February 6, 2008

• Yesterday was the first day of my life to ever have punctuation to it. 

  As you may know from watching the news, the South was ravaged by quite the storm yesterday, and apparently the remnants of it were sweeping through Ohio starting in the middle of last night.  I had stayed up late last night doing Italian when I finally called it quits around 2:30 A.M.  The rest of my family had gone to bed, so I turned off all the lights and headed up to my room.  I was right by the side of my bed and in the process of sitting down on it before I lay down when one of the weirdest moments of my life happened.  The room was completely gray and dark to me—but then flashed completely white.  The reality of darkness changed so suddenly and to such effulgence I was quickly stunned into shocked inquiry.  The room (in that quick moment) looked as though I was Frodo and I had just put on the ring and was now in the spirit world where I could see what the wring wraiths originally looked like. 

  And then, a brief pause of perfect silence later …

   

  BOOM! 

   

  My existence was startled and shaken as I leapt straight up, frantically flailing in the air and landing on the ground as the stentorian sound’s gradation bounced downward like a bowling ball down a bowling alley.  I am almost completely certain it hit my backyard for how bright and loud it was. 

  The cat that lives in my house was so scared it came into my room and laid down on my bed—even though we despise each other.  It truly was a moment unlike all the rest around it—a spike in the graph!  Since I was climbing into bed, it was, if you will, an exclamation mark on the day. 

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