Sunday, May 11, 2008

Vengeance from the grave

At the risk of sounding like everyone else in the U.S. right now, regarding cinema entertainment, Iron Man kicks ass. Major ass. Above is the only line I can remember from the Ozzy song, which obviously gets much further into the story of Iron Man than this movie does. Or maybe the Oz man is just crazy.

No Kansas City. The school where I was hoping to go finally got back to me, saying they'd filled the position, and not with me. I sent a quick email to another school there which had posted an opening, but it's apparently just not meant to be for me next year. So now I wait to hear back from Korea, New Mexico, and a new school I just talked to in Chicago. Chicago would be an awesome location with regards to friends and family in the area, and I already have visions of the community garden I want to plant at my inner city school. But I do have a tendency to get ahead of myself.

My church is meeting on Tuesday, regarding voting to shut down. I do think it's the best thing at this point. I feel really badly for my parents, though. True, I grew up in this church, and once it's gone I'm no longer a member of any church (aside from the Church, of course), but I'm leaving soon. A very high percentage of the social interaction my parents have revolves around church activities or at least friends made at church. That seems to be sort of what happens after you get out of the school loop, I guess, unless you work at a place that really enables you to make meaningful, long-lasting friendships. But Mom and Dad have a bit of an uphill struggle with regards to figuring out what's next for them. I'm praying.

I get to go to Chicago this weekend! My sister is graduating and since she's not coming back home after grad, we're all going out there to watch it happen. I could care less about the ceremony, but the prospect of getting out of town and seeing new things and different people for a while makes me virtually dizzy with glee. Despite living in a city of almost a million people, I'm getting pretty bad cabin fever. Probably doesn't help that the temperature today got up to 97.

It's so crazy to think I've been out of college for a year. I think I know less about what I want now than I did then.