God Called In Sick Today

God Called In Sick Today

:: 2006 14 November :: 10.18pm

If we didn't get along, you would tell me, right?

If I got on your nerves, you would tell me, right?

If we snipped at each other, you would tell me, right?

If I grumbled and was annoying and we argued and were horrible friends, you would tell me, right?

Right?

Because apparently you haven't. And I was. And I'm sorry.

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moana

:: 2006 15 November :: 2.42am
:: Music: Niyaz - Ghazal

Dear Hero,

I found a picture of you accidentally on my computer today, and spent the majority of my computer graphics class making an illustration of you. It was fitting that soon after, we were asked to think of a poem and I thought of one of yours. We had a small typography assignment where we used text to visually represent a poem. You know how it is, practice your spacing, your apple tools and your colour coordination. Use the hierarchy. This is training for commercialization, how to make something show something even though all you have are words.

I thought it was very contradictory, Hero. How can they expect us to NOT be expressive with words? Aren't words the fundamental forms of expression? In our critical viewing of even images, our responses are always in words. Aren't words just that important?

So I decided to make my photography final about something to do with words. I made contact sheets of myself writing backwards on a pane of glass and used a long shutter speed so that you could see the motion. I wrote things like "Hello" and "Bloop" and "Fajer", then I wiped it all off and wrote Shakespeare quotes. "I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning." "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow." "What a piece of work is man! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

So you see, Hero, you live on through your words, and your words are beautiful, and my words are going to grow up to be just as beautiful someday. Until then, I need images to help me along.

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metalhead

:: 2006 11 November :: 12.36pm

The middle of November brings me down
So I thought this might help everyone else, too.
Read more..

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angel_bob

:: 2006 11 November :: 12.01am

Last night I stayed on campus.

I stayed up all night. Emily, Claire and I watched seasons 1 and 2 of The Office. All night.

We finished just in time for breakfast.

Emily and I took a nap for about an hour and a half.

I am starting to feel tired. I just felt out of it before and I didn't realize how out of touch I was until I drove home. I really shouldn't have been driving.

There's more but I'm tired.

To tomorrow!

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holiday

:: 2006 9 November :: 1.57pm

I can't believe Caleb is two weeks old today. It seems like everything happened just yesterday. He's doing so well. His jaundice is all gone now so we don't have to keep going to the hospital every single day. He's sleeping right now. His hair is getting longer and it's sticking up really cute. I had no idea how expensive it is to have a baby these days. The hospital bill just came and luckily the insurance covered all of it. All $6,300 of it! I guess just to be in the hospital was $849 a day. And the delivery room was almost $3000. I got the suite though, so that might've had something to do with it. haha. Today we're going to the mall. My mom took us yesterday and we got him a TON of clothes. Old Navy was having a huge sale. You can't beat $0.98 shirts and pants and such. And they're cute. And we got him these cute little boy boots at Gap. And painter jeans. Okay, now he just needs to grow into them. Alright, I was excited about it, but it's probably just boring ol stuff. :-) He's picking his head up a lot now.

Oh, I signed up for a class, all the culinary ones are filled right now. But I'm taking pottery class with Becca! :-)

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angel_bob

:: 2006 8 November :: 10.29pm

Cubs win!
We won! I'm glad my first time voting was this awesome.

And Rumsfeld is gone!

It's like a collective Democratic birthday.

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moana

:: 2006 8 November :: 4.37pm
:: Music: Garbage - random playlist

I think that the culmination of all our greatest victories can be summed up in one or two songs. Name them.

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angel_bob

:: 2006 6 November :: 8.08pm

I don't care who you vote for.

Just vote tomorrow!

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angel_bob

:: 2006 5 November :: 9.18pm

I'm having a scary French day.

I don't want to go.

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holiday

:: 2006 3 November :: 3.33pm

So we made it to the library today :-)

Caleb is doing so well. He's sleeping right now though. I thought I'd post some more pictures. Sorry the other ones were so big. Actually, I'm running out of time so some pics might still be huge. oops.

This is right after delivery.

This is with Daddy

I think he looks like a little jailbird. He's a week old in this picture.

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angel_bob

:: 2006 2 November :: 11.02am

People assume most Christians are heavy-handed, pushy, intolerant bigots bent of dominating any other culture or idea and supplanting it with their own whims because, for the most part, the ones who speak up the most ARE heavy-handed, pushy, intolerant bigots bent on dominating any other culture or idea and supplanting it with their own whims. It sucks. It's horrible. And it's the what everyone of any faith, political idea, or lifestyle has to deal with. People always focus on the loud minority who ruins everything. And like any other group, the only way you can combat this is making your views and, in this case, your kindness and actual testimony louder than the hateful prattle of those hurting your beliefs.

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angel_bob

:: 2006 31 October :: 11.57pm

You stupid emo kids need to shut your mouth and have fun.

Happy birthday, Aerii/Alex/Washington Friend #Awesome!

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angel_bob

:: 2006 30 October :: 9.46pm

I am beginning to get anxious about leaving this country. I met with some of my fellow France travelers and we were all talking about where we're going to go and what we're going to do. It made me so excited that all I want to do is go now.

Updated countdown (to the minute!):

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holiday

:: 2006 30 October :: 9.40pm

Thanks everybody! Just wanted to post some pictures and get into the gross details. hahaha.

So Tuesday night we went to the Childbirth class we were supposed to make up a few weeks before, and we're like "Uh, we're actually in early labor right now." And so the instructor told us that we had probably 24 hours. And she was right. Wednesday we went a walk and went shopping for some last minute stuff. Then around 11pm while Charlie was on the phone with his mom, asking what it was like when her water broke, mine broke. So we went to the hospital and I started having awful back labor but they couldn't give me anything for a while. Then the stadol. That stuff works. So we tried to sleep a little. Thursday morning I was in the pushing stage and Charlie says between having some of the contractions that actually push the baby out, I said "And now we play the waiting game!" hahaha. So it hurt. A lot. I had 2 episiotomies, and vacuum extraction because he was in the posterior position. She actually reached her hands in to turn him, and he turned back around. So we had to do it. And it hurt. And I am horribly horribly bruised. But he's here! We were at the hospital until Saturday afternoon. He has some jaundice so we're trying to get rid of it. I haven't slept basically since Tuesday.

Here are the pictures!

Here's Charlie and I after labor:

Here's Caleb on his wormy play-mat, he has a billy blanket for his jaundice that's why he's glowing:

He likes to sleep with his arms above his head all stretched out, it's so cute!

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holiday

:: 2006 27 October :: 3.30pm

Caleb James is here! He is a beautifu little boy and we love him so extremely much! I'm still at the hospital trying to walk around and stuff so I figured I would let everyone know.

He was born Oct. 26, 12:07 pm, and he weighed 6 lbs. 10 oz. He is 19 inches long and has beautiful blue eyes. And we think maybe auburn hair. So it was a 12 hour labor but we've been at the hospital since Wednesday night. I had a TON of awful back labor so then on Thursday, well, I'll try to save the details, but it was the most painful thing I've ever done. But well worth it. I'll post some pictures when I get a chance. :-)

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