Well, this weekend was fairly typical, not much food, not much sleep, but a whole lot of fun.

Friday:
Unfortunately had to go to school, who knew 7 hours could last that long? Sometime during second period we all decided to go to A Place for the Heart, Ken Helser's place in Sophia. If you don't know the Helser's I stongly suggest coming with us sometime. I called Jamie after school to invite her, and was pleasantly surprised when she agreed. Worship began around sunset and continued all through the night until Jacob and Stephen were the only people still up. Most of us went to bed around 2am. During the only song that was pre-written, I felt an overpowering sense of joy that lasted for about 5 minutes. It was all I could do to keep from bursting out laughing. Although I'm not sure what was so funny.

The Children will lead us to the Glory of Jesus
Their foolishness will shame the wise
- Jonathan Helser

Saturday:
Woke up at around 5:30 am in a crappy little bed. Hit snooze until 6:48. Then played with the dogs until 9:30. Ate a big pancake and bacon breakfast that Jonathan and Melisa made. We all left A Place for the Heart soon after. Bingham and I showed up at Bingham's house around 12:30 which must have been weird for Stewart who was there at noon. Stephen fell asleep and wouldn't show up with the water balloons until 4:30 or so. So we had some time to kill so we fished. It turns out that Jamie is the best at it as she apparently doesn't even need bait to catch fish. Well Stephen and Tara finally showed up so the "water balloon fighting" began. It didn't last all that long but we were all pretty wet, and Stephen got nailed in the ribs with a balloon from a giant sling shot so he had a welt. The girls and Mark retreated to Mark's car while the rest of us played smeer the queer. That didn't last long either as Stewart accidentally got Marshall below the belt. The little cooking fire was begun soon after and many hot dogs and marshmellow's were roasted. The bonfire was then started with the aid of flamable chemicals. We quickly realized we where about to burn the forest down so we did a quick little bucket brigade and all was well. The fire soon calmed us down, or at least some of us. The Sophomores were the source of the background noise to our reverie. Stephen proclaimed that this was the last bonfire because we are all headed off to college. While I doubt and hope he's wrong, he did manage to once again bring the inevitability of growing up to my mind. Marshall and Tiphani were lost in each other as usuall. Mark was off in his own world. I can't even begin to imagine what things were going through his head. Jamie was quiet as well, we talked a little but we mostly just stared at the fire and stars. I can only speculate at her thoughts, but not here. I sat and listened to the others as they tried to rouse us to play sardines, broke a chair, burned a sock, and generally enjoyed themselves, oblivious to how quickly it will all be over. We left around 11. Most of the sophomores and Stewart went back to Stephen's because the night was still young, I went home physically and emotionally exhausted. Oh, well.

Sunday:
Slept until 1:15pm. Spent the day loafing. Left for the Brand New concert around 4:30. Mark seems back to his usuall self which is still pretty weird, but we're the only people who find each others jokes funny so it's cool.
Guy behind us in line at Cat's Cradle: So you smoked anything lately?
Other guy: like what?
Guy: Anything.
Some bum hit us up for money both before and after the show, and seemed to always be within twenty feet of us. The show was amazing as expected. The first act was a guy by the name of Kevin Devine who is quite talented but should stick to music not politics. During Brand New I somehow ended up right behind Jessie (Stafford not Lacie) which is exactly what happened at the last Brand New concert. As usuall she was being hit on by weird smelling guys. On the way home some fool had gotten in a wreck on Route 54 so we had to go on a little detour which was totally pointless. We got home around midnight.

"I wanna stay eighteen forever"

I'm not going to school today so that's good. Well, I put over 200 miles on my car this weekend, which is alot of money for gas. I wish we could go on like this forever. But who knows? Maybe I'll like college.