Today I have a mime presentation. Oh happy holloween I think. Well I have to wear my uniform to school. NO   MAKE UP though whaooo.

"And yet another thing about the churches I went to: They seemed to be parrots for the Republican Party. Do we have to tow the party line on every single issue? Are the Republicans that perfect? I just felt like, in order to be a part of the family, I had to think George W. Bush was Jesus. And I didn't. I didn't think that Jesus really agreed with a lot of the policies of the Republican Party or for that matter the Democratic Party. I felt like Jesus was a religious figure, not a political figre. I heard my pastor say once, when there were only a few of us standing around, that he hated Bill Clinton. I can understand not liking Clinton's policies, but I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

((few sentences down))

Jesus taught that we are all bad and He is good, and He wants to rescue us because there is a war going on and we are hostages in that war. The truth is we are supposed to love the hippies, the liberals, and even the Democrats, and that God wants us to think of them as more important that ourselves. Anything short of this is not true to the teachings of Jesus."

Might I recommend Blue Like Jazz for those who haven't read it?

Josh's blog on Deal or No Deal was very interesting.  I've watched the show a few times and find it quite amusing.  Regardless of who is right or wrong in the "challenge of rationale" between Josh and the ego-centric, self-centered, but immature other person (blocking Josh's email just because he didn't want to engage in an intellectual challenge) ... what is quite clear is that people are IRRATIONAL ... each one thinks that they can beat the odds.

In a world of random events and probabilistic outcomes while it is possible to temporarily "beat the odds" in the long run such is absolutely impossible .... a fair coin if flipped enough times will revert to the mean of 50% heads, 50% tails ... and each outcome is independent.

But a person on D or N-D sits there and sees $5, $100, $100,000 ... with an offer to sell out at whatever price ... yet they fixate on the "possibility of hitting $100k".  The real key to the game (aside from the discussion on mean vs expected value) ... is how many briefcases must be opened on the next turn before you get a new offer ... and that is what Josh was alluding to.  If you have $5, $100k, $400k, and a $1M on the table ... and the next step is to open just one brief case ... that looks very different than if you have to open 2 .... In a 1-briefcase scenario the expected value of the next turn would be $168k to $500k (and if the CURRENT offer is below $168k then he should not take the offer).  But, in a 2-briefcase scenario then the range of outcomes is $53k to $700k ... and that my friend is the real challenge .. with such a wide range in the NEXT round ... you would EXPECT to walk away with as much as $700k or as little as $53k ... but it really has nothing to do with the current values on the table ... only the OFFER vs the NEXT round ....

... Josh ... you agree or disagree?

So I discovered this morning that driving back to Lee at 6 in the morning, when I'm half awake is probably not the greatest idea, but oh well. The weekend made the trip back worth it. I hung out with a friend from high school. I got to go see SAW 3, which was amazing. And I get to be at church, go to a pretty good church concert, and hang out with some of my favorite people in the youth group afterwards. So yea. It was worth it. Plus, by the end of the weekend I think the drama and people being had subsided. However, the 20 questions game definetely didn't budge

well, it was a pretty good weekend.

i spent saturday night with mccain in martin. and for all the crap i gave him about it being boring, it was actually really fun.

that's right, martin is fun. i said that. if i can say that . . . well, you would all have the time of your lives.

sunday night he came back to memphis with me and i gave him the grand tour . . . the river, peabody, beale, belgrade, gibson's donuts, etc.

so yeah, good times in the m-towns of the west.

speaking of which, what is it with all these places i visit?

murfreesboro

mexico

memphis

montenegro

martin

. . . i'm sensing a trend.

anyway, mccain just left and i have french homework to do, so i will talk to you kids later.

Hope you all have a wonderful monday and week!

i just heard this on tv:

"not usual, but not unusual"

isn't that kinda counter intuitive.

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How do you know when you are making the right decision? Better yet.....how do you make every decision so you don't hurt someone in the end?

I don't know.

Learn to enjoy your own company.
You are the one person you can count on living the rest of your life with.
~ Ann Richards ~

Always fun : )
 

"We will eat grass for 1000 years, but we will build a powerful nuclear arsenal..."
 

Completely posed.  Two seconds before this we were doing a crossword puzzle.

 

Bat boy.

 

Pakistan - it's a family affair.

 

Jesse as a clown for the delegate dance.

 

USA and North Korea, bff.

 

Even the chairs need caucuses.

 

"Hottest Male," "Best Dressed," "Most Likely to Invade India with Kangaroo Suicide Bombers."

 

Again, completely posed.

 

My brother had to tie Tyler's tie.  Pitiful.

 

Trashcan fun.



Cheese.

 

Everybody attacking D-Bo.

Nothing quite like it.

... but how could there be when a person spends the entire Sunday reading company business materials .... Monday's here ... plenty of new challenges this week.

ciao ciao

That and I just decided it'd be easier to jump a cute guy derssed up like Cloud than Squall. LOL!

I've been at Judgement all week, and I am beat. Dead tired, YAWN!!!!!

 I fixed my costume, still not happy with it, but it'll do.

Here's some advice.

Don't go out to the battlefield graveyard at 1 AM.

Especially if three of the six people in your group have to pee.  And if two of the six people decided not to wear jackets.  And if none of the six of you have flashlights.

And especially if the cops just got a phone call about six people (who are not your six people) playing chicken with the trains at the nearby train tracks.

(It also doesn't help if one of you, due to severe allergies, looks stoned off his rocker.)

You know, just a tip.

Hey everyone how is it going? Geez i keep on forgetting to get on here :) oops...Anyway this is a quick hello just to let yall know im not dead! i know its amazing! ttyl

yest again another fun year at ashleys.
it was great...when out in the woods
and her dad shot the gun
but of course it was to scare us
walked to the end of the drive way and back
it was soo much fun
watched 28 day later
hehehe fun fun

well i am out

          meg

Hey don't forget to change your clocks. We did and I woke up at 5:45 so that was not good but I did get to watch Peter Pan whaoo!!!!

You know, it's times like these when my prayer is something like
this: "God, right now life is sucking but you said that you work all
things for my good. Please show me that you're still in control."

I've
had several things happen recently, and here's one of them. So last
night I'm driving back to Lee and suddenly my RPM's jump from about
2,500 (normal) to about 7,000 (my car's red line). I quickly hit the
clutch and try to change gears, but I can't get it to go into any
gears. It was locked as if the clutch wasn't separating the disks in the
transmission. My car also gave off a REALLY bad smell.

That's the bad news, but there is a God part to it (as there is in most
things in life, you just have to look in the right direction). I was
1/2 an hour in the direction of Lee and remembered that I had to get
into Chris's dorm room tonight, but he's staying in the boro tonight.
So, I turn around and go get his key. They my car dies 2 minutes from
my house. Dieing 1/2 way to Lee would suck, but I was brought back :-).
before it happened

Today is Sunday and should be a day of rest for me. However, I have a gazillion things I have to do at work this week .... plus deal with several company visitors - cannnot possibly get it done.  So ... I brought home some "light reading" ... about 300 pages worth ..... we shall test my speed reading/skimming skills.

Saturday, Decy and I went out for our normal massages .... then had a nasi padang lunch with the girls ... now that Ramadan is over we can get back to our normal routine.  The girl that did my massage yesterday is named Tini (pronounced Teeny).  Well, Tini isn't exactly teeny ... but she is a pretty good massager.  The more she "learns my body" ... the more she can work on the trouble areas. After getting bounced around in a car for ~ 2 hrs/day .... I have a number of sore spots in my back ....

Last night Decy and I went out ... and brought with us Daisy ... and Fairus ... and Chely and one of her friends.  Had a great time .... then went to the Sabang area and ate porridge from a street cafe (our favorite late night "restaurant") ... sadly the street band was not there last night ... I like listening to those guys .... in fact, I am anxious to take Paul and Chris there in December ..... I can visualize P&C borrowing the guitars and doing a song or two ....

WELL .... time to get on to my light reading ...

ciao ciao

goodbye marching band.

see you next year.

=(

1.  I am a white male; therefore, I must be racist.
2.  I am from the South; therefore, I am racist.
3.  The ad on this link is so blatantly racist that my thinking that it is not racist is indeed proof of my racism.
4.  I am a white male from the South; therefore, my ancestry dictates that I will be ahead of all minorities in my area.  Nevermind that both sets of my grandparents barely finished high school just to work construction for their entire lives, and both of my parents had to work to pay for college.
5.  I can not refer to blacks in a derogatory way, by such words as nigger; but blacks can refer to me in a derogatory way by my race, for I am white and clearly at an advantage.
6.  All inappropriate behavior I have toward blacks is a result of my racist heritage, of which I should be ashamed (again, I am white and therefore a manipulative former slave-master).  All inappropriate behavior by blacks is a result of their deprived circumstances, ultimately the government's fault.
7.  No matter what I do, I will always be racist.  Blacks cannot be racist, for they are a minority.
8.  My parents are conservative, and on the relative scale of politics, I am conservative, moreso proving I am a racist.

9.  This post just goes to show how racially biased I am for challenging the common misconceptions people have.

Leaning over the edge of my faith
Thats where i find Your grace
Leaning over the edge of my faith...
Thats when i see Your face
I'm LETTING GO!!!!!

.....was awesome!!!

23 people got saved... 161 went through i think... so thats over 10 % which is always awesome! well... we do it again tonight... last night it was so cold and it started flurrying...

my friend calia showed up last night... i love being in a scene so that i can see everyone who comes... except my feet are always killing me by the end of the night...

later!

So Carla totally put this up and I figured I'd do it too.  What the heck, right?  I have plenty of tunes on iTunes, so I guess I'm a good candidate.  Check her blog for the rules.  Basically, you just start you iTunes on shuffle and hit next after each category.  Here goes...

Opening Credits
My Love--Justin Timberlake (don't laugh)

Waking Up
Little Sister--Queens of the Stone Age

First Day at School
Blue Orchid--The White Stripes

Breaking up
Lose Control--Missy Elliot

Happiness
Let Forever Be--The Chemical Brothers

Life's Okay
Misfit--Elefant

Mental Breakdown
Wandering Stars--Portishead

Driving
Dollars & Cents--Radiohead

Flashback
Something in the Way--Nirvana

Getting Back Together
Get Up--Ciara

Wedding
She Blinded Me with Science--Thomas Dolby (will not be played during my own wedding, I assure you...maybe at the reception, though)

Birth of a Child
Kid A--Radiohead

Final Battle
Where's Your Head At--Basement Jaxx

Death Scene
Novacane--Beck

Funeral Song
Our Faces Split the Coast in Half--Broken Social Scene

So Long  
Date with the Night--Yeahyeahyeahs

paste it to your remarks :]]

Hey Everyone,

the judgement was so Awesome last night 23 people got saved...Everyone did such a good job last night, so keep up the great work!!! I think tonight will be a busy night.... well i guess i better go but..... i will see yall tonight luv ya!!!

Yeah, I got bored so I thought I'd get on phusebox.

So Tyler and I are broken up for good, he's a complete jerk. For more, see my blog on myspace. (my page is myspace.com/krhayes667)

I'm totally loving Memphis. School is great! My ensembles are pretty fun as well. I'm principal horn in the symphonic band, and I'll be in wind ensemble next year they tell me. I'm also playing in the ONLY undergraduate woodwind quintet which I absolutly love, it's my favorite ensemble by far. We have so much fun, and the faculty have said we're the best undergrad woodwind quintet so far, which makes me proud. We're going to have a recital coming up soon and we've also been asked to perform in the school of music workshop coming up in a few weeks. I'm playing in the symphony orchestra next semester, I can't wait for that!!!

The Memphis Horn Society finally kicked off, woot woot. We're supposed to have our next meeting in two weeks, that will be fun. I'm the librarian...but we haven't done anything yet so oh well.

Music theory is much more difficult in college than it was in high school. I should study more for that class. Aural theory (aka ear training) is okay, but it sucks sometimes, only really when you have to write out chords telling if they're major/minor/augmented/diminished and what inverstion it's in. That's some messed up stuff.

Marching band isn't as fun as it was in highschool. We're hosting bandmasters tomorrow (and I'm utterly upset that Siegel isn't coming!!!) which should be a fun easy day for me. I'm only running one band, so I don't have to be there till 3, and then I'm off at 5 till 9 when we have to get ready for exhibition.

Let's see...I have a job, that's pretty fun. I'm the horn instructor for the community music school that UofM has. I might be teaching at a music academy in Collierville soon as well. Can't pass up anything that pays $25 an hour!

Pretty sure that I have an amazingly un-jerkish boyfriend now, Clay. :-)

Yeah, that's all. Please befriend me on myspace (link above) and subcribe to my blog so I can avoid double posting...unless I get lots of remarks saying "double post!"

G'night.

Somewhere between the drama, the confusing people, playing 20 questions w/people about things that aren’t their business, the hateful people, and the people who just make my emotions kinda go everywhere, sometimes I wonder why it is I get so excited to get back here. But then again, I guess it’s things like seeing high school friends and certain people who make coming back worth it.

david eckstein is a ballplayer.

straight up.

Pretty sure that I, the slacker who loses at math-life, got my calculus test grade today...

And that grade was a 94.  An A.

Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction too.

Espeically since this is probalby a total fluke because all my straight-A-in-calculus-getting friends made 80-somethings and the like.

Sooo.... I dunno?  *shrug*  I'm not complaining.

I'm sick again......

Uh oh.......

tomorrow is ash's party^^
it's going to be fun...of course i'll update about it...and i'll dress up what i am cuz i am a died cival war sodier...yes it is random but random is good lol....so it should be a lot of fun...so yeah....i am sick....but i am alright though..soooo yeah..

i am bored right now....yep yep..i am glad it is friday...mum nothing much to talk about and yeah

well iam out

    meg

word.

so. it's been a while, hasn't it?

life's going pretty good. wednesday night was pretty awesome. i hadn't realized how much i had missed Chris's preaching. it had been a long time because for the past couple of months i had only heard Clint or Justin, or someone else. but yeah, that was cool.

it's been really neat lately to see how God can change your heart towards people, and just how He, and only He, can even change characteristics of our hearts. i had really been struggling as of late with being soooooooo judgemental and just kinda sitting in my own self-righteous little bubble, especially at school. But as God has begun to break me of my sin and really show me who i truly am, i have realized my deep, deep need for a Savior. many times, a lot of us get to feeling that we're pretty good. like, since some of us, including myself, don't do all the other "bad things" that other people do, somehow we are better than them. but God has really driven home to me that that is just not true. If anything, those of us who are in Christ are the worse sinners, because we know better, and yet still do those things anyway. it's amazing how much easier it is to love people once you realize your own position in the grand scheme, and once you see them through Christ's eyes. i just feel so blessed for Him to even reveal such things to me. i don't know where i'd be without Him.

in other news: I GOT THE PART I WANTED IN THE SCHOOL MUSICAL!!!!!!!!!

i'm so excited. i get to be Mrs. Paroo, who is the lead girl, Marian's, mother in The Music Man. i'm super duper excited!!!!!!!!!!! i'm sure that it's gonna be great.

well, i gotta go, but i guess i post at a later date. much love to you all! ---Cari 

Here's an article I found...

Actor and NRA President Charlton Heston is taking film star George
Clooney to task after Clooney's reported wisecrack over Heston's
Alzheimer's disease.

oh man guys. it's raining out there. it's crazy. and it's cold. i forgot my rain coat. see, i believe if it's not raining when i leave the apartment, then we're good to go. bad concept huh? and i despise umbrellas on campus. no bueno.

i have a math test in t-minus 2 hours. shouldnt be bad. haha. but who knows. i'm going to study for those two hours. i hope.

we have a race in knoxville tomorow. if your not doing any thing, you should come. but next weekend we have a giant race in chattanooga. the olmpic team will be there. talk about craziness. but thank goodness we dont have to race them. that would stink. haha.

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2 days of band left!!!!

:-((((((

practice ended early

sat in the band room floor and talked to someone for and hour

got ridiculed by the jessup.... lol then we came back with mrs stegner jokes

he took me home too

COC!

after MYO went and watched Antioch play for a few mins and just looked at the stadium

the press box is soooo high.... idk if i can salute that high!

wish us luck!