I'm off again; effective the 5th I'm out of town (but in state) for the week, and then the next week I'll be either crazy busy or still gone. So I probably won't be able to post anything until the 17th. Though I might possibly pop in before then and mutter something incoherent.
So see you all!

Hope you have a great trip Kittengirl!
Have a fun time in Miami, narnian_at_heart!
Enjoy the seashore, wild rose, De_De and Narnian_Archer! (Late, I know. )
And Lark is back now, right? Welcome, returning traveler!

aw, bye Adeona! I hope you have fun! we'll miss you!

Wow, the places ya'll go. @narnian: Washington / Idaho to Miami?! I've been to all three places, but never in one trip!

I just came back from a week-long vacation to New York and New England. I loved most of it, except for heat, traffic, and one missed ferry.

Guess what? I sailed up the Thames River on a ferry last week. But I wasn't in London, England. I was in New London, Connecticut!

Suggestion: if you want to take a passenger ferry to Martha's Vineyard, don't use the Quonset Point, Rhode Island route! The Quonset ferry dock is on an Air Force base. And we happened to schedule a 1pm ferry for the same weekend as the yearly air show. But guess what? No one at the ferry service, both when we asked for info and when we made a reservation, told us about the air show or about leaving an hour early to make the ferry. They also charged hidden fees not on their brochure. We thought we were gonna make the ferry. But the MPs took over the heavy traffic for the air show and wouldn't let us through. So we missed it. We were angry, feeling like we'd been lied to and cheated, but they gave us a refund. We then took a 4pm [hour-long] passenger ferry from New Bedford, Mass. They had much better service, and were friendlier and cheaper -- with no hidden fees.

I have two more days with all of you for a little while. I leave Wed, July 7 for Atlanta for a week. This is a huge trip that could have a life changing impact for me. The main purpose of the trip is to compete at the US Fencing Summer National Championships. I'll be competing in four events Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday (next week) with an off-day on Saturday and traveling back on Tuesday, July 13. I've never had so many events in one tournament before so I am entering new territory, but also, my fencing this past semester has truly been the best I've ever had in all 12 years in the sport. So I am expecting some pretty good results.

But the competition is just part of it. Just days after I qualified for this tournament, I got a contact through a mutual friend, who is a professional pool player, to the director of the Arts and Performances Division of Operation Mobilization. OM is a huge missions organization like WYAM, but this particular division has a focus of using unique talents and abilities to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world. Among their current things are unicyles, magic/illusion, and the pool player, who uses trick shots to illustrate life lessons and the Gospel. The pool player had met me before this, and when he met the director in Atlanta that week after I qualifed, they talked about how I have a vision of using fencing for ministry. It was a God-put-together thing and on Friday, I will meet with the director of this division of OM and brainstorm about how OM and I can use the sport for much greater purposes than competition.

It's going to be a truly spectacular week and internet access will be very limited due to time if not at all (I'm not bringing my computer.) I'll report when I get back.

Good luck and take care FenceforJesus! I know you can do it!

Well, this night we'll leave for carcassonne, France. I'll be gone for two weeks. It's a 2 day drive, so I've uploaded a lot of films, including LWW and PC to my Ipod. Sort of stupid I did not get the chance to finish my trailer analysis. this way part 5 will be really dated when I finally upload it :S anyway, not that bad, everyone understands why.

Goodbye everyone, have a great vacation.

^^ bye! we'll miss you! have fun!

On Friday I leave to California at 6:18 pm CST and I don't return home until the following week on the 17th at 5:00 pm. So I won't be hanging out on here as much. I'm going to try and sneak my way on here with my friends laptop but only for a few seconds and minute to see what's going on.

Leaving to Idaho from the 10th to 17th! Family vacation, should be lots of fun! I'm excited.

I'm going to a harp program tomorrow for 2 weeks. I should be back online by the 25th. See you all later! (and don't let the Favorite Music thread die! )