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B o o k s I A m C u r r e n t l y R e a d i n g

The Idiot - by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Skystone - by Jack Whyte
Seven Suspects - by G.K. Chesterton
Institutes of the Christian Religion Volume One - by John Calvin
Always Ready - by Greg Bahnsen
DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web - by Jason Teague

B o o k s I H a v e R e c e n t l y C o m p l e t e d

The Black Rood - by Stephen Lawhead
Jeeves and the Tie That Binds - by P.G. Wodehouse
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? - by P.G. Wodehouse
The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky - by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Miracles - by C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce - by C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy - by C.S. Lewis
The Song of Albion Trilogy - by Stephen Lawhead

A b o u t M e

I am a twenty-year old male living in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Currently I am taking a year off from college to try and earn some money. I spent the previous two years living in Moscow, Idaho attending New St. Andrews University. This fall I plan to enroll at Wake Technical College in Raleigh and pursue a two-year degree in Internet Technologies before transferring elsewhere. A move to Raleigh will accompany the initiation of the semester.

I am a Christian attending White Oak PCA in Fremont, NC. My hobbies and interestes are sports -especially basketball- reading, writing, and website design.

I am beginning employment at CompUSA in Raleigh, the first step towards my getting to college and moving to Raleigh this fall.

K r a z y C e l t i c ' s J o u r n a l
(an impersonal outlet of thoughts and news)

February 11th, 2002 - Wednesday [archives]

Aha, I have done it! Up until this day, I was constricted to communication with long-distance friends via e-mail and Instant Messenger alone. But just when I thought my communications could not get any more dependent on machines and weighed down with the sense of distance and impersonal-ness, I have discovered the forgotten medium of online weblogs, known to the fashionably lazy as 'blogs. Ah, here I can keep people up to date about what is going on in my life, and what is on my mind, and I can update it every day (yeah, right) and speak to all my friends with just a few painless keystrokes!
Um, don't be expecting anything too personal though. If I want to share something of a more personal nature I do that one-on-one. But what you will find here is an assortment of thoughts, ideas, wonderings, and happenings, and hopefully out of all the wreckage you may seize something useful or enjoyable.

C h r i s t i a n W o r l d v i e w S t u d e n t C o n f e r e n c e

The Christian Worldview Student Conference (CWSC) is a summer conference for students 10th grade through college. Sponsored by Calvary Reformed Presbyterian Church in Newport News, Virginia, the goal of the conference is to sharpen the minds of young Christians to shape for them a Biblical worldview and Christ-like method of thinking, so that they might be equipped to properly respond to our culture - a culture that is growing increasingly hostile to Christianity.

This is a week-long conference taking place the first full week of every July, and summer of 2002 will mark the conference's eighth year. Housing and lecture halls are furnished by Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA.

For more details on what the conference is about, who will be speaking there, who may attend, cost, etc., visit my CWSC Information Site.

M u s i c

I am certainly no musician, but I love to listen to music. I most enjoy classic rock, bands like Led Zeppelin, Rush, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty... good solid stuff like that. I don't go for the baby food that pop is anymore, nor do I particularly enjoy much Christian contemporary music. I have no love of Country, Western, or Oldies. I enjoy classical music, but my knowledge in that area is lacking. Celtic music is perhaps my favorite genre. Techno is cool. As for modern rock, it is on the decline in my estimation because basically bands can be lumped in three awful classes: LimpBizkit wannabe's, Goo-goo Doll impostors, and We're-pissed-off. But there are noticeable exceptions, like Foo Fighters, Linkin Park and Incubus, which put out original stuff.
That's what I like, originality. But what really matters to me is whether something sounds good. I don't care what the difficulty level of the music is, as long as it sounds good. If I were a musician I might be more snobbish in what I profess to like. Also, I have never been a big buyer of music, so most often I can't list favorite bands but rather favorite songs. More of that to come...

M y W r i t i n g s

Ok, this section is a big joke. I just had to include it though because writing is something I have always liked to do, or rather that I have always enjoyed to dream of doing. The problem is I start s book but never finish it. I eagerly pursue the planning of the story, the forming of the characters, but when it comes time to write and I get to page one-hundred or so I get bored and am obsessed with a new idea. So my plan to finish a book before I graduated high school never came to fruition. It shouldn't have been that hard. I started writing stories when I was eight, when I wrote my Apple Alien adventures. After that I focused on sci-fi, but since high school I haven't written anything because I have had to use my time for other things. But I do intend to start writing short stories, at least, modelled after Wodehouse or something light and jovial. And I still enjoy sci-fi, so maybe something will come of that. Meanwhile, I have often felt the urge to write little exegetical commentaries on the chapters of the Bible I read daily, but I'm always too far from my computer when the urge hits. In the future, maybe I'll put up some works for you all to browse.

N e w S t. A n d r e w s

New St. Andrews is a small Christian liberal arts school in Moscow, Idaho, just a couple miles east of the Washington border. This is where I spent my first two years of college. New St. Andrews (NSA) is committed to providing a classical education from an uncompromising Christian standpoint. NSA is sponsored by Christ Church, also in Moscow. New St. Andrews offers a two-year A.A. decree and a four year B.A. program. Year-long colloquia are provided in such subjects as Theology, Literature, History, Rhetoric, Latin, and Greek, as well as a variety of electives.

For more information on the college, visit the New St. Andrews webpage.

T h e B i g H a u s

During my two-year stay in Idaho, my place of residence was a boarding house appropriately named the "Big Haus". A massive, 8000 square foot, three-story 1911 Swiss chalet mansion, the Big Haus is located on one of the most beautiful streets of residential Moscow. Owned by Evan Wilson, the house has served as a boarding house for 21 years. The Wilsons are a family of six, and in addition to them, ten boarders (including myself) would reside in the house each year. A beautiful house and a social hub in its own right, the Big Haus will be sure to see many more residents pass through its doors.

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