Driving Test

EDIT: I passed!!!

Thank you all for your encouragement and prayers: I was very blessed to see so many comments on my last post. I'm doing all right. As of now the strangest thing is how much my life has changed, by which I mean location, routines, future, all of that.

Perhaps at some point I'll update at greater length, if I feel it's right. Right now, though, I'd just like you all to pray for something considerably less important, but still of some significance, if you think of it. I'm taking my driver's test tomorrow in the hopes of obtaining my license. As long as I don't bomb out on the test, which I don't anticipate, I shall have the privilege of full Class C driving rights in just a little over 24 hours. :-)

Please Pray

Dear friends,

I don't think there's any way to say this except straight out. My dear father passed away this morning, apparently from a heart attack. Right now I'm just stunned. My family and I, of course, need your prayers greatly. I can't really give any more updates now, because this happened seven hours ago...again, please pray for us all. I can't even begin to imagine the impact of this loss yet.

Classical Festival

Hey friends! I just wanted to post and say that my classical festival went pretty well, and I got an Honorable Mention, which makes me happy. :-) I also got to have a short little master class on my piece afterward.

I voted! And other matters.

My sincere thanks to all the dear friends and ClassEd aunts who have been praying for the success of the Reformation Play. It went quite well, and everyone at church seemed to enjoy it greatly. No one forgot any lines, no one seemed especially nervous, and everything came off as planned. So, thank you! :-) A few people took cast photos, and I'm going to see if I can get a hold of those.

I would rather not post the manuscript on my blog publicly, so here's an idea: why don't you e-mail me if you'd like to read it? (merawin -at- gmail -dot- com.) That should be an easy solution without exposing my work to the vagaries of potentially unscrupulous internet prowlers. :D

And, on different subject, I voted yesterday! I'm not sure if I'll tip Oregon over the edge and make it a red state, but it's still an important and satisfying responsibility to exercise. Maybe I'll at least help defeat the various measures that would slather more than $400 million dollars in extra taxes on our county--for an arts center, our community college, and our zoo, my left foot! I ask you!

N.T.W.R.

That's my motto.

No Taxation Without Representation. And here's news for you, local government: I'm representing that I don't want to get taxed more for silly stuff. Got it? :P

I'll try to update afore long with some more of the happenings of my life, including long-delayed pictures from the trip my dad and I took to central Oregon in early September.

Cheerio!