The Start of a Project (pun? just read)

Today in my media arts class we started our final project due at the end of the year, which is a claymation. Youtube's littered with them. My teacher's put up a few simple ones. His youtube username is thejamesshow, if you want to check him out.

Everyone's working in partners. Since I don't have any close friends in the first place in that class, I was originally hoping to be able to work with a guy named Adam who's getting like a 95. But for those of you who have read all of my previous blogs, if you can just remember that girl God had asked me to talk that one day... well, I'm working with her and I'm kind of excited because I'm just hoping that God will use me to reach her with His love.

She's I guess the kind of person you might call an "emo". And I really hope that none of you have any prejudices against them or anything of the sort. If you don't know the term - basically there's a certain stereotype that comes along with it all. You can look it up but because of that I think a lot of jokes and criticism has come of it. In some cases it's more than anything a fashion and just used for attention, but then the other side it is the association with things like depression, self-injury like cutting and stuff, often drugs, and also suicide.

Personally, I'm pretty sure they're just people that hurting for any number of reasons that don't know how to deal with it. They're people who need God's love and hope. I don't actually know her that well and I won't write anything I don't know of for sure but I've seen her right wrist and the marks left from cutting. She does drugs, I don't even think it's important which ones either.

I posted on one of my oldest blogs, a video that one of my friends helped make a while ago about cutting. Check it out.

Prayer for her and for me would be amazing! Pray that God would give chances for me to get to know her more and to talk to her. There's so many things I'd love to ask her if I knew her better. And please also pray that day I'll have the opportunity to tell her about Jesus! Thank you guys! Oh by the way, she's Wiccan so pray that that doesn't get in the way.

yggiC



Just a really good song... (In Silence, by Michael W. Smith)

Physics - what happened in that class

I have this problem. It's called procrastination, and lately in my life I've seen it been getting worse.  Last friday I had a physics lab due and I had left the whole thing to the night before (horrible I know). I was thinking I could just push some buttons on a calculator and make conclusions about the results. Well, I was wrong. I stayed up really late that night... and didn't even get it done. 

By that point my brain was mush, I was exhausted and I didn't even care that most of my answers were wrong. Oh, and before I continue on, I should mention that my computer wasn't cooperating at all. At one point a message came up on my screen that said it couldn't auto-save because my entire C drive was full. I know! How ridiculous is that? I saved what little I had on a floppy disk and went to bed. 

The next day went to school with an uncompleted assignment printed, planning to play the honesty card, saying simply that I had slacked off and hope for a second chance. It works! I talked with my teacher after class and he did give me a second chance. I also promised him that it would never happen again. I didn't promise it for him though, I promised it for myself and for God. Because I do not want to be stuck in that place anymore!

I haven't done anything to my computer since then and I'm not getting anymore "drive is full" messages. I think God was just breaking me that Thursday night. For real. Last semester there was a time when I did the same thing with an art project but afterwards I never made a plan to change things. 

Today I finished that lab. One thing that keeps me from doing homework is a lack of interest, and therefore a lack of motivation. I can get distracted a lot on like the simplest of things. This very website is sometimes a distraction. So what I did was I called up one of friends and asked her to call me back again to make sure I was on track, to keep me accountable. She called back every half hour and it really helped. I didn't want to disappoint her and tell her that I slacking off. Accountability partners are great! I'd like to get a full time one sometime. 

I think I've done a good job on my lab and maybe if you guys keep responding to these blogs and let you know what mark I get on it later! If either of you like physics, and were wondering what the lab was about - it was about Newton's Second Law. Look it up if you want to know more! (F=ma) Ha! I'm such a science geek... that equation looks pretty pro if you ask me!