History Repeating.

My baby sister wants to go to Horizons. She wants to get away from home, and my father and step-mother don't want her to be too far from All family contacts. So she's been researching Horizons. Tomorrow, i get to go there and do a little recon, to see what the place is like, since Lorraine passed.

I don't know what to say to her, though... How do i even near-objectively present the school that literally changed my life? I want to tell her how to work toward consensus, to make sure that she actually Says what's on her mind. That, if something is wrong, she can change it, if she works toward that change... I want to make sure things go Right, for her, if she decides to go there....

So, tomorrow, i go to reconnoiter my old high school. The place that taught me that change is possible. The environment which instilled in me the ideals of institutionalising the ideals of change. Tomorrow, i go to spy on my old Home.

And I don't think i could feel better about it.

"I guess if I had to summarize it, it would fall along the lines of a strong belief in respect for self and respect for every living thing. A belief that each person is here on this earth for a reason, and that we have an obligation to embrace those reasons, maximize the experience, and to do everything that we can to leave a legacy that clearly espouses the idea of leaving the world a better place than where we found it. " --Dr. Lorraine Wilson

Hm. How things don't go as planned.

Voltaire - [The Night]--- Didn't go to Horizons, today, because i ended up having to work a longer shift, because my boss was sick. Ah well, and C'est la vie. Tomorrow, after class, i'm heading there, and we'll see what's what.

Still have some WC Smith, to read, s i'm going to go do that, now, so i can watch some West Wing, later. However, if anyone wants to bribe me away with free food, i might be swayed.

The Dresden Dolls - [Girl Anachronism]--- Later.

Oh, and my dad wants me to see if i can go four days without caffeine... An interesting proposition. Ta.

Things I'm doing, regarding parallel universes...

Reading the WC Smith, for tonight, and shit sure enough the fucker is just starting to get good. It's fucking with me... he's laying out arguments i've had with my mother, and he's using almost my exact phrasing. He's in the last third of the fucking book and he is, to my eyes and understanding, JUST finding his voice.

But... he found it. He found it and he's making his points clearly and consicely. And he's actualy Contributing something to the discussion, now. Talking about the why's rather than simply clearing up terms (which was necessary, but not contributive).

Some days it feels like i'm skipping from universe to universe,a nd things are getting more noticably different... Like i'm remembering history that Happened, but not in This one...

Skipping across, and it would be a whole lot better if everyone else knew, too.... I have to go.

{11.44pm: And if you wonder what i'm like in person, think of what i'm like, here. Only with slightly less yelling. Slightly... Ok. The same yelling.... Anyway....}