tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14750127614677940602024-03-12T21:30:37.277-05:00Still WatersScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-75935755314801032672009-01-30T15:35:00.013-05:002009-01-30T16:45:45.139-05:00NURBS of SteelWell, it has been a while hasn't it? I've been very busy (as usual, right?)Anyway, this semester I began a 3D modeling class. Finally! I've been wanting to do this for years! Needless to say, it is awesome! Its one of my favorite classes. I wish I could dedicate more time to this class. I would love to have extra time to go into the lab and play around with Maya. But, alas, I am so busy!Behold Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-17918468675984503112008-09-21T18:19:00.012-06:002008-09-21T19:51:01.802-06:00Of Clouds and PalettesThese are some pictures of sunsets that I've taken over the course of about two-and-a-half weeks. They were all taken from my bedroom window.(How can people say there is no God?)Each day the sunset is so different from the one before. The colors, the clouds, and even the sounds and the weather can completely change. There is no limit to God's palette.I guess you can say this is one of the ways I Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-35499262259091373112008-09-07T11:22:00.007-06:002008-09-07T12:21:46.112-06:00CurrentlyWARNING! The following content contains the ranting thoughts of a college junior on a cognitive rampage. Also, the content may give the impression that said junior may not like school. Let me affirm: the junior enjoys learning. The rest is up for interpretation.School is kicking my butt. Its sapping my creative juices, absorbing every minute of my time, draining my bank account, drowning me in Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-88384554534788184482008-08-20T07:07:00.009-06:002008-08-20T14:27:21.320-06:00MondaysWe all know how most people view Mondays. They are usually kind of stinky because its the first day of the week (I will count Sunday as a weekend day for this post). After a restful weekend everyone goes back to work or school. Well, today I didn't have to go back to neither work nor school. So it started off pretty well.However, something happened later that evening that really ticked me off. Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-35511987885824318612008-08-15T17:45:00.024-06:002008-08-15T21:47:46.371-06:00All Alone....Well, today was an interesting day. Dad was at work all day. Ilmarë was working as a stand-in. So, she was gone all day. Yavanna and Eärendil went to Bush Gardens with our church youth group. So, they were gone all day. And then Mom and Tulkas went to Disney with Tulkas's friends. So, they were gone all day. This means that I was at home all day, all alone.Well, the first thing I did after Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-13658606019538238742008-08-06T20:53:00.012-06:002008-08-07T21:31:51.041-06:00Impromtu Photo ShootWell, I was outside the other day taking care of my precious little pineapple patch. It had gotten very weedy after more than week of neglect. (I got as sick as a puppy a few days after I got back from Mississippi.) Anyway, I was hunched over, deep in cultivating thought, when a bright streak of orange fluttered by. I looked up to see two sharp-orange butterflies gamboling around a nearby vine. Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-13985880627635680492008-08-02T07:27:00.027-06:002008-08-02T11:10:15.109-06:00Chronicles of a World Changer part 6Two last pictures and a story from that Thursday:Mischief with the circular saw. A very bad idea.Later in the day Mischief came inside and asked me for some duct tape. "Sure," I replied. But he had that "look" on his face. So I asked what he needed it for. It turned out that he sliced his pants with the circular saw. How is that even possible!? What the heck was he doing with that thing! "At Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-56914095954139075552008-08-01T11:37:00.023-06:002008-08-02T07:26:52.022-06:00Chronicles of a World Changer part 5Wednesday was our half-day of work. It was still morning when Mischief came out of Mr. Percy's house and said he needed a break. He was frustrated. They had run into a problem with the tiling. So I went in to help and stayed in there for the rest of the day.I could really feel the anxiety mounting in our leaders. I felt really bad for them. So I just worked as hard as I could and tried to stay Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-1377328576536112192008-07-31T07:28:00.023-06:002008-07-31T11:52:39.062-06:00Chronicles of a World Changer part 4Our first work day was Monday the 14th. We left the school at 7am and arrived at our work site around 7:35am, because we got lost again. (I have to say that on our way there we passed the shop where Elvis bought his first guitar!) Mrs H had obtained two gallons of bleach and a few scrubbing brushes. But we still needed a sprayer. The first one we were given didn't work. So the crew chief from Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-42654096447827652812008-07-29T07:21:00.012-06:002008-07-30T10:14:04.210-06:00Chronicles of a World Changer part 3Okay, so the first night we didn't go straight to sleep. Lights out was at 11pm. So I just stayed in my bed and took some pictures. This is Ilmarë from my bed while I was lying down (was too lazy to get up).Ilmarë again. She's texting airmanG, again.And here we have Yavanna talking to Mom. Cell phones were only allowed in the rooms. And even then, they were only to call the family, not to chat Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-81049450982912565322008-07-28T19:02:00.017-06:002008-07-30T10:19:15.288-06:00Chronicles of a World Changer part 2The Church bus had left about an hour and a half before we left our house. Yet an hour or so after we got on our way we caught up with them at a truck stop. It was now 12am. Dad and Ilmarë switched places (now Ilmarë was driving) and Yavanna and Eärendil decided to ride on the bus with the other youth-ians. They're the social butterflies of the siblings. Mr. Bill (the youth pastor) was driving Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-37398470342712067092008-07-26T16:23:00.004-06:002008-08-02T11:12:43.515-06:00Chronicles of a World ChangerLast Friday Ilmarë, Eärendil, my Dad, and I arrived back in Florida. We had been gone for a whole week on a mission trip to Mississippi. My younger sister, Yavanna, also went on the trip with us. I'll explain how she came back home later (this is a long story).We went through World Changers with our church youth group. We were to check in Saturday the 12th at noon. However, Mississippi is about aStill Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-82145256898014530172008-07-08T14:14:00.005-06:002008-07-08T15:29:52.664-06:00Independence DayFor the fourth of July we just hung out at home and relaxed. We have been so busy running around lately because of my brothers little league all-star tournaments. We didn't even go out to watch any fireworks or buy any fireworks to play with at home. (It was raining anyway!).However, the next day we went over to our friend's house to celebrate. Some of our other friends went as well. So the houseStill Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-40546875093235071532008-06-30T14:17:00.004-06:002008-07-01T07:14:15.930-06:00Art and a Cyber-CafeI've been thinking that I should make a post on how much I like Pre-Raphaelite Art. So, ta da! Ok, let's begin.The Pre-Raphaelites were very controversial in their time, not for the content nor stories of their works, but because of their attention to detail and untraditional style. Some of them formed a brotherhood and made it a point to create works that had meaning, to study what is natural, Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-78066128553957190032008-06-25T20:42:00.012-06:002008-06-25T22:16:01.372-06:00Before the Storm......I have finally planted my pineapples. I've had them in mason jars on top of our fridge since February. Please let me explain. I guess I should start from the beginning. At the end of January/ beginning of February (I'm not really certain at this point.) We bought a pineapple. We ate the pine apple. I read about how the left over tops of pineapples, which are called pineapple tops, (hehe, go Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-91826527921983065632008-06-20T12:56:00.010-06:002008-06-24T08:09:11.874-06:00Little Wave RidersThis week we had Vacation Bible School at our church. The theme this year is Outrigger Island: Living God's Unshakeable Truth. For the past few years I have been with the four-year-olds (its actually 4 and 5 year olds). So I was with them again this year. And boy was it interesting! We have always had a huge 4 year old class. So this year they decided to have two 4 year old classes: the North Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-38742716317402994532008-05-31T19:09:00.009-06:002008-05-31T20:08:21.424-06:00Today's SunsetThe sun set about two hours ago. As this was happening I chanced to look out of my window. Now, normally, I'd just take note of the beauty God created in each sunset, then merrily go back to whatever it was I was previously doing. But today, I happened to notice something a little peculiar about a certain voluminous cloud.(Sorry about the reflection of the window pane in the corner. I forgot to Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-90824568398276208182008-05-23T10:44:00.007-06:002008-05-23T11:06:37.237-06:00The Little Red BagLook!My books are here for the weekend! I'm so glad! Now I'll have something to read while we travel to Miami.And it was the two books that I wanted to read the most. 'Til We Have Faces and The Book Of Lost Tales. Its fascinating how these little red bags can make a person's day. Interesting.I guess I was having too much fun with the orbi cam. I should have been packing. I should be packing rightStill Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-81813438930642199332008-05-19T15:51:00.048-06:002008-05-20T09:53:42.591-06:00More about MeWell, I thought that now that I have no classes I'd be able to post more often. But, I've given myself lots of things to do in my free time. In this time I have also been thinking about what I've been doing with myself, aside from school, work, and church. In this self-reflection I have come to find myself quite boring (or odd at the very least). I'm just being honest. See, take a look.When I Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-8290017119447936612008-05-07T14:20:00.011-06:002008-05-11T17:49:03.590-06:00To Mom on Mother's DayHey Mom,Happy Mother's Day! This post is especially for you. And so are these pictures (that come up after this little note). I just wanted to say thank you for everything. (That may sound cliche. But I really do mean everything including my brothers and sisters.)I've decided to make you the "Lady of the Cherry Blossoms," because I know how much you like those flowers. Sorry for the un-creative Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-38677626063095504522008-05-07T10:51:00.021-06:002008-05-07T12:43:40.073-06:00Final ProjectsIt sure has been a while since my last post. But now that I have finally finished my Sophomore year at Insertnamehere University I will have more time to blog. I can't make any promises, though. I have a hard enough time keeping up with Facebook and my e-mail.Well, now that school is out for the Summer let me tell you a little bit about my final projects for this past Spring semester (they are Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-15261940674515504512008-04-07T19:29:00.032-06:002008-04-14T17:52:37.601-06:00Things that Make My Day1. When people do creative things and display them so others can see.I saw this little guy on my way to work in the morning. I did a "double-take." He was just sitting out there beneath a tree in front of the library.He definitely made me laugh! What a funny little guy.2. Watching my grandma as I teach her how to text my sister on the phone.Priceless! And a little frustrating at the same time.3. Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-49132858513373334682008-03-20T13:59:00.021-05:002008-03-20T19:23:02.714-05:00First Day of Spring!Well, I started this post earlier at school. But I couldn't publish it because my pictures were stuck in my camera. I had left my A/V to USB wire at home. But now you can see them too!It is such a beautiful day outside! I woke up this morning to a torrential downpour outside. But you wouldn't be able to tell that now! I really like the weather here in the Winter, early Spring, and Fall (Summer Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-33784139009657166372008-03-13T22:38:00.008-05:002008-03-14T13:02:50.206-05:00A Day In The Life of MeI know the title is technically wrong, but I like the way it sounds. So I'm going to keep it. I know I said I would post again during my Spring Break (last week). Obviously, I didn't. I had begun a post, but I never finished it. My break just flew right by. And upon returning to my classes I was promptly greeted by an utterly stupid amount of homework and studying (as if I didn't get enough of Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475012761467794060.post-7225743949719309802008-03-05T21:07:00.027-05:002008-03-05T23:31:27.494-05:00Spring Break Begins....Now!! I'm over half way through my Spring break and just today I've finished my homework. So break officially begins now. How cruel of my teachers to give me so much homework and schedule tests for when I come back. That aint right. Well, no more talk about that stuff... Its break time!! Yesterday I went shopping for dresses with my Mom and sisters. (I had actually gotten excited about it, and Still Watershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13495365117646790685noreply@blogger.com3