Time: Where Is It Going?

"This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays kings, ruins towns,
And beats high mountains down." {The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien}

My eldest brother got married on Saturday, many of my friends are starting college, and now my senior year of highschool has begun. So many changes! No way we're all this old. 

Those of you who have older siblings probably know what I mean when I say that taking classes that I remember my older siblings taking is so weird. They were so mature, so smart, so grown up...they couldn't possibly have been the same age I am!

Is all this weird for anyone else, or am I just strange? :P Comments make my day!

In other news, I've finally made a deal with the characters in my story who were giving me problems, so the next few chapters are happily under construction. I hope to post the next chapter before the end of the month. 

Soli Deo Gloria,
~Kristin

A Not So New Obsession

Language, grammar, organization. Words. As I have been preparing for school and cleaning my room this last week, I have needed to reorganize my books. Is it strange that I bought a twenty year old unabridged dictionary when I saw it for five dollars? Or that a pocket Merriam-Webster Dictionary lives in my backpack and my desk? Not to mention the rhyming dictionary and the dictionary/thesaurus on my bookshelf. For some reason grammar, languages, and words in general have always fascinated me.

What about you? Does anyone else keep a potentially ridiculous number of dictionaries around? What about pick up a grammar manual and get so caught up in it that you lose track of time? I like comments  and hope to hear from you!

Soli Deo Gloria,

~Kristin

Note: all pictures were taken by me with my camera. I have not stolen them from anywhere :P