...As though I didn't know your writing!" giggled the girl with an affected shriek, continually peeping at herself in the glass. " I knew it at once! And what a queer man you are! You are a writing master, & you write like a spider! How can you teach writing if you write so badly yourself?"






















Stupidity Lesson # 5,469:
Anatomy book, Plate 13 - "Coccyx - consisting of 2 to 4 fused vertebrae, the functionally insignificant coccyx represents the vestigial tail of our forebears."

I thought I ought to say something, but now I don't know what.

How about how many books I try to read at once & never finish?
Blah. I pile them 5 high around my room eager to begin, & I complete perhaps one from every stack.
One - if it's interesting & I have enough self-discipline to be interested.

Reading List (MUST finish if it kills me):

Mein Kampf - the introduction (by Abraham Foxman) draws parallels between Darwinism, racism, & nationalism. The rest is Hitler's life through his eyes only.
B-O-R-I-N-G. An extensive photo album/memoir all about...himself.

Alfred the Great: A Biography (P. H. Helm) - fascinatin'. It's small so it should not be taking me weeks to read.

Resistance - A Woman's Journal of Struggle & Defiance in Occupied France (Agnes Humbert) - Haven't read enough to comment beyond 'interesting'.

Shadows On the Rock (Willa Cather) - Not one for fiction at the mo, but it's Cather.

What-I-Read-When-I'm-Procrastinating-Reading-the-Others:

The Big Book of Self-Promotion (Edited by Suzanna MW Stephens) - Ha! Not really reading...more like feasting for the eyes. Bought at The Strand in Manhattan. The title was a turn-off for me, but being a book about graphic design, it's beautiful inside & out.

Many Are Called (Walker Evans) - Genius. I want a camera I can hide so I can sit on the train & silently snap away. Birthday present from katie F.

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God is good. New York & the DOERs broadened my spiritual scope & renewed my thirst for His word.
Ah. Such dear people.

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Agh - SO stoked. Guillermo del Toro is directing two movies - The Hobbit (2010) & a second original film (2011) that shall span the 50 - 60 years from The Hobbit to The Fellowship of The Ring. The article is here & the others at the bottom are worth checking out as well.
Seeing Middle Earth from his perspective is going to be amazing. He better plan on including Doug Jones in this. So far Howard Shore, Ian McKellen (excuse me - SIR Ian McKellen), Andy Serkis, & John Howe & Alan Lee (conceptual artists) are onboard. Whee!

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20th birthday weekend has been lovely, to say the least. I came home from work Friday & found Abigail sitting on my stairs! She drove all the way from Chattanooga to surprise me, & my sister orchestrated the whole thing.
We pretty much spent the few days we had being very bohemian.
Haggis concert Friday, picnics & Floyd on Saturday, church & park on Sunday.
She was also kind enough to sit through a surfing documentary with me. :)

...let's drive to the countryside - in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(fleet foxes)

I know it is only April, but it seems as if it shall always be winter.
School seems to ever evade me...which is okay. I'm learning to enjoy a life that is less than exciting. It's quite an easy life & so I shall not complain.
Pushing school back to Fall 2010 isn't really that big of a deal.

Will it happen at all?
I'm beginning to think not, but then...

God has given us everything to learn from, if we will. In my sketchbook, I found an old note taken down during a sermon months past; it's clumped together at the top of the page:

'It starts with the self & radiates outward - self-control, self-humble
If you are unable to morally control yourself how are you able to hold moral government over even one other Person?'

No man shall ever have complete control over his sinful nature.

("In a year's time I will be able to cure children's leukemia. How many people can say that?"
"I guess just you & God.")

God does not require us to be perfect, praise Him, but to do our best.

An' thass what 'm gonna do.