me: i've seen a bunch of homeless ppl around davis
grace: oh
grace: i see a few here
me: there's a lotta ppl who go up to me and ask if i can spare some change
grace: but it's like they seem to disappear over night
me: heh
grace: it' slike the city takes them away cus they're taint'g la jolla er something
grace: la jolla = rich yuppies
me: heh
grace: u give em change?
me: sure, why not
me: sometimes a dollar if i'm extremely generous
me: once i even heard out one of them to see what his problem was
grace: oh yeah
grace: i've always wanted to sit down n talk to em
grace: but i don't seem them n e more
grace: oh there's this one guy in chinatown by my dentist office
grace: i saw him last yr
grace: n this yr again
grace: he always has a pet pigeon
me: i see
grace: this pigeon sits on his shoulder
grace: or around him
grace: n he feeds it n such
me: heh
grace: very strange eh
me: yea
me: most of the guys i've met usually have some hardships
me: one guy told me he had some shoulder pain or something
me: but then the cops took away his medication because his name rubbed off the prescription bottle
grace: =me: yea
grace: how he suppose to get his medicine?
me: shoot, i dunno
grace: SOMEONE HAS GOT TO GO N GET IT FOR HIM =(
grace: yeeea.. it's things like that .. that make me wonder why i'm doing cs and expecting to work at some office cubicle.. wen so many ppl out there need something/someone
me: it's true
me: not every job solves every problem in the world
me: and even when you've taken care of others, you still have yourself to feed
grace: yeaa
grace: duno wut i gonna do
grace: i feel like getting a teaching credential too. hehe
grace: but then.. i kinda wanna jus teach lil kids
grace: but then... i kinda wanna program..
grace: o boy. i guess i can teach programming to little kids?
grace: yeah
grace: someone's gotta support me if i ain't making money
me: yeap
me: funny thing; my sister in law also teaches 3rd graders
grace: she likes?
me: yea, i'd say
me: jerm's trying to go for teaching too
me: and while i'm not too sure, maybe laura's also considering teaching
grace: lol
grace: i'm thinking towards daycare too
me: i see

i've realized i've met a LOT of homeless ppl when i've gotten around davis counting this school year and last year. a lotta ppl just wandering around who ask me if i can spare some change. sometimes, if i'm generous, i give them a dollar, not just whatever coins i have in my pocket. i usually never refuse them.

long story short, because i don't feel like typing too much, i do it cause God commands me to. i say this, cause OF COURSE it's probable that a couple of those guys try to act poor to mooch off of others. but i'm less concerned about whether they are genuine, compared whether i AM genuine. whether i truly care for them. cause that's WHAT WOULD JESUS DO

and another thing; when you do encounter poor homeless men, and give them something, don't just give them something and shoo them away; ask them what their hardships are. ask them how their day went. i had one guy ask me for stuff.(i think i gave him a dollar) then he proceeded to tell me his hardship. i was touched. i truly felt like praying for the poor guy. so i am considering that whenever i meet ppl who ask me for change now; asking them how their day went. it's a start. to show i truly care, and am not just another person.

it's just one demonstration of the discipline of submission :D one more step to showing you truly love God.

you realize in the western conf of the nba a total power shift could occur to bring the power to... texas? imagine that kobe and shaq get traded to some texas teams; your future top western teams would include:
dallas: shaq, finley, dirk?
houston: tmac, yao
san antonio: kobe, duncan

now if this turns out to be the case, i like san antonio's chances. i still like houston cause of yao, but i'm still SLIGHTLY bitter that francis had to go; i think i like orlando more than the rockets now.

comment that summed up the nba 2k4 finals:
after anybody who thought that the detroit pistons couldn't recover from that wrenching defeat the other night(game 2), just take a look at the score
-al michaels, abc sports