This week at school was All-Campus Read Week devoted to the works of Flannery O'Connor. She was born in Savannah in 1925. Well, her childhood home is a museum of sorts and the school set up some tours of the house for students. I chose to go to the 12:30 tour they had yesterday and took some photos of the place. I could only take pictures of downstairs and not upstairs. Anyway, this morning, I uploaded Gallery and uploaded the pictures from my tour. If you come to Savannah and enjoy her work, I suggest you take a tour at her home.
After the tour ended, I had time to kill before picking Nicki up from work. I paid for my contacts, which won't be in for 7-14 days. I want them but I've gone this long with out them, these extra few days won't kill me. Not far from Lens Crafters is a Cold Stone Creamery ice cream shop. I was craving some ice cream so I stopped there. It's a little too yuppie for my taste. I paid $5.17 including tax for a medium Oreo® Overload® cone. However, I did like that they mixed the ice cream ingredients into the basic ice cream in front of you. I thought that was neat. And next door to the ice cream shop was a bright colored yuppie-ish clothing store. Heck, everything in Twelve Oaks is yuppie-ish. 
They were nice clothes I'd might like to wear but not for the yuppie price tag.
Going to St. Mary's as a young child introduced me to the yuppie lifestyle. Most of the kids at that school were baby yuppies. My father was just a solider. I know how lucky I was to go to that school but it really made me feel inferior because I couldn't live the yuppie lifestyle like a majority of my classmates lived. Oh, I was envious of some of the yuppie stuff and wanted it all. Well, in someways, the life I grew up in makes me a stronger person than some of those kids are probably are. I doubt many of them wouldn't understand what to do without a boat load of money. 
Oh, that was mean of me but it's probably the truth.
In other news, have you ever wondered what I sound like if you have never heard my voice? Well, taking advice from Gennie, I called up In A Puddle's blogger audio archives today. Give Anne a bit to upload my file if it doesn't appear. 
I better go. A giant cat box is calling me to clean it.
[Listening to: "Cruel Summer" - Ace Of Base]
Posted by Shawn at April 10, 2004 3:58 PM in General, Schooling.
Hey! You have a nice voice! Thanx for puttin your bday in my BirthdayAlert. And since it looks like I missed it last year, Happy Birthday! lol. Its a little belated, but I still mean it. 
And Happy Easter (tomorrow)!!
Shh! Ssssh! Thou shalt not speak of Cold Stone when I am trying to battle a rampaging sweet tooth today. 14 days without anything sweet (as I only have biweekly cheat days)... trying to decide if *ice cream* is what i want to spend this cheat day on.
Posted by: misbah kyrene at April 10, 2004 5:39 PM Not a problem and happy Easter to you, too.
Misbah, get the ice cream. 
I bet I know why you 
ed it all up. It was probably too rich for you.
Arg, yuppie stuff. I suppose it is nice stuff, but well, it makes people look like everyone else.
And interesting audio. You don't really sound like a teenager, but you do sound younger than what I have imagined.
Posted by: sya at April 11, 2004 8:47 PMWhen I went to sign the papers on my car 3 years ago, the lady assisting me at the bank was with another client. She was an older woman and when she saw I was the next customer, she said I was too youung to be buying a car. She could not believe I was purchasing a car. And for Beth's open house this past summer, her principal mistook me as a student at the school. I hadn't been a student at the school in 6½ years.
Posted by: Shawn at April 11, 2004 9:11 PM
