woah! i'm back! i was just going through my favorites list and saw this thing called "Xanga" so i figured i'd write something else. actually, i do have something to say.

i love ccf. i love the people in ccf. i love the interns. i love rick. the whole thing is great and the place is just exploding all over campus. however, i have a concern that involves everyone. it might just be me, but it seems like whenever we get together, we all try to impress each other with how un-Christian we can be. i know that sounds pretty corny, but it's almost like a contest to see if we can one up on someone else. it's so much fun to do crazy stuff, but people go overboard all too easliy (swearing, drinking, etc.).

don't get me wrong, ccf has been great for my relationship with Christ, but rarely does the conversation involve Christ when we aren't engaged in a Bible study or a small group. i know that i am pretty comfortable talking about pretty much everything, and it's nice to have friends that don't get offended with different subject matters, but when Christianity, Church, or anything like that comes up, the conversation just dies.

and that sucks.

sometimes i catch myself just waiting for ccf to end so i can "get on with my life." but Christ IS my life. of, at least, he should be. i have come to realize that he is the only one that will ever satisfy me or complete me. no human being ever will and nothing i can ever accomplish will either.

i have had several groups of friends before college, and within each group of friends, we never really talked that much about our faith. and as a result, i have seen several of my good friends really struggle faithwise as well as seen them struggle socially and schoolwise. my point is that it is imperitive that Christ is in our lives and our discussions. fortunately, i know several people that feel the same way. i want to be able to bring this up to people in person. i hope some of y'all feel the same way.

anyway, it's almost 3. peace out, y'all.

if this didn't make any sense to you, give me a holler.

I got to go back down to Louisiana last weekend, but this time, we stayed in downtown New Orleans. It was amazing how some places were back to normal and looked fine while other places hadn't even been touched since the storm. We worked in the upper 9th ward, which was hit pretty hard, but most homes were still salvageable. The lower 9th ward was across the canal from the upper 9th, and nothing there was any good. There were cars flooded out and flipped over, houses in the road, stuff still sprewn everywhere, and a stench that filled the air. People complain that everything hasn't been fixed yet, but there is just so much to do along the gulf coast that it will be years before everything is resolved. That being said, New Orleans and the surrounding area will never be the same. There are places that I am sure they will just bulldoze everywhere. Some people won't even come back and see what is left becuase they already know that it is hopeless. It's a sad situation but hoepfully people can learn a lot from what happened and realize what went wrong.

I can't wait to get the heck out of here. I have been so busy lately with school, club golf stuff, ccf stuff, other stuff, and on and on. I just want to know that everything will be done well. I don't want to say that I just want it all to be over, because there's fun stuff going on with ccf and everything, but it will be nice to relax.

Carolina is looking good. I mean, really good. They're hustling, diving on the floor for loose balls, being smart on offense, becoming more fundamentally sound on defense, and just playing hard. It's a fun team to watch. Not so much for Tech. They just look stale on offense. No one moves around, there's too much dribbling, not enough passing, too many bad shots. And it doesn't help when the other team is hitting everything they chuck up there (this team being UGA). I predict Carolina finished 4th in the ACC and Tech 10th. It should be interesting to say the least.

i know that some of y'all have just been holding your breath forever, wondering when i would post again, or if i ever would post again. well, here it is. so, enjoy.

these are the things that have happened in the past few weeks:

-went to the tour championship and saw tiger and vijay. they are good at golf. i mean, really good. in person, they are freaking amazing. i think tiger can pretty much do whatever he wants with the ball, and vijay isn't far behind. so many people were following that group (including me and ethan), but that's all i wanted to do anyway. sergio and retief were there too, and we saw a little of them. it was my first pga event ever, and i had a blast.

- Our golf team went to myrtle beach to play in our conference tournament. we came in 5th out of 11, but we really shoulda won the thing. i shot 83 and 80, so i played like crap. but we had fun. blew a ton of money on food, but it was so worth it. me and cole and bobby went down really early friday morning and played a practice round. i was about to tee off when these two ladies pull up in a cart and ask us who we were and what group we were with. they were real nice and asked us some more questions, and asked if we minded if they took our picture. we said ok, so they lined us up and took one, then took a couple of each of us swinging. then we went off and thought nothing of it. well, at the turn, one of them was waiting with our pictures in these cheap little fames, and we were a little surprised. then she said that "we probably didn't know they were gonna charge us for them," and that they normally charged 20 bucks for each one." she asked if we each had 10 bucks, but we all said no (i mean, we're in college and we have no money period, much less any money to be ripped off with). she ended up just giving them to us, because they didn't have anything to do with them. i didn't feel bad, and i dont think cole or bobby did either. so, we got these pretty cool pictures for free. so, watch out for the old ladies with cameras on the first tee.

-went to panama city beach with ccf this past weekend. pretty cool. the water was warm and i liked the speakers and everything. a lot of riding.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL IS STARTING!!!!! duke played tonight and won (boston u.big deal) but hopefully they will lost sometime soon. Carolina's first game is saturday and techs is friday.

i can't wait till thanksgiving break. i just want to go home and not have a ton of stuff to do. but, till then, peace.

so now that i am back at school, i can finally get some rest from all that fall break. it was a sweet break, though. on friday, i drove from the atl to charlotte and saw hunter and taylor and ben for a couple hours. then i drove from there to lynchburg, va, and saw mary alice's volleyball game, which they lost because she didn't play. brian had his radio duties friday night (he sounded pretty darn good i might add). after their respective games, we hit up the good ol' lynchburg ale house. on saturday we watched mary alice lead liberty on to victory, then me and bk watched the best college football games ever at bw3's. they would have been even better if michigan and usc hadn't have pulled something out of their butts to win. we hung out with esther and hannah and esther's roomate bekka at the football game and macado's, the big hang out spot at lu. to tell you the truth, i loved liberty. i think the coolest thing about being at liberty was realizing that there were other people out there that could have fun without getting slamed. i really enjoyed there not being drunk people all over the place. but, now that i went up to liberty, bk and hannah and esther need to come down and visit tha atl.

the rest of the weekend was good. i drove home early sunday morning and went to church, played golf with mark, dad, and papaw. then i slept and good sleep. played golf again, slept, woke up, packed, then came back. that's the story. payce out.