Nasty Conjugation

Hello, everyone! Gosh, a whole lot of stuff is going on right now. We just bought a house! Whoah! I start summer school next week! I have to take a class to learn how to teach Public Speaking. Perhaps it won’t be horribly boring? Also we have a kitten named Chippy! It’s an exciting time to be alive.

You may recall the little dialogue game I posted about here. Well, here is the result! I actually finished it weeks ago, but I wasn’t crazy about it so I’ve been loathe to put it online. However, my word is my bond. I can’t leave an obligation unfulfilled! So here you go. It’s about seafaring folk, if that helps things.

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Greetings fellow-travelers!

After a long and arduous journey through a wasteland called Realty, Holly and I have emerged triumphant with our prize: a house! Oh my god! We’re very excited, and I wanted to share our excitement with you, the Internet, and everyone. In order to celebrate this Middle American Milestone, I have created a virtual tour of our new home so that everyone can be a part of our descent into Conservatism!

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR VIRTUAL TOUR

Yay for us! Sorry if you already saw this on the Myspaces!

So I have inside of me what I could describe as a terrible seed. It is a secret I go to great lengths to hide, lest my secret shame be revealed. I don’t actually have any fear of it germinating, buried as it is beneath layers of fear, neuroses, doubt, small-mindedness, and self-pity. It dwells in salted ground, always just at the edge of perception. It’s like when I was young, and the older kids would try and convince me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed it would take root and grow in my stomach. I knew it was silly, but from then on I was always conscious of every small, black seed as it slid down my throat, fearing despite reason that my abdomen would one day swell and burst, ripe with fresh watermelon.

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