41,526 Words

I'm done.

I made deadline.

Holy crap.

37,004

Word count.

It's been crunch time with the book. And also lack of internet time.

OK. I live with this Chinese couple in Queens. I met them on Craigslist and moved in a week later. So anyways, they're not very computer literate. I had been splitting their wireless connection with a router, but something is wrong and I can't fix it.

So I haven't had Internet in a week.

But their Internet is fine. So they offered to let me use theirs. Problem is - their computer is in Chinese. And there's a cartoon lion that keeps jumping up and telling me things in Chinese. And it dances. And terrifies me.

Work has been slow. I've been writing press releases and stuff instead of giving tours. It's been nice...

Fuck. I just wish I had Internet.

It's not that I don't love you, everybody. It's that I can only get wireless signal for two minutes at a time. Pity me.

Funny thing - when I realized I had no Internet, my first reaction was, "Oh. I have no Internet. I'd better go online and figure out how to fix it."

Civil War

A visitor comes up to me with a book and asks, "Is this about the Civil War?"

I look down at the book in his hands. It's called,

CIVIL WAR

I think that moment cut ten years off my life.

Anyways, my blog was marked as spam...but it's ok again!!!

:-D

Converting...

Today, I got a strange request.

I was trying to answer questions, when a visitor on a bicycle asks me,

"Do you read the Bible?"

I said uhm, not really.

She then replied with,

"You know, you should think of the Kingdom of God like a government. Governments have laws. The government of God does, too, and reading the Bible is one of them."

Then she gave me some pamphlet and told me not to kill myself.

On a brighter note, some deaf people came, and I was able to speak to them a little in sign language. They were really, really happy :-D

The perks...