An Unexpected Entry

So, here I am facing a blank entry page. And why? Do I have something to say, do I have hope or ideas to impart? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe I will speak wisdom today. Or maybe I’ll make a fool of myself. I guess we’ll have to read on and see for ourselves.

That’s right. I’m on this journey of discovery along with you. I have no idea what I’m going to say in this moment of procrastination from signing up for next semester’s classes and completing a Web Design assignment. In all honesty, I wasn’t planning on saying anything at all. But, as it happened, I was checking my blog stats and dealing with some spam comments and, voilà, I end up hitting the “Write” tab in my dashboard. So, as I said before, here I am…

I guess I’ll tell a story.

Friday, with our day off from classes and finals (and studying ), my girlfriend Tiffany and I made the trek up to West Virginia where I attended school last year. It was fun. I gave her the three minute tour of Mountain State University an introduced her to the priest of the local Orthodox parish up there. Then we all sat around enjoying food and conversation with one another. While she took a call from a friend in need, I gave Fr. Samuel a brief rundown of where I am in life and how I’m doing this semester, etc. He was pleased to hear that I’m doing well on all fronts, and I was pleased to be able to tell him that.

Afterward, we headed back home the long way, deciding to breeze through Blacksburg, VA, to stop at a Sheetz to grab some awesome Sheetz food. (If you don’t know what I’m raving about, stop by a Sheetz convenience store sometime and order something to eat from their touchscreens, eat, enjoy, and repeat if necessary.) While there, she decides to get a Jolt Cola. God, help me. And, while hyped up on said Jolt, we both decide it’d be fun to go to Fredericksburg where she used to live. After checking the GPS and figuring out we were only 90 minutes away, we decided to go for it.

Now, there are some of you reading this who are saying, “Wait…it’s about four hours from Blacksburg to Fredericksburg…” or something of the sort. And, you’re right. However, I was ignorant of this and the GPS gave me three options, two with ZIPs and one without. I chose the one without because a) Tiff couldn’t answer my question about it soon enough for me to decide…being zippy on Jolt myself… and b) I mean…there’s only ONE Fredericksburg, right?

So we drove. And, at one point, we got on I-64…WEST…and, somehow, this failed to register, as B-town is in Southern Va, and Fredericksburg is just South of DC. But, hey…GPS is right…right?

You’ll have to find out later…my laptop’s going dead and the charger isn’t right here. But, I’ll post what I have so far anyway. So tune in when I post part 2. And, trust me…this doesn’t wrap up very smoothly. Leatherface may or may not make an appearance.

~ by Jonathan on December 9, 2007.