It is the weekend (yes). Not only that, it’s one of those rare Fridays that somehow feels like a Monday, leaving me with this abundance of work ethic to start the weekend off with. (double yes). Hopefully I’ll be off to new and creative things come morning–and after an extremely stressful week, I think it might be just what I need.
Now on to my three main orders of business:
1. Troy, Ash and I have heard some very nasty things about some circumstances at home, and I can’t help feeling a bit sick about it. (I mean, literally, physically, sick) I don’t know the whole story, and I don’t plan on divulging what I know on here, but I can say with the knowledge I do have that whatever the case was–whoever is telling the truth–that it was wrong. There was an injustice done, and it’s definitely going to eat at me for a while… anyway… without getting too angry and choked up right now, I will say finally that although I’m not the one who decides what justice is (thank God), I do trust that justice will play it’s part in that mess. And I’m terribly sorry for the ones who were hurt.
Ahem.
2. Okay–onto my next dilemma–the dreaded minor.
Right now at Belmont I’m majoring in Songwriting and minoring in Youth Ministry, although I haven’t really started taking my minor requirements yet. For the past month or so, I’ve been considering changing my minor to Writing. Yup… just plain writing. You see, my third year writing professor took a real liking to me after reading some of my papers, and on the bottom of every one she gives back to me, she writes “You have a gift! Don’t waste your talent–talk to Dr. Stover (the woman in charge of the writing major)!” So I did talk to her, and now I’m very seriously considering doing it. Any suggestions?
It’s sort of comical that this is happening to me, as it has already happened to Wendell in “A Walk Under Trees” and will play out much the same way (foreshadowing (sort of)).
Which leads me to my final point!
3. I’m almost done! After a year and a half of writing on “A Walk Under Trees” I am about 4 chapters from completing it. Whew. As much as I’d like to breath a sigh of relief, though, I realize that after I’m done I’m going to have to go back and rewrite/edit a bunch of things. My writing style has evolved and improved a lot since I first started, and it’s going to take a lot of work to get it all uniform. So I’m taking down all chapters on this blog and will probably not post them again.
After I’m done with Wendell I’m moving on to a farm boy named David. I’ve already got A FEW books planned out for him and his secret-littered family. I got a few new moleskines today for when the time finally comes. 
So now off to the weekend – it’s gonna be a good one, I can feel it.
… you should let me know what happened back home sometime.