Spontaneous Scholar: daquell

Never! I would never forget to post on May 5! Not in a million summers!
Well, maybe… but that’s 25 days behind us, so just forgive and forget, eh? No!? Alright then… I’ll post twice!

As the title states, I am now a high-school graduate. Usually, this means that I’m done with school, but not so. I have one more test to take in Literature, and then I’m done with the second longest section of my life. It’s bittersweet. I’ll be off to college (college! how distant that used to sound) in eleven weeks.

I’m still trying to cope with missing everything. Surprisingly, I don’t believe I’ll miss my family as much as I’ll miss our church, just because I’ll stay in contact with the family weekly. But all of the church: the choir (I’ll never play for them again), the special music (I’ll never accompany them again), the Awana Sparkies (I’ll never listen to their sections again)… all of the church I must leave behind.

So, for eleven weeks, I’ll be spending as much time as I can at church. Pastor and I are starting a mentoring program that will go each Thursday from 7 AM to 8 PM. If I’m not sick of being there for thirteen hours then, my sisters and I will be heading up a puppet ministry. Hopefully these will tide me over until next summer when I can come home and (hopefully) jump right back in again.

Until tomorrow - work hard, play hard, and get lots of roughage in your diet.

Or, more appropriately, a small segment of my life presented in the list style, abbreviated to subtitles and paragraphs in explanation covering the period between March 14 and April 14, year 2006.

• Work
  I believe my boss has figured out the growing tensions between my co-worker with, er, ‘happy’ identity issues and myself, because she temporarily transferred me to another UPS location this week. It’s been bliss. Last week, the Lord gave me the opportunity to quote Romans 1:27-28 to the said co-worker… I can only say it silenced him for a little while.

• School
  Nearing the end of my last year of school, today I had my graduation pictures taken. They really are quite dreadful things, to have taken and to see. I didn’t mind wearing the suit, not at all. That was good, really. But when I had to wear the graduation dress gown, things began to go downhill. I might add at this point that the gown is really my sister’s, who happens to be about nine inches shorter than I am. Needless to say, the event was mortifying — in a happy sort of way.

• Play
  My youngest sister got a Nintendo controller in the last month, and we’ve been training her in the art of Super Smash Brothers. It’s not uncommon, as she walks through the house, to see her go into a fighter stance and say “Yeah… GOTCHA!” Kids these days…

• What I’m Holding in My Left Hand

Today, we’re in Virginia to visiting some long-lost relatives (long-lost in the near-lost since of the word: we saw them a few months ago). Tonight, I shall study a new type of encryption cipher which shows to be promising for protecting NITEGames users’ chat information. And thus said, I shall post and be done with a too-long post.

Not including this one, there will be only six posts more for this blog. As some of you know, I had considered killing it sooner, but instead it will have a prolonged longevity. Due to popular demand, the post dates are listed below.

1. April 14th
2. May 5th
3. May 30th
4. June 23rd
5. July 18th
6. August 4th

There will be no intermittent posts, nor any less than stated above.

The main reason for this is consolidation. Due to a fairly large web-presence, inhabited by aliases and inhibited therein, I’m starting to feel like multiple people and am practically flying apart. So, for now, my keyword is consolidation. Any form of web-presence, be it message-board, forum, blog, etc, except work-related, I’m pretty much destroying (can anybody tell that I’ve been reading Shakespeare?). So… until April 14th… 10-4.

But that is all behind us.

Whew, what a great ten days it was! In the past week and a half or so, we’ve almost squashed a dog, woke the neighbourhood screaming, set a time for my graduation, and on and on the list goes.

The dog we almost ran down is a very lucky beast. We were trolling down a state route in the van when here he comes barrelling out into our intersection. He missed being hit by a speeding car, dodging by only a few inches. He never saw the SUV… but then, it only rolled him around and didn’t run over him directly with a tyre. Evidently, the dog was in a lot of pain because he sat in the middle of the intersection and yelped. We slowed as we went through, which he took as a good opportunity to run under our vehicle. Of course we stopped, and mom opened the door to see where he was.

The dog was off-white, about the height of a small aquarium, and he smelled like he hadn’t been washed since he was born. I’ll refer to him as Charles. Anyway, Charles thrust himself up through the open door, over the gas-pedal (which took us for a little frightening ride), and down to lay at my feet. He just lay there, staring up at me with anguish. The van was full of kids (we were going to a local church function for kids), and naturally they all were yelling.

By this time, the person who had hit Charles had stopped and come over. He and a lady took the dog out of the car and we drove on to the church. I think Charles’ll do alright… I hope so, anyway. And perhaps he’ll come out of this a little wiser.

And a relevant, hands-on, real-world Valentine’s day (sorry, I keep getting college applications that say that their college is more relevant, hands-on and real-world than any other, so I figure that those adjectives are really good ones to use).

To compensate for the fact that I can’t give out Valentine’s day gifts over the internet… here’s some eye candy for everyone:

Forgive me for a little childish activity, but I only get one shot at being a kid. Therefore, I am glad to announce the finished audio-novel, The Boxcar Children - The Pizza Mystery. (note to licence owner… this isn’t being sold or distributed, it’s for personal use)

While the reading level of this book, or the series for that matter, are under my level, recording the book was an great deal of fun. If you ever want to learn how to manipulate sound files, edit voice recordings, or mix vocal and sound files, recording an audio book is a good place to start.

Thanks sis, for wasting endless amounts of time putting up with my antics and producing this book!