'quixotic' That's one of the best ones. I'm going to make a promise to myself to write in my diary more than I have been. Every night before I go to bed, I'm going to write. And now that I have my laptop hooked up to the internet in my room, I'm able to do that. I don't like doing things on the internet where my parents can see me because they make me nervous. They think I'm some sort of demented person, I guess, and they like to stand behind me and watch what I'm doing. But they can't do that when they've gone to bed and I'm in my room. And anyway, I miss writing in my diary as often as before. I need to get things out of my head and onto some sort of medium. I think I'm going to like being a receptionist. The people I'm working with seem to be very nice and happy people. I'm normally shy around people I don't really know, but they make me feel better about the situation. I don't know if they're just being nice (since it's their job to be nice to people, I'm sure they're pretty good at it) or what, but it still makes me feel better. I started really working on Friday after all the computer training and shadowing. I answered a lot of phone calls and checked some people out (oh yeah, all the hotties at the Holiday Inn) and it was kind of fun. I still don't really know what I'm doing, but it says 'trainee' on my nametag so that should say something to the guests who are annoyed because I'm too slow with check-out. I've never really had any first-hand experience with receptionists because in all the hotels I've ever stayed at, someone else has taken care of the front desk. It's really complicated back there, more complicated than I thought it was going to be! I know I'll do fine, though, because my two best friends were receptionists there and I'm just as capable as they are. I've been able to read these past few weeks and it makes me feel so good. I went to the public library to check out Moby Dick to get a head start on next semester, but their one copy of the book was returned with mold growing in it. They ordered a new one and said they'd call me when they got it. In the meantime, I thought, I might as well get somehting else to read since I actually have some time to read. And so, I checked out the second two books of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy. I read Out of the Silent Planet during my senior year, I think, but the school library didn't have the other two (which doesn't really make sense to me). Of course, the public library only had the second two books, so even if I wanted to reread the first book I couldn't. Any road, I read Perelandra in a few days and dove straight into That Hideous Strength, which is a most amazing book. It made me happy, those two books, because it felt like I was getting a little bit of UD from my public library. They were stories, of course, beautifully well-told stories, but they were intellectual and challenging as well. Of course, That Hideous Strength gave me some really strange dreams. Which is kind of ironic now that I think about it. I love C.S. Lewis. Everything he writes, even the essays about Dante and Virgil I've read from him, are magic. Seriously, Merlin pops up in That Hideous Strength. That's the medieval scholar in him. Because of that, I'm reading The Once and Future King again just because I'm in the mood for Merlin. My Aaron graduated on Friday night. It was wonderful, and I cried. I don't know why I did because him graduating means him in Dallas with me, but crying is just natural at a graduation I suppose. I was so proud of him. His speech was well-received and better than the validictorian's and he read it beautifully. I knew a lot of people who graduated, so it was pretty meaningful. And, one of the best parts of the whole thing, is that it was only 45 minutes. My graduation lasted nearly an hour and a half because the principal gave a really long speech about roads and songs...I don't really remember. But they had a different principal this year and he didn't even give a speech. So it was really short and really good. I'm so proud of him.