Goodies to Share.

A time when Tyler Morgan (from camp Mivoden) came to visit and I made a bunch of people go out to eat at the Olive Garden, they didn't know him at all. p.s. he took the picture, that's why he's not in it.


Photo by Leslie B.


Photo by Leslie B.


The apartment at Christmas Time

Well Everyone! I'm on Spring Break and maybe headed your way! I'm going home to California! I'm going to hang with my parents and sleep in my house! And for a little part of it I'm going to Socal in the Loma Linda area to see some good friends!

Let me name most the people I'm excited to get to see and tell me if you wish you'd get to see these beautiful people too: Aaron, Amy, Ashley, Kenny, Joe, Tori, Maranatha, Jason Nouch, Jeff tata (is from southern but he and I will go surfing when I'm there.) all of my grandparents, Taylor, Danelle, Andre, and probably some other good peeps.

By the way I love you.

Forgetfullness Reminds Me.

Mustache March Approaches. Actually, I had to shave recently for something and I grow facial hair so slow but I was working on the Facial hair February. Now I am way behind... But Alas I will get my Asian facial hair back!

But everyone grow that stuff!! Why do I love this? I don't know! Maybe cuz I will never be able to grow good facial hair ever!

Cell Culture?

Zach will be putting on a stage performance and gallery showing on thursday night March 13! We shot a movie downtown in an alley way as an intro. We were supposed to look like people that were drawn, we did look like Tim Burton creations, edward scissorhands people/homeless/zombies/mimes, etc. The idea was to have us moving around in an alley and at the end of the shot the camera would enter into somebody's mouth and into the body, where Zach will present his art inspired by cellular structures in the body. Here's the cast of the film and the stagehands.

In the Mind of Matt Thiessen

I heard the reverberating footsteps
Synching up to the beating of my heart,
And I was positive that unless I got myself together,
I would watch me fall apart.
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When I got tired of running from you
I stopped right there to catch my breath
There your words they caught my ears
You said, “I miss you son. Come home”
And my sins, they watched me leave
And in my heart I so believed
The love you felt for me was mine
The love I’d wished for all this time
And when the doors were closed
I heard no I told so’s
I said the words I knew you knew
Oh God, Oh God I needed you
God all this time I needed you, I needed you
And I so hate consequences
And running from you is what my best defense is
I hate these consequences
Because I know that I let you down
Now I don't wanna deal with that
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I look under the tree
But there’s nothing to see
Cause it’s a broken heart that you’re giving me
I can’t figure you out
Is this what Christmas is all about
Cause it’s a broken heart that you’re giving me
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Jesus, I plead
Please purify me
Make my heart clean
Drench me with your mercy
Jesus, I pray
I love you, I need you
For the rest of my days
I swear I will seek you
To the best of my ability
I'm practicing humility
And I lay myself before
'Cause less is more.
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You cried wolf
The tears they soaked your fur
The blood dripped from your fangs
You said, "What have I done?"
You loved that lamb
With every sinful bone
And there you wept alone
Your heart was so contrite
You said, "Jesus, please forgive me of my crimes
Sanctify this withered heart of mine
Stay with me until my life is through
And on that day please take me home with you"

Way down on 3 South.

I'm at work right now at Memorial Hospital floor 300 south! It's 12:46 a.m.. And I sitting in the nursing station with all my homies or co-workers, Nurses and CNAs alike. Right now is the down time, we get to sit and wait for a uncomfortable patient to call and then treat them accordingly. I have some good patients. One was hurting real bad, I gave some pain medicine and then started to talk about dancing to distract her, we both got really excited. She was talking to me about the dances she does and used to do, I talked about mine, we discussed the "chicken", "swing", "electric slide", ballroom "waltz" "two step" I started dancing around the room, she had to stay in bed. bummer.:) Also one of the CNA's working right now is super funny, she always tells me I have "soap opera" hair. I don't know what that means. but I don't do anything to it actually. We have matching color scrubs, she said, "Ryan's my friend, he's the only one who can dress like me." she just told someone they "smelled like a freshly cooked biscuit." I hold my gut and laugh. Tonight is good, but I have 2 tests on Friday and I should be studying. I also had a confused patient that kept ripping off her gown and throwing it on the floor confusedly and angrily. But alas, I am happy and wanted to tell you about some of the good and bad briefly, back to caring for patients and charting!

Losing it.

I have so much random junk in my mind.

we all wanna be unique but we all wear the same styles of clothes and brand names. I'm deciding to have a uniform for myself, same clothes all the time. is that a good conclusion to make?

From the book Mr. God this is Anna - "Being dead was nothing to get fussed about. Dying could be a bit of a problem, but not if you had really lived. Dying needed a certain amount of preparation and the only preparation for dying was real living, the kind of preparation old Granny Harding had made during her lifetime."

My mom has applied for a Science teacher job at Gem State Academy, around Boise Idaho.

I had chest pains last night when I was playing floor hockey... like a harsh side ache in my chest. I got too excited with an adrenaline rush I guess. I knew i wasn't having a Pulmonary embolism or MI, but what if i was? okay i wasn't obviously.

My sister got a tattoo in thailand on her shoulder.

I work nights in the hospital, i don't sleep that much i guess, but I feel good, maybe even better than before. am I wierd? I like work.

We have Nerf gun wars in the apartments tournament style... we stay up late, it's intense, we can get really into it.

Zach is going to have a art performance show and gallery viewing soon, we're going to wear outfits like some acrobats in cirque de soleil do and run around on stage.

Tomatoes are the fastest food we go through in our house. we buy them by the 20's and they run out fast.

Also I love you! what do you have to say pal?

how do you think an atheist answers the question Where do you think the impression that everyone has that there is a Right or Wrong comes from?

I need prayer, will you pray for me?

I'm going to grow a handle bar mustache.

check out Jon Foreman's new music, really good, check him out on myspace i guess.

Monica and I are on the cover of an Insight Magazine. find it and laugh, it's funny.

try toast with pesto spread across it, feta cheese, tomato slice, spinach, really fast and easy snack. I eat that all the time.

Friday is a good day.

Give me a Home.

Love dies, when Growth Stops.

Build me a home inside Your scars.
Build me a home inside Your song.
Build me a home inside Your open arms.
The only place I ever will belong.

Super Important Info.

just a picture of cool peeps on the downtown hill (we made it into a chattanooga newpaper from being there so long and having so much fun.)


today marks the start of Facial hair February which will lead to Mustache March


today is Tie-Day Friday, i'm currently wearing a necktie.


just thought I'd let you know, Zachs and my room is themed birds, don't have much birdstuff at this time... feel free to contribute cool bird art and pictures to our room.

Head somewhere Else.

I'm not sure why it always goes downhill
Why broken cisterns never could stay filled
I've spent ten years singing gravity away
But the water keeps on falling from the sky

And here tonight while the stars are blacking out
With every hope and dream I've ever had in doubt
I've spent ten years trying to sing these doubts away
But the water keeps on falling from my eyes

And heaven knows, heaven knows
I tried to find a cure for the pain
Oh my Lord, to suffer like you do
It would be a lie to run away


Hey Everyone! Keep falling in love with Jesus!

Musical Favoritism.

From Watashi Wa to Eager Seas and now the band is called LAKES. A free show in Arroyo Grande tomorrow 1/18. Find it!


The great musician Aaron Roche is touring the west coast. Jan 16 at PUC, JAN 19 AT WALLA WALLA, JAN 21 SPOKANE, FEB 4 LOMA LINDA, FEB 6 AND 7 AT LA SIERRA. Go and see him, he's creative.


These are some of my favorite musicians to listen to. Inspirational in lyrical and musical creativity.

The Steep, DeadGrass, Wonderful Sledding Hill.

*See Below to Learn a little about this good time.



------------------Really Fast!



------------------- On foot.




The Transfer of One Sled to the Other, over the Tub.

A view to a hill.

This is a football toss. (we're about to get the football thown to us.)


---------------- Pyramids.


--------------- Wrestling.



--------------------- On all fours.


-------------------- Gymnastics.



We've made a discovery in downtown Chattanooga! We found a perfect dead grass sledding hill. Zach, Eric, Monica, Leslie, and I found people cardboard sledding down a hill one sabbath when going downtown, and ended up sledding for 4 hours making up all kinds of fun and games. So this last Sabbath, we took everyone there. Probably a group of about 20 of us cardboard sledding for hours on the hill.

So lock the windows and Bolt the doors.

So I'm starting to play indoor soccer in a league in town with some awesome guys, Dustin and Tim included. I'm really excited about playing pretty competitively regularly to improve my skills. I messed up last game and cost us a goal scored against us, i'm excited about that no happening anymore. We tied the game, we didn't lose cuz of me just tied :). But I'm gonna love it, I already do, I play with some good soccer players and good sports. Here are the indoor soccer cleats I use and some yellow crocs my dad got me for Christmas: Random!!

P.S. Indoor soccer is alot of running, so i was inspired to get in good shape instantly. So the next day, i started my training. Phillip, Chris Clouzet, and I started by running across lawns of grass kicking soccer balls to and fro, then running up on to the biology hiking trails and hiked/ran, then running all around southern's campus passing the soccer balls around, then sprinting up many of the numerous staircases at southern, then slowing it down with constant passing drills in front of the girls dorm.


My Best friends from Home, I got to see and hang with alittle over Christmas. Always good times, like old times. You could say they're my holiday and summer friends, but when we see each other it's like we just pick up where we left off and it's awesome to be around them.


January 13 was Ben Foote's Birthday, He came over to the apartment to just find me, so we ended up having a small birthday party, I made us smoothies, layered it whipped cream and many candles, and we sang happy birthday, he blew out the candles, and we almost set of the fire alarm, which causes everyone that lives in the apartment complex to evacuate the building, it would have been better if we set it off :).

Holiday Joy straight outta Cambodia.

Trina came home from Cambodia for a week at Christmas! We hung out!!!! Trina and I had this list of things we were gonna do together when we were both home, stuff she definitely couldn't do in Cambodia, we did some together, some separate, but i think we did them all.

We cooked food together.
We went to the beach.
We went to farmer's market in SLO
We did art together.
We went out to eat at some favorite places.
We played games with friends and family.

Trina has getting along great in Cambodia, and growing, learning, and getting stronger. I love her to death. She has some super cute kids, i know she loves them so much. She has videos of them on her computer... I laugh so much at their sweet dance moves.

Issues of Physician Sci-Fi and Retardation.

These are various pictures from the year from various occassions. Two of them are from an 80's dance party (for Maranatha's B-day - the one of the roommates: Amanda, Monica, Maranatha, Sarah. And the other one of dancers at that party: phillip, monica, eric, leslie, Matt, Jacque, and more. Another one is from when I was trying to have a mustache: Ryan and Monica. And another is from a Who-ville party at graduation time in december. And yet another is from a photo shoot for a computer design class for Leslie... we were a band. And another one is at Tiffany's birthday suprise near the greenway.

And I titled this blog this way not for any good reason... but i did want to talk about how i am taking this class call Issues of Physical Science and Religion. It doesn't sound so interesting, but it just may be. I'm going to read alot of C.S. lewis books, homework is thinking in the shower, talking with friends, any comments, discussions, this blog is counting as homeworking, telling anybody about how i'm taking this class is qualified homework. so thanks for being a part of my homework.

let's talk about science and religion. Friends and Family answer my questions.

If a good God made the world why has is it gone wrong?

What is the good of drawing up, on paper, rules for social behaviour, if we know that, in fact, our greed, cowardice, ill temper, and self-conceit are going to prevent us from keeping them?
think about it..we need to realize something more than "it's the law." It requires courage and unselfishness of individuals... does this make sense?

I room with an Elphillipant

Phillip loves the Lord. I've known this guy for many years... 6-7 years i think... this is only my fourth year going to school with him though.. but 2 of the 4 we've been roommates/housemates. Phillip is a passionate, spirited, creative, men.. Full of music, movies, spontaneity. Last semester... Phillip was busy. i don't even know how many credit hours he took or how much he worked, but he was gone from the apartment all the time. He's a film major.. i have discovered that this means lots of projects. So he's doing films, working the film lab, working in the computer lab, working in the lighting lab, hanging in the directing lab, chilling in the photography lab, and all the other labs. maybe this semester will be different. Nonetheless... he's a super guy and one of my best friends. He enjoy getting and giving back rubs, he's a got a good voice, and plays all instruments, he's good with making movies, he likes soccer. He also wants to go on some dates with some girls... FYI for girls i guess.

On the other hand Zach.

Zach also loves the Lord.. I don't have roommates that don't love the Lord. :) He's a spirited, creative, artist. as a lifestyle. Our apartment is filled with his stuff. art, furniture, lamps, tools, clothes, etc. He's a man of social boom, yet needs space and solitude. That's an artist for ya. He describes himself as "irrational" all the time. He is taking 11 credit hours and only goes to school on tuesdays and thursdays. He wants to graduate so bad and will in May and at times claims to dislike southern, but isn't sure what he is going to do after he's done and alot of the people that he loves are here (he likes this cute girl named Kelly). he lives in my room, our room, and we have a bird theme.. come see it, it's magical. oh ya... Zach loves all things "magical".

Zach lives fierce.

Roommate number Dustin Billington.

Here lies Dustin. Faithful till the end and so on. Listen to me tell you about Dustin.

he loves the Lord, spends quality time with Him everyday, and it shows. He's a nurse already but still going to nursing school. This semester, He only goes to school 2 days a week, wednesday and thursday. He will have 5 day weekends. But he works in the hospital, but does that when he wants. He has been my roommate for 3 years of school and it's cool. I've known him since the year 02, i think. So we just entered into the 6th year anniversary. We're kind of like brothers you could say... He is dating a nice girl named Tiffany Blaser, (pictured above). they've been going strong for just over a year now and guess what.. dustin forgot their 1st year anniversary! (i figured Dustin wouldn't really mind me telling all you guys :). But he made up for it somehow... they still are so in love. (i don't really know anything about that.) Dustin is good at all sports, romance and marriage wierds him out, and he loves to cook. Dustin is a nice guy... zach on the other hand...phil he's just crazy.

Resort to the Arts

So now Break is done for me... back to the work.

Life can be lonely, but good. God is good and I will stand strong in that...
Break has been full of family, friends, home, relaxing, but only lasted alittle more than a week. I go back to Tennessee to no one for a few days of work and solitude in my apartment. it'll be good. God willing, I will be blessed.

Progress.

This is some stuff i'm working on.