i had a good title for this earlier

you know those weekends that you just expect to do nothing? i thought this was going to be one of those weekends. turns out, it wasn't. althought i did nothing on friday night and was planning on playing solitaire most of saturday night. then david's like, "taryn just called and gab is trying to convince me to go to bloomington. wanna go?" i was like, "sure, why not?" so we went.

it was great! i saw so many people i hadn't seen in a really long time. there was taryn kaiser, kelly kaiser, heather knobloch, gab roeschley, katelyn thames, tricia plattner, laura barth, jeremy hodel, david thames, logan hangartner, david wuthrich (oh yeah, you knew that), and a few others that i didn't know too well. oh yeah, britni and kayla showed up a little later too. a few of us went rollerblading down the constitution trail at night. we left from the crossings and made it all the way to the other side of veteran's parkway, just past pier one. and then back again! some may call that intense; i call it a death march. not my rollerblading style at all. i like to stop and do jumps and whatnot. that's what my blades were built for. but it wasn't too bad after all. sure, i was sweaty and tired, but my feet were never uncomfortable. the coolest part was on the way back. i was going at a pretty good speed just to get back and get the death march over with. there were parts of the trail that are covered with trees and at night, that makes it a pretty dark tunnel. i couldn't see the trail or anything around me. all i could see was the light coming from the next street that the trail crossed. i just set my sights on that light and headed straight for it despite the darkness around me. it really reminded me of a christian's life. we have darkness all around us in the world, but if we set our sight on the one true Light at the end and "blade" the straight path, then we'll make it to the promised land.

i also heard some sad news that night. jonathan aupperle (aupps, the auperator) was in st. louis with the peoria yg and was racing his sister allison down some stairs when he tripped and fell down the stairs. somewhere in all the falling his knee hit one of the stairs and jammed his femur up into his hip thus breaking the femur. he had surgery today and he mumbled something in his phone message about not needing a cast(?) i'm not exactly sure what he said because the injury sounds extremely painful so i'm sure he had some good painkillers in him when he left the message.

sunday, i went to church with david in morton and my old roommate adam was there! he's working up in madison now at a software company that he calls the next microsoft. he said i should apply there and he'd put in a good word for me. he's also thinking of buying a house. not because he's making buttloads of money, but because it's on a lake despite being pretty rundown and cheap. he says he'll fix it up in the evenings because he has nothing else to do. i also got to talk to the halo guys from morton (jed, ben, tate) and we chatted movies, video games, and music. after church we (david and i) went to the local dairy queen and met taryn, kelly, laura, dane, daniel and jeremiah plus a brief cameo from paul.

now i'm back home, trying to work on my final paper due tomorrow that could make or break my class grade. i think i'll be fine. i've lived, breathed, ate and pooed this project. well, not really the last two because it's not a cooking class and silicon chips don't taste as good as they sound. ok, back to work.