Just Some Observations

Seek and Destroy by Metallica appearing on my shuffle before every exam must mean something

Earbuds and iPods make me feel like my life has a soundtrack

Disco music succeeds in making me dance

Death Proof was a better movie than Transformers 2

Roger Ebert is not a complete dick and is now a person to me on top of being a great writer

Movies are even more awesome than I previously thought

I can visualize every scene from The Matrix with just the audio

Classic movies are short, force romance, and expect you to bypass proper characterization

Characters, not the plot, make you cry

Apparently the telling me you haven’t seen Gladiator will make my eyes water

I like being in the presence of people, even if I’m sitting by myself

No one notices you near as much as you think (for better or for worse)

Being noticed is usually pretty nice, if rare

I notice most people, but rarely remember more than a few

Everyone wants to be noticed

Bad accents can crush attraction

A cute smile on a pretty face will never fail to win my attention

Musical capabilities are pretty darn sexy

Hot, cute, and just plain gorgeous are all very different

Joy is a mindset

I can finally catch myself falling into old habits (wc?) and get a good laugh out of it

I’m scared that I don’t have what it takes to make a relationship work

I have no idea what I want in a girl

There’s no reason to be afraid of words

Love is just another word

Motive, purpose, point, and reason mean everything

Trying to straddle the line between faith and reason is maddening

Oh the Hypocrisy

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Sorry for the inconvenience,
~OA

Distance

I'm too tired to think of something witty to put as filler here, so I think I'll just save that for some other time. Here's a table of how far away (by car) I will be from everyone if I go to Rhodes College. As you'll probably notice, I am nowhere near anyone! I'm still not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, at least regarding most people. Well anyways, voila:

Person	Their College	Distance (miles)	Time by Car (hours)
Erin	Mississippi	218	3.5
Deirdre	St. Louis	288	4.75
Claire	LSU	384	6
Katie	Tulsa	403	6.5
Chandler	UD	466	7.5
People	UTD	461	7.5
Sarah	TCU	491	8
Bibb	Abilene	635	10.5
Gabe	UT Austin	649	10.5
Isaac	St. Edward’s	653	10.75
Beth	Elon	681	11
Richa	Duke	714	11.5
Alex	GW	869	14
Lana	GW	869	14
Isabel	Catholic University of American	875	14
Eric	Cal Poly	1933	31

Roadtrip

As probably none of you are aware, I'm in Conway, Arkansas at the moment, visiting Hendrix College . Tomorrow I'm suppossed to give a 15 minute presentation that I've yet to prepare. Oh isn't it amazing how much IB has prepared me for this sort of thing? There's an opportunity here to gain a full ride to college and i'm going to BS my way through the entire thing! Oh well. The ride was pretty decent, I guess. I listened to classic rock for about 5 and a half hours on my way up here. 'Twas pretty awesome. Also, through my constant perusing of the ever-changing radio stations, I discovered that there are essentially 3 constants to southern radio: classic rock, twangy country, and christian gospel. Man don't we all love it down here.