I almost forgot

to blog today.  I wouldn't want to ruin my streak of like...20 days now? I'm not sure.

I'm going to hold off talking about the sermon today.  Because it was really good.  And I want to put some above average effort into it.

Mom, you'll be happy to learn that I am poised to receive my first 4.0 GPA for any term since 5th grade.  Things are rockin' and a rollin' for real here.

I remember being in fifth grade.  Mr. Belisle had a big ugly piece of furniture in the back at a round desk that he let students sit at whenever they did something special.  The first quarter of that year Laura Bettencourt (who I had a mondo crush on) and some other guy got 4.0's and they got to sit in that awesome old garage sale chair for the day.  I vowed to get my day in that chair the next quarter.  I went on to get that 4.0 the next quarter (and never again since...) and Mr. Belisle totally snubbed me.  I was the only one in the class. and I was snubbed.  It was crushing...I blame him for my sub par performance the next several years.

Last night Jake went to play Risk over at Edens.  I let him borrow the car.  Somehow I managed to then lock myself out of my bedroom.  Jake didn't get back until 5 in the morning.  So I got what sleep I could on the couch...I have learned my lesson about door locking now.  I think.

Matt and I went to the 9:30 service together.  We drove.  Personally, I would drive every week and save ninety minutes.  The service was really good.  Cory from my 202 class does this beautiful arrangement of Be Thou My Vision.  It's pretty intense.  That cute girl from my 370 class showed up at Redeemer again today.  I didn't get the chance to say hey.  I did meet a Greg and a Kelly though.  I probably should have gone out of my way to remeet her once more...

We went pretty all out on dinner today.  We used all 4 burners on the stove simultaneously.  We had Trey and Aaron over for Jake to talk about his campus Gospel Community project.  It sounds like they want to hang out at the rec center and have more of a manly play sports then Bible study thing.  Not exactly my cup of tea.  But.  Well.  We'll see.  Prayer for that'd be great.

One area I tend to break with my roommate buddies is toleration for noise.  I am apparently the only one here that isn't awakened by the stir of a mouse.  It was about 11 o'clock and our peers upstairs were having some fun on a Saturday night.  I suppose the bass was a bit loud and some of the sounds creeping down to us we're fairly strange, but I personally wasn't really bothered.  Lodrick and Matt were compelled to pay our neighbors and visit in an effort to quiet them down.  They didn't answer the door.  So they called the cops.  who told them to call the community advisor.  Who told them to call back if it persisted.  It did.  They called the CA again.  They quieted down 15 minutes later or so.  An hour or so later theirs a knock at the door.  It's our friends from upstairs.  A surprisingly civil conversation ensues.  An agreement was not reached.  Honestly though, I am on the upstairs folks side...it was not passed midnight and it was not unbearable (relative I suppose)...and it was Saturday night.

No one around here has heard the song "Wait for Me" by Rebecca St. James.  I'm amazed.  I mean, anyone whose been to a protestant church in the last ten years has to have heard that song.  Apparently not.  Well I like it.

Lodrick is doing abs in the hallway.  It depresses everyone else.

Anyway.  After dinner we played Guillotine.  Which is a game about the french revolution where the goal is to collect as many noble french heads as possible.

Tomorrow is the beginning of week nine (of eleven).  It doesn't seem possible.  Here we go.

and what is it now...nine days until I blow this join for a whole four and a half days?