Christmas plans

well my christmas plans are all set now,

Going Home on the 24th after work for family christmas, then to my grandparent's house for Fick family christmas, should be fun have not seen any of them recently.

Then to Omaha to fly to Alanta and then to San Diego (Best Transfer Ever!)
In San Diego I am attending the Lutheran Student Movement national Gathering This will be my 5th event.


Thats all for now,

I really mean to update this more

later

Really good movie

Saw a really great movie tonight, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, (From IMDB about movie) at SUB films, student union board, with Clair.

It was really well done and consisted of various scenes, dreams, from the mind of the main character. The scenes do not relate to each other but contain the main character as the continuation feature of the movie. It starts with the young boy coming across a fox wedding, played with traditional Japanese costumed characters, he then has to go and find the foxes later to get forgiveness for seeing them during the procession. Hard to say what the meaning there could be, maybe that going to ask forgiveness is hard. Most likely it has to do with Japanese honor and ritual so that we as westerners miss the meaning behind it.

My favorite scenes were one called “Crows” and another called “The Tunnel.”

Crows is a look at Artists and the beauty of nature through the eyes of the director, as the main character, and Vincent Van Gogh. The main character starts looking at a painting by Van Gogh in a museum, he then entered into the paintings and walked through live scenes colored and set up like Van Gogh paintings. We come across Van Gogh painting scenes from his haystacks series, with the bright sun beating down on him Van Gogh says that people tend to look for the beauty in nature instead of letting the beauty come to us, that beauty can be found in any scene if you look for it. He then runs off saying that it is too beautiful and bright to stand there and talk, that the he needs to go paint.

The Tunnel is a good look at the life of a soldier after a war. We enter a tunnel and are confronted by a dog lit up with red light, after exiting the tunnel at the other end there are three more confrontations, first with a single dead soldier who does not believe he is really dead and that he had a dream that he had gone home, this scene is very powerful and reminds me of Jacob’s Ladder, another very good movie, after this we are introduced to an entire group of soldiers that do not realize they are dead. The main character ends up having to order them to about turn and march back into the tunnel. Then we are confronted by the dog again, I believe that the dog is a representation of the “Dogs of War,” not sure it this a Japanese image though.

Overall this is a very well made movie and wonderfully shot. See it if you can.

Trying this out

Trying this out, you can now post with Word to your Blog. Very Handy

Well, I have been working at Sam’s about a Month now. It is ok, could be worse, but as me and another employee say could be better.

Had to go to work today, a Sunday, even though I have it scheduled as not available. They had a mandatory meeting I went to. Pretty boring, talked a lot about a new membership they are offering at the clubs called the “plus” program. Costs more and you get some more stuff, but hard to sell. They’ve been ramming it down our throats for a while to try and get us to sell it to people coming through the line, most people are in a hurry though and want to get out of there.

Oh well, I at least do not have to think about it after I am done in the evening.

K later,
Erik

Back in Ames

Hey all,

Back in Ames now since last wed. still looking for a job, going to be taking a year off and working in Ames, then starting seminary next year.

Have a interview with Sam's Club on tues, hope that goes well.

Also, Congrats to Ben and Megan Vaughan on the birth of their son Tate on Sunday.

Later,
Erik

Outside Hilton

Graduation Ceremony

Golf Again

Golfing monday after Grad

Heisman Graduation Pose

again

Oh you know what that means. I am Graduated.

Meeting Harold from Red Green

Java Joe's

Hessen Haus

Hessen Haus

Hessen Haus

Senior Design IE 441

Well, I guess I rule all, well more specifically my senior design group rules our class.

We won first prize for our class. we get our name on a plaque, and a $100.


So I rule. well at least more then you.


later,

Erik

been awhile

well it's been awhile,

short this time, gotta lot of crap to do.

I am going to Graduate in 4 weeks and have my senior design project to finish, have a couple tests before finals and also one paper. Fun. but graduation is coming at least.


k, Later,

Erik

Spring Break Round up

Hey all,

Got back from Spring Break yesterday at 11:30, was exhasted but could not fall asleep until 1 because of the stupid energy drink I drank so I did not fall asleep while driving.


Trip was fun, went to Ohio with 14 other people from ULC. we were working on various projects near the towns of Syracuse, Pomeroy, and Middleport.

I worked on putting peg board over windows the first day to keep people from being able to see into the building.

the second day, Tuesday, I spent cleaning a fence, it was supposed to be a white plastic fence that we made white again.

Wed and Thur were spent putting wood paneling up in the church we were staying in. that was fun, It was nice to actually put something together.

More on this later,

Erik

HAROLD!!

Sweet, Just got back from Des Moines where I met Harold from Red Green. it was Awesome, he signed a red green mug that I have and also a picture of him. I got a picture with him and the group that came down.

www.redgreen.com

k, later

Whats up

Hey hey,

Just joined Facebook.com it's pretty neat.

Also, this is the first weekend in a while I have free, sweet.

ok next random statement, I am leaving for Spring Break next week friday, going to Ohio to work with Jackson Area Minitries (Similar to ASP) helping to build houses and other work. whole big group from Iowa State is going along

k, later

glad monday's done

well yesterday sucked,

left at 8:45 to go work on IE 441, went from that to MatE 362 at 11 went from there to work at 12 from work to ME330 at 4 from there to Act 284 at 5. that did not get done until 8 got back home around 8:10, left again at 8:50 for Theology on Tap, left that at 10:15 to go back on campus to work on IE 441 some more. Got back home at 12:30

spent 40 minutes at home from 9 to 12:30... fun

k,
later

Fun with Stuff

Me and Chipman finished most of the shooting for the bathroom sketch for our "Fun with Stuff" TV show on ISU TV. sweet! also got some work done on getting it edited. pretty neat program we are using.

k later

Erik

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Hunter S. Thompson died today reportedly from a self inflicted gun wound in Aspen CO.

If you have never read or seen "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" you should.

GO CYCLONES!!!

SWEET !!!!

Beat Kansas at Kansas.

They were ranked #2 in the country. we have now won 7 in a row and there were 4 ranked teams in that run.

probably get into NCAA tournament now!!

k, bye

Saturday at last

Finally saturday!! Well my test was horrible, I don' think a single person finished on time. I got the first and third done and was staring at the second one when i finally figured out how to do it. but I only had 5 min left. got about half way thorugh when time was called so that sucked.

Oh well,

'rents on the way with sis and the dog. so thats good, also band concert on Sunday. 3 oclock at the Ames Community Auditorium, thats right next to the city hall in the downtown area.

k, bye

Can't wait until saturday

Have a bit of work to do until saturday.

Have a meeting for my IE 441 project at 7 tonight then have to study for a test on Friday in ME 330 - Thermodynamics (yay) also have a Acct 284 assignment and a Mat E 362 assignment due as well.

Also have to do Laundry and clean my room before the 'rents and sis come for the weekend. the room might take a while, sort of a sty at the moment (don't tell my mom)

k, later,

Erik

Crazy IE 441 stuff

well, this is the first of many updates about my IE 441 project.

IE 441 is the senior design class for Industrial Engineering at Iowa State

My group is working on a Justification of a Laser Table

we are now finishing up working on calculating the costs associated with the current process.

yeah well thats all the fun for now. tune in later for the next update about the project

First Log

hey this is the first post on my blog sweet my regular website is currently at www.public.iastate.edu/~ekolson


you should go to it, because it is super awesome