What In Tarnation?!?!?

All I have to say about the results of this quiz found via bloggedy blog is huh?

You are an SEDL–Sober Emotional Destructive Leader. This makes you a dictator. You prefer to control situations, and lack of control makes you physically sick. You feel have responsibility for everyone’s welfare, and that you will be blamed when things go wrong. Things do go wrong, and you take it harder than you should.

You rely on the validation and support of others, but you have a secret distrust for people and distaste for their habits and weaknesses that make you keep your distance from them. This makes you very difficult to be with romantically. Still, a level-headed peacemaker can keep you balanced.

Despite your fierce temper and general hot-bloodedness, you have a soft spot for animals and a surprising passion for the arts. Sometimes you would almost rather live by your wits in the wilderness somewhere, if you could bring your books and your sketchbook.

You also have a strange, undeniable sexiness to you. You may go insane.

Let me just say that this court has no right to try me!

Go insane here.

Class dismisssed!

Michael has gone quiz crazy. I took them so I might as well post them. Don’t forget to look for the prize at the bottom of the Cracker Jack box.
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It is difficult to sit down and begin to put into words everything that I experienced this month. It is a daunting task, one that I admit that I have been hesitant to start.

For there to be any real meaning to what happened over the course of the month, a person must really experience it. Words and pictures really do very little to convey the activities, experiences and relationships that went on. I had considered just moving on and not really talking about the June. Though it was an awesome experience it is difficult to relay to other people.

A group of adult from Temple Baptist Church left from Sullivan, Missouri on June 4, 2004 and headed across country to Casper Wyoming. We would be staying in the Casper Mountains at the Wyoming Baptist Convention camp, located above 8,000 feet. I was amused with the small bags of chips that we had brought with us. Because of the decreased air pressure on the mountain, they ballooned out into these bulbous bags of potato chips. Quite amusing.

Our group of 40 adults split up into five groups, two to conduct VBS in local churches, one to pour concrete in two locations, one to open, clean, and fix up the camp, and the group that cleaned the kitchen and cooked for the whole team some of the best meals I have had on a mission trip.

I was assigned to the Imitate the Image VBS. Imitate the Image church is a tiny church in downtown Casper. The church is made up of a diverse group of people which was quite exciting, especially during Sunday morning worship services there. Having been around third and fourth graders during the school year, I decided that I would assist with the preschool age children. Something that is certainly not foreign to me but it would be a change of pace from third and fourth graders. Enough change to make it interesting.

Sunday after worship the VBS team began preparations for the week and the concrete team helped distribute flyers. We quickly discovered that the people at Imitate the Image were not quite familiar with what a vacation bible school was. No publicity had been done before we got there so we were not even sure if we were going to do a VBS and needless to say we didn’t know how many kids would be there. We planned for twenty.

Wanna see some pictures from the trip?

To be continued…

Class dismissed!

Catching up on some reading and found two fun memes to participate in. I have seen both in several places.

I’m not done…

The Top 100 Grossing Movies of all time.

How to play: Bold the ones you’ve seen. Italics are the ones I like. * indicates that I hated it.

1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824 *
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459 *
4. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444
5. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
6. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) $377,019,252
7. Passion of the Christ, The (2004) $370,025,697
8. Jurassic Park (1993) $356,784,000
9. Shrek 2 (2004) $356,211,000
10. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) $340,478,898
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And I’m tired.

I need to make another video and then I need to rest. Then I shall return to blogging.

All archives are back open so spammers can attack them again. I’m looking forward to that.

Class back in session.

Since I have designed WIT to be educationally themed (but not overwhelmingly so) I think I should also take a summer break from blogging as I do from school. Starting June 4th I will be taking a break from WIT and the blogosphere for a month (or so).

I have thought, pondered, considered this and even though the thought of disconnection from the blog scares me a little, I think it will be good for several practical reasons.

Reason 1: The summer months are very difficult for me to maintain WIT with new content on a semi-regular basis. Without school being in session my wealth of fun educational stories drop to nothing. The result is I post a bunch of content free quizzes and then like. I would rather not do that.

Reason 2: The month of June has been consumed. On June 4th I leave for Casper, Wyoming with an adult mission trip team from my church. While in Casper, I will be working with preschool and kindergarten aged children in a VBS as well as helping with all the media stuff. I will arrive at home on June 12th, wash some clothes and head out for Indianapolis, Indiana to attend the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting (I am planning to meet Bryan while wondering around the exhibit area). I get back from the convention on the 16th and then I leave with the church youth group for another mission trip. This time to Denver, Colorado. M-Fuge is the excellent program we will be working with. The program gets youth out into communities, serving others, its good stuff! I get back the 26th. That will give me a few days to recover and hopefully by that time I will have some fun stories to share with you. While I am gone I really don’t want to have to worry about comment spam, keeping the blog updated and the like. I also think that this blogbreak will allow me to focus on these activities.

Reason 3: There are other reasons, I just don’t remember them.

All the archives are now locked down to prevent evil spammers from doing horrible and unspeakable things to my comments while I am gone. Everything will open back after I am gone. I would have done this later but I am not so sure that I would have the time to do it. Since I won’t be visiting your blogs for the month of June, let me know if you post something really good by leaving a comment here so I make sure I don’t miss it.

To fill the hole that will most certainly appear because of the absence of WIT?!?!? please visit the great blogs in my blogroll. They come with my seal of approval.

Please don’t give up on me. I will be back, I promise. See you on the other side of June.

Thanks for your understanding.

School dismissed!