I really shouldnt be writing on here right now, i have a stats test at 630 tonight that i absolutely need to study for, but i really had the urge to write. anyways.

so this morning after i worked out and came back and ate and then got ready in a hurry and ran to my car, i remembered i didnt read my bible and have my quite time like i had planned, but luckily my bible was in the car. so when i got to campus i went to the amphitheater out side HSS and sat in the sun. they had just mowed the grass in the wee hours of the morning (i should know, i was running across campus), which over the years of many long days mowing i've come to love. so i sat down and started reading and one of the passages i read was Jeramiah 17 and 18. The first little bit was really striking to me. all it said was how Jeramiah(i'm probably spelling that wrong) went to the potters house like God told him to and he was stadding there watching him form a pot on the wheel, but it became disfigured and the potter reformed it. This hit me really hard. I've just recently started having a quite time again and i know i really need to get back in the habit. but it really made me see how God forms my life. even when i mess up his plan, and i get off track, He'll reform me and keep working with me. On the way to campus i was praying about how it's coming crunch time and i wanna go to law school and just asking God if that's really what i need to do, and this passage just kind of told me that he'll show me the way. even though i've known that for the longest time, but still. sometimes it just hits you.

After i read about the Jerimiah and the potter, i read the parriable about the rich young man, and how after keeping the commandments, the next thing is to give away all your worldly goods and follow God. I feel like these went together very well. After you follow God with all your heart, he can really start to work with you then.

pretty touching.

then i started reading the paper. I'm the ultimate procrastinator. even though i know i have the prime opportunity to study since all my classes except one was cancled today, i'm still wasting time, kinda of. but i would of read the paper eventually today, might as well get it out of the way right?

anyways, one of the opinion articles in it was about how UT is like a miniture socialist country. but he had a disclaimer about how thats not totally right, but what he left out, which is why socialism, i.e. communism doesnt work, is that eventually people figure out that they dont have to contribute to the economy, or the system as a whole, to take advantage of it. But at UT, or any university, you have to. you have to pay in order to use the free medical center, the free library, the free rec center, the free computers, the free sidewalks. In reality it's not free, author acknowledged this, that you have to pay, and the fruits from that money that you don't use is made up for by the fruits that you do take advantage of, i.e. you may not use the computer lab where as you use the rec center and someone else my do the opposite. but in a true socialist environment, such as the former USSR, the workers eventually figure out that they can just kick back and not contribute, but still get the benefits of the programs. which is why the USSR collapsed, their economy couldnt keep up. they werent maintaining free trade, (the hated globalization, but without you wont have a market for your merchandise) but even if they were, half their workers were drinking reeping the benefits of others. They tried to put a ban on drinking, but we've seen from our own history that this just makes things worse. Violence and what not.

anyways, that went on too long. people just need to look at the facts at why this doesnt work. socialism that is. they also need to look at the facts about gun violence and the statistics of having a permit vs not having one. but there is alot of personal feelings behind all that. (that was in the paper too.)

i'm sorry, i'm normally not this political.

ok, time for statistics...

-piece