Why Am I So Obsessed With Billy Joel?!

"Vienna" -Billy Joel

Slow down you crazy child
You're so ambitious for a juvenile
But then if you're so smart tell me,
Why are you still so afraid? (mmmmm)

Where's the fire, what's the hurry about?
You better cool it off before you burn it out
You got so much to do and only
So many hours in a day (Ay)

But you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want
Or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through (Oooh)
When will you realize... Vienna waits for you?

Slow down you're doing fine
You can't be everything you want to be before your time
Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight (tonight)

Too bad, but it's the life you lead
You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need
Though you can see when you're wrong
You know you can't always see when you're right (you're right)

You got your passion, you got your pride
But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true (Oooh)
When will you realize... Vienna waits for you?

Slow down you crazy child
Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while
It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two (oooh)
When will you realize... Vienna waits for you?

And you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want or you can just get old
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through (oooh)
Why don't you realize... Vienna waits for you?

When will you realize... Vienna waits for you?

The Questing Beast, Unicorns, and a Very Stupid Knight-This is what we read about when camp is empty.

Reading fantasy books is something new to me. I love adventure, but fantasy gets a bit over the top sometimes. However, it is helpful to enter a magical kingdom when the kingdom you live in is almost completely abandoned. 

Summer is over now and everyone has left, with the exception of the full time staff. It is kind of a depressing scene. I am beginning to miss Caleb's annoying songs, Josh's amusement at God's word-choices in the Bible, Laura's singing, Jess's inability to stop laughing, Matt's obsession with Hello Dolly music, and Rob's ability to make me so frustrated with him that I just want to bop him one in the nose. Everyone has become part of my daily routine. Now I no longer see their faces or hear their voices and it is kind of eerie. As a camp kid, I kind of get used to this silence, but this year it is a bit different for me. 

School is starting up soon, if it has not started already for others. I wish everyone the best of luck in wherever they are going this fall, whether it be back home to their local high schools or to college. 

I start school on Thursday and I am not done my homework yet. I plan to finish tomorrow, just in the nick of time. I was busy and distracted this summer... However, I enjoy the reading much better if I read it cover to cover instead of little bits at a time. I like to get lost in the story.

Right now I am reading The Once and Future King. I love it and hate it at the same time. Some of the quests are humorous and some are pointless.. I would really rather not hear about little children stabbing a precious unicorn to impress their mother, who did not care about the creature anyways. That was depressing. Sir Lancelot is also a ridiculously stupid character and also quite depressing. He does things he does not want to, and lies about them. He hurts everyone's feelings although he is just trying to be this righteous man. He really isn't. Hopefully the book ends on a positive note. I know that they all die, but hopefully they will on good terms. I am not familiar with the King Arthur story.

Well, I guess that is all I have to say for now. Back to reading! 

And So It Goes

In every heart there is a room

A sanctuary safe and strong

To heal the wounds from lover's past

Until a new one comes along

I spoke to you in cautious tones

You answered me with no pretense

And still I feel I said too much

My silence is my self defense

And every time I've held a rose

It seems I only felt the thorns

And so it goes and so it goes

And so will you soon, I suppose

But if my silence made you leave

Then that would be my worst mistake

So I will share this room with you

And you can have this heart to break

And this is why my eyes are closed

It's just as well for all I've seen

And so it goes and so it goes

And you're the only one who knows

So I would choose to be with you

That's if the choice were mine to make

But you can make decisions too

And you can have this heart to break

And so it goes and so it goes

And you're the only one who knows

~Billy Joel

DMV, Poisonwood, and Camp

So, as I promised, I am making a post about my trip to the DMV. And.... I passed my test! I am now an officially licensed driver! I am so excited.

There isn't much to say about my trip to the DMV, other than waiting in the line for two hours was an excellent way for God to test my patience. The "written test" is no longer "written." It is on a touch screen computer. This is okay for people like me who know how to operate computers and work around their problems, but for the 75 year old lady next to me, it was not okay. The poor thing was forced to learn how to use a bogus computer under a clock. No one was allowed to help her and they wouldn't let her take her test on paper either. When I got back from my driving test, I learned that she had not passed and that she would be back to try again another time. It is amazing how much technology has changed in the lives of these elderly people who were born in the 1930s and 1940s. My grandmother still calls the iPad we bought her the "internet box" and still doesn't know how to use it despite our countless instruction lists which include pictures AND arrows! I love her to pieces for it. I just wish that the state would recognize their inability to use technology and cut them some slack from time to time.

Sorry I went on a little rant there!

I just finished The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Tata Jesus es bangala! It is one of the saddest, most depressing books I have ever read! I am soooo glad that it is over. I appreciated learning about the Congo, but the themes and ideas that came from this book drew me away from it. Thankfully we have been reading the book of 2 Timothy for our devotions as a staff here at camp and that has been helping me greatly. The two books contradict each other in every possible way. The Poisonwood Bible teaches me how NOT to be a Christian! Oh well... I finished it... It is D.O.N.E. The next book I have is called The Once and Future King about King Arthur and his knights! I am more excited for this one I think. Hopefully I won't fall asleep as much as I did the other one! That is the hardest problem for me and books... I usually like to read them from cover to cover. But, if I am not interested, I pass out and sleep for four hours, missing my reading time! Then it takes me weeks to read a book. Ellen Foster, the easiest English book I have ever had to read, took me a week when it should have only taken me two hours because I couldn't stay awake.

Camp is going well. This week is the beginning of the teen weeks. This week is senior high, and next week is junior high. I am supposedly on the list as a counselor for the second week, but I am going to guess that that is not going to happen since we only have about 35 kids signed up for that week... =( I guess it is the hardest week in the summer to fill because of all the sport camps that happen during that week. So please pray for the numbers to go up!

That is about all I have to say right now. Life was kind of slow this week since I wasn't working. But I am back on tomorrow and ready to clean some dishes WOOT WOOT!