The Ninth Week

And so we've made it to week nine. I can feel the school year beginning to wind down now. I basically have one more of everything for all of my classes. It's crazy. One more paper for film, one more paper for philosophy, one more presentation for my SAAJ class, one more test for humanities. I'm counting it all down already. I just have to remember to be prepared for it all, which is the hard part. The easy part is looking back on what's already happened. So here's what happened this week.

SUNDAY: Every week must start somewhere and it seems like mine always seem to start with Sunday. It's something I just can't seem to avoid. I ran into Josiah and Audra Pleasant at church on Sunday. That sure was pleasant. I also spent some good time working on a philosophy paper that I had due the next day. Nothing special. Just about whether or not a person's mind and soul are a separate thing from the body. If they are in fact separate I think my mind is really seventy-five, even though my body is still seventeen... wait... eighteen. It's so hard to remember these things with a mind my age.

MONDAY: Monday was quite an interesting day, but not for very interesting reasons. In my philosophy class, instead of going into deep philosophical questions about a text, we instead watched I robot. It was amazingly fun to watch a movie like that and discuss the philosophical questions to be found inside of it. That's not saying I'd do that with all movies, I feel that would be much too mentally draining, plus I don't think the philosophy of Napoleon Dynamite would be quite so intriguing.

TUESDAY: Tuesday was a rough day, caused partially because I had a lack of sleep the night before, and partially because of why I had the lack of sleep the night before. I was up to the wee hours of the morning studying for a humanities in-class essay. There's always that pro-con list that must be made in a person's mind about the opportunity cost of studying later into the night or getting that extra hour or two of sleep. I would do a more extensive study on the subject, but I just don't have the time.

WEDNESDAY: I got to go on another field trip for my SAAJ class on Wednesday. It was very interesting. We went to an aquarium in Santa Monica (not a major aquarium. It probably only had about twenty fish or something like that. But interesting nonetheless). It took an hour and a half to find a parking spot when we were going though (Yet another reason that cars are terrible. You don't have to worry about parking when you're walking). I also went to the 3rd street promenade after the field trip, where I used the power of the human will to avoid buying myself a hat, which is quite the achievement for me. Be proud. I avoided contributing to the capitalistic ways of our consumeristic society.

THURSDAY: Thursday was April Fool's Day. I actually participated for once. Moving a suitemate's things from one room to another placed in the exact same way can be quite entertaining. As can covering a suitemate's floor with cups of water making it extremely difficult to get out of bed. Good times. You the reader are probably completely confused by those last two sentences. My apologies.

FRIDAY: Ah the weekend. Nothing like starting off a good Friday (Think about it) like going to Celebration Chapel in the morning. I heard a few songs that I'd never heard before that were quite appealing to my senses. They smelled wonderful. The female singer who was helping lead worship had a voice that was divine (Even if it wasn't it was still pretty amazing, and in eighty years or so she'll die and it'll become heavenly. The thought's not so morbid if you just stop and think about how beautiful it is). Music is always uplifting for me, mainly when it comes from other people. Listening to myself sing can ruin it.

SATURDAY: The important thing that happened today hardly even happened today. It happened at night. I'm sitting in my bed thinking about various philosophical questions (as always) and I think to myself this thought, "People talk about moments that come once in a lifetime. That's not crazy at all. What's crazy is that people don't realize that every moment only happens once in a lifetime. Even if it happens again it's a different moment. That means that we should all live our lives knowing that each moment only comes once in a lifetime." That's my deep thought for the week. Make the most of every moment, because each moment only comes once in a lifetime. And now the sun is setting on this week that was here for once in a lifetime. Here's to the future that seems like it will never come.