So it's been awhile again since my last blog, but I do not feel so bad seeing as though some of my friends haven't blogged in a month or so. I haven't really been up to much. I have been in some creative moods lately, but I've been working like crazy at a factory here at home, so the creative flow has been stiffled. The most I've done is to create this blog header.

I have to work 1st shift this year since that is the shift my Dad is on. In previous summers I have worked 3rd shift with him, but he finally got enough senority to be on 1st, so there I am too. The people are old, hurting with joint pain, and can be a bit crabby sometimes, so finding good conversation is tough. Summers tend to be lonely for me, but the comfort of money in my bank account is an incentive for enduring the loneliness.

The work isn't too bad though. Many of you might be surprised to see me decked out in all of my safety gear (hard hat, safety glasses, uniform, and steel toed boots) and crusin around in some heavy machinery, but it is an interesting experience to say the least.

I am such a nerd... my highest form of entertainment right now is watching American Idol with my family. I think I need to go to BG this weekend for something a little more... me. Eh, I have nothing interesting to write about right now. I am going to go and finish, "Catcher in the Rye" and go to bed.

ttyl,
boo

...but i stumbled upon this in my research:

"Evolutionary Hymn"
 
Lead us, Evolution, lead us
Up the future's endless stair;
Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.
For stagnation is despair:
Groping, guessing, yet progressing,
Lead us nobody knows where.

Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow,
In the present what are they
while there's always jam-tomorrow,
While we tread the onward way?
Never knowing where we're going,
We can never go astray.

To whatever variation
Our posterity may turn
Hairy, squashy, or crustacean,
Bulbous-eyed or square of stern,
Tusked or toothless, mild or ruthless,
Towards that unknown god we yearn.

Ask not if it's god or devil,
Brethren, lest your words imply
Static norms of good and evil
(As in Plato) throned on high;
Such scholastic, inelastic,
Abstract yardsticks we deny.

Far too long have sages vainly
Glossed great Nature's simple text;
He who runs can read it plainly,
'Goodness = what comes next.'
By evolving, Life is solving
All the questions we perplexed.

Oh then! Value means survival-
Value. If our progeny
Spreads and spawns and licks each rival,
That will prove its deity
(Far from pleasant, by our present,
Standards, though it may well be).

-C.S. Lewis

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(who knew Lewis was a poet too?)

sup?

i have been crazy-busy lately with school stuff and am procrastinating as we speak. also, my head has been in the clouds- or so they say. ever get in the mood where you want to create something, but have loaded your plate with other things so there is no outlet?-- that is my place right now. so i've just been consuming others' creations.

-sufjan-- yeah-- wow

-ben folds-- where did he come from-- i just started really listening to his stuff last night and found it to be amazing "asent of stan" being my favorite right now

-michael eds-- africa, music, brother, doubt you now the goodness of the rain

-ani difranco-- i am not as into her musical style as much as her lyrics-- she is a bleeding hearted poet

"Animal"

More and more there is this animal
Looking out through my eyes
At all the traffic on the road to nowhere
At all the shiny stuff around to buy
At all the wires in the air
At all the people shopping
For the same blank stare
At america the drastic
That isolated geographic
That's become infested with millionaires

When you grow up surrounded
By willful ignorance
You have to believe
Mercy has its own country
And that it's round and borderless
And then you have to grow wings
And rise above it all
Like there
Where that hawk is circling
Above that strip mall

More and more there is this animal
Looking out through my eyes
Seeing that animals only take from this world
What they need to survive
But she is prowling through all the religions of men
Seeing that time and time and time again
Their gods have made them
Special and above
Nature's law
And the respect thereof

And I think when you grow up surrounded
By willful ignorance
You have to believe that mercy has its own country
And that it's round and borderless
And then you just grow wings
And rise above it all
Like there where that hawk is circling
Above that strip mall

Ask any eco-system
Harm here is harm there
And there and there
And aggression begets aggression
It's a very simple lesson
That long preceded any king of heaven
And there's this brutal imperial power
That my passport says I represent
But it will never represent where my heart lives
Only vaguely where it went

Cuz I know when you grow up surrounded
By willful ignorance
You learn that mercy has its own country
And that it's round and borderless
And then you just grow wings
And rise above it all
Like there
Where that hawk is circling
Above that strip mall