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So I had a dream last night. It's pretty telling about my current situation. It was the second dream in as many nights that took place at my home church back in L.A. In this dream the Whitworth graduation was being held in a meeting hall at the church. (For those of you in the know, which is most of you, the presentation was being done in Fireside while the people watching sat in Lee Hall facing what would usually be the wrong way in the room.) The pastor from my home church, Pastor Jim,leading the graduation ceremony. He read a name off of a folded up piece of paper, it looked like an academic evaluation, and someone came forward. He then asked this person if they had anything to confess, which they did without hesitation. "Oh, crap," I thought. I was not expecting anything like this and needed more time to think of something. Pastor Jim then called my name immediately, putting me into a panic. Instead of asking if I had anything to confess, like I was expecting, he asked if I felt satisfied and confident with the education I had received. I said, "No," which elicited chuckles from the audience who thought I was making a joke. Flustered I said, "No, you don't understand! I've lost everything, my mom and my dad and in my time at school my faith, too!" From then the dream is a blur until after the ceremony. I was outside and realized that I did not have the paper with my name on it that Pastor Jim had handed to me. I went back inside and searched everywhere. I was surrounded by people who wouldn't help me, but who kept telling me that I need that paper or else I can't do anything in my life. Panicked, I slipped down the back hallway that leads to the Lee Hall kitchen where the lights where out but the refrigerator door was slightly open. Someone else, an older man started to come into the room, but then the dream ended.

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I haven't posted in a while, but wook a look at the AFI top 100 list on Andrew's blog and looked though to see which movies on it I've seen. So, here's some crap you don't really care to know about:

99. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967) 108 min
84. FARGO (1996) 98 min
71. FORREST GUMP (1994) 142 min
67. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) 126 min
65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) 118 min
60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) 115 min
59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) 111 min
58. FANTASIA (1940) 125 min (original release)
56. M*A*S*H (1970) 116 min
55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) 174 min
53. AMADEUS (1984) 160 min
49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) 83 min
48. JAWS (1975) 124 min
41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961) 152 min
34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) 129 min
26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) 93 min
25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) 115 min
17. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) 105 min
15. STAR WARS (1977) 121 min
12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) 110 min
10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) 103 min
9. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) 195 min
6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) 101 min
3. THE GODFATHER (1972) 175 min

Jeni and I lost the power supply to our laptop when we were in CA, and that is our only dvd player. Once we get a replacement ther are a few more on the list I'd like to see, but I don't think I'll be going for all of them like Drew.