Piattology

Jack Piatt
Daily Egyptian

This week I would like to introduce you to my new friend and today's guest columnist, Kodee Kennings. (So I guess this will be a column inside a column). Kodee is 8 years old and lives in Marion, and that is the only ordinary thing about this young lady. She gives the word "unique" a facelift. Her personality is captivating along with an insight that makes you forget she's only been on this planet for eight short years.

Kodee's personality isn't the only thing unique about her. Life in general for her in itself is a story, and because of this, she is no stranger at the DAILY EGYPTIAN.

The last week of the spring semester, the DAILY EGYPTIAN featured a story about Kodee and the sad situation life has brought her. To give a brief summary - Her mother passed away three years ago, and her father Dan is in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division serving our country. She is staying with her father's adopted brother, Matt, and his wife, Colleen, while he is away.

Kodee has since become a friend of the DAILY EGYPTIAN and an inspiring writer. She has adopted a few of us here, and we have in turn adopted her. Kodee and I hit it off when we met, and we talk on the phone occasionally about life, softball and anything else she is curious about. She was interested in what my column was about, and I gave her a brief description, and from this, the young aspiring writer came up with a column of her own and sent it to me ... so without further ado I present to you - Kenningsology...

Sinse ology means the study of something Jack made it the study of him. It is called Piattology. Mine wod be called Kenningsology. There are a hole bunch of ologys in the world they all mean something to study. Jack tells every one his way of thinking in his colum. It's not to hard even thow hes old. Ive been here eight years so I'm not complecks like grownups.

But in all these years Ive lerned a hole bunch of importent things. Like you can't put rocks in the dryer and expeckt them to come out as jewels only a rock tumbler can do that. And if you do that then your dad thinks theres something rong with the dryer and takes it apart. Then you get in trable. Its easyer to just pratend the rocks are jewels for a treshur hunt. Dirt can't get frozen in the freezer. But even more importently if your going to try to freeze it then you shold put it in a bag first and never put mud in there. Trust me on that one.

When your a kid you get left a lot. Grownups allways leve but kids don't get to. When I get big Im never going to leve. I'm gona stay ware I can allways get fownd. And you kno skunks look frendly but they arent. They spray you if you get to close. Then you have to take a bath for four hours.

And if your going to have your gi joes walk on the moon the lamp cant be the moon. The lite bullb is not a good place to pratend its the moon. The gi joes melt into black stringy stuff and the smoke detecter goes off. Then you have to throw them away. But it is cool the way they melt.

Those are just a few things I've learned in eight years. And mistakes are ok to make you just cant make them over agin.

Piattology appears every other Tuesday. Jack is a senior in advertising. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the DAILY EGYPTIAN.

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