relient k wasn't exaggerating (;

someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did

i'm poor, i'm starving, i'm flat broke, i've got no cash to spend
sell all my books for front row tickets to dave matthews band
my girlfriend's at another school, i know this year will test her
i called, found out she had three other boyfriends last semester

and that's why i say
oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree

80 grand later i found out that all that i had learned
is that you should show up to take your finals and your midterms
the party scene is kinda mean, i think it's sick and twisted
the navy showed up at my dorm and claimed that i enlisted

and that's why i say
oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree

don't get excited. she'll say "no" without a doubt you see
and i've decided college girls just won't go out with me
they make me nervous and they always catch me off my guard
like cell phone services i drop out cause college is too hard

it's time to call my father
cause it's his alma mater
good grades aren't what they seem
i think he knows the dean
it's time to call my father
cause it's his alma mater
he says he's proud of me
but college always was his dream
and i would always say it's not for me

oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree

someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did

do what will make you happy
do what you feel is right
only but one thing matters
learn how to live your life

[in background:]
(phi, beta, delta, cappa
someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did)

do what will make God happy
do what you feel is right
only but one thing matters
learn how to live your life

geometry was never my strong point....

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS SUMMER '10:

-common enemy bonded the family together-

3rd & 4th graders wrote each other weird notes:

"when i'm old i'll have 100 cats."

"what will you name them?"

"sweet stuff."

"all of them?"

"no. only 50. the other 50 i will name bob?"

"what do you think about boys?"

"I have not yet gotten to the point of liking boys."

JENNY HEMPEN-

is amazing. cheyenne hilary is her car- explanation's in my head.

-as for the love triangle, it's more of an invisible straight line now...

hence the title. all you team members of each side just settle down. kind of.

God does everything with His glory in mind. But His love & salvation does glorify Him. it also illuminates our hearts.

depth of sin in my heart, depth of mercy from His stores.

*happy sigh*

college this time next week.

His love endures forever.

(for the nickname-less one)

[Starry-eye & terrified, because I haven't been in a snowstorm since the last decade. I squint my eyes & see a chocolate in the snow, bite into it & find a scrap of paper in the center with just a heart drawn on it. Then I look up & see the light outside your window, & begin to hope that the next decade a snowstorm comes around, we're out in it together]

books/music/associativeness

Since i typically listen to music while I'm reading, sometimes a song that comes on during the book connects in my head to the plot line. Or I'll hear a song later on after finishing the book & my mind will associate the book plot with the plot of the song.

List of books/songs I've done that with:

We The Living, by Ayn Rand/Lisztomania, by Phoenix
(the "from the mess to the masses" line made me think of Kira wandering streets in Russia & dreaming about being an architect.

The Thief/The King of Attolia/The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner/It's All Been Done, Barenaked Ladies-

(a bit of an unlikely match-up, since the book series takes place in a sort of ancient Greece setting, but the weird romance in the song reminds me of the weird love-saga between Eugenides & Attolia...cynical, but a realistic process.)

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card/Fun & Games, Barenaked Ladies (again)

-Just paralleled the alien theme & the government being so flippant with the cadet's lives.

East of Eden,John Steinbeck/Hurtin' You, Ben Kweller

- After Una Hamilton dies & it hits Samuel Hamilton really hard & in turn it causes fault lines to form among the whole Hamilton family...that's what this song reminds me of about East of Eden ("you're the only one who can pull it through...", etc.)

Perhaps the oddest match-up of all? (I actually was listening to this album while reading the book) :

The Brother's Karamazov, Dostoevsky/This Ain't Goodbye, Train:

We were stars up in the sunlit sky
No one else could see
Neither of else ever thought to ask why
It wasn't meant to be
Maybe we were way too high
To ever understand
We were victims of all the foolish plans
We began to divide ...

Because between Katerina & Dmitri is basically that same dialogue. More how Katerina feels, like a victim of foolish plans they divided.

-Eitherways, how minds associate random things with other random things & connect them can be pretty fascinating...

[driving out of neverland in a boring car]

Today it hit me that I was almost-completely driving out of Neverland in a boring car when I ate an apple recently & peeled the sticker off without even thinking about it.

Reason: I haven't peeled a sticker off of an apple. EVER. I always make a priority of eating it (even if I'm by myself) & if there are people there, they always ask me why & I tell them it's just a weird tradition.

*Sigh. Suppose my time had to come, but I didn't want it to be so very quick....

[why do you let me stay here?] -she&him

Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile?
We like the same things and I like your style
Its not a secret; why do you keep it?
I'm just sitting on the shelf

I got to get your presence
Let's make it known
I think you're just so pleasant
I would like you for my own

a billion odd people....

I'd be your one and only, but I'd only let you down. Well I want your love but I don't know what I'd do with it. 'Cause there's a hundred fifty thousand people better than me no, there's a hundred million people that are better for you, no there's a billion odd people that are better than me...but you don't know them, and they don't care about you..