Now this is something

Well, GRINNELL LET ME IN! I got a hefty, cheerful packet today in the mail, and they say they won't be so embarrassed if I show my face around campus for a few years. They're even offering to throw $25,800 at me. This means that (1) I'm not totally worthless after all, and (2) I have options now! So, what I'm going to have to do is take an extensive tour, and maybe sleepover if it's offering, of both Grinnell and Miami. However, I don't know if Grandma and Grandpa will be available to take me.
-Grandpa had to go to the emergency room the other day, and he's still there. He had it all - the total package. They got him through the initial stuff, which we'll just not mention, but now he's got kidney failure and congestive heart failure to deal with. They say that he'll make it, but once he's out he'll have to make some drastic lifestyle changes. Every aspect of his diet will be carefully regulated, is one thing I know. Maybe he'll also have to give up strenuous activities, or a variety of other medical concerns like that. Everyone is pretty antsy around now. It's a nervewracking development, no doubt about that. Kidney failure and congestive heart failure seldom aren't. I believe Mom is taking me to go visit him in the hospital there tonight.
-It's spring break, by the way. I forgot to mention that. I've already plowed through about five days of it without really doing anything. Well, yesterday, Micah and I went on a comprehensive bike ride, and I read a book (The Road by Cormac McCarthy) but other than that I've done very little. What should I do? What I'd really like to do is get started working on that book I want to write, but I still need to create a coherent plot for it before I start writing. And I need to figure out how to make it interesting. People do read boring books, but I don't want mine to be one of them. I'm considering making it a story with two parallel main characters, one of whom is less focused on. That won't make it more interesting - I'm just saying it, is all. I have a good feeling about it, but I can't seem to assemble it. And of course I'll work on that. That's what I'll do with the rest of this break. Something useful. Or I could work on my snake cage. That thing is almost a joke. It's been sitting in the exact same spot in my room for about five or six years and I haven't done a thing with it. Mostly that's because I need a sheet of Plexiglas for the front door. But shoot, I could build the framework of the door, I suppose. So, with my remaining three days (starting tomorrow), I'm doing one of those two things. Yes! It's good to have a plan worked out.