Confessional Box

i am in love, love, love with my vonage phone. well maybe not so much the phone but the people it lets me talk to. family, friends, even the occasional ‘hey’ sayers like lauren and isaac.

in the book ‘blue like jazz’ (which i recommend as a summer read), the author writes about how living alone can become unhealthy after a long period of time. you begin to look within the bottomless depths of yourself which can be a bad thing in the sense that you forget how to interact with others; you even begin to loose interest in talking to other people.

i can see how that happens. i’ve had a few internal moments where you get so far into this spiral of thoughts that you forget the rational. i’m ok with sharing this because its only been moments, not days. and i think i can recognize those moments now and stop them before they get too far. but i feel so bad for the people that are permenantly alone, by choice or by chance, and they don’t have moments - they have years.

i think its ok to live alone for a while…just make sure you have vonage*.

*i think i should be receiving some $$$ for my plug.

1. a literally crazy guy hung outside of my job all day. he was looking for his older brother. he was so nicely dressed, yet so crazy. that was kind of a freaky seeing him pace back and forth so sincerely looking for something that completely wasn’t there.
2. while riding my bike home, i look down a side street and saw a kid on the ground with his foot pinned under the tire of a car. mom and two other people (driver and dad?) were freaking out and the kid was screaaaming. it was a powerful thing to see in just a second or two…

weird way to start a week.

You have been a Christian a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. You are like babies who drink only milk and cannot eat solid food.

And a person who is living on milk isn’t very far along in the Christian life and doesn’t know much about doing what is right.

Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.

i’ll never forget that time in andrews’ newspaper history when the “shout outs” were done by andrew bueno. i can still picture him walking around the cafe with a legal pad of paper taking down public displays of affection/hollas for the back page of the ’student movement’.

in honor of that time i will “shout” a bit today:

holla to:

• my momma. i got a special card from her today that made me feel warm and fuzzy
• trish/a who rececently celebrated the big 2-7
• paulina. congrats on graduating from depaul!! i wish i was there to party
• benny boy welcoming him back to america
• god. does god like shout outs? well he certainly deserves one!
• andriy for being everything a friend could ask from an eastern european
• kathy because i know you read my blog and i miss you
• my dance teacher. because she know’s how to make a girl sweat
• matthew, jael, and eri for all the cool/abusive/ridiculously funny comments you guys always leave.

holla holla holla

…and the city! jajajaja - how clever…

tomorrow is yet another one of korea’s bountiful holidays. to celebrate korean memorial day, my favorite tv station (and most english speaking) “OnStyle” is hosting 12 hours of sex and the city starting 10pm.

to be honest, i’ve seen every, single episode. some a few times over. but this is the closest thing to home that i’m going to get for a while…did i mention that they don’t tell dirty jokes in this country?…i mean, not that that’s necessary for well-being…it just makes life a lot funnier.

i’ll post updates as the night grows long.

not happy

this sucks.

1.5 hours into the marathon and all i’ve seen is a ton of commercials and clips from a gajillion episodes with somebody explaining the show in korean.

not happy. getting sleepy. must see full 25 minutes in engish or this party is over.

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nothing’s changed…more clips. more hangul subtitles. more drowsiness. although i did get some good laughs, its time to call it a night.

great news! i’ve got wireless which transfers into i can finally use my vonage phone!!!

call on me at 773-733-0158.

both wireless wonderland and the great subject line were provided by dayleen ‘i exercise like a beast and look amazing’ juarez.

is it appropriate to cater the message in which people will receive it? or should we stick with the same ‘ole KJV style?