Update

Well, I haven't blogged faithfully this last week so here is a little repentance.

I'm still trying to find a car. It's taking longer than I'd hoped. One reason for this is I don't have a car. It's sorta hard to drive around and look for cars when you don't have a car. Sorta a catch 22.

Lately I've been preparing for my upcoming birthday. Gonna be 28 this Friday. Hard to believe. This is the last birthday I'll be able to face in style. Next birthday I'm gonna say "this is my last birthday before thirty"... and then the birthday after that I'm gonna say "now I'm thirty." Both are things I thought I'd never say.

Judging by how fast the last 10 years have passed by I'm gonna be retired and yelling at kids to get off my lawn in no time.

Let's see...some things I've been thinking about lately.

Well, I've been giving a lot of thought to my 27th year. Now that it's (almost) over I've been trying to judge if I spent it well. After careful consideration I have decided it was a good year. I sure learned a lot. Some of the lessons were delightful...others were quite painful. I'll give a detailed report on the year once it's over (after all, I'm still 27 'till next Friday).

Let's see... what else. Well, one thing that has been on my mind is a quotation from Elder Holland. Last conference he said "true love must include the idea of permanence." I'm been stewing over that ever since. I think I've made some breakthroughs, but I don't know if my ideas have solidified enough to write them down. Maybe I'll pick up this thread some other time. Regardless it's something to think about. I know it has a lot of meaning and probably wide-ranging implications but I'm still only scratching the surface.

In other news I've been writing a lot lately (part of the reason I haven't been blogging as much). A few weeks ago I decided to write out a screenplay (after all, if I go the creative writing route I need to have evidence that I can write creatively).

I decided to write a story about a modern Socrates. The idea came to me when I was thinking about Garett. As I thought about him I started to notice similarities between his life and the life of Socrates. That got me to thinking about what it would be like to have a Socrates in modern times.

I think Socrates will transfer to the screen really well. He's a great character: quick witted, sardonic, dutiful, and (most importantly) polemic.

Anyway, that's what I've been working on (while studying the GRE and LSAT and finishing that book project I started for my mission president years ago).

Well, I better get going. Sundays are so busy.

Hope you're all doing well.