Lots of news. Oh my. Can't control myself. Must continue to write. I'll be back in Ohio for another three weeks starting in April 4. That means I'm celebrating Easter with friends, going to prom, and enjoying my golden birthday during this trip. It'll be awesome. I might even help out with the next Average Jo Production. Much excitement. I'm leading the music at church this weekend. My friend, a Protestant chaplain, asked if I would be able to help him out, since his music director moved recently. So he bought me a guitar, and I'll be playing four of my favorite Matt Maher songs. At first, I was going to play Wonderful to Me, until I studied the lyrics a little more carefully. And I've been fed
by the body of Christ
in sacrament, and in the
midst of community
While I am perfectly fine with these lyrics, I'm not comfortable leading a group of not-necessarily-Catholic Christians through them. I would feel at the very least as if I'm subliminally converting Protestants. I briefly explained this to my chaplain friend, who will be preaching at this service, and he said he'd be cool with it. "It's not like they would know what they were singing if they were opposed to it." This chaplain is probably the most Catholic Protestant I've ever met. He believes in transubstantiation. He prays the Hail Mary. In general, he's awesome. But I changed the song anyways. This is a nondenominational service, and I'm not going to impose my denomination on anyone. I am a proponent of free will. Anyways, it should be a good time. First time I will have played guitar in front of more than five people. Should be fun. I have internet. First time since college. When my work colleagues ask how I could go three years without cable or internet, I explain how I was raised Amish. They believe me for the few moments before I smile. Good times. Also got a new computer. It's really cool. Windows Vista. The most stable operating system EVER. I still don't have cable, but I don't really need it when I have Windows Media Center. This program automatically uploads 100 three-minute MSNBC news segments every two hours. I always have something to watch. And then there's YouTube. Addicting. My computer is in my bedroom, opposite my new queen-sized bed. Comfortable. The rest of my apartment is extremely clean because I don't spend any time outside my bedroom. It's awesome. It was a beautiful day today. I decided to go for a long walk. But I wanted to ensure I would get a lot of exercise out of it. So I started walking in a nearby neighborhood that I've never been in, and took turn after turn until I lost my orientation. The houses were pretty. After thirty or forty minutes, I was ready to go home. And so I kept walking in a certain direction until I reached a major road that I recognized. This gave me my bearings so that I could navigate through the neighborhood back to my apartment. But then I got lost again. Continuing in this new direction, I reached another major road, and decided to follow this one back to my apartment. In the end, I had walked nearly two and a half hours. I definitely got a workout. I went to GoogleMaps and found out I traveled over five miles. After my walk, I took a much needed nap. I slept for a couple of hours and woke up feeling a little sore. I walked to the mirror in my bathroom to discover that my neck had turned red by the sun. So now I'm a redneck. Officially. But seriously, I got a sunburn in March?? Are you kidding me? Geez. It's not too bad of a sunburn, but still. I didn't expect that. Whatever. It should be healed by the time I travel to Ohio. I've lost 25 pounds in the past month. I have 20 more to go before I regain my sexy beast-dom from college. I should look somewhat stunning in my mess dress for prom in late April. We'll see. I need to get back into swing dancing so I can show off my date as much as possible. Perhaps Evil B would be willing to train the two of us to be like Patrick Swayze and what's-her-name. Only not so dirty. My new computer has enabled me to iron out one of my writing projects. I had a screenplay entitled "Hostage" that I brought with me to Ohio in my last trip, and the interested director helped me identify its shortcomings. Since then, I've tightened up all of the dialogue, added a couple of hard-hitting scenes, and even changed the title: "Love Thy Neighbor". I showed the new screenplay to many of my friends, and they all seem to really like it. Much better. At the moment, I am waiting for probably the most important review of them all before I send the latest draft to the interested director. Perhaps she will become as excited about this movie as I have been for the past six months. We shall see. And that's about it. I excited to be in Ohio on Wednesday. Pray that my flight is a safe one. We give Thee thanks, O Heavenly Father, for Thy most precious gift of life. A gift Thou shared for our salvation with Thy Word and only son, our Lord. For our sins He died according to Thy Will so that we might have newness of life in Thee. May Thy Grace bring our hearts into union with Thy Love, and our lives in faith with Thy most holy son, Jesus, through Whom we sincerely pray in solemn pursuit of Thy Will. Amen. | 
