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Monday, May 31, 2004

crazy crazy crazy!

so i've been pretty busy as of late... for the past two weeks, i've been working 6 days/week, and it looks like it'll now be 7 days in the next little while... but i'm thankful to God that i have a job (two jobs, rather) and that i'm making a bit of a dent into my tuition fees. but since i'm pretty much working all the time, i haven't really had a chance to talk and meet up with friends. just so you know, i'm really not too tired to meet up and have a little fun in the evenings (i'm free all evenings, generally about after 5pm), it's just that it's a bit of a hassle to actually make plans with people. so please, if you want to do something, give me a call and i'd love to make definite plans (instead of the "we'll do something sometime" thing).

so i'm reading two new books: *a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson, and passion and purity by elizabeth elliot. for those of you who don't know, bryson is the hilarious author who wrote one of my favourite books (in a sunburned country). so even though his newest endeavour wasn't a travel book, i knew it had to be good... and it is! i've hardly made a dent in it (it's 500-odd pages long) and it's literally about the history of the earth (from creation to the physics to the atom, and so on), but he makes it so interesting! my favourite parts are when he writes about the hapless or eccentric scientists... did you know that isaac newton once stuck a long needle into eye socket "betwixt [his] eye and the bone as near to [the] backside of [his] eye" as he could just to see what would happen? or that he once "stared at the sun for as long as he could bear, to determine what effect it would have upon his vision"? in both cases, he miraculously recovered. oh, and then there was a british scientist by the name of henry cavendish who suffered shyness to a "degree bordering on disease". one time, an admirer came to his front step and starting heaping out praise to him. cavendish "received the compliments as if they were blows from a blunt object and then, unable to take any more, fled down the path and out the gate, leaving the front door wide open. it was some hours before he could be coaxed back to the property". this man was so shy that, in the event that he was at a party, it was understood by the other guests that he was, on no terms, to ever be spoken to or even looked at. those who wanted to speak to him about scientific matters were "advised to wander into his vicintiy as if by accident and to talk as it were into vacancy". definitely not a people person. :p anyway, i highly recommend the book b/c it's very informative and bryson's prose makes the topics accessible and interesting.

the other book is written by elliot, a hardcore old-fashioned christian writer, and jenne lent me the book to see what my thoughts were about the issues raised. as you can tell about the title, it's about the Godly perspective or approach to relationships. it's definitely an interesting and radical point of view, but i can't say that i agree with all of it. (then i'd really be doing everything wrong!) in her book, elliot stresses the distinction between the male and female roles, which i found somewhat archaic (especially when she uses the terms "hunters" and "gatherers"). this means that under no circumstances should the female ever initiate any part of the relationship. in some cases, i see the wisdom to this, and really think that no matter how crazy those things drive me, i really should have pulled back in the past and stopped calling or trying to find out "where we stood". and while i do agree that male and female friendships are rarely 100% platonic, i do think that the two sexes can be friends, despite what elliot says. her book pretty much said that you could not and should not have friends of the opposite sex and that calling just to say hi and chat (as friends only) should also not be done. i haven't read all of the book, so i still have to process and filter out the content, but it's definitely something jenne and i will discuss after i finish it.

so i got off the phone with grace <3 a while ago. i miss that kid. :( i haven't seen her in quite a while, so we chatted while grace kicked my ass at toki toki boom (just like the good ol' days...). ok, so grace's previous ravings got me hooked on a little reality show called america's next top model (my first, actually. i've never really gone for survivor, american idol, or any of that other reality junk on tv). this show is so gloriously catty and bitchy, it's the perfect show to watch in the summer with a bunch of girlfriends! i was watching the antm marathon on the life network, and all i have to say is that robin was just a terrible, terrible person! hands down, the worst depiction of a christian. ever. thank goodness shannon was nice and NOT hypocritical... but man, i can't wait to watch the next season! grace and i are going to watch the first episode next week - let the cattiness begin!!

posted @ 9:51:00 p.m.

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