Paul Prins

Returning from drawing to admire our brand new pool. Something that wasn’t directly mentioned in the housing agreement and thus aroused concern among fellow students. After watching it for an hour we decided to go out for coffee and come back, assuming that it would magically reinvent it’s self to appear dry. Checking out the acoustic café and then Atlantis music directly underneath. Seems like it could be a pretty sweet coffee hang out and the prices aren’t to bad either. Cheaper then back home and the drinks are just as good.

Upon our arrival back at base camp, 4th Hansen, we saw that our pool had not reinvented it’s self like we planed, rather expanded and franchised across the irregular tile floor of the bathroom. It was expanding and encompassing the pattern-less floor calling for direct intervention and quickly. This pool resulted in a half hour of revenge and mopping to reclaim the floor. The pool was defeated, the mastermind behind the pool plot has yet to rear his face but stall two is looking fiercely suspicious.

It’s now been over five hours since the mayhem that was revenge and the floor is now dry, We appear to have been the victors, and tomorrow morning will reap the spoils of our labors, Dry bathroom floors. Hopefully the maintenance man will come up tomorrow and check out the piping leading into the toilet and find the problem and plunder any new efforts of the resistance.

// twisted view of slow bathroom pipe leak

Today was uneventful, I finished my reproduction in drawing class, it turned out really well I think. I’m gonna have laura k look at it tomorrow and see what she thinks of it. I also finished the assignment we are working on for computer programming on Friday so I am going to turn that in tomorrow and then sleep in on Friday till around nine, it will be amazing. Nothing really planned for the weekend yet, don’t remember when tara’s marching band show is, I promised I would go to that. There is also the matter of writing computer code and finding time to conduct the interview for the English essay. Will be a lot of fun for sure.

As of right now, I’m sitting in the hall as to not wake ned. I’m starving for some reason, and tired. Will go into the room and grab a doughnut or something and call it a night. It’s to late for milk and cookies (plus I’m pretty sure that would wake ned). I hope all is well with those eyes that grace these words.

Take care and God Bless,
~paul

Standing there in front of that reflective pane I see the reflection of someone I wish to be, someone who isn’t me. He seems to understand everything that goes on around him, have this grasp of life and living.

There is something about the look in your eyes, they look so distant from mine. As if they can sense the future and understand what it holds for him. Understanding the relationships that are going on in his life and how they will play out. How old he looks, something about that.

I’m not really sure where I’m going with this, I’m just not sure that he is me. I look into the mirror and see him. My whole life I’ve been looking to find him, ever since I met you he has been there. Waiting with the glass to stare back when I pass affront. Now I understand that aura I made around the man in the mirror, he doesn’t understand everything, rather is to a point where he finally doesn’t have too.

Laura Brodhun and I have been going out since Friday (well Saturday actually, it was past midnight). She can’t get out of my mind and I love her in there. I could go on and on about her and how amazing she is but I will infiltrate all of you with that for the next several months.

I couldn’t sleep till I wrote that, once I get a picture of us I’ll throw it up here. I hope all of you are well

Take Care and God Bless,
~paul

What a weekend, probably the best one that I’ve had so far. We spent it here, went and saw pirates again, along with several other movies in various rooms. Spent about ten hours so far on this art project for fun des (Fundamentals of Design) but it’s turning out really good. I have four of the six panels done so far (the four on the left). It looks slightly different printed.

In other news I guess you could say I’m in a slight apprehensive state of mind. Over the past two weeks I can’t think of one thing that has gone wrong, I’ve met a bunch of amazing people, including the most spectacular girl, classes have gone well, homework is about half what I expected it to be and I’ve stayed very on top of it. There is so much going right that I couldn’t have even thought of everything that has three weeks ago.

The biggest thing in my life right now would be Laura. I really am not sure how I would go about explaining it. I love her personality; I’ve finally found someone who is as random (although she likes to call it immature, same difference) as I am. Some of you may think that isn’t safe, but it is a lot of fun and mostly safe (although the laundry party was pretty sketchy). Whenever I’m around her everything just seems to make sense and work out, it’s really weird. She’s just an amazing person and I’m so fortunate to be able to be with her, be a few weeks or much longer. Needless to say I’m thrilled about her and what’s been going on between us. That’s really all that is going on around here for now.

Take care and God bless,
~paul

Sorry it has been a while since I’ve posted anything here, I’ve been really busy and then my network port got turned off for some reason (actually is still off right now, someone is coming to talk to me tomorrow at one and then it will go back on) so I just strung my cable across to neds port while he is watching animal house.

College is a blast, last weekend was a lot of fun. Friday night a bunch of us went and hung out in the cities, hit up the mall of America (MOA), my house and neds house (about 35 minutes total, most at neds) and then went up to the sculpture garden and over to uptown from there for coffee and a good lay in the grass around Calhoun. I had the best time, The sculpture garden is really a sight to be seen at night, then I had my first cup of coffee ever at Pandoras. That is really weird since I go there so often but always seem to get pop or a sandwich. After that fun time we headed over to the lake and walked for a ways and just laid down and hung out, which was a lot of fun.

I’ve been getting a lot closer to that one person as well, spending a lot of our down time together and I’m still truly amazed by her. Lately it also seems like I’ve been able to see another side of her, almost as if she is letting her guard down slightly. Certain things about her keep me so fascinated and I wish I could spend a whole week with her and just hear everything she has to say. Maybe in time that will happen, one can only hope.

I must get going though, Have computer science in forty minutes and I decided I wana have some breakfast today.

Take Care and God Bless,
~paul prins

I’m not sure how to describe,
feelings I’m having inside.

of rhythmic pulses,
quickening,
a heart in distress.

of sly smiles,
appearing,
when I see your face.

of stars above,
shimmering,
speaking quietly in this place.

Soon the sun will shine
me waking,
the words I’ll find.

Then you’ll know how I feel,
dreams,
may then become real.

~paul

Why do we want to be civilized? What benefits does it really give us. Is it just some larger portion of a once grand plan for the human race. If so it has gone drasticly off course. Grant me a moment.

civ·i·lize: to cause to develop out of a primitive state; especially :to bring to a technically advanced and rationally ordered stage of cultural development

This grand idea that was born at the beginning of the uprising of man is what we once needed, to remove ourselves from the barbaric and nomadic and primitive state of conscious and living to one that would benefit the species. That state of mind and culture that would allow us to form cities, friendships, relationships, technology and rational, then at what point do we need to move on to the next step. When have we truly learned enough and become civilized. For the past five thousand years people have been farming, built cities and we have inhabited every corner of the earth. Has no one asked what is to come next for our culture? for our race? of our future?

It seems to me like we are long overdue for the next phase and step of humanity. I’m not one to decide what it should be called. I know people have asked what more is out there for us, but the focus of our culture is loosing sight. The vision of the populace needs to change from the current state of acceptance to one of intuitive understanding. A understanding that comes from acquiring knowledge by the teaching of why rather then how. Gaining a group of people who can truly grasp life and to show people the benefits of self-understanding and having a population who understand the function of the group and truly care for one another like themselves. That rather then trying to understand everything scientifically we can use our minds to grasp concepts about introverted issues that can become extroverted and truly elevate our state of mind and lifestyle.

There are problems evident at this point. The majority of people would not be able to realize all that would be needed of them. To be able to open up their mind to radical (in some cases) ideas to help them come to discoveries about themselves is not something that we openly accept as a race and as people. To become and elevated culture would be the next step, where understanding yourself and your interactions with the world around you, how that world works for you and with you and, how you work for the world and the people around you.

The first weekend here at stout has been better then I could have pictured/imagined it. I feel like I’ve been truly blessed by and for everything that has happened. All the guys I’ve met, the friends I’ve made, the times I’ve had. Everything I wouldn’t trade for the world. I’m not sure if everyone’s exeriance has been this way but if it is half of this I think people would leave saying college was awesome, leaving me at a lack of words for what it is for me at the moment.

There is, however, something that I’m not so sure about. For the last few days I’ve been feeling rather close to someone here. I’ll admit I had hoped that this would happen and I’m very excited that it is (as she is really sweet and random), but I can’t help but have a slight hesitation to getting involved in something after only a few days at college. No it isn’t because I wana look around more, I’m very pleased where I am right now. Rather it is just an issue of adjustment. I don’t want to be a large part of her adjustment to college, not saying that I will be but it could happen. That could just be something in my head and nothing that I should concern myself with, but I do worry about stuff like this. Transition is a key aspect to college and I want to make sure that she is comfortable where she is at.

Well It’s 8:10 now and it’s time to go grab breakfast (I love breakfast food) and then hit up class. I will write later.

Take Care and God Bless,
~paul