This weekend is our engagement party. My mom, her parents, my dad, his girlfriend, his mom, and my aunt and uncle are all going to be there. This is only significant because it will be the first time we have all been together in about 9 years ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving was good. We made wayyyyy too much food, but it was a good day. I think Mrs. Pierce is glad to have another board-game enthusiast in the family. She and Mr. Pierce got back from Italy on Wednesday, and just hearing people talk about it makes my heart so ache for travel...especially to such a beautiful place as Italy. ohhh my ( Read more... )

I ended up not going to Tuscaloosa this year for the game, and that's fine. I'm not in love with Tuscaloosa. But no one is in town so I'm kind of alone...which would also be fine...except it just makes me realize it's over. This is it. Last week was the last time I'll ever walk in Jordan-Hare as a student. This is the last game of the season. ( Read more... )

[The watch] was Grandfather's and when Father fave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excrutiating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember ( Read more... )

BEST. GAME. EVER ( Read more... )

Israel = "wrestles with God"

I like that

So all anyone can talk about is last weekend's game, and this weekend's game.  In my religion class today, for the first 30 minutes all we talked about was football.  Makes sense- religion=football. seems like it here anyway, but don't get me wrong, I LOVE IT (until people get a little out of control in a not so good way).  No one thinks we'll have ( Read more... )

I am trying so hard to fight the evil that lurks within me.  I am slipping into the old diseases that crowded my brain and darkened my heart.  I am trying to fight it but frankly I'm exhausted. 
 I don't have the answers, but it's hard to trust anything. if you knew my life, you would maybe at least understand my reluctance to depend on Him.  My ( Read more... )

Egypt

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"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power…
"Power is not a means; it is an end.
"One does not establish a dictatorship to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
"The object of persecution, is persecution. The object ( Read more... )