stupid angels

ok, i doubt (or hope) that guys dont have this problem, but girls have this disgusting habit of sending stupid emails that say crap like, "here's your lucky angel" or "here are eight angels to bless you for eight days. if you dont send these eight angels to your eight closest friends, the angels and baby jesus will weep for you . . ." or something to that tune. well, i've bout had enough of this crap, and then this morning i was checking my email at work and a co-worker sent me a forward with the subject reading, "GOOD LUCK ANGEL!" and i'm thinking of ways to send viruses to her computer. well, i open it up, and this is what i found:

now, obviously this guy has some bills to pay . . . or he lost a bet or something. but the picture does bring up an interesting point - i believe that angels (besides clearly being hot) are actually really fierce and hardcore beings. angels arent pansies and they definitely arent weak.

well, anyhow, now i am going to send that email to my closest friends so that they know how good a friend i am, because we all know that true friends send forwards.

on a tuesday in amsterdam long ago

so earlier this fall i had plans to see coldplay. wait, i take that back- i didnt just have "plans" - i had a freakin ticket and the show got cancelled due to "illness." anyhow, i was thinking about it, and while ive seen a few good shows in the last few years, there are still a lot of people id like to see live. i decided to make a list, so here it is, in no particular order:

1. coldplay (they owe me one)

2. counting crows (i think id marry adam duritz)

3. lauryn hill (she brought out the soul within, plus, who doesnt like sister act 2?)

4. indigo girls (they taught me how to harmonize)

5. yellowcard

6. don chaffer (esp. if lori happens to make the show)

7. paul wright

8. shawn mcdonald

9. eminem (i honestly would go)

10. nas (i think he is the best lyricist of his gen. of mcs)

11. james taylor

12. alison krauss

13. pink martini

14. josh groban

15. g. love

i think thats a pretty solid list for now. i'll let you know if i ever get to see any of these people.

so, who would make your list?

retrospect and random things

Ten Years Ago
oh geez. ten years ago i was a freshman at windsor and i have to say, that was probably my favorite year of high school. i was so stupid. it was a lot of fun. young life was a big thing for me, and that's also when i got into the youth group at savannah christian. that year had a rough start b/c i moved from the eastside to the southside, which was basically like transferring from a foreign country.

Five Years Ago
i was in my sophomore year at milligan. i still wasnt sure what i was doing there or how i was affording it, but i started liking it and making great friends. i started playing guitar a lot more, and not just by myself in my room when i was sure no one else was around. this was the year i took my first camping trip. this was the year i was britney spears in a lip-sync contest during twirp week. this was the year i climbed into the seeger bell tower for the first time and saw the most amazing view of the campus at nighttime. this was the year john hammon and i became good friends. it was the year that i decided i loved milligan and didnt want to go home immediately when it was time for a break.

One Year Ago
i was living in a really cool apartment in downtown savannah with my ultra-cool dog, romeo. i was faced with a crazy job offer to work as the creative programmer for the youth ministry at saddleback in lake forest, california. i was glad i didnt get the job (update: the girl they hired had like a meltdown or something six months into it and quit. they're still looking for a replacement). i actually think i a year ago exactly that i found out i didnt get the job (w/i a few days, give or take).

Now
i am living with my parents for 6 months to pay off my debt. i am teaching (again) at windsor (my old high school) and loving it. i am looking to move to atlanta or athens next summer and teach somewhere up there. i am looking forward to being in heather's wedding in march and cathy's wedding in july.

Five yummy things
1. cherry coke
2. chocolate
that about sums it up

Five songs I know by heart
1. ganstas paradise
2. anything by copeland
3. anything by waterdeep
4. fresh prince theme song
5. pretty much any counting crows song

Five things I would do with a lot of money
1. Pay off all my debt.
2. Buy a second home in Italy or Ireland and travel all over Europe
3. pay for erik's college
4. fix my stupid car
5. get plane tickets for my favorite 50 people or so and take them to hawaii for a week

Five places I would escape to
1. ireland
2. Italy
3. Greece
4. NYC
5. Oregon

Five things I would never wear
1. any shade of pink
2. a new kids on the block shirt . . . oh, wait . . . dangit
3. my collar up
4. a shirt advertising a clothing company
5. denim jumper (like the ones elementary school teachers wear)

Five favorite TV shows
1. extreme makeover : home edition
i dont really watch a lot of tv

Five favorite films
1. gone with the wind
2. any 80s movie featuring molly ringwald
3. Braveheart
4. dead poets society
5. man on fire

Five things I enjoy doing
1. Reading
2. Watching movies
3. Traveling
4. singing
5. playing guitar

jordan clark at cutter's point tonight

tonight i'm hanging out at cutter's point coffee house to hear jordan clark and to hang out with great people. you should come. cutter's point is basically around the corner from the new wal-mart on montgomery x-roads. just pass wal-mart, take a right onto skidaway, and you'll see cutter's point on the left (in the shopping center with piggly wiggly).

$5 and good conversation

what makes a conversation a good conversation?

last night i sat down with my new friend, scott, and we had a good conversation. once we got past the usual "how are yous," etc., we got ended up talking about ministry in savannah, how we see each of ourselves involved in ministry. interestingly we both are passionate about our desires to see racial reconciliation. basically, we wish that the church was like a coca-cola commercial with people of every color holding hands -- only they're singing about jesus, not coke.
i shared my relentless hunger to save the world - a hunger that consumes me despite, the odds and challenges that face me every day. some of my kids have a lot of things going against them, and they arent fighting back. it breaks my heart. ive had small break-throughs with a student recently, but i feel like hes still defeated in the long run. it all comes back to apathy. parents not caring about modeling education in the home. parents letting their kids grow up too soon, or telling their kids that they are grown when they really are far from it. students not caring about their grades. students not caring about graduating.
im really torn between my appreciation for the hip hop culture and the damage that has been done to my students through the culture that they love and are very much a part of. for some of my students, to be educated is to be "white," and thats the last thing they want to be. for others, they just dont think theyre smart enough, so they just quit doing their work . . . quit caring.
anyhow, back to the conversation with scott. we asked some tough questions. how can we bring black and white kids together in savannah on a regular basis for worship and community? what would that look like? how do we even get there? despite her cultural diversity, savannah separates herself in every way possible.

in other news it has become quiet clear that the rest of my crap still in beth's house in midtown is not going to pack itself up and move to the southside on its own. i find this very unfortunate and annoying. so, i still have a lot of packing, moving, and cleaning to do, and i only have until friday to do it b/c our friend, kylene, needs a place to stay for a couple of weeks, and she's bringing some of her stuff over to beths on saturday.


rize is now part of my dvd collection. i love this film. if i werent moving and grading a million papers a day i would have watched it literally about five times by now since buying it last week.

keep it krump.

searching for friends

have you ever typed your friends' names into a search engine to see what you get? meet a few of my friends . . .


dimitri (i'd buy this album)

cathy

(does anyone else think it looks like she's having problems?)

greg (i'm not sure which is greg)

josh

(when do you go on tour?)

emily (this must have been us at the hip hop show)

erik

(erik is now working on his sixth album. it's called polyester wine. tour kicks off in early january.)

of course i couldnt search w/o doing my name, so this is what i got after going through all the "laura bush" photos and "ronald reagan" photos