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Name: Stephen
Birthday: 6/16/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: If you've heard of warhammer, I'm into it. If you haven't, you'd be so confused by the time I finished explaining it to you that you're head would explode.
I'm also up on freaky music, some philosophy and GOD.
Oh yeah, and I'm the xanga king.
Expertise: Eating cereal. Xanga. Wearing pants.
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  fritztheswede
Member Since:
3/25/2005
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| Step 1: Put your MP3 or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on google or any other search engine is CHEATING! 1- To all the farsighted, the sky's never been so clear 2- There's a long line of cars and they're trying to get through 3- I like to have company during thunderstorms 4- Vaaaaaalleri, I love her, Vaaaaaalleri 5-I'm not a perfect person, there's many things I wish I didn't do 6-Abraham, worth a righteous one, Take up on the wood, put it on your son\ 7-I was surprised, I was happy for a day in 1975 8-I can still see the light at the end of the tunnel shine, even through the dark times when I think I lose my mind 9- I take a breath, pull the air until there's nothing left, I'm feeling green, like teenagers lovers between the sheets 10- Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say, it's all right 11- Feel the burn in the fury of my pen, feel the fire as I fan the flames again, brace yourself for the mediocre 12- I took a river and it wouldn't let go, I want you to stay, no one should go, I took a river and the river was long, it goes on 13-Luckier than dead or living, Is the person who never existed 14- Ok so, who doesn't own a cell phone, and brought back their permission slip, 'cause I know, nobody wants to stay at home, while the rest of us, go out and make a day of it 15- Sit tight, I'm going to need you to keep, c'mon just snap snap snap your fingers for me, good good now we're making some progress, c'mon just tap tap tap your toes to the beat 16- Mother couldn't love me, but that didn't stop me, from liking her, she was my mom, and I was no son of a bitch 17-After all these implements and texts designed by intellects so vexed to find evidently that, there's so much that hides 18- It started at a busstop in the middle of nowhere, sitting beside me was a man with long hair, from the look on his face and the size of his toes, he comes from a place nobody knows 19-Let me tell you how it will be, there's one for you, nineteen for me 20-Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner, sometimes I feel like my only friend, is the city I live in, the city of angels, lonely as I am, together we cry Have at thee! | | |
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You only listen to vinyl? Cool. I only watch betamax tapes. I really don't have a problem with vinyl listeners. | | |
| 1. Is it considered unethical for a Jedi to use the force because he's lazy?
2. When they were still mapping the human genome, did they have an
office pool to see who could fill in the most accurate genome map?
3. Is it possible to play "stop hittin' yourself" with a siamese twin? Can you slap your conjoined brother?
4. Love.
5. Do I know anyone that stayed in Greenwood and is succeeding?
6. Don't, don't, dont' believe the hype.
7. Did a janitor win the human genome office pool?
P.S. One of my xanga banner ads is for finding Mr. Right. Why is that one up there?
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| Xanga is such a broad means of communicating and I think that is one reason why I stopped posting. Just about anyone can read this and I really don't want to put all those hoops that people can jump through on xanga because I like that it is open. That is a poorly worded sentence, but I don't feel well and I am alright with that.
Sure, there are bits of my life on xanga, as I suppose it should be. It was originally something that i shared with my friends and I knew that they would want to know what was going on in my life. Now, as no one reads xanga, it seems to have lost its ultimate purpose. However, it still serves as a good way to get my thoughts out of my head and onto a more tangible form of documentation. At the very least, it will last a little while longer than just fleeing thoughts do.
Still, I started keep an actual journal when I left for college and in, many ways, it is superior to xanga. For one thing, it is much more private. I can write things in the journal that I would never think to put on xanga. It's for me, and I can write about my personal struggles and ways I have grown in a manner that doesn't allow half the internet to read along if it so chooses. That is certainly a good thing.
Another reason I think that an actual journal is far superior to xanga is the fact that it is real and tangible. Just about all forms of modern communication are done over the internet. I think this is pretty alright, as it is expedient and cheap to communicate in such a way. However, I think that we lose something with this.
First, we lose the special significance of a letter. It does not take that much effort to sit down and write an email, but writing a good letter is more than just a three minute affair. I find that I choose my words more carefully and think about the subject matter more when I send a letter. I suppose this is for a few reasons. If the person I am sending it to is going to take the time to read and anticipate it, then I want it to be the best that it can be, not just something I jotted down. It is cheap both monetarily, but also it cheapens the personal level of communication. Advertising companies strive to make fonts look handwritten. Why? Because we must respond to it far better than anything that is typed. So, reason one is really two reasons. Letters have more anticipation behind them and handwriting is a more intimate form of communication than anything electronic.
Possibly even more importantly, paper is just sturdier than electronic conversations. Some of the greatest thoughts of the age weren't written in books, but were discovered in the personal letters of the authors of said books. Thinkers and authors like Lewis, Seneca, Caesar, Tolkien, Wordworth, and hundreds of others have written letters or journals that provide invaluable context to their works. Some works themselves survive only because they were written down. All of Emily Dickinson's poems were discovered after her death. They were individually rolled, tied with ribbon and put in drawers by the hundreds. Sure, that's a little creepy, but it is the only way her poems were preserved.
In a world of too many uncertainties, paper is just better. I could accidentally knock the tea to my left on this laptop and all of my school writings, short stories, and a few poems would be lost. I'm just not willing to accept that risk with anything that I have written down on xanga. So, while I will still be writing on this a little more often, I don't think it will look like it did before. If you really want to know about my life, talk to me. For now, however, my journal will get most of the important things and you, poor xangans, will get the leftovers. | | |
| Hm, I suppose I have learned a lot. I suppose a lot of you care about this still. I know that I still care about you and do read your posts occasionally. College is strange and you don't really know how you will relate to everyone back home until you are here. Sometimes, you think you'll always be friends and Vitamin C plays in the background and there are hugs and people crying and hats in the air and you finall ask out that boy you've had a crush on freshman year.
At least that's what happened in the music video. The truth is, you will keep in touch with the people that you want to keep in touch with and sometimes it will take you a while to realize who that is. So, don't give up on anyone just because they haven't talked much to you this year. College means that you are also building relationships at school. It's a balance and there isn't enough time to really master it.
So, Stephen's life update. I'm going to an RA on 2nd West next year. I will have lived on this hall for three years at the end of next year. It's kind of crazy to think that it will have been that long, but it will be. My year as Spirtual Life Assistant went very well, but it kept me pretty dang busy. I enjoyed it though, I know it is where God wanted me to be and I'm glad that I did it. It's been a great experience to minister to my friends and hallmates.
I've learned a lot about relationships this year. I think that should be a given. As long as we are relating with people, we will learn a lot about relationships, even if it is the same people. Ask a married couple what they have learned about each other this year. I bet there will be something. People are always changing and we are people. So, really we can grow in how we relate to ourself and each person is like an infinite mystery with no real solution, but just differing levels of understanding and intimacy. Yeah, that sounds right. That doesn't mean we can be completely turned inward, far from it. It just means that we have to know ourselves as well as those around us. Yeah, I may have written an essay on this earlier today.
Most importantly, I've learned a lot about communicating with God and how that works. You have to stumble and run into a lot of walls before you can really learn how to walk in Christ. This year has certainly had its ups and downs, but the ups have outnumbered the downs by a pretty significant amount. Ultimately, I'm going to remember the ups more than the downs and I'll remember the lessons more than anything else.
So, this summer I'm going to be a youth intern at my home church. If any P/O grads that still read xanga want to come and testify, I'd love to have you there. If you are reading this, I want to see you this summer. Even if you are reading it from Asbury. You know. I guess.
And I still forget to highlight my posts. | | |
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