A Great Teacher

I love my Visual Communications teacher from last semester, Claude Cookman. He sent about 2 emails per week consistently though out the semester, and the following is his final email to our class. He is so awesome, he has had to be disqualified from all of the "Best Teacher Competitions" because he is so awesome. See for your self, and feel free to check out his new book too! http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Claude_Cookman.html

Hello, Gang,

Your grades have been submitted to the Registrar. According to the message below from OneStart, you should be able to access them online after 7 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday).


After sending you e-mails all semester, I've come to the last one.

I won't belabor what I said on the last day of class except to repeat that it has been a great joy sharing J210 with you this semester. The excellent work you've done on your assignments gives me great delight. I have a deep affection for each of you.

I do want to share one final thought that you can put in your life-skills file:

Recently I started rereading a book entitled "Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience." It's by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a former professor at the University of Chicago, who spent his career studying the psychology of creativity.

His book describes those occasions when we concentrate so intently on a task that we lose all awareness of time and the outside world. He calls this situation "flow." Having talked with you, read your essays and observed you in the Multimedia Lab, I think many of you experienced flow in J210 this semester.

Csikszentmihalyi argues that happiness doesn't result from the money, possessions or fame we acquire. Instead, he maintains, we are most happy during these periods of intense work. He writes:

"The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen."

I have tried to persuade you this semester that grades -- which are an external reward, or punishment, determined by somebody who can never really know what you learned or how hard you worked -- are not significant. I have encouraged you to work for the internal rewards of pleasing yourself and producing projects you feel proud of.

To say this a different way, I urge you to stop trying to please your teachers while you're still in college and to not fall into the trap of trying to please your supervisors when you enter your career. Instead, do the work the best you possibly can for its own sake. Take authority over your learning now and over your work in the future. I believe this is the only way for you to be a complete person.

Because this message runs contrary to everything you have heard from your parents, teachers, our educational system, indeed, our entire society, I have no illusions that I have convinced all of you. Nonetheless, I hope you stay open on this issue of what constitutes true value in the realm of learning and work.

For me personally, Csikszentmihalyi is right. I feel my very best when I'm totally absorbed in my teaching or my research. The pay, the recognition, the external rewards do not compare to the satisfaction that comes from doing meaningful work well for its own sake.

It's my fervent wish that each of you finds this same satisfaction in your careers.

Please keep me posted on your successes.

Fondest regards,


claude

Music: Doubting Thomas by Nickel Creek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eFe3net82s&feature=related

What will be left when I've drawn my last breath,
Besides the folks I've met and the folks who know me,
Will I discover a soul saving love,
Or just the dirt above and below me,

I'm a doubting thomas,
I took a promise,
But I do not feel safe,
Oh me of little faith,

Sometimes I pray for a slap in the face,
Then I beg to be spared 'cause I'm a coward,
If there's a master of death I'll bet he's holding his breath,
As I show the blind and tell the deaf about his power,
I'm a doubting thomas,
I can't keep my promises,
'Cause i don't know what's safe,
oh me of little faith

Can I be used to help others find truth,
When I'm scared I'll find proof that its a lie,
Can I be lead down a trail dropping bread crumbs,
That prove I'm not ready to die,

Please give me time to decipher the signs,
Please forgive me for time that I've wasted,

I'm a doubting thomas,
I'll take your promise,
Though I know nothin's safe,
Oh me of little faith

Tea & Ink

Sundays, every other week, 2 - 4pm, starting Sep 27

Exploring the intersection of Faith and Creative Writing … Whether you’re a complete amateur or a semi-pro; a lover of fiction, non-fiction, stories, poems, or essays; you’re welcome to explore with us why we write and how God can be glorified in writing. We’ll be meeting at the Dickinson home every other Sunday afternoon, 2 - 4 pm, starting September 27, with essay & story discussions, free writing exercises, and workshopping of our own writing. Contact Markus Dickinson (md7@indiana.edu) for more information.

Music: Beautiful Things from Dr. Doolittle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD5vT7VT4II

The world is full of beautiful things
Butterfly wings, fairytale kings
And each new day undoubtedly brings
Still more beautiful things

The world abounds with many delights
Magical sights, fanciful flights
And those who dream on beautiful nights
Dream of beautiful things

Beautiful days for sunshine lazin'
Beautiful skies and shores
Beautiful days when I can gaze
In beautiful eyes - like yours

Our lives tick by like pendulum swings
Poor little things, puppets on strings
Life is full of beautiful things
Beautiful people too
Beautiful people
Like you.

Excerpt: The Magician's Nephew" by CS Lewis

"... In the story, a young boy named Digory has a mother that is sick. He finds himself in a land containing magical fruit with healing powers. Digory approaches the great lion Aslan, and asks...

'May I - please, will you give me some magic fruit of this country to make Mother well?'
He had been desperately hoping that the Lion would say 'Yes'; he had been horribly afraid it might say 'No.' But he was taken aback when it did neither.


Later in the story, Digory approaches Aslan again.

He thought of his Mother, and he thought of the great hopes he had, and how they were all dying away, and a lump came in his throat and tears in his eyes, and he blurted out:
'But please, please won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?' Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in despair, he looked up at its face. What he was surprised him as much as anything in his whole life.
For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself.'

What a powerful picture of a Heavenly Father who hurts with us."

www.derryprenkert.com

Music: Change by Tracy Chapman

Listen, hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXwsVYrd20

If you knew that you would die today,
Saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that love can break your heart
When you're down so low you cannot fall
Would you change?
Would you change?

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?

If you knew that you would be alone,
Knowing right, being wrong,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that you would find a truth
That brings up pain that can't be soothed
Would you change?
Would you change?

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?

Are you so upright you can't be bent?
If it comes to blows are you so sure you won't be crawling?
If not for the good, why risk falling?
Why risk falling?

If everything you think you know,
Makes your life unbearable,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you'd broken every rule and vow,
And hard times come to bring you down,
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that you would die today,
If you saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you saw the face of God and love
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?

Excerpt: The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least of sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Audrey Needs...

So I typed "Audrey needs" into Google. Here are the first 20 things to pop up.
Really funny how some match me really well, like about the photos models, wooden spoons and Celiac disease stuff.

1. Audrey needs..... models for her crazy photography ideas.
2. Audrey needs..... a home.
3. Audrey needs..... calm.
4. Audrey needs..... to make more effort regarding men.
5. Audrey needs..... your help.
6. Audrey needs..... a girl.
7. Audrey needs..... more wooden spoons.
8. Audrey needs..... phone number and address.
9. Audrey needs..... to show her bad side.
10. Audrey needs... HAPPY ENDING!!!!
11. Audrey needs... a new bed.
12. Audrey needs... a heart.
13. Audrey needs... some help finding ingredients to make a meal those suffering from Celiac disease or wheat allergies can enjoy.
14. Audrey needs... a family.
15. Audrey needs... room in Trondheim.
16. Audrey needs... to be awake for work in 3 hours.
17. Audrey needs... a flute.
18. Audrey needs... our prayers.
19. Audrey needs... you.
20. Audrey needs... to stop being so friggin gorgeous.

...great little game.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

Music: Laughing With by Regina Spektor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cbancAd600&feature=related

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one´s laughing at God when they´re starving or freezing or so very poor

No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one´s laughing at God when it´s gotten real late
And their kid´s not back from the party yet
No one laughs at God when their airplane starts to uncontrollably shake
No one´s laughing at God when they see the one they love
Hand in hand with someone else and they hope they´re mistaken

No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say we got some bad news sir
No one´s laughing at God when there´s a famine fire or flood

But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they´re ´bout to choke

God can be funny
When told he´ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha
Ha ha

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one´s laughing at God when they´ve lost all they´ve got
And they don´t know what for

No one laughs at God on the day they realize that the last sight they´ll ever see
Is a pair of hateful eyes
No one´s laughing at God when they´re saying their goodbyes

But God can be funny
At a cocktail party when listening to a good God-themed joke
Or when the crazies say He hates us
And they get so red in the head you think they´re ´bout to choke

God can be funny
When told he´ll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious

No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughing at God in a hospital
No one´s laughing at God in a war

No one´s laughing at God when they´re starving or freezing or so very poor

No one´s laughing at God
No one´s laughing at God
No one´s laughing at God
No one´s laughing at God
We´re all laughing with God

I've Come to Realize:

1. I've come to realize that my hair:
will never look like anyone's hair I see on TV.

2. I've come to realize that when I talk:
I adopt the accents of those around me very quickly.

3. I've come to realize that if I make a mistake:
I get defensive and embarrassed.

4. I've come to realize that all I really need:
animals to talk to sometimes. They are the best listeners.

5. I've come to realize that I've lost:
the ability to be content having predictable days.

6. I've come to realize that I hate it:
when I have to do busy work to get a good grade in a class.

7. I've come to realize that if I were to get drunk:
I would be upset because I don't like the thought of purposefully altering my consciousness.

8. I've come to realize that money:
is a form of security, but not necessary-only if you want that security.

9. I've come to realize that when I get old:
/if I get old that I will have so much to give to others-only not much more than I do now.

10. I've come to realize that I'll always be:
stubborn.

11. I've come to realize that I have a crush on:
an idea of someone that surely must exist somewhere, right?

12. I've come to realize that the last time I cried:
was less selfish than the time I cried before that.

13. I've come to realize that my cell phone:
is being charged and answered and turned on less and less these days.

14. I've come to realize that when I wake up in the morning:
I'd prefer to be outside.

15. I've come to realize that before I go to sleep at night I:
pray for the people I love and evaluate my life. It is a good thing.

16. I've come to realize that right now I am thinking about:
my brother Ben. I am listening to a song that we love to sing.

17. I've come to realize that my life:
is always going to be going against what others expect it to be.

18. I've come to realize that when I get on Facebook:
I look at photos, post photos, and send messages mostly.

19. I've come to realize that today I will:
get annoyed that I have to wear shoes.

20. I've come to realize that tonight I will:
have a giant white boxer lying on my bed on top of my feet, cutting my circulation, and it will make me smile.

21. I've come to realize that tomorrow I will:
spend longer getting dressed for church, and that is somewhat disconcerting considering the point of church.

22. I've come to realize that I really want to:
have a better attitude about school for the next 2 years.

23. I've come to realize that the person who is most likely to repost this is:


24. I've come to realize that relationships:
can be hurt or helped by honesty, but they will almost definitely be hurt by lack of honesty.

25. I've come to realize love:
is more important than happiness.

26. I've come to realize my best guy friend(s):
probably forget that I am a girl sometimes.

27. I've come to realize my best girl friends:
put up with me taking their picture all the time only because every once in a while I take one that they actually like.

28. I've come to realize food is:
fun to experiment with and totally delicious and wonderful, but I'd probably be okay eating rice and beans for a good long while.

29: I've come to realize that this summer:
has given me time to step back, take a look at life, and get my head on straight.

30. I've come to realize heartbreak:
happens. It also sucks. It also is temporary if you don't feed it.

31. I've come to realize that my excitement:
takes me back to my 8-year-old self.

32. I've come to realize that my sister(s):
is a really good friend.

33. I've come to realize that crying:
helps say what we don't have words for.

34. I've come to realize that death:
won't be this big, hulking event we make it out to be, but just one moment of physical consciousness moving into one of eternal consciousness. I'm hoping to be living with an eternal perspective already and barely noticing. haha

35. I've come to realize that if I'm sick:
-like terminally sick-it will be such a great opportunity to get people to really listen to what I have to say.

36. I've come to realize when I'm bored:
I email, write letters to, or make gifts for people I love.

37. I've come to realize that my sibling(s):
"get me" more than I give them credit for.

38. I've come to realize that work:
that you do should have a worthy purpose that makes it worth it for you.

39. I've come to realize that family:
is more than about whether or not you are related.

40. I've come to realize when I go shopping:
I can talk myself out of buying anything.

41. I've come to realize:
I am human.

Lists: This Summer

For the next little bit I am going to be sharing my summer list of things that I want to accomplish, photos included. :)

#1. Write Letters
Status: In Process

Letter and drawing to a friend.

#2. Make Native American crafts
Status: In Process; Finished carving my spoon! Pine needle vase half done!

Me with my 1/2 completed pine needle vase and 1/4 completed wooden burned-out spoon.

#3. Climb at a rock gym in Cincinnati
Status: Completed!

RockQuest, a pretty nice gym!
http://www.rockquest.com/

#4. READ, READ, READ!
Status: 2 1/2 down!

My summer library minus one or two.

Excerpt: Fellowship of the Unashamed

by Dr. Robert Moorehead

"I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I’m a disciple of His. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.

My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure. I’m finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living and dwarfed goals.

I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotion, plaudits, or popularity. I don’t have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded, or rewarded. I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by power.

My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few, my Guide reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded, or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.

I won’t give up, shut up, or let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ. I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops me. And when He comes for His own, He will have no problem recognizing me…my banner will be clear!”

Music: Giving Up by Ingrid Michaelson

Listen, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEofC4N66eo

What if we stop having a ball?
What if the paint chips from the wall?
What if there's always cups in the sink?
What if I'm not what you think I am?

What if I fall further than you?
What if you dream of somebody new?
What if I never let you win, chase you with a rolling pin?
Well what if I do?

I am giving up on making passes and
I am giving up on half empty glasses and
I am giving up on greener grasses.
I am giving up.

What if our baby comes home after nine?
What it your eyes close before mine?
What if you lose yourself sometimes? Then I'll be the one to find you
Safe in my heart.

I am giving up on making passes and
I am giving up on half empty glasses and
I am giving up on greener grasses.
I am giving up.

I am giving up.
I am giving up.
I am giving up on greener grasses.

I am giving up for you.
I am giving up for you.
I am giving up

Music: The Steward of Gondor

Home is behind
The world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow, to the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight
Mist and shadow
Cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall...
Fade

Listen here:
http://www.imeem.com/kinbodiare/music/M5iY6LRr/lord-of-the-rings-pippins-song/

How it was written here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT4ez3A-t6o&feature=related

Lessons in Loving

I have been reading the Bible passage 1 Corinthians 13:4-7...

[[[Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.]]]

... just about everyday for the past couple weeks and just noticed this little story on the same page.

Lessons in Loving by Cheri Ruggles

"The tears started to well up in my eyes and roll down my cheeks. I was tired, so tired of the cold silence that seemed to echo against the concrete walls of our apartment.
My roommate and I were as different as we could be. When I wanted the door open, she wanted it closed. When I wanted friends over, she wanted privacy. The differences led to grudges, which turned into resentment and bitterness. We developed the habit of heading straight for our own rooms when we came home, closing the doors as tightly as we had closed ourselves off from each other; at least we were making it impossible to be hurt again.
My tears were nothing new, but this time, instead of feeling sorry for myself and defending my own actions, I decided to take responsibility for my own shortcomings. I realized how much the word 'I' had been in my mind and vocabulary lately. I had been trying to protect myself and make sure my needs were met, but God says that love 'is not self-seeking.' Did I ever stop and think, 'What does she need?' The answer to that question was humbling.
None of the descriptions of love in 1 Corinthians 13 is a natural response, because we are selfish by nature. Showing others we love them is much harder than telling them. But if we honestly want to learn how to love, God will show us how. We may make mistakes in the process, but he will put us back on the right track if we are willing to try."

Also this. It's a long one, but worth breaking down:

1 John 4:7-21

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Simple Math

Some numbers so far of this summer [equaling 100, of course]:

79.........cents found in random public places

"wow," you may be thinking. "This girl has no life. All she must do is scan the sidewalks and under bubble gift machines for loose change. Simply pathetic. Why would I ever read this?" WELL, to be fair, 56 cents of that was found sitting on a toilet paper dispenser in North Carolina. Come on. Give me some cred.

6...........songs recorded on Garage Band

This has become a bit of an obsession for me since my journalism teacher taught me how to use GB for a radio project. The public, however, is not yet prepared to hear such songs.

4...........rivers paddled

[one was actually a creek 1 mile short of being a river.] I was able to spend a week learning to ww raft and canoe in Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee with some peeps from Outdoor Adventures [my place of employment] for the first week of summer. ( http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1159860062#/album.php?aid=26316&id=1159860029 )

2..........books started

The Apothecary's Daughter [birthday gift from Meryn] and Three Cups of Tea [a traveling book that traces back to the reaches of Stephen Keefauver]

1...........visit to Bloomington Bike Project

A simply lovely day spent with two kindered spirits, Emily and Travis. We also ran into Aaron and Alena!

8+........times I have been spit up on by Emma ( http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1159860062#/album.php?aid=18063&id=1159860029 )

Emma is my peanut of a niece I get to nanny ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVnciua-MRk ) this summer.

There you have it.

"It occurred to me then, that perhaps the reason for my growth was that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life."
-Big Fish

Quotes: On my Desktop

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”
Charles M. Schulz

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”
Garrison Keillor

“We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be”
C.S. Lewis

"Go make your next choice be your best choice."
Jason Mraz

"Move your feet when you pray, child.
Are you ready to change the way that you've been living your life up til now?"
Jason Mraz

"When love is divided you start to lose sight.
Sometimes what's comfortable just isn't right.
You can try to fight it and get left behind.
Change is a leap of faith we all must try."
Lyle King

Excerpt: Some days I feel a lot like Anne Shirley.

"I'm pretty hungry this morning," she announced, as she slipped into the chair Marilla placed for her. "The world doesn't seem such a howling wilderness as it did last night. I'm so glad it's a sunshiny morning. But I like rainy mornings real well, too. All sorts of mornings are interesting, don't you think? You don't know what's going to happen through the day, and there's so much scope for imagination. But I'm glad it's not rainy today because it's easier to be cheerful and bear up under affliction on a sunshiny day. I fee that I have a good deal to bear up under. It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself reading through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?"

Music: Sick Muse by Metric

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeOHEVWz8lc

Watch out Cupid
Stuck me with a sickness
Pull your little arrows out
Let me live my life

You better watch out Cupid
Stuck me with a sickness
Pull your little arrows out
Let me live my life
The one I'd better lead
All the blondes are fantasies

And we looked at them eleven ways
You said, "Look at me". And looked away
And you wrote the song I wanna play
I'll write you harmony in C

Everybody just wanna fall in love
Everybody just wanna play the lead

Watch out Cupid
Stuck me with a sickness
Pull your little arrows out
And let me live my life

She said, "I'm with stupid"
Money is a sick muse
Pull your little arrows out
Let me live my life
The one I'd better lead
All the blondes are fantasies

And we looked at them eleven ways
You said, "Look at me". And looked away
And you wrote the song I wanna play
I'll write you in harmony C

Everybody just wanna fall in love
Everybody just wanna play the lead

Music: Valentine's Day Mix Tape

1. "The Way You Look Tonight" -Frank Sinatra
2. "The Luckiest" -Ben Folds
3. "Beyond the Sea" -Robbie Williams
4. "Dream Catch Me (acoustic)" -Newton Faulkner
5. "A Case of You" -Joni Mitchell
6. "Here Come Those Eyes" -Chris Rice
7. "I'd Rather be with You" -Joshua Radin
8. "You Belong to Me" -Jason Wade
9. "Lucky" -Jason Mraz ft. Colbie Caillat
10. "My Funny Valentine" -Linda Ronstadt
11. "The Way I Am" -Igrid Michaelson
12. "Roll to Me" -Del Ametri
13. "Comfortable" -John Mayer
14. "Nothing Fancy" -Dave Barnes
15. "Cheek to Cheek" -Jane Monheit
16. "So Close" -Jon McLaughlin
17. "All I Ever Wanted" -Chuck Wicks
18. "Dear Bobbie" -Yellowcard
19. "That Dress Looks Nice on You" -Sufjan Stevens

26 Things

1---I have 26 "Sticky Notes" on my computer desktop.

2---I am currently listening to the song "Boardwalk Angel" by Pono

3---Ultimate comfort food: grilled cheese and tomato soup.

4---I almost became vegetarian after seeing a pig sticking just its nose out the side of a truck on its way to slaughter. Still can't get the image out of my head.

5---I have learned more from my 10 year old cousin than from a lot of my professors.

6---I am, in the words of my boss, a "go-getter".

7---I am the biggest shoe snob with the cheapest shoes.

8---Things that don't matter to me, REALLY don't matter to me.

9---I'd rather watch a sunset than photograph it.

10--I'm not a big fan of concerts, but I love live music, especially jazz.

11--I was the president and founder of my high school's Lumberjack Club.

12--Harrison Ford and I have matching scars.

13--My teeth are prone to cavities.

14--I am a barefoot kind of girl.

15--I like to motivate and encourage others.

16--I am now listening to the song "Suits are Picking up the Bill" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

17--I sometimes feel like I should have lived in the Roaring 20's or the 1960's America.

18--I like to think about myself having an accent to other people.

19--I was a member of the world's largest kazoo band.

20--I used to think that riding a camel was worthy of being on my "List of Things to Do in my Life" until I saw a man giving camel rides in the parking lot of JC Penny. It was just kinda sad, I guess.

21--I still have a crush on the first grade version of Eric Scott.

22--I realized a while ago that my friends growing up used to make fun of me, and that really affected me. I don't have those kind of friends any more.

23--I am going to be an aunt in a couple days.

24--I am now watching one of my favorite movies, "A River Runs Through It" directed by Robert Redford.

25--I like where I see my self headed.

26--I don't know where I am headed.