Sunday, April 20, 2003
shss (severe holiday shopping syndrome)
too bad i couldn't think of a cool acronym that you can pronounce, like sars or aids or something. but what is it about holidays that make people want to go shopping? is there some innate shopping desire that is especially aroused near festival days? i only ask because the store is a wreck thanks to the bajillion people who came through today and destroyed every display on their way to finding what they wanted. not that i'm upset or anything, it just makes you wonder. what's so special about easter that you have to shop on/near that day as opposed to say two weeks before that? makes you wonder if the disciples went out and bought some new digs & kicks after christ was crucified. did they get all prettied up for the sunrise service? methinks not!
and how about i have one class left in my duke career? two weeks from today i will be done with finals, and in three weeks i will be an official alumni of this university. insane, that's what it is. if they only knew what i'm really like, they'd never let me go out into the real world on my own, for fear of tarnishing their image :P i'm excited to be done with the work....i look forward to never having to write another academic paper, study for another test, read another worthless book, or complete another inane homework assignment that does nothing to create neural connnections. at least for the time being. but i'm gonna miss the people, the environment, and the college experience in general. that's what it's all about after all. nobody comes to college solely for academic purposes. if you do, then you're missing out on the best part. you come to college in order to learn how to live....how to deal with people and problems without ma or pops looking over your shoulder and protecting you all the time....how to deal with success and failure in healthy ways....you become the person you will [most likely] be for the rest of your life. these some of the most formative years in any person's life, and now they are almost over for me.....*sigh*. s'all bueno though...no use in crying over it, ya know? i'll cherish the memories while i'm making new ones. then i can cherish those too. soon enough, i'll have more memories than i have time to be nostalgic about. that'll be a good day :)
to write a manifesto on what easter means to me at this point in time would be an injustice to Christ and to anyone who might actually read it. i'm just too tired to write anything coherent, and this is too important an event to just throw something together. ok, so it wont really be a manifesto, but at least this guarantees my 2.5 readers that i'll post something tomorrow.
one last thing....who is the 'random chick' that wrote me a response o so long ago? i thought i knew, but it turned out that wasn't the person. random chick, if you're reading this lemme know who you are, just for curiousity's sake. pz and happy easter. oh what a GLORIOUS day! God bless.
sounds: bon jovi - wanted dead or alive
food for thought: the pursuit of God - a.w. tozer
