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May 31, 2004
Mike & Kevin's Graduation
Okay, I know I haven't posted in almost a week, but there's good reason. Since I haven't posted in awhile, this might get a bit long, but please bear with me. Wednesday and Thursday during the day I just sat around, relaxed and read, which was quite enjoyable. Wednesday night I went to the Bible study down in Taylors Falls with my parents, it was pretty good. But on Thursday night I went to Janelle's house, and hung out with her, Brooke, Karen, Troy & Lindsay. It was great to see all of them again and catch up on everything, I hadn't seen any of them in quite some time. And it'll be the last time any of us will see Janelle for a long time, because on Friday she left for a year of study abroad in Tianjin, China, a city of 9 million people. She's really excited for it, although she's a bit nervous about her rusty Chinese language skills, as she wasn't able to take a class in it the last semester or two. I'm excited for her too, that she's getting this opportunity to study abroad, but I'm gonna miss her, as I won't even be able to see her when I finally return, until a few months later. And we got a couple pictures of us on my camera, and I would've put them up on the web too, except the disk got corrupted somehow before I could get them onto my computer. Argh! Sometimes I hate technology. I sooo need a new digital camera.
Friday was my first day of work (well, first day of my third stint) at Marketplace. I worked 8-5 that day, and Scott's being true to his word and scheduling me full-time, which is quite nice. Friday evening I went to the high school in Cumberland for the graduation ceremony because Mike & Kevin were both graduating. It was a pretty good ceremony, although it was hot as could be in the gym. Mike and Chris Olson gave the commencement speech together, and it was a very nice speech. It even quoted heavily from "the well-known author Dr. Seuss" and his book Oh, the Places You'll Go!, hehe. I saw a few other people there at the ceremony that I hadn't seen in quite some time, so that was fun too. But congratulations to Mike & Kevin! I made a photo album of photos from the graduation ceremony and afterwards, and I have a link to it on my Photos page. Although I must say that I was surprised at Mike & Kevin's role reversal -- Kevin was posing for pictures and Mike was camera shy. Very strange. :-)
Saturday I got up really early and worked a shift at the radio station from 5am-9am, and then Marketplace from 9-2pm. Then I zoomed over to Cumberland for the last bit of Mike's graduation party. He got quite a bit of cool stuff, I must say (in addition to a nice load of cash!). After that was over we both made our way over to Kevin's party, and the picture at right of the three of us was taken there. I stayed for quite awhile, but Mike didn't, as he had several graduation parties to try to hit at least briefly. I think one of the coolest things at graduation parties is seeing the picture boards that get made. After seeing both of them (but especially Kevin's), I was just amazed at how both of them have changed so much since the beginning of freshman year four years ago when I first got to know them. And it's so hard to believe that it's already been almost four years since I first got to know those two cool dudes, it doesn't seem like that long ago when we were playing basketball every day in the gym during lunch break, and then after school on days when we wouldn't have anything going on. Man, how time flies. But I do value both of them as friends very much, that's for certain. Oh, and in addition to graduating this weekend, Kevin also finally turned 18 on Sunday! Happy Birthday KG!
After Kevin's party I rode down to Taylors Falls with my parents and brother Nathan again, this time to hear a guy from Scotland named Berrisford Jobe speak on the topic of "The Church As Family," which was quite fascinating and insightful. He also had some very interesting comments on how church has been traditionally done for most of the last 1900 years, and how it's completely antithetical to the design laid out in the New Testament by the Apostles, which has led to problems throughout the history of the church.
Sunday morning was another very early morning for me, as I had to work at the radio station again from 5am-10am. I came home to take a nice two-hour nap before heading back over to Rice Lake for my 3-11pm shift at Marketplace. Ugh, what a long day. And then to top it off I had to be back at Marketplace at 8am this morning, for a shift that went until 5pm. And I work 8-4 each of the next three days too, meaning I won't have my first day off of work until Friday. My first taste of full-time work is really tiring me out! At least I'm still finding time to do fun stuff occasionally, like tonight I went into Cumberland to watch the Wolves-Lakers game with Kevin at his grandpa's house. That was cool, even though the Wolves ended their season with a 96-90 loss. I also had been hoping to hang out some with Greg tonight, since he was up from Dallas this weekend, but he was apparently too busy. He's heading back to Dallas tomorrow, and so I won't see him until sometime after I get back from Australia. Oh well, I guess I can't have everything my way. I should get to bed, but I'll try to post more often now that I'm through this weekend's murderous work/sleep schedule.
Posted by Jared at May 31, 2004 11:52 PM