"The Way the World Turns

And I keep on turning to you..."

I have really never felt more responsible than I do now.  There is a lot of work still to be done in the next 5 days, but I'm off to a very good start.

I'm starting my final paper/exam for East Asia pretty much right now.  Hopefully I finish that up this weekend, get the take home test for American Authors done on Sunday, and get through the majority of the Critical Theory study guide.  If that's all done by Monday morning all I'll have left to do is write my Critical Theory paper (which is actually due Friday, but I want to turn it in Wednesday so I can get the hockey sticks out of here) and study for the final exam in the same class Wednesday evening.  Then blamo

I'm at a 90% in East Asia right now.  If I get an A on this paper, and she gives me full participation points (please...pleas please...) I'll have a 94 or higher.

I've got some kind've A- I think in Critical Theory right now.  So I also need to come out swinging on the paper and final in that class.  I'm most skeptical about my ability to pull an A out of this class.  Definitely possible though.

American Authors is also going to be close.  I'm pretty angry because I forfeit 5% of my grade by forgetting the due date on one of my discussion posts.  I've got every last other point though, and she seems to grade pretty easily.  So with a little luck I can have an A in there too.

I picked up my books for next quarter at the bookstore today.  Next quarter I'll probably have the opportunity to work harder than this quarter (which had more work for me than Fall).  I don't want to say school will be hard.  Because it probably won't.  It's not like I'm doing math.  I want to put a lot into it though....(so I get a lot out of it?).

We watched some video smuggled out of North Korea in class this morning.  It made me pretty angry. Watch the video, read the article. 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/8165274/North-Koreas-undercover-journalists-reveal-misery-of-life-in-dictatorship.html

Here's the link to the whole documentary "Kimjongilia."  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3l4DP07NpA

Between 1994 and 1997 some 5-10% of the korean population died of starvation during a famine.  And this is what Kim Jung Il, and his youngest son King Jung Un (On the left, in black), whose now his designated successor look like.

If your gonna be a...jerk...like they are.  At least look like you're not eating your weight in dog every night.



I dunno.  There's a lot of hunger in the world obviously.  I don't know why I'm so affected by these particular images.  Maybe because of how they try and hide it, and refuse to let anyone in, even those who just want to provide humanitarian support because they can't support themselves anymore.

Anyway.  I finished Job today and read a little bit of Matthew.  Verse 11:12 is drastically different in the NIV compared with the ESV and NASB (NIV: "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the king dom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it." ESV: "From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force."), although the footnote in NIV helps to alleviate some of the dissonance.  Something to do with active vs passive voice.  The whole point of the verse in context was different then I first thought though.  Apparently it's more a reference to John the Baptist's actual ministry and the spectacle it became to many people trying to fit themselves into heaven through him.  At Acquire the Fire back in...2005 or so, this was one of their theme verses for their whole "Battlecry" thing (The NIV version of course), which totally misrepresents the point of the verse.  Frustrating that a group as influential and apparently as up and up as Teen Mania would take a verse out of context like that, and an outlying translation at that.

My apologies by how poorly constructed and underthought that last paragraph was.  It annoys me.

Jake's friend Josh, who I guess is still a senior at CK is here.  I think they're playing CoD (grimace...).

Welcome back to Silverdale Jared!

BTW, I gave up facebook for lent.  In case you were wondering...

I'm pretty excited to pass go, collect $120 from Michael, and land on Jordan's Swan Song (kudos to Jared for the pun there...) party next week.

Currently Listening: FFH: Found a Place, I Want to be Like You, Sanctus Real: Pieces of a Real Heart