So perfect for the way we see love. Or the way I've seen love. Or the way that I kinda really want to see love. Just thought I'd share.
Well, I hope that I don't fall in love with you.
Falling in love just makes me blue.
Well, the music plays and you display your heart for me to see,
I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me.
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.
Well, the night does funny things inside a man.
These old tomcat feelings you don't understand,
Well, I turn around to look at you; you light a cigarette,
I wish I had the guts to bum one, but we've never met.
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.
I can see that you are lonesome just like me,
And it being late, you'd like some company.
Well, I turn around to look at you, and you look back at me,
The guy you're with has up and split- the chair next to you's free.
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.
Well, it's closing time, the music's fading out.
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout.
Well, I turn around to look at you; you're nowhere to be found,
I search the place for your lost face,
Guess I'll have another round.
And I think that I just fell in love with you.
-Hootie and the Blowfish
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A Summer Well... Spent
I saw my last firefly of the summer. A flash, seen out of the corner of my eye, was like a door closing in my face. And now that I'm doing my first laundry of the year in the bottom of Manly in a room that feels like summer hasn't left the building, I feel like reflecting on what's on the other side of that door. Things I learned this summer (in no particular order):
1. You can do many, many, many things with LEGOs. Many things. Trebuchets being my favorite, of course.
2. All children under the age of 12 think that you are over the age of 35, at best.
3. Kickball is intense and there is a real strategy to Mancala.
4. Sidney Carton is quite possibly my favorite hero in a novel.
5. You can survive off of pasta, Parmesan cheese, water and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for at least a month and a half.
6. God really is good, all the time.
7. You may not smoke, eat or drink while practicing the organ at Wesley.
8. The lights in the alley in between Newman and Wesley stay on until 12 AM.
9. Campus is gorgeous at dawn.
10. Sometimes you think that you'll ruin something just by being there.
11. Sometimes you're very wrong.
12. Where you are is where you're meant to be. If it's not, you wouldn't be there. If it's not where you're going to be, you won't be there.
13. Your heart can break and rejoice in the space of 2 seconds.
14. Mephibosheth was spared by King David. Go read about it in 2 Samuel.
15. I really don't know my summer constellations.
16. I don't know what it's like to be in love, though I do know what it's like to love Someone you can't see.
17. The Star Theater is cold. Bring a jacket.
18. Spider bites are TERRIBLE.
19. You can't swipe guests into the pool.
20. Campus is much more apparently hilly on a bike.
21. Pluto's official designation is a 'plutoid.'
22. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is AMAZING, as is Godspell.
23. The roasted almonds are in between the pecans and the walnuts and cotton candy ice cream with butterfingers mixed-in is more popular than you would think.
24. Wesley really is like my pre-college life: The downstairs looks like South, the upstairs has the same amount of random stuff as my house, and the sanctuary reminds me like the old sanctuary at St. Luke's.
25. I should like very much to defy gravity.
Everyone asks how your summer was the first time you see them when you get back to school. What am I supposed to say? Boring? Incorrect, as I was quite busy and engaged. Unproductive? Also incorrect, I made a good little chunk of change and read a couple of books. Interesting? Perhaps, but that's not its defining feature. Oddly painful, comforting, restricting and freeing at the same time? Yes.
But I want something to show for it, something that will make me remember and make me forget, something that will cement it into my mind and be my defining triumph, like the lift in Dirty Dancing. I probably simply want to prove to myself something that cannot be proved.
For now, though, I'll carry on with school, my jobs and my friends, sit back and label the memories as summer and my summer love as God. One day that'll change, but only when the change doesn't matter.
1. You can do many, many, many things with LEGOs. Many things. Trebuchets being my favorite, of course.
2. All children under the age of 12 think that you are over the age of 35, at best.
3. Kickball is intense and there is a real strategy to Mancala.
4. Sidney Carton is quite possibly my favorite hero in a novel.
5. You can survive off of pasta, Parmesan cheese, water and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for at least a month and a half.
6. God really is good, all the time.
7. You may not smoke, eat or drink while practicing the organ at Wesley.
8. The lights in the alley in between Newman and Wesley stay on until 12 AM.
9. Campus is gorgeous at dawn.
10. Sometimes you think that you'll ruin something just by being there.
11. Sometimes you're very wrong.
12. Where you are is where you're meant to be. If it's not, you wouldn't be there. If it's not where you're going to be, you won't be there.
13. Your heart can break and rejoice in the space of 2 seconds.
14. Mephibosheth was spared by King David. Go read about it in 2 Samuel.
15. I really don't know my summer constellations.
16. I don't know what it's like to be in love, though I do know what it's like to love Someone you can't see.
17. The Star Theater is cold. Bring a jacket.
18. Spider bites are TERRIBLE.
19. You can't swipe guests into the pool.
20. Campus is much more apparently hilly on a bike.
21. Pluto's official designation is a 'plutoid.'
22. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is AMAZING, as is Godspell.
23. The roasted almonds are in between the pecans and the walnuts and cotton candy ice cream with butterfingers mixed-in is more popular than you would think.
24. Wesley really is like my pre-college life: The downstairs looks like South, the upstairs has the same amount of random stuff as my house, and the sanctuary reminds me like the old sanctuary at St. Luke's.
25. I should like very much to defy gravity.
Everyone asks how your summer was the first time you see them when you get back to school. What am I supposed to say? Boring? Incorrect, as I was quite busy and engaged. Unproductive? Also incorrect, I made a good little chunk of change and read a couple of books. Interesting? Perhaps, but that's not its defining feature. Oddly painful, comforting, restricting and freeing at the same time? Yes.
But I want something to show for it, something that will make me remember and make me forget, something that will cement it into my mind and be my defining triumph, like the lift in Dirty Dancing. I probably simply want to prove to myself something that cannot be proved.
For now, though, I'll carry on with school, my jobs and my friends, sit back and label the memories as summer and my summer love as God. One day that'll change, but only when the change doesn't matter.
Me and My Mouth
Aaaand after sitting back and re-reading my vent, I realized how much I plagiarize when I rant. In my brain, I like to see this is a list of awesome references and quotes, not as an addendum to the last post.
~Mozart to my Salieri- go watch Amadeus. It will make you happy. And sad. OK, probably more sad, but for a good bit, you'll be happy.
~Marius and Cosette- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
~Lucie and Charles- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
~'The bitter comes before the sweet.' -Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
~'And You said, "I know that this will hurt, but if I don't break your heart, then things will just get worse. When the burden seems too much to bear, remember, the ends will justify the pain it took to get us there.' -Let it All Out, Relient K
~'My worth to God in public is what I am in private.' -My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers
There are a couple more things that I had in my head, like Stained Glass Masquerade by Casting Crowns or Solomon's Prayer of Dedication for the Temple in 1st Kings 8:22-30 (which I borrowed from Jan's sermon on Sunday), but that's all the legit references I can claim. Now I feel slightly less guilty.
~Mozart to my Salieri- go watch Amadeus. It will make you happy. And sad. OK, probably more sad, but for a good bit, you'll be happy.
~Marius and Cosette- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
~Lucie and Charles- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
~'The bitter comes before the sweet.' -Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
~'And You said, "I know that this will hurt, but if I don't break your heart, then things will just get worse. When the burden seems too much to bear, remember, the ends will justify the pain it took to get us there.' -Let it All Out, Relient K
~'My worth to God in public is what I am in private.' -My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers
There are a couple more things that I had in my head, like Stained Glass Masquerade by Casting Crowns or Solomon's Prayer of Dedication for the Temple in 1st Kings 8:22-30 (which I borrowed from Jan's sermon on Sunday), but that's all the legit references I can claim. Now I feel slightly less guilty.
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