Four and a half hours of pouring rain and crazy people driving 75 when you can’t see 20 feet in front of you and I’m finally here. I have never been on a toll road before but I was today. The Cherokee Turnpike cost $2.25. I got in the short line, cash only and no receipt and had to dig out quarters. Thank goodness I had enough. Also, I seem to be in The Cherokee Nations, not Oklahoma. The sign when I left Arkansas said Welcome to the Cherokee Nation, not ...
I believe I shall have to start this off with a simple question: do you believe in faeries? I ask this because (make no judgements) I do. Today, I was shooting my bow and arrow, and (genius, I am) misfired. The arrow went into the woods behind our fenced-in property, so I trudged back there to get the arrow. I found it-- eventually-- and as I was going back to my makeshift range, caught a fleeting memory from last winter. I hadn't come that way for a while, and the small clearing ...
Guess who. Tom. He did something I considered doing but didn't. He sent me an email for my birthday to my yahoo, hotmail and my home account "So sorry I didn't send this yesterday, we were seeing my Uncle and by the time we got home, well... How are you? Everything going okay at Uni? When will you next be coming home to visit? ~CA" (I've abbreviated Character A, which is how he signed it.) Dare I reply? I daren't ...
I've been really interested by everyone's answers to Antiquarian's questions so I decided to jump on the bandwagon and see what people would say to my choices. Seriously, the Bible would answer all of the questions except 6,7, and 9, so I'll just use fiction. 1. One book that changed your life: Out of many many, Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night. I never dreamed that one book could have so much pathos, mystery, drama, classical literary references, and sensible romance ...
I'll put some more stuff in here sooner or later. Rainy season seems to be over.
Updated 09-11-2008 at 04:37 PM by Captain Pike