I am tired of whatever this is. It's no longer the pleasant anxiety of a crush; I just feel -- each time -- like I'm gonna lose my supper, like I've been punched in the gut, or there's a serial killer somewhere in my house. Soon I'll see this in retrospect and know exactly how I was generating the problem for myself, but at the moment I only have one idea.
I'm going to try not running away. It might take out some of the sting, if my mother was right.
I wish food would be sold based on caloric content, maybe a penny for every calorie. We'd be so much healthier (broke, otherwise). An orange would cost 50¢; a package of Skittles, $2.50. Apart from special occasions, rather few people would be willing to pay $13 for a large Blizzard.
On the other hand, I guess, celery is a very low calorie food, so they'd practically be paying people to eat it... which is almost necessary as it is.
The RC Gong Show once again, last night, left me in a puddle of conflicting emotions. It is twenty percent fun -- eighty percent savage. There are few things I can remember and be thoroughly glad I didn't participate in; this is one of them.
All right, first day.
My initial impression of Dr MacKinnon (see? I used his title) was of a reasonable fellow with a good sense of humor, and he really did nothing to destroy that image with me. In short, Marriage and the Family should be a good class.
The first... maybe twenty minutes of Bowling consisted of standing around waiting for the instructor to show up. The only other time this has happened, Mr Pleasant walked in, glanced around and introduced himself: "Are you the Conditioning class?" He then told us that Mr Diehl was "no longer with the school" and that we'd be getting a new teacher. Naturally, I felt a little sick today when Mr Pleasant appeared in the gym. (Not again?!)
But Mr Lewis is only on his honeymoon and will be back next week.
...WHY IS THAT SO FUNNY.
Hmm... some of the freshmen I've met seem like very cool people. I'm looking forward to knowing them better.
This year feels different. God has finally convinced me to trust him a little.
-----Original Message-----
From: CAROL ALLRED
Sent: Sat 8/19/2006 9:55 PM
To: Amanda Webb
Subject:
Amanda - It's done. It was so beautiful, with the sun streaming onto the water and coming through the clouds, and all of them in their white robes holding hands in the water. B stood between Jenny and Justin and baptized them both. I'll remember that picture all my life. There were about 6 or 7 people baptized. Remember the scene from the movie O Brother Where Art Thou? It looked kinda like that. We missed you!
Love,
Mom