"Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you."
~Oswald Chambers
As a long-winded, teaching-oriented, ex-bible study leader who always has a ditty for everything....I'm still trying to wrap my mind around this. Help?
Monday, 19 July 2010
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
consider
Jury duty?
Seriously?
Yes, I know I deferred several months ago, thinking that I would be smart enough to send in the right form at the right time stating that I am a student,therefore I am impervious to the inconveniences caused by civic duty. Unfortunately I can spell procrastination better than I can spell affidavit, so here I am.
Drone on, cheap county video that defends the idea that jury duty is a "privilege", not a burden. I'm sure you just convinced the 400+ people here in this one room that dodging Atlanta traffic, missing work and other things to potentially provide 1/12 of a judgment call on someone else's problem is undoubtedly the best way to spend a day.
Oh well...I'm sure I'll get sent home. That's good, I have to go to lab, it's our busiest week. It'll work out.
TAM-ERR-UH Johnson? That's me, more or less...
Cool, there are 35 other people with my fate, they only need 12...I like my odds.
So, why did the judge just call my name?
Statistics, you have failed me.
Well, at least the trial will only last toda--did he just 2-3 days?
OK, my boss may be a bit pissed since this is my first day on our new project.
OK, I will be missing a physics lab...thank God we can drop one.
OK, I'm going to be missing class, lab, and life.
OK, I'm a little upset.
Alright, I survived the 5 hours of court today. I'm pretty sure the judge saw me dozing, don't know how I'm going to pull off this alertness thing for 7 hours tomorrow. Now what do I do? I want to be, need to be in lab with the firs and the grasses! I would prefer not to miss my one class in the summer. I would rather roast outside in the 100 degree weather than roast under the tension of expensive arguments.
Blurrrgggg
OK, I'm at Tech now, I can just meet with my physics professor and sort everything out. He's a pretty reasonable guy, and it would be better to show my face than to email him. He usually stays late, and it's just 5:30.
Little Post-It note, innocently hanging on Dr. Murray's door, thank you for being the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm Frustrateddazedperplexedtiredoverwhelmed and I don't know how to stop.
Just another situation out of my control, another situation that's all my fault.
Just another stressor, just another addition to the summer of bizarre.
What is this written in the cement? Crazy vandals, always ruining our new construction projects on campus. What does it say?
CONSIDER IT JOY
Come again, sidewalk?
CONSIDER IT JOY
....
......
........
Well played, Author and Finisher person.
Well played, You who are in the sky and also here on the gravelled ground.
Well played, You whose love is often inconvenient.
Well played, You who created domesticity, physics, Frasier firs, fellow jurors, and Post-it notes.
Well played.
Seriously?
Yes, I know I deferred several months ago, thinking that I would be smart enough to send in the right form at the right time stating that I am a student,therefore I am impervious to the inconveniences caused by civic duty. Unfortunately I can spell procrastination better than I can spell affidavit, so here I am.
Drone on, cheap county video that defends the idea that jury duty is a "privilege", not a burden. I'm sure you just convinced the 400+ people here in this one room that dodging Atlanta traffic, missing work and other things to potentially provide 1/12 of a judgment call on someone else's problem is undoubtedly the best way to spend a day.
Oh well...I'm sure I'll get sent home. That's good, I have to go to lab, it's our busiest week. It'll work out.
TAM-ERR-UH Johnson? That's me, more or less...
Cool, there are 35 other people with my fate, they only need 12...I like my odds.
So, why did the judge just call my name?
Statistics, you have failed me.
Well, at least the trial will only last toda--did he just 2-3 days?
OK, my boss may be a bit pissed since this is my first day on our new project.
OK, I will be missing a physics lab...thank God we can drop one.
OK, I'm going to be missing class, lab, and life.
OK, I'm a little upset.
Alright, I survived the 5 hours of court today. I'm pretty sure the judge saw me dozing, don't know how I'm going to pull off this alertness thing for 7 hours tomorrow. Now what do I do? I want to be, need to be in lab with the firs and the grasses! I would prefer not to miss my one class in the summer. I would rather roast outside in the 100 degree weather than roast under the tension of expensive arguments.
Blurrrgggg
OK, I'm at Tech now, I can just meet with my physics professor and sort everything out. He's a pretty reasonable guy, and it would be better to show my face than to email him. He usually stays late, and it's just 5:30.
Had to leave early. See you tomorrow. ~EM
Little Post-It note, innocently hanging on Dr. Murray's door, thank you for being the straw that broke the camel's back.
I'm Frustrateddazedperplexedtiredoverwhelmed and I don't know how to stop.
Just another situation out of my control, another situation that's all my fault.
Just another stressor, just another addition to the summer of bizarre.
What is this written in the cement? Crazy vandals, always ruining our new construction projects on campus. What does it say?
CONSIDER IT JOY
Come again, sidewalk?
CONSIDER IT JOY
....
......
........
Well played, Author and Finisher person.
Well played, You who are in the sky and also here on the gravelled ground.
Well played, You whose love is often inconvenient.
Well played, You who created domesticity, physics, Frasier firs, fellow jurors, and Post-it notes.
Well played.
Thursday, 1 July 2010
the present
consuming eclairs and ciders with my bros
eating cheesecake at a restaurant that tastes like it's been in the fridge for 3 years
watching too many movies and fulfilling too few deadlines
talking about nothing and everything with someone who inadvertently helped shaped my worldview
sweating while trekking across campus, showing up to every meeting looking like a wet dog
carrying an umbrella and being able to use it before the end of the day
being with friends who make you laugh from your core, and realizing that they love you, too
youtubing songs over and over again before realizing they are illegal download-worthy
going to flying biscuit entirely too many times
eating out entirely too many times
eating
talking to my besties through phone, gchat, email
talking to my besties in person
thinking of clever lines but never having paper to put them in existence
watching my subject-verb agreement slip down the drain
shopping
riding on MARTA and learning the faces of Atlantans
my friends' handwriting
finding out that it takes an entire village to graduate
realizing that the entire village is just as happy as I am to graduate
wearing sweats over shorts in lab to expose my ankles for the world to see
crying and laughing in the same conversation
allowing myself to be scared, emotional, even out-of-sorts about things in life
acknowledging that I'm not as cool as I think I am
living out the long-term in long-term friendships
witty phrases
30 rock
double-jointedness
old letters
heaven is truly in the simple things.
eating cheesecake at a restaurant that tastes like it's been in the fridge for 3 years
watching too many movies and fulfilling too few deadlines
talking about nothing and everything with someone who inadvertently helped shaped my worldview
sweating while trekking across campus, showing up to every meeting looking like a wet dog
carrying an umbrella and being able to use it before the end of the day
being with friends who make you laugh from your core, and realizing that they love you, too
youtubing songs over and over again before realizing they are illegal download-worthy
going to flying biscuit entirely too many times
eating out entirely too many times
eating
talking to my besties through phone, gchat, email
talking to my besties in person
thinking of clever lines but never having paper to put them in existence
watching my subject-verb agreement slip down the drain
shopping
riding on MARTA and learning the faces of Atlantans
my friends' handwriting
finding out that it takes an entire village to graduate
realizing that the entire village is just as happy as I am to graduate
wearing sweats over shorts in lab to expose my ankles for the world to see
crying and laughing in the same conversation
allowing myself to be scared, emotional, even out-of-sorts about things in life
acknowledging that I'm not as cool as I think I am
living out the long-term in long-term friendships
witty phrases
30 rock
double-jointedness
old letters
heaven is truly in the simple things.
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