h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, it's been a long time since I posted a journal. I'll do this in reverse chronological order, beginning first with the yay, and going back to whenever.

The Yay! is because I'm all done with school. My last classes were today, and then it's off to university in late August. Graduation is this Saturday. It's going to be really different not having to go to classes and all that. Especially not seeing all my friends every day. I'm definately going to miss many of them. But hopefully many of us will stay in touch.

On a slightly less happy note, on May 29th my best friend's dad died of cancer. The funeral was the Friday after. He was doing pretty well, or at least not showing it if he was doing bad. He had to go back to Mississippi the day after the funeral to return to the Navy. I really hope he has friends there, because it's probably going to set in a little later and hit him really hard.

The week before that, I finally got myself a PDA. It's a silver Visor Edge, and is really slick. Most of my friends are jealous, and I think it was $140 well spent. Of course, the whole thing died about 12 days later (some sort of PDA virus), but I was able to get a new one, which is doing fine.

Before that, I had to make up my mind about which college I'm going to. The decision was between Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconson, and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. I finally decided on Lawrence after a nice visit the day before the decision deadline. I have around $9k in scholarship for the first year, which will really help out. And that's in addition to the sizable grant they offered me.

That's most of the major things that have happened recently. So overall my life is good, and I'm happy.

In addition, I've figured out my new house motto and some other things. The crest, which I tried to get into the home space graphics competition, but was about two weeks too late for, is an eight pointed star with a sword through it, surrounded by some latin words, on a steel looking background. The motto/salute is "may your blade remain ever sharp." The latin that surrounds the crest is let there be and some things, which are glory, light, truth, love, and honor. Or fiat laus, fiat lux, fiat veritas, fiat amor, and fiat honor. Somebody please let me know if there's an error in the latin, as I'd like it to be correct. Also, if you'd like to see it, I can email you a copy, as I'd love to show it off. (I'm rather proud of it, if you can't tell).

Anyways, that's enough for now.
May your blade remain ever sharp.
Vidmaster

*finally gets here*



I wanna see it... You've still got my email, right?