Month: April 2005



  • “This just in.


    Diplomatic negotiations between Ancient_Scribe and the intoxicating young woman known only to the public as “Mystery Girl” are still on hold. For over a week now Mr. Scribe, representing himself in the matter, has waited patiently for a reply. As of yet, no word has been received as to Ms. Girl’s feelings on the matter of an alliance against the Forces of Life. We turn to our field reporter for further discussion.”



    “Thanks Ron. I’m standing here outside the Parliamentary Building eating a banana for whatever reason, hoping to hear from Mr. Scribe on whether or not Ms. Girl has reached a decision, or is otherwise prepared for a response to his confession. Now, this is just incredible. I cannot think of anyone who could maintain their sanity for a week, waiting on something like that. I waited in line to see Santa last year, and let’s just say that Santa throws a bada** left hook.


    For me, Ron, this young man deserves a pat on the back. I know you are down with the ladies and I, well, I usually just follow the advice of Samuel L. Jackson in The Long Kiss Goodnight: “Usually I just pop ‘em in the jaw and yell ‘pop goes the weasel.’ But that’s just wrong, isn’t it?”


     Yes it’s… quite alarming.


     Or is it? Anyways, I just want to ask everyone watching this to pray you don’t see the results of this man going insane on this show because dude’s crying… that’s just sad. Ron?


     What? Oh. Sorry. *yawn*


     Mr. Scribe’s delegation asks our viewers to keep a lookout for Mystery Girl and that if you ever see Ms. Girl on the street, please inform her that Mr. Scribe is waiting patiently and that, although he wishes her to feel unpressured and to take this at her own pace, he would appreciate a reply before the end of the academic year. Please be polite or snipers hired by Mr. Scribe will be authorized to shoot you. We at Channel 4 news have digitally generated several likenesses to assist you in spotting Mystery Girl. Bob, could you bring up those pictures?




     Oh… my…


     Guys stop staring…. we’re professionals.


     At any rate, this reporter has done a little of his own digital imaging, an image of what he hopes to be the end result of this long and arduous process.




    Ah, that’d be sweet. Well, that’s all for this news update. This is Ron Burgundy with the Channel 4 Midnight News. Stay classy.


    *click*



  • Oy, it’s been a week and one day. Pray for my sanity.


  • OK. runner_chic42, I mean you NO disrespect, but, I have been presented with an incredibly unique opportunity. Both poweralto84 and RaceGirl84  have asked to be memorized. Although poweralto84′s asking was much more recent than RaceGirl84′s request, I cannot quite do RaceGirl84′s memorization without mentioning poweralto84. So, I will attempt to memorize both in this entry.


    As a young man, I was blessed and cursed at an early age (the sixth grade) to know what passion was, to know beauty, to have an understanding of love, to know what I wanted out of life. God and Beethoven taught me these things. Alas, no one else in my sphere of contemporaries was quite at that stage of life, and it caused my middle and early high school years to be somewhat… lonely.


    In high school I was honored and blessed to watch all the girls I once knew flourish into young women. While other young men in my class were ogling ever enlarging breasts and admiring slowly developing figures, I was quietly writing poetry in my journal about a pair of eyes I had seen, or was quietly sketching a young lady while I sat bored in class. I watched in agony as every young lady I considered pursuing was swept away by some horny young boy, to be caught up in “love” for a few weeks, and then unceremoniously dumped for whatever reason. Oh but to watch it again and again was torture.


    I will admit, there were some young women who’s behavior I abhorred. Most, though, I simply prayed quietly for, hoping that they would choose to be with good young men for good reasons. There were a blessed few that I didn’t worry about at all. Milady poweralto84 and RaceGirl 84 were two of them.


    I never really knew poweralto84 too well, not until my senior year of high school. I had always thought she was pretty and nice; outside that, I didn’t know her. During my senior year I was very fortunate in being cast with her in a small student directed play called “Ambivalence.” I remember one rehearsal in particular in which poweralto84 was the unknowing Muse that taught me the most important lesson in all my life: What a truly beautiful woman is. One night in rehearsal I made the wonderful mistake of looking deep into her eyes. I got so lost that I completely forgot my lines and we had to start the scene over. I couldn’t help it; I realized right then and there that sitting a foot away from me was the most beautiful woman I had yet met. Period.


    Not long after that I had a long conversation with her via AIM in which I told her how beautiful she was, and after some persuasion she finally believed it. When she accepted her beauty, I felt like I had done something really great. How many women can actually say, truthfully, that they are beautiful? Think about it. I wish every woman had the conviction to believe it, but so many tell me, “No, I’m not, but thank you.” How sad. She could, though, and I hope she still can. Anyways, it was not long after that that I began addressing her as, “milady.” What an HONOR to be able to say that I have met such an amazing, kind, intelligent, and beautiful woman and to be able to keep such a wonderful title alive in her honor and the honor of a few others.


    This leads me to RaceGirl84.


    I remember the first day she arrived, new, at our school. I was in band, and during rehearsal there suddenly entered a tall, lithe, long-haired young lady that dropped the jaw of every young man in the room. I swear the wind stopped and the sun shone twice as bright. I had no idea who she was, but soon enough she was playing the alto saxophone not a few chairs away.


    I remember at first her shyness, how she would look at the floor and smile at every word. Then I remember her incredible eyes, then her soft way of speaking. I remember thinking, “what a humble young lady!” She won my respect within days of meeting her and over time, mostly through band, we developed a nice aquaintanceship. I remember going to her graduation party and seeing her amazing house and meeting her super-cool father who, by the way, has EXCELLENT taste in music. I also remember sitting next to her on Memorial Day on the library lawn, trying to make constellations out of the freckles on her arm. I also remember that she worked at the drive-through bank during the summer after I graduated. What a blessing it was after a long, hard day of work to see her in the window as my dad cashed a check. There were some days that I sustained myself just with the hope that I might see something beautiful at the end of it. She, again, was an incredible and truly beautiful woman, another of which I am HONORED to say that I know and yes, I address her as milady as well.


    So, I’m sure someone out there is wondering: gosh, what is this man’s criteria for him to address me as milady? Well, I myself don’t really have any “specific” guidelines. Certainly you don’t have to be perfect. The few women I am honored to address as milady have touched my heart in some incredible way, mainly through their general kindness, their grace, their spirit. Physical beauty is NOT a requirement; it just so happens that they all so far are extremely lovely.


    The only other woman I can recall addressing as milady is kayteadid, but she is merely the only one who has given me her permission to do so. Yes, I ask first. There are, however, MANY other women I would gladly address in such a manner, with their permission. If you are on the list and you for whatever reason would prefer I address you as milady, let me know and it will happen. Ask any of the three ladies I mentioned before: I take it seriously! Someone has to, right?


    Jackie7786, JonsiJ, BribB, AbsolutelyNormalChaos, Amy B., Tracie T., Laura G., Jennifer G., Cate B., Ashley, Brit, Michelle R., Petra K., Joanna J., and Tracey P.


    If you are not on the list, please, take no offense. These are all that came to me this moment. Regardless, above is a very very short list of amazing young women you have touched my life in a very powerful way. In a different time, they would have been queens. But, as I am the last of a dying breed, I will honor them with my friendship and adoration. God bless you all.


    Next I PROMISE I’ll remember runner_chic42.


    Sorry all for the long post.


    UPDATE: Still no word. *sigh*


  • Well Gil_Galad asked to be memorized next.


    Wow, where to begin…. well, suffice it to say that I have known this young man for a very long time. Come to think of it, the only Xanganite I have known longer is, of course, my sister BrowneyedGirl1017.


    When we were very young, my siblings and I had the same babysitter as Gil_Galad and his older brother. His brother and my younger brother were the same age, so they became friends. The babysitter’s children were all girls, so I became friends with Gil_Galad.


    My earliest memory of Gil_Galad is when he said a bad word (I can’t remember what) at the babysitter’s, and her husband washed his mouth out with soap. When asked what it tasted like, I think Gil_Galad replied, “It tastes like yucky.”


    Otherwise I can remember a million times when his mother would make us go outside and play, and we’d run around pretending to shoot each other, swearing up and down that the other person missed, then swearing up and down that we hit them in return. I remember our collective ambition to build a glider, a project that never really got off the ground. (Wow that was horrible…. sorry folks ) I remember my brother and I trying to explain, delicately to the young Gil_galad, why we were laughing at the koozie-thing in the gas station called a “Can-dom.” I remember we were always trading toys etc. amongst each other until out parents placed a trading embargo between each respective household.


    Years went by, as well as bowlfuls of brocolli soup (cleverly dumped down the sink when no one was watching), ROLEPLAYING (star wars), laser tag parties, etc. etc. I remember one time Gil_Galad’s brother, for WHATEVER reason, chased Gil_Galad, me, and my brother around the house BUTT NAKED. I had only a Nerf crossbow to defend myself. Fortunately the three of us were able to hide behind items of furniture and then their mother screamed in a voice almost as mighty as God’s for him to get back upstairs and shower.


    As we got older we decided his mom was pretty cool after all, and looking back now I realize that she was always cool, it was just that we were really rowdy, crazy kids that probably drove her a little crazy. My bad! Also now that we are older, I find that I have had to get over the mindset that he’s “just a kid” and realize that he is a young man. I’ve been able to confide in him, not worrying if it is over his head or anything, and I’ve had to watch him grow up. If THAT doesn’t make me feel old. Oy. Fortunately, from what I can tell, he is growing up into a good-hearted, reflective, responsible man so I don’t have to worry about him too much. I also envy him considerably; he has FAR better luck with women than I do.


    I think my favorite memories were of the infamous laser tag party. Heavens me, if that wasn’t the most intense thing EVER. Three days of almost non-stop laser tag, pop, sleeplessness, pop, pop, and laser tag. We were all so exhausted by day three that we could not move or do anything. We were so hyped up on adrenaline, our minds so dull with the lack of sleep that we all heard sounds that weren’t there, and for a week I (at least) was EXTREMELY paranoid of corners, dark places, and beeping noises.


    Thanks for the memories pal. Next time I think I’ll do two, since I am not terribley familiar with runner_chic42 (regrettably). The second one will be milady RaceGirl84, as she asked me for a memorization via AIM. How is THAT for initiative?


    Again, thank you all for the honor and gift of memorizing you. It’s truly an experience I relish.


    UPDATE:


    Still no reply from Mystery Girl. *sigh*


  • The Pursuit (for Mystery girl)


    I run barefoot through tall grasses,


    Going to check the trap I set with


    My heart as bait.


    Still there my heart lies, beating


    Softly in the cold night.


    What an elusive creature I hunt!


    I follow your footprints leading


    Away then back, away then back,


    Then they simply cease.


    Did you sprout wings and fly away?


    I stop and listen to the wind, hearing it


    Whisper the way to you.


    Smiling, I take my heart and chase a


    Cloud to where you are.


    I pause at the edge of a clearing, the


    Place where the sun sleeps at night.


    Yes, only in a place of such beauty would


    A creature such as you make its home.


    I find you sleeping soundly without the


    Slightest idea I was hunting you.


    Quietly, I place my heart near you and


    Depart, for in the end it was not I


    That captured you, but you that


    Captured me.


  • Just a quick note:


    I went to Mystery Girl and asked if, perchance, she had saved all the poetry I have given her over the past several months.


    She has. Every. Single. One.


    I now have in my possession a folder near BURSTING with notes and poetry I have given her. Soon begins the glorious and laborious task of copying every precious word into my poetry journal. I hope I have room…


    The poems she has read are in the side pockets. Those she has not yet read are loose in the center. Here is what is most touching, however: some of the poems in the center are those that she has pulled out to re-read.


    When she told me this I wanted to LEAP so happy was I at hearing that. Oh Mystery Girl, when you finish reading that letter you’ll know what I’ve been trying to tell you for these past months. You’ll know without a doubt.


  • Lord


    My burden weighs heavily upon my shoulders


    My head, ever bowed, cannot carry even a smile.


    My mouth, dried from screaming out Thy name


    Cannot utter a word.


    My eyes, blurred from days and nights of weeping


    Cannot see Thee.


    My hands tremble in fatigue


    My legs can scarce bear my own weight


    Yet, a heavy cross I drag through the desert.


    Lord grant me a moment of rest


    Bear my cross for me for but a blessed second


    Bless me with a drop of Thy living water so my


    Soul might be restored, so


    Strength may burn its way into my exhausted body


    So I might move mountains and cry out


    Thy name.


    Lord


    My burden weighs heavily upon my shoulders.


    Now I place my cross at Thy feet and


    Beg Thou help me to carry it,


    For I trust in Thee, Lord, and


    Those who trust in Thee. . .


    Their burdens are light.


  • Today I had planned to tell Mystery Girl once and for all how deeply I love her. She had promised me one hour of her time tonight but, alas, her parents are going out of town and they need her to watch her younger sister for the weekend. I’ve been anticipating this sacred hour all week and suddenly I must wait possibly another. Oh I swear I’ll go mad!


    However, the bulk of what I wanted to tell her has been put in written form, a thorough, four-page letter I was going to give her. Please think me not a coward for “passing a note” but I wanted to make absolutely clear my feelings for her. I’ve had several close friends read it and they agree it does the job.


    I think, therefore, that I will leave the letter in her care tonight for her to read at her own leisure. Then, when I finally have one hour of her time, we have something to discuss.


    Please, I ask of of you, remember me in your prayers. I have fear of few things in life, but it is times like these that tests even the most tempered courage.


    To satiate your curiosity perhaps some day I will post the contents of the letter. We’ll see how well things go first.