Watch out, college. June 4, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , trackback*grins* I graduated. We were all razzing each other about flunking, much to the disturbance of Jimmy McC, who had been practicing baseball with Ibey.  (As an irrelevant sidenote, Jimmy can pitch 93 mph. I’m glad that he was practicing with Ib and not me.) We assured him that we were joking.Â
Dr. S:Â “Yes, she graduated.”
Miss Dog Lover:Â “Now she’s gonna get married and leave us.”
Is there really something going on that I don’t know about here?
It’s a tradition in our youth group that you write something on the wall after you graduate. So now I’m trying to think of what a good thing to write would be… hmm… difficult decision to make, when you’re using Sharpies. Especially as Antion has declared it a crime to paint over Sharpie. Mhmm.
We’ve been talking about different sorts of temptations in youth group, and tonight it was about desires (see James 4:1-3). Pastor B started the conversation off with, “What is a character trait which helps you to control yourself?”Â
Samwise and I looked at each other with some confusion and whispered, “Self-control?” We then both started laughing (it does tend to make us laugh when we say things simultaneously… I know, I know, we are really easily amused.) Pastor B looked over at us.
“Yes?”
“Uh, self-control?” we said, louder, but still nicely synchronized. *grins*
Andrew suggested self-disciple.Â
We’ll see if Samwise has the courage and fortitude to follow orders in the face of almost certain death to sit next to me again, seeing as how I decided to pull the lever and spring the footrest up. (In my defense, he had been looking for the lever and was going to trigger it himself, but I beat him to the punch. This comes of sitting next to Peter, because it’s pretty vital to be able to do things like that which will startle Peter into a second or two of silence.)
In a week and a half I get to go (up? down? *has no sense of direction*) to campus for one night. That makes me happy.Â
I’m trying to think of my reading assignments for the next few weeks. Short stories by Checkov, The Divine Conspiracy (and yes, I really have to read that one under a sort of blackmail arrangement…) by Dallas Willard, The Silmarillion by Tolkien, quite a few chapters of Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem, more Greek by William Mounce (who reminds me a lot of our quizmaster Mr. K… I don’t know what it is… but if I was messing with my book during a lecture, I wouldn’t really be that surprised if he told me to quit crinkling it… *grins*), a book of commencement speeches (it’s okay, Samwise gave me a speech.) And… um… various other things… possibly The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, for which purpose I must have note-taking supplies on hand and be far away from all walls so that I cannot bash my head. (Picture the “There was a bee” scene in Ever After. ^_^)Â
And… various other things to read, which are not coming to mind at the moment.
Goodnight, world.
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You’re reading “The God Delusion”?!? Hurray!
See, while I was in at school today for the tests I picked up a copy that was glaring at me from the library shelves…and read the preface in between French and Ancient History.
So, we could enjoy bashing our heads together!
Gracious! How many congratulations am I going to have to post today?!?
Once more, it seems. Congrats on surviving high school. Have fun at GC, eat your peas, don’t go any crazier than you already have or your head might explode, don’t forget to write me letters, don’t fall down the hill, don’t get too much smarter or your head might explode, say hi to people I know for me, say hi to random people for me, and above all, find some fun Christmas lights or something to put in your room, cuz that’d be cool.
Well, there’s my list of advice. Pay no heed to it, or it might become dangerous to your health.
*giggles*
I’m so glad God brought us together at camp several years ago. *huggles* You’re amazing. ^_^