Not All Who Wonder Are Lost

Copy and pasted from glofigs...

Originally posted by moerlin at As of tomorrow, no more subject lines in comments on LJ

OK, so, for those of you who don't know, I teach Freshman world geography.  My students are roughly 14 or 15 years old.  

They have a question from my Brit friends or for anyone who lives in a different part of the world than the United States.  

The politically correct version over here is African American.  OBVIOUSLY if a black person lives in the UK, they are African, but not African American.  So, our question is, what is it called?  African European?  African British?  Or something entirely different?  

Thanks for your help on behalf of my insane students, (two of which I pulled off each other as they were just about to fight and both of these idiots was bigger than me).  

*headdesk*

I haven't been on to do ANYTHING on LJ for the last few days as my laptop crashed.  :-(  I managed to get a new hard drive in it and recover most of my files from my back up external and Carbonite, but I appear to have lost all my video files.  So, I'll have to start dl'ing them all again soon.  :-(  That's season 4 and 5 of Primeval, season 4 of Torchwood, and some random Dr. Who eps that I had.  

Also, if anyone knows how to get a .rar file on a mac to open, I'd appreciate the info.  Thanks.  

Title: Unexpected
Author: tay_21 
Fandom: Primeval
Pairings/Characters: Connor/Abby
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst, fluff... eventually
Warnings: Mentions of past rape
Disclaimer: Primeval and its characters belong to Impossible Pictures. No copyright infringement is intended.
Author's Note: This is written for the amazingly talented casy_dee for her birthday.  It was Beta'd by the equally talented and amazing evenstar_estel.  
Summary: Abby get's an unexpected phone call and the repercussions are very far reaching.  
Prompt:  How about a long lost relative, a moral dilemma (with appropriate dilemma angst, not relationship angst) and a new beginning.

( Instinct... Behind the cut. :-D )

 After watching a video on called Last of the Czars, which details the final years of the Russian Romanov dynasty, I gave my students a quiz, partly because they pissed me off and weren't paying attention.  

One of the questions asked, "Where did the Romanovs initially receive asylum?"  The answer is Great Britain (but it was later revoked).  

Well, one of my genius kids who obviously paid very close attention (not) to the video answered, "The woods."  LOL!!!!!!!!  *falls off chair laughing*  

The sad thing is that they could take notes and use them on the quiz... Oh, and they're supposed to be IB/AP kids.  :-/  Can we say fail????

 Or a bullet, bomb, what ever the hell it takes, however the hell long it takes!  HELL YEAH!  

Osama bin Laden is no more.  *does happy dance *  

It's like a cloud has lifted and I can breathe a bit easier.  I know there are probably a thousand idiots that can jump in and take his place, but I really don't care.  Today has been more than 10 years in the making and I'm overjoyed.  

The evil man responsible for so much death to so many all across this planet has finally received justice and met his maker.  Some how I bet he's disappointed.  Instead of virgin's, he dealing with flames.  I bet there's a special spot in hell carved out just for him.  

To all the families of 9/11 and other victims of terrorism, we got him!  

While watching Bill O'Reilly with my dad tonight (first mistake: watching Bill O'Reilly...talking about education)...


Geraldo:  The Alamo was a victory for the United States.  

Me:  Are you retarded?!?!?!  The Alamo was a victory for the NATION OF TEXAS!  We weren't even a territory of the US, we certainly weren't a state!

My God!  People who don't know history should not attempt to comment on it on national television.  

FAIL!!!!!!  Good grief, the more I hear from his stupid mouth the more idiotic I think he is.  Grrrrrr!

When I was a teenager, I read a book, a biography of sorts.  It was called The Cross and the Switchblade.  I also read it's companion book called Run Baby Run.  These two books were incredibly influential on the path my life took after that.  

If your not familiar with the story, the two books go together.  They tell the incredibly true story of a country preacher who left rural America behind and headed for the mean streets of New York City.  He quite literally stood on the street corners in the worst neighborhoods and preached to the gang members in the barrios.  The gangs were losing quite a few members to conversions to Christianity.  Needless to say, they didn't appreciate that very much.  One of the gang leaders showed up and told the preacher to stop preaching or he'd "cut him into a thousand pieces."  The preacher simply replied, "even if you cut me into a thousand pieces, every one of those pieces will say Jesus loves you."  The gang leader eventually made a radical life change and became a Christian.  

The Cross and the Switchblade is David Wilkerson's story.  He was the country preacher.  Run Baby Run is Nicky Cruz's story, the gang leader.  I knew from the moment I read these books that I wanted to influence teenagers in the same positive way that David Wilkerson did.  It was in reading  these books that I found my calling and passion for teenagers.  I still have copies (very well read/worn) that I pull out and reread from time to time.  

Anyway, I put all that in this post because today, David Wilkerson was killed in an automobile accident up in Tyler.  It was a head on collision with an 18-wheeler.  His wife is in ICU.  He was 79 years old.  It is my belief that, for a Christian, the moment this life ends, we come face to face with God himself.  We literally take our last breath in this life and the immediate next breath is in eternity.  General William Booth, the founder of the Salvation army referred to it as being "promoted to Glory".  I believe that today, Reverend David Wilkerson was promoted to glory.  

Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers, especially his wife who was injured in the same car accident earlier today.  This was a man who influenced so many, across an entire nation and the planet, my self included.  He's also the founder of both Teen Challenge and World Challenge.  I never met him, but my life was forever changed because of him.  

Well done, good and faithful servant.  Enter into your rest.  

(Sorry I don't have you b-day fic up and ready.  It's done, it's just not beta'd yet.  :-)  Hopefully in the next few days I'll be able to post it.)