tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60322542011-04-21T14:01:24.815-07:00Occasional forays into thoughtWhen the mood hits, I'll post my brain hiccups. Don't look for anything on a regular basis though.Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1124279193055815042005-08-17T01:45:00.000-07:002005-08-17T04:46:33.060-07:00If you were sent to this site by a link, I don't really post on here anymore - check here instead.Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1116930284327653232005-05-24T02:58:00.000-07:002005-05-24T03:24:44.356-07:00This blog, through inactivity, has kind of changed in nature from what it is into what it is becoming. It was originally supposed to be my personal blog, where I put my thoughts and ideas - anything that didn't fit into my "fun" blog. Then I started kind of writing some of the things God was doing in my life. Then the whole blog just sort of fell into disuse. Actually, I'm not sure if I wrote it Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1100291233550113732004-11-12T13:15:00.000-08:002004-11-12T12:27:13.550-08:00Oy vey, I should have accepted the ride.
I just got back from having lunch with Glen to discuss the retreat tomorrow, and oh the things that can happen on that short little ride. I was bringing back two sacks of groceries for making sandwiches for tomorrow, as well as a case of drinks - the sacks were on my handlebars, and the drinks were in the side basket of my bike. Well...the side basket Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1100128785018792862004-11-10T15:01:00.000-08:002004-11-10T15:19:45.016-08:00As usual, busy, busy, busy. Trying to get things done, but goign to take 5 minutes here to jot a little something. Going to see one of my professors at 4:00 about the assignment for tomorrow - a little xml encoding project. XML is weird - easy, yet hard at the same time. Leaning towards the hard side at the moment. I'll be able to do it I think, just need to work at it.
Anyway, life is going Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1098697862357853682004-10-25T00:50:00.000-07:002004-10-25T02:51:02.356-07:00 What Famous Leader Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com
This is really funny, since I am named after Lincoln.Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1098316988080936522004-10-20T16:52:00.000-07:002004-10-20T17:03:08.080-07:00Ah me oh my.
I should be reading Shakespeare,
but instead here I try
to write a rhymed line
and not make it sound like a pelican
strangled about to die.
I think I failed. Oh well. I'm just sitting up here on the fourth floor of Wallenburg Hall (the nice, new tech-equipped building), trying to get myself to study. Although it seems futile, I refuse to give up. Anyway, Wallenburg is really nice. Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1098019295875474792004-10-17T01:20:00.000-07:002004-10-17T06:23:17.500-07:00Just some random funniness.
Which File Extension are You?
Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1097816834712946942004-10-14T21:30:00.000-07:002004-10-14T22:07:14.713-07:00Wow, this week has blown by. I wanted to get something down in here before I forgot about it though. Anyway, had been sick/fighting being sick for just over two weeks. On Sunday at church, when everyone went up for prayer (they had a special speaker - someone named Ray Mesas - kind of like an old-time revival preacher), I went up too. I usually just stay in my seat, though in this church pretty Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1097814623370409362004-10-07T12:04:00.000-07:002004-10-14T21:30:23.370-07:00I'm really trying to make my life more like I want it to be.
I realized today how fortunate and blessed I am to get to spend two and a half years on one of the most campuses of the world, surrounded by some of the most intellectual people. I really have not been enjoying, not to mention taking advantage of, this simple fact. I'm trying to change that now. I guess these last coouple of years haveNathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1097018653048868962004-10-05T16:22:00.000-07:002004-10-05T16:24:13.046-07:00Well, I'm home now, waiting for my tortilla soup to get hot, and I have a headache worthy of a titan. Somebody tell Atlas to drop the world on my head and put me out of my misery.Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1097006365056860472004-10-05T12:58:00.000-07:002004-10-05T12:59:25.056-07:00Oy vey. What have I been doing for the last four days? Well, for about two at least, sweating my brains out. Friday night I came down with something, got a sore throat that lowered my voice about three octaves, and then got a fever. I ended up not really getting any of the work I went home to do done, and I actually stayed an extra day and missed class on Monday because I wan't up to driving backNathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1096180694243251432004-09-25T23:31:00.000-07:002004-09-25T23:38:14.243-07:00Of the many gifts God has given man, chief among them woman (after Christ), high up on the ranks would be the French for their amazing ability to make food that is simply amazing. I just got back from Le Pot Au Feu, and having the most amazing Beef Wellington. It happens to be one of my all-time favorite dishes, and the way Chef Philippe Bressolier made it was simply mouthwatering. Oh - if I Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1096180305217222762004-09-20T00:30:00.000-07:002004-09-25T23:31:45.216-07:00Call me a dork, but I just saw “Up a Creek Without a Paddle,” and I found it frickin’ hilarious. I laughed so much my checks hurt. As I try to think about how to describe it, I realize anew how stupid it is, but that doesn’t change the fact of its funniness. Strike it up to my strange sense of humor, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I only saw it on a whim, but it was better than a lot of the movies Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1093516714632127022004-08-26T01:22:00.000-07:002004-08-26T03:38:34.633-07:00I realized something today. As I was driving back to school during traffic time, which I usually don't do. It hit me. There's something that I'm afraid of. Now, in general, there's not too much that I'm afraid of, but I realized there is this one thing.
It's really scary.
It's old people driving faster than I do.
Now, 680 is a fairly fast freeway. That's one of the reasons that I love driving itNathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1092965273416707422004-08-19T18:12:00.000-07:002004-08-19T19:24:39.753-07:00Wow, it's been a while. School is for the moment completed, so I am writing a little something new here. Just took a little personality test, linked to it from my fun site, and wanted to post the results here. More on what's been up with me for the last three months later. First off, the results. I came out an Idealist (NF). I did a test like this a while back and came out an INFP - guess I Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1084530617480274662004-05-14T01:12:00.000-07:002004-06-04T12:48:53.000-07:00Well, here's a peek at one of the things I've been doing around campus lately. Every spring, Stanford explodes with color. Last year, I got a couple pictures with my regular camera, but then it takes forever to get all the film developed, and then to put it on-line I have to scan them, blah bla blah ad naseum - but now I have a digital camera. Oh yeah! And it has a pretty good macro feature, and Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1083830881803120232004-05-05T11:54:00.000-07:002004-05-06T01:13:50.653-07:00Well, midterms are over now. I guess they took a lot more out of me than I realized because today after going down to the nursery school to do observations like usual, I came back home and fell asleep for most of the day. Actually missed my Human Behavior class, which is totally unlike me - the video of it will be online in a day or two though, so I can watch it on my computer. Right now I need Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1082709913211773002004-04-23T01:22:00.000-07:002004-04-23T01:49:21.280-07:00Ah, I am happy. Currently, anyway. The weight of school will shortly come crashing back down on me but for the moment I am enjoying the fact that I just got a gmail acount. now, for all you non-geek readers out there, that is a highly coveted email account still in beta testing put out bu google. Also, it has a whole gig of storage space. That's the same as 500 free hotmail acounts. Yeah, now youNathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1081954021928951702004-04-14T01:33:00.000-07:002004-04-14T08:06:59.513-07:00Well, long time no write, again. Lots has happened in the intervening time. Let's see...I went up and visited Andrew before he left. We went shooting, which was fun. It was my first time, but I held my own (got my first three shots, and then some). Then he left for Russia. Through the wonders of modern technology and the mystery of area codes, I've atually been able to speak with him several Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1079868373485368482004-03-21T13:50:00.000-08:002004-03-21T03:29:36.640-08:00Alright, I finally made it up to Yuba City to see Andrew's place. Yuba Yuba Yuba - fun little word. Didn't get up here till nine, so we ended up just watching a movie at his place with a few of his friends. Jane was here, and she's always fun, and also finally got to met Rosa, whom I have been wanting to met for a while. After the flick we went to Lyon's to hang out for a little while. Tomorrow Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1079682985185522552004-03-18T23:56:00.000-08:002004-03-21T03:13:44.360-08:00Well, for better or worse, another quarter is over. I feel that this particular one was for the worse. I've never had such a hard time with classes before, and I've taken more units twice, but for some reason this quarter really mopped up with me. One week's respite in the corner of the ring, and then I'm back in slugging for another round. Might be the last one, but I might be going in for Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1077936295407126452004-02-27T18:44:00.000-08:002004-02-27T18:47:47.623-08:00Well, I have a couple moments in which I can't really be doing anything else at the moment, so let me tell you about the food I made the other night.
I hadn't had any real MEAT for a while, so I got some when I saw Safeway had some good stuff for 1/2 off. I felt like doing something different from the standard salt/pepper/basil/wine/yadda/yadda that I usually do. So, looking around, I lighted on Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1077537542343271962004-02-23T01:55:00.000-08:002004-02-23T04:03:53.796-08:00Woo Woo, I finally got a couple poems and linked pages working at my new poetry site. Just one old and one new one for now, but since I got the template worked out with margins and colors and backgrounds and font sizes and stuff, it will be fairly easy to add more from now on. I am making my digital presence known. Watch out world!
Once again, the new site it is swimminglessons.bravehost.com. Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1077377759505044532004-02-21T07:33:00.000-08:002004-02-21T07:38:43.106-08:00Just saying goodmorning before I go to bed. The html bug has got me good now, and I working on starting another page, one where I will be able to post my poetry. Just a skeleton at the moment, but the site is swimminglessons.bravehost.com, and hopefully I'll be able to get it up and running in a few weeks. Anyway, just a little post.Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1077015052280501022004-02-17T01:50:00.000-08:002004-02-17T04:22:15.873-08:00
Well, just trying something new. Wanted to see if I could post pictures on here, specifically ones that are clickable to get a larger image. We'll see what happenes. What you should be seeing is a small picture from Valentine's day, when I had lunch with my neighbor Nina, a friend from Shelter, Lisa, and my mom, at a great little French restaurant in Walnut Creek. Not going to write much now, Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1076468207195424952004-02-10T18:56:00.000-08:002004-02-10T19:13:36.403-08:00I thought one month was a long time in between blogs. Guess it was a little longer this time. And so much has happened in the interim - where do I begin. Let's see...Christmas break was good, but like it always is, it was too short. Oh, and I had to move to a different apartment too, with like only three days to move. I STILL haven't gotten everything put back into a designated place yet. Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1071078211400530692003-12-10T09:43:00.000-08:002004-03-19T00:25:42.560-08:00Wow, I haven't posted anything on here in over a month. A couple links and other things on the other site, but no just blah-blah-blah kind of stuff over here. Well, not going to post too much now either. Sorry, that's just the way it is. I still have one last paper to revise...then I'll be going home, probably wont get online much from there...there school will start again, and I'll be busy. Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1068117926801923922003-11-06T02:11:00.000-08:002003-11-06T03:32:32.576-08:00Hey, doing fine. No hiccups at the moment.Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1067942118113542392003-11-04T02:35:00.000-08:002003-11-04T02:35:20.816-08:00Hey it worked! I figured out how to link this site to the one I have at Stanford, and snagged a pic from there for here! Cool.Nathanielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032254.post-1067941485858830012003-11-04T02:24:00.000-08:002003-11-04T02:24:48.716-08:00Okay, not going to write anything on here right now, just wanted to get this thing started. No earth shattering revelations to share with the world at the moment. Oh, one cool thing though - I fairly likely will be named as a co-author on the Psych project I've been helping with at the Psychiatry building with Jay, Mel, Cheryl, and Lisa. Very Cool. Cheryl was telling me that a lot of PhD Nathanielnoreply@blogger.com