Now for something completely different:

This is much different than my usual poetry; and it needs some work still I think, but I thought I'd share this oddity with you all anyways:

-Growing-
   alone in its garden of
-Concrete-
   knowledge that it brings a peace
   that no one can
-Refuse-
   scattered about the ground.
   Cups, butts, plastic
-Wrapping-
   the world in its leaves.
   And the cars go
-Driving-
   against the wind,
   branches whipping the sky of
-Steel-
   buildings of this forest.
   Buildings and a tree
-Growing-

Valentine's Day

I will only tell you this much: I received this from another Board writer. hehehe. :-)

Life is....

Life is very surprising sometimes. This weekend for example. Never in a million years would I have anticipated the events of this past weekend. Very unusual, but in the end everything turned out quite nicely. I guess it just goes to show that just because you have an idea in your head about what your life is going to be, doesn't mean that that idea is going to have any bearing on what your life really becomes. And no, you don't get to know any more information about what happened this past weekend, not at the moment anyways.

Anywho, Life and I are on good terms again.

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And a big congratulations to all of us at The Board, we managed to post 100 questions/comments today. I'm fairly certain that this is a new Board record. And upon looking at the inbox, I've decided that we need more writers. We're getting swamped.

Odd

I find myself in a situation I never anticipated before. The plan is to resolve this situation before today ends. I will say no more about the subject now.

This week was an interesting and strange, strange week. Of course it involved all the events leading to the aforementioned situation. But it also included staying up until 7am on Thursday morning finishing a project that was due at 9:30. That was fairly unpleasant. I think I'm finally mostly recovered from that event. Thursday was all messed up as I tried to catch sleep anytime I could while still going to classes, running 2.5 miles, cooking for dinner group, babysitting my nephew..... That night I slept for ten hours, but my body was still a little screwed up from the messed up sleep cycle and coming down from my Mountain Dew induced consciousness of Wednesday night. My energy levels fluctuated rather strangely. In the afternoon I had energy, then from about 6:30 pm - 9 I was extremely tired, and from 9 - 2 am I had energy again.

I'm Moving On

So I think I've confirmed my thoughts about getting over a relationship. It takes me approximately 1/3 the length of the relationship to get over it. I was hesitant to accept this last week when I came to my realizations about why things are better to not be in my previous relationship. I wasn't sure if those understandings would last, which is why I wrote them down. But they have persisted. For a full week now I have felt like I made the right decision. And, in a sad way, it seems like more evidence to support that belief keeps coming in as time goes on. I had an excellent weekend. And I no longer am stressing out about the uncertainties in my life. I got lost in the forest for a little while by focusing on the trees and the fact that I couldn't see the path ahead of me. I have gotten myself past that uncertainty. I am again willing to do as Niebuhr prayed:

Serenity Prayer

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.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Life keeps getting better and better

So I was at work and I finished up some tweaks on the program I've been writing. I compiled it and ran it and the results were beautiful. I've been working on a artificial terrain imagery program that creates synthetic high-res images from satellite imagery. The results I got today were SPECTACULAR. I swear the new terrains it creates look like their from a video game. I'm so stoked; my boss is going to love me.

I came home, and watched an episode of Firefly (always good). Then my friend Josh came by and we went up to the DC show I won tickets to. They, as usual, had some great skits that had us laughing really hard. My favorite quote of the night is from the anti-valentines, degrading, insulin squares (The opposite of conversation hearts): "You're a terrible kisser, and so is your roommate."

I got home and checked my email and found a message from one of the companies I talked to at the career fair. They want to fly me down to LA next week to interview me and let me see their office. That's sooooo COOL.

Basically this has been the best day I have had in a very, very, very long time. It would take something pretty bad to bring me down from this right now.

Board Booth

I hope you all came out to the Board Booth. It was tons of fun. I even scored free tickets to the Divine Comedy show by performing a stupid human trick. I met some readers, got to meet some of the newer writers, and re-meet the writers whose faces I have forgotten (I'm really bad with names and faces, I'm sorry). We handed out tons of fliers and most people actually smiled to receive a flier from people with paper bags on their heads. I had lots of fun, and actually really enjoyed myself (Something that hasn't happened for a few weeks now). If you missed out, well, it's your own fault.