Some Days it's Hard to be like Jesus

 I have a secret place. This secret place is in the University library. It's a little hidden cove that has a couple tables and some couches in it. I like to study here because usually I'm all alone. 

Yet today, as I am trying to work on my totally not cool paper, two yahoos thought they could come share my special place. Didn't they know this is my secret area? Isn't there like a million other places for them to go?

Jesus, grant me grace.

Sign me up for that class

Ok guys. I have an idea.

Didn't Sara graduate with an Art Education degree? Yet she isn't educating!

Sooo.. I think that she should teach an art 101 class sometime for free. I'd take that class. 

I hope I'd pass.

hi?

hello people.

Studying= Destruction of Creativity

Come to me summer days

when i lay out under the bright, warm sun

i hold on to the hope 

that soon i will graduate and learn to write poetry

for alas, all creativity has left me.

Why I'm not in iPod Commercials

ode to creativity.

here's to you...members of the creative arts office. where caffeine-drinks flow freely. random outbursts are welcome. and where creativity comes to life.

i appreciate you guys...peace.

2008.

So...

It's not Christmas time anymore, most people took down their lights, I just put mine up in my room, and Wal-Mart redecorated that candy aisle the day after to make room for Valentine's Day. I think Wal-Mart is really insecure about that aisle being empty. They always jump the gun on holidays, "Oh my gosh! St. Patrick's Day is over! Put out the sparklers! Red white and blue!"

Things around the office [for me] have been quiet, and for everyone else, they've been slightly hectic. Sara's taking some much needed time off, Matt and I are working on some videos, Spencer's writing things and playing guitar, and we're probably gonna have a dance party when we're all back in session again. Or a Nerf war.

2008 is kind of like the middle-child of New Year's. People got really excited about 2000 because it was really "new" and now the excitement has faded a little. We went from "Oh my gosh! The year 2000! Party like it's 199--WAIT! It ain't! Woo!" To this year, "Oh crap. I did it again. How can I make this seven look like an eight?"

I suppose there is a lot to be excited about with the start of a new year, it seems to mean a lot to people that they have a "clean slate" of sorts to start over on all those things they "meant to do" in 2007. I guess that's something a lot of people look for in life, a chance to make-up for things, or do better at life. Seeing all those sad people who really just want another chance to be great. It makes me really glad I'm already awesome.

Well, not really. It took a lot of pain before I could become awesome, so...

Seriously though, it makes me extremely thankful to God for every part of my life, and the moments I know he has planned for this next year. "Living" in the new year is my number one goal, and there are so many ways to get that done. One of those ways starts right here at the PLC Creative Arts Office, where creativity meets functionality and purpose, head-on. Apply directly to the forehead.