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I haven't posted a blog in a long time. That's no good at all. My excuse is that I've been "too busy," but that's not really the case. I've been too lazy is closer to the truth.

We've moved back to Jonesboro for a little while so that I can attend classes and get my GPA high enough to transfer back to Portland. It's not that great but what can you do? I could have stayed in Portland and just started over on my studies but I didn't want to do that. I think this whole experience will be really good for me. It will give me a chance to work less while I'm studying so that I can get the classes that I'm bad at out of the way.

My New Year's Resolution will be to practice zazen at least every other day and see what it does for me. I really want to work on myself this year. My blood sugar got low today and I messing up my lunch which caused me to explode. I haven't been that mad in a long time and I'm glad that Lauren was at work so she could miss it.

I really think that I'm getting a lot of my anger and judgmental habits behind me. Thich Nhat Han recommends that we avoid certain media which stimulate violent feelings while trying to work on the violence in our hearts so I'm giving that a shot. So far it's working really well and I'm starting to see my violent feelings as silly or counterproductive.

Have a safe new year everyone. Let's all try to make 2007 a year with as little suffering as we can.