Melting snow

Melted snow + muddy ground = GROSS.
It's funny how snow can be so pure and white and beautiful when it falls and covers the ground, but when people step on it, or it starts to melt, it becomes really disgusting and slushy. which is how it is right now.

Anyway, time's been flying by. i don't even remember what i've been doing for the past couple of days, besides homework and frantically searching for jobs. haha. we've been cooking and selling noodles for students on campus the past two nights, that was fun. we cooked thai, vietnamese and korean ramen, and charged people for $1 per cup, proceeds go to charity. it's funny how excited americans get about 'authentic' ramen from asia. hahahaha. (which we bought in indiana)

Random people would come up to us and be like, YEAH! RAMEN! i want one! haha. and then we pasted facts about asia on the cups, and they were like, YEAH! this is so cool! and we've earned about $100 these two nights. so yay! and it's funny 'cause the charity we're giving our earnings to, ONEVERSE, is coincidentally having a contest to see who can raise the most money, and the winner will get a Superbowl (football national final game) party. and we were challenged by some people 'cause they thought we were in it to win the contest. but we're like... seriously... we're asian. we don't care about football. haha.

SO ok the real reason why i blogged (even though its almost 1am and i'm exhausted)...
I met this actor, Doug Jones, when i was in LA, he came to speak to our class about the difficulties of being a Christian in Hollywood. and now he's in an article in Christianity Today! he's SUCH a great person, seriously, don't know how he remains so strongly rooted in his relationship with God when he's surrounded by materialistic money-minded people 24/7.

Here's the article:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/movies/interviews/2010/dougjones-jan10.html

Anyway, i thought the part where he talked about doing projects that he didn't necessarily agree with (theologically) was interesting. He said that sometimes people offer him roles in movies that are theologically incorrect and portray God wrongly, but he takes them up. Why? Because he said, 'they're going to make this movie with or without me. And even though I'm a very small part of it, wouldn't it be good if I was in this position as a Christian, being a part of the discussion?'

I thought that was so interesting. because Christians usually shy away from 'evil' movies that portray God as some horrible character, but here is this guy, accepting these roles because, like he said, they're going to make the movie WITH OR WITHOUT HIM. so might as well jump on board and try to influence it as much as he can... to make sure they don't go overboard, and also to start discussions about religion and God. Fascinating huh.