Wednesday, January 26, 2011
- So I spoke for some 8-10 year old cub scouts today, and it wasn’t my best. I prayed a bunch and practiced out loud in the car on the way there, and it went good enough I guess, the leaders loved it anyway. I thought my message worked for most any age, and it might still. However my humor style works better on probably 13+ or so. I decided the majority of my humor is either implied (and too young don’t get the implication) or shock value. Like, saying something people didn’t expect, (that’s so random!) but if they’re too young they don’t really have an expectation of people yet, thus no shock. Interesting.
- I had a terrible realization! My 9-5 job will probably mean the death of lunch dates, FOREVER! Sad story! I’ll be ok though J.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
- Way funny status post by Drew Strunk, “I found a new game. Drive around looking for people with their windows down in the middle of winter. Look inside the car for anyone that doesn't look pissed off. That person just farted.”
- “You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were." – Codex Alera book 2
Monday, January 31, 2011
- What an amazing weekend! I have just felt more inclined to do the hard thing, like go to a movie night even though I don’t feel social rather than play WoW with the guys. And I feel like I’ve totally been rewarded for it. No I didn’t meet any girls I think will have dating potential, but I do think I got contact information of girls that will help our apartment become a social place again.
- Oh, I got asked to give a talk on humility on the 27th, I’m kind of excited about it. It’s kind of funny, there’s a cute girl named Sadie that I ran into on the way home from church, and she told me she’s giving a talk on humility the same day, so I was like “oh! See we need to exchange contact information so we can meet for lunch and make sure our talks don’t overlap huh? That’s the point you were getting at?” and she says “of course!” and dared me to text her later. Way blunt of me haha. If I approach it with the right energy people reciprocate wonderfully. If I approach it from a nervous energy people are nervous to reciprocate.
- I had a great breakthrough while talking to Steph on Friday. She was like, “Corby, can I be blunt with you?” and I said “always” “I’ve never thought of you as someone with low self-confidence, but lately you kinda are.” It was perfect, I actually told her I’d thought of this myself lately, in fact I think 1 or 2 posts ago I mentioned it. But I don’t think I had really accepted that as fact, more just thrown it out there as theory. But when Steph mentioned it to, I was like “holy crap, yeah it’s true! And I don’t like that! Dagnabbit I’m going to change it!” which is also why my weekend was amazing. On the way to the car to meet up with Steph that afternoon two gorgeous girls from my ward, Ashley and Tera, came out the door and started talking to me all friendly. I’m ashamed to say this but my primary feeling at the time was “these girls are beautiful and popular, why are they talking to me?” I was kind of weirded out. But on Sunday we had a combined meeting, and I pulled up next to Ashley on an edge and was like “Ashley! Can we be friends today?” and she says “of course!” and we talked a bunch before it started, and I made her laugh a good few times during, it was fun, she was way cool (and has a boyfriend, but still, fun). The funny thing is, nothing changed, there was no big thing I did that might make Ashley more receptive to talking to me. I just changed, and I’m so happy about it, and I sure hope I can keep it up again.
- Had an amazing conversation with Amelia today, got some real closure to the whole “everything seemed great and then suddenly she had a boyfriend” situation.
- Today is probably my last day as a non-working class citizen for many years to come. Goodbye previous life!
- I left the apt without a scarf today and now I feel naked.
- Lunch with Kjersti! And got verbal confirmation of non-romantic interest finally. Closure x2 today!
Saturday, February 05, 2011
-It often hurts figuring out where you are on someone’s priority list. (fun fact, this comment has nothing to do with the above comment!)
Sunday, February 06, 2011
- How accurately do you think you can deduce someone’s priorities by their actions?
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