I haven't been posting as much these last few weeks because I haven't felt the necessity of communication the way I usually have in the past. There's plenty to occupy me around here. Also, various nice, long telephone conversations have satisfied me. I feel so loved when two different friends call me pretty much back-to-back, one for half an hour and the other for over an hour, and a third friend leaves me a voicemail in the meanwhile. :) I appreciate my friends so much!

I've regained my appetite for books. Whenever I'm first home from school, I can only read intellectual material - stuff that is Useful. In the last three weeks I've devoured at least ten fiction books. It feels like refueling; I can't get enough of it. Makes sense. If I don't have fiction flowing through my system, how can I spare any to create my own stories?

Less than a month and a half until PHC again. I'm starting to get nervous. Me? Nervous about PHC? Yes, well, I don't know much about the school year or how things will be. I don't know how I'll interact with some people. I don't know how I'll handle some of the old troubles I've had at PHC, and I don't know what new ones will arise. I don't know who I'm rooming with, or if I'm rooming alone. I don't know how (un)manageable my schedule will be. All I do know is that God loves me, and that He has an exciting, growing school year planned ahead for me.

Subject change. I saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest last night. It was a mixture of hilarious and strange, and I want to see it again sometime very soon. I'll wait 'til it's been out for a while to give a detailed review, because I don't want to spoil anything. For now I'll just say that it felt like one of the King's Quest games published by Sierra a while back. It contained all these separate plot areas, all wound together into one story. lol! I'm laughing now remembering it.

Actually, my oldest brother and I had tried to go to the 4:30pm showing at my favorite theater in the area. I figured it was pretty certain we should be able to get in, since that's the rush-hour show. However, we found when we arrived that all the shows for the rest of the day, even until 11:30pm, were already sold out! So we drove to a less-popular theater and managed to buy tickets for 10:15pm, which was the earliest show still available there. I'm guessing that P2 is having record weekend box-office sales. And from how much I liked it, I'll bet it hangs on just fine. It hit the perfect summer window, just when everyone was depressed from the lack of good movies, and just when we're not expecting anything else for a while. I'll be interested to see the weekend figures on Monday.

I have thought about a great many other things besides movies, but I don't especially feel like turning them into blog posts right now.  ¶ 4:56 PM