i think it’s definitely wrong that i would consider reading other peoples’ blogs of higher priority than doing any of my cascade of makeup work. in other news, come to my show a week from today!

going to florida for 5 days a week and a half before finals was not a good idea. i don’t think i could be any less motivated to finish strongly. luckily for me, i’m having the easiest quarter of my stanford career, and maybe that will let me slide by without too much trouble. orlando was sweet. i got in thursday morning at 6am. i was a little tired but i didn’t want to go to bed until that night or the jet lag would suck all weekend, so i went running. i hung out with chris nyffeler for a good bit, because he left friday morning for japan. ...

the pedro show was completely awesome. david bazan. what a beautiful, broken man. i’m leaving for home in a few hours. my brother is graduating high school. i’m there through memorial day, and it will be a good break from school.

i had a wonderful night. my crusade bible study had a date night, and each of us found an extremely beautiful and enchanting lady to spend the evening with (i had the honor of taking the lovely erin spokes). we went to dinner and ice skating. i ice-skated once before in my life, in the galleria in dallas, when i wasn’t any older than 10. so it was great fun, and i think give me a few more times out and i’ll be doing quadruple axels and whatever else. ...

my goodness. i just heard thunder outside. do you understand what this means? it’s the first time i’ve heard thunder at this school since…september. glorious!

also, just so you know, it is still ok to leave comments. i’m getting lonely.

it might be sad, but the bookends of my last few days were movies: on the one hand, star wars episode 2, and on the other, a significantly lower-quality movie called orange county. i saw the new star wars movie at 12:01am wednesday night–the first showing on the west coast. it was at one of those mega-plex 45-theatre compound things, so the lines were amazing. one of our group had been there since 2pm, however, braving the crowds, so we walked right to the front of the line at 10:15pm, carrying in ’n out burgers for our diehard compatriots. it was an event–a lot of dressed up people as you’d expect, and we were even interviewed the stanford daily newspaper, and made it in two days later (our whole ancient greek class was there, so it was a novelty). ...

well it’s been a great past few days. the crusade retreat was lots of fun–great times of sincere worship, productive times of planning for next year, refreshing times of napsdevotionals, energizing times of playing various sports in the bright danville sun, and relaxing times of sitting in the hot tub. unfortunately all the sun, while it gave me a nice tan, also gave me a few cold sores, especially since there was no grape juice to be had all weekend. cold sores always bring out the masochistic side of me. no more on that. ...

all my friends back home have packed up and moved out of college for the summer. they’re driving around town getting jobs. they’re going shopping and going to shows, they’re taking road trips to see each other. they’re sitting down and looking back at the semester, contemplating the changes in their lives. they’re making lists of the top ten cds of spring 2002, as if spring were over. sadly, it’s not. and my summer doesn’t start until, for them, it starts coming to a close. ...

yesterday i was attacked by a bad mood. it snuck up behind me and sunk its claws in before i knew what was happening. two main reasons: 1) i didn’t get the summer job i applied for. 2) another >1300 draw number. what kills me is my friend whose draw numbers for both the last years add up to less than 50. i hate this screwball university for more than its dining plans. ...