Hola, Bonjour, Guten Tag, and Hello.

While twittering around my several social networking spaces/books/sites/etc, I began to recall one poorly neglected blog and realized I haven't really updated this thing in forever. So I figured, "there's no better time than the present", right?

Actually, I don't know if I really agree with that phrase. I can, in fact, think of hundreds of different times in the past, and some times that are to come in the future, that kick the present's glutes, but that is neither here nor there. (Another idiom I don't really understand).

So anyways, here's a brief update of Missy Fun Facts:

I wrote a play.
- Yay! I honestly thought, as we were getting closer to the end of the quarter, that I wouldn't be able to finish it in time, but, by the grace of God, I did, and my class seemed to really enjoy it. (: It's a (I guess you could call it) political comedy of sorts written in one act, and I've submitted it to be considered for our Festival of New Voices next year (which, by the way, I'm going to have to direct for...ugh).

I've been working at Edwards for over a year now.
- No comment other than I reeeeeally need a new job. haha

I've started painting...and I really love it! (:
- I painted an old pair of slip-on sneakers yesterday and I really liked the way they turned out, so I've decided I'm going to go with this new medium of artistic expression and try painting some stuff. (:






I'm the new President of California State University Bakersfield's Association of Student Theatrical Artists.
- That one's pretty self-explanatory, haha.

So, that's kind of all I can think of right now because I'm pretty tired and sleep-deprived. More to come later, lovers.

mjl.

surreal

It doesn't quite capture the true feeling of turning on the news in the morning and hearing about things that are happening from within our government that should only be found on the ficton shelf between Brave New World and 1984.

If health care is nationalized, I'm moving to New Zealand.

End of story.

Socialism is wrong.
Fight the power.
Amen.

mjl.

what's in a name?

Palet. Yeshua. Gaol. Magen. Jehova-M'Kaddesh. Jehova-Tsidkenu. Abhir. El Shaddai. Adonai. Elohim. Yaweh. Eyaluth. El-Olam. The Son of Righteousness. Prince of Peace. Everlasting Father. The Chief Apostle. The Author & Finisher of our faith. The Lamb of God. The Deliverer. The Ancient of Days. The Chief Cornerstone. Immanuel. The First Born. The Rock. The Vine. The Master. The King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The Comforter & Counselor. The First and the Last. The Beginning and The End.

My Father.




mjl.

that's cool.

"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

how great is God's love for us that he was willing to go through torture and death so that we, a race of sinful, greedy human beings who constantly turn on Him, may escape the pains of Hell and live with Him in eternal paradise?

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, the propitiation for our sins."

amen.

mjl.

my life is a teenage love song

who wants that?

not me.

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."

psalm 42:11

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."

romans 5:1-5

mjl.

when life hands you lemons...SING!

I'm fairly certain I've asked this about a thousand times or so, but why, oh why, can't my life be a musical?

I know a lot of musical skeptics out there criticize musicals for being too unrealistic because "honestly, how often do large crowds break out into choreographed song/dance numbers?" but if you really look at musicals, it's not so much an actor making an unrealistic break from the monotony of speaking lines on stage, but a character who is so completely overwhelmed with [insert appropriate emotion here] that he/she simply cannot express how he/she feels in any other way than through song or dance.

See, the beauty of music is that it is able to be understood on nearly a universal level. It's kind of amazing when you think about it; the fact that we are able to take in something as seemingly simple as varying frequencies and pitches and are able to, not only hear & associate them with certain moods, but further convey our own emotions by constructing these pitches into melodies. It's beautiful! When you think about it, even a toddler learning to speak can tell the difference between what sounds like a 'happy' or 'sad' melody.

So it would make sense that something as intricate and beautiful as a song should be used to convey one's most emphatic emotions.

And that's how I feel.

I’ve been so overwhelmed with certain emotions lately that I would love nothing more than to literally drop everything and start singing at certain people.

That’s all for now.

mjl.

oh, George

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."

"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

- George Orwell

on a side note. I saw a link to Obama quotes. A lot of them were about bringing changes to the Presidency. Hahahahah. I love the fact that change means bringing in a nearly identical cabinet to that of our last Democrat president's regime. Man, Barrie, way to push the envelope with your revolutionary "change".

I'd love to see a President who doesn't confine himself to party lines but would be willing to actually bring change to the office.

mjl.