duck and cover
09 July 2005

so i'm currently sitting in my girlfriend's apartment right now, typing away on the o-so-generous jan ellis's laptop and waiting for the impending hurricane, senor dennis, to wipe through the area. may be a class 5 by the time it hits my mom's side of the fam in panama city, which doesn't look too nice for when it's gonna hit here in montgomery, but oh well. i've survived hurricanes and tornados aplenty in the past, so the thought of the roof being pulled off from over my head isn't exactly frightening the snot out of me at the moment.

so here's my rant for the day, not about dennis, but about the idiot who is my governor right now. bob riley, how do you get to be governor with an iq comparable to that of mayonnaise? i wanna know. yesterday, bob was speaking at a press conference about the situation with the storm, and before he began the cameras caught him saying, "uhhh... what do i say again?" when i graduate college next year, can i please be governor of alabama?, because i'd most certainly at least look and act a whole lot smarter than bob. i remember the last election for governor when both candidates were so submoronic i couldn't even bring myself to vote. i mean, why vote for someone who at his last job serving the state had the worst ever attendance record?

events as of late have me wondering: just how long do you let somebody walk all over you and beg for handouts before you cut them off? it's frustrating when put in situations like those, but it happens to everybody, i believe. jen was telling me about some of the stories in the gospels, how Jesus would heal people or be generous with them, but after He met their immediate physical and, afterward, spiritual needs He would send them on their way. well, that got me thinking about the 10 lepers who cried out to Jesus for a miracle, which He freely gave, but 9 never even thanked Him and just ran off.

it deeply upsets me to love a person, but know that they have serious issues that they refuse to address, and no matter what you do you can never really fix them. not only that, but when you have tried your hardest and sacrificed time, effort, and resources to help them, even stressed some relationships to help them out, and they subsequently take advantage of it and then leave without a thank you and even smear your name a little bit (maybe a lot, i don't know). yeah, deeply upsetting.

but in the end love perseveres, so still i choose to follow the way of love, stumbling all the way home.


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