Forget Deal or No Deal. If I were to be on a game show, I would like it to involve a Human Tetris challenge such as this.

Homework has been all reading lately — mostly history. Since I can't come up with anything more interesting to say at the moment, I've devised a visual list of my favorite albums to trudge through my reading to. So, iTunes these titles (yes, iTunes is a verb now) and enjoy. (Hover over album for title)

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Now playing: The Flaming Lips - Mr. Ambulance Driver

Class is cancelled … and so I write. Not enough time to do any real work, but enough time to be bored.

I must go display my spectacular art skills soon. It really is a spectacle. I'm the only senior in a freshman art class, trying to take care of those remaining gen. ed. requirements. Sadly, I think I'm also the only one that has no artistic talent whatsoever in this particular section of the class. I had to draw the poor girl sitting next to me last time, and I apologized profusely both before and after. Rather than the outline of a person, I somehow composed chicken scratch that took more to an "abstract" form.

I guess I'm just masquerading as a web designer.. I'm really a developer, a programmer. With design, sometimes I just get lucky and the mouse moves to the right place. Unfortunately things just aren't working out with a pencil. I'll stick to the mouse and Photoshop.

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Now playing: Alexi Murdoch - Wait
via FoxyTunes

School and work. Work and school. The routine is settling in.. how sad. I do have a couple exciting distractions though. Okay, so this is going to be a random list of what I've been digging lately..

- Arrested Development, season 3. Tobias Fumke, you are the most ridiculous fictional character I have ever encountered. You even surpass George Costanza's timeless quirks. Your lustrous hairplugs might be killing you, but you choose to brave the harsh (and absurd) consequences. {end scene}.

- xkcd. I was introduced to this clever, nerd-friendly web comic by a co-worker. Ingenious.

- End of the Spear. I just watched this film last night, which is based on the true story of a group of missionary families and their work with the Waodani tribe in 1950s Ecuador. It's a very powerful reminder of the ultimate sacrifice that was given for us, and how we are called to give our lives as living sacrifices. Even after Jim Elliot, Nate Saint and their fellow missionaries were killed by the tribe, their families continued to reach out to the Waodani. God used them to soften the hearts of even the very men who killed their husbands and fathers. I highly recommend giving this film a look.

And on that note, I need to finish some reading..

I recently spent almost an hour talking to someone I had previously met, though I had absolutely no idea what her name was. I felt it would be rude to ask at this point, considering we had crossed paths several times. But thankfully the preacher used her name while he married us - that was a lifesaver!

Okay, the last sentence is fiction. But it goes well with this comic, which makes me smile. I'm so horrible with names.  I do think that at my own wedding, however, I'd be more likely to forget my own name.