England or Bust!

As of yesterday, September 17, I am officially going to England for 12 days! Leaving October 25, returning on November 6. I am very excited about finally getting to go to my new home to visit! Thank you for all of your prayers!

Zen Dik? "Extremist Artists"... haha

Atlanta has been and is the home of many great cultural meetings. Many of you who live in Atlanta, and have been for a while may remember "Freek-nik," which brought a lot of culture to this wonderful city. If you don't know, "Freak-nik" is the coming together of most, if not all, the African-American schools in the United States. Basically, Atlanta becomes the Cancun of the U.S. Fortunately, Freak-nik is no longer held here in Hot-Lanta.

Now, we have the Dragon-Con Convention. Not sure what it is, but it is a coming together of a lot of interesting people; black, white, and nerds alike! Every Labor Day weekend, the biggest Anime/ Sci-Fi convention happens here in our great city!

Labor Day 2006, some friends and I stumbled upon this convention while walking downtown. It was a lot of fun to watch these people dress up as their favourite Sci-Fi character and mingle amongst their friends.

So, this year, we planned on going to Dragon-Con 2007. We didn't buy tickets, we just kind of showed up to people watch. It is great fun! Very nice, but weird people. Among these people were some "Hippy protestors" who were protesting Society in general. They approached us while we were walking around, and they started informing us of their camp in North Carolina. Their group (society) was called Zen Dik.

The guy who talked to us was an amature Zen Dik member. I asked him what they were. He said, and I quote, "We are a group of people who are tired of the way our society is, so we are living amongst ourselves to protest." That doesn't make any sense to me at all. Anyway, so I replied, "So, you're a cult?" And he said, "No, we don't drink poison and stuff..." Oh, Ok, I thought. He went on to tell me that they are extremist artists living out of the norm, bla bla bla! He gave me their website, www.zendik.org, very interesting. I ended challenging him on what they believed and he ended up giving us the website information and leaving.

They want to be out of the society, yet they are living in a mansion, wearing our clothes. I mean, their house has granite counters and an indoor pool! Anyways... weird people are funny...

A Night Like This

I don't think I have honestly had a night like this ever. There are so many things running through my mind, I can't get a wink of sleep. I have tried absolutely everything to try to get to sleep, but I am so stressed out, I just can't do it.

It is the weirdest feeling ever. My eyes are trembling, I feel sick to my stomach... my body is exhausted, but I can't sleep. When I do sleep, I toss and turn, waking up at least every hour or hour and a half. This is torture. It is 4:38 am, and I have to get up for work in an hour and a half. I have slept for maybe a total of five hours. I think the part that I am worried about the most is getting Mono again. Last year I got it from stress and lack of sleep. I cannot afford to get it again!

It's not like I can just come home and take a nap after work either. I need to go work on support, making appointments, basically filling my schedule. Is this insomnia? I don't really know.

If you are reading this, I hope you weren't expecting anything deep or philosophical, because I am just trying to pass time before work. Oh man, what a night! I hope tomorrow night isn't like this.

Maybe I will go to Waffle House, 24 hours baby!