Around the Sun in 365 Days

Right now. I mean RIGHT NOW. Go to tell someone, ANYONE that you love them. And smile. Post results in the comments.

Dear Jesus christ how in the hell did i get so busy. I want to go back to waking up at noon going to work for two hours and going back to bed. God damnit fuck.

In other news things aren’t really  bad at all just busy. But hey in the summer i was bummed cuz i wasnt busy so i better not bitch

Day 23: a month/year of your life when you were happiest and why

September 2011 life gets better everyday. Right now is as good as it gets.

Day 24: your favorite 10 people right now and why

In no particular order

Jorie Johnson: because as I told  her “When you walk in, the whole room gets prettier with you. You radiate happiness.”

Tay Tay Williams: He keeps his cool and on the rare moment he dosn’t he takes my advice that he should. The less drama the better.

Sam Strajack: I still believe in him and i feel like I am the only one left who does.

Deb Porter: for absolutley never letting me down.  The care about Tom switch seams to have no off position with her.

Keith Porter: Same reason as mom. He even set up college visits for me.

Joe Porter: for being cool

Anna Kramer: for being there for me especially while im trying to be there for her.

Rachel Hohneke: for staying my friend regardless of how much we see eachother

Mr.Heid for carrying us to certain glory HEIL HEID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr.Oswald: for being the cool friendly teacher.

Remember there is no order to this.

Day 25: a friend you have lost that you’re better off without/one you wish you had back

I miss happy nice rockie.

Day 26: 5 things you’re looking forward to

Tuesday. Getting back to school and work

May 20th Graduation

The season premire off The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Community, and many other shows

The start of college of shipping off to basic. Whichever comes first.

Future with JJ

Day 27: a person you wished lived closer and why

Jorie I wish you lived in my room so i could be with you all the time.
Day 28: something you makes you really angry

Anti-intellectualism. We are all guilty of making fun of intelligence but some are far more guilty of it. Think of how many people could have made the world better if they weren’t so afraid of being identified as “nerds”

Day 29: a date you’d love for someone to take you on

80 day long around the world in 80 days date.

Day 30: 5 favorite girls names, 5 favorite boys names

Jorie

Rachel

Anna

Scarlett

Ariadne

Demetrius (or any greek/ roman name)

Gideon

Issac

Nikoli

Winston

Day 31: a bit about your social life outside of tumblr

i hang out with JJ a lot and I hang with Hasan Tay Tay and Sam sometimes and Jam

Day 32: whether you’d rather marry someone who’s rich but ugly, or poor but attractive

Rich and Attractive thats why I’m with JJ. All that cash.

Day 33: someone who really hurt you

She’s reads my tumblr sometimes so lets just say. I miss happy you. Be happy

Day 34: your horoscope for today and whether you think it’s accurate

Q1 I don’t care. Q2 Absolute horse shit.

Day 35: words you live by, why do you like them

“This line from God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater comes as part of a baptismal speech the protagonist says he’s planning for his neighbors’ twins: “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” “

Because its absolutely true. It doesn’t say “be kind to some people” or “everyone except-” it just says be kind.

Day 36: what you think about your friends

I love them all and i refuse to give up on any of you.

Day 37: who are you

Tom Porter. Resident optimist.

day 38: thoughts on your generation

I think we have the potential to be the next “greatest generation” a phrase i hate by the way. I can’t stand people who talk badly about this generation. Every generation talks badly about the generation behind them and they are ALWAYS wrong. Do you know of any generation of humans that are complete shit. No of course you can’t.

day 39: why you think you’ve learned more from the good or the bad

I learn from the both, but I learn it all backwards and forwards and I have yet to learn anything that makes me think the world is bad.

day 40: what are features you get complimented on a lot

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of compliments. People say I’m nice or smart or on the physical side my hair, eyes, face or newly acquired skinnyness.

Joe and I would take charge of Muammar Gaddafi’s arrangements living in our home. Hey would have had the nicest room in the house (Hanna’s room) as well as another small room upstairs for his staff. He could eat with us, use our shower, pet our cat, share the fridge. He obviously needs someplace to go, he OBVIOUSLY would bring some extra income to the house though we thought he should probably apply for the cook job down at the brew. We thought that because it was within driving distance and he probably does not have a US drivers licence. He would of loved it and I think it would have been a lot of fun. In the end it was all shut down cause dad says we already have one extra person living here and can’t have two. OH WELL!

Day 11: the worst advice you’ve ever heard, or ever been given

I have no idea. I guess when girls tell other girls to not be obvious about what they want in terms of guys is pretty dumb. Cuz girls should just say what they want……. DUMB QUESTION

Day 12: the best advice you’ve ever heard, or ever been given

Who ever first made fun of the idea of high school being serious business around me. I realized then it’s dumb to take HS to seriously cause its not a big deal.

Day 13: your favorite quote

 ”Cause it’s next. ‘Cause we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what’s next.” -Sam Seaborn  when talking about the importance of space flight. Really anything said by Sam Seaborn

Day 14: write about something you believe in, anything at all

People. remember kids the news only reports when something goes wrong not all the things that go right.

Day 15: a song that makes you cry and why

None make me cry but “Please don’t go” by Barcelona is close http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7deClndzQw

Day 16: someone you trust

Tay Tay Williams nuf said

Day 17: your idol and why you look up to them

I’ve got a lot of idols my Dad, Barack Obama, My friends, SOME teachers, but all of them I look up to because they have a calm head on there shoulders. The ability to keep your composure under pressure impresses me.

Day 18: why you made your blog, why you still have it

Jorie Johnson, Jorie Johnson

Day 19: your thoughts on your family

I love them. They are all really amazing people and I couldn’t be luckier to be born in the family i was.

Day 20: what you think makes someone beautiful

The less pessimistic, cynical, stressed, hateful, or upsetting you are the more beautiful you get. It has very little to do with physical looks.

Day 21: everything you wish for in a significant other

I want her to spend every day of her life not having to worry and being happy. And for as long as I can help her with those things I want to be with her.

Day 22: how you judge intelligence

Pretty severely. The grades you get in school or the test scores you get or the classes you take mean very little to me. I look way more for a persons ability to solve problems or absorb information. That’s why teenagers who can pick up a cell phone and know how to use every feature in 5 minutes appears way more intelligent to me than a person who has an encyclopedic knowledge of laws or medicine OR GRAMMAR! FUCK GRAMMAR NAZIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 7: a show or a movie that has changed you, and how

The story i talked about earlier with the baboons came from an amazing radio show called RadioLab on NPR this episode was called “New Normal” It was about weather humans could change and stop fighting eachother. It had a bunch of storys on other things changing or turning peaceful. I heard it on ride home from visiting Hanna at UNI I was on driving on my own and it changed my life. I’m even more optimistic and positive about myself and everyone.

Day 8: things that make you sad

The only thing that has brought me near tears since I was a child was hearing people in my family who I love a lot yelling furiously at each other. I ran out of the house through the garage and sat in my car. That mad me terribly sad. Besides that just getting bad news like friends breaking up or doing something dangerous. I mostly get sad about big things that I had hopes for that failed like space missions and what not. 

Day 9: Things that make you Happy

I love hearing about technology advances on the internet or tv. Or hearing about successes weather its the cubs or Iraq, my friends or the economy. Success means the world is moving forward and i love progress. But most importantly My friends and JJ!

Day 10: what you think when you hear the words “be yourself”

Well its a nice sentiment. I have a few friends who try way to hard to be something they’re not and it’s really a bummer because i like the persons they are not the people they’re trying to be like. Mostly when i hear it i think its a nice sentiment but generally bad advice. It sounds nice but really its not very constructive. But its the thought that counts.

I would certainly like to be in better shape. That would be fantastic. Beyond that i wish i could concentrate better and be less of a lazy prick. There has been to many times I was to lazy to do anything but the bare minimum on something i didn’t want to do for school. That would help me a lot. I also wish I would do the right thing more often especially when I openly realize I’m doing the wrong them while i’m doing it and don’t change.

I heard once on a radio show that changed my life about the concept that all violence and hatred is started in any situation by a single violent spark.

The story was that a scientist went to Africa to observe a group of Baboons who lived near a resort. He studied them from afar for years and got to know and grow fond of them. The male baboons by their nature fight all the time. Not to death but just to show dominance. The males especially fight over food. The females don’t fight as much but mostly groom each other and the young baboons and the men. Now the male baboons moved around from their native group and slowly join another group as they turn in to adults. They fight their way in to show strength and get food and to get accepted enough for the women to accept them and groom them.

One day the scientist goes to see his baboon friends and sees that they are horribly sick. He learns that the landfill the resort throws they’re trash in to most have been contaminated with TB which while dangerous to humans is terrible to baboons. It makes their skin decay and kills then in an extremely painful way. Because the regularity of these monkeys normalcy had been compromised the scientist had to unfortunately move on to another group of baboons.  

Many years later he comes back with his girlfriend and he goes to show her this group of baboons that he grew up with. What he saw shocked him. This group of baboons was back to there normal health as he expected and who like all groups would fight savagely everyday was acting peacefully. Males were grooming males. they would share food, and never once fought. He saw that when a baboon from a new tribe would join them they would start off trying to fight but would quickly be shown that that isn’t how it worked with them and that violence wasn’t tolerated. The scientist gathered that this peacefulness was because those males that would fight all the time died off and it became the new normal to be peaceful.

Those males that died were a spark of violence. All it took was one to be violent and then they would all be in a full on brawl, but when they were removed from their society peace was what they did and violence was unacceptable. This is a great analogy for the world. Violence happens because those who act violently think that because it is in some way acceptable because someone before them was violent it’s OK for them to be too. Now if only I could help people around the world change their worldview where violence is OK under some circumstances than I think to world would be an entirely different place. That is the dream.