Time flies...when you're having fun???

Lol, don't worry guys, I'm not really..."having fun"

But I have been really busy lately...I can't believe I've been here in Lexington for 4 weeks...that is just a little ridiculous to me...

I've been really busy with work, and then coming home, and trying to rest and stay sane...the work that I'm doing...is a lot of research based, kinda like school work problems...which isn't the worst, but I just don't think that I can do this for a living...we'll see when that time comes...

The past four weeks have given me a lot of time to ponder about the future, where I should be next year etc...but whatever, only time will tell

So what have I been doing these 4 weeks? Well one thing that I've been doing is cataloguing all my pictures from this year... I'll share several of them with you

Catalyst Pics - Hike up the mountain



The Epic Fight of the Age...Fight to the Death, Guess who won...victory tease!!!

Catalyst Group Photo Takes 1 and 2, Look at Alan and Gary in the photos...;)

Catalyst Final Group Photo, Water Battles that ensue afterward...Gary...remember my mercy!


Random ACF Pics from 2008-2009
Charles being ridiculous, Lawrence being nice to Jeff....


Jeff enjoying a little too much, and Jiang wielding a gun???


Jiang in front of Poster, Melissa with something strange on her mouth....ask Alan...jk


My take on whats happening -- Kevin is not interested in whatever melissa is offering him
Introducing the freshmen to the Pointersaurus



Random Pics of Jeff! If you don't know where these are from, ask Jeff




Halloween, if you don't know the story, ask Chen or Charles, its worth asking...sorta




Random Pics
My mom wanted to buy me this shirt....not funny


After searching for a couple hours on today best thing.com we found this...


And LAST BUT NOT LEAST

If you see ALAN, make sure you repeat this phrase to his face "Ronon DIES!"

OK, if you made it this far, props to you...until next time
~Matti

Life...it flashed before my eyes....more than once

So my mentor came into my office yesterday and took one look at my work, told me I was working too hard, that it was the summer, and to take it easy...lol...so work should be a lot more surfing the web, and a lot less reading journal articles i guess...something doesnt feel right about that...

I drove into boston for dinner to celebrate my cousins graduation from Harvard. It was a really good dinner, but I drove a total of 11 miles...it took me 90 minutes to get there...thats a little less than 8MPH on average... on the way down there, I almost died 3 seperate times...

The first time, I was driving straight down a street (no stop sign or stoplight) and the cars on the cross streets ran through their stop signs and almost t-boned me...both of them...so it was good that I was paying attention and stopped...and then people behind me honked at me...for not going and getting killed...as Jerry would say...RIDICULOUS

Then the second time, a Semi basically merged into my lane, and saw me just in time...I kid you not, it was like maybe 3 inches from my sideview mirrors...

The third time, people were just being retarded and did the whole, I'm stopped, picking people up with my emergency lights on, then decided, oh nevermind I guess I'll just start driving, and almost drove straight into me as I tried to pass them...

I'm so sick of boston drivers...and for that matter pedestrians as well...

I thought it was common knowledge/decency to walk a little faster if you're in front of a car and they are waiting to pass...but no...people just stroll along like they dont care at all...taking their time and casually having a laugh at you waiting...

Living like a child...

My thought for the day...I'm OLD

Gone were the days where I could stay up till 3 or 4 (or maybe even 6), gone are the times where I could just do whatever I want, I'm supposed to be responsible, looking toward the future, trying to set goals and figure out where I want to work, where I want to settle down...

and then... I came back "home" to find a little 4 year old who seems to have no cares in the world except...where and what should I be playing with next???

Its was a great reminder to me (even in the least 1 and half weeks I'd forgotten) God's call to be like a child and enjoy life again...now I don't know where the balance is between this and going to work every day, but hopefully I can find that balance...

My cousin is graduating from Harvard!!! Major shoutout to Andrew! Congrats! So my mom is in town...hopefully we can (re)connect and have a good time throughout this week...and weekend...

A lot of people have been asking what I've been doing with my time...or what I've been up to...so far, its just been mainly focused on work...I've been trying to come home and just rest, not do too much outside of maybe playing with 4 year old Nathaniel for a little after dinner each night...

Then I do a little reading and then maybe some crafts...better than playing computer games at least...

Here's my latest craft, for Nathanael (notice the spelling) my baby brother...for his birthday and high school graduation

Front

and back

As for reading, I'm trying to decide where to start my devos, but I've been reading the Firebird trilogy, something that i bought way back in the day, and then only last year started reading again...I'm on the second book, out of three (duh...obviously since its a trilogy)...the series is a christian sci fi series written by the author of one of my favorite star wars books (...yes I'm a nerd I know)....but the premise is something like...what if God had created people on many different planets, how would God save the people then? Something like that, its hard to explain without getting the book, and its across the room from me at the moment :-P.

Until next time!!!

Matti out

The start of another week waking up early, and going to sleep before a godly hour...

The epitome of East Coast Driving (In my opinion): I was stopped at a red light, and the car going the opposite direction was also stopped and then the light turned green, and he waves at me and just turns left right in front of me...clearly they didnt have a left green arrow or anything, he was just impatient and saw a Minnesota drivers licence plate on my car, so he just went...its a good thing i wasnt ready to gun my engine like i usually do....So Ridiculous

In other news, I was in a lot of pain this morning, for like 3 hours, my butt really hurt sitting at my desk doing my work, I thought I was just really sore from random things, but then I went to the bathroom and found....a price tag....i have no clue how it got into my pants, but it was there in my pants making it extremely uncomfortable to sit down...

So now that you have had way too much information about my day, I'll log off for the day...the 4 year old that I'm staying with is hellbent (not really) on destroying my laptop, so I should hide it...until next time...