song of the moment: copeland - when finally set free

Feel the pain teaching us how much more we can take
Reminding us how far we've come
Let the pain burn away from our hearts
We have time to start all over again (3x)

Well if you would shine your love down here oh
Make our hearts as perfect as new
Oh if you would shine your love down here oh
I promise I'll reflect it right back at you
Oh I promise I'll reflect it right back at you
Oh I promise we'll reflect it right back at you

i got a whole bunch of copeland songs from my brother last night. they're the band that's opening for switchfoot for their oh! gravity tour. this one song caught my attention. it wasn't even the lyrics that got me first tho. it was the cool instrumental intro that lasts for over a minute. i really like it. but i was thinking.. man when is the guy gonna start singing? :P so i check the name of the song.. "when finally set free". interesting i thought. so i look up the lyrics. and they turn out to be really cool. i guess they're one of those bands that are christian but don't really advertise the fact. sooo many of those out there. i don't really know anything about this band. but i'm looking fwd to seeing them next week. maaaybe they'll do this song?! haha that would be awesome.. but i have no idea if this song is new or old. probably old.

it's such a cool song. awesome intro. so simple. the repetition of the verse 3x.. ending off with a bridge/chorus? that's about God shining down His love on us and a promise to reflect the love back. mm.. if you wanna hear it.. msg me if you see me online and i can send it to you :)

this is so bad. all i wanna do right now is drink tea and watch the office. gaah. i have no stamina whatsoever when it comes to staying up when i'm tired.. or studying. this is baaad.

hey guess what. you know the white hair growing out of my arm? it's STILL THERE! i haven't been it in awhile. but last night i looked down.. and there it was! and it's gotten longer :P woot.

it's such a nice day today. i wanna go out and play.

something i learned in linguistics: maxims of conversation.

maxim of quantity - say neither more nor less than the discourse requires
maxim of relevance - be relevant to the discourse
maxim of manner - be brief and orderly; avoid ambiguity and obscurity
maxim of quality - do not lie; do not make unsupported claims

what would conversations be like if we all followed these?! can you even imagine? haha i make it sound like all my conversations are full of tmi, irrelevance, ambiguity.. and LIES! that's not true. but seriously.. i guess conversations would be a lot more efficient if we all submitted to these maxims. but.. they would maybe also be less interesting? i mean c'mon.. who doesn't like a little irrelevance once in awhile :P i really do like the 3rd one tho.. maxim of manner. if everyone i talked to were less ambiguous.. wow life would be so much easier! altho i am guilty of being obscure too :P haha.. oops. meh.. anyways. i'm gonna go do something ..somewhere.. somehow.. now.

i was reading my health psych textbook. it says that one study estimated that, by age 80, the amount of additional life attributable to aerobic excercise is between 1 and 2 years.

and i'm reminded again about my sedentary lifestyle :P

so i started thinking.. would i really want to lengthen my life? even by 1 or 2 years.. would it be worth it? on one hand those 1 or 2 years could be so blessed and fruitful and the Lord can continue to use me in whatever way He pleases. on the other hand.. if i die earlier i get to meet God faster. and i guess that's more of a selfish viewpoint. let's die faster so all the worries of life will be done with and we can go be with God in heaven! hmm.. feeling torn? honestly tho.. right now i'm leaning more towards the second choice - dying earlier. but who knows.. when or if the Lord allows me to exist as a dear old woman with a blessed and God-loving family or He hits me with a big challenge that i can't refuse to pursue.. i just might want to live a bit longer.

you know what else i was thinking.. who added the 't' at the end of 'woo' to make 'woot'? remember when ppl used to just say 'woo!' when they were excited about something? anyways.. kudos to whoever invented 'woot'. ohh the origins of new words. how exciting :D

i can't believe how different my mood can be just after one night's sleep. ohh the inconsistency. words cannot express how appreciative and thankful i am that our God is a constant God. never changes. because He is already perfect.

i love how you can read the bible (or certain passages) over and over and over and over.. yet still find something new and exciting each time. something that speaks so true to you.

hm. i just did the using "you" instead of "i" when i really mean "i" thing. so i think i just answered my own question. sometimes.. saying "you" just fits better. haha. shelbs' response comment was a good point too. very true.

when i find a chapter or two in the bible i really like.. i read it again and again over the span of usually a week or so. just can't get enough of it. so it takes me awhile to move on in my bible reading sometimes. haha.. i'm like that when i read textbooks and articles too :P but at least i actually get something out of reading the bible. oh snap.

1 Corinthians 4:2
Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.

what great responsibility the Lord gives us! in this particular passage paul says that we have been entrusted with the "secret things of God" in v1. how mysterious. haha.. i love it. what are these secrets? blessings/knowledge/wisdom? whatever it may be.. it is up to us to figure out how we are supposed to prove faithful with whatever the Lord gives us. and whatever the Lord shows you is meant to be shared. yess. so prove yourself faithful. it is required of you.

random aside: i love my linguistics prof. the manner in which she speaks! her mexican/british accent.. aahh so cool. and her bluntness! i almost lol'd the other day when she told one of my classmates to "use your common sense!" haha.

wow the beginning of today seems like it was sooo long ago. but it's been one of those days. a good day. so i'll blog about it. and i guess i won't blog so much about the day itself.. but about my thoughts during it. in no particular order.

man. i really wish i could have more eloquence when speaking.

i find it interesting how some ppl use the word "you" when they really mean "i" when they're talking about something related to themselves. like when someone is telling a story about how they are feeling.. they say things like "you feel..." and "you think..." when they should really be saying "i feel" and "i think". why do we do that? is it because somewhere deep down inside.. we don't want to admit that it is I that feels and thinks these things so we use YOU to "cover" it up?

i seem to not have the ability to fully think things through. when was the last time i came to a CONCRETE conclusion?

praise God that He made us all different. and blessed us all with unique and wonderful quirks, characteristics, and qualities.

where would we be without each other?

i laugh at my friends a lot. i even point while i laugh at them.. haha. and i don't mean laugh WITH them. i mean AT them. cora always pointed this fact out (because she is one of the ppl i laugh at A LOT). dren said the same thing today. my friends make me laugh a lot. and i'm really the kind of person who does the laughing instead of the person who makes ppl laugh. i think i've made my peace with that. and i really can't help it. ahh i love wednesdays. religion class. we get so giddy before hand.. then have to sit through a boring lecture for 2 hours. man.. shirley, dren, and mike are really funny. haha.

oh man what am i doing. i haven't let myself stay up this late in such a long time. i used to value sleep a lot less than i do now. signs of aging i guess haha.

mm and God's hand is always at work. PTL for that. He truly works in ways we cannot see.

i have this really long hair that i just discovered.... growing out of my arm.

and it's white.

it's so weird. i feel like i wanna keep it to show ppl. but i also wanna just cut it off because it's so ..weird.

today.. i choked. badly. and literally.. while drinking tea. man that was probably one of my worst choking experiences. when the liquid just totally goes down the wrong tube. like down my trachea instead of my esophagus. and i felt like it reached my lungs because the coughing was coming from down there.. it was really bad.

this post doesn't really have a point to it. i'm just seeing how random i can get :P haven't done a really random blog in awhile.

man i really let other ppl's feelings affect me a lot. geez. is this a good or bad thing. right now to me it seems bad.. someone else's emotional state should not have the power to render me useless. does this fall into the realm of "bearing one another's burdens"?

i'm in one of those moods.. a contemplative mood. too bad it's late and my functional abilities are slowly shutting down.. agahah..

gooood night.