Student Teaching

Yay!!!
I found out where I will be student teaching for Spring 2010 :)
Lakeside Middle School in an 8th grade art classroom.
I am nervous ... and I am excited.

written

I write. I love to write. But I don't share it. I'm not sure why. I suppose I am scared of people stealing it or judging me on it. I don't think I should care about either of these things. But I do. I am greedy and self-concious. Both are things that satan teaches us to be. Plus, I wonder if I actually wrote these things myself? Doesn't God know everything I do before it is done? So, in effect, did he already write these things, using me as a mere vessel to share it? In that case should't I share it? But the thing is - some of it, most of it, is kind-of depressing. Afterall I am most inspired when I am feeling down, alone, depressed ... aka under satan's thumb. So is it satan, then, that wants me to share these things - to relate hate and sadness? In that case I should not share. Or was it just me? Using a talent God gave me, influenced by the world, and writing what has/hasn't been thought of or written before? In that case I want to share it. But do I? I want people to read it. I want people to relate to me and me to them. But at the same time ... is this the message I want to convey? Shouldn't I want my writing to reflect the love of God and all things beautiful? I do. It's just not where my inspiration and desire to think or write comes from. I use pressure, I use pain, and I use loneliness as a launching point to create. When will that change? And ... should it?

play things

I think that everyone has desires and urges; that we are all tempted to do things we may know are wrong. I think that is what makes us human. If we were perfect, well ... we wouldn't be; human, that is. It is the choice, however, of giving into these wrong desires and temptations that makes us satan's play things.

knock knock

i love water slides ...

... but this guy is just crazy ...

It is very important to remember that this planet is our home and we should take good care of it. With that in mind, Gretha Oost invented 321 Water. It's a water bottle that you keep forever. It filters internally so there is no excuse for you to buy filthy plastic water bottles again. But there's a catch. Even though 321 Water won the people's choice on ABC's New Inventors, we need 10,000 people to pay for one before they can be manufactured.
If you fancy yourself as a good citizen of the planet, you should fork out the cash. It will help, and it is nice to be part of something from the start. Imagine how fun if we all did it today? How happy you'd make Gretha.

http://www.321-water.com/

Here I am waiting
For how long I don't know
It's a long way back from where I've been
But there's no where else to go
So I'll stand
With my face to the wind
And my back to the world
I'll follow you
And I'll go where you tell me to go
No I won't be afraid
No I won't be afraid
I feel your wind is moving
I'm not sure where it's going
But I'll let it carry me away
Cause I'm not staying in this place
And I won't turn around...

meet tucker

tucker is my nephew ... the most adorable 5 1/2 month old child on the planet. if you don't believe me take a gander ... you will :)

ting a ling

Wedding bells go ting a ling a ling
ring little bells

My step-brother Michael and his fiance Ann are getting married today in Coronado. Should be pretty! I had to put signs up today so everyone turns on the right streets and the weather is fine :)

Please pray that their marriage is to the glory of God and that they are happy together and live a Godly life.

a creative genius

MoMA - Tim Burton Exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will host Tim Burton's exhibition November 22, 2009 to April 26, 2010. Tim Burton Tour Nights will include a one-hour VIP group tour of the exhibition, after the Museum closes to the public, and a reserved preferred seat at that night’s Tim Burton film screening. The exhibition Tim Burton will bring together over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and includes an extensive film series spanning Burton’s 27-year career.

I WANNA GO!!!!!