{"id":384,"date":"1996-09-11T20:46:07","date_gmt":"1996-09-12T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net:8080\/?p=384"},"modified":"1996-09-11T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"1996-09-12T02:46:07","slug":"a-watch-a-calendar-and-a-sticky-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"a watch, a calendar, and a sticky note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Steph hit the phone in her room on accident, and it looked<br \/>\na lot like a phone call, so I hung up.  Then the phone didn&#8217;t ring.<br \/>\nSteph had asked me earlier if I were online, and I&#8217;d said yes.  So I<br \/>\nyelled at her to see if she wanted to make a call.  I had to yell loudly<br \/>\nbecause I&#8217;m downstairs and she&#8217;s upstairs and down the hall.  &#8220;STEPH?!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, Joanna!  I&#8217;m so sorry!&#8221; her panicked voice came from upstairs, &#8220;I<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t mean to, I promise!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know.  Did you want to make a call?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, yeah?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then go ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I stupidly told Bishop I&#8217;d go to a concert in P&#8217;cola this Monday when I<br \/>\nactually have class that night.  Duh.  I wrote him last night but wanted<br \/>\nto call him to apologize.  I had class today till 7:30 and then came<br \/>\nhome, ate supper, and then had Bible study with Denise, Steph, and Mom.<br \/>\nBy the time that was over, it was 9:45, too late for me to call.  Well,<br \/>\nit may not be too late, but I don&#8217;t call anyone after 9:30 on principle.<br \/>\nI was expressing my dismay at my scheduling problem this evening.  Denise<br \/>\ngoes, &#8220;I swear, you need to get yourself a watch and a calendar and a<br \/>\nsticky note to put on your FOREHEAD to remind you to look at both of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now mom is ragging me about feeding and watering my cat.  &#8220;Did you get<br \/>\nany cat litter?&#8221; she asks me.  &#8220;No, mom, I came straight home for Bible<br \/>\nstudy.&#8221;  &#8220;Oh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Denise suggested we get on maf to see if Bishop was on.  I<br \/>\nnodded, and she dialed.  Then she got on finally and started reading who<br \/>\nwas on.  &#8220;Paul&#8217;s on,&#8221; she said.  I nodded.  &#8220;And Berckums&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Berckums?!&#8221;  She took too long reading her mail, so I made her move.<br \/>\n&#8220;Can you believe it?&#8221; she asked my mom, &#8220;knocked off the computer.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Just think of it,&#8221; I said, &#8220;as call waiting from the opposite direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steph is still on the phone, I guess.  I&#8217;m sure with Nathan.  They have<br \/>\nto talk every night, you know.  And if I hadn&#8217;t let her talk, I&#8217;m sure he<br \/>\nwould have called.  In any case, she probably thinks I&#8217;m mad.  Which is<br \/>\nfine with me because she&#8217;s been upset at me for the past couple of days.<br \/>\nDenise went upstairs and came back down a few minutes ago.  &#8220;She still on<br \/>\nthe phone?&#8221; I asked.  &#8220;Yeah.  You mad?&#8221;  &#8220;Nah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I&#8217;m going to get everything done this semester.  I<br \/>\nstarted the second semester of my junior year about as impassively as<br \/>\npossible.  I&#8217;ve started my senior year bouncing off the walls.  I guess<br \/>\nsleeping all summer helped.  It also helps not having class till one<br \/>\nthree days a week.  That means I&#8217;ve been getting a good 9 hours at least<br \/>\nevery other day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m building a horse out of cardboard for my Three Dimensional Design<br \/>\nclass.  The instructor, Bertice, called from the other end of the room<br \/>\nyesterday during class, &#8220;Now that&#8217;s a horse!&#8221;  Which means she likes it,<br \/>\nI think.  She hasn&#8217;t yelled at anyone else&#8217;s sculpture.  I&#8217;ve had to redo<br \/>\nalmost every part of it, kind of like erasing, except with a knife and<br \/>\ntape.  I redid the legs.  Front two yesterday during class and back two<br \/>\ntoday on my own.  It really looks good.  I mean, it looks like a horse,<br \/>\nexcept that it&#8217;s way too skinny.  I dunno if I&#8217;ll change it though.  I<br \/>\nmean, I can add more cardboard to the sides and fatten him up, but the<br \/>\nthing about art is that it doesn&#8217;t HAVE to be an accurate<br \/>\nrepresentation.  I&#8217;m not sure what to do about the tail.  The tail isn&#8217;t<br \/>\na part of the horse for me.  It&#8217;s just a bunch of hair at the end of his<br \/>\nbutt.  But I&#8217;m used to real horses, not pictures of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Steph hit the phone in her room on accident, and it looked a lot like a phone call, so I hung up. Then the phone didn&#8217;t ring. Steph had asked me earlier if I were online, and I&#8217;d said yes. 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