Post-Grad... T-minus 8 months.

Okay. A quick post, with probably a lot more to come on this subject later, but...

Post-grad plans? There are three main options:

1. Stay in NYC and work or something like that.

2. Go back "home" to Boston and work or something like that.

3. Go abroad for some time.

Currently, going abroad seems very appealing, as of late I've been questionning how much of how I see reality, life, Christianity, and even Jesus, is effected by the culture around me. I want to take this year (and hopefully the rest of my life) to really dive into the Bible and prayer with God to find out what being a Christian, following Jesus, and living the life I am called to lead really looks like. There are a lot of assumptions and questions that are be implied in those few sentences, but that's for later discussion. Basically, it'd be crazy to go abroad for a bit. Currently considering and looking into Peacecorps and Food for the Hungry... maybe even JET, but that seems less likely.

Any thoughts or suggestions? (On the general future/post-grad plans or on organizations abroad?)

yeap.

Said it before, and will say it again: life is crazy. Honestly I never know what will even happen the next day.

Oddly, though I've been in school for my entire life and am still a student, I've never felt like less of a student than I do now. I think it's about time to find myself apart from academia. People say that in college you figure out who you are, but I think I am just starting to do that now.

(Ok, not like I don't know who I am and the past years of college haven't advanced my exploration into the question of "who am I?" but I am seeing it in an entirely new light now.)

Uninstall

Today I uninstalled warcraft III.

It's about time. Hopefully I will be more productive and constructive with my time now.

Oh, life.

ah sigh.

Life, you confuse me. I have recently realized that navigating you is both incredibly easy and difficult all at once; impressive, impressive. Not really sure how to cope with my majors/minors, future life, "passion" for music, passion for God, for people. Not sure how to deal with money that I will soon "need" to put a roof over my head and food on the table. But I'm not sure what I really "need" anyways. And I'm not sure where I'll be "going" or doing in the not-so-far-away future. I need to make myself write. I realized writing helps me make sense of things but I do it so little; I think partially because I've stopped slowing down from my oh-so-fast pace of life. So it's time to slow down. Hopefully. Here and there.

One thing I think I've neglected is that I really enjoy playing musical instruments, particularly with people. I also thoroughly enjoy singing, pretending to beatbox, dancing (when nobody's watching, or I can pretend that nobody is), occasionally pretending to rap... you know the deal. But I really like playing musical instruments.

I hope that this year I will put all the countless hours that I have spent learning various musical instruments (and in particular the guitar) into something cohesive and... musical. Or at the least, I'll get considerably better at guitar and singing.

Knowing me, I'll probably stop writing here right after this post, as well as fail at practicing guitar and recording different doodles. But we'll see.

MLIA, part #2

Talking to an old friend, he mentioned that it's because the stories are more relatable, which they very well might be. Here's one that I found particularly funny, because I notice the exact same thing all the time:

"Today I realized that the blinker of the car in front of me was synchronized with mine. Then I realized mine was actually a little faster. MLIA. "

MLIA.

Hum.

So, a few months ago, FML got really big (www.fmylife.com) around here, and people started using the term a lot (FML).

When I first started reading some of the posts, I laughed pretty hard. As I randomly checked back or was bored, and started to read more, I started wondering if each story was really genuine, because some of them were just ridiculous. Also, since the humor wasn't often all that clean, I found it less and less entertaining. Honestly, the stories were just too ridiculous and too often had to do with sex to be very appealing.

When checking people's gchat status, I came across gabbie's, which provided a very enlightening link: http://new.mylifeisaverage.com/. And honestly, I think this site is FAR more entertaining and hilarious. Which is kind of odd, because none of the stories are really that funny in themselves; but somehow, seeing the "average-ness" of everything and seeing it in this form just makes me laugh.

I'm not quite sure why, but I laugh at least a little at almost every single story.

After about five minutes of thought, I still can't quite pin down WHY I think they're entertaining. But they are. To me, at least.

Praise Night.

I don't have much time to write anything substantial, but I would simply like to say this:

Praise Night, despite all the work/time it took up, was an incredible blessing. In little ways, in bits and pieces, I feel like our church is slowly starting to come together.

Also, praying with other people is becoming increasingly more and more attractive. I think this is a sign that we are, in fact, starting to bring our hearts together more.



Awesome.

Missions.

I haven't posted in awhile... BUT:

I am REALLY excited for our short term missions teams going out this summer.

That is all.