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Dog Fight from Jarrod Pyper on Vimeo

today was fantastic.

woke up early to go to JCS to film their Thanksgiving assembly. The kindergarteners and 1st graders were super cute all dressed as pilgrims and indians. brown paper bag-shirts with custom indian drawings in marker are the coolest.

visited my dad for a bit.

came home and emo and i watched the dogs in the video tear into a garbage bag and then play fight for a bit.

started work on my music project for class. i'm pretty excited to see how it turns out. all i have so far is an intro drum beat. i'm not sure if i'll want to keep using a video editor (primier) to do this, when i think i can do it in sony acid. ah well.

work went great. quick. fun. good people.

i feel more comfortable at work and around people there than i do a lot of other places. i see the friends i work with more often than i see other friends or even family. and outside of work i almost never hang out with the people from work. strange. i wish i worked with more of the friends i have.

had a soccer game tonight. i scored 3 goals. !!!! i don't think i've ever done that in a game. a hat trick. it was very fun. one was even a shot with my left foot. and i almost was so close to nailing a bycicle kick that i'm sure would have gone in if i would have connected with the ball. as it happened though, people just thought that it probably hurt. but it didn't because i have a beard now and i'm a man.

my dad and little sister came to watch me play, which was very nice considering how well i did tonight. my dad made a comment about how i play, he said that i just do things people don't expect me to be able to do (my hackey sack skillz are the reason) and i do it all with a very disarming smile. and i do frequently remember myself grinning like an idiot a lot while i played. i usually do. i just enjoy playing soccer, and i enjoy the people there. it's just fun. there's nothing else to worry about, just the game.

i need to remember to talk about intelligence sometime. i've been meaning to but i forgot, and this seems too long right now to get into that.

but i'll end with a thought i had while pushing carts today, and carts btw is a great thing to do when you'd like to just think about things. it's about joy and contentment.

it's not about pursuing joy, chasing after it, but seeing the joy around you and taking hold of it, loving it. that's contentment.

eh, not that good. i think whatever i thought of earlier today was better, but i didn't write it down so i can't remember. and it's not like i think you should go after things that make you happy and bring joy, but it's important to notice and be thankful for what you do have. which is what this day right now is about.

oh, and emo is going home for the weekend. whenever one of us goes away somewhere we have this tradition of wishing no death to each other. we just had that exchange via aim and it made me laugh.

"if you like it then you should have put a ring on it" - i have not been able to get that tune out of my head all day and it's driving me crazy, and it's probably good that no one heard me casually humming/maybepossiblyslightlysingingundermybreath that song. oh lulz.