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Church threatened to be more interesting than usual this morning when a lightning strike cause the power to blink. For a minute there, we weren't sure whether the video projector was going to come back on again. But it did. (We did lose three lights, but those don't cost thousands of dollars.)
It's been grey and rainy all day.
Went to my high school reunion last night. It was predictably awkward: I had one actual friend at my high school, and she's on here. (hi, katvagrant!) But I did chat awhile with Christine and Merry, who I'd known from choir, and Adrienne, who married a guy who apparently used to work at the same place I'm at now. Still, I was reminded of why I didn't have friends in high school. I'm a massive geek. Most people in the world are not.
There were a few people I kinda wish had been there, others from the honors classes who were cool, or nice, or who I would at least like to catch up with, even if we were never proper friends. Ten years has been long enough to mellow out - at least for me - and perhaps now there could be a friendship.
Later in the evening, one former classmate sat down next to me and just started talking, quite gregariously, and I just smiled and nodded and thought, "Glad to know you're a friendly drunk."
Speaking of awkward, Friday night five of us (Annie, Mary, Ryan, Amy, & me) went downtown to see my brother David's art displayed among other skater/punk/etc stuff at a little gallery. While the art was awesome (David sold a drawing!), the extremely loud pounding music and the overwhelming percentage of people that were a) teenagers, b) wearing punk styles, and c) mainlining Red Bull, made the lot of us ordinary young adults feel weirdly old.
In other news, you guys, "Is Theology Poetry?" in The Weight of Glory is made of awesome.
It's been grey and rainy all day.
Went to my high school reunion last night. It was predictably awkward: I had one actual friend at my high school, and she's on here. (hi, katvagrant!) But I did chat awhile with Christine and Merry, who I'd known from choir, and Adrienne, who married a guy who apparently used to work at the same place I'm at now. Still, I was reminded of why I didn't have friends in high school. I'm a massive geek. Most people in the world are not.
There were a few people I kinda wish had been there, others from the honors classes who were cool, or nice, or who I would at least like to catch up with, even if we were never proper friends. Ten years has been long enough to mellow out - at least for me - and perhaps now there could be a friendship.
Later in the evening, one former classmate sat down next to me and just started talking, quite gregariously, and I just smiled and nodded and thought, "Glad to know you're a friendly drunk."
Speaking of awkward, Friday night five of us (Annie, Mary, Ryan, Amy, & me) went downtown to see my brother David's art displayed among other skater/punk/etc stuff at a little gallery. While the art was awesome (David sold a drawing!), the extremely loud pounding music and the overwhelming percentage of people that were a) teenagers, b) wearing punk styles, and c) mainlining Red Bull, made the lot of us ordinary young adults feel weirdly old.
In other news, you guys, "Is Theology Poetry?" in The Weight of Glory is made of awesome.