nephews are for awesome...

updates...

im meeting tomorrow morning at 9am with the media lady from gateway. i cant wait to get this thing going.

i bought a canon 40d about a week ago. i havent gotten to play with it too much, but i love it. i took a few photos of my nephew...

i need to mess with them in photoshop.

watched the movie doubt, its really good, and so beautifully shot. i want to own it just for the visuals. watched timecrimes. great story, would never own it, its a mexican movie and the voice overs are way bland. they drive me crazy.

working alot for the next two weeks, then summer school starts.

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until i have something worth blogging about...

images are for stupid...

...my new desktop background

long day today. school from 8-8, three hour lecture then got caught up on projects. printed the last of my photos for my final project. i love the prints. i cant wait for people to see them.

had a great dinner, chicken salad, spinach dip, and an IBC cream soda. also had my first jarritos soda tonight. went with the pineapple. i im going to buy more. they are only 53 cents per bottle, no caffeine, and are made with real sugar (no high fructose corn syrup).

now im catching up on some tv. watched lost, which i havent watched in like a month.

been fasting from facebook and myspace. ive never fasted. its been awesome. praying for timing on bridget moving here and a job for her, as well as other relationship stuff.

i decided today that im taking two summer school classes. thats like 24 hours of school, plus im going to do my best to stay around 30 hours at work. busy busy, but its only for a month, and that way i wont have to take one of the classes fridays next semester, so i can work all day fridays.

youre all caught up. now, back to the tv for me.

fasts are for awesome...

just watched the mavs game at humperdinks with michael. it was good. havent hung out with him in a while, so it was much needed. after eating a huge plate full of fried food i remembered i havent had alot of fried food in a long time, so now im feeling pretty sick. sick like i would feel better if i threw up, not sick as in awesome.

currently fasting with bridget. we both gave up something and are praying for clarity about who should move and when, along with some other things related to our relationship. i gave up facebook and myspace. i waste too much time on facebook. this is my first fast ever. coming from a very conservative baptist church, alot of "extreme" things like this were never really talked about or considered. i have to be honest though, we havent been doing it for two full days yet and there have been a whole lot of times ive thought about checking facebook, or thought about the fact that im fasting, and it reminded me to pray about the things were really seeking god about. if checking your facebook reminds you of me, pray for bridget and i please.

i cant wait to be married. to her.

three more weeks of school, only have projects left to be finished up. caught up editing the video for my directing class. waiting for the final scene to be shot on tuesday, then voice overs on thursday, then i can finish the editing soon thereafter. working on my final project in photography that im way excited about. so far printed four of the ten photos, three of which i love. took a half roll of film with cameron and logan a couple nights ago, should finish that roll up sometime this weekend and get them developed on tuesday. the only project im behind on is editing, and thats because the project is doo doo. ill catch up though.

meeting with the media chick from gateway church in southlake on may 14th about learning how they do what they do. quite excited about getting started so i can start working on stuff for first baptist church mansfield. luckily they already have cameras and i have the adobe cs4 software so i dont think they will need to buy anything to get started. hopefully when bridget gets here, we can work together on creative ideas for the media for fbc mansfield.

working the next four days straight. this stretch is rough, by the forth day i want to never be at fridays ever again, but the money is good. working five days a week gets me hours which mean money and a better chance of having enough hours for tuition reimbursement at the end of the semester. five days of work and four days of school is alot though. especially when im trying to keep up with the tivo.

plans are for stupid...

the past couple of days havent gone as i planned. looking forward to leaving tomorrow, i figured tuesday i would edit video the whole day and print a few photos. instead, i shot video when i thought i would be editing, and printed a bunch of photos with chemical spots on them. luckily i was able to clean the film so when i get back into the lab on tuesday i can pump out a few prints rather quickly. today i figured i would finish my editing project during editing class and work. instead, i sat through 3 hours of pointless lecture then trained a girl at work. i like training though. well, i like it when the trainee either has experience or wants to learn. lazy people just make me mad.

i bought some 11"x14" paper to print the rest of my photos on. i like the paper size alot. its pretty perfect. makes the photo look more professional with being obnoiously big.

oh, so my old youth pastor, david, is now a music minister at fbc mansfield, and he called me the other day to say he talked with the media lady at some mega church in southlake and she is willing to let me come and learn how they do everything they do. its pretty much going to be an internship. then, david said he would like me to do the same kinda stuff at his church if i want to. im way excited. this sounds like a perfect opportunity. hopefully it works out. lately ive had people tell me they want me to do all this stuff for them, then they never call me back, or they keep dragging me along because they arent financially ready to put the stuff in action.

im leaving at 1250 tomorrow to go see bridgette. i bet i dont get much sleep tonight. last time i tried to sleep when i was going to see her, i got like three hours. im crazy about her.

first posts are for stupid...

just decided i miss blogging and am going to start again...

school is going well. i constantly get complements on my ideas in my tv film directing class, and on my videos in editing class, and my photography teacher told me last week, "you have an eye for interesting pictures that translate beautifully to paper, i can only hope you will pursue photography outside of this class". that meant alot.

im working on my final project in photo class. ten pictures, all with a common theme. my theme is going to be downtown at night. i went to downtown dallas last night and tonight and finished a roll. i cant wait to develop it tomorrow and take a look at what i have.

im leaving thursday to spend the weekend with bridget, i cant wait to see her. she has a fun weekend planned, but as long as i get to see her, ill be happy.

along with blogging more, i want to write poetry. i have written four poems ever. two ill copy and paste at the end of this blog, and one ill post a link to youtube account i posted a video of.

first poem ever...

my problem is this... im stuck inside a room... this room is nearly empty... its a rather small room, constructed with concrete... it must be cold outside, cause the concrete is freezing... all that keeps me from the burning cold floor is a small coffee table... square in shape, as wide and long as the length from your fingertips to your elbow... it seems to be a rather old coffee table... if i stay still enough, i can avoid the shaky, creaking of the weak joints... theres only one light in this room... a single bulb, emerging from the wall, with no fixture to cover it... it hangs over a gigantic mirror... the mirror hides most of the wall... it stretches wider than my armspan, and i can not reach the top of it... ive been trapped in this prison of a room for as long as i can remember... i have no idea why im here, or how i got here, but i do know it was my own doing... i have no concept of time... i originally thought i could count the days that have passed, by the nights i have slept... i dont know how often i sleep, but its not as much as my body requires... the floor is too cold to be against for longer than what feels like should be about thirty minutes... therefore the coffee table is my only hope for rest... it is far from comfortable, but after so long without sleep, thats hardly the issue... i have two options... lay facing the light, shining over the mirror... with this option, im forced to be constantly reminded of the situation i have put myself in... or, i could lay facing the darkness... with this option, im forced to constantly fear the future my decisions i have brought on myself... at first my plan was to wait to be rescued by someone who loves and misses me... but at this point, i can only rely on myself... after constant contemplating of possible escape opportunities, i believe ive found the solution... look in the mirror, see what i saw, take the saw, saw the table in half, two haves make a whole, climb out of the hole...

second poem ever...

as the smoke clears from the battlefield, all i can see is an empty horizon. these grassy fields once scattered with brothers and sisters fighting my same battle, are now barren. preoccupied with whores and 'financial oppertunities' in nearby towns, they have strayed from the common goal. the idea of overcoming the evil has been replaced with the desire to become a part of it. as i pass a small city, im met by fellow soldiers calling for me to join them in their pursuit of selfish desires. they argue that "the general grants us to do as we please, regardless of the effects of that on the outcome of the war". their foolishness is obvious to me...and themselves. i offer my allegiance if they would fight by my side, but the permanent rewards of this war are much further away than the temporary satisfactions of these decaying cities. so they decided to stay behind, either not caring or ignorance to the fact that victory is guaranteed in this fight as much as defeat is guaranteed in this town...

heres the setup and link to the forth one...

im in a fantasy baseball league (eventhough i hate baseball), and the guy i beat is an old friend.

his team name is "little lasordas"

he is in another fantasy baseball league called "big sticks" (baseball slang for good batters)

he referred to his league as "the big league" and our league as "the little league"

the players i drafted with my second and seventh picks were injured all week (leaving me at a big disadvantage)

anyway, here you go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzvoV5466

thats all this time, ill post less soon...