Updates

We receive a lot of mail that isn't actually addressed to us. Most of these mailings are credit card applications. We also get a computer gaming magazine. About a week ago we received a Victoria's Secret catalog. I decided to dispose of it in the laundry room trash can because it was the closest thing...
This morning I woke to the sound of banging on Alan's and Billy's windows. Then I hear a "What's up guys!" It's all really loud. Billy and Alan are thinking, "Oh crap." They had just recycled a huge load of boxes and cans and stuff yesterday. Julian (the apartment manager) is super anal about trash. Julian talks to Billy, telling him that he thought he has told us not to throw trash in the laundry room trash can. He then hands the Victoria's Secret catalogs to Billy saying something to the effect of, "I don't know why you wouldn't want this anyway."
So I suspect that Julian may think we are gay.

Other updates. I landed a kickflip on a skateboard over the weekend. I just got owned on a math midterm. Our apartment goes through 16 pounds of chicken a week.

unclassifiable

For the past two weeks I have been trying to classify myself as a certain type of Christian. Being at Cal has taught me how hard it is to relate to people when I approach situations from a very 'conservative' Christian view. Talking to fellow Christians about spirituality doesn't necessarily present these problems, but talking to my non-Christian friends about topics like 5-point Calvinism isn't what I would think is apporiate. However I have also seen how hard it is to fall into sin and stumble when approaching Christianity from the 'liberal' perspective. I have many friends that have spent their first semesters here at Cal being Sunday Christians (if at all) and then realizing how far they had strayed from God and His Kingdom.
During these past few weeks I have been trying to place myself somewhere between conservative and liberal Christianity. One of my friends put it well. I enjoy reformed (conservative) teaching, but also want to live with the freedom that that Donald Miller projects in the book Blue Like Jazz. This formula that I had created in my mind doesn't work at all on the linear scale of conservative to liberal because I want somehow to be on the far right and far left at the exact same time.
I have come to realize that this whole thought process is entirely pointless. This whole time, I had been focusing on trying to classify myself by some world standard and my focus had been on me and how I want things and how I think and how I can function. I realize now that I should have just come to God and worship Him and serve Him on his own terms. It's pretty stupid for me to try to classify myself as something when I could instead be focusing on how I can abide in Christ and focus on His kingdom. I'll leave my placement up to God.

wireless

I found this while checking my wireless networks. It is pretty nasty.