And all that Good Stuff

Friday, May 19, 2006

Graduation rehearsal that night seemed somewhat tense. Most parents, as usual, were exactly particular on how they wanted everything run. And a number of the biographies tended to be lengthy and bordering, if not squelching, on/in arrogance. But that was the way the mill ran at graduation.

In good news, Eve was to sing a solo for prelude. Little Eve – a solo! All of the sudden she wasn’t that little eight year-old girl anymore in pigtails sniffing tattered parts. Growing up… And Annamaria seemed to be in a particularly good mood that evening. She had cut her hair and was looking older those days. Weren’t they all?

There was also news of Amanda bringing a boyfriend back from D.C. – a one of the name, Evil–merodach – whom she had been seeing for one year. Mom anticipated wedding bells and invited Amanda to bring him with her out to Babler to visit the following week while the family was camping. Amanda thought it was a great idea.

And Carrie passed two more CLEP exams that morning in the Natural Sciences and Principles of Management with flying colors. After another two the next morning, she hoped to be able to relax and enjoy some old friend-time with Kitts and Eve. Until then, she studied with sword and with pen.

It seemed to Collette that in the afternoon, as two young guys worked on the plumbing in the office – that one of them was Hungarian. His accent was too near what she had heard there five years ago. And, he was shorter and had dark close-cut hair.

Meanwhile, Judah breezed out of the office after two, to meet Evangeline. It was the day to get their marriage license.

“What? They don’t make you have your blood tested?” Rosemary was quite astounded, when Judah told her that all he needed was a driver’s license.

“They don’t do that in Missouri,” Judah replied. “Just your license and three days. And a judge can waive that if he wants to.”

“In Illinois we had to give, like, a pint of blood,” Rosemary said (who also, when she was married, was only days past finals and student teaching, was moving to Arizona with only a car-load of items and no place to stay as of the time they left Wheaton, and ended up finding an apartment which was cheaply priced at about two hundred dollars a month, as it was facing the west, and the heat was an average of 102 degrees daily).

“Nothing like that here. Just $51 dollars. And an extra dollar per person if eighteen or younger, with parental consent.”

“So did you have to pay an extra dollar when you were married, Collette?” Rosemary joked.

“Nope, I was 19; didn’t have to do that.”

“She was an old woman,” Judah teased.

In addition, OLeif was talking about his concern over the church and hypocrisy, poor teaching and doctrine, etc. and encouragement over better thought and a love for Christ in the church as well. Mom, Joe, Wallace, and Francis dropped by later that afternoon to help Jimmy and the Bananas help set out the rummage sale for the following morning and to drop off all of the items Grandma Combs had donated, while preparing to move. And Rose’s finger was stung by a bee.

“Here’s to the prof of geology,

Master of all natural history.

Rare boy, he,

And rare boys, we,

To know such a big curiosity.

To the prof,

Aye aye aye aye,

To the best,

Aye aye aye aye,

To the next,

Aye aye aye aye

Aye aye aye aye!”