Sorry, a little Dane Cook humor in that title. Maybe one person caught it. Anyway, here’s a story about what happened to me today. I was walking with a friend of mine, who is affectionately known as “The Bear,” to the student center so he could get a drink in the Haven (that’s our fast-food restaurant, for any non-AU people reading this). As we were approaching the entrance door, I happened to be listening to a voicemail on my phone. It finished right before we reached the door, so I was standing approximately two feet from the door as I was closing my phone. I looked up from my phone, and at that precise moment, The Bear had decided to open the door. Unfortunately, I was not clear of the path of the door. So before I was even able to raise my head to its normal position, the edge of the door absolutely demolished my forehead. Needless to say, the metal of that door crashing against my skull hurt like a word I shouldn’t say. I had a nice ridge of a welt extending from my scalp line almost to my left eye for a few hours. It’s gone now, and I feel no pain. Just thought I’d share a fun story from my day.

Matt

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Ok, you’ve asked for it, and you’ve been anxiously waiting. So wait no longer! Here’s the other monumental event from yesterday. My roommate and I recorded 2 songs. As you should be able to tell, he’s the singer (Love ya’, Jon!). I was the engineer and keyboardist. They still aren’t perfect, so I’ll be tweaking them, but here are the current cuts of Jon’s two latest singles, “Star*69″ and “Paper Airplane.”

- Star*69
- Paper Airplane

Matt

P.S. Two days ago is the one-year anniversary of my blog. How about that!!

Yesterday was a monumental day in my life. I experienced two major life firsts. Last night, I was privileged to experience the movie “The Passion of the Christ” for the first time ever. I regret not having seen it previously, but what better day is there than Good Friday? What an impacting experience. I really can’t describe how I felt other than to say as I was watching the horrific acts of torture and scorn, all I could feel was utter unworthiness for the sacrifice that my Lord made for my sins. Unfortunately, the Bible isn’t very descriptive in discussing the events of the last few hours of Jesus’ life, so it is very difficult to understand what Jesus went through. On one hand, it’s unfortunate that many of us need a Hollywood movie to understand, but on the other hand, I think it’s amazing that a story taken directly from Scripture and made into a movie can have such widespread acceptance and popularity, even a life-transforming impact on those that have seen it. We know Scripture is sufficient for the lost to find Salvation, but what an amazing way for people to better understand, even visualize, Christ’s love for them poured out in His death.

I’ll tell about my other life-first in a later post as it doesn’t fit with this post.

Utterly thankful for the sacrifice and wholly indebted to the sacrificial Lamb,

Matt

I credit Dave Deur, my hero, for this find.

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Wow…the end is in sight. In approximately seven weeks, I will be on summer “break.” You may be wondering why I put quotes around the word break. Well, I do that because it is very likely that my summer job will be starting before any breaking could happen. I can see the tears of pity wellling up in your eyes already, and for that I thank you. Honestly, I really just hate working in a factory. Not only is it no-brain, semi-brawn work, it’s ten hours a day, five days a week. The worst part is the risk to my piano-playing hands that this job poses. I almost lost a part of my left thumb last summer, and I prefer to not scare myself again, let alone actually lose something. It may sound kind of corny that my greatest concern is for the safety of my arms and hands, but honestly, music is my life and one of the two career fields I have a passion for (the other being information technology, a.k.a. computers). But I couldn’t do the other without hands either, at least not very well. Now, I suppose I could just stick to singing and/or using voice-recognition technology for computer work, but I prefer to play the piano and enjoy tactile interaction with the computer keyboard and mouse. Ok, enough of that. I shouldn’t really even be complaining about the job. It is a job, which is more than some people have. I guess my point is that I would prefer a different job, but I’ll be thankful for what I can get.

Here’s to an eventful (but hopefully not too stressful) conclusion of the semester and a great summer of work with occasional opportunities for relaxation.

Cheers!

Matt

Well, I caught the cold which, until now, had been eluding me. I’m seriously thinking that it has something to do with my house, or the Michigan climate, or something along those lines. I get close to no sleep at school (which would make me more prone to sickness), but for some reason I don’t get sick. As soon as I come home, I get sick, even though I get more sleep (and probably eat healthier too). I just don’t understand. Oh well. I’ve been having a good spring break anyway. Lots of extra sleep, home cooking (or at least non-Haven/Marketplace food), some time on my brother’s X-Box, and seeing people that I miss while I’m at school makes for a good break. I’m hoping that the first week or two back won’t be too bad either since I got all my tests and projects out of the way before break. But I’ll bet the profs will come up with something for me to do. Oh well. If I didn’t expect to have school work to do, I wouldn’t have signed up for college, and I surely wouldn’t be letting thousands of dollars of my family’s money float out of our hands and into P-Eddy’s.

Ok, time for sleepy.

Matt

Finally, all the hectic-icity-ness-ification-ism of the last 2 weeks is over!! I can now relax!! It turned out that this past week was worse than the week before last, which I anticipated in my last post. I don’t think I’ve had so many tests in a short amount of time as I’ve had these last two weeks, not to mention the multiple projects, papers, and assignments that were also due recently. Now it is time for me to sleep, eat, drink, be merry, and sleep some more. And hang out with hot chicks, if I can rustle me up some. Which reminds me…let me know if you find any that would like to hang out with me. And if you are one, feel free to leave me one. Just hit “Contact” on the Navigation bar to shoot me an e-mail. I’ll get back to you ASAP.

Look forward to hearing from ya. But now it’s time for me to sleep for a long time.

Good night.

Matt