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Name: Jason
Birthday: 2/23/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: I enjoy writing when I can find the time and motivation to do it. In the rest of my free time, you can find me watching movies and reading; I don't do the latter as much as I'd like to either. Sometimes I play video games even though I'm woefully unskilled at them. My favorite interest is the lives of my friends.
Expertise: I've been told I'm good at writing, singing, and public speaking. I'm very personable, and I have an "accessible personality," so if I had to pick one major expertise it would be counseling my friends.
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
2/18/2005
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| Due to another writing project that has to take precedence, I won't be blogging today. And since this marks the fourth or fifth week in a row without a substantive post, for various reasons, I have to reluctantly tell you not to expect any regular contributions from me for now. Does this mean I won't be posting here any longer? I can't honestly say; I like writing here, and you seem to like reading it. Maybe overwhelming reader demand will bring me back more often, maybe I'll find more time and reasons to blog, maybe I'll post the occasional movie review, but whatever happens, I value you guys too much to promise a weekly post and then repeatedly fail to deliver. So really I'm not gone, just busy, and if anything major happens (definitely in my writing career and probably in my personal life), I suspect you'll be able to read about it here. Also, I'll still get notifications when anyone tries to get in touch, so feel free to send a message my way if absence hasn't made the heart grow fonder. Have a great one, guys, and I hope I won't be away too long. | | |
| My brother’s best friend died last weekend. Ben died without warning or explanation, died without it making any sort of sense, and now my entire family is struggling to come to terms with a life that doesn’t have him in it. I could write at great length about this experience, about how grief has left my mind alone in favor of taking up residence in my stomach, about how my heart is breaking for my brother, but I want to keep this short so that all of you read the main point. I’m about to get unabashedly spiritual and ask you all for a favor in the strongest language possible: please, if you are even slightly a believer in God, pray as hard and as much as you can during Ben’s funeral on Monday at two in the afternoon. I truly believe that God will let his Spirit flow and his kingdom crash into the hearts of believers and unbelievers alike if his people pray on Monday, and I feel compelled to mobilize as many believers as I can. Do it as a favor to me, or out of sympathy for the grieving, or because it’s the right thing to do—frankly, I don’t care about your motivation, as long as you get as many people as possible to pray for a manifestation of God’s glory on Monday at two. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, leave a comment or a message: I’d be happy to tell you about the God I serve, and why I believe he can move even in the valley of the shadow of death. To all of you who believe, all of you who will pray: I thank you, and I’m more grateful than I can express to you. | | |
| It occurred to me when I got into bed yesterday around 11:30 that I hadn't written a blog for the week, and now there are at least two reasons I don't think I should. Please pray for the families of Art and Ben; they both meant something to me and my family, and they've both died. I was going to write that it's going to take a while for everything to get back to normal, but that's not right, and I can't escape the fact that "normal" has now irreparably changed for me and the people I love. So pray, please, and you have my thanks for it. I'll try to get a posting up this week sometime. | | |
| Yes, that's right, my brother and I are in the middle of a weekend of incomparable manliness, manliness the likes of which the world has never seen before, manliness...well, manliness that includes a lot of eating and gaming and movie watching, manliness that precludes a blog this week. I'd say that I hope you have as much fun as we will this weekend, if I thought such a thing was even possible! Just a little man humor there, folks. Have a great one. | | |
| ...but I've managed to use up all of my energy for the week, and I don't think my efforts would result in a decent blog this evening. This means I'm going to have to start thinking seriously about what's going to happen to my Xanga life when grad school becomes a reality, so suggestions are welcome. Until next time, my friends, and if you get a few free hours this week you may want to see Date Night. Maybe next week I can elaborate a bit on the recommendation. | | |
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