Holy crap.  Meredith and Andy's engagement is in today's newspaper.  They're getting married August 5th.  How insane is that?  She's number 1 in my graduating class to get married.  

I swear God was crying over all West Tennessee today.  It seemed that a rain cloud came, sat, and parked itself over this godforsaken flat expanse of delta just to heighten emotion.  It was strange driving back into the rain I had come out of a few hours earlier.

I listened to NPR and classical music mostly while I was driving.  On my way back, I ( Read more... )

I'm one of those.

I'm glad I had to work tonight.  Tonight was a lot different from this time last year.  I scrubbed till my hands were dried out from too much bleach.  I was glad for the harder cleaning that usual.  It's theraputic.

And some crawled their way into your heart to rend your ventricles apart.

Sometimes I get these crazy impulses to ( Read more... )

Here goes . . . .

I went to SOAR (whatever that stands for) at Martin last night and today. Last night consisted of checking into the fashionable 5-star Econo Lodge in Martin. Whoop-dee-doo. Today was disorienting. Ironic, since it's supposed to be an orientation session. I took placement exams, listened to a Vice Chancellor that was clearly uncomfortable and ( Read more... )

Eternal rest give unto him, O Lord ( Read more... )

01. Reply with your name and I will write something about you ( Read more... )

Never take anything for granted. Especially the internet. i have been without it, or a computer, since Saturday. so now there is officially nothing to do at my house, except read Crime and Punishment, which i don't like doing. I also can't type in Mrs. Irwin's room, which i'm doing now, because she blacked out all the keys! So before, i was ( Read more... )

O great mystery,
and wondrous sacrament,
that animals might see the birth of the Lord
as he lay in the manger.
O Blessed Virgin, Who was worthy of bearing
our Lord Jesus Christ, Alleluia.

We have to sing that. It's too beautiful not to sing. And I have the music . . . .

Now my brother has turned me into a pyromaniac. It's been a few years since we've had a fire, and we've had one pretty much everyday since Monday. Every evening, Ben begs my dad to let him build a fire, but it usually takes him an average of 30-40 minutes to get one started. By then, our house reeks of smoke and wood, but Ben is a staunch little ( Read more... )