Earth Day is Bad For the Environment

So this week at the college is Environmental Week, and today they're giving away those snazzy free saplings people tend to give away on Earth Day. But then I started thinking about it, and I saw a flaw in this whole process. I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in Washington when people are handing out free tree seeds or saplings, it's almost always pines you get. For those who don't know, pines are very much forest trees, and are designed as such. Pines don't fair as well when left alone or in small groups, and when they get big, they tend to topple when a big storm comes though. Dozens of houses and businesses get squished every year from the same thing happening over and over - either developers thin the trees out too much, or people/businesses plant them in rows or standing alone because they look nice. You can now figure out what happens then. Anyway, my point to this is, that people who get a free tree will tend to plant them close to their house - creating more freestanding pines. Then, the damage caused by the trees when they fall needs to be fixed by more trees, thus causing the one tree they planted to lead to several more trees being cut down.

See? See? Earth Day is bad for the environment! I'm gonna go burn some tires...


The song for today is
"Revolution" by Worth Dying For

In All Seriousness...

I'm afraid I might have fooled too many people with my elaborate April 1st guise. Sorry! Hopefully I caused some laughs, and hopefully I'm not posting this too soon and spoiling the fun for those who haven't seen yesterday's post yet. The National Guard, lip ring, and car crash all haven't happened. Yet. I have mildly thought about the Coast Guard, recently the National Guard, and possibly the Navy or Air Force, but these thoughts are very infantile and probably will never come to fruition. I will be leaving the lip ring photo up on Facebook though - I know there's a great deal of people who don't read this, and I'm hoping to get some laughs within the next few weeks from it.

As for a REAL update, school is going very well. Last quarter I ended with a GPA of 3.93, my best yet! That means President's List, and the quarter before that I got Dean's List. I'm on a roll! God has been good to me in helping me through school, as well as providing me certain other inspirations this year. Good ones, of course.

Speaking of such inspiration, I've also been able to work out at home regularly, and I must say I'm becoming rather happy with the results. Usually I need to also go to the gym or be doing a lot of physical work in order to concrete my efforts, but through discipline and doing various exercises I've been feeling more fit and strong, and have been able to push myself further and further. I've also dropped off of videogames significantly, and there have been several weeks in the past few months that I didn't play any at all (outside of short Facebook games). There are times I still get discouraged, who doesn't? But I always find something from God to look to.

God is good.


Again no need for a new song, this one deserves some more face time. Speaking of which, I've had a couple complaints about the music playing automatically. As a bit of a self-proclaimed techie, I often overlook the fact that some people don't know how to adjust the volume on their computer, or don't know what a giant red pause button looks like. As much as I'd love to tease you still-unnamed souls here as a proper stinging blogger or radio host would do, I suppose I will keep such words to myself. In the meantime, I'll make a poll on the side of the screen so that people can give some feedback. If I get enough hate votes I'll switch it to manual.

A New Month, New Adventures. An Old Month, Adventures Past.

So, as promised here's the update about what I've been up to, and perhaps a little about what's to come. After such a long post on the concert the other day I'm not entirely sure where I want to begin.

I guess I'll start with the most exciting news, which will be big news indeed to almost everyone. As only some of my closest friends have known, I've been thinking about getting into the National Guard for some time now. I'm sorry I didn't tell more of you, but I wasn't really sure and didn't want to get everyone excited over nothing. I've been talking to a recruiter for a few months now, and it sounds like a pretty sweet deal. My college gets paid for, and I'll be able to get work in this way, which are two huge issues I've been troubled about on what to do in the down economy once I finish Running Start. Working for the National Guard I probably won't have to go abroad but will be able to stay here probably for as long as I stay enrolled. Better yet, they don't seem to move you around quite as much as other fields of the military. I've thought about it for a long time, balanced out the options, and it looks like the best path to take. Soooo, to the exciting news. I've been talking to my recruiter more seriously over the last two weeks, and it looks like I'm in! All I need to do is finish school this quarter and he says he can sign the final paperwork as soon as summer starts, although I'll probably take a couple weeks off just to enjoy a little free time before I head off to boot camp and start working life. Oh! Duh, I forgot to mention where I was planning to work. The National Guard has a lot of options, but I ended up deciding to go into being a vehicle mechanic. I've always liked to work with my hands, and you'd be surprised just how much I get to work with the electronics on-board the trucks and tanks. I think it's going to be a good, varied job until I decided what I want to do in the long run. Ha, who knows? I might stick with this.


Guess what?? I got a lip ring! I know, I know, it's a little out of character you say, right? Well actually, my sister Emily did the exact same thing when she was in college, and I thought it'd be a fun last rebellious thing to do before I join the Reserve in a couple months. At that time I'll let it heal back over. It actually wasn't that painful to do, as you'd expect. The woman who did it for me was very clean about it, and it was pretty quick. Can't wait to show everyone on Sunday! XD

Next up is kinda embarrassing, but I feel obliged to cover it anyway. I got in a car accident for the first time last week while driving home from school. It kinda sucks, but at least I'm ok. The car's still drivable, with most of the damage just being to the body. What happened was, while I was turning left into a parking lot off of Meridian, another car didn't see me and tried to pull out into the lane I was pulling out of. Both of us hit the breaks and thankfully avoided anything worse, but it still sucks.

Aaaand that's about it for today. At least, that's certainly enough excitement.

Today's song is...
"Running Down a Dream" by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
I find it to be a good song for driving home on sunny days.