i have a profile. i was browsing other peoples blogs, and decided to make one. i'm not sure i like it.

i had a wonderful weekend. jasmine came to sioux center. it was great.

i'm not sure who made such a comment on my other post, from north carolina. calling me crazy.

annonymous comments are intriguing. you never know who it could be. it could be some random person that i don't know at all. or it could be brielle. there are so many options.

i haven't played settlers in a long time. i kind of miss it. i've been really tempted to buy it recently, but just can't bring myself to do it. it's an investment. it's not that big of an investment, but i just can't commit to it.

i still don't know what i'm going to do about my class being canceled. how frustrating i say!

i kindof want to not have a job for the fall. i mean, maybe fixing computer or something. because i'm really fealing this urge to write lately. mind you i haven't actually written anything, but i have this urge. maybe it'll come out some time soon. i talked with jeri the other day, asked her if she could read any thing i might write this fall, and she said sure, "It would be a priviledge." i was surprised by that comment.

i keep thinking of movies i didn't put on my favorite movie list. like punch drunk love. how could i not put that on the list.

neutral milk hotel. that's the band that i'm listening to right now. at about midnight on sunday eve. i like em. a lot.

i'm glad i was able to see ross and those other cats this weekend. it was fun.

i talked to adam the other day. he sounds good. a little afeared of what will come, but it seems healthy. two years is a long time to be away from everything you know.

blazing fingers. what a good image. it's from song number four "Two Headed Boy" on 'On an Aeroplane over the sea' by neutral milk hotel. that was an incorrect usage of a single quote. what were you thinking jack?

if c-h-r-i-s space m-a-u-s-t is out there (sing the name like you would the mickey mouse song, M-i-k...) let me know what youre up to brother? i've been thinking about you lately. hoping you are well.

once i bought a whole bunch of philosophy books at a used book store. ok, it was reperatroy tour after my sophomore year. i had some money for my birthday that was burning in my pocket the whole tour. We were in canada i think, and we happened upon this great used book store. they had rooms upon rooms of books. they even had a whole room dedicated to philosophy. or a shelf. i think it was a shelf. i sorted through it and found about 8 books that i wanted. it was the perfect thing to spend this birthday money on. i'm quite a sucker for used book stores. about three months later, i picked up this book, it was one on kirkegaard, and i realized, that i bought book two of two. the introduction specifically stated that i should not read this book if i had not read book one. i don't know what to do with that book now. should i read it?

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well. i am home. back in sioux center. carolina was good. but i was quite excited to return home. i went straight to siouxfalls last night and visited the girl whom i love. i found out that my class that i was going to take at ncc was canceled...so i don't know what i'm going to do. maybe dordt? maybe correspondance? i just don't know. i do need to graduate. that much is for sure.

So, that means i'll have more time on the philosophy project, which i need.

On the flight back home, my mom and i went on standby on an earlier flight. we were seperated on the plane, which wasn't a big deal, because we fly very often, but i was in the very very back of the aeroplane, and this mother was sitting infront of me. with two children. one boy and one girl, the boy was say, 7 and the girl 11. or maybe he was 9. i don't know really, i have a hard time guessing ages. the boy was being really annoying, taking his mothers magazine, asking what sixty divided by 7 is--bothering her as much as possible. i expected her to ignore him or scold him, but she was hitting him. it was so weird. it wasn't like, a light like, stop that playful thing, but it was whack stop it. stop it. whack. i didn't know what to do. it's not like i could say anything really, who am i but just the guy sitting behind her in the plane. i could tell there were other people who were noticeing. what do you do? and it got worse and worse. i mean he was doing more and more for attention, and maybe it didn't really hurt, but it seems like a horrible precedent.

so, i've decided, and i've thought this before, but now it's for sure, I hate watching other people parent. it's such a private thing. something that works for you and your kids. it's so painful to watch.

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wedding went well.

justabout jumping jack

time to transport

miss merry miss jasmine

carolina cookin'

done!

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any big lebowski fans out there?

that is a good movie. it makes me laugh. i enjoy watching that movie over and over again. and i find, i still wonder exactly what happens in the middle. almost every time, i'm like, now how does this work again? and i still am unsure that i really know. and then it ends, and i'm happy, but then i forget.

last week i changed the settings on my blog, changed it to central time, and then all the times changed. that was weird.

i'm making headway on this philosophy videos. although they are alittle frustrating, i think eventually they will turn out ok. doing blue screen stuff requires a lot of rendering.

i find that i get inspired to do things at odd times. yesterday, jasmine suggested/asked that i make a certificate type thing for what i do with pictures because i agreed to give one away, and i spent like 2+ hours working on that, right then.

i don't really edit this blogging thing. i just type and then post.

i mean i do edit some in my head first, but sometimes it spews forth.

friday today.

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i don't really know what top of the morning means, but top of the morning to ya'll. i am doing well. i took a very nice break for the first half of the week, and then worked yesterday, and i might work this afternoon. i'm a little unsure of whether or not i want too. this weekend ethan and laurel are getting married, so i am going to the wedding, or, um, rather, i'm standing up in it. i'm looking forward to seeing all the people that will show up. hopefully some that i wouldn't have expected.

jasmine is in north dakota this weekend. she is going to a wedding as well. this month we both have weddings on the same weekends, but different places. crazy college graduates with their friends.

i'm getting a little stir crazy here in sioux center. last sunday, i had this instaneed for a big city. i wanted to be in a big city really badly. i'm not sure what exactly i wanted, but i wanted it. maybe being able to get to and see stuff that is close, or the amount of restaurants or stores or hollywood. i'm not sure really. but i wanted to be in it. i guess it's good that i'm planning on moving away to a big city. but i haven't really made any plans yet. you know? i'm planning on it, but nothing is solid yet. so i'm hoping, that something may come up, or at least i will have some place to stay for a little while.

i've begun to think about my screenplay again. after kris (screenwriting teacher) and i met, he suggested that it be a chase movie, the gov't chasing after him. i liked that idea, and i think i may have found a way for it to work. so that it isn't superimposed on the story, but part of it. the constant problem i have is that i don't like the structure i come up with. it feels forced. i think maybe i just need to run with it for a while and see what happens.

the weather is crazy here right now. it got really dark and the wind picked up. it smells like rain.

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it's raining! hard!

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i am taking a vacation. jubilee is done and i'm spending a few days in sioux falls with jasmine. it's nice to be done. the rest of the summer ought to be more relaxing. i started to think about re-writing my screenplay today. i even wrote a scene. it may be not be in the final version, but i still like it.

jubilee went well for me. i filmed most everything. it's such a crazy event, i didn't know what all to get. i did the best i could spreading my self almost every where. i was like peanut butter. sticking to everything. muhaha. it was fun. i guesss. stressful too. but i think i did an a-ok job.

the discovery days video went over well. i think . the people in charge liked it. i hope the kids did too. it was about 12 minutes long. a good length for such a thing i say.

well. not much to say today. the fourth was fun. spent some time with the grandparents and some of dad's family. then we drove to soofoo and watched the fireworks which were amazing. they were very impressive. yep.

that's all. i guess.

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