At the request of Brian (which Brian, I do not know) I am going to make a good attempt to update my blog more regularly. I will divide today’s into sections

Atlanta Ministry: Peachtree and Passion

I have had time to settle in Atlanta and applied for a job at Peachtree Presbyterian Church. For the past two weeks, they have given me the opportunity to lead worship for their youth groups, which are 100+ each. It has been a great experience. Although I was getting frustrated with the CRU worship band, I do miss it. I will get to work with the senior highs on a weekly basis with decent pay… what more could I ask for. The other monday, my girlfriend, her friends, and me all attended Passion On The Hill, a ministry of Lou Giglio and Passion. We met at a church called “Church of the Apostles” which is right on I-75 and is the largest and most intimidating structure in the city. The worship band was the David Crowder Band, which I was looking forward to seeing. I had a heard some of their songs on Mp3 and liked what I heard. I was thrown for a bit of a surprise when they started just really playing ROCK worship. I guess it’s personal preference, but I really feel god’s presence in the more mellow and laid-back songs, which they really didn’t play. The loud songs are great for openers and to get people to come in and start the process of focusing away from worldly things and on the present meeting. There was this one girl who was dancing rather oddly. I have been to many phish concerts in my day and have seen many girls on X dancing the same exact way. I still don’t know whether it was more of show or just the spirit leading her, but it was rather distracting. I really always try to keep an open mind about the different ways people can worship, but this was just a little weird. Lou Giglio gave a talk about the coming together of various denominations and campus ministries, and it was an incredible talk. I’ve always heard great things about the man and now I had the up-close chance to witness him. I stayed after and prayed for a while, very content that I was finally getting some of that spiritual food I so desperately needed.

Guy Time and the Lack Thereof

I never really got into male comraderie until this senior year of college. I’ve always been very content hanging out with the current girlfriend or my female friends, but senior year I had a chance to really make some guy connections. Having bowling night or grabbing a bite to eat or just lounging around my house, I had a chance to really make some great guy friends (C, J, A, you guys know who you are). My girlfriend, in her many wedding hints, asked me who I would have as groomsmen at the beginning of last year and I really didn’t know, which depressed me. But now I have a much better idea. To bring this up-to-date, I really am missing guy-time. I haven’t had any venue where I can make new guy friends since school doesn’t start for another week. I enjoy hanging out with Mandy and her roommates, but I also need guy friends to just shoot-the-breeze with. There’s a form of sarcastic edification that only guys can give eachother. Hopefully once school starts this will change.

Hey everyone (or maybe just Josh Doody)! I was long overdue to write a little note and now I have finally gotten the chance to do so. I have officially moved to Atlanta (Decatur to be more specific) and I am having a great time. I will list my pros and cons

PROS
1. I’m in the city where the “players play.” It is quite a crazy place, where my going out options include the yuppy-rich club crowd in Buckhead, the laid back but moderately wealthy Virginia Highlands, the alternative but still affluent Midtown, and then the free concerts every friday night downtown area… more my price-range.
2. Near the woman. About time.
3. Finally found a church that I think I can call my own… something really lacking in Gainesville. I start working at Peachtree Presbyterian next week.
4. Passion meetings in Atlanta. It’s pretty cool to have Loiue Giglio meeting with a huge crowd once a week lead by the David Crowder band for Passion On the Hill. Looking to hopefully get really fed for the weeks that they are meeting.
5. Get to eventually start seminary. That’ll be good, i think.
6. Free Friday Night Concerts as stated before. Free concerts all summer including John Mayer, Sister Hazel, Alanis Morrisette, G Love, Hoobastank, Cake and TONS more. Put on by the radio stations 99x and Star 94.
7. Pimp Ass House. You just have to visit.

CONS
1. I ain’t go no male bonding going on. I meet and know plenty of mandy’s girlfriends but I really don’t have any guys to hang out with. I ran into this problem a little last summer. Can’t wait for school to start.
2. Same as #2 above. Now I’ve gotta do a lot of the boyfriend things… like drive her places and pay for things.
3. Traffic. It’s really bad…
4. Everything’s expensive. Gone are the days of $4.50 pizzas and $1.00 bar drinks. Much different than Gainesville.
5. Lesbians. I swear… they are EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

I know this was a not a very open or in depth blog for being gone for so long, just give me a little time to get back into it. Peace.

Well… i graduated… i know… it’s been a while since I last wrote in my blog. I need to finish up packing tonight so I won’t have time to really write down my thoughts. Oh well… I am about to take apart my computer, so it may be a while before I get to write in the blog again. So long…

well… it’s been a bit of time since my last entry. not too much is going on in my life at this time outside of the typical end of the year crises. i have 51 pages to write from today until monday, then i have a few days off, then i graduate. it’s pretty exciting. i am so caught up in moving and finding a job and figuring out the next 4 years of my life that i forget about the next week of my life. i need to focus on school so i can graduate. i will talk more later as i start to procrastinate during homework tonight.

well… over the course of a weekend, things happen, good and bad. let me take you through my rundown. friday afternoon, the typical start of a weekend, a group of friends of mine all decided we wanted to go out ot eat. let me tell you what a production this is. girls usually go through the production of getting ready to go somewhere, but guys go through the production of deciding where to go based on price, interest, and location. after much bickering, almost to the point where i was going to go eat on my own, we went to outback. food is modest, price is too expensive for the modest food. oh well, another 15 bucks down the drain. at basketball that night i received a nice injury to my jaw area. not only did i bust open my chin, i chipped a tooth, only to find out these two injuries after the fact. i have always been one with a fair pain tolerance (ie my tatoos didn’t hurt and i tried to walk off my knee injury), so i just played out the game, mostly because it was fairly intense. i then proceed to the bathroom to examine my battle scars and inquire whether or not i needed to shout “medic!’ upon examing the gaping wound, i decided the best course of action would be to proceed to the hospital. upon arrival at North Regional Medical Center (i should’ve gone to Shands, but oh well) i was encountered by various forms of white trash, the locals of gainesville. don’t take me as close minded, that’s just who they are. after 2 hours in the waiting room, i finally got moved into one of those ER rooms that you see on television, quite dramatic for a few stitches. after waiting a while longer, a doctor with a mickey mouse bowtie walked on. it is easy to doubt someone’s credentials when part of their wardrobe includes a comical cartoon mouse. he placed a paper with a circular hole in it over my face (quite impersonal, indeed) and proceeded with the operation as if my whole identity was tied up in my chin. i eventually was done and went home

on saturday, mikey and i went to cafe gardens. it is a quaint outdoors eatery that makes gainesville actually feel like a college town. gainesville is almost entirely composed of chain restaurants, which is rather sadding. after spending much time up in athens, georgia this semester, i have grown quite a respect for the local business owners, only fueled by my criticisms of the capitalistic structure. on our travels back from the restaurant, through drizzling rain, we eventually stopped behind some cars in traffic, which is a common thing to do. but every now and then, some people just don’t stop, such was the case for the girl two cars behind me. she smashed her integra into the car behind me, knocking off his bumper, and causing his front liscense plate to dig into my bumper. what a sad state of affairs. when i exited my car, i realized i did not have my liscense with me. i freaked out and conspired with mikey to convince everyone that mikey was the driver. caught up in the emotions of the event, no one involved noticed that the person who was driving my car (me) is not proclaiming himself the passenger. after a few hours of discussion with the accident investigator, i proceeded home to rest my weary head. that night a friend of mine came over to vent, which really still leads me to think about becoming a counselor. over the past year i have learned to just sit and listen, sometimes throwing in my two cents (often a little more, but i’m learning). i was glad i could be friend to him, as much as i could without letting him drink himself into a stupor. after falling asleep at 5, i woke up to do my taxes and then come back here and make some money on eBay. no deep thoughts for today, just a summary of my weekend. maybe i’ll put it in my pipe and smoke it, then see what this weekend really meant to me.

question for the day: what was the best thing before sliced bread?