To Others...

If anyone officially reads this yet, regular updates have been lacking thus far.  Apparently, the end of the semester is a hard time to start doing something new...or restart something old.  Be that as it may, updates will be coming more consistently, more than likely after tomorrow...but you never can know for sure.

6 AM Thoughts...or lack thereof.

So this seems like as good a time as any to write something.  If I sound a little distant, know I am not all here.  "Why are you up so late/early?" ask you.  Well you see it all started about...12 hours ago.  I was working on homework, a paper more specifically...a paper on the Coen brothers for my Film History class even more specifically.  I had about half of it done before today.  It was a 10 pager, and I had about 5 of that done.  Not too bad, I wrote the last one on a film and it took me about 4 hours.  No worries.  

Well, for some reason or other, I wasn't able to write from 8PM-12AM, so I figured I'd bang it out in a couple hours and get to bed by 2-2:30.  Then something happened...something I didn't like very much at all...but did at the same time.  I got into it.  I got this brilliant (and I say that in all sarcasm...sort of) idea to make the paper amazing.  Sooooooo...20 sources, 15 pictures and roughly 3,000 words later...I have my paper finished, at 5:30 AM. 

At that point I was faced with a dilemna...go to bed for 3 hours...or push through, go to my daily routine, and head back to bed sometime in the afternoon.  As you can probably guess, I chose the latter, for better or worse.  1 hour til breakfast, 2 .75 til my first class, and 7.75 til I can go to bed. This should make for an interesting day to say the least.  

Thoughts on Easter

So...it's Easter once again.  Merry Easter to you all...if anyone actually reads this yet.  Interesting fact about me...I'm not a chocolate person.  I see people go crazy over a chocolate bunny or a chocolate squirrel (thank you Anchorman), and all I can think is "Meh."  All that to say I wish I had somewhere to go for Easter dinner, for both me and my roomie.  Our Easter lunch was spent at Panera Bread, which, isn't bad...but a little sad perhaps. 

I am glad it's Easter,  the past few weeks I've been reflecting on the personal aspect of Jesus' death, as in Jesus dying for ME.  Crazy.  I'm stupid not to appreciate it more than I do.

In chapel last week, we did a liturgy reading, which to me, sounded a little like a cult, besides that though, one of the things that the audience read together were the words "Crucify Him!" It was startling how loud it seemed.  Kinda hit home a bit.  Also kinda made me pretty peeved at the Easter Bunny for cheapening the Resurrection into a holiday where it just means kids get more candy.  CURSE YOU CONSUMERISM BUNNY!!! First Christmas and now Easter, what's next? Actually is there any other "Christian" holiday to ruin?

That cartoon sums it up rather well I think.  I found it posted a year ago here...

http://ericcarp.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-dont-celebrate-easter.html

It's old, but read his post, some interesting points are made about the origin of "Easter."  Well that said, I think I'm gonna go eat some candy and watch Here Comes Peter Cottontail...ok not really.  

New Blog

Well, it's been a while since I've done this, I'm going to try to get back into it since I'm now on pretty much every other social network to varying degrees.  I tried starting a blog a while back, but kind of never updated it.  Hopefully I can actually keep this one going.  On this blog I'll be posting a number of different things, some of which are ideas, others are things that inspire me, but mostly I'll just be posting my thoughts about life or things that interest me.  So I'm gonna see where this takes me.