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Name: Nate
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Birthday: 11/12/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Ya know, stuff....
Expertise: Security Protection, Barista
Occupation: Legal
Industry: Business
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Member Since:
6/1/2003
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| Ah, xanga, xanga. What rants have been postponed this summer. They're long over due!! Ok, not really. But summer is over officially now because classes have began for this one. I've only had one so far. Yes, one. I have three classes a week, one is Friday AND Saturday and only lasts five weeks, and the other two are Monday nights and Thursday nights. Plus I have an online class. I'm taking Security Administration, Business Law, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Industry, and The Enlightenment. Maybe I'll be a little enlightened. Bu work this summer has been good, and that is where I am now. Pool and spa business has died down here in this latter portion of the season, which is cool because I can do things like check my facebook three times a day and update my xanga. I no longer have a girlfriend and I'm not sad anymore. It's been two weeks as of yesterday. So I'm back in the game. I've had a wild summer I think. Lots of stories were earned, including two bachelor parties and three weddings done with two more to go next month. I also have applied at Moline and Davenport police departments. I went fairly far with Davenport but I failed the oral interview and few weeks ago. I am still in the process with Moline and am currently number 8 on their list of hirees. It's a wait-and-see game now. A situation has re-arisen, as recently as last night, in fact, that was dead for about a year. It's hard to describe exactly what it is and what it means. I lost sleep over it last night. It's a good thing. I am nervous, but pumped and determined to see it through. This is the song to sing at this time of year. I think it was written by the artist for just this occasion. So long sweet summer. I stumbled upon you and greatfully basked in your rays. So long sweet summer. I fell into you now you're gracefully falling away. Hey, thanks. Thanks for that summer. It's cold where you're going, I hope that your heart's always warm. I gave you the best, I gave you the best that I had. So, so long seet summer. I stumbled upon you and greatfully basked in your rays. So long sweet summer. I fell into you now you're gracefully falling away. I hate the winter in Lexington. I hate the winter in Lexongton. Lexington, Lexington, Lexington. | | |
| So what's new? I have been living in the QC the past three weeks. I began owkring at a pool and spa store in which I sell people chemicals that will make thier pools and spas clean. It's pretty laid back and fun for the most part. I like most of the people I work with and I think it's a job I could keep for at least through the fall and my first sememster at the QC Western, which is where I will be attending.
But that's not all I've been doing, no. I returned late last night at the time of 2am from a week-long road trip with my best buds Michael and Jesse. We traveled to Arizona and stayed in Flagstaff for two days, then drove North and saw the Grande Canyon, continues into Utah, saw the Pink Sand Dunes, visited Zion National Park, saw Bryce Canyon, and then trekked back through Colorado and saw Brandon Taets and then came home. It was a lot of driving. Jesse and I were inspired to venture West into Arizona by Donald Miller in his similar quest which was doccumented in his book "Prayer and the Art of Voltswagon Maintenance," which was re-released and retiltled to "Through Painted Deserts." Jesse and I happened to read the latter version, and coincidentily at almost the same time. We were equally insipred by his adventures and the influence it laid upon his life. We thought the timing of the trip to be really good also, with Jesse set to be married in July. It gave us an opportunity to experience a "last harrah," per se, in his life as a single man. Oddly, Michael is married already and has been for two years. But if you know or knew Michael, you'd know he is just as open with his time and adventursome escapades as anyone. Not to say that marriage is hindering, but of course with marriage comes responsibility. I think it was an awsome time to reflect on our lives. I felt inspired with the beauty of nature.
I think I want to become a Park Ranger.
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| I will be heading back to live in the Quad Cities in exactly one week. | | |
| well i'm sitting here waiting for my friend rachel to call so we can go watch 300 illegally downloaded on a computer, so i thought i'd update. school is good. i had a really good break a week and a half ago back home and spent it all with friends and family. i was over at the akey's a lot and i have to say i love them. we went on a bike ride one of the really really nice days and it was awsome. we went about three miles. we rode down by the river. it got windy but it was still a blast. i had to pull out my bike and my dad's rickety old bike, and daneille and i rode those while mikey roller bladed. i love getting exorcise. need to bring me bike down here to macomb with me. this weekend i have to work at pella (belch!) saturday and sunday, but i'm running home saturday night for a dinner with my old youth pastor and kids i grew up with in church. it should be fun. my brother and sisters will be there and i love seeing them. plus it's a free meal. yay!
other than that school has been busy this week but ok. it should be getting better.
man, i need to keep myself burried in prayer because i'm getting so anxious already for the end of the semester. it's coming and i have stuff that is due soon, like kinda big stuff, but i'm not overly worried about it. i'm more just stoked to think that i'll be leaving macomb for good. yes, i have decided to follow Jesus, and to go to the QC western next fall. it's a decision based upon loving to be around family, fanancial gains, to be more involved with young life, and to make plans for the summer of '08. i hope it goes through, but things change all the time. God is awsome. i'm off to eat and then watch 300. yes, i did finish all the homework i should do before venturing out to watch a movie. | | |
| We're into March and out of February. I think that's a pretty good accomplishment for all of us. February was a tough month weather-wise. It's a wonder I didn't freeze to death. So now comes, hopefully, warmer temperatures and probably a lot of rain. That has already began, as last night there was a violent storm that woke me up.
So lately I have been trying to learn guitar. It's going ok, but I am now trying to learn songs and it's a whole new playing field from trying to just know chords. Plus, like in every song there's one wierd Chord I don't know how to play that's a slight variation of the standard chord. People who play guitar probably know what I'm talking about. But I just hope to stay with it and practice more.
Last night was a dinner with our Young Life Commitee members and Wylde Life leaders. It was a pretty good time. But I was the only college leader that went because everyone else had things going on and bailed out. O'well. Good food. I think I ate too much. And when I got back on campus, I went over to James' and Liz showed me some stuff on guitar, and I read Liz and Gob's love notes to James that they hid all over his room, and Gobs showed us her songs, and James played some of his too.
I am hungry. I am going to eat. | | |
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bring my thoughts out in the open
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cut your own throat.
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