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Nai silta an meira silveth nailoth, celda vue anma andusto em parith; eco silta an cern eleth, an iselyato ais em Vanorema. Silnova, seumadima nosiema, ler te’aledivuma felonni.

….and in return school fools me by letting me think i’ll get away with it. that is, until monday morning faces me with a ferocious, gloating, smile. “pay up!” he cries, and interest accrues each time i hit the snooze button. i realize the loan i took out from this sly banker in order to buy time is due, and i’ve got nothing to show. the new day is the repo-man, and my defaulted collateral consists of peace and a balanced existence. ...

i’ve got it: i’ll fool school by not actually working, but instead checking out dvds from the library.

it’s 2am on a friday night and i’ve had a great day. apart from my 8 and 9am classes, it could almost have been a perfect day. i got an early start, performed suitably well in my school-related functions (even if i did act like an automaton that only very nearly passed the turing test), and went home to take care of some web business. that being done i had a beautiful lunch at bollard, before launching into an afternoon of quite litera[ri]lly novellic adventures. i read the last two or three hundred pages of my latest stephen r lawhead installment in one sitting. ah, the blessed feeling of the cool breeze mingled with sunshine through an open window while turning the pages of a good adventure, each page like a movie frame that when rolled at speed produces a sequence of fantastic images. ...

and welcome to our new home. hopefully you will notice an increase in speed!

*changing servers for jonathanlipps.com…this site may disappear for a bit…*

i’m trying hard to remember what’s happened in the past few weeks. i guess it’s been at least 3 since i really said anything of importance. my last week at home after portugal, before stanford, was really fun. i went up to gainesville for a few days to hang out with my brother and best friends there. we watched movies, ate big reds, smoked pipes, climbed rocks, and had an all around freakin awesome time. chris domeck went up with me, so the whole posse was there, sans andy, who’s in indiana. ...

i am moved in. class starts tomorrow. and i’m definitely not ready for the hardest quarter of my stanford career.

*in the process of moving into suites…hold on….*

portugal was really fun. last wednesday we flew out of orlando at 2pm, to miami and then across the atlantic to madrid, spain, on an iberia flight. the flight was nice because we were surprisingly upgraded from coach to business class–a fantastic difference in service and comfort. going against the spin of the earth, we arrived in madrid thursday morning, only to smoosh ourselves on a crowded 1-hour commuter flight to lisbon. ...