All About My Brother

Last week, after a long day of school and work I asked Joel how his first speech in speech class went (on that morning he had said that for speech he was going to do one of those get to know you activities where you bring and describe three items that represent you).

Here are the three items he brought and his explanations at why they represent him:

1. “A Dirty sock because I am lazy and put things off like changing socks”
2. “A drawer because I’m aDRAWERable!” (my favorite)
   
3. “Computer games burnt on a disk because I like making computer games.”

He is a mix of

1. Napoleon Dynamite because he is weird, not caring (or seeing) that others notice
2. Barney because he is warm and friendly and goofy
3. Sam from Freaks and Geeks (the best TV show ever) because he looks just like him and understands technology

(Yeah it’s a weird mix but it oddly makes sense if you know Joel).

Should I Title this "Goin' Courtin'?" or "Them Women was Sabean?"

I found this article in Christians Today Magazine*:



Joshua Harris, author of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," has suddenly surprised many conservative Christian families with his new, racier book, "I French Kissed Courtship Goodbye." "Ever since my first book published, the term 'courtship' has been thrown around," Harris says, "Everyone is courting everyone and courtship has become too casual. With my new book, I hope to turn things around by suggesting a newer, even more biblically based solution for Christian parents to worship: kidnapping."

Harris bases this new stance on pre-marital relationships on the twenty-first chapter of Judges when the Bengamite men, left without females in their own tribe, are instructed to "Go and hide in the vineyards" and "seize wives from among the young women of Shiloh."

"This passage has strong implications for today's singles," states Harris, "I will be the first to admit that through both dating and courtship I became too intimate too early. However, with my new method, kidnapping, none can deny that the possibility of pre-marital sin will be eliminated."


*not really