A play, a pirate, and Taylor Lautner.

Not in that order.


Yesterday night I decided to go to a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on campus. I heard the players had done a good job with it and this was their last performance, so I decided to go. I'm a fan of Shakespeare anyway. It's so twisted and cool. So Hope and Joy and I went together, and while we were standing in line, Hope grabbed my arm all of sudden and squeaked out, "RIGHT THERE." and pointed. I looked where she was pointing and all I saw was this old guy walking toward us. "What's right there?" "RIGHT THERE!" She said again. "WHAT'S RIGHT TH-" "PATCH THE PIRATE."

And at this point I almost passed out.

See, Patch the Pirate is basically my childhood hero, more or less. His real name is Ron Hamilton, and he lives and works around my university. He writes and records stories for kids, all based on this made-up character named Patch the Pirate. He had cancer in his eye in his 30s, so the doctors had to take his eye out. They gave him a cool patch to wear over the missing eye, so the kids at his church started calling him Patch. Anyway so I've listened to those stories on cassette (am I old or what?) and CD since I was 4 and he's basically my hero. And I was hoping I'd get to meet him while I'm here but I didn't have my hopes up or anything.

Back to the standing in line.

I waited for about two seconds and then I told Hope and Joy, "I'm going to go talk to him." So I did. I walked right up to him (he's shorter than I thought) and said, "Are you Ron Hamilton?" And he laughed and said, "Well yes, yes I am!" I almost passed out again. The only thing I could think was "Oh my gosh my sisters are never going to believe this!" But I said, "Oh wow! I've been listening to Patch the Pirate since I was four, I think. I've always wished I could meet you!" He laughed again and held out his hand. "Well," he said, "I'm Patch the Pirate. What's your name?" "I'm Leah." "Nice to meet you Leah." "Nice to meet you too!" Then he said, "If you remember some of my sailors, I'm here with Princess. (Princess is his daughter Megan) I've got to go find her. Bye!"

At which point I went back to my friends and said about 20 times, "I can't believe I just met Patch the Pirate."

*big breath*

Most exciting thing at school, by far.

Here's a picture (a really lousy one), in case you live under a rock and don't know who Patch the Pirate is.

Other than that yesterday I went to class and work, and the choir picnic. The picnic was TONS of fun. We played a bunch of games, ate awesome barbecue, and sang (because we're in choir and that's how we roll). And when we sat down to dinner I ended up with a couple people from Chorale, one of whom was Miah. WOW. Best looking man I've ever met IN. MY. LIFE. He looks like Taylor Lautner only way hotter. I almost died right. there. Have you ever met someone who's so good looking it's hard to talk to them? Well that's how this guy was. Except he was really nice and totally normal. Shocking, I know. He's a grad student too (2 points), majoring in Organizational Communication (I have no idea what that means), and he's in his first year, like me (2 more points).

Did I say this kid was really good looking?

Well he was.

Really really.


Ok I'm done now.

Maybe.




Leah