Friday, August 31, 2007

On not going back to school when everyone else does

I knew that the reality of being done with college wouldn't hit home until the new semester started. I was right.

My cousin started as a freshman this week. I've been going back and forth to her dorm room to drop off books that I'm renting or selling back...in pants. Going back on campus brings back all of the good memories and the bad memories...like I thought it would.

There are many things about my school that I love...the people, some of the routine and etc (I'm sure I would love the no hose rule if I had had it when I was a student) but at the same time there are many things that I do not miss at all.

I feel kind of strange thoough. Take for instance my morning routine. I don't go in to Streetside until ten. That's not unusual for me during the summer but now everyone is back in school. A couple of days ago I thought about that as I was doing my daily hour of reading. I realized that during the semester while I was in school I wouldn't be sitting in the recliner reading at this time of the day...I would be at school either in class or in the Snack schop working on homework.

I have to say that was a pretty strange feeling.

Here's the irony of the situation. When I do start back to school this coming June, everyone else I know will be finishing school for the semester.

Monday, August 27, 2007

On Stardust and time with friends

God taught me something yesterday...well many things actually. One was that flexibility can be a good thing.
Because I was flexible I ended up going to a movie with my sister and two of our friends to a movie in Spartanburg and I absolutely loved the movie. (I didn't end up accomplishing anything that I had planned to do but I didn't mind at all).

When I saw the preview for Stardust I thought that I might enjoy the movie but since I'm not familiar with the original story I wasn't sure if the movie would descend into contrived endings or campiness. That didn't happen...at least in my opinion.

The storyline was one of the most original I have ever read in a book or seen in a movie. I won't get into the storyline because I doubt that I could portray the plot as accurately as it should be.

For the rest of the night I kept saying how much I loved that movie. I felt like saying it more but for the sake of the sanity of those that I was around (:D) I refrained.

The other great part of the night was spending time with my friends. We had so much fun. Nothing unusual occured...just normal laughing, talking and other such things but it's something that I don't have very often, probably because of my own actions.

My hope and prayer is that in the future God will help me get out of my comfort zone and do stuff like this more often.