The Thought ExhibitI left the test feeling pretty good with the grades that immediately popped up. Once I received my official grades in the mail yesterday, though, I was little disappointed. I had more fun on the writing section, so I would have thought I’d done better.
Verbal Score: 670, % Below: 95
Quantitative [...]
I’m noticing a trend recently with reading books and hearing stories about good people turning bad one innocent-seeming choice at a time. It makes me think that I should stop and look back at myself.
I wouldn’t say I’ve made any deliberately bad choices lately. But where have I ended up, if [...]
Earlier in the day, I often plan what I’m going to snack on later that night. (Tonight is popcorn, by the way.)
I gave this some thought tonight, and there are a few reasons why I think my planned snacking is a bad thing.
First of all, my planned snacking can lead to double-snacking. If [...]
From Facebook to here. Let’s edit out the boring ones, shall we?
1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
My biological father’s name is Roger. Lee is his brother’s name, but not my original middle name. It was originally Leroy Edgar, a combination of my maternal grandfather’s middle name and my paternal grandfather’s first name. When I [...]
Is it OK that I’m jealous of Kari’s card catalog? Because I totally am.
Alas, I am no librarian. However, I do have books. I love books. Here are my bookshelves and my living room reading area:
(Yes, those are Christmas lights. They stay up year round. Yes, that’s crappy wallpaper [...]
(Tonight is a good night to nab posts from commenting on other people’s sites.)
Buttercup: You can’t hurt me. Westley and I are joined by the bonds of love. And you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
Brian is a conundrum to modern science. [...]
I don’t like driving in the dark. I’m not sure I ever really have. Highway driving in the dark isn’t too big of a deal; it’s the main road driving I’m not too fond of.
Here’s what I don’t like: lack of depth perception.
Have you ever tossed around a football in [...]
Have you ever been scared to fall asleep? Did you ever think that maybe, for one reason or another, you might not wake up again? Were you OK with the thought, or did it frighten you?
Sometimes when I get sick, I’m kind of…reluctant…to fall asleep. It seems that I’m breathing [...]
Everyone other US blogger will surely have their own 4th of July post. Hopefully mine is unique.
I have no plans for today. It’s not that I don’t want plans. It’s not that I don’t want to celebrate a holiday. It’s just that…nothing came up. If I were a good US [...]
If I was surprised when Kathy walked up, then I was amazed to see Mark’s face.
“There are a few more people (family) that want to come to dinner tonight. Is that ok?†The Doughtys were in town and apparently expanding our gathering for dinner on Friday night. I didn’t care who came. I [...]
I figured it out. I know where we missed the opportunity. We definitely didn’t blow it, but it could have been even better.
There were three of us, all in our early twenties, living together across the street from a lake.
(Wait…suddenly I know where we missed two opportunities….)
We were there, together, the [...]
When I arrived home last night, there was a message on the answering machine. My father left a message stating that my nephew had died this past weekend.
This message was from a father I never had while growing up. I didn’t really get to start my relationship with him until the [...]
Here’s something I began writing…well over a year ago. I meant to go further, but never got back to it. It’s complete enough as is.
Here’s my reasoning for listening to Contemporary Christian Music (CCM):
1) I like the sound of the music. The music appeals to me. I like band music [...]
Tag, I’m it, thanks to Chris Hubbs. I’m going to pull a Kari and skip the last two steps. I don’t always play by the rules. Not when you can’t make me.
The Rules:
(1) Link to the person that tagged you.
(2) Post the rules on your blog.
(3) Share six non-important things/habits/quirks [...]
The link for you to try to see how many 5 year olds you could take in a fight does not work as I expected. (I could take 18.) Here’s what I think happened:
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Sorry for the inconvenience!
The kids, the young adults, these days make me feel old:
I don’t text message and I don’t approve of the lack of proper grammar used whilst text messaging.
I still haven’t really set up my cell phone that I’ve had since May. I haven’t recorded a greeting. I haven’t taken a single picture. [...]
On Monday many of my plans went awry. I can be a spur of the moment person. I can be a spontaneous person. I can roll with the flow. I really can, but…maybe I can only do it when I don’t really care about what’s going on. When I have [...]
The other day, Monday I believe, I was driving down the road wondering what, exactly, was the functional difference between “ubiquitous” and “pervasive.”
Does anything like this ever happen to you?
Sometime late last week or earlier this week I was thinking about football. Probably because I’m reading a fantasy-football type book. Anyway, I tell people every once in a while that I still have 4 years of college eligibility left because I didn’t play in college. I realize that, at 30 years [...]
We meet every day
I have so much I want to say
Were I not so afraid
I could tell you these things
Your eyes, they envelop me
I never know how much you see
Had I the strength
I could tell you these things
When you smile, inside I smile too
I wish I could say to you
You’ve captured [...]