Have skills, but none that pay.

It's almost break, I'm one 50min class away from feb. break. But what a break it will be. I've just landed a job taking pictures for a freind of a freind's wedding. Except they got me because pro's over charge, and I don't (charge). It should be cool. I only have to learn a Digital Rebel in 24hrs, shoot a wedding, and help them print online. What could possibly go wrong? I'll chill at the Mast's for a night or two and then go home. Adventuer 29537 and I are going to get together an plan a secret operation which I can't expound on here.

So after I've helped the folks remeber their wedding, and planned my thingy, I'm off for the AT with another YES group (www.needssalt.org). I need to plan a route and some trail side programing in one and a half days. And then, Bam! I'm back in the H-hood expanding my mind. But right now I'm wondering: "when will I see my family?"

I've also started signing my name with an exclamation mark. It's more exciting that way.

-Kevin!

Downloading my life onto an iPod.

There seems to be extreems on campus. Hot and cold. It seems to never stop snowing. The snowplows must wear down the sidewalks eventually. Thats the cold. In the pool it is rather warm. I spent almost three hours in there today. All my classes got cancled for friday so I'm just shootin the breeze. Maybe I'll work ahead for next week.

For those of you deeply engrossed in the life of Sir Heater, he has had some trouble. For almost a week he was silent, and we feared the worst. But today he returned, his joyful self, hot tempered as can be.

I watched the movie "southbounder" today. It's a movie about the AT. They did a great job making the AT come alive. Hippy hikers, pot smokeing, rainy days, and ben style hiking. But they missed the whole point of why the trail is great. You will have to watch it to find out what they focused on.

Time

Photo: Pocket watch of an Ozark greenhouse owner

Nature’s way of measuring the passage of existence is cycles. Everything has a cycle. There is the cycle of seasons with their indistinct starting and ending points. There is the cycle of a day which is a bit more defined. In a more abstract way the cycle of life is always continuing. Animals reproduce and die in a cycle that continues until interrupted by humans.

So what is time? Long before Copernicus the human mind had taken the earth’s cycles and divided them into segments that the present would march through; thus the creation of time. So now our centuries are broken into decades. Our decades are broken into years, which are broken into months, weeks, days, hours, and minuets. As if that isn’t enough we slice our minuets even thinner into seconds, and beyond. This is all fine and grand for the synchronization of society, but what about understanding eternity? Before time was created, existence happened in the midst of eternity. It still does, we just don’t see it that way. We come to passages about God’s eternal existence as the uncreated creator, or the infiniteness of our presence in Heaven and it blows our mind. What if time had never been created? What if time had been invented from a different planet? Our year might be a different length! But ultimately, none of this really matters. Cycles or days, it goes by the same.