I have a friend at church named Morgan.  She's one of the nicest girls you'll ever meet (and quite pretty, smart, and talented).  She dances with my sister on the dance team featured some in our Christmas musical at church.  It's come to be quite a fantastic night.  This past Sunday was the first night.  During dress rehearsal two hours prior, she was crying, eventually could not physically dance anymore, and left soon after.

The dancing moves had to be changed around, and another girl had to learn Morgan's solo, but such minor setbacks so easily overcome are ultimately nothing to what had just happened.  Saturday night, her boyfriend was having trouble breathing.  He was diagnosed with leukemia and taken to Duke University Sunday morning.  He's still there now while the hospital is trying to understand more about his condition.

He's a good guy, very friendly.  Eighteen years old, fantastic golfer.  His birthday is the same as Morgan's, and Emmy's.  He was (is?) finishing his first semester in college at NC State.  He never showed any signs of being sick.  I don't know why such things happen.

If you do any praying, please ask for his aid, and comfort to those close to him.

What can take a dying man
and raise him up to life again?
What can heal a wounded soul?
What can make us white as snow?
What can fill the emptiness?
What can mend our brokenness?

I hate when I oversleep.  Especially when I miss out on something I want to do - not just class.  Lame.

Educators are always telling kids to have goals.  Now that I've seen Oasis and Coldplay live, I've been motivationless for about a month.

I've been browsing Wikipedia a lot recently while putting off school work.  Somehow I started looking at animals.  I love going to the zoo, and the only television programs I ever bother watching are history, religious, and nature documentaries...ocean or land, doesn't matter.  The ones where it's only a guy narrating.  Yeah, the ones they rarely show now.  Discovery is too busy showing "Myth Busters" and stupid motorcycle/car modding shows.  Animal Planet is too busy showing that show with A.C. Slater checking out "America's greatest pets" or some garbage.  National Geographic is the best choice, but hasn't yet proved itself trustworthy.

Anyway, I don't know how it came up...Emmy is in zoology, and I was asking her about the animals she had studying so far.  Mostly boring stuff - worms, sea sponges, clams.  Somewhere I brought up the order Artiodactyla.  That is, even-toed ungulates.  That is, hooved animals aside from horses, donkeys, zebras, and rhinos.  Camels are cool.  I "am" one - it's our school mascot.  I like the two-humped ones.  Then it hit me.

Giraffes!

I will ride a giraffe someday.

How 'bout dem apples?