Time&Place

This is a poem I wrote a while back. I found it while going through one of my journals.

I only wish that for the moment

I could find a time and place

Of peace; tranquility; un-disturbed.

If but for time, I have no place,

And in place lack time.

Passing by the places I see--

Full of joy

And pleasant memories--

I find that time is stretched too thin.

I can recall the times in past

When place and time were always present.

In my youth I always found

The clock to please

And land to satisfy.

What wondrous places

And endless time;

My greatest friends in life.

I had no need for other company;

All was there as I had need.

But time is lost,

And I am here.

Were I there

With time to spend,

I would not pine

For such small things.

As it is

I am content.

Copyright Kin Butler 2006

Mind If I Sit Here?

IF there were a word to describe this it would probably be most appropriate right now.

Schools coming to a close. Now that I think about it, I was a jerk last year to all the seniors who read my blog. I put the school days count down at the end of each post. Now I understand what it is to be a senior coming up to the end of high school. Every time someone mentions the number of days left till it's all over I say "Don't talk about that." So, I will say right now, sorry to any seniors I may have tormented last year with my silly little count down.

In other news, spring fling is coming along. Slowly but surely we're getting there. Next week we will have rehearsals every day after school 'till 4:30. Ugh! Oh well, at least by that time I should be done with these huge projects I have over my head as we speak... er... as I speak... or type... whatever. The point is I have a fifty texts project due on Monday. That is 25 short stories and 25 poems read and written about. We don't have to write anything long or terribly deep unless we want to. But it does take time to write them up. This is probably the most time consuming project I have ever had. I've got 17 short stories read and written up so far. I have 8 more of those to go, and then the 25 poems. The poems will take less time to read, but they still will take some time to write up. It's not easy coming up with an opinion and analysis on everything.
The other project I have due on Monday is my comparison shopping report. I've done just about all of the research already. Now I just need to type up all of the information and hope that it's good enough to get me an A.

But after those are done I'm pretty much sailing free. Sure, I'll have work to do, but it won't be anything compared to those projects.


School days left: 8
Underclassmen count: 14 hehehe :-D

"And The Winner Is..."

I was working on my senior project for high school (aka the X-Project) and I needed some pictures to use in my presentation. So I emailed a bunch of people from this summer program that I was in (Summer Seminary, you might remember me writing about it a while back) to get some pictures for my presentation. I told them that I would post the top three pictures on my blog as the final results for this faux competition. So here are the results.



1st Place

This is a group of people hangin' out in their ever so stylish 'Veritas' shirts
~Photo sent in by Jasmine





2nd Place

White water rafting (it's a team building thing at the start of Veritas)
~Photo sent in by Jasmine (only two people actually sent me photos)



Last...I mean...3rd place

This is "Tim the Tiger", and he is wearing his party shirt (which he wears a lot of the time)
~Photo sent in by 'Tim the Tiger'



I would like to thank you two for sending in your pictures (even if I wasn't able to use yours anywhere in my presentation, Tim). And I would like to thank those of you who responded even though you didn't have any pictures to send. God bless.

Round 2!

Well, I missed my blog's birthday (Yeah Carina, that's right, I'm one of those kind of people). So this is kind of a belated congratulations post....to me. It's hard to believe that this thing is cram packed with a years worth of thoughts and memories.
I went through the entire thing just a moment ago. It was a quick skim. I did it because I got an email that said someone had commented on my blog, and it was a spammer. So I went through every comment of every post for the last year looking for this spam. I never found it, and I don't know what they did. Oh well. I got to see my entire blog and it was pretty cool.
It's especially interesting to see the kinds of things that were going on around this time of year last year. Things like spring fling, prom, and school. Things have changed a lot. I've changed a lot. And yet there are many things that don't change so much. Like high school drama (and I don't mean the kind that happens on a stage), after school spring fling rehearsals, and plenty of school work to keep up on.
It will be interesting to see what this next year has in store for me. I'm sure it won't be any less interesting than the last, nor any more life changing.