Wow, Where'd The Time Go?

So, here I am, just five days short of a full two months since my last blog post. It seems that, while life was rather hectic there for a short while, I have let this entire project slip through my mind. As such it died rather quickly, along with the blog of another friend (may both Simplicity and Elegance rest in peace). Her reasonings for stopping her blog, though, was quite different than mine. She dropped hers due to a lack of need, I dropped mine due to a lack of attention span.

It begs to ask the question that, if I can't take of a simple blog for longer than a few days, then what does that say for any form of future career or relationship potential? Quite honestly, I'm appalled, because it doesn't lead to very good situations. Possibly this is the coming out of my fear of completion (once again), or maybe it's just that I did, indeed, simply forget about this blog. Possibly it's also a slight hatred towards the world outside the four walls of my house (there are more than four walls, coincidentally enough, but I'm far too lazy to count all the walls in my house) that has driven me to completely forget this project. Who knows? I don't.

So, what has happened since May 19th? Well, I temporarily had a job at the YMCA (apparently now 'The Y'?), though the temporary part was no fault of my own. I went into the job knowing that it was only going to be from 8am-12pm Monday thru Friday of one week. It's officially the shortest job I've ever had, and the only time that I've ever arranged my leaving time before even starting the job. So, for a single week, for fifteen hours, I got to teach a basketball camp for those from the age of 3 to 14. It was a beautiful week, with a lot of learning on my part, learning on the kids part (hopefully), and several days of massive disaster that was not my fault! Between rain, missing persons, switched persons, and kids not showing up or wanting to do activities, it should have been a massive train wreck, but I think that I (with the assistance of those who I conned into giving it) turned the week long camp into a success! I'd love to tell you more, but according to 'The Y', if I told you any more then I'd have to kill you. Seriously.

So, what's next? Possibly my misadventures in the land of job shadowing? During the week that I was working at the YMCA I also managed to find a 'youth pastor' to shadow. This was because my ride, Grandma, couldn't get out of her job until 5, which left me sitting at 'The Y' for five hours longer than I'd been working. So, what else does a preacher in training do? I go and find a 'youth pastor' to shadow. Only this 'youth pastor' was younger than I am, hadn't even graduated from college, and was an accounting major. Not exactly what I had in mind, but seeing as how he was the only guy with the job title for the next five miles (and me on foot, I'm not walking very far in the Texas heat), I decided to swallow my pride, my decreasing outlook on the Baptist hiring standards (for this was at a Baptist church), and get on with life.

The next week after that was a lovely one. I was out of a job, Grandma lost her job (she had hers for a week and a day), and I decided that I liked shadowing so much that I was going to shadow the youth pastor at the church that I had been baptized at (which was only decided upon after looking at several other, bigger churches first...no offense to WBC). This endeavor didn't last longer than a single day, though, due to various sicknesses and a slight disinterest in forcing my grandmother to wake up when she didn't actually have to, as well as spending gas for an situation that wasn't going to give me anything extra except for personal experience.

This did, though, get me going back to WBC temporarily. I figure, maybe I'll just stick with this one church home until I leave town again. So, I was reintroduced to friends and acquaintances (some of which were not very happy to see me back in their church). So, despite being told to leave WBC (again), I guess I've found them as my temporary home once again. I'm not quite exactly happy with them, but I do miss them from time to time. I guess with me leaving for college in five weeks (!!!!!!) and the remainder of the people who I consider good friends leaving in a few weeks themselves, that WBC will no longer be home at all. The only people left will be those who don't want me (minus a few who do seem to want me around), and I'm not going to stick around, even temporarily, for posh people who can't stand me. I live in Abilene, record holder of the most churches like...ever. I can pick another church out of the 200ish that we have in town, thank you. May God bless you all, though. I don't want to see the place die, I just want to see it not being a miserable place for me to be at.

Oh yes, speaking of WBC, I got my first (and only so far) sun burn of the summer from them. After my first Sunday back they had a pool party (not because of me, mind you, it was just coincidental). At said pool party there was a massively one sided game of volleyball. I think that if we'd actually kept score that it would have been girls team (with 12 players, I believe) 100ish to the boys team (4 boys and 2 girls, oddly enough) 200ish. They had twice the number of players, and we were still showing them how it was done. It was epic. What was also epic was my oddly one sided sun burn. My left side got up to a second degree burn, while my right side barely got burned at all. Worst of all, though, was not the pain of the burn itself, but the itching that came with the peeling skin. I DETEST PEELING SKIN!!!!

So, what else has happened? Ah! I saw Predators (odd, me watching movies and all) with some old friends from Cisco. My how I'd missed two of them. The other two, not so much since I actually didn't meet one of the two until that day and the other I had just barely been introduced to twice. Missed or not, it was a fun afternoon of movie watching, watching the two girls shop in the mall (much to the guy's torture, but the girls had the car keys), and some new adventures on everybody's part. I'd tell you more, but I'd have to kill you. Believe it.

Finally, for the conclusion, I'll fill in the gaps of what's left. For the most part I've spent the rest of the summer in my bedroom or the living room, doing one of two things: either reading my Bible or reading the Bible on Biblegateway.com. I've taken few breaks (save for my current three day break), and I've managed to get through the entire historical literature in the Old Testament, through the first few chapters of Job, through 60 something of the Psalms (I forget how many all the time), through Matthew, Mark, and part of Luke. I fully intend on completing the Bible by the time that I get to Harding. Will I succeed? Probably not, but I'm definitely trying anyways.

I would like to thank those of you who've texted me and kept me sane. Since I've spent so much time with the scripture, I've spent very little time with any form of social interactions except those of my grandmother and the cats (I refuse to associate with the dog/rat thing). So, thank you, to you four who've texted me nearly every day for the past few weeks. I enjoy conversing with you, and I miss you all.

But, in other news, it's only FIVE WEEKS until I see all of you again...well....it's only FIVE WEEKS UNTIL I GET TO HARDING! Whether you're there or not is your own preference, but I'll be there. All the cool kids come early, obviously (if you've read this far, but are not coming to Harding/not coming to Harding early, then you still qualify as a cool kid just for caring enough to read this). I'm fairly excited to be returning, especially after the turmoil of possibly not going back last year.

So, yes, I'm still planning on doing this whole 'blogging' thing. Stay tuned cool kids, and I'll promise you that we'll get to liftoff eventually. Until then, keep counting down.