Thursday, March 30, 2006 -- 9:06 AM

The soft fleshy ground,
torn and scarred by harsh winter,
but starting to heal.

Friday, March 24, 2006 -- 7:09 PM

I think it's important everyone knows that according to a 2005 academic ranking of world universities, the Univeristy of Washington was seventeenth, and fifteenth in the United States. I think that that fact is very important for everyone to know.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 -- 9:42 PM

It's funny how that last post goes so well (oh so very well) with this next statement:

I've been selected by the University of Manitoba to participate in their study abroad program in affiliation with the University of Washington. What this means is that as of this fall, and continuing on through to the spring of 2007 I will be a 'foreign exchange student' to the University of Washington. What this means is that I am moving to Washington. And once more, just for good measure: I am moving to Washington.

Thank you, and goodnight.

Sunday, March 05, 2006 -- 7:11 PM

Somehow I find it hard to put words to any of my thoughts lately. They're unkempt and disorganized and words just won't tame them. I feel like I know how my life is going at college, with a set schedule to follow like I've never really known before. It's nice to feel like I'm accomplishing something and making my life go somewhere. It also is forboding to know that the simple years of my life are almost gone, like a game of tag played at dusk. You only realize it's dark when you stop running and sweating and laughing and take a look around you for a minute, and sometimes it takes you by surprise.

I've always thought I had a pretty good perspective on life. I've always thought I more or less had things in hand, or that they would work themselves out, and for the most part they have. I've been feeling nostalgic lately, and I don't always like that because usually it means I'd rather be then than now. For that reason I don't like taking a lot of pictures of myself and I don't own a lot of pictures of my friends. The way I see it, I want to remember my life and friends and special times as my mind sees them, truly, not from the narrow perspective of one trying to build barriers against time. It is a futile endeavour always, and it is better to live truly and in the present.

The future lies written in God's unwavering handwriting. I take comefort in knowing that the trials and blessings we encounter today are but thickening plots and developing characters.