Good times

I got to spend some time last night and this morning with two of my four college roommates, and it was a blast. One of the things the evening accomplished was to introduce me to the videos on Vintage21.com. To see them, click on the link and then look on the left-hand side of the page. On the top of that montage is a picture of an old-timey film projector. (If you hold your mouse over it, you'll see the word "media" pop up on the page.) Click on the film projector and then choose "videos." Go to page two and watch all four of the Jesus Videos. They're GREAT! (For some reason when I try to link directly to them it takes forever to "buffer." If I had paid more attention in Electronic Publishing, I would probably know how to fix this, but I didn't. So I don't. I suppose if you don't have the brainpower to follow these instructions then you wouldn't find the videos funny, anyway.)

Another thing it did was give me a chance to spend some time with people who know me and take a break from trying to build community from the ground up. Wow, that felt really nice. (It's nice to tell a group about how a guy recently tried to pursue me at record speed and just have them understand that anyone pursuing me has to move ultra-slow. Like FEMA-slow.)

Someone asked me if I'd do high school over again, and the answer was: no way. High school wasn't bad, it just wasn't great. College, however. . .now THAT was great.

And I also got to talk with one of them about her increasingly interesting love life. It has always been weird to me that she never really dated. . .in high school or college. This never made sense, because she is one of the cutest, funniest, deepest, well-rounded people I know. Perhaps there just weren't many guys who could keep up with her? Regardless, there is someone interested in her now, and that makes me very excited! If she can find someone as cool as she is, then there's definitely hope for the rest of us.

Speaking of the rest of us, more than one of my coworkers has told me lately that I'll definitely get married because I am "so cute." What does this mean? It's meant to be a compliment, I know, but does this mean that only non-cute people are single? This can't be true, because I have certainly seen a lot of unattractive married people (and attractive single people). It's just aonther one of those things that people say that doesn't really mean anything, I think.

I've decided to keep a running list of meaningless things that I've heard Christians say, because I find them very interesting. First on the list is "God placed a call on his life." What does that mean? Did his cell phone ring and was God on the other line? It means nothing, except perhaps connotatively. Feel free to add to the list.