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Name: Nathan
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Dallas
Birthday: 4/19/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: music, digital video, reading, the Church, friends, I like ExpressMen pretty good, some other stuff...
Not necessarily in that order
Expertise: I put for my occupation I'm a student in the entertainment industry. That's just because I felt like putting that. I do like movies, though.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message me
AIM:  nakanadrummer
Member Since:
2/7/2005
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| I'm not sure how many people use Xanga still, or how many will see this post, since it's been a couple months since I messed with this. But I'm writing this for those who I don't keep in touch with and who might be interested in hearing what I do.
New Developments...
I had this girl. But I don't really have her anymore. That started in November and - I want to say "ended" but that's too simple of a word, because we still see each other and I still care a lot about her - "morphed painfully" in January. So that's been the most major part of my life lately.
I decided what I want to do when I graduate. I want to teach. At a public high school. I'd love to teach a philosophy class, but I think I'll have a hard time finding one of those, and getting to teach the students I'd want to teach, so probably, hopefully, I'll end up teaching a literature course. I love literature. This is what I have finally decided to seriously pursue once I graduate, which will hopefully occur in May, 2008.
I bought a MacBook. I've converted, and I'm glad of it. I've had it less than a week, and really feel like I'm going to thoroughly enjoy it.
In this midst of these things, particularly the first, God has shown Godself to be extremely good and loving. It's hard to accept a thing that is thrust upon you that you would never have chosen voluntarily. Especially when it involves love and people. But God is teaching me about Godself, but more importantly, God is filling me with the life and Spirit of God. And that is good.
That's not my life, not even close, but it's a text-based portrait of it. So maybe that will help. | | |
| My sister was watching TV at my grandma's house. I walked into the room, and couldn't believe my own eyes, but it was true - she was watching reruns of Legends of the Hidden Temple! It's so much cheesier when you're older, but still just as amazing. TOTALLY wanted to be on that show. | | |
| The top 10 bands on my iTunes when sorted by song Play Count:
1. Coldplay
2. Enya
3. Imogen Heap
4. Bill Withers
5. Danny Lohner (sings the Wicker Park version of "The Scientist" - a Coldplay song)
6. Gavin DeGraw
7. The Killers
8. Ben Folds
9. Death Cab for Cutie
10. Frank Sinatra
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| I like this poem. I wish I had written it, but Molly Peacock did (www.mollypeacock.org).
WHY I
AM NOT A BUDDHIST
I love desire,
the state of want and thought
of how to get; building a kingdom in a soul
requires desire. I love the things I've sought-
you in your beltless bathrobe, tongues of cash that loll
from my billfold- and love what I want: clothes,
houses, redemption. Can a new mauve suit
equal God? Oh no, desire is ranked. To lose
a loved pen is not like losing faith. Acute
desire for nut gateau is driven out by death,
but the cake on its plate has meaning,
even when love is endangered and nothing matters.
For my mother,
I wished for health; for my sister, bereft,
I wanted wholeness. But why is desire suffering?
Because want leaves a world in tatters?
How else but in tatters should a world be?
A columned porch set high above a lake.
Here, take my money. A loved face in agony,
the spirit gone. Here, use my rags of love.
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