12.30.2005
oh my goodness. i had the time of my life tonight.
five years ago, in 2000, i left my home of 13 years and went up to the wilds of asheville, leaving behind my older brother and my best friend. it was a very hard time in my life. once we got up here, my mom immediately got involved in the homeschool group (as we were all homeschoolers) and found out about a "folk dance" that was happening soon.
now i had been to square dances before while i was in mobile and i hated them, so a folk dance was somewhat less than appealing. my father finally coaxed me to go with the promise that there may be some "fine mountain boys" there.
to hurry this story along, i went reluctantly and ended up having a good time in spite of myself (as often happens). now over the years, i have grown up with the people that i met at that dance and made a million memories with them. i took dance lessons with them, wandered downtown asheville with them, did plays with them, watched movies and shared a thousand laughs with them.
then college came around for a lot of us. some went one way, some went another, some stayed here, some moved a million miles away and we all just grew apart. some of us see each other occasionally, but for the most part, we've all moved on.
then tonight, there was the new moon dance, specifically designed for high schoolers and college students. the dance itself was fun--i love dancing with everything in me--but the socialization was absolutely priceless. these are girls who are sweet and wonderful and guys who are safe.
there's jonathan who used to talk politics and history and who loves a good possum hunting story more than anything: there's isaac who i never could quite understand but i loved him anyway: nathan, who played my husband in a play three years ago and who is now my darling ex husband, katheryn, who was susan in the same "the lion, the witch and the wardrobe" play in which i was mr. tumnus, daniel, who performed "green eggs and hamlet" with me, to great success. there's so many others that i can't even begin to mention them all.
i love these people. they made what could have been a positively miserable time into something beautiful. it was well worth doing and i miss them so much.
here's to you guys. i love you all.
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12.23.2005
all right. here's a brief post just to hold down the complaining for a bit.
i got home safely and uneventfully, except for the time that i ran out of gas. however, i had my trusty gas can with me, so running out of gas on the highway wasn't really that bad.
i've been fairly busy since i got home. it's not that i've been out running errands or anything like that, i've just been doing this with mum or that with my sister who's working a good bit of the time that i'm here. my dad and i went to see narnia last night (which, with the exception of seeing ra's al guhl every time aslan spoke, was most excellent) and my little brother and i are going to play champions: return to arms tonight until our brains fall out. it's our traditional guy night.
i hear you say, "but whitney, you're not a guy!"
this is true. but it's my and trevor's time to act like teenage guys and drink root beer and play video games until our eyeballs rot. it's tradition!
anytime anyone questions anything, simply answer with a) "yeah, i lost a bet..." or b) "it's tradition!" and that's all the explanation they require.
trevor is yelling at me to get off the computer and come play with him, so i have to go.
merry christmas all.
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12.04.2005
so kevin (buzz) mentioned that he had gone through and read all of my old blog posts the other night when he was staying up for some reason. this first embarrassed me as a lot of my early posts were of the seventeen year old angst variety, and then it made me go back and read what i had written to find out what he now knows. one of my early posts posed a question that i still think is true.
"isn't a blog just a place where you can talk about yourself all the time and not get looked down on for it?"
that certainly seems to be the case as far as i'm concerned.
hey! the bat cave has acquired a couch! it's a smiling couch and it's name is murphy. aaron has assured me that if i need any help in the care and keeping of murphy, i am welcome to call him.
so i think that next semester, i'm going to only work at carpe diem ten hours a week, if i can get away with it. i may have another job in the works that pays twice as well for about half the time, so it's a good deal. i'm pretty excited as this whole working for a living thing kind of interferes with the whole living my life thing. i keep missing out on things because i'm at work and then i get home and only get to hear stories about what i could have been doing had i not been serving coffee to everyone in mobile.
as i'm finding myself getting tired and irritable, i'm going to head out. good night all.
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12.02.2005
hullo. apparently people have been missing my posts lately (mostly because i haven't been posting) so here is a post, for your reading enjoyment.
i went up to asheville last week and it was incredible. it was just what i had been needing. unfortunately, in asheville, fall had mostly already fallen. however, i got to see some autumn while i was in atlanta, so i wasn't completely bereft of my fall experience.
i got sick the day i got home. i was upset about this until i realized that if the germs simply
had to get me, at least they waited until i was at home, with no school and no work. aaron theorizes that i caught the sickness when i passed through auburn, as it is the center of all corruption. whatever the case, i spent the first couple of days of my vacation recovering. with that exception, my week was perfect. i spent individual time with each one of my family members doing whatever fit that individual best. my sister and i went to a coffeeshop and talked, my little brother and i played video games (and by "little" i mean "young" because he's taller than i am), my daddy and i went out to eat and chat and my mum and i went grocery shopping.
on that note, i have an anecdote for you. when i came home from asheville, i had a ton of food. mum sent me back with a lot of canned foods and various other imperishibles with the idea of saving them for next semester when we won't have a meal plan. i had all of this food in the back of my truck with me when i was driving through mobile. i came up to a stoplight and to my right was a guy holding a sign that said:
travelling
broke
God bless
and i just turned my head away to avoid the guilt long enough for me to drive off. yeah, it would have been completely impractical to try to untie all of those cords and get into the crates with my food it int, but the point is this: there was someone in need and i didn't even make an effort to help him even though i had the means. i don't know what this says about me, but it made me think.
when i got back to my dorm, i found a note on my door from kevin, welcoming me home and wishing me a happy week. it was a perfect ending to a perfect vacation.
since i've been back, it's been school and work. that's about the extent of it. i'm going to meet with aaron to discuss costume design for the new
DDA movie and i'm really excited about that. i feel all big and important.
and now i'm hungry, so i am going to leave you all and go get some food. fare thee well.
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