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Communion

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I’m in a thoughtful mood at the moment. I’ve been reading the fourth book in Whitley Streiber’s Communion series. It’s called The Secret School, and it’s about visitor encounters he had as a nine-year-old. He talks about when he had a severe fever (107 degrees) that lasted several days. Everyone thought he was going to die, and he remembers the preist coming and giving him confession. He remembers meeting “Eddie.” a young boy who played with him in his room. Eddie said he was here to take him, once he died. He had a sense that he could play with Eddie after that. When he asked Eddie what his last name was, Eddie replied “Oh, Death.” They wrestled, and eventually, as the fever died Eddie left, but not before he had a peek at the gates of heaven and St. Peter. He remembers St. Peter as a very large man in a blue uniform with a baseball cap.

This really interests me. I’ve felt for quite awhile that various religions are simply different ways of viewing the same underlying reality. Is it possible that none of us really comprehends what happens after we die, so all religions spring out of various ideas? And as we are raised in various systems of thought, we view that reality differently. This would explain why a nine-year-old, who had been raised Catholic, would see what he expected to when he was near death, but saw it his own way. Death, rather than the traditional image he hadn’t been exposed to, was a young child who played with him, and St. Peter wore a baseball cap. It’s an interesting theory. I think it’s the closest I’ve come to a religious idea that I could agree with.

In other news, I managed to break my artist’s block. Annie did some poses for me while watching TV last night and I started drawing again, which was great. I’m going to try and start doing some sketches every night for about a half hour. I also managed to come up with two news stories for Y5, and a new logo for Space Ninja, a task that has been haunting me for awhile now. Hopefully by this evening, I’ll have a start on a new interface for Space Ninja and all will be going well. :)

Beach Trip

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Well, I haven’t made an entry in two months. That’s a bit too long for an update, I think. Hmmm… what’s been going on with me… Annie and I are still getting along great, and life in our apartment is awesome. We’ve finally gotten over the debt that accompanies a move, and have gotten to a point where we can start splitting the bills equally and still have some spending money leftover at the end of the month. We had enough money this month that I finally hooked up cable. I’m so sick of bad reception, but there’s really not much you can do living in a concrete box. The cable company hooked us up with digital cable. The cable box has a modem built-in to contact the company (not sure why it would have to do that… maybe they’re keeping track of what we watch?). The first month we get everything free, so I’ve been having a blast flipping through all 500 channels (still nothing on, though). It’ll be nice when X-Files starts and I can actually read the little readout that says where they are.

I got hired for the job on the tek team! Not sure if I mentioned that before or not. The job is awesome. They started us out doing grunt labor, but we quickly graduated to real jobs, and I’m enjoying myself. I’ve got cool coworkers, and a good boss. We do work in a concrete bunker underground, but it’s kinda cool… there’s no sunlight at all (no windows), so I’m going to buy some posters to hang up in here… a few Star Wars posters, and maybe a good looking nature shot. Speaking of posters, we finally broke down and bought some sticky tabs to hang up posters in our apartment. Nothing would stick to the walls, but I really didn’t want to get these tabs, since they hardly ever come off posters cleanly. But now they stay up, and I think it’s worth it.

We went to the beach for labor day, and it was awesome. Good group of people. KT and Annie, with myself, Jester and Miles. Jester and Miles, we just discovered recently KNOW each other! I was talking to Miles one day, and he mentions juggling… “yeah the little brother of one of my friends in high school was a really good juggler. He ended up at Princeton… probably on a juggling scholarship.” A little commotion followed, and we discovered that Jester and Daniel were the same person. A brief email later and Jester knew about it. I had already invited Jester to the beach, so I invited Miles too, and it was cool! We all got along great, and spent the whole weekend babbling about computer games to each other (much to the women’s disgust). The weather on the first day was gorgeous, and we spent a good chunk of time on the beach. The next day was horrible and rainy, so we went to the cheese factory, but it lightened up enough for us to have our bonfire and s’mores, and then naturally the day we left was beautiful. Still, a great weekend. We enjoyed ourselves.

I’m not sure where the summer went. I had so much planned to get done this summer, and I got hardly anything done. I’ve been working really hard, but I haven’t read the books I wanted, or beaten my computer games or anything. *sigh* oh well. Maybe next year.

I’ve been reading Whitley Strieber books lately. He’s the guy who wrote Communion, the creepy book about a guy who discovers that he’s been visited by what would appear to be aliens ever since he was two. I got the book at a yard sale for a buck, and ended up buying the next three books. They’re fascinating reading. I don’t think I really believe it, but it succeeds in creeping me out whenever I read them.

Okay I think that’s enough for now. I’ll try to write more frequently!