Right now I’m sort of bouncing off the walls. I’m terribly excited.<\/p>\n
Ken Myers from Mars Hill tapes called me today while I was still at school
\nplaying on the net in the computer lab with Bishop, who’d come by UM to drop
\noff an application for the summer honors program. I came home to find a note
\non the board saying he’d call back.<\/p>\n
The phone kept ringing all evening, a whole lot more than usual. As we were
\neating, it rang yet again. “Just answer, ‘WHAT?'” Denise suggested to
\nwhoever was answering the phone. “Yeah,” I agreed, then thought, “Then
\nagain, it might be for me.”<\/p>\n
It was. “Hi,” I said into the receiver as it was handed to me. “Hi, how are
\nyou?” Ken Myers asked. “Doing great.” “Did you get the package I sent?”
\n “Yeah,” I said, “and I read everything in it except for the book.” “Well,
\nwhat do you think?” he asked, “Is this your sort of thing?” “I was reading
\nthe essay you sent yesterday as I was sitting out on our back deck,” I
\nanswered, “the one about the decline of Western culture, and I was thinking,
\nthis is where I need to be.” “Great. Why don’t you come up here for the
\nsummer then?” “Okay!” “I still haven’t found a place for you to stay. We
\ncan’t offer you much, but we’ll pay you the same amount we’ll pay the
\nseminary student coming in, a token amount of $150 a week plus lodging.”
\n “Cool!” “You’ll be doing mainly administrative work,” he said, “But you’ll
\nbe exposed to many ideas and meet lots of interesting people.”<\/p>\n
He went on to ask when I would come. I told him that finals ended on May
\nfirst, but that some members of my household were contemplating a trip to
\nColorado after school. He responded that he wouldn’t want to keep me from
\nthe opportunity to visit Colorado by any means. He said that, if I came the
\nweek of the 20th or the 27, that would work. We agreed to get back in touch
\nwith each other soon.<\/p>\n
I hung up the phone and let out a whoop.<\/p>\n
Dad was reading Ken Myers’ book tonight and loving it. He read parts of it
\noutloud to us. My brother Ben is reading it right now.<\/p>\n
In other news, I got a desperate phone call from my friend Melissa who asked,
\n“Could I ask you a really big favor?” “I’d do anything for you,” I answered.
\n She said that one of the theater people from our Shakespeare class was sick.
\n They are putting on several scenes from the pen of the bard tomorrow in lieu
\nof a paper and needed someone to read the sick girl’s part from a scene in
\nMuch Ado About Nothing. I, of course, agreed. Which means I’ll have to skip
\nmy much beloved psychology class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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