My university had a blood drive last week and I donated so sometime soon some Taiwanese dude, or dudess, will be walking around with 250cc of Michael Jefferies coursing through their veins…pretty cool huh? They even gave me a pair of socks with hearts on them for donating! Not too mention the added benefit of finally discovering my blood type…B+ thank you very much.

In other news I finally got up enough courage to ask the homeless guy who sleeps on the bus stop bench across the street from our house if he wanted some food. Why do I always go back to worrying about doing stuff like that? I’ll go through times where fear about that sort of thing really doesn’t bother me and then other times where I hesitate. But every time I overcome the fear I remember that it is no big deal at all and I kick myself for waiting so long over nothing. In any case the guy said he’d love some food so we gave him some leftovers.

I’m playing guitar at church pretty regularly now or at least playing what I know and fumbling through the rest. It’s fun and I’m excited to be playing an instrument more regularly again. Our new roommate, Phil who took Darren’s place, has a keyboard and the other night we “jammed” for a bit.

Lately I’ve been missing work. Studying is nice but going so long without an honest day’s work has been getting to me. I keep on going back and forth between doing that accelerated Masters program I’ve mentioned before and getting a job after I graduate. Right now I think getting a job is winning in my mind.

Last week we had an British guy stay with us for a few nights who has moved to Taiwan from mainland China and needed a place to stay for a few days before moving into his apartment. Ken, our other roommate, is signed up at www.couchsurfing.org and this dude connected to our house through that. It’s a really cool idea and I’m becoming more and more intrigued with the idea of using couchsurfing for vacationing and traveling myself. Lodging is such a big expense and being able to stay on nice people’s couches for free is so appealing. Everyone should check out the website!

Left to right: Phil from Michigan, our newest roomie; Ken from Taiwan, our faithful roomie; Jim from England, couch-guest for a few days. They’re all painting over the leftover weird wall drawings and scribblings in Phil’s room.