Well, just now something happened at my college as I was walking in. An old man was handing out pocket bibles. Being polite and a sucker for that stuff, I took one of them. It was a small pocket Bible with a green cover, containing the texts of the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs. I took a look at the inside, and it says that it's distributed by the Gideons.

Gideons International is a group of Evangelical Protestant Christians. However, unlike other Evangelical Protestant Christians, they aren't jerks. They don't scream and preach fire and brimstone or any of that. They just hand out Bibles. That's pretty much it.

Most famously, they went to hotels and put bibles in the rooms. There's a reference to that in the musical Guys and Dolls, when the gambler Sky Masterson seems to have a great knowledge of Scripture, saying that "there've been two things in every hotel room: Sky Masterson and the Gideon Bible."

As far as Evangelism goes, you could do a lot worse than what the Gideons do. They just hand out Bibles to people who will take them, and personally, I see nothing wrong with that. They aren't talking about their own biased interpretation of the Bible, they're just, well... giving the Bible. They aren't rude about it, either. It was just a man standing around asking if anyone wanted a free pocket Bible, and I can respect that. Mainly, the goal of Evangelism is to convert people to Christianity, but alot of Evangelists just make themselves look bad and embarrass themselves and their religion (I'm looking at you, Jack Chick). The Gideons don't seem to have that problem. I notice that their Wikipedia page doesn't have any "controversy" or "criticism" section. All in all, it seems like a decent organization that just wants to spread the Christian message, and I can respect that.

Ughh... Gamespot's Greatest Gaming Hero contest. What a nightmare. Crawling with fanboys and trolls. And I was dumb enough to get involved in it and care.

Initially, I was rotting for Kyle Katarn. Then he lost to Lara Croft, somehow. Then I gave into peer pressure and joined the Bub and Bob and Gordon Freeman bandwagons.

Now I've lapsed into a state of apathy (probably due to my current boredom), and I seem to be writing this in an attempt to abate that.

On another note, I need to find a better way at dealing with the 'lows' I sometimes hit.

So, I'm going to college next year, and they have an opera program there. Next semester, they are doing Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado," which is one of the most popular operas ever written. A silly farce with nice music. I highly recommend it.

Anyway, they hold the auditions a semester in advance, and so as I'm an incoming freshman, I went to audition.

I got cast in the title role. I feel good about myself now.