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11:42am (Virginia time) Wednesday 9 August 2000

HI!

I'm in Virginia saying HI to all you lovely peeps. Having great fun here, but getting dragged out of the lab!

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tornado dream

7:03am Wednesday 9 August 2000

(dream)

We were on a Hawaiian Island in a big field. We = a lot of YRUU people. Someone said, look at that tornado they're having over there. We looked over and certainly there was some cloud disturbance, but it was not a tornado. A youth told him so.

Then from the same direction, something was coming toward us, and there were screams from that direction. It was a flood of water careening across the land, and headed toward us. Many people ran away from it, but I ran sideways across its path, kind of up hill.

I ran to a picnic table and was followed by two youth, Micaela and Matt. They said that this flood was the doing of some powerful individual who was trying to frighten people off the land. They had been given some sort of voucher that bought them out of a portion of their land after the previous scary thing. This was just another such event.

(another dream)

Computer was on in this house and we could see an eror log coming up about AIM instant messages being sent and errors from this one computer that could not connect.

(another dream)

was walking with a with Blue who had her eyes closed and was walking backwards, like a trust walk and I told her "step up" "step down" as appropriate and then we all (there was a group) reached this huge large overlook bluff thing that looed over the city. I couldnt't safely navigate her blindly down this steeep hill, so we stopped and had our trustees open their eyes.

7:16 I thought it was 6:15, but in this here time zone it's 7:15 and breakfst is in 15 minutes. Thanks, Steve for knowing what's the time!

7:38

Nathan:

Oh Nathan I'm so fine
I'm so fine I blow my mind
hey Nathan

Oh Nathan what a pity
I don't understand.
I take me by the heart
when I take me by the hand

These youth are so funny!!

I cried after the anit-racisim workshop today. That was not the intention of the workshop, but I realized just how racistally I have acted in the past.

11:04

We're in the computer lab looking at the yruu website and some possible new sites

It's during this that I wrote my HI and Bye entry on Wednesday.

I expressed encouragment that the group take a proverbial step back from the website design process and ask the basic questions of intended audience and goals of the site.

12:20pm

Lunch was cool; I talked to Christine who works for anti-racism stuff in the UUA. She's cool.

14:13

just did brainstorming for 5 year YRUU plan

15:10

Paris is so funny! He just made the statement that he intends to memorize the continental YRUU bylaws within 1 month.

17:57

now it's after dinner.. Paris just played the entire "Happy Phantom" by Tori Amos

18:39

Ultimate was way fun for a few minutes, and then just tossing around with jason. Free time now while some committees are meeting. (ultimate was during free time)

19:52

We just got mail and I got a letter from Wende!!! A card actually. So loving and perfect!!

The ultimate disc was missed by Nathan (who really tried to catch it) and is floating in the duck pond. Eww.

I did some optical analysis of the pond and have determined that it is spring fed. I can't see an exact specific spot that it comes in, but an area of the water is certainly more clear.

20:30 Wednesday evening

We ran about 1.5 miles I'm guessing - jogged more like and happened to be near where the band was practicing so I watched them for a bit. Turns out that toomorrow they are having their last day of practice and then it's parents' night at 7pm or so. I wonder if we will be able to watch it. I think so; we usually have a break around then, but I don't know for sure. After running we played frisbee some and now I'm going to take a shower. Wait.. we have a dance tonight; I'll just get all sweaty again. Doh!! I'll inventory my clothing and see if I'll change or not.

21:15pm

YRUU is the greatest thing on the planet. We just had a cool worship that included a ceremonial bridging by each individual walking across a bridge that crosses a stream in what would otherwise be an open grassy field.

But that's not why YRUU is the greatest thing in the world. I was just talking to Justin about hip hop and turntablism and DJ stuff when he was all, "hey, do you think you could get my album on the air?" I am thrilled to put it through the music library process and I told him so. Maybe we'll get his album on the air!

But that is not why YRUU is the greatest thing in the world. We just learned a game called "54 categories" (or something) which is a rhythmic clapping and requires quick verbal thinking and is pretty funny.

But that's not why YRUU is the greatest thing in the world. YRUU is the greatest thing in the world because it is.

- - -

At 10:30, we meet our blind dates for a dance. I'm supposed to meet mine at room 208.

23:52

The dance was fun, and my dream came true! Almost.. The dance ended early as we received news that a powerful thunderstorm is approaching the campus. 50 and 60 mph wind apparently. So we all trekked back uphill to the dorms.

Even though we are certainly expected to stay inside the dorms, I would love to go outside and experience it. I don't know if I will or not; there are lots of youth in the hall.

12:38am

I joined several youth watching the storm on the outdoor balcony of our building. A few youth slid down the grassy hill like a waterslide! That is way way so much fun, but I chose not to join them. The rain was pretty cold, just when it splashed us on the balcony; I certainly didn't want to be soaked.

When I came in here to write this entry, I believed the storm had mostly passed. But we just got a big-ish thunderclap. I still think the storm is pretty much finished.

12:42am Thursday

I'm going to bed.

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