Actually home

So...not much going on. I'm sitting watching my brother play Assassin's Creed 2. From what I can see, it's SO intense that I'm not even going to try playing it yet, lol. I'm gonna need more than a month to learn this one, haha.
I'm REALLY excited for Mass Effect 2. It definitely looks crazy. Of course, it HAS to come out about 10 or 14 days after I go back to PLBC, so I'm gonna have to wait another 5 months for it to come out, haha.
Christmas is coming up! That's gonna be pretty cool. At the same time, though, it's gonna be weird. With the whole parent situation...last year, we went to my grandma's for Christmas. And then this year, it's just kinda split up...into whatever happens. Ya, I don't know...I guess we'll find out.
Now, I know that most people aren't thinking about going back to college...BEFORE Christmas...but...I'm actually kinda excited to go back. And REALLY nervous...but we might find out about that a little later.
Right now, it's almost 12:30 at night and I'm at my mom's house. I feel like I should go to bed, but at the same time, I don't really want to. I'm kinda content to just stay up like this...maybe I'll go play Mass Effect...I created a new character, other than Auxilio Shepard, because I didn't want my awesomeness character to be ruined for Mass Effect 2. You know, I think it's FREAKING awesome that they decided to make it so that you can load your savegame from ME 1. Of course, some games got the little thing where you gain a bit of XP, or you learn a cross-class skill. But taking your ENTIRE character, and adding it's skill sets, alignment, choices, EVERYTHING into the next game? Now that's genius. Anyway, I should probably go. It has now struck 12:30, and the hour is late....or at least....it should be late for some...anyway, it's now 12:31...and it's even later. Goodbye!

Back

I am now back. I really don't know what to say. Things are awesome. I'm sitting in the basement with my family and my best friends, playing Rock band. Things don't get better than this. Well...I suppose they would if I could have a Sovereign class starship. But....other than that...:P

Finals, finals, and more finals...then the end...of the beginning

So, like the title suggests, I have finals. One more final until I am truly done....the end of the beginning is at hand. Now that I'm staying for four years...I've just completed the beginning of SO much more. I mean, sure, I'm done the first year...but this semester has felt VERY different than the first year of PLBC.
I've got AMAZING friends that I have gotten SO close to, SO fast. I can't even begin to talk about what they mean to me right now. This winter, Silas is coming home with me, and I really don't know what that's going to look like. I mean, it's gonna be awesome. I just don't know what going home is going to be like. Like a friend of mine has said out here, they couldn't imagine staying out here for this long, and now, it's become my home. I'm not trying to make my true home and less...but there's something different about being out here now.
My classes are coming along great. I REALLY wanted to take a class called "Theology of Spiritual Warfare," but it's not gonna work out. I REALLY wanted to take that class. I started reading the textbook for it last night...and it was SOOOO sick. The stuff it was talking about was incredible. Anyway, I need to get back to studying, I guess I just thought that I would put this out there.
Just 4 more days until I go back, woohoo!

What's new?

Not much, really.
If anyone's seen the new SGU, it kinda sucks. They ARE adding some good stuff into it, but who knows how it'll eventually turn out. I just hope it doesn't get canceled before it has the time to get good. If they had done that in SG1, we never would have had the awesomeness it has inspired in SO many people. People usually think that I'm a pretty intense nerd/geek for saying stuff like that, but it's true!
Cell phones practically came about because of Star Trek. SO many innovations happen because people simply DREAM what would be awesome and cool. Things like cell phones don't just appear because people in a researching lab "accidentally" come up with the design schematic for something like that. Now, on the other hand, I realize that many things pop up like that. But SOOOO many things have to be dreamed and THEN created. Nerds and geeks are creative in that way. They want something newer and cooler, or they have an idea for something that might be TOTALLY awesome and THEN find the technical expertize to create it. People are researching things like transporters today, probably because of Star Trek. Now, taking Star Trek for complete reality...that's a different thing. It's like making a piece of concept artwork, or a design schematic the absolute truth. Star Trek is like a piece of concept artwork for life. I realize that we will never have a true "almost perfect" society like Star Trek, that things like warp drive is, while not necessarily an impossibility, highly improbable. But you can still dream, can't you? If artists that paint pictures, or made songs never dreamed, then we would never have art!
Anyway....I didn't expect to go on a rant there, haha. I guess I just get worked up sometimes, because nerds and geeks are generally the social outcasts of life. That was basically me for most of my life. Even now, I'm wearing a shirt that says, "Do the math!" with a bunch of formulas on it. I guess I just wish that people like me weren't put down for most of their lives for dreaming up things that people in the future might take for granted. You know...look at me, I'm a geek/nerd. I'm the RA at an amazing Bible College, I've got incredible close friends who really aren't geeky or nerdy. I still LOVE to read and watch books/shows like Star Trek/Stargate, etc. but I've actually made it beyond the social stereotype. To me, it's kind of sad that people like me have to "get past" a social stereotype, JUST to fit in! Why don't people who are, say, amazing at skateboarding have to get past a social stereotype to hang out with other people. Why don't people who love sports have to get past a social stereotype just to "fit in"?
There are SO many people who have interesting, meaningful lives that don't get to express that, or "hang out" with other people, or are even seen in a completely negative light just because of the way that they are.
Well, I guess I got hyped up about that.
You know, there was a group of 5 or 6 guys that I met on Tour, and they were really the only people that I actually connected with. They played pretty much every game imaginable. I realize, that there are times when something gets to be too much and you have to make an effort to reach out and connect with other people, but these guys were kind of hanging out on their own. I saw Josh hanging out with them, so I went over and hung out. I realized that they were HARDCORE gamers. So, Josh left, because he was kind of out of his element, and I ended up talking to them the WHOLE time. They talked to me about a WHOLE lot of games, and actually pretty much sucked up all the geekyness I had in me, haha. During our event, we have a time where we introduced ourselves, and I had made a comment about these guys. I did that because I knew that people like me were NEVER talked about on stage. After the whole night was over, one of the guys came over to me with his mom and introduced me to her. It was definitely slightly weird and a little awkward, BUT I realized just how much of an impact I had made in his life. It was SOOO cool!
Seriously, I have no idea where I'm going with this. It's just kinda coming out.
This week...I've got finals. Tomorrow's song writing...and that's gonna be.....interesting. I'm really not sure what to expect, but I don't think that i'm going to do too amazingly on it. On Wednesday, I've got Music theory 3 and that's gonna be a piece of cake. I LOVE music theory. It's like math...all over again...but for my instrument. It's really cool. Then, on Friday, I've got Survey of Christian beliefs. THAT is the one that's going to kill me. It's going to be SO hard. Well...at least that's what I'm thinking. After the mid-term, I'm pretty sure that it's gonna be pretty hard.
I guess that kinda sums me up right now.
Also, just to clear things up, I don't mind being called a geek and a nerd, it's how I'm made! I love it! It's who I am. Call me a geek/nerd...even a gerd....a neek...or a gerk...if you want to. I don't neccessarily find it attractive...or anything like that. BUT, I know the truth about myself. I'm a geek! I'm a nerd! I just don't like it if you do that in a negative way.
Matt.

6 in the morning...after 2 in the morning...after 2 in the morning

So...I wednesday night I was up until two...thursday night was the same...then this past night, I was up until midnight. This morning I was up at 6 so that I could go to downtown vancouver to have a field trip for event planning. I didn't know that people go on "field trips" in post secondary. Oh well, you know. I guess it was educational.

So...it's December, right? And...there's definitely NO SNOW out here. Of course, I hear that there is also no snow at home, so I really don't know what that means, if it means anything...

2 AM is my friend

Wow. Who would've known that 2 in the morning was the last productive hour in the day? I used to make midnight my limit. But now that I have 3 final projects due on the same day, 2 in the morning became my limit. Last night, me and Silas tried to do 3 in the morning. That definitely would NOT have worked. I got until 2:20...and definitely crashed. Silas even had an energy drink, haha.
Well, things are going alright. Tomorrow I have to wake up at freaking 6 in the morning to go to an "event planning" field trip!?!?! WHERE'S THE FRICTION?!?!?! WHO DOES THAT????
Well, now that that's out, I need to finish planning a worship set.

Wow

Hey again,
So...I really have no idea what just went on with my user info. For some reason, it thought that I had signed up with my hotmail, when I thought I signed up with my gmail, and Jess thought I signed up with my PLBC. Things were hectic. Needless to say, I am happy I am back into my blog thinger.
Anything new? Not too much. Jordan and Mike went home this morning. That kinda sucks, but I'm going home in 12 days, so I'm pretty happy about that. w00t!

Started a Blog

Started a blog today...obviously. Just in case anyone wanted to read about my life. Not entirely sure why anyone would want to...but everyone else seems to be making one, so why not myself?
Anyway, things are going all over the place for me. Mike and Jordan are at PLBC with me for the weekend, which is pretty awesome. It's beginning to be a little tiring, though, because I've got finals next week - oh right, the one final tomorrow - and recital. Which, BTW, I'm doing a song for Irvin, a song for Tyler, and my song. At one point, I had someone else's, but it turned out that it wasn't going to work. Plus, all this homework due this week. I don't know when it's going to happen. It's going to be hard.
I don't know why...but I guess I just feel distant from God right now. There have been times when I've felt REALLY close...but right now, just seems like those distant times, you know? I mean, I had a really cool experience with God today at church, we ended up being in open worship for quite a while. At the same time, my throat was cracking up and everything, so it REALLY sucked, but was kinda awesome at the same time, you know?
Anyway, I'm really excited to go home with Silas for Christmas, but then it'll be right back to school. After school, it'll be Tour, then another 2 years of PLBC. Whoopie. To those of you who wish I was going home, take it up with my daddy in heaven, haha. I mean, I'm glad that I'm going to be out here with these awesome peoples for another 2 years...but there are times that I wish that I was just going home. Just be back with everyone I know. Of course, my best friend's going to a different school/university for six years. SIX years! Can you believe it? He's almost going to be 30 by the time he's back. Wow. I can't believe it. That's a lot. He also wants to go to Hillsong Australia. In 6 years. Wow, I'll be 25 or so. That'll be weird. Maybe I'll be in church ministry by then...or just a regular job. Who knows what God wants in the future for me. I definitely don't know anymore...haha.
So...what was going to be a few seconds of standard, "hello world!" I ended up talking about basically my whole life right now. Weird, huh?