wow, I am sitting here in the library this lovely morning (day off from work). I fully meant to take a nap watching the clouds move past the window ever so swiftly. These plans were quickly shattered on the rocks which were described as being such a vibrant part of Iceland by many of the poets in this book I have picked up (Icelandic Poems & Stories - Beck {Library of Congress catalog card number: 68-57059}). Either way getting to the point I have fallen in love with the Epigrams of one Steingrimur Thorsteinsson. If I could share with you two of them both translated to english by Vilhajalmur Stefansson.

"Generosity"

If you would do good, then do it today,

Do it gratis nor linger around for your pay:

Let the deed be a gem that you cast overboard,

Not a hook that is baited to fish for reward.

 

"Lions and Swine"

The Lion oft hungers, and yet,

Though the swine are well fed, and all that,

Higher the desert is set

Than the sty where the others grow fat.

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and with that I leave this message finished. bye.

So much stuff to deal with right now. I'll have about $24 after move in, Money will be tight for a while. I wish I had a car right now, but at the same time I ask myself... why? I mean all they do is cost money. *sigh* Morehead is a empty place in the summer. it only holds my freinds and I it seems haha. "But it's so hard to dance that way, then it's cold and there's no music".... haha, all of my freinds. me and the 'guys' you never realize how comforting it is to have females in the same town as you untill that isn't true anymore, Not that there were any forms of companionship in the sense all of you human-minded individuals are thinking, but the fact that it's not an utter impossibility keeps you from realizing how lonley it is to wake alone every morning, (well aside from the three other guys on the couch haha) that being said. It's 7:15am, In 2 hours roughly, I goto the bank withdraw 200, deposit all my pocket cash, go pay the starting moneys on the apartment, then deposit my left overs not to be touched untill further trials and tribulations. It will be me Blue, Alex, and Ben living on 804 W. Main apartment 1A in morehead Kentucky. I am looking forward to it, we each have our struggles in that house haha, it is such a dynamic story. I'd love to see it on film perhaps I'll work on that. "I gave her a diamond watch, and a ring made from a spoon... everyone is looking for someone to blame... when you share my bed you share my name... go ahead and call the cops... you don't meet nice girls in coffee shops."

But I guess in the end we've all just gotta hold on.

They hung a sign up in out town
if you live it up, you wont
Live it down
So, she left monte rio, son
Just like a bullet leaves a gun
With charcoal eyes and monroe hips
She went and took that california trip
Well, the moon was gold, her
Hair like wind
She said dont look back just
Come on jim
(chorus)
Oh you got to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, Im standing right here
You gotta hold on

Well, he gave her a dimestore watch
And a ring made from a spoon
Everyone is looking for someone to blame
But you share my bed, you share my name
Well, go ahead and call the cops
You dont meet nice girls in coffee shops
She said baby, I still love you
Sometimes theres nothin left to do

Oh you got to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, Im standing right here, you got to
Just hold on.

Well, God bless your crooked little heart st. louis got the best of me
I miss your broken-china voice
How I wish you were still here with me

Well, you build it up, you wreck it down
You burn your mansion to the ground
When theres nothing left to keep you here, when
Youre falling behind in this
Big blue world

Oh you go to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, Im standing right here
You got to hold on

Down by the riverside motel,
Its 10 below and falling
By a 99 cent store she closed her eyes
And started swaying
But its so hard to dance that way
When its cold and theres no music
Well your old hometown is so far away
But, inside your head theres a record
Thats playing, a song called

Hold on, hold on
You really got to hold on
Take my hand, Im standing right here
And just hold on.