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Ever feel like you returned to the Dark Ages?
I just spent the last nine days straight without my home computer. Agony! I sat down to try to write with pen and paper and my fingers wouldn't keep up with my brain. My email built up at the rate of 60 or so a day. I couldn't talk to my friend Jen. I couldn't post on my "RENT family" board. Torture. I felt like I was stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Ugh.
We who live in the age of technology are so spoiled. I guess I was always a child of the twentieth century.
I started to re-read "The Castle of Llyr" by Lloyd Alexander last night. I stayed up almost an extra hour trying to finish it. This, a book I have to have read twenty times if I've read it once. I cannot put down books I love once I pick them up again. I was nearly late for my hair appointment last night because I couldn't put "Jo's Boys" down. I couldn't help it! I knew Dan was going to spend Christmas in prison and I had to get to the part where he gets out and then saves the miners and goes home and Jo forgives him...and then the sweet part where Demi ties up the three roses and sends them to Alice as a wedding proposal...God, I'm such a sap. I'll be sixty and still crying over Gilbert on his deathbed in "Anne of the Island". And you know what? I look forward to those days.
Mike, who is really more of a little brother than a friend, made me really proud this week. There was a National Day of Silence observed in honor of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights...he and some of his friends stayed up late making buttons that declared why they were being silent for the whole day and wore them to school, passing them out to anyone who would wear one. He said it went over incredibly well and people were wearing them all day. That takes a lot of courage and conviction, especially in the school where Mike goes--but Mike is just the kind of guy who would be successful at such an action. Anthony, Nick, Dr. Mike, Josh--our friends have been such a good influence on him.
Six days until Godspell starts.
I have now lost seven pounds on this diet, in a week. If I lose that much this week, I'll be at a weight I can't remember weighing...God...for years.
~*~Mel~*~
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