"Measuring your minutes by a clock that's blinking 8s"

The weekends suck here guys.

Being from far away doesn't allow me to make it home often, even on weekends like Mother's Day weekend. I could have made it home if I really wanted to make it work, but I have massive amounts of work to do, both UCC and otherwise, and I would want to concentrate only my fam cause I dont see them often, so the time would not be very productive. I regret not working harder this week so I could make it back. Anyway, I'm praying for my Mom as she continues to be the Matriarch of such an awesome family. She is the strongest person I know. I used to think my Dad was more in control of things than her, but she would go toe to toe with him and not flinch.....what a gangsta. I'm not gonna say a bunch of sappy stuff....that's for Mother's day. The reason I'm bloggin right now is to take up time. I am really sad on weekends cause people aren't online as much, and saturdays are the day of least contact for me. Being the social butterfly that I am, I cant go more than a few hours without hanging with someone. Did I just call myself a social butterfly? Whatevs, I am seriously dependent on others for company sometimes I think. I feel bad that sometimes I hang out with people simply cause I don't want to be alone. This is kinda selfish, and I'm sorry guys. That wasnt the case tonight, when I went to UCC choir practice, and then worked on programs w/Mike and Marites, and then afterwards to IHOP, but in general I think I chill without much thought of whether or not I am doing it self-servingly, or cause I genuinely want to spend time with the people. Wow I just woke up from this trance and read what I wrote, that's kinda crazy. I am a jerk.
But in all seriousness, I get really sad when weekends come. I have all of saturday to just chill all by myself and it drives me crazy. No one to talk to. no one to see. Yea Im just complaining. I can't believe I ask people to visit me while I work for 2 2hr shifts during the week when I will see them anyway, I should ask them to visit me on the weekends on saturdays preferrably, b/w 1 and 4pm. Wait, there I go being self-centered again.

This is hopeless, Im too tired and random to be making any sense....Im going to do shoutouts...

Janice- of course you're first, you blogged for the first time in a long time!!! after my prompting I might add. Anyway welcome back to the community!
Kirss- thanks for swinging by work, it made the last 15 minutes go by pretty quick. And watch those invisible crosswalks, they can KILL you.
Bball boys- yea good games to you guys, Dave, GP and Derrick. Thanks for letting me tag along. I hadn't played ball in a long time and it was cool to go back to it.
UCC Choir- thanks to everyone who shows up to practice to make the rally such a great event through which we can glorify God.
Mike and Marites- It's nights like these that I will remember and cherish most about UCC. Just us chillin, trying to do things we don't really know how to do, learning together, and then laughing about it the whole time. You guys are awesome, and I hope that we get at least one more program making night in together before the year is over.

To everyone else, you know I love you guys. If you come by and hang out I'll tell you personally how cool you are ;)

One Love

PS this pic below is my bro Nathan, and thats what my hair's going to look like after this summer.

What my hair will look like in 3 months

"Go back and listen to 'Daughters' again.......bitches"

So today was kinda crazy.......it started off fine. I had a normal boring Wednesday, well not all boring, I went to confession and then mass!! woot. then it got boring. I went to anthro where I sat appalled as the professor said if you failed the midterm you could still drop the class.......How could anyone have failed the midterm?? I mean maybe if you didnt attend one single class and thought it was the archaeology class instead of anthro, and read that whole book filling your head with archaeology knowledge and not anthropological knowledge, you would fail, but other than that I see no way to fail that test! Yea it was easy in case you were wondering. But then after that class I went to look at stuff on the sidewalk sale in front of the bookstore, they had nothing. Nothing for guys at least. Anyway chilled in the Booth with GP and David, and that was good boring times. GP don't ever shine that laser pointer in my eyes again, I swear I will kill you....KIILLLLL YOOOUUU!!! Anyway nothing productive happened there.
Around 5 I went to SPOP training to talk about Catholicism and the UCC. That was a pretty interesting experience. Lot's of good dialogue between different religions, but Catholics and Muslims were the only reps from Interfaith that showed up. Ahmed, the Muslim Student Union representative is an awesome guy and very articulate. He hit the nail on the head with many issues concerning us today and made great remarks about striving for peace and accord between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish nations. Things JP2 would have been proud of. Seriously a cool guy....he and I talked afterwards about getting Catholics and Muslims together to watch Kingdom of Heaven, the new crusade movie coming out on friday....Im down to, anyone else? Lemme know. Anyway that was cool.
After that ate dinner with Marites at Taco Bell, and saw Elinor who joined us, as well as her study buddy Gerard. Quite a cool fellow as well, said he knows Mangie, and hails from the 805. He was really cool....I guess it was just my lucky day to meet cool people. Ok brace yourselves cause the story of the hour takes place next.....
So Marites was takin me home from Taco Bell and we pull into the Dartmouth driveway. Now those of you who have pulled in there, you know that to the left is a row of parking spaces facing like a "wall" of lattice work covered in vines, and on the other side is a row of parking spaces facing that same wall. Now we pulled in and I noticed something was wrong but I couldn't quite place it until I noticed that......there was a car that crashed through the lattice wall and was ON TOP of a Honda Accord on the other side of the wall!!!!!!!! Yea I know, curazay!!! But yea the weirdest part is that the car on top had come from the side that is close to the building, so there was very little room to get up that kind of speed. Im still not sure how that happened. But I came back to the apt and told GP and some other peeps online.....and then GP, being bored and with nothing better to do, came over with Mel, Leo, and Jason and we just gaped as we tried to make sense of it all. Jason got some pics of it......he was being all paparazzi style, hiding behind us and trees and buildings and stuff....crazy. Anyway they stayed until all the excitement had calmed down and they peaced out. That is the end of this insanity.
So tomorrow is my second shift at the bookstore.....and I will be bored again so please come and visit me. Im not complaining about being bored because I knew I would be in this job, it's just that's the truth.....and I want some company. But yea Randell and Matt came by they said, but I wasn't working anymore......that's why I said my shift was from 1-3, not 3:30 guys......I do appreciate the effort immensly tho, thanks bros. It seems pretty laid back......well at least not stressful. And the other back desk people are nice......Loretta trained me in like 20 minutes and even wrote me a welcome note in the back desk journal....yea thats right, we have a journal. It's only cause there's no computer to use so we cant blog. But anyway Im rambling here. Hope you all come to visit me.....well not all of you cause then I might get in trouble, but just come if you can. Take it easy and Im giving you all tremendous amounts of eprops and shoutouts right now in my head.
Peace out-Kip

"It's just a bend in the road, but this road always goes on"

So lots to report from this weekend......but its all kinda boring when being told, so I will just try to highlight stuff.

So my roommate makes fun of me constantly because now I'm more Filipino than she is. I went to PCN on saturday and understood every joke they told......sooo sad. But it was pretty cool. Waaaayy too long, but the dances were good, and the skit was freakin good. Ang and Toni are my heroes!! Props to all who did that.....goood stuff. After that we hit up The Hat, which is always good, but there were so many people it was even cooler. Someone else said so I will repeat it......YFC and LOG should hang more often. That was cool times. I had some crazy amount of chili cheese fries.....I'd never had it with pastrami tho and so Toni gave me some from her sandwich and it was heavenly......yea I might get that next time. Anyway that was cool
Then yesterday was the craziest day of my life I think.......woke up early to get some studying and other stuff done before mass, then Mel called me and asked me to help GP and Jay with the second shift of COR breakdown. So after mass I did that. But at mass one of the funniest things ever happened to me.....so Christine, one of the girls in the choir comes up to me before mass starts and gives me one of the buddy-buddy shoulder punches and says "Yea facebook!!". At first I was like, "oh you added me huh?". Then she asked me about the midterm.......that scared me cause I was thinking maybe I had forgotten about something. But then she said "yea econ 20c" and then it all dawned on me......she had confused me with another white guy....Mattman. I mean I know we are both sexy beasts, but you'd think people could tell us apart better than that. Naw what actually happened is Matt and I were in his facebook pic together, and I was in the middle, so thats why. Still that had me laughing pretty hard on sunday. Anyway, I did the COR thing wit geeps and jay and then afterwards headed over to VDC to be part of the YFC Recollection. That was really good.....lots of stuff was said that needed to be said. And lots of stuff was cleared up. One thing I wanted to make a public apology for is all the racist jokes I make......even the white ones. I didn't realize they hurt other people so much and Im pretty insensitive so I wanted to say sorry if I ever hurt you. But yea, that was tightness...Holy Spirit was working to help people see how they could better help out Core. Good stuff.
After that I went to Interfaith.....well I went home real quick cause I hadnt eaten anything since a donut at noon mass......then to Interfaith to finish my chili cheese fries from the Hat on saturday night. Then had a UCC meeting about the UCC rally and other bizness. That was good.....things are coming together on that rally. But then I went home got there around 9 and I had a midterm the next day(today)!!! Yea it sucked tryin to study for that. I was soooo tired I couldnt stay focused but I tried. Then I went to bed around 12 and wok up at 715, which sucked majorly. I got up and tried to study. couldnt, so I went to Interfaith. still had a hard time. finally went to mass and then class. and I gotta tell you guys something. That was one of the easiest midterms Ive ever taken in college!! I think God had my back on this or something.
So Im finally getting back to finishing this post (I started it at 4 hahaha) and I honestly am still having a good day. Just ate at Le Diplomate with my roommate and instead of soda, grabbed some Juice It Up!, and that was awesome. So since it took so long to get to, I figure I owe you guys some shoutouts, esp GP who was waiting for this during work. I'm only gonna shout out to people I talked to, or talked to me, cause that makes the list pretty short....

GP-sorry I didnt get it done in time for the end of your day. but now you have something to look forward tmr morning. I hope your away message isn't talkin about Ill Mitch, cause that guys hardcore. I wouldnt mess with the Russians like that. he even says "I keep a handi-wipe in my fanny pack"!!! thats craaazzzyy!!!
Dex-you are the man. thats all I need to say. Im sure room raider would have been awesome, but you didnt do that did you? of course you didn't ;)
Donna-well I guess you will look more closely next time, won't you? unless of course you like it when people have to come pick you up when you don't need to be. Im just happy you IMed me, so that I was in on the story haha
Kirsss-You are quite the lazy one now arent you? yea but so am I.......after telling GP today that I wanted to take a nap, I said that I was too lazy to climb up onto my bed......that was lazy also.
oh and I bet you can hear this......sssssssssssssssss.
Randie-well played bro, well played. ;)
Stephen-I know you don't read my blog bro, but Im writing you one anyway. You have some weird friends man.......why do they want to talk to a college guy? they arent even girls.......ummm yea find some new friends bro.......hahahaaa jk, have fun this year and good luck wit swimming.
Mattman-we are so confusable.......I dont know if that's a word, but it should be. We should wear name tags or something......wanna study econ 20c?

Well thats it for now......this took way too long. sorry again.
PeAcE my dog-kicking, baby-eating friends