Okami

<p><p><p><p><p>lol Yeah, that's the way it was for my friend's Spanish class....she actually learned the language, where as Kiku and I...not so much. Je ne sais pas...</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Event Contributor. <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/tongue.png" alt=":P" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/tongue@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /> Which made me laugh, and then made me filled with massive hysteria and confusion <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh.png" alt="xD" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Aw...thanks. *shrugs* I suppose if they see fit to give me it, then maybe one day I'll have it. I don't think I've earned it, it's understandable...but I don't think I deserve it. =/ Hm...my pride is torn in these situations.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>You and I both, friend. We're fools by nature, thanks to sin.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>It sounds just like a valley to me. Sounds quite close to how I was for almost two years straight, idling, and unable to move forward, only seeming to move back. </p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Then go for it! if you feel strongly about it, change your major, start again. Sometimes all we can do is change our path. For years I was so strong into the science courses, wanting to be a Vetrinarian, but then confliction come with wanting to be an author, and then an artist, and then a Vet again...and then the Spirit shook me in the wake of my depression and it was just eye-opening, and I haven't looked back. </p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Perhaps you need to do something like it? It sounds like you're trying really hard to stay where you're at, when something is tugging you, telling you to turn around and take another path. Create your own path, maybe.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Hey Wraith, have you ever read Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller? Just wondering...it's one of my favorites. I'm reading through it again because it's been over a year now since I've read it and I needed a book for a reflections paper I'm writing (alongside Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies and Donald Miller's Search for God knows What) He just has a quirky writing style. Maybe it's just my personality lol</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>As they say, if it's not one thing or another, it's definately your mother...</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>All Freud could talk about was sex and sexual phantasy and other such things related to sex.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Hey Naru, you wouldn't happen to have a link to the mac you're looking into, would you? I'd like to take a look at it! <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":)" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>We're finally getting somewhere, members wise. <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":)" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /> But as for real discussion...nowhere =/</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Well, what're ya gonna do? You've been helpful to me, too. All that time spent in All-Around and all...</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Awesome! Doing things for others, I've found, is a great way to keep a healthy supply of happiness. <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":)" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Yes, it's been a very busy summer for me. Move-in is upcoming too...(There's definately a reason behind me leaving avatar creation <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh.png" alt="xD" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" />)</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>Man, I suck at keeping up with this conversation. Je desole. Dx</p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>The ocean? I've probably seen the ocean in my lifetime, but I was really young when I did, so I don't remember it at all. <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/sad.png" alt=":(" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/sad@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>There's something about seeing the ocean that just feels magical within me. I dunno. Considering I've been to some of the Great Lakes I figure it wouldn't be much different but eh...who knows. <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh.png" alt="xD" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Yes, divorce is bad, but in the case of my mom and dad, they're better friends now than they ever were as a married couple. If it weren't for thier divorce, I never would have met my best friend of nine years...and may not be a Christ follower because of it. In that way, because I met her, I met Jesus, and without her...well, I'm scared to think what would have become of me.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Thanks <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":)" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I redesigned the Okami sprite myself, using my friend's color scheme of a new set of sprites she made for me. This version captures her spikes better, though <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/happy.png" alt="^_^" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/happy@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>*shrugs* If I had anything new to really share, I would have made a new discussion...perhaps we should do a Bible Study sort of thing...how to deepen the roots of faith.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>*sniffles and goes to get ready to go to walmart*</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>No, you aren't lol</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>No, not yet I haven't.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Hey Wraith, it's almost set in stone that I'll get that laptop I showed you! <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/biggrin.png" alt=":D" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/biggrin@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /> My dad just wants to see it in person for himself to see where or not it's of his approval (I was talking to him on the phone and he was all like "What the heck do you need all those USB ports for?!" It was funny) But overall he seems to like what he sees on the site! </p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>*spazzes*</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>My dad is a computer nerd so he's good with this kind of thing.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Hey, I'm here!</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>That's always good! Yesterday I felt some reconciliation for really no good reason...it was so wonderful. <3 I've been praying earnestly for that for several months now, so it was nice to finally get an answer (or finally, my own acceptance of the situation)</p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>Other than that, yesterday was really shoddy. I'd been out late the night before (didn't get back to the dorm until 2:30ish) and woke up in the morning with what I think was food poisoning...bleh. I was going to go to class, but I was so close to fainting that I just stayed in bed and did some work before taking a nap and hanging in bed all day until my evening exam. I was so thankful that my professor allowed me to leave right after and I went to bed soon after that (didn't mean to actually go to bed, just lay down and rest....but I ended up sleeping for twelve hours!)</p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p><p>Today seems to be better...my stomach isn't burning quite like it was yesterday. I'm just getting ready for my Old Testament class and Chapel now. <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":)" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>And why should a person not get their own badge for helping members in other ways than having 'helpful posts'? Think of it this way, whether a person is helping out with the site or helping the members of a given site; they are helping the <em>community</em>.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Think of it as a whole, not just two seperate pieces.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>That being said, I had no intention of bringing the artists into this conversation; I simply wanted to know your opinion on the Team Raters here.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Psh, you're young. You have years to learn lol And that is NOT 'gay' my friend <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/tongue.png" alt=":P" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/tongue@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/ohmy.png" alt=":o" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/ohmy@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /> Gasp. It's a great read (practically everyone here on campus owns a copy!) My favorite line says, “I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me.” I sat there very perplexed after reading it the first time and was like 'huh, that's so true.'</p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Yeah, I wanted to be one too. But looking back, there's so much I missed because I was focused on the responsibilities. Take the time to be yourself, because you'll regret always wearing a mask. </p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>And @ deeze, what does going to bed naked have anything to do with anything? Some of us did that as kids, too! (Oh, those blazing summer nights with no relief of air-conditioning! <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh.png" alt="xD" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" />)</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Hey Spotty! S'up?</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Because gay = happy <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh.png" alt="xD" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>Besides, not being able to talk about relationships is a normal occurence, until you're older.</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>S'all good. Though I totally understand...it was so easy x__X;</p></p></p></p></p>

<p><p><p><p><p>My parents are divorced/remarried, Wraith. <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh.png" alt="xD" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/laugh@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p>