Some Ideas

As goes with pretty much every summer, I'd say that most people have a very long list of things that they wish to accomplish in the few short months of freedom they have. I am no exception to this idea. I have so many things that I'm trying to do that I don't even know where to begin.
First on this list is figuring out how to take my ACT while I'm still suffering from 4S. I didn't have the chance to write about my previous attempt at conquering the test, but I'll have you know that it was pretty pathetic. There was a girl with a very bad cold, and I got a panic attack. I wasn't able to focus on the questions in front of me or even process what the concepts were about, and ended up just having to leave because it was so terrible. However, I'm hoping that this next time will be easier since I'm on anxiety drugs. My mom said I could probably overdose and be completely cool as a cucumber, and that would be okay. Zoloft is amazing.


Next, I'm hoping that I'll be able to read my Bible more this year. I'm doing one of those One Year Bibles and trying to read through the whole thing this year since I lost track of it last year and didn't quite get all the way. So far, I'm a month behind, which kind of sucks because I have to read a ton every day. This next month, I plan to catch up.
I'm also in the middle of writing a story, which I'm posting here. So far, I have about seventy pages in Microsoft Word not double-spaced. I've been stuck on this one chapter for a couple of weeks and haven't been able to update because I've been too busy, but I'm planning on writing a whole lot more in the future. I tend to start projects and not finish them, but I'm looking to change that. Especially with writing.
I would like to check out some colleges as well. Ideally, I'd like to attend either Colorado State University, Moody Bible Institute, or Colombus College of Art and Design. I need to also look at other colleges and maybe try to pick a major. I'm still unsure of what God wants me to do with my life, so if I could get into Moody, that would probably help me a lot. Plus, Moody has no tuition provided one gets accepted. But in order to apply for colleges, I'm going to need my ACT score. So, these next few months could be really interesting.
I would like to go to the pool.
I would like to go to the Denver Zoo.
I would like to start working out, because I'm nothing if not a flab-monster.
I would like to start a portfolio in case I decide to go to art school. They won't accept you unless you have work to show them, so, yeah.
I would like to start posting more videos on my YoutTube channel. I like to sing and play guitar, which sounds sort of silly, but I kind of want to post it somewhere.
I want to blog more!
I'd like to save more money in case I do missions work next year.
So, you see, I have a lot of things, and even more, that I would like to accomplish this summer, and I really hope that I can see all of these things through.


On another note, my friend and I went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science yesterday because we had nothing to do. Seemingly, everyone else had something better they could be doing and ain't nobody got time for that, so we just went together. We saw snakes and lizards. And Darwinists. We actually debated with this atheist dude for an hour about different things. We orginally asked him why they say that the earth is millions of years old, and we got him to admit that nothing in science is exactly "fact". He said they don't know all of these things for sure. So we asked him why they would teach children things like that man evolved from primates if they didn't know it for sure. Also, I learned that most of the skeletons of things that they have are fabricated in some way. All of them are, he said. And of the skeleton they had of Lucy, they had a diagram showing her feet, but you could see that the only bone they found of her feet was small and seemingly insignificant. I asked him if the tools they displayed next to the partial skeleton were found by Lucy and he said, "Um...well, let me check...no. They're just examples of what she probably made."
I'm so sure.
We also got him to admit that mutations, as we have observed today, are never helpful. I asked him if he could think of an example of a mutation that would be helpful, and he directed us towards another fossil where he explained how dinosaurs turned into birds. This was not an example of modern day mutations, and he could not think of an example that people have observed where a mutation has helped a creature survive.

Doing things like this makes me feel a whole lot smarter. I don't get good grades at school, but knowing that I can have a philosophical argument with a man who has a doctorate while being only a teenager makes me feel accomplished. 

"Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity" (1 Timothy 4:12).