I guess I'm not interesting/ San Diego.

I was recently challenged by the lovely Keshia Witthuhn (checking with her husband if I have permission to call her lovely :P) to be more interesting. (yes I got permission) This all started with me apparently not being very comfortable with who I am. Even though I've been in Church and been around encouraging people my whole life, and I've heard all the cliches about being yourself. I guess I'm not really being myself. I try to excuse it with saying "I am being myself", but one point she brought up is to pursue what I'm really passionate about. And it got me thinking, "Am I really passionate about sitting around on my computer all day visiting websites that are only mildly amusing?"
In all the spiritual gifts/ talents/ personality/ etc. papers I've had to write here at Northwest I've said my passion is for media. So why aren't I doing anything media related (aren't? am I not? hmm. grammar confusion). So what I want to do is start making videos. I don't know what for. I could do a Vlog (video-blog, for those non computer generation people), but that would probably depend on if I can even keep up this blog on a regular basis. My only issue with videos is I don't have a camera. But that's just an excuse, If I really wanted to I could use my computer's web cam or I could borrow a friends camera. So I will see what I can do in the video department, and if after a while you don't see some sort of video from me, I give you ALL (most likely it will be Keshia) permission to yell at me.

Ok, now update time. I did go to San Diego last week with one of my classes for the National Outreach Convention. The way I put it was that it was a bunch of famous pastors telling other pastors how to do outreach. I think our group of college students were the only ones below the age of 30 there. I discovered a few things while I was there, lets see how long the list becomes.
1. I like the sun!
2. I really don't mind dressing up (casual dress up) as long as its not hot enough to make me sweat (in this case there was AC)
3. Christian comedians can actually be funny. Seriously, I have seen some Christian comedians who were just bad.
4. At most conventions (comicon, PAX, E3, etc) they give away shirts and samples and stuff (called Swag). Well the Christian version of Swag is books. I came home with about 15 books, one of our guys came home with 51 books, all for free.
5. Stuff Christians Like by Jonathan Acuff (highly recommend) may be a humorous book, but there are still lessons to be learned in it. stuffchristianslike.net
6. They apparently have a New and Updated version of the NIV. So its a NNIV? UNIV? NUNIV? Anyway, I'm still not sure whats so new about it.
7. I would rather drink the hotel's black coffee than what passes for lattes in south California. I even went to Starbucks and got an iced raspberry white mocha (rather then my normal white americano, which I was sure they would screw up.) And instead of the shots being bitter or burnt, it was waaaaaay to sweet.
8. Whenever I go to the beach I feel like I'm covered in sand even if only my feet touched the sand.
9. The only difference between Children's ministry majors and Youth ministry majors is that youth majors don't like kids. Both youth and children's majors are people who don't want to grow up.
10. No matter how many times I write it I always want to spell it Sand Diego, or San Deigo. Or as Micheal Anderson would call it, the dirty waffle. (wait for it, say the name slowly, or fast, until you get it.)
11. I like flying, except for the being stuck in a metal tube in tight seating for long periods of time.
12. There was a lot of emphasis on outreach being a lifestyle, not a program. One of the booths was www.notafan.com which emphasized not just being a fan of Jesus, who sat on the sidelines and cheered. But being a follower who got out on the field and worked with Jesus. This seemed a big theme through the whole conference.
13. I attended a session called "10 mistakes the church makes in media" that helped me realize how cliche and stupid some of our stuff is, maybe that should be my next post. hmm....

At this point I could go on but this is already a longer post than I thought it would be. So I will wrap it up here and say goodnight.

PS For those who still don't get number 10, it's San Diego= Sandy Eggo= Dirty waffle.
PPS (PSS?) I really should proofread my posts. I've edited this five times now and it hasn't even been an hour. (make that six. now seven).