Nutbunnies.

Saturday, October 04, 2003
 
saidiya hartman's works are very hard to read ... ugh. i have to read and re-read every sentence. she's too smart for me ... =[

the a's made me sad today. ugh. too many errors. it was painful. the should've won ... boooo ... bad a's, bad.

the giants lost, too, but i don't really care about the giants. they were eliminated from the playoffs. eh. no biggie.

i think i'm getting wayyyyyyyyyy too flabby. =[ ... i should get rsf membership ... not that i'd have time to go. it seems like i'm never in my apartment ... always in class or doing something. but at least if i had rsf membership, i could watch the aacf intramural basketball teams ... haha. i wanna seem them play stephen and the crossroads team ... that'd be fun. =] i don't think our aacf team is that good, though. uhm ... haha ... from what steve tells me ... but steve is just a funny guy ...

stephen speaks is such an awesome band ... i usually listen to their whole cd (~60 minutes long) twice every day. ahhh ... good stuff. EVERYONE MUST BUY THEIR CD! =]

uhm ... yeah. that's it. oh yeah, doing playing for offertory (sp?) tomorrow ... don't know what i'm playing yet. haha. maybe i'll adlib something on the spot. that's always more fun than just playing out of a book ... doesn't sound as nice, though ...

rain down on me
-bj

Friday, October 03, 2003
 
ahaha ... i miss programming.



kinda. well, i miss c. c's a cool language.

seek them not.
-bj

 
met with my accountability partners today ... was a little worried at first 'cuz i didn't know henry ... i think God's given me the perfect two guys to be my accountability partners, though ... i hope we start meeting regularly soon ... i think we're waiting for a discipler, though. hmmm ...

hush 'lil baby, don't you cry
-bj

 
man ... gsi strike ... why couldn't be on monday when i have three gsi sections or on wednesday when i have four gsi sections ... i only got to miss one class today due to the strike ... ahaha. okay, that's a bad attitude. anyway, i guess it works out that i only have to miss a math section today since we just had a midterm yesterday ... we wouldn't have done much even if there wasn't a strike ... for that i am grateful. =]

hey stwong bad
-bj

Thursday, October 02, 2003
 
there are currently nine people in my apartment: two parties of four, and one odd-man-out. guess who's the loner? (Hint: i'm pretty odd ...) =[

haha ... michael, twin, betty, and mary-lou are studying for their bio midterm tomorrow.
chi, kathy, peter, and other guy are doing physics homework.
i'm a loser doing my math homework and listening to john mayer. thanks very much.

i wanna be superman
-bj

 
my away message:
once upon a time there was a little chipmunk. the chipmunk's name was chunky. chunky the chipmunk lived in a huge oak tree in the happy forest. chunky loved living in the forest. he had everything he needed there. he had a little tree bed and a big pile of nuts inside his house in the big oak tree. but chunky was lonely. he wanted someone to share his big oak tree with. he invited his friend, figo the falcon, to live with him. figo gladly accepted chunky's offer. that first night as roommates, figo waited for chunky to go to sleep. "goodnight, pal," said chunky, and, in a wink, he was fast asleep. figo watched as his friend dreamed away in his nice little bed. hungry, figo decided to eat chunky. so he did. the end.

the critics weigh in:
StupidOleg (8:37:26 PM): i like your story, it's so, hmmmmmmmmm, real-life like
KeithLooCH (7:36:43 PM): um woah. what a nice bedtime story. though i think that your story is really an autobiographical tale. haha. subtle and metaphorical, author bjlee is at his best.

fork over the pulitzer.
-bj

 

Buy this t-shirt here.

ahahaha. so lame. they have so many lame shirts ... it's like nerd heaven. =]

math midterm ... eh ... could have been worse. could have been better, but could have been worse. for that i am grateful. all the aacfers happened to sit within three rows of each other ... what a kwinky dink.

i think i'll go rest now.

drink and derive.
-bj

Wednesday, October 01, 2003
 
chi made jook. mmmm. i helped. kinda. i cut ginger and green onions and added some pepper.

math review today ... semi-helpful. i saw nate sit in that class! wow! there are so many aacfers taking math 54! clara, jason kong, albert, nate, rida, eddie ... whoa. i should start a study group with them or something ...

andrew wong and i are gonna start some sort of prayer warrior website. join us! =] we wanna create a whole network of prayer warriors so that when one of us has a prayer request, we have a whole army of christian bros and sisses praying for us. =]

fixed / added some links on my blog. enjoy.

let's go oakland!
-bj

Tuesday, September 30, 2003
 
oh yeah ... posted some thoughts on leadership on my xanga ... i figured i posted enough on my blog for today. =]

i dare you to move
-bj

 
aacf today. awesome. the speaker came down with bronchitis so we broke up into random small groups and discussed Isaiah 53. (That's the prophecy concerning Jesus coming to earth and his manner of death. Reread it! It's awesome!) I guess for me, I've read that chapter multiple times, but yet I can still never fully comprehend what Jesus had to go through. The verse that really stuck out to me was the verse which said "God was pleased to strike down His son." It brought God joy; it was part of His will, not that Jesus was suffering, but that through Jesus' death, people had a way of reaching heaven. Jesus was despised and rejected as he hung on the cross. I guess what I really learned today is that do we treat him any differently in this day and age? In light of knowing about all Jesus went through to save us, are we any better than those that mocked Him as He died? Every time we fail to take a stand for Jesus, every time we limit his limitless power, we're almost slapping Jesus across the face. We're despising Him, we're rejecting him all over again. And yet, Jesus knew that we would do this. He knew that some would reject His free gift; He knew that some would take His gift for granted. We hear in church and in club meetings and in our own Bible readings of all Jesus went through, but still we often forget why Jesus did what He did. And as I picture the whole crucifixion scene in my head, I can just picture Jesus speaking to me with His last few breaths. "I'm doing this for you. I'm dying for you because I love you. Though you despise me, though you reject me, I choose to die so that you may have eternal life." And if I ever doubt Jesus' love for me, I only need to look to His outstreched arms nailed to the cross. How much do you love me, Lord? His outstretched arms do all the talking. "This much."

when i survey the wondrous cross
-bj

 
tabling is funnnnnnnn. =] no new people stopped by, but a bunch of aacfers came by during the hour i was tabling. it was cool. vicky is cool, too. she's the one i'm tabling with. i had a chance to talk to everett, too ... saw him at navigators' table. ezra was tabling for navigators, too. =] whoa. the aacf table was right next to the guy selling pirate cards, though. he was very loud and enthusiastic. haha. nice enough guy, though.

i don't wanna wait
-bj

Monday, September 29, 2003
 
SwTcrzYbabydoLL (10:23:20 PM): nooo
SwTcrzYbabydoLL (10:23:27 PM): something that fits my personality
SwTcrzYbabydoLL (10:23:30 PM): think think think
SwTcrzYbabydoLL (10:23:55 PM): post it on ur blog
SwTcrzYbabydoLL (10:24:01 PM): help this psycho girl think of a new sn

well ... you heard the psycho. help her think of a new screen name. she already rejected "massagemyfeet" and "footgoddess" ... i don't have many other suggestions other than ones having to do with vampires and her affinity for girls. =] (haha ... j/k, kristine)

black - the dark of ages past
-bj

 
i like my aacf small group. yayee. we had a super small group today. only five of us. three of the guys couldn't make it 'cuz of midterms/other stuff ... we're supposed to get a new guy next week, too. mmmm.

chi made wintermelon soup today. it was good. a lot better than last time. =]

so long. farewell.
-bj

 
so i went to my first office hours of the year! haha ... unfortunately they weren't any of my professors' or gsis' office hours. i went to dave fong's office hours. haha. he's the aacf staff guy. i didn't realize that aacf is his full-time job. that's pretty cool. he's a campus missionary. he's supported by churches and partially by aacf, i think. i like him. cool guy. =]

1.5 more pages to write. argh.

it's all coming back to me
-bj

 
i like my history gsi. he writes nice comments on my papers. today he passed back a whole stack of papers that he looked at. we have to write weekly summaries of the readings. he wrote things like "very sophisticated writing" and "excellent, solid summaries" ... =] hopefully since he seems to like my writing style, he'll like my research paper as well ... hopefully.

i feel really out of it today. ugh. i think it's this legal studies paper ... i'm over half done, though. praise GOD!

i'm tabling tomorrow. visit me at sproul 1-2! =]

you get me
-bj

Sunday, September 28, 2003
 
Good testimony. I think it I first saw it in Ben's xanga. Ben says that his xanga is the center of the internet. I tend to agree.

legal studies essay = xP

you're standing in your grave
-bj

 
so i just got back from first presbyterian. i really like it there. it's pretty big ... maybe 300 people or so. i also like it 'cuz the service starts at 4:30 ... such a spiffy time. =] they had this guest missionary speaker from eastern europe. it was pretty cool ... his message was really challenging. we, as Christians, can't be indifferent to what's going on in this world. we need to share the awesome news that Jesus is alive! first pres is in a lot of ways similar to bacbc (my home church) ... i knew all the songs that they sang. what a really liked about first pres is just the time that they give for corporate and private confession. it's really a lot easier focusing on the things of God when your heart is right with him. =] ... i hope to visit first pres again next time i stay in berkeley on the weekend.

now i'm just about to start on my legal studies paper. HOPEFULLY this one will be a little bit easier to write because they only want four pages MAX. we'll see, though. i think the material is a little bit more difficult than in my poly sci class.

and the pursuit of happiness.
-bj

 
morning tennis with michael. mmm. (3-6) 6-3. no conclusion. it was a tie. we were tired. i had a blister and a funny 'lil cramp in my back.

go bears! stolen from Calvin Sr.


one essay to go!
-bj

 
RANDOMness.

this was from aimee. she does a million things at aacf. i decided to help out with tabling for aacf partly because she's such a nice person and she seemed so overwhelmed.

aimee (1:02:11 AM): oh hey bryan :-) thanks for IMing me! sorry i didn't get back to you sooner, but yeah, it would be great if you could help out for tabling on tuesdays!

Auto response from aimee (1:02:11 AM): BEARS WIN! GO BEARS!

and go me. essaying as if my life depended on it - which, in fact, may not be all false. =]

may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing to You, my God.

essay progress:
poly sci 118AC paper on the new world and its contribution to american identity due on tuesday at 3:30pm:
(4 of 5 pages complete)

legal studies 103 paper on Henry Maine and the French Revolution due wednesday at 9am:
(0 of 5 pages complete).

and i have a
headache stomachache. =[

aimee (1:02:14 AM): :-)
aimee (1:02:29 AM): wow, so many papers :P well Godspeed on them!
aimee (1:02:42 AM): i'll tell u later about details about tabling and stuff :-) tahnks sooo much!
aimee (1:02:59 AM): i'll pray rite now for your head and stomach too, ok, goood nite, Godspeed! bye bryan

heh heh ... that made me smile.

tim is evil. haha ... he told me to meet him at living water fellowship at 1:30 for sunday service tomorrow, but i just talked to jontsai who told me that they're having a church picnic tomorrow so no one will be there ... haha. tim tried to ditch me! haha ... oh well. i guess i'll go to first pres tomorrow w/ ben.

essay progress:
GOD IS GOOD! i'm almost done with my first essay! i should be able to finish by the time i go to sleep tonight!

blue toilet water.
chi bought one of those thingies you put in your toilet that makes the toilet water blue. fun, fun!

on eating.
i'm against it. i've decided that i don't need to eat. i'm getting too blubbery. mmm ... no good. =]

on cal.
go bears. the cal bears defeated the #3 team in the nation, usc, in triple overtime! kinda makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside ... ummm ... actually, no. but go bears.

on sadness.
you know what's sad? i've discovered two things that are sad today. 1) checking your e-mail and having it say "You have 0 unread messages." ... =[ ... and 2) i am sad. i spend so much time checking people's aim profiles / away messages. i think i must check every five minutes! so please! put fun stuff in your profiles and change your away messages every two to three minutes to keep me occupied! thanks.

the boy is gone.
-bj