It's almost week 8 of camp. That means there have been 7 weeks before this next one. Really? Are you sure? It sure doesn't feel like it. It doesn't feel like it at all. I'm not sure what week 8 is supposed to feel like, but if you asked me at the beginning of the summer "What do you think week 8 will feel like?" I can 98% guarantee you I would not have guessed the emotion I will experience this coming Sunday. In other words, time's flyin' and it's continuing to flap its wings. We are full fledged coming to the end of summer.
So, is this a good or a bad thing? I don't really know. I'm really enjoying it. Hume Lake is a wonderful place. The atmosphere is great, the people are great, the campers are great, the job is great, the opportunities are great, the growing is great, the conversations are great, the list continues. But do I want to pull a Groundhog Day and live in the summer of 2010 forever? Absolutely not. I hope that doesn't sound harsh because I certainly don't intend it to be. By the end, it will definitely be time to move on and experience new things and who knows, maybe I'll end up back here next summer. It's all part of life, a part that requires a flap of a wing, a change. So obviously, when this summer ends, I will be heading back to Biola University where I will be spending my Sophomore year of college. The summer was a detour on the schooling freeway. Interesting concept.
Here's something: this past week, my department, Media, took our department photos. The Hume Lake Yacht Club nicely allowed us to "pretend" we "were" the actual club, so we went out, dressed our best, and took this wonderful group shot. Here it is for your viewing pleasure:
It's pretty small. I believe if you click on it, you can enlarge it a bit. This last little bit also coincides and perhaps explains the picture of Mr. Brandon Forbes, Mr. Michael Strand, and myself that led off this post.
I'm trying to think of other things to write. Here we go: people are so stinkin' interesting. I know I talk about this decently often but it's abundantly true. Check this out: I've noticed Hume fuels a sense of sped up, hyper speed relationships. Relationships are built incredibly fast at the beginning of the summer. All of a sudden, "good" friends are made. By the end of the summer, all these "good" friends of yours who you feel like you've known "forever" have really only been your friends for 3 months or so. Maybe it's just me, I'm sorry I have have stuck "you" into this situation. All I know is this: I fall into what I just described. I honestly feel like I have already developed a number of solid relationships with the staff up here at Hume Lake. Here's what I don't know: am I deceiving myself? I have solid friendships that I've had with people for five plus years, how in the world can I describe a friendship I've made in less than 3 months with the same word (solid) as these "veteran" relationships? I don't have a clue, and I don't have an answer. Maybe it's fine. Maybe these relationships really are solid, maybe they're not. Either way, I know this: I like a lot the people up here and plan on keeping in touch. We'll see what happens.
Let me make one thing clear for you, the reader. If you didn't know, this blog is written in a stream of conscious meaning I write whatever comes to my mind. I don't put much thought beforehand of what I'm going to write. So on top of being very tired at the moment, I am rambling on about different things that may or may not make sense. Think of it like a conversation. It's often hard to predict how a conversation will evolve and where it will be going next. It's often hard to predict how this blog will evolve and where it will be going next.
I still have a very large amount of time. For some reason my video is exporting very slowly so I will definitely be here a while. I guess this is where this blog is not like a human-to-human conversation. I sit by myself, I have to keep talking, I have to keep this conversation going. What to talk about, I don't know. I don't have many ideas.
Here's something: the future of this blog. What is going to happen? I obviously haven't kept it up throughout the summer, I have not had the resources, nor the time to do so. But hey, a ripe school year is just around the corner, am I going to go back to updating every Wednesday? Am I even going to dress up on Wednesday's anymore? I honestly don't know. I will admit, I will hate to see it go. It has been a part of my life for the last couple years and it has recorded a number of the best memories that I (and you if you choose to check out the archives) have experienced. I really hope I keep it up. I just feel like I'm lazy and don't really want to do it. I get in these weird moods sometimes where I consider not doing something I really like doing and really should do and really should be disgusted in myself for thinking otherwise. Maybe I'm just in one of those moods. I don't know. I'm pretty tired.
This is actually really strange. I've never written a blog post like this, I almost feel obligated to keep writing because I am literally sitting here in the wee hours of the morning waiting. I'm going to take a picture of myself right now so you can see a real time photograph:
So that's me. Kinda strange. Sorry.
I knew this was going to come up, it always does. It kinda goes with what I was talking about earlier. Recently, I have been absolutely astounded by the little things and it makes me marvel at God's creation. The other day, I was sitting in the grass, or in the dirt, I don't quite remember, and I looked down and about 10 tiny tiny red bugs were crawling on my pants. I literally sat awestruck. These tiny tiny red bugs have function, they have a reason for being, they have a creator who designed them. What? It's incredible. At Hume, there are a lot of trees. A lot of a lot of trees. Trees that are living and growing. What? You mean to tell me there are hundreds and hundreds of living massive chunks of who-knows-what that harness the sun's energy and utilize the moisture of the earth to survive the weather and the destruction of time? Some of these trees have been here for thousands of years and still continue to grow. Blows my mind.
(This whole section is probably confusing. Just know that I can't talk about things like this, I get worked up and sit amazed and dumbstruck, which is not necessarily a bad thing.)
And then we get to humans, oh oh oh boy. Not only do we all look different, have unique fingerprints, and have completely different personalities, backgrounds, and everything else that influences the way we present ourselves, but we have a mind and a thought process to basically think anything we want. That just blows me away. Some guy names Einstein could be thinking about what "E" equals while some brothers with the last name of Wright try to figure out how humans can fly through the air. My perhaps favorite example (I wrote about this a while ago, maybe you remember) is, in fact, the airplane. You mean to tell me some person, a human being, just like you and me, figured out how to get a phatty hunk of metal to fly through the air? You mean to tell me that some person constructed an engine that requires fuel to run, has the ability to propel that hunk of metal through the air? You mean to tell me that some person figured out the concept and uses of fuel and how it works scientifically? You mean to tell me that some person figured out how to use natural resources to produce a surface suitable for writing on, a surface all of these "people" I mentioned before use constantly? BLOWS MY MIND. Somebody thought about roads. Somebody thought "Hey, we should probably make a sign that says "stop" so people don't run into each other and to make it noticable, make it the color red and in an octogonal shape." A person thought of that. A person like you and me.
I honestly don't have clue why this concept blows my mind so much. It probably doesn't blow your mind at all and that is WHY I LOVE IT! We are all so different! We all have our own tastes, our own likes, dislikes, pet peeves, preferences, anything and everything. Incredible!
I am seriously incredibly tired.
I just spent a good 10-15 minutes reading old blog posts. I guess you could it my journal? I don't know. People still write in journals and diaries and stuff right? Mine's just online for people to see, which is weird in itself. Anyway, I say this because it's super interesting seeing the progression of my life, even in just a few short years, through the means of text and media on a website. Super interesting. If you're at all interested, take a glimpse at my last couple of years. That statement is kind of strange, I feel like I'm advertising myself which is very self-centered.
I don't know. It's really late, or very early. In fact, it's past the "very early" stage, it's just "early."
The exporting and compressing is not quite finished, but I am finished with this blog post. I hope some of it made sense. I hope it was worth reading. Honestly, if you made it this far, I'm impressed: you put up with my garbled, confusing excuse for a conversation. I'm glad.
You should go outside soon and look at the sky. Think about the sky for a while. The sky is incredible.
