why I work for the government

"AFTER HIM!" the officer yelled.
Ben took off for his life as the whole police squad bolted after him.
"Could anything else go wrong today?" thought Ben, as he threw himself over a fence.
Down the hill he could see the Missouri river staring up at him.
"Everything stops there," he thought.
Five feet before he reached the water, however, his mission had changed.
Giving up wasn't an option; this would solve everything.
Holding his breath, Ben jumped into uncertain waters and began to swim.
In grade school his mother made him take swimming lessons despite his complaints; Just as he'd been taught, "mother (does) always know best".
Keeping his head above water and systematically stroking his arms through the water he Leaned his head back, just enough to take a peek at the progress of the officers.
Motionless they stood on the bank,
Not believing their eyes.
On the opposite side of the riverbank, where Ben was headed, he could smell freedom.
Problems will be solved;
Questions will be answered.
Reaching out across the water, Ben lengthened his stride and quickened his pace.
"Soon" he thought, "soon I will have the answers.
They thought they could hide it from me."
Ultimately reaching the land, Ben wearily pulled himself up.
"Vindicated," he thought.
Why did he ever question in the first place?

eXcruciating pain surged throughout his entire body.

Yelling for his life, Ben momentarily stole eye contact with one of the officers as they slammed him to the fence.
Zero seconds to go.

...hm

Is this world even real? Are the particles in this keyboard really solid or is there something in my mind making me think they're solid?
The people are real, there is no doubt in my mind about that, but i'm not so sure about all the "temporal" things.

just kidding.

but, seriously.

New Mission Blog!

http://www.hermanamayhugh.blogspot.com/

Sweet Victory

I've been listening to the same song over and over since 7:30 this morning (it is now 10:30).
I suspect this will continue throughout the majority of the day.

I think I'm totally going to keep a blog on my mission. I'll start a new one. I'll start it right now, it will be full of my preparations and anticipations of going in to the field.

Then I'll just keep this blog for fun stuff, or I'll stop writing in it altogether (probably the later).

Man, this song is really good.

Welcome to the future. Faggots.

A man I work with came up to me today. He's a strong, faithful catholic and he's always got some story to tell me or some topic to discuss. I love it.

Today he started talking about different shows on TV that he used to, or currently does, follow. He said how some specific shows are just pointless and there's a lot of cursing going on (which is funny, because he totally curses).

I agreed with him but then he got into specifics, and I got lost. I told him, "I don't watch TV, like, ever."

He looked at me and kinda squinted his eyes, "What do you do?"

Man, that's a good question. What did people do before there were TVs and video games? They must have just stared at their living room walls, cause that's all I do.

Facebook Status?

These are a few I hate:


"...is thinking his fiance is the best fiance in all the land."


"...is going to a country concert and wishes Sarah could come..."


"...is working 14 hours today! But worst of all is how much he misses his love."


"...is spending the day with Annie. She's 18 today!"


Grow a pair and start acting like a man. I hate how boys have so much emotion these days.

"Oh, I love you."

"Don't say that, you hurt my feelings."

Freakin' stop crying and shut up.

Last time I checked,

it was August.

Time is nuts.

I barely have time to think these days.