Today, I went to school and fulfilled all my other regular duties. While I was setting up all the tech for something at the Logan Institute called "Religion in Life," I started setting up all the video and audio needed to feed into a separate room from the gymnasium it is held in as a type of overflow room for late-comers to sit if there is no room, or for mothers and such who have disruptive things with them. I realized as I was setting it all up this time that there was probably a grand total of two people in the Institute that knew that this overflow room existed. There was really no point in setting it up because no one was ever going to go there! And we've been setting that up for months! So I drew up a bunch of signs so some people would know. I wonder how many other things we do in a day or week or month that we think is really contributing to the success of something, when really it is, in essence, really accomplishing nothing. Whoops.
Then, I came home, and my mother decided it would be fun for me to go shopping with her! I don't know if any of you experience the Shopping Knee Syndrome that I do...you know, after you've been wandering a store for longer than ten minutes, your legs start to go week and you just want to throw your body onto anything around you because the life in your body is being zapped out of you. It's especially bad in Wal-Mart...it only takes three minutes there. There are a few ways to deal with this...mine is dancing. My mom especially always looks embarrassed when I start happily dancing down the aisles, but it keeps the Shopping Knee Syndrome at bay!
Anyway, there we were, doing the running-man throughout the store, when they announced over the loudspeaker that Western Family ice cream was on sale!! In our frantic rush to the freezers, I was temporarily entranced by those big buckets of candy they have where you scoop some out, put it in a bag, and weigh it. One of my friends' favorite candy is those weird Lego-shaped candies. So I bought a pound of those and continued on toward the ice cream. When we got there, each bucket of ice cream was $1.88!!! Thrilled, I turned to my mom with the best puppy eyes I could muster...and she told me to grab what flavors I wanted. I'm sure she expected me to grab 4. I grabbed 10. And she still bought them all!! When I turned around after throwing them all in the cart, there were two people behind us that were just kind of staring, dumbfounded. But they had some weird ones like Peanut Butter Moose Tracks, Berry Cheesecake, and Salted Caramel Pretzel. You can't just walk away from such delicacies! We are well on our way to becoming the "Ice Cream House" again. We currently have 14 flavors for you to choose from at your leisure. Come on over!
When I got home, I suddenly remembered that my friend has recently discovered that there are a lot of things she really shouldn't eat due to health conditions...sugar being one of them...so, though I feel guilty and sad that she couldn't enjoy them, I have slowly been eating the Lego candies. They don't really fit together. Don't try to get them to snap in place...they just crumble and ruin your shirt.
I love candy. It's like my sustaining life force. Actually, it really is my sustaining life force! More on that later, probably.
Today as I was walking toward my Computer Science class, I saw a man approach a girl and ask if she would participate in a brief survey. He asked her who her favorite superhero was, why, and then he asked her, if she was given the opportunity to kiss someone upside down Spiderman style, would she do it. She said maybe, and all of a sudden, Spiderman fell from the overhang, right in front of her, and offered her a kiss! She did it!
This is what life is for. I think college is one of the best places to see life really lived. Not enough people in this world bring their random dreams to life. Have you done something ridiculously random and epic like this lately?
THEN DO IT.
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