saddling a cow

stalin once said that exposing poland to communism was like saddling a cow. lol. and then he made them be communists anyways. what a douche.

i’ve had an amazing day. i had lunch with mrs chamberlain and it was delicious and seeing her was wonderful. we talked about so many things including the role of women in the church and why she can still be catholic and some other things. she said that i can start going to church with her and that she’ll sponsor me for confirmation if/when i want to do that. it was really nice of her. and the way that she worded it was so great too. she just said “i’ve always wanted to sponsor someone” but never directly told me that she would be my sponsor. and I think it would be awesome to have her be my sponsor. because if anyone has kept my faith in christianity it has been her. she’s marvelous. we also talked about abortion and how her college roommate had one and how messed up her roommate has been ever since then. it’s a really shitty situation i think for everyone that has one and even though i’ll never look down on my friends that have had them (or anyone, mostly) i just really feel like society should look out for women and that women should make sure they are in the position where they are choosing birth control over abortion. we also talked about books and our lives and such as well. she says she basically runs the barb and allen bed and breakfast. lol. i think it would be nice to have a great house like theirs that has an extra room because then you could have lots of people stay over and that would just be great.

after dinner, i went to rahul’s for the pool party. we watched segments of team america that were really funny. the song about pearl harbor is awesome and so oddly timed. that movie came out like 5 years ago or something and team harbor is barely a year old. we also swam at like 4 or so and that was cool. a lot of his friends from LHS were there and the RYLA kids (tim, amanda f., amanda h., rahul, me, joe, and ben “arrowhead max”) all showed up. awesome. we told the same stories that happened last week but it was like they were brand new. and at the very least it was like they were still great. it was tons of fun and i really like swimming and stuff as well.

yesterday i hung out with beau who is that guy from my chem class we sat around drinking G&T and watching random dating shows on the TV. It was a lot of fun, especially given that we had never really had a conversation before. He’s from Garden City (interesting aside!). I was there from like midnight until 3 am or so and then i drove home and listened to the killers really loudly while i took the long way. Hot Fuss is one of the best album purchases I’ve made spontaneously. I really like Jack Johnson’s new one too but last night was a Killer’s night.

I’ve been spending lots more time with Sarah lately. I’ve missed her tons. She’s the most beautiful, understanding friend I have sometimes. She was great to hang out with and we went swimming. Someone puked in the pool! It was sweet. This girl was like “WHY WOULD YOU PUKE IN THE POOL!?” I wanted to hit her because no one intentionally pukes anywhere. I mean, honestly. Like the kid responsible for doing this set out to puke in the pool. Who does that?! Pish. So anyway. I hope that kid’s social skills never fully develop because he does’t have friends because he ruined their day at the pool. Actually it was only closed for maybe a half hour total and I still had a great time.

I talked to Beatty about Britain! Fuck yeah, I wanna go!

Also, I talked to Phil on the phone today. It was great to hear him. I miss him a lot more than I admit to myself sometimes and the people around here. I think i’m going to try to go see him at some point in my career as an astronaut*.

*note: i am not really an astronaut nor will i be i just like to say this and i will make a trend out of it.

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