08/03/04 01:34 - ID#33422

Praise his Name!

Bob Dylan Lyrics

"With God On Our Side"

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And the land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

The Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns on their hands
And God on their side.

The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

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08/03/04 01:06 - ID#33419

Well

My Mama just sent me a card that reads

I am sending you a check for $150.00. Use it to fly home or to live on next month.
Love,
Mom

Looks like I'm going to GA pretty soon.

I participated in Ruth's KINO thing this weekend. It was more difficult that I thought. I forgot how compromising teamwork is. In the end I found my voice through sound. I didn't have time to finish so I'm going to try to this week. Video is not like painting or making a collage. You can always do those things in solitude over time if you want.

I went and looked at an apartment today. I'm still fishing for something cheaper but this place was around 500 including utilities, so that's not bad. I'm about to start doing the unthinkable and pay my rent without parental help so ... it should be an adventure. It will be nice to embark on this whole independence thing.

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07/30/04 07:51 - ID#33418

Last Day

Today I'm finished with the workshop. It's been fun. At first I was nervous and freaked out but now that I'm in the swing of things the class is ending. The students have to make their final animations today. They catch on fast. Well, some of them are quicker than others but... They seem to have a pretty good grasp on the programs despite my disjointed, rambling, and often problematic demonstrations. This is my last day of waking up at 6:30 in the morning! Hurray!

Thanks for those tokens guys, they came in handy this week!

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07/28/04 04:46 - ID#33417

Arise from a Deep Sleep

They wanted to kill this woman. She was in a mansion. They caught her and put her in a bathroom but then everyone got distracted. She thought she could get away. She ran over the fences and over the grass. Then she was captured. She had a huge slit from her bottom rib to her left collar bone. Some tall blond German man was in front of her in a lab coat. He was looking at her talking. She was beautiful in his eyes with lipstick and everything but in reality half of the skin on the face was torn off and she didn't have a nose.

Then I was going out with Andy. I got embarrassed because of the nicotine stain on my shirt so Andy traded shirts with me. He put on my shirt and said "Eww I can feel the nicotine" I said, "You mean smell the nicotine" he said "No it's more like I'm feeling it."

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07/27/04 03:05 - ID#33416

TOps!

I ride my bike to Tops but if i had a car i'd go to Wegman's. They are both better that Walgreens but Tops would not let me write a check a few weeks ago becasue I don't have one of their special savings cards. That sucked.

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07/27/04 02:56 - ID#33415

day 2

it's getting better

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07/27/04 02:35 - ID#33414

math is hard

My first day teaching was somewhat of a disaster. I left my apartment at 7:20 AM taking my bike with me, just in case the shuttle bus wasn't running. Then I hopped on the train. When I got to S. Campus I wheeled my bike outside and I could see that people were waiting for the shuttle bus. Then I realized that I had left my bag on the train. So I flipped out, dropped my bike, and ran back down to the train as fast as I could but it had already taken off. I found a woman who worked there and she radioed and they found my bag safe on the train. I had to wait for it though so I ended up being 5 or 10 minutes late for the workshop.
Then I did the clown dance for the kids for four hours. I've gotta get together a structure for tomorrow. One of the things that I'm going to do is show them a few episodes of Sealab 2021 and pass out copies of this article

. Then we can have a little discussion on appropriation.
I've got to figure out a good exercise for them. I think I'll give them an assignment to work on so that I can go around and help people individually. It's difficult because the kids have different skill levels. I'll be happy when I'm teaching basic video, that way I can show lots of work and we can have lots of discussions and it wont just be me in the center of the room endlessly clicking and rambling.

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07/26/04 06:55 - ID#33413

last one

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07/26/04 12:53 - ID#33412

another one

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07/25/04 09:00 - ID#33411

late fear

I just woke up looked at the clock and freaked because it said 7:30. I thought it was the morning so I popped out of bed and ran into the living room turned to the TV to look at the news and Malcolm in the Middle was on and I realized that I'm safe. Jesus Christ! I got sunburned yesterday.

I was up till noon making a collage. This is the pattern and result.