Thoughts: Volume II

*21 years old and I still sleep downstairs on the living room floor when my best friend Mike Rosenbaum comes home from nashville

*I don't know what it would feel like to have burning hot coals poured onto my body...but I did watch an entire inning of women's college softball the other day

*We learned how to research careers through the university database in a class last semester...I've never seen Travis Prouty more emotionally torn than when his search for "Muppeteer" came up with no results.

*Went up in the great park balloon for the first time...12 friends + me + one great park employee piloting the balloon...when we get to the top Luke says..."Wow...from up here you can see just how much HASN'T been done." ...great park employee lady had to have been laughing beneath her glare

*You simply cannot be a good DJ without putting aside your unacceptably disgusting love of musical theater

*Went to the aquarium yesterday. Jess and I watched the following animal species have sex in front of hundreds of oblivious field-tripping 6 year olds: Sea Lions, Ducks, Sea Lions, Sea Horses...talk about a good day

*Played music for 2,000 koreans the other day...it's weird playing music knowing that everyone in the crowd plays piano

*My friend Luke made a video for me when I couldn't eat cheese for a while...he ate an entire block of cheddar cheese while lip syncing and playing piano to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"...that is friendship (and a thousand calories)

New Ven Diagram

This concept just popped into my head, and I couldn't help but create it...

Dangit.

Shortly after the "...likes boys" cup incident with my roommate Mike, I got what was coming to me when my roommate Mark did this: 

David defeats Mike...

Mark defeats David...

but don't worry...my revenge has already been taken...photo of that coming soon. 

Puppy Puppy Puppy

My family is watching this precious little golden retriever puppy. No need for more words. Just enjoy: 

Thoughts: Volume I

1. if you are my roommate and you decide to write your name on a cup...there is a 100% chance that the words "likes boys" will be added to the cup within a 24 hour period. 

2. in my 21 years of existence, I have never said I am going to "watch THE game" and been referring to basketball. Basketball is for felons. 

3. Intro...Modulation...Verse 1...that is real music

4. finding space on the walls of your room to hang a 13x20 framed ronald reagan poster and a full size american flag is a lot harder than you'd think...trust me

5. knowing that your entire grade in a class depends on how well you can read/comprehend a book called "Once Upon a Quincineira" is pretty much the worst feeling in the entire world. 

6. It's nice to know that national day of prayer is celebrated everywhere except in the white house, where Obama cancelled his ceremony.

7. I think I need to teach my teeth to be a little less hospitable. I swear when I eat popcorn it's like they say, "hey little guys, don't go. just hang out for a bit."

8. I almost slept through a major presentation in my marketing class this morning. Instead, I woke up at the last second from a text message. It read, "I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend..." It was from Luke. That's friendship. 

worth it.

Here's a little somethin to get you through the day...

The cost of famous celebrity's engagement rings in relation to how many starving children they could feed...enjoy this one over your Thursday evening meal...

Celebrity Engagement Rings

Obviously I'm not against engagement rings, but there has to be a certain point where it's just...dang...

For me to start talking bad about celebrities right now would imply that I think they are actually properly functioning/sane humans, so that's not gonna happen. 

How fast can you type??

Roommate Mark and I just found this website and wasted a decent amount of time on it: 

www.typingtest.com

I can rock a 110 with 99% accuracy on Aesop's Fables for 1 minute. What about you? Comment your results...bring it on...

Logical.

Things liberals DON'T support: 

-"Torturing" terrorists

Things liberals DO support: 

-Murdering millions of unborn babies every year

Slavery thoughts.

There are 27 million people in slavery right now. More than any other time in history. 

Does anyone even care?

I can tell you just about every fact there is to know about the black slavery that used to exist in America thanks to our current education system. In fact, I just finished reading yet another book about it. Here's the problem: I get it. Africans were loaded on ships in the most inhumane way possible, and shipped to America to be sold and used as slaves for their entire lives, often separated from their families and never living a single day of freedom. I understand that. I am glad I was taught it. If I could do anything to change what happened, I would. 

But starting right now, the best case scenario that can be had in forcing every student in America to continually learn more and more about it is: 

1. Teachers feeling good about themselves

2. Students feeling like they are supposed to feel guilty?

Compare that to the benefits of education on the current slavery issue that STILL exists in the United States and all around the world. Best case scenario is ACTION. That means actual movement in a certain direction. I can physically change people's lives today. If I had 10 dollars and I could donate it to a Martin Luther King foundation or a human trafficking rescuing organization, which would be a more valuable investment? 

Isn't there just a little bit of insanity in how little the secular world talks about modern day slavery? There's no way we let our students get through high school without learning all about how miserable it was to be a Japanese family in a WWII internment camp, or a slave in the south, or a vietnamese refugee...but what about the fact that RIGHT NOW...TODAY...I can purchase a 10 year old girl to have sex with for 12 dollars. And when I am done, I can bring her back to her cage where she lives. 

Say that. Read that sentence out loud. Use the word "I". Don't say "You". I dare you. 

Call me insane for thinking this way, but unless you have a time machine you can offer, I think we have plenty of battles to fight RIGHT NOW.