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2/28/05
Gees, I graduated. Now I'm living at home and racking up countless hours on video games until the job of my life pops up. Thise whole site is going to be reworked I've decided. I'm not sure where it will be going as of yet, but it might turn into a shameless promotion of how neat I am. Of course that would mean I would have to figure out how to do the exact same thing a completely different way.
Ah, life..
Send all hello's and how are yous to derrek.gaspard@gmail.com
Much love.
Derrek, G
12/8/04
I graduate the 11th. Open invitation to whoever ;>
Graduation is at the University center. Commencement begins at 10:00. Party at my place at 1:00.
9/21/04
Fall semester, I'm graduating. Yea... I am graduating. This is not the essenctial arbitrary remark but it does hold validity in the daily ramblings of a man who knew too little and talked too much. New email address derrek.gaspard@gmail.com
7/22/04
I survived the summer semester. I still have a week of exams to get through but I've made good enough grades that I will pass no matter what fallout may occur. Overall it has been a good year. A few days from now the marker of my age will be raised another notch. I've made so many good friends here in hammond. I'll be leaving soon... I think... what makes it easier to deal with is some folks will be leaving before me so in a way I wont be the only bullet rickoshaying into the beyond.
I remember when I first came back to SLU after my recovery on the westbank. I cried because I was leaving my family. But through some divine grace God gave me a new family here... not some seperate entity of identiy but an extension of what I already knew... When God creates something he calls it good. This thing he calls friendship, it's good.
10/27/03
Sunny day smiles. To the audience of one, hello. I've put in an hour or so of study towards the impending accounting test that looms weightily with forlorn intensity as I slowly creep in my time traveling device I call BODY headfirst into the future.
It's monday. I bit the bullet. Slept for about 6 hours and cracked open the early bird's shell and commited myself to a day of learning. My eyes remained open as the sunlight gleamed with beams threatening to impose sightlessness on my eyes.
The weather was chilled, a front had moved slothfully in full Louisiana flavor in thickness through the night. I rode the yellow bike through traffic bouts into the heart of southeaster. Yellow dart.
I took my six hours with grace. Commited myself to heading home for sleep. People came, people came, people came. I stuttered, I shared, we laughed. Eventually day tired and relinquished its throne to night. Who drew her cloak of stars in regal splendor. We, Trey and I, made it to the green bean. I sought the face of God off and on. Between battles with logic and managerial accounting.
There's a lot that goes on in the daylight between the cracks.
Tomorrow Casey has his CD release. The prayer meeting. Studying. More people, more moments. Sunshine... winter time. I don't pretend to have a hold on the door to my day. I choose to walk through and let the path lead the way.
Dad finally got a break with a job after about 6 months. Granny, Mom, and George are up in Oklahoma and Tony has taken the role of a Sojourner among all people. We pray, and stay in His peace that He gave... He freely gives. I accept, Starvingly, and cup my hands in gratefulness at the bountifulness of His mercy and His grace.
Friday we are suppose to have a game of Balderdash at the house. Only the good Lord knows what will go down.
Hes in control.
Derrek
And sometimes He brings an Army.
6/23/03
The often spuratic updates and postings of Derrek Geewiz Gaspard strike again. Just figured I'd let my adoring public know whats going on in this ever changing environment of college bound life. I've been living on my own since May, learned how to cook and wash clothes quite well. Plus I've done my bit of vacuming and the like. I miss my roommate Dillon who's in Maine right now Lobserting for Tuition. I'm at the local coffie shop attempting to unwind from a stressful day I guess cause I just picked up halfway through a sentence I was writing yesterday when I was interupted by this girl I was waiting for, who mind you was ten or so minutes late. But that's not important now.. no what's important is I'm continuing to write a paragraph that has no substantial meaning aside from the fact it proves that someone exists that knows the user name and password required to get into this site. Well, lets just assume it's good old derrek pounding away at some keyboard he managed to get a hold of. Well, so like I was saying... I had a job for a few weeks at the library this summer but I decided to quit because I didn't feel like working there. Kinda crappy of me but hey, while I have the ability to go ahead and do things like that it is probaby a good idea to follow through with what I feel like doing later on in life I wont have the luxary to go ahead and quit because the job doesn't suit my lifestyle if you know what I mean. So yea I've been feeling like I need to write and even though this isn't what I had in mind It does relieve some of the pressure that is imposed on my by the cranium. Anyway, this is all kind of dumb. But it is an update. So be happy!
4/26/03
I took some pictures last month and just uploaded them. Take a look, see into my world..and stuff like that. I also took the pics I loaded up last month and slapped them on the bottom of the page.
Lazy like a bear in winter.. grrr.
3/1/03
Hey folks, I do have some ideas planned for future artsy stuff and eventually making the page a bit more focused... but I'm quite the procrastinator. I had some loose files hanging around the computer at home so I figured I might as well dump them here in case someone still checks the page. Feel free to mail me some feedback, lots of love.
Derrek
12/04/02
It's been a while since I updated the page, or my life for that matter. I quit my job at the end of
november. Schools winding down and I've been accepted back to SLU. Trying to make important decisions and figure out if I should scrap this page or do something with it. Now that I have some time on my hands I can consider actually being creative in some form... I don't know, effort and everything. But I don't like the main page being so convoluted with so much stuff.
Yea Nat I know, whine whine whine. I went out to hammond a few weeks back and Nat assulted me with this err, piece of plastic, well she kinda
tossed it at my eye... not really assulting me but it could have been a deadly blow I tell you!!
Anyway I just wanted to stick somethin in here to get my resolve rolling.
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