How is it the 21st already?
Sorry for the clumping of days into one blog again. I've been busy as anything, and still am busy as anything. Nevertheless, I shall try to give a full report-
Sunday and Monday were work days. More work got done on Monday, but still, those were the primary focuses.
Regardless, these two days did not pass without adventures.
Sunday I slept in for quite a while and got a late start to the day. Because I was so tired, naturally, I found it quite tempting to begin my "Fellowship of the Ring" book from the library. In addition, it was an absolutely gorgeous day outside. These two reasons are the likely cause of how little I got done.
I did go to the philosophy library again to read though. Man, it's a great place for that. If only it were a little bit brighter... still. It's pretty.
Ok, folks, my obsession with Lord of the Rings is going nuts. All I want to do all day every day nowadays is read this darn book. I just can't get enough of it!!! I'm sure I'm grinning like a maniac every time something happens that I recognize... i can't help it. I love this book. I love this story and these characters and... everything!!!
Monday I woke up late, but this time I was mad about it. Late start to the day, and then a mad rush to start on work. What ended up happening was a morning stressball- I couldn't find the chapters online I was supposed to read for Writing 150, and my printer was out of ink and I didn't have any left. Luckily, I found the online chapters, but it was necessary for me to print the articles that I was supposed to read for class, which I couldn't do without black ink.
So I went on a Target run adventure. By myself, on the Metro. Yeah, I felt awesome.
I considered doing a bit more exploring than just Target, but then realized that there was only so much money I wanted to spend. The entire trip turned out to be highly productive, and I was in a much more pleasant mood on my way back to school.
A quick anecdote- a lot of people came up to me asking me for money. Since I can't give money to them all, I of course had to say no. One man came up to me and looked really business-like. He had a clipboard, and asked me if I was over 18. I'm flattered he couldn't tell, but was too busy shoving a pretzel sample down my throat (there was a Wetzel's Pretzels nearby) that I didn't really answer immediately. I used this to my advantage, and asked him before taking another bite why he wanted to know. I didn't quite get his answer, but it seemed like it mattered to his cause how old I was. So I said, "Sorry, I turn 18 next month." He said, "Ok, thanks" and went away.
Yeah, I lied. I didn't really feel like being solicited though- especially in an underground Metro station near Downtown Los Angeles. No thanks.
On a completely different topic, an interesting thought came to me on the ride back to school. What if the secret to solving the world's problems was hope? I mean, when you think about it, almost all of the bad situations people get in is because they lose hope of some sort- in themselves, in their dreams, in society, in others' love for them, whatever it is. If we all had a little more hope, we'd all have something more to work for. And if we're the ones giving other people hope, we're giving other people something to work for. It can even be applied with the government, but I did consider during this train ride how the government wouldn't always be able to deliver hope. But there's got to be a way it could still do it's best and give people at least the hope of hope, right?
Only in an ideal world...
Anyways, I was up really late last night finishing my Writing 150 homework. I'm not even fully satisfied with my work... I plan on going back and doing more work on it either tomorrow night or this weekend, whenever I have time to go back and do some refinements.
I woke up from my glorious 3.5 hours of sleep today for my 8am class. Woot.
It's been a pretty slow, stressful day. I've got all my work loaded on my mind, plus minor things that always seem like big deals when you're running on hardly any sleep and have a lot to do.
My classes are all very work-heavy. They all require a lot more work than I've been used to, but one reason they're so work-heavy is because they're very thought-heavy. I am required to do much more critical thinking all at the same time than ever before. It's getting a little old. I miss busywork.
However, I think I'm going to start keeping a notebook with all my questions about the controversial topics that we're raising in my classes. Or questions about anything, for that matter. Or observations! Like the one observation I made about hope on the train. It'll be a good resource to go back to when I want to actually look up answers to the questions I had, or think back on ideas that I had once.
Anyways, the best parts of my day were right after my Writing 150 class and later this evening.
After 150, I went to the DRC to check if the cast lists for the shows I auditioned for had been posted yet, and sure enough, they were! And turns out I got cast!!!
I know, right? Looks like all that hard work and stress actually amounted to something!!! It's a very small role, but that's ok. I'm still excited. So yeah, I'll be playing Polish Girl 1 in USC's production of Fortinbras. Huzzah!
Later this evening, I decided to take some risks with getting my homework done and being up late in order to go to a program Intervarsity started this weekend. It's called Mark Study. We'll be going through the book of Mark as though we were reading it for the first time, with only the Old Testament, historical context of Mark, and our current culture as references. People say that it can be transformative, so I'm very excited. Even after one night, we ended up deeper than I ever thought we could get from just one section of the Bible, even though I've read it and heard it plenty of times before. It felt like the leader had a planned sermon (and maybe he did have a plan, but I don't know!) except we were discovering it in the moment. I can't wait for next week.
I really want to make going to IV a priority this semester. Things are going to be really tough with classwork, and with a show now that I've been cast in it, but I neglected time studying God and with my Christian brothers and sisters more than I should have last semester, and I regret it.
Ah shoot... I had more to say... but what was it...?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOMAS!!!!! (well, it was yesterday now, but still. Hope it was an awesome day!)
Anything else? ....hmm.... I don't remember.
OH! Now I do!!! One of the reasons I've been stressed out!!! Remember when I ordered those posters and I was super excited about them? I SITLL DON'T HAVE THEM. I don't know why this is bothering me so much. Maybe because it was a week ago and the website emailed me telling me that I should have received them by now. Ugh. Then I did the shipment tracking online and learned that they are literally being held in the Campus Postal service right now and just haven't been brought to Pardee yet. They are a mile away!!! I'm so excited to get to put them up!!! *sigh*....
Well, it's 12:40am and I'm just starting to get ready for bed now. It's going to be a long semester, folks.
Fight on.
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