David B. Calhoun’s Blog

I thought it might be neat to do a self-imposed 31 straight days of blogging, especially since I don’t write a log of stuff up here. I’m trying to do a tie-in with the Bible, so hopefully I’ll keep up a trend of putting up a part of Proverbs each night. Incidentally Proverbs has 31 chapters, so I’ll just work my way through each day. I dunno if I constantly want to respond to the verses I type up here - some days I might just type them and post it without commentary.

Anyhow, today wasn’t very eventful. I was spending all day anticipating my one class on Wednesday (I also have Philosophy Seminar every other Wednesday or so). When 3:00 got near, I drove over and walked to the room. There was a sign posted up there, saying there had been some “quirky schedule mishap” (or something to that effect) and our professor was unable to make it. But fear not! He gave his BUBBS email and said if we emailed him he would give us a syllabus. And also! To keep us occupied - a 5 something or other essay due Monday on the subject of “What is Love?”. The reason I say “something or other” is because it either said 5 page or 5 paragraph. I’m just assuming the latter, since that’s the crystallized noncreative academic form that everyone now expects.

Tomorrow is more nerve-racking - I have a job interview with the IT Helpdesk, about the equivalent of what ITC used to be (there’s a separate department, Audio/Visual, who keep up the projectors and laptops in rooms though). So I’m going to dress up like I’m going to church (though I’ve only been to church about 3 times - more on this in a later entry, hopefully that will change soon…). Anyhow, I guess it’s both a win/win and lose/lose situation for me. On the one hand I need a job for money and just for keeping myself off the streets. I mean, keeping myself occupied. But on the other hand I’d be fine not getting a job - it would allow me to concentrate on studies. I’ll see how the interview goes.. but it looks like I’m going to sucker myself into a job!

Next on the agenda for tomorrow are two philosophy classes, but I’m familiar with one of the professors so it should be good, and exciting. Those classes aren’t a biggie, hopefully. At least not the first day (it’s probably going to be some of the most technical, hardest classes I’m going to take this semester).

Oh well, I hope everyone else is doing alright. I’ve been a literal recluse all summer, and not just playing WoW (which I cancelled, by the way ). Oh yes, speaking of - I made a video called “Bored Horde Train” that I was playing around with. It’s a boring video, but it’s sort of synched up to music: http://www.themaingate.net/bored_horde_train.avi

I took a look at the gogfeds.com forums and apparently Lardo doesn’t approve! Oh well! /cry

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and
instruction.”
Proverbs 1:7

Comments: When I was a child, even though I wasn’t raised in a church-going home, I knew the phrase “the fear of the Lord” and didn’t understand it until very recently. It’s not the sort of instinctual fear a person feels if they’re scared out of their wits or afraid of being hurt or dying, but it’s fear towards a person out of respect and reverence to them. If we don’t fear a person then we place them on an equal or lower level in relation to ourselves. This is why we don’t fear our friends, which we view as our equals. However, God is equal to no one. Fear God and we show him that we understand His role and our role in the universe. As Proverbs says, only then can knowledge and wisdom begin.

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