One · Girl's · Tale: · Stories · from · time · lost · in · Idaho

Anyways, I've gotta run to class. I wish you all a wonderfull day!

Travis and I are not longer together though we are continuing to date. He felt that he didn't know if he had "live enough to make the decisions that needed to be made in our relationship yet." Oddly, he's acting as though we are still in our relationship which has been incredibly confusing.

I began working at The Beach in Moscow. It is a bar/dance club. It has been interesting so far. I even worked Moscow's Mardi Gras last weekend (and made $171 in tips I might add).

Other than that, things are as hectic as always.

Tomorrow is my birthday, as well as the birthday of a few friends, so here goes the important stats:

Born:

Among terrorists, actors, novelist, comedians, murders and emporors, here are a few highlights of people born on August 31.

Richard Gere-actor
Van Morisson-Musician
Commodus-Roman Emperor
Caliqula-Roman Emperor
Andrew Cunanan-Mudered Fashion giant Giani Versace
Chris Tucker-Comedian
Wilhelmina-Queen of the Netherlands

Deaths:

Theodora-Byzantine Empress dies ending Macedonian dynasty
Mary Ann Nichols-Jack the Ripper's first victim
Princess Diana
Henry the V
Charles Baudelaire-poet
Mary Ward-Irish Scientist/First ever car accident victim

Happy Independance day to:

Malaysia
Tinidad
Tobago
Krygystan

Other important Events:

-Dave Scott becomes first person to drive a car on the Moon (1971)

-Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was recovered by Norwegian Police (2006)

-Provisional Irish Republic Army declares a ceasefire (2004)

-USS Harmon-First US Navy Ship named for a black person is commissioned (1943)

-Nazi Germany attaks radio station giving them an excuse to attack Poland, thus beginning WWII in Europe (1939)

- in the US Civil Wat, Union Forces lead by General Sherman launch an attack on Atlanta GA (1864)

-The first comprehensive comparison of the genetic blueprints of humans and chimpanzees shows that we share 96 percent of our DNA sequence (2005)

-Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII (1535)

-Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope (1887)

-North Canterbury, New Zealand a 7+ earthquake in northern Canterbury, some 100 kilometers from Christchurch, caused the partial collapse of the cathedral's spire (1888)

-Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago (1919)

-FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents (1935)

-The first microwave TV station operated (1955)

-In Iran a 7.3 earthquake was centered about 250 kilometers south of Mashhad. There were 12,000 to 20,000 deaths, many injuries, and over 60,000 homeless (1968)

-Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun (1979)

-5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins (1988)

-Russians pull last 500 military personnel left from cold war, out of Lithuania (1993)

1) Travis and I broke up and got back together. we are still together. Sadly, however, he is in Nevada until June 1 and has been since May 14...stupid field trips.

2) Finals are done and finished fairly well. It was a rather rocky end of the semester, but it turned out well.

3) I am working for the US forrest service fighting forrest fires this summer. I live in Clarkia, Idaho (REALLY EXCESSIVELY small town). I'm not actually certified to fight fires yet, but I have been permitted to light a hill side on fire (prescribed burning) and I have had the joy of helping to clear fallen trees etc. off dirt roads. Regardless, I AM A FIREFIGHTER...how cool is that?

4) I am in the process of moving (for those of you in the Moscow area, that happens this weekend) so if you're around, I could use the help.

5) There was a shooting in Moscow, ID (where I go to school) last weekend, which I was not involved in (again, I'm living in Clarkia this summer). However, I have several friends and professors that attend the church that was involved. They are all fine, but it was quite hard on the church.

Other than that, life is life as usualy. I hop all is well. Later!

I will be presenting a paper on the poetic political agenda in Romantic England as portrayed through the writings of William Blake. The Conference is on April 21 in Spokane Washington.

I don't know when I am presenting yet. I am, however, quite excited!!!!

Now onto the real post:

I've decided to never return to Wal Mart. I went there today and was messing around out in the gardneing area (I needed some soil for some plants). I was looking at seeds when this guy came up to me randomly and started talking. He was laughing about how this was the place for the people with spring fever. I smiled politely (thinking he was just an overly friendly person). Before I knew it, he was going on about his 5th grade son who had just been suspended over dyeing his hair green to match his green cast. Finally the wierd man left.

A woman had been in the area and decided to comment on how odd it was that the man's son had been suspended. She then proceeded to tell me that that was why she had chosen to raise her children in Alaska. Then she got into school politics, informed me that she had become a school office woman, and then proceeded to tell me that one of her sons was incredibly nerdy and had become a computer scientist and that the other had joined the army which did not make her happy because she thought that the government was careless with their soldiers and, in a round and about way was trying to kill her son. She told me that her son being involved in the war had spured in her an interest in politics, so she had been reading. She told me that political shows are better than football and then proceeded to attempt to discuss politics with me for the next 45 min while I attempted to find excuses to leave...

...In short, I think the people in Moscow are entirely too wierd.

Tech Writing: We have to complete a group project with three other people. The project is to create a technical manual (instruction booklet) to explain to someone who has never seen utensils or sliced bread before, the proper steps to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. MY group, rather than meeting at the library etc where other team will be meeting, has decided to meet at the Coeur d'Alene Brewing company at 6 pm on Tuesday night next week. Why? Because on Tuesday nights starting at 6 they have $1.00 drafts...so basically, we're going to work on our project and drink a bunch of beer...

I have Warren Hayman for two classes. One is a lit class and one is a writing class. He is a 5'5"-ish man with the most insane little giggle that I have ever heard. He is also possibly the oddest man I have ever met, but also the most quotable. Have have spent my time in classes both today and Wednesday writing down the little tid bits during lecture that made me giggle, so here they are:

"If you're living someone else's life, change it. For Pete sake's, that's wierd and immoral!"

After a conversation about how easily available heroine was in Moscow:
"Heroine gave itself to Harlem as heroine gave itself to Moscow"

"Writing is a lot like life, we usually mess it up the first time, and wish we could re-do it." Unfortunately we can't because we've already lived it, submitted it to the editor, etc."

While Discussing the term epiphany and a story about a mean lady who gets shot:
"She definately suffered an epiphany. I say "suffered" because boy, she got capped!"

While discussing the term metaphor:
"If you say 'My professor is a bear!' You are saying he exhibits certain qualities of bear-ness, which is not to say, 'My professor has shaggy hair, lives in the woods, and eats berries,' but to say that he exhibits characteristics of bear-ness."

While discussing the Protagonist in the story Sunny's Blues:
"In Sunny's Blues, you might argue that the protagonist was Harlem, or Sunny, or any number of things, or you might even argue that it was [pause] here's that magical "H" word again [pause with wierd looks from the students] Heaven! I mean Heorin!"

May 11: Last day of Spring Semester

May 14- June 25: 12 credits (Micro Bio, Sociology, Statistics, Econ) + 20 hrs of work a week + Looking for and moving into a new apartment

June 27-August 17: Internship at NASA History Division + 20 hrs of work for NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium (done online) a week

August 20: Fall Semester Begins

Anyone else think that I've gone absolutely Ape Shit nuts?

And then we ask the question of where I actually put my boyfriend into my summer...I haven't entirely figgured that out yet, but luckily I still have weekends free to go see him, which will have to do. Man that's going to suck, particulaly the part in DC where I don't get to see him at all... : -( We haven't been apart more than a month since we started dating (and that was only once and happened shortly after we started dating...Christmas break 2005).

http://kevan.org/johari?name=chlo_nb

That being said I've recently come to some conclusions that both may be correct depending on where you stand on the question of Christ in life.

I suppose to understand my conclusion I should probably define a few terms in a scriptural sense and then I'll explain myself.

Hell: Eternal separation from God; the second death

*note that the lake of fire referenced in revelation was never actually designated as hell, that the church merely linked the two inorder to make the concept more scary*

God: Life; Justice; ALL LOVING

Ok, now that we have those two terms defined I'll explain my conclusions.

According to Christian belief God = Life. Thus, life cannot exist without God.

Biblically the concept of hell is eternal seperation from God (also refered to as the second death).

If wee put these two concepts together, perhaps then, when someone goes to hell, they merely die/ cease to exist.

The concept of eternal torture makes little to no sense when we take into account the concept of God being all loving. God is, by Christian teaching, all loving. He is supposed to love even those who do not love him, who do not accept him, who directly defy him. Rather than all loving, this concept of eternal torture makes God sound like a complete prick. My God is not a prick. He loves. Constantly and without end.

MY idea is that God says "Ok, you choose not to be with me. That is fine I won't force you to be." and then he simply allows the person to die fully so that he (God) does not go against their wishes.

Out of love God respects our wishes. Thus sending someone to hell (eternal seperation from life) causes one to die fully (cease to exists even on a spiritual level).

It is because of this that both Christians and Athiests are right. The Christian when they die will go to heaven, and according to Christian beliefs, the athiest will go to hell. However, if the terms of hell are understood in a context other than fire and torture, the athiests too is correct in saying that they will cease to exist, as placement in hell is merely ceaseing to be.

Finals: Finals have sucked, but I am 2 down with 1 to go tomorrow morning at 10. I don't really care so much about it but perhaps I should.

Life: I can't wait for this damn smester to be over with and yet I want it to linger on a little longer, because when it ends, Travis goes home for break, and I hate not having him around...

Food: I attempted to make a vegie pot pie this evening. It was ok...

The following is the link for the part of Moscow that votes in the Kibbie Dome:

http://www.vote-smart.org/search_zipcode.php?zip=83843-4442&go.x=3&go.y=5

I just dyed my hair...oooo fun:

I love Travis, but I don't claim to slways understand him.

As anyone who reads this blog knows, Travis's ex had their child back in May. An update on that, he is currently attempting to fight his ex for SOME custody of his child since he only gets to see her at most 4 hours a week, and most of the time only when his ex supervises it.

He is currently having issues figguring out what to do about raising his child in a church. His ex will bring Maddalin to a Catholic church whenever she has custody of her. Travis, however, being raise 7th Day Adventist, believes the Catholic church to guilt its members and to simply, in general, be wrong about a lot of things where scripture is concerned.

He agrees very strongly with the 7th Day Adventist Church (I must say, I understand why...it seems to abide by scripture in areas where the Prebyterian Church, where I was raised, does not.). Unfortunately he is merely too lazy to get up and go to church on Saturday morning. which I REALLY don't understand. If I agreed with my church I would go. I, however, don't and haven't really found one worth going to yet.

In light of this what he plans to do is send his daughter to church with his mom and continue not to go, which I kind of had a problem with. I mentioned the fact that Maddalin would eventually start asking his mom why her daddy didn't go to church. Unfortunately, neither did his dad, so he knows exactly how she will respond ("That's his choice"), and he not phased by this at all.

My general problem is that if he 1) agrees with the church and 2) Wants his daughter to be raised in it, then why the hell won't he go? This is a question for which he can't give any answer other than that he simply isn't ready to go back yet.

He thinks people in his church judge him for getting Jaymie pregnant before marrying her and even more so for the fact that he is not married to her and doesn't intend to ever do so. He thinks that those of them that know he's in another relationship judge him for that too. The thing is that one of the things he stresses so much about his church is that he believes it to be one of the least judgemental churches that one could go to. I don't understand how he could think both at the same time. I also don't understand why a guy who doesn't really care what anyone thinks of him would allow what he thinks they are thinking of him to get in the way of what he wants to do (He's nervous to even bring me to church with him).

I don't know, I just really don't understand why someone who likes and agrees with a particular church won't go to it.

Origin of name

Idaho is perhaps the only state that was likely named as the result of a hoax. In early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name "Idaho," which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning "the sun comes from the mountains" or "gem of the mountains." Willing later claimed that he had made up the name himself[1][2]. Congress ultimately decided to name the area Colorado Territory when it was created in February 1861.

However, the name "Idaho" didn't go away. The same year Congress created Colorado Territory, a county called Idaho County was created in eastern Washington Territory. The county was named after a steamship named Idaho, which was launched on the Columbia River in 1860. It is unclear whether the steamship was named before or after Willing's claim was revealed. Regardless, a portion of Washington Territory, including Idaho County, was used to create Idaho Territory in 1863.

Despite this lack of evidence for the origin of the name, many textbooks well into the 20th Century repeated as fact^{[citation needed]} Willing's account that the name "Idaho" derived from the Shoshone term "ee-da-how".

...wikipedia.org

...Funny, I couldn't even speak with a French accent when I was in French

Newly selected: "Open Space, Open Minds"

What the hell is that supposed to mean?!?!?!?

Anyways, here's the article about it...
http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/2243/48/