need sleep

here is how well i slept this week

• sunday night- 0 hrs - writing a paper
• tuesday night - 3.5 hrs - giving derek a very early ride to the airport, nearly flat tire
• friday night - 3 hrs - moving a cleaning
• saturday night 3.5 hrs - swimming late, early bishopric meeting
• too busy working and taking care of crap to take any naps through the week

well, last night's short hours were my fault. i really should have gone to bed earlier. i'm surprised i'm not dead... or at least really sick. usually a lack of sleep strikes my immune system to nothing. hopefully nothing will happen. gotta be healthy for school on wednesday. yay!

men rule

here's a comment i put on b's blog. he had me thinking of my adventure with my stereo last week...

the best part about being a guy is thinking we can fix something, taking it all apart, feeling incredibly ingenious in the process, not knowing how to fix it, proclaiming it unfixable, and throwing a whole pile of crap away.

the second best thing about being a man is actually fixing it, putting it back together, and ending up with some dang spare part and screws.

starting over

besides an 'a' in my intergrated studies class, this last summer can be characterized as set of failures.

• i failed to make any money.
• i failed to get the girl... twice.
• i failed to get decent attendance in my biology class. (i only made it to three full classes)
• i failed to socialize as i wanted.

toss in a few more failures and we get how i spent my summer.

hopefully this fall will be better. i'm officially done with my generals and should enjoy my classes much more (besides two a-'s, i've had only a's in my philosophy classes) i'll prolly be working full-time soon. busy as i'll be, i'm sure the social life will pick up. prolly still won't get the girl, but oh well.

hmmmm

nobody comments this anymore. i must suck. i thought my last post or my crazy cool update to my flash would at least draw some comments... nope.

maybe i'm just not personal enough on here anymore, so everyone lost interest.

or maybe i just need to piss off people.

apostalic infallibilty

in priesthood on sunday, we were having the lesson on forgiveness and reading pres. grant's account of when he was a junior member of the twelve.

basically the story is about how he hwld a grudge, was unwilling to forgive somebody who sought rebaptism into the church, and later learned to drop his grudge, and learn to forgive. he recalled how he went from wanting to punch the guy in the face to being truly happy for him.

the teacher asked why elder grant was at first unwilling to vote that the man be rebaptized. our ward peter-priesthood-extraordinaire answered, "because the spirit told him not to."

what? huh? whoodawhadda???

the story clearly says that it was his harsh feelings that kept him from forgiving the man and that it was the spirit that told him to forgive.

why is it that some people have to defend the ga's at all costs, denying them human nature... even when the ga's say that they were wrong?

granted, this was andrew who said that god doesn't care if a poor child in africa is starving... because "he sees the bigger picture."

i know we should respect the general authorities and not say crap about them, but is it wrong to acknowledge that they are human beings like us and struggle with things just as we do... especially when they are explicitly saying that?

uggghhhh... some people

woohoo!!!

i got an 'a' on my paper. my professor really liked it

yay.. the semester is over!!!

i just turned in my paper. and have gone way too long without sleep.

here it is...

evangelical support of the war in iraq: a pre-emptive crusade?

i get to sleep soon... i hope....

you know you're way too tired when you look over at the simpson's poster on your wall... and it's in 3-d.

it's just after 7am. i've been up since 9am yesterday. finally finished my draft of my paper. turned out better than i thought it would. just gotta revise it some and drop off the final copy, then i'll be able to sleep... yay...

i'll post it later (not that anyone will actually read it ;)

hell week

hell week is almost over. i'm mostly done studying for my biology final. wake up early in the morning, study a little more. take the final around 7am. then off to salt lake for the sunstone symposium. then back to happy valley to spend the rest of the next 72 or so hours working in a 10+ page paper on religious motives for evangelical support of the war in iraq. yay......

the trib on apostalic succesion

the salt lake trib has an interesting article on apostalic succession in the church.

some things of interest are..

-"current apostles usually are asked to write three names on a slip of paper. With or without open discussion, it will end up being a secret ballot whose results are tallied and then forwarded to the president .... The president sometimes accepted the council's recommendations - and sometimes he did not."

-"In 1901, Joseph F. Smith ignored the unanimous recommendations of the Quorum and put in his 31-year-old son, Hyrum M. Smith, who was a clerk at ZCMI....The church president's only explanation was: 'He's a good boy with a good heart.'"

-Neither Elder Nelson nor Elder Oaks were general authorities before their call to the apostle ship.

"twisted" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

see also: brilliant.
see also: perverted.
see also: addictive.
see also: classic.

i just finished another chuck palahniuk classic, choke. dang... i really like this author. it's the fifth of his books i've read so far.


next up is dan brown's precursor to the davinci code, angels and demons

new book

following a not so very short introduction to immanuel kant is kant's prolegomena which is supposed to be his attempt to make his critique of pure reason more easy to understand. we'll see.