The Ravings of Demented Rabbits

Oooooh, evolution. You can join the heated debates Marechal and I have on IM now.

So you only have to take 3 classes? Nice. You know what I'm taking next year? Sophmore English, Modern History, Chemistry, Pre-Calculus, Latin 4 AP, Greek 1. Plus sports (thankfully, I can do intramurals.) Plus copy editor of/writing for the school newspaper. Plus historical characters, which I can explain later if you are so inclined. Plus hopefully co-ordinating one of the weekly community service trips (not that the actual coordination is a big drain on your time, but then you have to go most every week.) Plus youth group. Plus keeping up with my friends.

Tired yet? :P

Tired? Very. Tired for real, and tired just thinking about all that work. :P

Wait... Marechal has heated evolution debates with you on IM? He never has heated evolution debates with ME on IM. Grrrr.

Historical characters?

And, believe it or not, I am in fact envious of that as an HS schedule. The class part, anyway. I avoid the rest of it. ;)

The evolution debates center mainly around since I am Christian, whether or not my not believing or at least suspending judgement on a 7-day creation is heretical: he maintains it is and I, that it isn't. Not about whether evolution occured. I don't even go there. :P

Historical characters = you read up on a specific historic person or generic sort of person over the summer (like a colonial spy or Eleanor of Aquitaine, to take 2 from last year), and then get invited by various teachers in elementary schools to 'preform' for their class, which means doing a part monologue/part Q&A thing about your character, to make whatever the kids are studying come alive a bit more. At least I think that's how it works; I didn't do it this year. It's a neat theater thing, which is good because I don't know if I'll have time to do the plays - they suck up TONS of time. Which reminds me I need to pick someone. I was thinking some woman from classical times or the Bible. (I think the general consensus is, since we do go to public schools sometime, Old Testament characters are ok. My friend Megan is probably doing Esther, frex.) Got any ideas? You being the history buff and all. Cool women from history.

And I have been hanging out with you and Marechal too much. I know this because I saw the trailer for Last Samurai when I went to see Matrix Reloaded and I thought it looked cool because it had historical battle scenes. Never would I have thought that before.

P.S. Not that hanging out with you and Marechal too much is bad or anything. ;)

Historical characters == cool.

Women in Bible/classical world... you'd know more about the biblical women than I would, I think. As for the women, most are sort of obscure... A couple of Roman Emperor's wives... Agrippina wife of, uh, Claudius, evil poisoner... Hrm. Cleopatra, of course, but very very done. One named Hapshetsut, who was pretty cool. Sort of took over being pharoah in her own right, built a lot of stuff. Other'n that, pretty bare. Well, couple of semi-crappy Byzantine Emperesses... Theodora would actually be pretty cool. Irene, who IIRC was at the height of the Iconoclast thing... Most of them are pretty obscure for an audience of young kids, though. I'd say Hapshetsut or Theodora, personally.

And hanging out with me too long will get you corrupted. Hanging out with Marechal... yeah. :P

Hanging out with me will give you a headache.

;)