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I have a tape recording of my dad singing a few lines from a song when he first had cancer. It was part of a project I was making, utilizing the tape speed switch. I was making a bunch of funny voices, some slow and some fast. I asked Dad to sing me a song.

Bada boom, bada bye

I feel good

like I knew I would

I feel good

Like I knew I would

Bada boom bada bye, bada boom bada bye


That's the first and last recording I have of my dad. I didn't get a camera until later, so there are no videos or pictures that I have on file. It's the videos I really want. Mom has tons of pictures laying around, surely.

But the best thing is my mom's old tape recorder and one of her old cassette tapes in the safe in my room with the batteries removed to prevent acid damage, with the sound of singing barely audible over the white noise.

Sometimes I filch the batteries from my camera and listen for a while.

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My school is notorious for making students unhappy, but right now I'm feeling especially strained about this Thanksgiving break. Thanksgiving was on Thursday, for those of you who don't know, and most people had most (if not all) of last week off from school to go home and spend time with families and stuff. Not me! I got Thursday and Friday off. In order to get home before the actual holiday, I had to leave Atlanta after all my classes had ended and drive four hours through traffic and into the night. And since it's basically the end of everyone else's break, I haven't really been able to visit any of my old friends.

On top of that...my dog is really old. And apparently it's been showing for a few months, but I had no idea until I got back. She can barely stay standing, less likely walk, and we basically have to carry her around to let her pee and poop, and feed her from our hands. Besides being traumatic and just really sad for me and my family, it's also very time consuming. Between caring for her and helping my mom cook, I didn't do ANYTHING on Thursday. Yesterday I managed to get out and meet some disciples from the sister church near Charlotte (more in a sec). But today, most people are on their way back to school. I watched a movie with my mom, and now I've got a ton of work to catch up on before I go back to school tomorrow. It's stupid. All they've managed to do is distract me from Hell Week coming up.

As for making new friends, that was totally a blast. I've really wanted to get to know the campus ministries near my hometown for a while, now, but I never got around to it until recently. We watched a movie and ate at Cookout and just enjoyed the company. Good times! Good to meet more of the Body.

I read Green, finally. It was pretty neat. Sort of disappointed with the ending...It may because I read it without refreshing the other three books first. DekKer's writing style can be sort of forced sometimes, especially if you're not used to it. Still love it. The man GETS it. Speaking of green, I'm thinking of making a new layout. You can see I switched to my old starry one. I'm collecting them. :)

Doggie just had a mild seizure. ; (

Better get this modeling done. See ya guys around

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Most of it is interesting, I promise.

First, the meaningless update on my life, simply for my entertainment. Today is the homecoming dance. I am not there. Which is good, because I wasn't planning on going. Haha. The tiles in the bathroom floor are being replaced, so right now if I want to go into my bathroom (which is actually 2 adjoining rooms) I have to pretend the floor is lava. This means I have to go Spiderman and climb all over the counter and through the bathtub. My mom is afraid of methane poisoning from the toilet pipe, so I was on a mission to plug the hole with an old sheet. Mission Accomplished.

Speaking of missions, my team in History of the Americas IB got a 100 on our "How we could fix Mexico if we could go back in time to when the area was being colonized by the Spanish and change a few things" project. We pretended to be the A-Team (I think I mentioned this already).

It was extremely hot today. I hate being hot. (Ooohh, double entendre!) It's just the most uncomfortable thing.

-end random-

Hmm. Do you believe in ghosts? Well, I don't. I do, however, believe in demons. Usually I treat this belief as something that kind of comes with my other beliefs, I guess because I assume that nowadays nobody really worries about them. You hear about demons all over biblical times, but not so much anymore. And when you do, it's usually discredited or something. And I can understand that.

But then I heard this:

(Note, you will probably want to put your ear to the speakers or turn the volume up or something, because it's a recording from a radio station, and most of the interesting part is also on a phone. So it might be hard to understand. Also, don't watch this if you get scared easy. Or if the sun isn't out.)



I know that the chances of this being a prank call are pretty high (it really was on the radio, though). But consider this: if it's a prank call, it was made by either Christians or non-Christians. I find it hard to believe that a practicing Christian would make such a prank call. But a non-Christian would have made the demon answer questions like "Is Jesus the Lord?" differently. So, I'm concluding that this is for real.

Did anyone else notice how awkward the whole deal with commercial breaks would be in that situation? Man. I couldn't do that.

-shiver-

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