Weather or Not
Today it was so warm. So very warm. Probably the warmest day we will have the rest of this year occurred today. It was in the upper 70s on October 19th for crying out loud! The sun shone, the fresh breeze blew, and I wrote a song. It had lyrics, a wonderful tune, and it calmed me down. It probably developed and evolved for about ten minutes as I gradually put into words and music my thoughts and feelings. Finally, I got a song to just flow out of me. I didn’t write it down, and I didn’t make any effort to remember it. It will simply stay in my mind as “that song I wrote that made me feel better.” Nobody else needs to hear it.
I’ve managed to make it to three different churches in the past four weeks. It definitely is a variety to see that many different celebrations. I have come to the conclusion that people are generally much too uptight about religion. So much so that they lose sight of the purpose of the religion. That, however, is neither here nor there as I do not want to open up that “can of worms.” Regardless, I took Communion yesterday at a church and as I walked, the western sun shot straight in my eyes. I couldn’t help but laughing because the man I received it from was just this dark silouette against this dazzlingly bright background. Should be a scene from a comedy movie.
I drove home after church through a beautiful, pastoral, calm evening. Hot air balloons hovered above the horizon off in the distance, heralding the end of quiet summer evenings and lazy nights. And I thought to myself, “self this sure is a wonderful night.” And it was.
Steve was home this weekend. I showed him the dorm and he helped me bring up a wide variety of funishings to complete the room as a MovieNight Headquarters™. Indeed. Anyways, he is another Truck Dismount convert, and managed to get the high score on my machine. Steve your score must fall! I don’t know how I will beat his 90K+ score, though. He liked the room a lot and we had some wonderful conversations. He agreed that an investment in speakers can be a wonderful thing. I won’t share the reasons, they’re rather personal. Which reminds me, Steve’s brother got two new DDR pads. They are really, really responsive, affordable, and fun!
I’ve been sick for the past counts days 7 days. That’s the longest I have been sick in years. In keeping with the current trend of everything going right, however, that hasn’t kept me from doing one thing. I went to all my classes, took a final, worked out, and played DDR until the sweat was rolling off me the way it does during summertime tennis. I think every freshman gets sick in the first couple of months. It’s like a pre-requisite for the rest of college; you get sick when your body responds to all the stress you are putting it through. Then you learn to relax. It’s almost like an immunization in that your body gets a taste of a little stress and thus develops a resistance to the huge amounts of stress later on down the college road.
Let me stress one more time how beautiful the weather this weekend was. It was unbelievably fresh, clean, and warm. The sky was blue, the air was calm, and the leaves were turning under a low sun.
I believe in Socrate’s “good hope” philosophy. That is, we hold “good hope” that there will be life after this one. Look at it from a gambler’s perspective. If you bet on there being an afterlife and you are a good person here on earth, you either a.) are fine in the afterlife or b.) there is nothing. Those are much better odds than if you are bad person and there is an afterlife and you suffer eternally. Thus, it’s good odds to be a good person. Socrates you are awesome!
But let me get to what I was going at. Friday night rocked. We were at Steve’s house and had a great time talking and laughing and trying to walk on our hands. It’s tough to walk on your hands, let me tell ya. But it was a ton of fun! Saturday night was even better, when we celebrated Matt’s birthday with a surprise party. Shayla did some awesome work, complete with party baggage and decorations and even a DDR cake. Birthday parties rock! We watched some of Matrix II and Dumb and Dumber. Fantastic time. We’ll do it again.
Gotta get lights and you gotta go here to rate your prof. Enjoy!