Name:Chuck Country:United States State:Indiana Birthday:4/13/1984 Gender:Male
Interests:I like Theatre and Music in a real, professional way. The best movie ever would be written by Charlie Kaufman, directed by Christopher Nolan, and would star Johnny Depp and Jordan Chaddock. I also like Spider-Man and Zelda. Oh, and Andrea Coltrain is special, too. Expertise:I am fluent in English and Rock 'n Roll. You could also call me a pro when it comes to swashbuckling. Occupation:Student Industry:Entertainment
So, I have a new job. I've been working there since early
August, and it's going pretty well. I'm still at Trinity part-time,
which is pretty great. I had known all last year that my
contract at Trinity was ending on July 31st, and there was all this
buzz that it may be extended, but I didn't want to rely on rumours, so
I started looking near the beginning of July, and actually, Andrea
found the job listing. She's pretty great. So, now
I work 20 hours a week at Trinity, which is still awesome, considering
the fact that they could have just let me go since the position I was
filling in for had been filled by a real pastor. And, now, I
just focus on growing the high school ministry and trying to start
college and young adult ministries, too.
Back to the
new job... I'm now working 30 hours a week at an after-school program
in New haven, a town just east of Fort Wayne, and pretty much in the
same mini-metropolitan area. We have 50 elementary school
kids and 2 middle schoolers in the program, which is incredibly hectic
a times, but I'm absolutely loving it. Most days, I spend the
majority of my afternoon outside moderating games or just keeping an
eye on the playground. We have homework time, computers (each
grade has a day of the week to play on the computers), field trips, a
drumming circle, scout groups, and tons of free (or, as we call it,
"choice") time. The only thing I don't love about it is when
we're trying to quiet the kids down for daily announcements.
That's pretty much impossible.
I need to work on my
Seminary applications, as well as my ordination candidacy application.
I know that won't take too much time, but I'm just so busy.
If you've done the math, you've probably noticed that I'm working 10
hours a day now, and when I get home, I usually take a nap or spend the
evening in front of the television... that's pretty much all I can do
with the remainder of my day's energy.
Oh, and Strong Bad has
finally answered 200 e-mails! If you haven't visited that
site in a while, you make me sad. I've been die-hard since
about 2001, and I can't understand why no one else is as into
it as me...
Here are some funny YouTube videos to
wrap up this ramble of a post. There's a bit of a common
theme, I admit. Facebook's import function is a bit weak, so if you're reading this from there, you'll just have to visit Xanga to see them.
Until next week,
keep on sending me your e-mails, and I'll keep continuing to not update
this thing.
This is going to be short. Does anyone else find it a bit odd that Republicans push for a Democracy and Democrats push for a Republic?
Also, I think we put too much emphasis on the election of a new President. We need to focus on who we're letting into Congress and the Senate a whole lot more. Some of those lifers are completely out of touch. Maybe that's why Congress can never make a decision.
Also, are write-ins allowed for the presidental election? If so, I'm writing my Dad in. He seems like a much better choice than the ones we've been given. And, to no discredit to my dad, there seem to be a whole lot of people who would be better choices.
Last night, Andrea and I were having one of those in-bed, half-asleep conversations. You may have experienced this with a spouse, sibling, cabinmate, or roommate before... you know, the kind of conversation that has no meaning and you barely remember the next day? We had this realization in our semi-dreaming state that a good portion of cliches have to do with birds. So, without further ado, here are some bird cliches:
Get your ducks in a row
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A chicken in every pot
Running around like a a chicken with his head cut off
So, whenever I work I have to listen to music. It's my nature, and Kevin can sure attest to the fact that I always has music playing while I was studying in college. The same is true now, but I don't have quite the music collection on my office computer than I do at home, so I've picked up a new fancy toward www.pandora.com. It's a streaming-radio site where you basically choose which kind of music you want to hear by telling some sort of killer cyber-bot a band or song you like, and then Godzilla or whoever puts together a playlist of similar-sounding music. I'm addicted, to say the least. I've been fine-tuning a station for a while entitled "American Folk Music Radio," which has seeded artists like Pierce Pettis, Alison Krauss, and Nickel Creek, not to mention a few bluegrass songs from everyone's favourite movie soundtrack. Today, as I was listening to the new sound of my station (after adding an acoustic seed-song by Nickel Creek) I noticed the chord progression of the current music was strikingly similar to Yellow by those burlap-wearing, pottery-scraping Brits, Coldplay. I started doing my impression of Chris Martin as I clicked over to the browser page containing the beast that is Pandora (sidenote: I hear J.J. Abrams considered using this website for the monster but decided it was "too Superman 3." Also, Richard Pryor was unavailable due to "scheduling conflicts.") and noticed that it was, in fact, Yellow by Coldplay (I bet you had to reread that whole sentence, didn't you?). Well, it was actually played by a band called "The Old School Freight Train." Apparantly, there's a whole bluegrass tribute album dedicated to the depression-inducing band in the manner of Hayseed Dixie's "AC/DC" cover album a few years back. The song actually sounded pretty good. I liked it because I secretly enjoy Coldplay's sound, but I think their lyrical moroseness is a bit silly., and from what I gather, this bluegrass cover album of Coldplay is purely instrumental... I may need to pick it up after I complete the task at hand: completing my E.L.O. collection.
I also want to do my own cover album, but not of any one band... there are a lot of songs I'd like to put in my musical blender... I'll save that list for next time.
In the seventies, everyone loved album covers. Now, we all seem to dig cover albums.
I know this is an ancient topic, but as I've been playing the newest Zelda game on my DS today, it's been on my mind.
If you were to produce the first and worst Zelda movie, who would you
cast to make it just terrible? Here's my inconceivaby awful cast
for a Zelda movie more laughable than the 1989 television series:
