*Yes, I did have to look it up just to make sure it was CH in that movie.
I recently finished re-reading A.J. Jacobs's book called A Year of Living Biblically. Here's how his website describes the book...
The Year of Living Biblically answers the question: What if a modern-day American followed every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible. Not just the famous rules – the Ten Commandments and Love Thy Neighbor (though certainly those). But the hundreds of oft-ignored ones: don’t wear clothes of mixed fibers. Grow your beard. Stone adulterers.
... and so on. I really like his writing style and as I was walking home earlier, I was thinking about the Ten Commandments. It's supposed to be one of the guiding principles for Christian living but I think I regularly break many of these commandments. Granted, I'm not the most religious (or for that matter, spiritual) person out there. But I will be spending the next year of my life among people who are much more attuned to their religions than I am. So maybe this is a good time to reflect on my many flaws and figure out how to improve them. I think the commandment I break the most often is Exodus 20:17... "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
My next-door neighbors don't own slaves, ox, or donkey (as far as I know).. but it goes way beyond that. I feel like I am constantly measuring myself up to other peoples' standards and accomplishments, and let's face it - we're bound to fall short. Or at least I do. So then I spend time worrying about what I can do and why people have things that I want and then I feel self-entitled to have more than I do.
Jacobs says that he gets jealous of little things and does things to stroke his own ego (he mentions how he checked amazon.com regularly to see how his first book, The Know-It-All, was faring on the bestseller list). This struck me as being kind of silly, but really, I don't think I'm any different.
So maybe one of my (many) post-grad plans will be to re-evaluate things and be happy with who I am, where I am, what I've done, and things along those lines. Maybe?
On a different note. I have a special blog plan for tomorrow that I stole from a different blog. STAY TUNED.
Pictures. Well last weekend we had our area-wide program, the Block Party. I am too lazy to walk two steps to grab my external hard drive, and these are the only pictures I currently have. Though the weather could've been better, it was a lot of fun :)
JOUSTING. Believe me, it's harder than it looks.
Same goes for the Rock Climbing...
HR photo! (at least 2/5)
After the Block Party, we had a really great HR dinner that involved margaritas and nachos. We took a couple pictures while we waited 15 minutes for Yannick to switch pants. Not. Even. Kidding. But that's for another day. My legs look like tree trunks in most of the pictures but here's a good one (HR ratio: 3/5).
ADORBS.
Alright. My goal tomorrow is to wake up at 9 (FOR REAL) so I can do a little work before RESLIFE food glory for the afternoon. I'm going to try to take some "artsy photos" so that I'll have something more for the blog.
Also, this may be self-explanatory but my blog name: rheesoo + twenty two. That's me, that's my age. And it rhymes!
