This post is lengthy and has been devided into sections in case you don't want to read everything I have to say.
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Today is Wednesday. Nothing noteable...nothing noteable until you stop and think about why the sun has been up for so long before you decided to roll out of bed. Nothing noteable for the first few seconds of wakening until you remember that this Wednesday isn't like other Wednesdays...today there is no school, tomorrow my friends is Thanksgiving which depending on how things go is quite possibly the most enjoyable of holidays. In fact even though Christmas should be much more enjoyable especially considering the history of how the holiday came to be I find that the only reason most people,myself included, enjoy it more than Thanksgiving are A) longer break and B) presents. That being said waking up at noon today was amazing because when this happened today I didn't feel like I was wasting my weekend like I do if I sleep in on Saturday. After sleeping in late I ate lunch at Chili's with my family except my sister who was out getting her hair done. Came back and played some Day of Defeat on my computer and started reading two books that Paul Gustafson let me borrow. Currently the one I'm reading is called "The Universe Next Door". "The Universe Next Door" is about world views and the "universe" you create for yourself with your world views and the "universe" that your neighbor next door may create for himself with his world views. Overall it is a very interesting break down of several religous/world view perspectives from the standpoint of a Christian author who from what I have read of the book tries hard not to be bias. After laying around the house reading today I'm gonna go hang out with Zach and Easton and maybe Neely in a little bit after Zach gets done watching the new episode of Lost.

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Speaking of Lost, the second season is slightly dissapointing me due to a shaky plot. The character dialogue seems to have more deep meaning to it but the actual plot of the series seems to be taking a turn for the worst. It seems like it isn't heading anywhere and is much too broad for possibilities. Like I said to my brother and to Josh the problem seems to be like this: when your reading a book it is entertaining to not know what is going to happen but to have it hinted at so that you the reader can be like "O, that would be cool". Foreshadowing and such but at the same time surprising and creative. The first season of Lost had me captivated but right now what I have seen of the second season(four episodes) has left me thinking "I have no idea what is going to happen..." contrary to popular belief this isn't always a good thing. The second season of Lost has taken this to the extreme, there is no foreshadowing and everything that pops up is no longer surprising because I have come to expect of each episode of Lost that random, totally absurd crazy things that do not build towards a suspensful plot at all are going to happen. However, I still enjoy the conversations the characters have as they have alot more meaning besides what they are actually saying, an example that comes to mind is a scene from the last episode I saw. The scene is such: There is an alarm that goes off periodically and starts a timer of 180 minutes. There is a crazy guy on the island who has a computer and has been living underneath the island for several years and believes he has to enter a certain code every time the alarm goes off before the timer gets to 0, he believes by doing this he is saving the world or at least keeping something horrible from happening. Jack and John come upon him and by a long series of events his computer ends up being broken and the guy freaks out and runs out into the island. The guy used to be like an olympic track runner and he is running for his life. Jack takes off after him and finds him in the forest and points a gun at him and makes him stop.

Jack: Stop! Stop running...you don't even know what you are running from! NOTHING is going to happen when that counter hits 0.

Desmond(The crazy guy): In fifteen minutes you are either going to be very right or very wrong.

They continue to converse but I can't remember the exact dialogue. Jack returns to the computer room where one of the other characters has fixed the computer and John and Jack proceed to have an argument whether or not they should put in the code. Keep in mind that Jack has struggled the whole time with believing that anything supernatural has been occuring on the island where as John is convinced something supernatural is occuring. Jack is a man of science and John is a man of faith.

Jack: I'm not doing it.

John: I'm not doing this alone Jack, this is a two man assignment.

Jack: If you want to do it that's fine John I'm not doing it.

John: Jack...you need to do this. Why do you find it so hard to believe?

Jack: Why do you find it so easy?

John: It has NEVER BEEN EASY!

*staring and such and Jack reluctantly enters the code into the computer.*

Obviously there are some things in my life that I related these scenes to and probably things that other people thought of as well. And so yes, I will continue to watch Lost and they will most likely succeed in drawing it out into googles of seasons and making loads of cash. Sigh.

--Yesterday, The Day Before Wednesday Without School--
Yesterday was a good day, throughout the day Tuesday was called Friday and at the end of the day I think I aced my Biology II test that I thought was gonna be crazy hard. I can only hope. Anyway I was planning on watching a movie with some of the junior girls and guys but it ended up being only one other junior guy and 6 junior girls. Can't complain. So we didn't watch a movie but the night was still fun. We went to wolfcreek park and rolled down the hill a bunch getting dizzy in the process and having races back up the hill.(It is extremely difficult to run in a straight line uphill after rolling down a hill). Went home around 10:30 and played Day of Defeat with Easton. The night ended with me and Justin(my brother) and Lisa(my sister) and Easton eating at IHOP around 1 in the morning. Good times.

-Wednesday....Last Wednesday....The Last Wednesday....(Junior Guys)-
So today is Wednesday and so I needed to post something that I wanted to post but never got in on my previous posts. This is concerning youth group and last Wednesday. Last Wednesday I got screwed over by Pei Wei and went to youth group. This is the part I didn't get to post. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I was really worried that our smallgroup (the junior guys) was falling apart recently. Things were looking to be headed in a downward direction and alot of us don't keep in touch as much as we used to. People have left and people have gotten angry with each other and people have felt left out. What I would really like to say is I'm glad we got over that, or are getting over it. Last Wednesday was awesome and was probably the best Wednesday night I have been to in the past three years. There was alot of vulnerability by students and leaders alike and I feel like we bonded alot. Matt Young came and it was really great to see him, he has been busy with alot of stuff and we don't get to see him as much as we used to. All in all there was alot of deep conversation and I'm extremely glad that we basically just let ourselves talk. Last Wednesday was the second to last youthgroup of the semester, the next one being on the week after Thanksgiving, it's been a rough semester but I think it will end well. Junior guys, I salute you. Junior guys, I hug you.

Peace out. Enjoy your sleep tonight and your lunch tomorrow.

"God does not love us because we are so valuable; we are valuable because God loves us."
-Helmut Thielicke