This past year at Bible school, my fellow dormmates and I made a movie spoofing American Idol. It was funny, but probably the best part was the ads. This is, in my humble opinion, the best of those. It's one that my good friend Bobby and I put together one afternoon because we had nothing else to do. It's for this medicine - Panaisafix - which fixes all your problems. Seriously.
Yesterday, at our annual family Thanksgiving banquet (even "feast" is too benign a word for the comestibles procured each fourth Thursday of November by and for the S. clan. To paraphrase one cousin in attendance, "Every year, the food is so good that we're never surprised when it turns out amazing.") - OK, that parenthetical note really was a bit too long. If you kept beginning of the sentence in mind throughout those two sentences, I am impressed. I was saying that yesterday, at out annual family Thanksgiving banquet, I told someone that I was not working on any project for school. I meant it at the time but remembered today that I did indeed have an assignment: a Christmas slide show. I worked on that aaaaaaaaall day.
The reason I'm telling you this is that, had I not been tied up aaaall day, I would have written a similar post earlier, thus satisfying the inevitably painful cravings of the more voracious of my readers.
Ahem.
It's hard to believe how long it has been since last I took up my keyboard and updated the world as to my goings on. So much has happened in the last three months that I will not even try to tell it to you all. Even if I were willing to write it all out, I doubt any but the most patient and focused would read it. Having decided, therefore, to be selective in my writing, I will now proceed.
First of all, for those of you who don't know (whom I imagine to be very few, but who should not therefore be ignored), I am attending a Bible school in western NH. To use my memorized description, "It is a small non-accredited Bible college near Keene, NH." I love it. Several of my best friends are there with me in the same year, the classes are interesting, and even the work is sometimes fun (gasp!). I've really enjoyed contemplating the Bible more deeply than I had before. So far my class has covered the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistles of Paul. The teachers have repeatedly stressed that we were just skimming the surface, but even skimming the surface of the meaning of the Bible yields so much good!
Well, now is the time when I reveal how much of a surprise post this really is: I'm not going to say any more!!! Often when I talk about not writing much is when I end up disserting and haranguing - in short, writing much. But not this time, boy howdy! I've got lots of stories jumbled about in my brain that I may try to transcribe over the rest of the weekend (no promises, though), but for now I'm going to give my eyes and fingers a break.
First, though, allow me to wish you a happy Christmas season (is it really here?!), just in case my next blogging hiatus is as long as the last...
P.s. Here's a little music video I made a while ago when Kimberly said something about guys in the dorm making music videos. I ended up being the only one really in it, but Ben did the camera work. Perhaps someday I will manage to rope some of my other dormfellows into a more elaborate production, but for now I trust you enjoy what I am able to offer on my own.
"Best Short Film: The Gigantic Amoeba at Medfield College"
I think it's a winner, don't you?
Well, folks, it finally looks a little bit like winter outside...and boy does it feel like winter, too! The temperature was 7° when I went to bed, and had risen only to 8° when I got up. If the ice isn't hard enough to skate on today, I'll eat my fur hat. (This is safe to say because I have no fur hats to eat. It is also safe because, after all, it was 7° last night, but I'm much too cautious to take even the smallest chance. It's part of my personality.)
The morning after the ice storm, Ryan and I went exploring a bit to see the results of the storm (besides that we had lost power), and they were fantastic! Every blade of grass was at least a half-inch thick with ice! Each pine tree looked like a giant wizard's hat, and saplings of every kind joined the birches in bowing to the ground. A glassy shimmer was visible in every direction.
Amazing as the surrounding beauty was, one of the best things about the storm, as far as Ryan and I were concerned, was the fact that our aunt's driveway was itself as smooth as glass. We had so much fun sliding on that little hill! I did wish that it could have been five times as long, but it's shortness was not enough to deter me or Ryan from having a blast!
Well, here is a li'l music video that I've been planning for months. To be more precise, I had been planning for months to do a Gilbert and Sullivan music video for Lisa's birthday. As the time got closer, I didn't come up with any I really liked. Some of them were too dark, some of them had too many mistakes, some were in bad angles, etc. In addition, Cara didn't want to do any and Ryan doesn't know any of the songs. He wants to do one still, so maybe we will this weekend. In the meantime, however, here is the best I could come up with on my own:
Warning: I stretched out the volley to match the length of the song. If you get bored just skip a bit and you won't miss much. However, if you have any appreciation of music, you WILL watch it all. ;)
Rated PG-13 for violence, thematic elements, and quirky situations. (JK)
