howdy there,

thanks for stopping by.

please take a minute to sign the guest book.

it is much appreciated.

as far as things go, i'm doing good. leave for ontario on tuesday night. going to the wedding of one bethany ka-nig-it.

visiting lots of people on the way. which i'm excited for. so if you are on the way, we might stop by. you know who you are.

good and bad fly at me at an uprecendented pace. okay, not unprecedented, but it is fast. dordt people, welcome, now, if most of you could please leave, i'd be happier. saying good bye is weird and hard. people leaving, margo, gabe, rob, people coming, ross, brielle, reuben, joshua, people still here, kevin, well, you get the picture. i'm happy to have my friends closer again, but does that mean other ones have to leave? what the crap.

things aren't looking well for jasmine's grandmother. please pray for her.

we plan on visiting her on the way to ON(tario).

but things do seem to be looking better for her godmother, so, praise God for that.

any who. i'm doing okay. i've said that like 20 bajillion times. i had a hard time getting out of bed this morning, you know how it is sometimes, you just want to sleep more. that's how i felt this morning, more sleepy.

by the way, i've stopped biting my fingernails. take that. habits. psh.

• eat lunch
• do laundry
• work for "dr. roger"
• drive awesome car
• hope that dordt hires me to do more dvd creating.
• end bulitted list.

so, if you have the time and the energy, please feel free to send me something. it doesn't need to be anything big, maybe a peice of paper you found and wrote a letter on, or maybe a dried cactus, or maybe, a small engine that you might need repairing. i make no promises. email me. i'll let you know my mailing address if you don't already know it.

(ps, i like how my dordt college email account has become my throw away account. i don't care if i get spam in there. i don't go there anymore. [but i do check it])

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this week has been really weird.

I say this because so much is going on. Jasmine's grandmother had brain surgery this week--to remove a tumor. We learned that a good family friend of her's has breast cancer, her second bout with cancer. Mark, Jasmine's dad fell and tore a ligament in his ankle. So all this bad/unfortunate health things are happening to people that Jasmine loves, and I feel powerless.

Every one who is attending dordt this semester is back in town, so i'm have a lot of time with people i haven't seen in a while. Joshua is back, worked construction on an island. Margaret is leaving for BC tomorrow--thursday, rob is taking off for chicago, gabe is leaving for new york, like permanantly. Brielle is back. Ross is back. all these people--so i'm have a good week socializing and remembering with old friends.

work is going well, we film more and i edit more. we are finishing up more and more every day. it's looking like i have about 6 or 7 done now. i'm really happy about that. i'm not sure how much longer i will be working on this philosophy stuff, but if it keeps coming i'll do it. I'm having a meeting with the advancement people about jubilee stuff on friday--to decide if they want to procede with any jubilee dvd type stuff. so i'm kinda working with that a little--they want me to come to the meeting with some things in hand. some days i feel really busy, and others just take forever to finish working.

and i'm not going to dordt. which is weird. to be done, and to still be here. it's like summer vacation work just keeps truckin' which is good, but weird.

my sunburn is almost better. which i'm really happy about. after it kept me up half the night, i am happy to be almost rid of it.

thend

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well, i didn't mean to profesy my own fryin' but it seems that i did. i got myself a nasty sunburn on saturday--and it hurts. Jasmine, Derek, Kayla, their son Mason and i went boating (i may have spelled some name wrong....) i put on some sunscreen-not enough though. and i am paying the price. my shoulders are what hurt the most. i also burned my stomach, part of my back, and some of my inner arm.

today i went back to work. we worked on taking some pictures of some old pictures, postcards, and magazines that we will use as backgrounds for the videos that we are working on. it was a good time. i also got to see matthew and brielle. they are back in town because brielle is taking her last semester here at the d-o-r-d-t. they seem well. we went to eat at the mexican restaurant "La Fiesta." How tasty. Mmmmgood.

I'm thinking about how to plan the roadtrip to ontario, where to stop when etc. i'll figure it out.

...j....a....c....k

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day.

get it?

i've seen jasmine almost everyday this week. it's great.

school starts in 5(?) days. and i'm not going. how about that? it's weird.

still crankin' on philosophy videos. making serious headway recently. we might be done soon. or done with what we have.

welp....

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I had a good weekend, thanks for asking. I hope you are well, and all your projects are proceeding as planned. As for the quartet, I think i'll have to pass, i'm a horrible singer. Unless I really know the song...at least that is what she tells me. Yes, we are still doing very well. Every time we spend more time together i get more excited for the next and the next time. Until those times all run together into one big time, I shall be waiting.

I've been thinking about what you wrote about writing and action. I think it's true, these times are quite actionless. Most seem to be who they are, but don't like to let you know. I'm afraid sometimes I too fall into this trap of inactionness. What I mean is, I like to be who i think i am, and i like to think that i am a good (as good as one might be), thoughtful person but i don't act that way. I fear that my lack of action may actually be the action that I don't want to show. What a turning, and twisted sentence.

If I reference my own writing too much, do let me know, it's a habit i got into whilst in college. So many emails you know, and so much time. Well, it didn't seem like time then did it?!

My plans for the future are as always, unsure. I hope to move to LA and get a job so that i can pay bills and be happy. I mean that if i couldn't pay bills i would be extremely frustrated. I hope that i don't get all of my satisfaction from my job. I hope that it is fun though. Things--Priorities change as time passes. I want job satisfaction.

Have you ever considered how much time you have left in porportion to how much you have spent? I was at this reception the other day (friday[that's a story in itself...]) and a friend, i guess colleuge, suggested, that each year of life is shorter that the previous, because of the amount of time that it is adding (percentage) to the whole. I think that's what he said. another friend, Kevin, suggested that it made perfect sense...but that it might not later, this, is later, and it doesn't make sense. I think it's like this, because now, i'm 22, this next year, the 22nd year there is less time left if my life so there fore the amount of time that it adds to the whole is less, so it goes faster (?) i've confused my self. if i figure it out, i'll let you know.

I'm sorry that last paragraph went on and on. i hope it wasn't too ridiculous.

This week looks good. I'm editing as always and i'm feeling quite good about being creative.

Well, I hope to hear from you soon,

jack.

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i hit the snooze button a bunch of times this morning. and i really don't know why.

i talked with one matthew deppe this evening. how nice. i will go to his wedding to that girl named brielle. i will stand up for him.

i spent some more time with henderson today. it's going well. closer and closer to finishing. it's good stuff.

i got two responses from resume' sending offs--no thanks. it's no big deal really, i didn't expect much yet.

i did some imdb reading, found this:

"Nineteen female musicians who played on the Mona Lisa Smile movie score have won $3,500 each in a legal settlement, after proving they were paid less than their male counterparts. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on Tuesday that producers of the Julia Roberts-starring movie - Revolution Studios and Smile Productions LLC - settled the lawsuit but failed to admit they had unfairly paid their male musicians more than women for the same work. EEOC trial lawyer Stella Yamada says, 'Musicians have a hard time knowing where to go. We're happy for the females who came forward.' "

i laughed. out loud.

jasmine's parents are coming this weekend. it will be our second meeting. it shall be interesting i'm sure. a little less of their turf. it didn't feel territorial before, but you know how it is sometimes--being at someone elses house in their home town, they are comfortable, they can talk about people that you don't know. they can show you things that they see every day.

random thought:

"a gift is something that you purchase for someone else that they would not purchase for themselves--something they want or even need, but can't justify buying it for themselves."

that's my working definition of "gift".

that reminds me of riding in a van to a wedding....

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i sorted all my email the other day. i made a category called, "jbo" that's job. i'm looking for a job. that's right a job. i'm looking for something in LA hopefully. something that is wonderful. or at least pays decent enough to live off of. i'm also hoping that jasmine can get a job too. and we will move away together. so yea. job hunting. trying to figure out where and who and when and all the other w's that there are.

i guess, ideally i could work a job in which i edited for money. i don't see that happening really, i mean, it might, i could be a grand assistant. but i need to get my foot in the door. i need to have done some work there so that i can do more. and more. that's what i'm hoping on. editing to pay the bills. then i can write. write screenplays i hope. although i haven't written anything like that this summer yet. and there is only about 2 weeks left. i will write. i need to, i need to be creative. it's just that way.

a while a go i talked about his book that i bought. and liz was like, "Library?" and i totally never thought of that. a library. weird. Grandma just retired from the siouxcenter library. as of july 1. i like to ask her how retirement is.

i'm going to soufou tonight, out to eat and picking up the g'parents from the airport.

i'm going to try and update this blog more often.

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hey reubs, check out the comment on the previous post. i thought of you when chris commented. maybe you should get in touch with him...i'll email you his address.

on the other type fronts, philosophy is still going strong. i may have more employment past what i originally thought--aug 15.

my father sent me this link for this keyboard, i really like it, it's hip.
the keys have their own displays, so if you are in photoshop or fcp or avid or what have you, it will display the short cut icon, instead of the letters.

hip eh?

and i was surfing around the site, and i really like their site. it's great. lots of interesting cool stuff.

this paragraph from their constitution intrigued me:
"The Studio shall not, in any way, take advantage of and disclose information about the private lives of its Team members without their approval. The Team members, on their part, shall not take advantage of and disclose any inside information. In times of doubt, the Studio's management shall offer guidance and support."

in general their constitution was interesting. very open minded and equal. although they will not work for "political entities, religious organizations and private individuals".

well. i'm doing well. i took the day off because everyone else in the family did, so i succummed to family/peer pressure.

i have a busy weekend coming up, grad, parties, car fixin', bbq's, the works.

enjoy!

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so it's wednesday righT?

good, i thought so. what's your plans for this weekend?

well, i'm goign to my cousin's 'grrrad' and 'recemptioin'. and i'm hopefully getting my car tuned 'up' and spending time iwth that girl named jasmine.

i went out to eat with she and the grandparents it was a good time. my grandma told us this story about changing the dining hall situation at bowling green university, where she did her undergrad. it was cool. she went to the dean and told 'em, no more. we won't be treated like second class citizens. and they listened. the waitresses were treated better, and the promoted her to head waitress.

as for me, i'm well. kinda longing for la and different work, but i'm still doing fine here in iowa.

and the future looks good as far as writing and that sort of thing goes.

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