Yesterday brought about some pretty major changes around these parts. Dane and Amanda are officially gone, one to quite possibly never been seen again, and the other not to be seen for a long time. At least from my perspective. I kinda doubt I'll see Amanda again (rarely, if ever), and Dane won't be back to these parts til next summer at the earliest it sounds like. And, I'm sad about the whole thing, to be honest. I mean, I'm happy for them, cause they are both onto awesomeness across the ocean, but I'm sad for the people still here. I know I'm gonna miss them. It's been a fun summer, and won't be quite the same without them. I know I'm not exactly part of the group, but they still made my life fun while I was here.
So, enough sappyness already. Had rehersal again last night with 3/4 of OJK. Got some good news too, Tom of the Benidict Affair is gonna be helping us out with promotion, etc. I guess he really likes us, so more or less started a independent label so he could promote OJK. Which is awesome. Looks like we're aiming to get started with a few shows right away when everyone is back, so look forward to more announcments about that.
And I got this afternoon off cause it started raining like mad. It was awesomeness.
________ of the day: um, over used, but I'll go with w00t!!1
The weekend Ogukuo
17 August 2006
14 August 2006
Public personal reflection?
Ok, so this is more of my just writing to get stuff out than a public thing, so if you don't wanna read it, thats encouraged. But now you all do, cause you think it'll be juicy. Well, its not, just me being me.
So recently (as in the last 2 years) I've been wondering where my life is heading. Ok, so I've been wondering my whole life, but most recently has been a bit more serious wondering. Of course, being young, single, and a recent college grad, I would say my options are somewhat open. I could stay here in town, move back to Ripon, or any other place where I think I'd be able to make steady work. Of course, without proper incentive, why move?
Enough buildup, to the meat. I've been thinking alot lately about a town called Antigua, Guatemala. I spent 2 weeks during 2 seperate summers there doing misson work. I know they employ a summer staff there to lead teams, and various other stuff. And alot of things around here have reminded me of that fact, and I dunno what that means. Most recently it was a group talking in church last night about their misson trip down to the Gulf Coast. Perhaps I should move down there (Antigua, not the Gulf Coast) and do work for the mission? I mean, I'd love to, except for a few problems. I dont speak spanish that well, I'm not a misson major, or anything close to it, I have no special skills lending themselves to misson work, and a little thing called college debt. And I know, Moses had a list of reasons for God why he shouldn't lead his people, and they don't really matter. But my question is, would I really be any help? And what on earth do I do about a mounting debt when I'm making practically no money? I know, money doesn't matter, but sooner or later Iowa Student Loan is gonna want theres back!!
So, theres much more in my head about it, I'm thinking of calling the guy who lead our group just to see what he says. I dunno, who knows if God is calling me to that or not. I would love it if He was, but I'd be very curious to see how it works out to be that way.
Anywho, time for bed, work comes early tomorrow.
_______ of the day: If my life were over today, what would you say? what would you say?
The 'me being me' Ogukuo
So recently (as in the last 2 years) I've been wondering where my life is heading. Ok, so I've been wondering my whole life, but most recently has been a bit more serious wondering. Of course, being young, single, and a recent college grad, I would say my options are somewhat open. I could stay here in town, move back to Ripon, or any other place where I think I'd be able to make steady work. Of course, without proper incentive, why move?
Enough buildup, to the meat. I've been thinking alot lately about a town called Antigua, Guatemala. I spent 2 weeks during 2 seperate summers there doing misson work. I know they employ a summer staff there to lead teams, and various other stuff. And alot of things around here have reminded me of that fact, and I dunno what that means. Most recently it was a group talking in church last night about their misson trip down to the Gulf Coast. Perhaps I should move down there (Antigua, not the Gulf Coast) and do work for the mission? I mean, I'd love to, except for a few problems. I dont speak spanish that well, I'm not a misson major, or anything close to it, I have no special skills lending themselves to misson work, and a little thing called college debt. And I know, Moses had a list of reasons for God why he shouldn't lead his people, and they don't really matter. But my question is, would I really be any help? And what on earth do I do about a mounting debt when I'm making practically no money? I know, money doesn't matter, but sooner or later Iowa Student Loan is gonna want theres back!!
So, theres much more in my head about it, I'm thinking of calling the guy who lead our group just to see what he says. I dunno, who knows if God is calling me to that or not. I would love it if He was, but I'd be very curious to see how it works out to be that way.
Anywho, time for bed, work comes early tomorrow.
_______ of the day: If my life were over today, what would you say? what would you say?
The 'me being me' Ogukuo
10 August 2006
Rainy Days and Thursdays are fine by me
I gotta few comments on my last post encouraging me to post again, so I am. Actually, I'm making myself late for work to post! Ok, not really. I have the day off cause it rained last night so everything at work is quite muddy! Yay! Ok, yay for now, but suck next week when the paycheck comes back somewhat short of hours.
So when I sat down at my computer, I typed in "rainy day" into iTunes in honor of today, and 3 songs came up, Gordon Lightfoot's 'Rainy Day People', The Carpenters 'Rainy Days and Mondays' and Bob Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women #12 and 35. So that was fun, today didn't get me down, cause now I have time to get stuff done and even go to the darkroom!
Ok, so heres a quick catch-up on my life. Um, if amount of campfires attended is a measure of one's quality of life (which it should be) my life is awesome. I've been at 2 in like 5 days!! Very high awesome factor. Oh, and I've realized that Mondays hold a simular design to roller coasters. They go up and down, and make you wanna throw up. Monday morning I met with my landlord to go over some stuff, and found out that he only wants three of us living here from now on. So, not cool, cause that means one of the guys who planned on living here can't, and we each gotta pay like $50 more a month for rent (we're workin on presenting an appeal to that decision). But, he is sending an appraiser over today to look at the house to see what its worth if I wanna buy it, so thats good (and nerve racking). And and soon as I got back to work from that meeting I ran into my boss (thats for you, Dane, hahahaha) and told him I'd like to talk about my future at Greenworld. Ok, so not that dramatic, but I did ask him what I should be expecting from the job in the next year or so, cause he hasn't told me anything about that. I was hoping to move to design late this year, stay on parttime over the winter and be a fulltime designer next season. Well, I guess Larry wasn't thinking along those same lines. Cause he said that I'd be doin the same thing I am now (workin on the yard) for the rest of the season, and probably next summer with the possibility of some small design work on the side if they needed it. Needless to say, I was a bit more than unhappy about said news, cause it means I still really have no direction that I'm heading in the short term, not to mention no steady reliable fun job. So I spent most of the day in a bit of a funk cause of the rent thing, and the job thing, and just the fact that it was Monday. But, then I got home, and found out my roomies were goin golfing, so I tagged along and had a ton of fun. And then people came over later that night, and it turned into a mini-party and Taz came and brought some very very good Scotch for sampling. Scotch is my new favorite drink, its increadible! Of course, its also very expensive for a bottle, so it'll be a while til I actually invest in my own. But, yeah, smoky taste, very full-bodied (if that makes sense), strong, but yet smooth. A sipping drink by all means, not something to shoot straight down. Hurray for discovering awesomeness!
So thats an extremely small sampling of what I've been goin thru the last few days. I should get goin to run some errands I desperately need to get done. Thank goodness I have the day off!! I really need the time for stuff!
________ of the day: "Sometimes I'd like to quit, nothin seems to fit" -Rainy Days and Mondays
The rained-out Ogukuo
So when I sat down at my computer, I typed in "rainy day" into iTunes in honor of today, and 3 songs came up, Gordon Lightfoot's 'Rainy Day People', The Carpenters 'Rainy Days and Mondays' and Bob Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women #12 and 35. So that was fun, today didn't get me down, cause now I have time to get stuff done and even go to the darkroom!
Ok, so heres a quick catch-up on my life. Um, if amount of campfires attended is a measure of one's quality of life (which it should be) my life is awesome. I've been at 2 in like 5 days!! Very high awesome factor. Oh, and I've realized that Mondays hold a simular design to roller coasters. They go up and down, and make you wanna throw up. Monday morning I met with my landlord to go over some stuff, and found out that he only wants three of us living here from now on. So, not cool, cause that means one of the guys who planned on living here can't, and we each gotta pay like $50 more a month for rent (we're workin on presenting an appeal to that decision). But, he is sending an appraiser over today to look at the house to see what its worth if I wanna buy it, so thats good (and nerve racking). And and soon as I got back to work from that meeting I ran into my boss (thats for you, Dane, hahahaha) and told him I'd like to talk about my future at Greenworld. Ok, so not that dramatic, but I did ask him what I should be expecting from the job in the next year or so, cause he hasn't told me anything about that. I was hoping to move to design late this year, stay on parttime over the winter and be a fulltime designer next season. Well, I guess Larry wasn't thinking along those same lines. Cause he said that I'd be doin the same thing I am now (workin on the yard) for the rest of the season, and probably next summer with the possibility of some small design work on the side if they needed it. Needless to say, I was a bit more than unhappy about said news, cause it means I still really have no direction that I'm heading in the short term, not to mention no steady reliable fun job. So I spent most of the day in a bit of a funk cause of the rent thing, and the job thing, and just the fact that it was Monday. But, then I got home, and found out my roomies were goin golfing, so I tagged along and had a ton of fun. And then people came over later that night, and it turned into a mini-party and Taz came and brought some very very good Scotch for sampling. Scotch is my new favorite drink, its increadible! Of course, its also very expensive for a bottle, so it'll be a while til I actually invest in my own. But, yeah, smoky taste, very full-bodied (if that makes sense), strong, but yet smooth. A sipping drink by all means, not something to shoot straight down. Hurray for discovering awesomeness!
So thats an extremely small sampling of what I've been goin thru the last few days. I should get goin to run some errands I desperately need to get done. Thank goodness I have the day off!! I really need the time for stuff!
________ of the day: "Sometimes I'd like to quit, nothin seems to fit" -Rainy Days and Mondays
The rained-out Ogukuo
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