because of my dreams

I had the oddest dreams last night...but that's nothing new. If I've ever told you about any of my dreams, you know that they're really random more often than not. My dreams were random not only because of what happened, but also because of the people who were in them--people I either haven't seen in years or people I don't talk to very often. Take Jacob Kashiwada, for example...I haven't seen the guy since my junior year of high school and I never talked to him much to begin with. So odd...

Anyway, I really don't mind my random dreams. At the very least, I can say that they're amusing both to remember and to tell. But it drives me nuts when my dreams negatively affect me and my mood when I wake up. This morning was one of those mornings...sigh. Maybe I can't blame it entirely on my dreams, though. Those dreams have to have come from somewhere, I think. Maybe those things that bother me that I push to the back of my mind when I'm awake manifest themselves and find their way to catch my full attention in the form of a bad dream. Whatever the case, I just need to get over it.

In other news...

I think I used those icy hot patch things one too many times--I'm now missing a patch of skin on the back of my neck. Haha...ha...-_-;; When I took the two I had on the back of my neck off this morning, I thought it just hurt because it was pulling out my hair.......oops. At least I can say that I feel a lot better than I had been over this weekend. I'd give up a patch of skin not to have to deal with that unpleasantness any day.

Okay. My original plan for today was to wake up early enough to make it to campus by 9:30...it's 20 minutes past that right now. And I'm in Fullerton. Oh well...

I should finish getting ready to head out. It'll be the first time I've left my house since service on Sunday...

=]

because of kusc

I was listening to Classical Music with Charles Andrews on 91.5 and he was detailing the last ten years of Mozart's life, during which he composed The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Marriage of Figaro, among others. Andrews played a few seconds from both of these operas and it sent chills down my spine. And no, that's not because my neck and shoulders are messed up...haha. I've never really gotten into opera so I don't really know much about it...actually, I don't really know much about classical music to begin with. But...yea...I want to go watch these operas now.

...and that's all I wanted to post about.

btw, does anyone have any book suggestions? I'm going to start reading Les Miserables, and after that I want to read The Black Tulip and The Brothers Karamazov. I'm hoping that I'll still want to read after that...haha.

that is all...

because my neck/shoulders woke me up

i went to bed about 2.5 hrs ago but was waken up because my neck/shoulders. i don't know what's wrong with me. i can't say that they hurt, exactly, but they're super tight and almost tingly.

=[

i'm definitely gonna go get it checked out if i still feel this way on monday....ugh...

blah.

because g suggested that i post more

what to type...

hm.

i rested last week =] yay

started the second book of The d'Artagnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas on Monday and finished it on Wednesday, started another book that evening and finished it on Friday. did you know that The Three Musketeers is only the first book of a series (called The d'Artagnan Romances)? ha. it's followed by Twenty Years After and ends with The Vicomte of Bragelone...TOO BAD i didn't know that! -_-;;. i thought that the third book of the series was The Man in the Iron Mask, but i found out that that's only the last part of the third book. The Man in the Iron Mask was a good 700+ pages and extremely disappointing, so i have absolutely no intention of going back and reading what i unintentionally skipped. sigh. oh well.

I bought Les Miserables today and am looking forward to starting it~~yayy woohoo

anyway, i wanted to type about other things but this is taking way too long and i'm exhausted, even though i don't really have reason to be exhausted. i really think that all the sleep depravation and what not is finally catching up to me. i think i'm gonna get massively owned in this next week.

ok. the end. g'nite.

because i feel like posting

I don't really have anything I want to say here. I just felt compelled to post...perhaps to compensate for my inactivity on blogger for the past couple of weeks? Whatever the case, here I am...

...and now what?

Hmmmm......

...

Today is just one of those days...

Though today is Easter and as Pastor Peter Kim mentioned, it is undeniably the most important day in all of history, it's just one of those days...

I'm not making light of the gospel at all--I'm not making light of the cross at all.

Today is just one of those days that I'm tired to the point of letting it affect the way I interact with people. Today is one of those days that I regret having said some things I said, having used a certain tone of voice I used, having done some things that I wish I hadn't done. Today is one of those I wish I could handle it when people look at me like I'm stupid. Today is one of those days I wish I was confident yet humble enough to let such a thing pass me by with little to no internal repercussions.

Thank God for Jesus...haha. Thank God that my salvation isn't contingent upon what I do or say, and that it is what Christ has done for me and in place of me.

Anyway, I'm using Kevin Yoon's laptop to update so I should get off now.

Hopefully I'll get around to getting my laptop fixed sooner than later.

awake because I'm itchy =[

drives me nuts. I forgot to take allergy meds for two days and now I'm getting owned. Hives on my lower back, sides, on the back of my legs, neck, upper back, my shoulder and even my face! I just took a pill but it's not fast-acting so I don't know if it'll actually help.

Sigh.

Well. Today is Monday of Passion Week. Today in history, Jesus cursed the fig tree and cleansed the temple.

The cleansing of the temple is covered in Matthew 21:12-13. One of the verse references i've come across is Jeremiah 7:11, and I quote , "Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the LORD."
This brings to mind two things: firstly, how we should strive to preserve the purity of the church, and secondly, Garnet's post on being an atheist at heart. You can find that entry on her xanga at xanga.com/denoumente.

There are a bunch of other things that come to mind, other convictions to consider. And the root of such thoughts can be attributed to God's grace in by life. I see that it's by His grace that my allergies bothered me to the point of waking me up, consequently leading me to consider the events of this Monday. God's grace because in all honesty, I probably would not have taken the time to even flip through my Bible today, regardless of the day or week we're observing.

I've much to consider...

And my hives have calmed down a bit. Another evidence of God's grace =].

I think it's high time that I pray a bit before I head back to sleep.

On a completely unrelated note, my laptop is no longer functional at this point. I've come to appreciate my iPod much on these last couple of days...

That is all for now. My apologies for any typos--typing with an iPod is slightly more difficult than normal typing.