Monday, September 21, 2009
New site
If you've been following this blog site and wondering why I haven't posted in a while, it's because I moved! Wordpress allows me more customizability so I'm going with it! Check out Knockout Stout's new home at: http://www.bigsandygilmore.com/knockoutstout
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Some Explanation
Right after I posted my last journal comic, I thought about the top one, and I figured I ought to offer a bit of an explanation. This is a blog, afterall, so thoughts I have about important things like community ought to matter. As I was at the UT game, I sat in a section of season ticketholders, since dad has season tickets now (that he got from a friend of my grandparents). I guess the people there had held the same seats for a number of seasons in a row, because they all seemed to know each other. One guy was showing people pictures of his newborn kid, and they spent some time in between plays discussing what happened to them during the off season. At the end they all told each other "see each other next Saturday!"
The thing that struck me as significant was that they were real friendships that didn't exist outside of the football game. They saw each other on home gamedays, but not other times. I just finished reading The Search To Belong and I really resonated with that book when he said that Christians should strive to have healthy relationships publically, socially, personally, AND intimately. I sometimes feel like the church (and the seminary community also) wants me to be BFF's with everyone. I don't want that! Why can't I have a healthy, meaningful PUBLIC relationship with someone? Why can't I just see someone at class and say hey to them and ask them about homework without having to involve them with the rest of my life? I understand that community is a big deal, but community doesn't mean that I have to have the goal of being close personal friends with everybody! The season ticketholder section at the UT game had a great community going, but their interaction was very limited! I have close personal friends, and I have intimate relationships, but not everybody is invited to have those with me. I'm perfectly content with having social and public relationships with everybody else.
In short, I want to have a healthy classroom community this semester, but I will resist any pressure to make it extend beyond that, unless I feel that it's coming naturally in the relationship.
The thing that struck me as significant was that they were real friendships that didn't exist outside of the football game. They saw each other on home gamedays, but not other times. I just finished reading The Search To Belong and I really resonated with that book when he said that Christians should strive to have healthy relationships publically, socially, personally, AND intimately. I sometimes feel like the church (and the seminary community also) wants me to be BFF's with everyone. I don't want that! Why can't I have a healthy, meaningful PUBLIC relationship with someone? Why can't I just see someone at class and say hey to them and ask them about homework without having to involve them with the rest of my life? I understand that community is a big deal, but community doesn't mean that I have to have the goal of being close personal friends with everybody! The season ticketholder section at the UT game had a great community going, but their interaction was very limited! I have close personal friends, and I have intimate relationships, but not everybody is invited to have those with me. I'm perfectly content with having social and public relationships with everybody else.
In short, I want to have a healthy classroom community this semester, but I will resist any pressure to make it extend beyond that, unless I feel that it's coming naturally in the relationship.
I experienced two things I wanted to draw about today! First was at an awesome University of Tennessee game, go Vols! The second was when I was eating popcorn while watching Law and Order on the bed with my family and our dogs.
Also, I figured out a better way to scan my journal comics, hooray! I'm a go back and re-scan the old ones so they'll hopefully look better!
Also, I figured out a better way to scan my journal comics, hooray! I'm a go back and re-scan the old ones so they'll hopefully look better!
Friday, September 4, 2009
Unexpected Kindness
Good news! My parents have a scanner, so journal comics all weekend long, baby! Bad news: I don't like the quality of the images that this scanner is scanning. Today's journal comic should have turned out way nicer than it did. I'll have to play around with the settings, I think a higher resolution scan should solve my problems. If I can't get it to work here, then I'll just re-scan when I get home. The real bad news is that if I can't get better scans out of this scanner, Monday's Big Sandy may not happen. I'll still have three next week, I just may have to update on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. I hope everybody in the world enjoys their Labor Day weekend. I intend to! Goin to a Tennessee game, hooray!
Two notes about this comic:
1. I was working very hard today at the SPO. I wasn't goofing off over at the computer, I swear! I was adding new students' SPO addresses into the seminary's computer system. The window kept ringing every time I tried to add a new person into the system, which was why I was starting to get grumpy. Until Eugene came and saved the day, that is!
2. For those of you who don't know, Ale 8 is a local soda in Kentucky, and is a perfectly delicious and safe-for-work beverage to enjoy. http://ale8one.com/
1. I was working very hard today at the SPO. I wasn't goofing off over at the computer, I swear! I was adding new students' SPO addresses into the seminary's computer system. The window kept ringing every time I tried to add a new person into the system, which was why I was starting to get grumpy. Until Eugene came and saved the day, that is!
2. For those of you who don't know, Ale 8 is a local soda in Kentucky, and is a perfectly delicious and safe-for-work beverage to enjoy. http://ale8one.com/
Labor Day Weekend
I'm traveling a bit for Labor Day Weekend, y'all. I'll still try to draw a journal comic every day, but they won't get posted until Tuesday, unless I can get my hands on a scanner here at my parents' house. We'll see!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Twittering my life away
If you want high-fives a plenty, follow me at http://twitter.com/mattstout
I think my expectations are to blame here for how my offer for high-fives turned out. I mean, why would I expect people to really want to high five me? They can high five THEIR friends or parents or something. I think I was trying to pressure people into physical contact too early, peer pressuring people into touching my hand. Maybe next time I'll offer complementary eye contact?
I think my expectations are to blame here for how my offer for high-fives turned out. I mean, why would I expect people to really want to high five me? They can high five THEIR friends or parents or something. I think I was trying to pressure people into physical contact too early, peer pressuring people into touching my hand. Maybe next time I'll offer complementary eye contact?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
09-02-2009
Sorry the quality of this comic is so poor. I just sketched it out real quick in pencil and scanned it as-is. The purpose of this journal comic is for me to draw a little bit every day, and improve on my art without having to do any real writing. I hope I'll just be able to give you a little vignette of things that happen in my life for your amusement, but don't expect too much. If you want to read something that I put effort into, read Big Sandy!
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