Sometimes you just gotta get a little crazy...

...and that is exactly how things have been as of late. I'm not entirely sure what I can do about it, except to just keep living my life day by day.

I've been thinking a lot lately and maybe my imagination is just starting to get the best of me. Sometimes as I'm walking across campus on a nice morning (must like this morning) I get this feeling as if I were to stop and just stand there, everything around me would continue to move as if I didn't exist. At this point you are probably like, oh great someone call the men in white coats.

There are times when I can be standing in a mall and see someone and think, they look out of place, like the actor in a TV show that you know is going to be a returning character, they just have one of those faces; as if all the rest of us in the world are all extras meant for nothing more than life in the background. Anyone else thinking about The Truman Show right now?

I started a new job two weeks ago. I've seen Allison less but seem closer to her. I like seeing her less at CFA because it makes it even more wonderful for those times that we do get to see each other.

Sorry about this rambling, not sure what I am doing, my head is just everywhere today...

Economy is still bad...no surprise there. Maybe we should have elected someone who gives a shit...no, Americans aren't that educated...

So I only need 12 more credit hours to graduate...that's kind of cool. It's about time though. Going to be doing 4 classes that the beginning of the semester and then 3 will drop off and all I will have for the last 8 weeks is my final culminating project...which I am still not sure what I am going to do.

Oh yeah, today is Allison's and mine 2 year wedding anniversary. Wish we could visit Disney again; that would be fun.

A lot of life is staying the same...but a lot seems to be changing at the same time. Now in the sense that you can see it changing but in the sense that you can feel it changing. Not entirely sure in which direction or if it is good or bad. A lot of uncertainty right now. At least I have Allison and Sully (our puppy). We'll make it, I know we will...just been thinking a lot lately...I blame Hemingway.

Until next time,

Mike

I Treat You Like a High School Dance...

So, this is where I am in this journey called life...

I need to submit out vacate notice for our apartment this week because they are raising the rent again but won't tell us by how much...if that makes any sense to anyone else out there. I've been looking for some places for us and I've been trying to get a new job. The one I have pays the bills to an extent but there is nowhere else to move up to and I'll be stuck at this pay forever. I would really like a job that starts me out where I am now and moves up from there. Isn't that what any man wants in this world?

I applied for different jobs at Best Buy...

One of the positions was for a management job and I was told to go in and talk to a certain person...let's call him Thomas...so I go in to talk to Thomas and he is in a meeting. So, I decide to wait...3 and a half hours later of standing/walking around the store I finally meet Thomas. I tell him that I applied for the job and wanted to make sure he had gotten a chance to look over my application. His response was, "Oh, any management positions are decided through corporate. I don't have any say in the matter." So I take my leave...

I really am trying to find a new job and a place for us to live...

Well, what use is a blog post without some song lyrics...here are some lyrics to some songs that I've listened to a lot as of late...

Song one...

Blue in the broad light of day

Your claws are snagged on my face

Say it, I wish we would make it

And I wish that I could take it

When you turn on me

My arms miss you

My hands miss you

The stars sing, i've got their song in my head

Oh, I don't want my words twisted

I don't want you to listen too closely

Or wait for me impatiently

And I hope I can keep seeing you

As long as you don't say you're falling in love

And I can feel you're about to forget

Yes, I can feel you're about to forget...

Song two...

There's still nothing I can say to change

My news for you.

There's still nothing you can do to exchange

My dues to you.

Like you fit on me

To bit on me a bound.

This life that's shut on me

That shouldn't be the grounds

To emulate an epicene

To evaluate the sound,

The live, a winner needs,

A winner needs a want.

Never want to blame you,

Bound you, blame me,

Never want the blame you bound.

And where's the same,

And where's the strong,

and where's the guard,

And where's the one who tries to make you?

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Anyways, that is what I've been up to as of late. See you all around.

END

Juvenile

Have you ever had a time where the people around you are just driving you crazy? That all you want to do is be left alone and not hovered over?

I'm sure any of us can say yes to this and any of us can say that it drove us crazy.

I can't wait for this next school year to be over. I want to be out of school and out of my current job and in a new and better one.

This summer has been a nice break but at the same time I can no longer stand being here in this place and for the past few days it is all I can do to stay here.

Until the next time,

Mike

I just got free access to the Norfolk Zoo!!!

We finally got in!

We have been talking about it for a while now and we finally got it. One of my animation instructors had a meeting with the coordinator of the Norfolk Zoo and every semester the teacher will provide a list of his current students to the zoo's coordinator and they will give us free admission to the zoo.

There is a catch however...

We have to provide artwork for the zoo to sell at their auctions so they can raise money. Since the zoo is a non-profit organization...it is a tax write-off.

Awesome, isn't it?

Until next time,

Mike

Time...

I've noticed lately that even though the amount of school that I have is piling up. It isn't as though I am allowing my homework to pile up and leave it all for the end of the semester. It is just that I am finally getting it through my head that although school is important, there is still something more important in my life right now; that is my wife.

It seems that this past week has completely changed our marriage. Thankfully it has been for the better.

I'm not entirely sure what it has been, but it seems as though I have this brand new fascination for her and my love for her seems so new and so fresh every day. This is what I have been longing for in our marriage.

Now I know that it isn't going to be like this every day, it is just that I had hoped this feeling would have come a little sooner. The day we got back from our honeymoon we were moving in and a week later we had started school.

I thank God for my wife.

Allison, you are my best friend :)

Until next time,

Michael

Muslims are going to Heaven?

So I am sitting in my class here at Regent University; a university run by Pat Robertson, owner of CBN. I was surprised that one of the chair members of the school asked us to draw what we thought was the face of God. After about 5 minutes we were asked if we thought what we drew was like the person next to us. Now we didn't have to show each other what we all drew but we had to say if we thought what we drew was the same as someone else. I obviously, like everyone else, said no. The faculty member then went on to say that if someone has a concept of God, then we must respect that. Sitting there I was like, "okay, I can agree with that." Then, out of nowhere the faculty member said that we had to respect the Muslims and once again I agreed with  them. The part that REALLY caught me off-guard was when they said that we couldn't know for sure whether or not the Muslims were right or wrong. They said "I haven't gone to Heaven or not so I can't say if my way is the right way or not." I agree that I do not know what "their way" is so I can not say if they are going to Heaven or not...only God knows that.

Well, I just thought it would be interesting to those of you out there to know that Regent University now believes that Muslims might just have it right.

Until next time,

Mike

P.S. But they said they agreed with the Nicene Creed O.o

Housing...

This is our apartment and like a lot of you know, we had a meeting
today about whether or not we would have a place to live starting in
August. We just got done with our meeting and thankfully there was a
place still available for us in the other housing building (they are
making this building just for single undergrads). So I am glad we have
a place to live, even if rent is going up $75.

Thanks to everyone who kept this issue in their prayers. :)

Mike