I'll be gone all week.

For Spring Break, I'll be in New Orleans cleaning up one of the worst areas of the city, the 9th ward, and ministering to the families of that area. We'll be gutting houses and packaging up anything the families want kept. It will be grueling, but I've been waiting for this opportunity for almost a year now. I want to live life for someone else's sake and not my own.

Pray that God gives me, shows me, or hits me with something I'm not ready for, whatever that may be. I want God to put me in a stunned silence this week.

Currently Listening Strangers Almanac By Whiskeytown see related

We went rock climbing yesterday. I must go again, and soon. But only once my body has recovered from such a beating as that was. I have a new compulsion to complete every puzzle that the Dallas Quick has for me. This includes the Boggle, the Sudoku, and the crossword. I am also about to watch a minimum of 4 SNL best of DVDs. Will Ferrell 1 and 2, Chris Walken, and Chris Farley. How better to spend a duty night? In other news, I was rearranging some stuff in my room and knocked the shelf off of my desk. Of all the glass and/or breakable items on there, the only thing to shatter was my (stolen) IHOP mug. ironic?

Life is good.

This week has been the most grueling thing ever. I had to force myself out of bed every morning, but with one very distinct difference from Math & Science. I wanted to be at training and to be hanging with and fellowshipping with the other RAs and RDs, doing what I know God has for me this next semester. I am incredibly blessed to be in Lange, especially, working with the guys I respect more than any other student on campus. I've been out of a really beneficial Bible study/small group for a long time and now I get one every week. This afternoon was prayer time. It's also been a long time since I sat down with and purposefully, transparently prayed for anything important with other guys I knew and trusted.

God is good.

Currently Reading The Chronicles of Narnia By C.S. Lewis see related

Nathan "tagged" me. I'll think of some people to tag... once I can come up with who hasn't filled one of these things out already.

5 Stupid Pieces of Trivia Concerning Joel Davis

1. I have a very specific order in which I wash my body during a shower. It's goes like this: hair, face, right arm, torso, shoulders, left arm, right leg, left leg, back. For the record, I dry myself in similar fashion.

2. I play guitar left-handed. I thought this would ensure that my guitar would only ever be played by me and the very rare fellow lefties. Unfortunately, it only means that everyone tries to play my guitar just to see what it feels like to play backwards. It's awfully funny to see everyone try, though.

3. I plan on running a triathalon over Spring Break. I have no idea how ready I will be for it. I'm afraid it will be the most grueling thing I've ever done. It's going to consist of a 300m swim, 14mi bike, and a 5k run.

4. When I was a wee lad, I was talking to my neighbor out of my bedroom window. I was too little to see over the window sill, so I had grabbed a tiny plastic chair and stood on it. A leg of the chair snapped, however, and I dropped, smashing my chin on the sill and almost completely biting my tongue off. If you bite down, look at the space between your teeth. That's how much of my tongue was hanging on. I needed 5-7 stitches.

5. I own an amazing scooter. It's my only means of conveyance. It comes complete with a kickin' silver horn that warns fellow pedestrians of my approach. You should check it out sometime.

Currently Listening Life In Slow Motion By David Gray see related

You are reading from a man freed from the bondage of the Math & Science Department. Hello completion of one more step in the process of fixing my life! Now all I need is another job... hahaha, or just money from somewhere.

I'm contemplating whether to get a job or decide that this semester should be lived job-free and allow God to provide for me however He deems necessary. Sure, I would love a job in Yearbook (hey John, does your power stretch to those lengths?), but what if that's just me overcommitting again? There are odd job ways of making money and there are also ways of not spending money. I think everyone could stand to learn more about that second part.

Chris V and I have both committed ourselves to two-a-day workouts this week. I think we've lost our minds, but the first day is in the books and I'm not feeling too terrible for it. We'll see what tomorrow holds in store for us.

I'm almost finished and content with my first complete song. I'm pleased. You'll have to hear it sometime.

Don't get a ticket. Defensive driving and the hells that it causes are in no way worth it.

Currently Listening Gold By Ryan Adams see related

story time:

We all remember this Joel, right?

Pardon the toplessness, but he got a little lazy with his hair. He let his short spikeys get carried away and it grew back out to the long locks of his first semester. Nothing wrong with that, he was jsut shaggy!

But this, too, shall pass. It's time for a change. And the change lookED something like this:

But this was not enough. Go bald or go home, I always say... or never say, except in this occasion.

So I REbuzzed it and here is what we're looking at now...

I know! Clearly, I'm as shocked as you may very well be right now.

mugshots:
  

Many thanks to David Lin and John Adams for the first and second cuts that I received over the past 24 hours.

PS: I went to Katy's house tonight, had a magnificent taco dinner, won a game of Guesstures with Dave and Austin, wrote a kickin' song, and farted so loud that I think I blew paintings off the walls. Knowing when to laugh at yourself is crucial. The only other thing I could have learned would have been when to leave the room in shame.