Hahaha.

I've been trying to sleep for a few hours, and no luck. It's weird, I usually have no trouble. Especially if I plug into some music. But now...ugh. I just can't keep my mind from wandering...or...something. I can't remember how I usually get to sleep. What mindset I get in, that is.

I'm so tired!

I also have a problem, because even though my usual haunts on the computer aren't really doing much to distract me, (facebook, nuTang, comics; they're all dead lately) I can't ever remember to do actually PRODUCTIVE things I want to do. So I end up wasting my entire weekend. Boo!

The games being offered for Zune look pretty awesome--NOT. Some great ideas, but the touch pad thing plus the small screen on my model makes for some interesting gaming boo-boos.

Hopefully the video for HOTA will be awesome. It's a bit of a big production for just me and John.

I don't like the term "avoiding". It implies that I'm going out of my way to...well, avoid something. But isn't it different if I've just stopped going out of my way to confront that thing? Like, if I was angry at the sun, I'd have to trouble myself to stay out of sunlight all day and only come out at night, I guess. But if, say, an earthworm was staying out of the sun, that doesn't mean it's avoiding the sun on purpose. It just happens to live in the dirt.

Hmm. I just contrasted me from myself and compared me to an earthworm instead.

Interesting.

"She groped me on the stairs, below the old man's kitchen!"

Gotta love the Dropkick Murphys.

Before the stats reset for Sunday, I noticed that I was in the top 10. "But how," I thought, "can I be so popular and still only have 2 comments on a 3 (?) day old post?"

The answer is...you're all reading and not responding! :0

-hiss-

It's OK, I do it too.

The reason I'm having trouble going to sleep is NOT because I just watched An American Haunting. It was pretty good, but I was only nervous in bed for, say, the first 40 minutes. After that it was just relaxed insomnia.

I just cranked up the AC a bit. Time for a second try! Night, folks.

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What a long and stupendous day.

I got up with the sun so I could be ready for pickup at seven thirty. The plan was to meet all the campus students from my church and our nearby sister church in a parking lot about half an hour away from campus. Then there'd be driving, tubing down a river, and hiking up near a waterfall! Exciting news, gentlemen and ladies.

The tubing itself was quite a lot of fun. We had about thirty peeps in our group. The bus ride to the drop point was full of very loud singing and clapping. I swan-dove into the pile of inner tubes and got wet bruises for my trouble. Some poor soul immediately flipped their tube before even leaving port. At first, everyone was kind of just floating and swimming around the river, trying to flip each other and get some good fellowship in and stuff. After a while, we started collecting in clumps. There were a lot of rocks to get stuck on, so I made myself useful by "flexing" our little amoeba and moving into the best flows. As our clumps grew, this became more complicated. I spent most of my time face-up on my tube, holding another with each arm and trying to position a third to support my head. Consequently, when we got stuck at one point, I couldn't see the pure catastrophe that was building right behind me (I was floating head-first). I ignored the cries to let go of my neighbors, insisting hold the group together like I had been doing. Suddenly, I felt a strong pull in one direction. "Success!" I thought. We began to quickly move.

We began to quickly leave my tube behind. Before I knew it, I was being dragged backwards over multiple sets of small waterfalls, mostly underwater. I think it was at least four. Eventually I surfaced with several scratches along my back (my shirt mostly protected me), a major cramp in my leg, and one of my Vibrams trying to escape, and a wayward tube following closely behind. One of the girls asked, "Are you OK?!"

"I think I'm dead," was my answer.

After that little fiasco, I relegated myself to the outskirts of the amoeba and spent less time flexing and more time listening to the songs we were singing. There were less rocks, so that was nice.

When we exited the river, some of us stayed in town to go on that hiking trip. The actual trail was pansy stuff. Mostly flat, a few switch-backs, mud and gravel. But the river! There were great rocks for climbing, lots of slippery surfaces to slide around on, and an awesome alcove carved out by a little waterfall. And then it rained, and that little waterfall got pretty swollen, and I PUT IT ON MY BACK. I mean, I crawled up under it, and stood up under its force, and roared!

fierce

Anyway, we hiked back in the rain, got in our cars, and skidaddled. I met a few really great and godly kids, had some good talks, wore my body out, ate some nature for breakfast, and just generally had a blast. Whoo!

Man. I'm still hyped up, and I have school in twelve hours. Better jump on that. Night kiddies.

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I'm trying to find a way to get around the blocked sites on the school internet connection. I kind of hoped that they were blocked only on the browser they make us use, (internet explorer,) but it turns out that it's more a problem of going through the school's iPrism proxy.

Is there any way to get around that? I really have no idea what I'm doing. I got some freeware called Tunnelier, which looks pretty complicated. I don't know what I should be trying to do with it, or how to do it. So.

Any tips? Is there even any hope?

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At this point, I don't care if I'm right or wrong.

I want to break something.

I'd never felt been made to feel so petty until I met you.

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