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Name: Abbot Simon
Birthday: 10/21/1927
Gender: Male
Interests: it's really pointless for me to put all this plaque up here, since all of you are well aware of what I like...
Expertise: ditto for this...
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Medical
Message: message me
Member Since:
10/17/2003
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| Well my friends, this looks to be my last post for a long while. Been
working on my new CD a good bit. Nearly got the first song finished.
Actually, the only part I haven't recorded yet is the djembe track (I
dropped the screaming track). I'm also going to be trying to quit IM.
It's a horrible addiction. There's just something with communicating
with my fingers in a much more clear headed way than I ever do with my
voice that I can't get away from  . Welp, I'd better be off to bed.
Take care all you folks. (oh, btw, this is for this site, not Silver_puddles_of_light. Got unfinished work there  .)
-Caitin, I am too quitting xanga! So ha! .
-Lynds, take care  . Actually, I have an email I need to send you.
-Courtney, alas, I shall only see you in class. That rhymed  .
-Allison Nelms, sorry I haven't responded much lately. Been busy. Haven't responded much to anybody. :-/
-Jordan J, you should call sometime. Or at least email occasionally. ...if you ever read this, which is unlikely.
-Katie Beth, haha, you're great.
-Yma, um...rats. I can't think of any inside jokes. I don't think we
have any. Except for the one about your pants...but I've forgotten how
it went.
-Cora, you seem to have a knack for picking up DJs. lol...crazy times.
-Michael P., I always loved readign teh comics you put up .
-Laura, um, you're probably not happy that I included your name up here
. Oh well! lol...I see you at church. You don't need a goodbye. .
-Mandy, thanks for all the encouragement. I'll be sure to let you know when I finish my new CD .
-Esther, you take care sister-woman. You're the best .
-Sam, I don't know how often you read my site, but, you're a cool kid.
I like you. lol...you have more sense than me anyways. Or at least half
the time .
-Sonja, I promise I'll comment at least a few more times!!
-Lani, Um...I see you at church too, and never talk to you on here, so I wont' say bye to you either .
-Becca, haha, you crack me up. As do the icons you find...
-Chase, thanks for being just about the only guy I talk to online. I
mean, thank you htat you actually TALK to me online. Otherwise it would
just be a bunch of girls...haha...*sigh*
-Allison Ward, give me a call sometime. Or, if you don't, I'll just call you and click my heels three times .
If I forgot anybody, I'm sorry! I love you!! I really do! Unless I don't know you. .
Anyways, good bye you guys. It was fun while it lasted ...maybe I'll
be back one day to ramble and such. Send me an occasional email .
God bless all of you...
-Blue/Daniel/Blaniel/Favorite Color
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| Well, I'm printing out my application to Summit, and you know what I realized? It says you "must
be 16 years or older." Ha, I didn't know. There were folks last year
who were 15, but maybe they changed the rules. So anyways, all you
people who are too young and would have liked to go, you have another
year to save up for it . But you really should go when you can.
Anyways, I've got to call Taryn today and find out when she's going so
that I can email Kevan and tell him when I'm going, so that he can call
or email his friends and let them know when he's going. Then I have to
email James and let him know when I'm going, and I have to email Chase
and let him know when I'm going, then I have to call or email Laura so
Taryn and I can convince her to go with us . Who knew going to
Summit could be so complicated? haha. Oh man, it's going to be so great
though ...
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| Okay, I'm not dead yet, and I haven't officially quit xanga yet. Not
until I get all this "who's going to Summit" deal figured out. But in
the mean time,
I've started recording my next CD. I put a blog on my purevolume.
Anyways, I should go.
Bye.
-Blue
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| Okay, so most of you know already this: I'm quitting xanga. I won't
"officially" quit for a week or so however, simply because I need to
finish up some stuff on here. But as soon as I'm done, I'm gone. Gone
from xanga, IM, and probably myspace. If not forever, at least for a
good bit.
Why? Well, these reasons:
1. It eats up too much of my time.
2. I make excuses to calm my conscience. "I may not be witnessing to
people in person, but at least I'm writing essays and 'witnessing' to
people online. Sooo, I'm not entirely shirking my duty. Actually, I
think I'm doing...fine..." And so forth.
3. I've had a headache since Sunday night. Today is Thursday. Do the
math. It sucks. I don't know if it's related to eyestrain, but if it
is, being on xanga, myspace, and IM all the time doesn't help.
4. Uh...hmm...I'm not sure how to say this next one. Oh, wait. I've got
it. The thing I don't like about IM (not so much xanga, but xanga does
have this tendency too), is that it decontexturalizes people.
You're seen without your friends and your family but it's more than
that. When you go to college you're seen without your friends and your
family, and you're not necessarily decontexuralized. I guess what I'm
saying is, you're turned into a two dimensional creature. Actually,
less than that. You're turned into text. Your normal attitudes and
disposition suffer from the translation into text and back again. What
you may actually be thinking or feeling suffer a change in meaning
(however small) by the change into text and back again as in enters the
imagination of the person you're talking to. See, even though all this,
if you were at least put in a context of people you hang around, it
would be easier and better, because there would be some context.
Instead, all it is a completely decontexuralized individual
communication with another equally decontexuralized individual, each
leaving it up to the other to fill in the context with their
imagination and memories. Bah. I don't like it. Unless your whole point
is communication in a book like fashion (nothing wrong with that, mind
you), it's just...bad. Hmm, let me rephrase that. It's POSSIBLE to have
good communication via xanga and IM and all that. However, it's much
harder. It takes alot more skill. The whole "decontexuralized" thing
was refering to meeting and getting to know people via the internet.
The fact that it's decontexuralized is what makes it easier to meet
folks online than in real life, I think.
5. I think it fosters an unhealthy depence in me. I just have to always have somebody to talk to, I just have to have people's approval, I just have to know people read what I say, I just have
to know what they think about what I've said. Some may do anything for
a laugh. Xanga and myspace twist it a bit--anything for a comment.
All this to say, I need to quit. My main reason for not quitting is
pretty stupid. It's something along the lines of, "Without me online,
the world will fall apart!!". That's an exaggreration, granted, but
it's the main idea. Without much trouble, we can see it boils down to
an elevated opinion of myself and a reduced perspective on God's
sovereignty. Pride, wouldn't you say? So basically, that's 5 good
reasons to quit, and one really bad reason to stay. I may come back
after I kick my "xanga habit", though I may just forever forget IM.
But there is a very wonderful plus side to kicking IM and xanga. Oh yes
indeed! It means, to contact me, people have three choices. They can
either call me, email me, or send me a letter! WOO! I love getting
calls, emails, and letters!
So yes, after I leave, be sure to email lots, call lots, and maybe send an occasional letter .
I'll probably quit for good within the next couple of weeks. I won't be
here next week due to TeenPact, so it'll probably take a full week
after that to get everything all finished.
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| Valentines day. Why is it such a big deal? I've made a habit of
ignoring it. I mean, gosh, it's just a day. If people want to make a
big deal out of being each other's "valentines" and going berzerk over
being "alone" on Valentines day, let them. Gosh. It's not such a big
deal.
Just do what I do. Ignore it.
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I guarentee you'll be carefree like me or your money back! Yessiree!
Okay, I'll shut up now. Hehehehe...
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