I’m up late again tonight, but the good
part of that is having the work and studying done for the week; and I’ll be
ready to take the weekend off.
We’ve had a fairly nice day around here,
and while the temperature is still a bit cooler compared to the warm we’ve been
spoiled with earlier in the month; it was nice enough to be out and playing
most of the day – and we even managed not to do our Tai Chi by the river
without totally freezing this morning.
I don’t have all that much news to report
even with all of the busy; and that’s mostly because it was a fairly standard
Thursday for me. In fact, the only
change in the normal that I can think of right now is that Mom gave in to
Miranda and teamed up with her again for game night and left Dad to hang out
with Jacob instead. That was entirely
because Miranda had really, really wanted her game night Championship for the
month; and Mom allowed herself to be bribed.
Dad got bribed too, but that’s between him
and Mom; and I really don’t need to know the details – even though I’m
pretending that I don’t to make that work. ;^)
As always, if you’re using your imagination
on that, and know me in your ‘now’; don’t tell me!
Moving along, I had a good day at school,
and while I rarely mention the actual work we’re doing in classes; I hope you
understand that’s just because it isn’t news to me. That doesn’t sound nice, but that ‘public’
education part of my life is all an act; so I hope you’ll take it as it’s
meant. I do love being allowed to grow
up with friends my own age instead of doing an accelerated education the way
that Mom did – especially since that would still be an act for me. I don’t have to act at having fun with my
friends, and while we did have a good day with that part of my life too; I don’t
really have anything to write about with that either – unless you’d like yet
another report on the usual food and football action from lunchtime. There is a lull in the teen drama right now;
and everyone is mostly pretty happy.
I went to the Inn with Michael after
school; we did our homework together with Rebecca and Jenny; and then went for
a walk down to the falls and back before getting to work in the kitchen for the
not-very-busy dinner rush. That was a
fairly easy few hours of busy; I’ve already mentioned the only news from a
lightly-attended game night; and then I went home with my family instead of
waiting for Michael and his because Dad wanted to get to his homework for the
night.
I’m sure his enthusiasm had a lot to do
with Mom’s bribe; but let’s not go there again – some of us need to get some
sleep!
Mom did my Magi lesson with me while
letting Ethan and Ehlana do some work on their college assignments. Tonight we did a long study about
multi-tasking time phases with phase-shift transmutations. Putting that into a nutshell; Mom is teaching
me how to do both without hitting the wall literally – if you know what I
mean. Basically, it is possible to do a
phase shift while in a time phase; but there are a lot of things to juggle at
the same time for that to happen. There
would be a very noisy, painful splat if you got the mix wrong.
There’s a good chance that most Magi that
can do a time phase even think about moving through open space while doing
that, and we compensate for the pressures that apply subconsciously. Doing that doesn’t change the fact that there
are pressures – even when it’s only moving through air. For those of you reading this that don’t have
this talent; just think about it the same way you would about what you feel at
higher speeds – whether that’s biking or in motorized vehicles of various
types. The higher the speed; the higher
the forces applied on the objects involved.
A phase sift would actually mitigate those pressures in the air too; but
we don’t do that because there are other, easier ways to protect ourselves and
deal with that issue.
Doing the same with solid objects isn’t an
option, and more difficult with liquids; so mixing the two is the best
solution. Of course, you might be
wondering why you’d want to walk through solid objects more quickly than just
using a phase-shift, and that’s a valid question; but my answer for right now
is that I do it because I can and it’s seriously cool! As for practical uses; all I can tell you is
that there have apparently been times in the past when walking through walls
without being seen doing it has been helpful to certain Magi Masters – or at
least they thought that it was important when writing about it for the
archives.
That little side-trip has me off-track; but
I guess that lesson was one of the highlights of my day – though Mom’s journal
on my Magi education has a lot more detail; and I like her perspective better
than mine most of the time. Getting back
to the rest of my night, though, I took care of the bedtime routine with Ethan
and Ehlana while Mom and Dad stayed in the office to finish up their work
before coming up to bed too – and not going straight off to sleep.
I so need to book more Michael and me alone
time!
Did I just write that out loud? ;^)
Anyway, I came up to my room once my
brother and sister were tucked in for the night; got ready for bed; and then
started working on my computer while Mandy curled up next to me and promptly
fell asleep. The family business work
was a bit lighter than usual for a Thursday night, so I spent extra time on my
language studies and then left my archive assignment for last in case I ran out
of steam early. That didn’t happen, but
I’m worn out now; and ready for a few hours of down time.
I’ll be that Mom and Dad are worn out now
too.
Cut that out, Proctor!
Since I’ve now devolved my mental state to
the point where I’m writing a half-conversation with myself, I’d say it’s
past-time to sleep; so I’m going to get right to that.
Until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
