our friends who were abroad last semester, Greece really is super appealing right now. :P

The Good Samaritan

First things first....inspirational picture of the day!

I love stained glass windows, and this is of the parable of the Good Samaritan -- someone we should all try to be like.
The phrase "Good Samaritan" has popped up a lot in the past day. I think it might be a sign from God "This is what you're doing. And no matter how much you're getting shit on right now, I appreciate it."

Secondly, I need to write some stuff out...
I was going to write about the amazing amazing amazing touring show of Wicked that I saw this weekend. However, the sheer incredulous...crap of the past 24 hours deserves a blog entry too. And it's more on my mind. So I'm going to try posting about Wicked later.

Instead, I'm going to quickly give you an overview of the past 24 hours. My parents were driving me crazy, I went to the clubs, I met up with a friend of mine who'd just gotten out of the ER cause he wanted to hang out, nobody was really taking care of him, I paid for our food (and not just ours, his roomates' too!) which came to $35 but I only got $20 back, which I then put towards Josh's Vicodin. I went to sleep at 7, and woke up to Josh fighting with ex-boyfriend (who still lives with him) -- the ex then claimed he'd been taking care of Josh all night except, no, that was me. Today we went to Josh's grandparents so I could be reimbursed for the Vicodin and the gas I spent, but they wouldn't give Josh squat.
So I'm broke, and I'm gasless, and I'm pissed off.
But at least I did a good deed, right? That's alright, I'll get money from his grandparents some other time. We'll visit them again before I leave, and if that doesn't work, I'll charge interest and write them a nice letter.
I'm not a selfish person, I just cannot afford to be doing good deeds that cost money and not be getting paid back.

Mondays Inspirational Picture

This is really pretty, and I'm sort of looking at it as representing the end of an era and the beginning of a new -- my first holiday season without Johnna! :( But I am sure we will both have great holidays anyways!
So, I hope you all are making the best of any and all of the changes in your lives.

In other exciting news...Shaney is back to blogging! How happy does that make you? Cause it's making me pretty ecstatic! :)

Inspirtational Picture of the Week

Okay, it's more of a message than a picture, but you know what I mean...

It's Monday so.....

Monday's Inspiration...

Since this is the week of Thanksgiving and all...Google said the title of this was "To Be Thankful" and believe me, I am, I am!

I'm not feeling very inspired but...

It's supposed to have something to do with the circle of life...yeah.

Weeky Inspirational Picture: Priorities

A little picture about being greater than you are for your weekly inspiration.

This weekend was buuuuusy. It was Homecoming.
Of course, Homecoming is always a little bittersweet -- on the one hand, the alumni come back which is exciting. And I'm *swamped* with all of the fun things I need to do. But...everyone's with their families who come visit on Homecoming too. Except, my family doesn't come because they live too far away and because they get swamped with all of that October stuff they do. Haunted whatever-it-is-for-whatever-group-we're-in-this-time.

Friday afternoon I discovered that the Internet had kicked the bucket. I was not pleased -- but at the time I thought it was just my computer. When my worries that my computer was biting the big one were relieved, I still wasn't pleased but I was happier about the whole situation.

Friday night there was the Mad Cow Homecoming show. Mad Cow is our campus' comedy improv group (award winning, if I'm not mistaken), which I would love to be involved with but currently am not. (Next year I'll have time, I swear, I swear!) It was hysterical, but there were sooo many people there. I sat on a stair in an aisle in the auditorium...and let me tell you, my butt hurt.

(The picture of the group last year. Some of the people in it have graduated and others have been added to the group this year.)

Then I went to our GSA's baking party. We have one every Homecoming so we can sell baked goods at the Midway on Saturday. Traditionally, I am not allowed in the kitchen. We maintained this rule again this year, so our rainbowy yumyums weren't destroyed.

So, then I went back to the dorm to check my e-mail and make sure I had everything scheduled right for Saturday. Whoops, no Internet means no e-mail.

So Saturday morning came, I woke up early so I could be in plenty of time to prepare for the parade. I had been given a place on the theater clubs float. The theme for the parade was college life, and given that the parade is family oriented we chose for our float the only family appropriate aspect universal to every college student everywhere: Procrastination.
So our float was basically a flatbed truck with an entertainment center on it. We watched Aladdin as we paraded down the streets of town. When we got to the judges, we were supposed to have 30 seconds to do a skit, but our driver never stopped so we just shouted "We'll finish the float tomorrow!" and that was that.

Then there was parking, because I had been one of the driver's to the fairgrounds where the parade began. It was a disaster. I won't even go into it. See that picture? It's from Texas, 1947. It's only slightly better than what parking was like on campus. I had to park in the most remote place on campus -- I'd never even been there before. The point is, those parents that were visiting screwed up my parking. :-P

So, then I had to run to the Midway to get to the theater club's table in time to work there. I sold a lot of shirts, and then someone else showed up and we had four people there so I headed out so I could get out of the PJs I had worn for our float. Me, PJs, public places? Not happening. :-P Anyways, then I had some free time, so I went and bought some stuff from the various tables (I ended up getting five t-shirts, three books, one bracelet, and some food. Oi!)

AGH! The Internet just disconnected, I panicked, but it came back. I am not going another day without connectivity! Rah!

Moving on, then I showed up at GSA table and was there for a while. I had brought a Bible verse with me (1 Timothy 4:1-3, if you want to look it up) just in case a heckler showed up. We're in Central PA, it could happen. And I'd heard it already had happened earlier, so I was being prepared. Some old woman who probably wasn't supposed to be on campus to begin with....

Anyways, then I went to the theater and worked on building the set. You see, they scheduled a tech weekend this weekend -- on Homecoming! I know, right?

And then I had to go to the club cause the GSA was taking the alumni (well, alumnus) out for the night. I was tired, didn't really want to go, but I still went because I was supposed to hang out with my one of my best friends, Cody afterwards.
Except Cody left the club with some guys he barely knows for a club he's never been to. Did he bother to call and let me know? No. Did he even bother to call after I called him and he didn't answer and I left a voice mail to see if he was coming back? No. Did he come back? No. Did he even realize he'd ditched me? Not until about 3:30, which is after a half an hour of me trying to explain how royally pissed off I was with him and him not understanding what he'd done wrong. If I were dating him, he'd be so incredibly done after that -- especially because he ditched me, without calling, on Thursday night. That was valid, he was helping a friend, but still. He's got a cell phone.
Anyways...

Sunday was nice. I slept in. I had a meeting with my cast for the one act I'm directing this semester, and then I went and worked in the theater some more, and then I went and saw the concert the two a capella groups on campus had. Which was roughly amazing.

The thing about my campus, and I'm sure it's true everywhere, is you get these sort of "celebrities". The a capella singers, the Mad Cow performers, and some of us theater kids all fit there. (Not to be egotistical, but I'm totally speaking from experience here ;-)) But, I mean, obviously we all know of each other too. And I have to say all of the singers and improvers are the most chill people ever. Well, I don't know all of the new ones yet, I'll be honest, but I'm sure they're totally awesome.

So then I came back to my dorm and didn't have Internet until midnight.

Monday's Inspirational Picture!!

Okay, so it doesn't look *that* inspirational...but it is. It's a picture of two deeply committed penguins -- who happen to be gay.

Feeling...inspired?

"To have joy, one must share it." (Lord Byron)
Two Mayan children share laughter and cuddles...

No further news on my friend yet...but I'm sure he's alive!

To touch is to love

I just thought that was cute. The caption says "To touch is to love"

So that's your (really late) inspirational picture for the week!

Monday's Inspirational Picture

As the word on the picture suggests, this is a picture about endurance. Struggling through the snowy, dead winter. Not giving up.

Be that leafy tree in the winter, guys, because otherwise you'll just be another dead tree.

(I know, not as good as it could have been...but this is while I'm writing a paper so...forgive me!)

Monday's Inspirational Image

I think this one needs no explanation or description....other than, I like it.
It says:

HOPE
Hope is a wonderful thing,
something to be cherishedand nurtured
and something that will refresh us in return.

And it can be found in each of us,
and it can bring light into the darkest of places