I just realized that I never did post up a new blog entry did I? Well I'll just make this one short and sweet I guess. These past few days have been pretty awesome. A lot of unexpected people have been showing up to the fellowships we've been putting on and its just awesome seeing the turnout. It makes me feel as if people are actually enjoying the events that me and Matt are putting on and in turn, it makes me feel like I'm actually doing my job right. I've just felt really good these past few days cause of things like this, so yeah thats it. Short post right? :)

Music = Life

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people you like and include me. Try not to use a song more than once. It is harder than you think!

Pick Your Artist: The Beatles

Are you male or female: Mother Natures Son

Describe yourself: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

How do you feel about yourself: Here, There, and Everywhere

Describe where you currently live: The Fool on the Hill

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Your favorite form of transportation: Yellow Submarine

Your best friend is: Something

Your favorite color is: Blackbird

What's the weather like: Here Comes the Sun

Favorite time of day: Good Night

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called: The Long and Winding Road

What is life to you: We Can Work It Out

What is the best advice you have to give: All You Need is Love

If you could change your name, what would it be: Hey Jude

Your favorite food is: Glass Onion

Thought for the Day: Happiness is a Warm Gun

How I would like to die: Why Don't We Do It In The Road

My soul's present condition: Help!

The faults I can bear: I Want to Hold Your Hand

My motto: Don't Let Me Down


Yeah I got bored so I did one of these haha. John and Monnette tagged me in this so yeah I wanted to try it. Expect an actual blog post sometime later this week. I had a SC trip last weekend, so I got alot to talk about :)

T.O.A.S.T.S.O.N.G

Hey guys, so this past weekend was our long awaited AphiOZ retreat, and I'm not ashamed to say that my opinions were wrong about the retreat. I'll be honest, I really did not want to go to the retreat because I felt that we were putting way to much planning into it and that we wern't gonna have fun even if we did a bunch of activities. I was happily surprised at how well it turned out to be though, and all you guys that didn;t end up going missed out on a wonderful experience.

When I woke up on Friday morning, I was pissed off. I had only gotten 2 hours of sleep that night because I was out and I didn't have my car so I couldn't get home early. I literally woke up and was like "FUCK this retreat hella FUCKING early making me wake up at 6AM on a saturday morning ughh FUCK aphio!" I was still pretty pissed off when we got there in the morning, cause it was hella windy and cold there! We were all wearing sweaters, but we might as well have been naked cause the wind cut right through everything. It all started to change though once it got warmer because then we could actually move around and do things instead of just sitting in fetal position trying to gain warmth. We started off pretty strong by playing steal the bacon, which was surprisingly tiring and then after that we attempted to go swimming. The water was amazingly cold though so that wasn't very succesful, but Mo and Mossy made it out to the island in the middle of the lake, which was pretty cool since I couldn't even get my head under the water. After that we wrote letters to our future selves which was interesting cause I actually had alot to write about. I basically just tanned myself and wrote at the same time, which might not have been the best idea because now my shoulders are a little burnt. The day ended with everyone just hanging out and having a pretty nice evening around the campfire, until one by one we all retired to bed.

The next day was pretty nice for me. I think I was one of the few to actually get a good nights sleep, and I ended up sleeping in until pretty late. I thought I would have had an uncomfortable night because I only had two blankets and no true pillow (i used roscoe the turtle as my pillow), but I had a really good sleep and I ended up sleeping in till around noon. I awoke to everyone packing their things up, and when that was finished we all went and played catch with the slingshots that Annie made for us. 3/4 of the slingshots were broken by the time we were done, but no hearts were broken because we had hella fun shooting tennis balls at each other.

It was a pretty interesting experience and one that I won't forget soon. Even though I came out of this trip with my bedsheets smelling like bbq, my shoulders burnt (by the sun), and my fingers burnt (by fire), it was still really worth it to head out there for the retreat. Can't wait till the next time we go on one.

Social Experiments

Hey guys. I'll be honest with you, I really like performing experiments on people. That sounds terrible, but it's also one of the most entertaining things you can possibly do. If I could get a job in the future that just payed me to do random experiments on people, then I'd be perfectly happy with my life. Here's a few random things I want to do in the future.

This experiment revolves around a person seemingly lying unconscious on the street, and seeing if people walking by that person will check and see if the person is alright. The variables in this experiment would be the attire that the person lying unconscious would be wearing. The person would be dressed in ways such as business, casual, formal, homeless, and half-naked. Also, the person would probably lie down on the street in a way that implies that something is wrong with them, such as lying in the middle of the sidewalk in an awkward position. The purpose of this experiment is to see if people are more helpful towards people dressed in a socially acceptable manner, or if they are more likely to help those that are outcasts to society. Naturally most people would think that people would help the people dressed in a socially acceptable manner, but don't we help out the homeless all the time, in ways like homeless shelters and even just giving them some spare change? I just want to see if society contradicts itself in a more personal situation, because as a whole, we like to put on the front that we do everything we can to help those that are needy, but I wanna see what people do when they're given the problem face to face.

The main problem that I see with this experiment is that, rather than people focusing on the attire that the person is wearing, they'll just walk by the unconscious person thinking that somebody else has already gotten help for that person. Our society has a mental issue that prevents us for getting help for people if we think that somebody else will get help for them, or if we think that somebody has already gotten help. For example, there was a crime awhile back in which a woman was brutally stabbed and murdered outside of an apartment building. Now this is a stabbing, and this is no quiet process. The residents of the apartment building reported hearing the screams and cries of the woman, but the thing is, not one of them called for help. Each resident thought that another resident would call the police, but in the end nobody did until it was too late. People in our society don't want to take on extra responsibility if they feel it can be avoided, and this thought might hinder my findings a bit.

Another experiment that I want to do, once again has to do with people not accepted by society. This experiment has to do with street musicians. I want to go to a busy street corner were street musicians usually congregate, and have two people perform there at different times. One performer would be a child, well-dressed, but terrible at their instrument, whereas the other would be a grown adult, homeless in attire, but extremely brilliant at their musicianship. Who would get more money for their playing? I don't really have a hypothesis for this issue, but if I had a gun to my head and I was forced to pick, I'd say the child would get more money because, they're a child and people are more sympathetic to children than the homeless.

Ok thats it for now. Alot of really random writing on this post-midnight night :)