Monday, Monday

My car is back! whee! It still has no stereo, of course, but it is nice and window-ful again and I suppose with less weight it'll accelerate better than before.

This weekend was fun, on saturday Heather had organized a little get-together and we ended up having a bbq and hanging out at my place. Josiah, Krislin, and George were all there too, and it was a nice time. We played "221B Baker Street" and solved a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery, and ate burgers, and afterwards, Heather and I went and saw "March of the Penguins." It's a good movie, pretty cute, narrated by Morgan Freeman (God), and well-photographed - there are a lot of big landscapes and impressive scenery, as well as some touching close-up shots of little baby penguins. There's not many other movies out that I'd recommend right now.

Yesterday I'd biked to campus to hang out and chill at the LAC (literally, as it has much better air conditioning than my apartment), and I stayed there kinda late chatting it up... and lo and behold, when I came out at 2am, I found that my battery on my bike headlight was dead. This was only mildly unfortunate, since I just walked back to my apartment, and it was a beautiful warm night. I really like walking around at night - I was surprisingly awake, and there were a few stars out, and I was of course the only person out (so I probably could have biked... but ah well). I like being outdoors, I like the night, and it was a fun trek.

The spiders around Claremont must've watched Return of the King last year and gotten inspired for this summer... walking last night and this morning, I must've seen four or five webs that spanned the sidewalk or stretched 20 ft from one tree to another - a couple with big fat spiders sitting right in the middle. It was pretty crazy, I've never seen webs that big before, it's like they're out to catch unsuspecting college students or hobbits or something.

The number of Mudd-students around campus is back on the up-swing, as Summer Institute (Bridge) frosh are here, all 29 of them, and their mentors. Plus, Ben Stanphill and Kimutai are back around, so maybe we'll have a Bible study or two before school starts again. And Krislin (as mentioned before, she is around now) is back from her trip and, though I haven't seen her photos yet, hopefully I will in the next week or two, and hear some neat stories. So it's slowly getting peopled again around here.

A lyric for the day:
"Help me carry on
Assure me it's ok to use my heart and not my eyes
To navigate the darkness
Will the ending be ever coming suddenly?
Will I ever get to see the ending to my story?
Show me what it's for
Make me understand it
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
Is there something more than what i've been handed?
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
So when and how will I know?
How much further do I have to go?
How much longer until I finally know?
Because I'm looking and I just can't see what's in front of me
In front of me" - Hoobastank

PS: If anybody has Hoobastank's "Basketball Shorts" album, I would like to borrow it sometime. The couple songs I've heard from it have a really neat sound - but it's from before they made it big... so I haven't been able to find it anywhere. Not even iTunes.