Depth Takes a Holiday - Facebook Edition

Daria - Depth Takes a Holiday - Facebook Edition

Chris Mass, Holly Hallows and Gunny Night have left the Holiday Island network.

Chris Mass, Holly Hallows and Gunny Night have joined the Lawndale network.

Daria Morgendorffer became a fan of Sick Sad World ripping into out of season nativity displays.

Daria Morgendorffer wonders if Jane Lane is sometimes too cynical even for her.

Jane Lane is that sarcasm I detect?

Daria Morgendorffer Yes.

Cupid Valentine and Pat Ireland have joined the Lawndale network

Daria Morgendorffer has met two strange guys on Glen Oaks Lane.

Pat Ireland we’re not that strange! We need to speak to you.

Cupid Valentine we come in peace.

Daria Morgendorffer Who are you?

Pat Ireland is explaining to Daria Morgendorffer about Holidays who have come to Lawndale.

Daria Morgendorffer is freaked out!

Helen Morgendorffer what’s wrong sweetie?

Jake Morgendorffer Are you ok?

Cupid Valentine has hit the Morgendorffer parents with the Love Taser(TM)

Helen Morgendorffer à Jake Morgendorffer xxx

Jake Morgendorffer à Helen Morgendorffer xxx

Daria Morgendorffer’s parents are acting weird.

Quinn Morgendorffer‘s parents are acting all yucky.

Daria Morgendorffer is attempting to meditate.

Quinn Morgendorffer Something is wrong with Mom and Dad!

Cupid Valentine you will help us, right?

Quinn Morgendorffer who is that?

Daria Morgendorffer A figment of our imagination.

Daria Morgendorffer is at Jane’s

Jane Lane You lead an interesting life when I'm not around.

Chris Mass, Holly Hallows and Gunny Night are at Casa Lane.

Daria Morgendorffer has met the renegade Holidays.

Chris Mass prefers ‘X’

Holly Hallows short for Xmas

Daria Morgendorffer I got it.

Gunny Night Bollocks!

Daria Morgendorffer is taking the renegades out for Pizza

Holly Hallows You are cool!

Daria Morgendorffer is at Pizza King

Jane Lane is at Pizza King

Trent Lane is at Pizza King

Chris Mass, Holly and Gunny are at Pizza King

Pat Ireland Cupid and I are here too!

Gunny Night Bollocks!

Trent Lane What is so bad about Holiday Island anyway?

Holly Hallows You have to be happy all the time.

Daria Morgendorffer Pat is saying that if X, Holly and Guy Fawkes don’t go back to Holiday Island that their holidays won’t come.

Jane Lane No Guy Fawkes Day! L L /feigned sob

Chris Mass, Holly, Guy Fawkes and I are crashing at Daria’s place.

Daria Morgendorffer oh no!

Jane Lane became a fan of Gunny Night.

Helen Morgendorffer à Jake Morgendorffer xxx

Jake Morgendorffer à Helen Morgendorffer xxx

Quinn Morgendorffer à Sandi Griffin and now they’re thinking of having another baby!!!!

Sandi Griffin how do you know?

Quinn Morgendorffer why else would they be ‘doing it’

Sandi Griffin Eeww!

Quinn Morgendorffer They can’t make a popular person compete with a new baby!

Sandi Griffin became a fan of Cute Smiling Babies

Sandi Griffin Hello Precious

Quinn Morgendorffer Sandi!

Sandi Griffin Sorry!

Quinn Morgendorffer I have to follow them around to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Sandi Griffin Well, try not to stay up too late. You know what that does to your skin.

Quinn Morgendorffer You’re such a good friend!

Sandi Griffin I know

Holly Hallows has become a fan of Padded Walls in Bedrooms

Chris Mass and Gunny Night Like this.

Daria Morgendorffer The fugitives are sleeping in my room

Cupid Valentine and Pat Ireland have joined the Lawndale High School network.

Pat Ireland That Daria chick is going to screw everything up a lot worse than she thinks.

Kevin Thompson became a fan of Motivating Football Teams by calling them Ladies

Brittany Taylor Likes this

Pat Ireland à Brittany Taylor Some friends of ours have come to Lawndale and we’re hoping that you can talk them into leaving.

Kevin Thompson You can just tell them what a cool place Lawndale is.

Pat Ireland No, we want you to tell them the opposite.

Kevin Thompson Opposite?

Pat Ireland We want to you to talk them into leaving Lawndale.

Kevin Thompson and Brittany Taylor have become fans of Lawndale

Pat Ireland à Cupid Valentine We’re going to need the smart chick. Don’t tell me to relax!

Cupid Valentine For once I agree with you, dude

Sandi Griffin, Quinn Morgendorffer, Stacy Rowe and Tiffany Blum-Deckler are attending the event Fashion Club Meeting at the Griffin Residence.

Tiffany Blum-Deckler has posted Accessory Committee Report

Stacy Rowe Isn’t that great Quinn?

Stacy Rowe Quinn?

Sandi Griffin She seems uncharacteristically sloppy.

Quinn Morgendorffer must stay awake and ensure that her parents won’t have another baby.

Quinn Morgendorffer My cousin has Holidays staying with her

Sandi Griffin You need to take a leave of absence from the Fashion Club

Stacy Rowe Get some rest.

Quinn Morgendorffer has left the event Fashion Club Meeting at the Griffin Residence

Sandi Griffin Quinn will be back once she has had some rest.

Daria Morgendorffer has been dragged to the mall by Cupid and the Leprechaun.

Pat Ireland Life as we know it has come to a halt

Pat Ireland You did see the unsold Halloween candy

Cupid Valentine and the toys that the kids won’t be getting for Christmas?

Jane Lane And the pie stand, Daria. Don’t forget the pie stand.

Daria Morgendorffer My statements from earlier are still valid.

Pat Ireland You really did have a wonderful life

Daria Morgendorffer And again; what the hell are you talking about?

Gunny Night thinks the United States is completely imbecilic.

Daria Morgendorffer Oh Really?

Daria Morgendorffer X. There are is no gingerbread at my house or at Janes!

Holly Hallows became a fan of Rich Neighbourhoods with their own woods and Toilet Papering

Daria Morgendorffer What is that about?

Holly Hallows Aren’t you nosey. You really know how to make someone not feel at home

Daria Morgendorffer Excuse me, but you are in my home.

Holly Hallows Do you own it?

Daria Morgendorffer My Mom’s name is on the title deed.

Hollow Hallows Then it’s not really yours, is it?

Chris Mass There are no baked goods at 1111 Glen Oaks Lane

Chris Mass Let’s go to Trent’s and rehearse

Daria Morgendorffer doesn’t want to meet Leap Year

Jake Morgendorffer became a fan of Overcast Days

Holly Hallows added Daria Morgendorffer as a friend (Awaiting friend confirmation)

Helen Morgendorffer likes this

Helen Morgendorffer à Jake Morgendorffer xxx

Jake Morgendorffer à Helen Morgendorffer xxx

Helen Morgendorffer à Jake Morgendorffer xxx

Daria Morgendorffer wants to go to Holiday Island.

Jane Lane we need to find Cupid and Pat

Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane have joined the Holiday Island network.

Daria Morgendorffer There is a Good Time Chinese Restaurant here too?

Pat Ireland It’s a chain.

Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane have joined the Holiday Island High School network

Jane Lane This is just like a High School

Daria Morgendorffer I get the feeling that we will be saying that all our lives

Pat Ireland It only seems like high school. It’s actually worse

Jane Lane That’s what we’ll be saying all our lives.

Pat Ireland The social order at Holiday Island High has gone completely haywire.

Daria Morgendorffer X and Holly were the most popular?

Pat Ireland Now its President’s Day

Abraham Kentucky à Arbor Lumber Remember the footware dress code!

Rory Liberty à Pat Ireland Lincoln’s going to make me recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Call him off!

Holly Hallows has received her first paycheck from Coffee Cafe

Chris Mass What!

Gunny Night Bollocks!

Trent Lane She doesn’t want to share it if she doesn’t want to.

Daria Morgendorffer has invited Chris Mass, Gunny Night and Holly Hallows to the event Holiday Island High School Prom

Gunny Night Proms are for tossers!

Daria Morgendorffer A gig is a gig

Trent Lane You really know a lot about music, Daria

Helen Morgendorffer à Jake Morgendorffer Want to go for a walk, Honey?

Quinn Morgendorffer Where are you going?

Jamie White Quinn is in trouble!

Quinn Morgendorffer Oh no!

Trent Lane has joined the Holiday Island network

Chris Mass, Gunny Night, Holly Hallows and 1233 others are attending the event Holiday Island High School Prom

George Virginia They said they were too good for us!

Abraham Kentucky Yeah

May Day Give them a chance!

Holly Hallows That was very successful!

Jane Lane à Daria Morgendorffer Should I care that none of this makes any sense?

Daria Morgendorffer Nope, this is the best Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's, Saint Patrick's, President's and Guy Fawkes Day ever

Chris Mass, Holly Hallows and Gunny Night have joined the Holiday Island network

Chris Mass, Holly Hallows and Gunny Night have left the Lawndale network

Jane Lane, Trent Lane and Daria Morgendorffer have left the Holiday Island network

Pat Ireland You have saved the Holidays, if there is ever anything I can do for you when you have reached the legal drinking age, let me know

Daria Morgendorffer What of my parents?

Cupid Valentine The Taser has almost worn off.

Quinn Morgendorffer à Helen Morgendorffer Go ahead and have your stupid baby! I can’t take this anymore!

Jake Morgendorffer You’re pregnant, Helen?

Helen Morgendorffer Of course not!

Jake Morgendorffer We can’t have another kid, Helen!

Helen Morgendorffer Well, I’m not pregnant, and that is not a very nice thing to say!

Daria Morgendorffer’s parents are back to normal

Quinn Morgendorffer and Jane Lane like this.

Daria Morgendorffer God bless us, everyone

Church notes - 5th May 2019

5th May
Isaiah 40:18 - 28

Communion
Luke 16:19 - 31
The rich man - in a place of torment.
Through Jesus, God has provided a way for us to avoid it. Only through Him can we be saved.

Scripture Union
Began with 15 children in London in 1867
Josiah Spiers
His aim was to tell children and youth about Jesus.
SUFM - beach missions
Missionary families
Teaching children that being Christian is essentially missional.

http://www.sunsw.org.au/

Acts 17:16 - 32
The world is changing. Christianity is more distrusted; society has a negative view of it. We are coming full circle to the experience Paul had.

Paul in Athens - He was in distress that the city was full of idols.
He talked about Jesus.
1. In the Synagogue
- A place where the Jewish minority gathered to worship in a majority Pagan city.
Ministry here is only going to reach a minority of people.
2. In the Marketplace
A place where people gathered, publically
A place where believers and non-believers mixed naturally.
e.g. Social media, sport, community events. A shared space.
The Aeropagus
The public sphere were thinking occurred, and public policy was decided. The Government and/or media. Universities.
We have a place in the pluralistic society.

These three can be summed up as:
Our Space
Shared Space
Public Space
All three are valid and necessary places to share the Word, but in only one of these do we have the right to set the rules.
Changing times may mean changing methods, but it's been done before.
It is still valid to invite people into our space to hear about Jesus.
But with those who are less sympathetic we have to find ways to share in Shared Space.
We need to look for more opportunities to share in the Shared Space.
And we will have to continue to express our ideals in the Public Space, but with out the sense of entitlement or authority that came with Christendom.
We need to have the right attitude.

How are we going to connect?

Lawndale and Sandi Griffin's Genie - Chapter 1 Part 8

“Did anything interesting happen at school today?” Helen asked.

“You wouldn’t believe the half of it!” Quinn said.

“Why wouldn’t I believe it, Quinn?” Helen asked.

“’Cause it would sound totally crazy! The events were totally fantastical!” Quinn said.

“I wouldn’t say, totally fantastical,” Daria said, with her usual sarcasm.

“Maybe not totally fantastical, but the events at school today were rather close!” Quinn said.

“Fantastical, in what way? What has that Ms Li gotten the student body into now?” Helen asked.

“Mo-om! It has nothing to do with Ms Li!” Quinn said. Helen had a confused look on her face, Quinn was being rather elusive.

“Mom, if one talked about magic, extra floors appearing on school buildings and rumours of pool water in classrooms the listeners would be convinced that the speaker was going crazy, or that they were making up a story. And that is just what I had heard by the end of the day,” Daria said.

“You are right. I would think that someone saying that would be crazy. I also think that is a great idea for one of your stories,” Helen said.

“I wish it was,” Daria said. Helen could tell that her older daughter was telling the truth.

“Quinn, is what Daria is saying true? About magic and extra floors?” Helen asked.

“That wasn’t the half of it. Much more stuff occurred,” Quinn said.

“Isn’t this like a Disney movie?” Jake asked. “Not that I ever got to see a Disney movie when I was a kid! I wanted to see 101 Dalmatians! But no! My Father said that animal and Disney movies were for sissies!”

“Jake!”

“Da-ad!”

“Didn’t we see The Lion King when it finally appeared at Highland’s cinema?”

“Yes, we did, kiddo. Thanks. What were we talking about?”

“Quinn was saying that fantastical events occurred at the High School today,” Helen said.

“Right, I became aware of it when I heard Tiffany ask why Sandi was floating. I then saw that Sandi was floating,” Quinn began. She continued to spill the beans about what had happened at recess and during the following period.

“So Quinn, can anyone else back up this fantastical story?” Helen asked.

“The idea of Sandi Griffin with the power a genie can give her is frightening,” Daria said, her voice showing a trace amount of fear.

“Dar-i-a! Didn’t I say that?” Anyway, Stacy and Tiffany can back me up. So can Jeffy, Joey and Jordan. Mr O’Neill can vouch for the water filled classroom. Then there are the other members of the class. Ms Barch was aware of the extra floor almost from the outset. That Goth chick was present when Sandi was one-upped by the genie. That Ted guy is also aware from Elias telling him...” Quinn began.

“That is enough Quinn,” Helen interrupted. “As soon as we’re finished eating, I’ll be calling the Rowe’s and the Blum-Deckler’s.”

“Ok,” Quinn said.

Helen called the Rowe’s and Stacy filled her in on her point of view of the happenings that day. Stacy corroborated Quinn’s story and gave Helen much more extra information.

Tiffany also corroborated Quinn and Stacy’s stories and gave her extra information (though nowhere near the amount that Stacy did.)

Over an hour later, an almost exhausted Helen clicked off the phone from her conversation with Mr O’Neill. His story and those of Joey, Jeffy and Jamie corroborated with those of Quinn, Stacy and Tiffany.

She briefly considered calling the Griffin’s but decided not to. If the idea of Sandi with a genie was frightening to her older daughter, who wasn’t usually frightened by anything, then the idea of Linda with a genie was even more frightening!

‘There is nothing that can be done about it tonight. Quinn and her friends will have to keep an eye on Sandi tomorrow at school and then tomorrow afternoon I will see if I can get off work and talk to their parents,’ she thought. She hoped that she would be able to get off work, Vitale, Davis, Horowitz, Rhiordan, Shrechter and Shrechter had a large case load, and she wasn’t sure whether she could trust Jake with trying to talk to the other parents. She then went up to bed.

Meanwhile the junior squirrels had reported to Captain Jaywi the information that Quinn had divulged to her family.

“So it is a genie; just as the Emperor suspected!” Captain Jaywi said.

“Yes,” Yogez said. Captain Jaywi was in thought.

“The Emperor has to be informed. This Griffin girl could cause a lot of trouble with that genie,” he said. He then looked at the sky. It was way past sunset and the moon wasn’t visible, it having been the new moon the day before.

 “It can wait until the morning though,” he continued. The Varmittan Empire only conducted its business at night if it was an absolute emergency. As serious as the Non-Normative Event sequence appeared, it was still not an absolute emergency.

“We wait until morning?” the other junior squirrel said.

“As soon as most of the stars have disappeared, I will go to the Palace-Tree,” Captain Jaywi said. The two junior squirrels agreed.

The squirrels were not the only eavesdroppers upon the Morgendorffer family’s discussion about the events of the day. A family of sapient mice living in the space between the ceiling of the kitchen and the floorboards of Daria’s bedroom had also overheard their discussion.

After Helen had called Stacy, the mice went into a discussion of their own...

“...this is serious! There hasn’t been a verified genie in Pennsylvania for decades!” one of them said.

“What can be done? It is a human with a genie! It is not like we can just grab it off this ‘Sandi’ person. She’d just wish us away!” one of the other mice said.

“Maybe the Varmittan Squirrels can help us?” another mouse said.

And so the mice argued amongst themselves for over an hour about what to do, before deciding to convene with the other mice of that section of Glen Oaks Lane in the morning.

At 8:30 Stacy Rowe went up to her bedroom. She was tired from her discussion with Quinn’s mother about the events of the day. Her own mother had hardly believed what they were talking about, until she had talked to Helen herself.

Stacy opened her most recent diary and began writing about the events of the day.

Diary of Anastasia Elizabeth ‘Stacy’ Rowe – February 18, 1999 (Summary)

If someone had told me yesterday that the events that happened today would happen in the next 24 hours, I would have told them that they were crazy. And yet they have happened and so I am still trying to come to terms with them. I keep expecting to wake up to find out that it was just a dream!

It all started when Tiffany and I arrived at school...

Arriving at School – Where is Sandi? Waiting for Quinn, looking for Sandi.

Homeroom

Information about meeting Sandi and Jean outside the history classroom.

Summary of History notes

Summary of Mathematics notes

The weird events of recess, beginning with Tiffany’s noticing that Sandi was floating until Sandi’s confrontation with Brooke.

Events of the aborted Language Arts lesson.

Language Arts Lesson

I thought that the problems caused by Jean’s mischievous nature would not have had continued into the next class. After all she hadn’t caused problems in History or Mathematics. But I was wrong, very wrong. I had got out my copy of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield and my notebook and then the classroom filled with water!

‘Oh no! Why are Sandi and/or Jean acting like this?’ she thought, beginning to panic. She looked around. She saw that Sandi had appeared and was glaring at Jean. ‘Not entirely her fault then,’ she thought. She also saw Quinn glaring at Sandi. ‘Good, Quinn,’ she thought, feeling the usual fondness for her best friend.

‘OMG! If Jean doesn’t displace the water we’re going to drown!’ she started crying and her heart rate went up. At least with the water no one would notice the tears, but she knew that an accelerated heart rate wouldn’t help matters at all.

She then saw that the water was going down. She looked over to the window to see Tiffany float out!

‘Tiffany!’ she thought in anguish.

5 seconds later the water level was down to the level of the windows.

“Sandi!” Quinn yelled.

“Oh, dear!” Mr O’Neil said, it was clear that he was trying to make sense of the situation. Stacy went over to the window and saw that Joey was asking Tiffany if she was ok. ‘Good of you, Joey,’ she thought.

“I’m Freeeezing, and my hair is ruuuined,” Tiffany said in response to Joey’s question. She could see that Tiffany was ok. Joey then jumped back into the classroom, causing a splash.

Stacy then listened to the conversation in the classroom.

“I am a mischievous Genie,” Jean said.

“But Genie’s don’t exist,” Mr O’Neill said.

“But, how would you explain what just happened?” Stacy asked, wondering how else Mr O’Neill could explain it.

“I don’t have an explanation,” Mr O’Neill said.

Elias and Jeffy opened the door and the water emptied from the classroom, carrying many books and chairs with it. Quinn was angry. She blamed Sandi for the happenstance. I was angrier at Jean. It wasn’t really Sandi’s fault that the Genie that she has found is mischievous.

End of Flashback

The conclusion of the happening in the Language Arts classroom and discussions about the genie.

Summary of Science notes

Summary of discussions at lunch

Summary of Geography notes

Summary of Economics notes

Post school discussions about Sandi and the genie at the Blum Deckler’s house.

Arrival at home and dinner

Discussion with Mrs Morgendorffer and Mom

In conclusion, the events of the day were confusing and frightening. We do not know what is going to happen tomorrow or on any of the days after that. I do hope that Sandi will not use the power that the Emerald is giving her for ill. Tomorrow I will be meeting Quinn and Tiffany at Quinn’s house before going to school. I hope that tonight’s sleep will allow us rest and that clearer heads will allow us to come to some sort of decision before we go to school.

Weather forecast for tomorrow: Maximum temperature 50 degrees Fahrenheit, overcast with possible rainfall or snow later in the evening.

Having finished writing in her diary, Stacy set her alarm to 7:00 and tried to go to sleep.

White House Situation Room, Washington DC

President William Jefferson Clinton was looking at a satellite image of an area of a town, centred around a high school.

“What is significant about this Pennsylvania town anyway?” he asked.

“A variety of weird events have been reported from Lawndale and its vicinity ever since the town was founded, Mr President. However the reason why you are here is a specific happening that happened today.”

“What is that event?” the President asked, all business.

The image changed zooming into the High School. “This is Lawndale High School. This image was taken this morning at 0800. This is the school as it normally is, Mr President,” the National Security Advisor said.

The image changed, showing the extra floor on the science block. “And this is school as it is now. This image was taken at 1400.”

The President looked at the image with incredulity. “Is that an extra floor on one of the school’s buildings?” he asked.

“Precisely, Mr President, there are many theories as to how this has occurred, but all of them involve magic.”

That got the President’s attention. He had been briefed on many organisations and groups that used magic shortly after his inauguration, but none of them had been active anywhere near Pennsylvania. “The closest group I can think of is the Salam Coven,” he said, thinking of the most active group that he was aware of.

“They have been inactive since last September, Mr President. They have gone into hiding,” the National Security Advisor said.

“What is your theory?” the President asked.

“Our experts in the matter have largely theorised that it may be what is termed a ‘genie’, Mr President.

The President was surprised. He hadn’t been informed of the possibility of the existence of genies. He argued with the National Security Advisor about why he had not been informed (most of the evidence was indirect and there hadn’t been any activity that would be conclusive evidence on record in American territory at any point after 1776).

The briefing went on for another 20 minutes.

Elsewhere

Other organisations, both part of the United States Government and not part of it, were aware of some aspect of the events in Lawndale and were each making their own plans and preparing to send agents to the suburban town...