Let's see - the last few days have been full of ups and downs. I guess I'll do a little journal blogging instead of just linking to various sites, songs, and videos for your enjoyment. Where did I leave off? Who knows - I'll start on Tuesday. Tuesday night was BOL of course: Deron was gone so Enrique from the Spanish speaking congregation drove Pops and I downtown to serve. Colin, Heidi Herman, and Heidi's roommate Theresa (her first time) were there to help when we arrived. It went over well and we got out fairly quickly because we're still not serving seconds. After dropping Pops off here in North Park I biked back here, took a shower, and watched Scrubs with Matt, Brenda, Christie, Michelle, Rachel, and Eric. After Scrubs we sat around and Michelle, Christie, Eric and I talked for a little while. This brought up the discussion of watching Event Horizon. We decided this would be a movie to watch at a later point in the week.
Wednesday was work during the day again, I think we had a meeting, I forget. Wednesday evening around 7pm I rode to the NBH (New Basileia House) for Stef's birthday shindig. It was a cheese theme. Lots of dairy. We watched a movie called Baraka which has video footage of hundreds of different societies in the world - and a lot of times contrasts them with other societies. Very artsy, very cool. Especially when you're watching a bushmen tribe in Africa in a traditional dance while listening to Outkast on the speakers. At 9pm I borrowed Jenn's car and drove to Michelle and Christie's for "You Need Some Learnin'" to find only Michelle, Christie, and John there. A few minutes after starting Adam, friend of theirs, and then Chelsea's husband whom I can't for the life of me remember his name right now... showed up. Good conversation - a lot like the week before.
Thursday work and evening got to hang out with Krista and Whitney for a while. Krista is back from Paris (where she was studying at Columbia) for a few days so I invited her over and we sat and chatted for about an hour. She then had to go meet up with some PL french group people (including Dr. Hadley Wood) for dinner. Whit dropped me off at the mall where I gave my iPod to the Apple store to be looked at. Michelle and Christie picked me up from the mall and we then came over to my place, chatted for a bit, then watched Magnolia. By the time it was over it was definitely time for bed.
Yesterday I sat at the office on 30th street for about an hour waiting for a package from Cynthia to come from FedEx - only to find that the barber shop next door signed for it and had the package. Whit then picked me up from my apt. and we met Matt, Jason and Winter at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. They're in town for Jason's dad's 50th b-day. Today they're going out on some guy's big 3 story yacht. After CBTL we went to Matt and Brenda's where we played Simpsons Road Rage on Xbox and watched all the shorts from The Lonely Island. We headed back to the mall and I picked up my "working" iPod - which I don't think is charging still - then back to Matt and Brenda's. We ate at New York Pizza Department (lame name, good pizza) then watched Kill Bill Vol. 2. I came back to my apartment then met up with Jenn and Scott at Liz's house - which is only a block away - for a house party. I stayed for about an hour then came back and crashed.
Now then. In the meantime of all this I've been checking - as you've seen from my posts this week - on the situation in Grenada. There was never a serious moment of panic or extreme worry around here for Kelly's safety, but when I learned the prisoners from the 17th century colonial prison in St. George, some of whom were arrested in 1983 for a Marxist coup - which set up the invasion by Reagan..., had escaped and were looting and causing a security risk, my heart definitely jumped. A group of Americans, particularly one hot one - as Michelle put it, sticks out like a sore thumb and is just not the best place to be at the time. Luckily we received the e-mail from Kelly's parents this morning to learn she's alright. I'm not surprised at all that she's in good spirits - you'd have to really break Kelly to keep her down.
This week also held Fabrice, Burak and I sending letters, setting up meetings, and making cold phone calls trying to drum up some more work. I'm giving myself until Sept 21 then I'm going to find a part time job to make sure I have some steady income. There are some other business ideas we're playing with - taking over Textile Capital, starting CitySmart, creating a PetSafe program, and another one of my own (raising interest, investors, and a company to purchase a residence in Germany to create a hostel and then renivate to become a B&B - but this is still pretty sketch and will take some looking in to - and a lot of support from people possibly like Whit's dad) - so we'll see where things go.
Wednesday was work during the day again, I think we had a meeting, I forget. Wednesday evening around 7pm I rode to the NBH (New Basileia House) for Stef's birthday shindig. It was a cheese theme. Lots of dairy. We watched a movie called Baraka which has video footage of hundreds of different societies in the world - and a lot of times contrasts them with other societies. Very artsy, very cool. Especially when you're watching a bushmen tribe in Africa in a traditional dance while listening to Outkast on the speakers. At 9pm I borrowed Jenn's car and drove to Michelle and Christie's for "You Need Some Learnin'" to find only Michelle, Christie, and John there. A few minutes after starting Adam, friend of theirs, and then Chelsea's husband whom I can't for the life of me remember his name right now... showed up. Good conversation - a lot like the week before.
Thursday work and evening got to hang out with Krista and Whitney for a while. Krista is back from Paris (where she was studying at Columbia) for a few days so I invited her over and we sat and chatted for about an hour. She then had to go meet up with some PL french group people (including Dr. Hadley Wood) for dinner. Whit dropped me off at the mall where I gave my iPod to the Apple store to be looked at. Michelle and Christie picked me up from the mall and we then came over to my place, chatted for a bit, then watched Magnolia. By the time it was over it was definitely time for bed.
Yesterday I sat at the office on 30th street for about an hour waiting for a package from Cynthia to come from FedEx - only to find that the barber shop next door signed for it and had the package. Whit then picked me up from my apt. and we met Matt, Jason and Winter at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. They're in town for Jason's dad's 50th b-day. Today they're going out on some guy's big 3 story yacht. After CBTL we went to Matt and Brenda's where we played Simpsons Road Rage on Xbox and watched all the shorts from The Lonely Island. We headed back to the mall and I picked up my "working" iPod - which I don't think is charging still - then back to Matt and Brenda's. We ate at New York Pizza Department (lame name, good pizza) then watched Kill Bill Vol. 2. I came back to my apartment then met up with Jenn and Scott at Liz's house - which is only a block away - for a house party. I stayed for about an hour then came back and crashed.
Now then. In the meantime of all this I've been checking - as you've seen from my posts this week - on the situation in Grenada. There was never a serious moment of panic or extreme worry around here for Kelly's safety, but when I learned the prisoners from the 17th century colonial prison in St. George, some of whom were arrested in 1983 for a Marxist coup - which set up the invasion by Reagan..., had escaped and were looting and causing a security risk, my heart definitely jumped. A group of Americans, particularly one hot one - as Michelle put it, sticks out like a sore thumb and is just not the best place to be at the time. Luckily we received the e-mail from Kelly's parents this morning to learn she's alright. I'm not surprised at all that she's in good spirits - you'd have to really break Kelly to keep her down.
This week also held Fabrice, Burak and I sending letters, setting up meetings, and making cold phone calls trying to drum up some more work. I'm giving myself until Sept 21 then I'm going to find a part time job to make sure I have some steady income. There are some other business ideas we're playing with - taking over Textile Capital, starting CitySmart, creating a PetSafe program, and another one of my own (raising interest, investors, and a company to purchase a residence in Germany to create a hostel and then renivate to become a B&B - but this is still pretty sketch and will take some looking in to - and a lot of support from people possibly like Whit's dad) - so we'll see where things go.
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