You can’t understand much about human life unless you grasp how religious views and values shape these
developments.
Lol. This is honestly the title of lecture being given during Fall Welcome Week here at ASU. WTF? That’s not a lecture, that’s a summary.
My second to last night in Seattle and I’m already sad to say goodbye. To the city. To a life without responsibilites. Mostly to my sister.
Tonight we had dinner on my sister’s balcony, sitting on a blanket in 75 degree weather, watching the sun set over the bay and the city. Yesterday I spent my day in cafes, welcoming bookstores, a library walking distance from my sister’s apartment, and a park where I sat in the shade of giant trees and rested my feet in bright green grass.
For a city that’s renowned for its gray skies, we’ve seen precious little of that while I’ve been here. It’s been great weather, reading and perfect lattes all topped off with the sounds of Spoon, Belle and Sebastian and Ben Folds drifting to my ears. I already have a fondness for this city that rivals anything that I’ve ever felt for Phoenix.
This article describes about 75% of the people here in Capitol Hill. Ha!
I’m currently blogging in a fair trade, organic coffee beans only coffee shop down the street from my sister’s apartment in Seattle drinking the best soy latte I’ve ever had. The best part? They’re playing the entire JT cd. These people know what’s up. Seattle>Phoenix.
ps. It’s 60 degrees. The sun’s out. I hope there aren’t any cloudy days the entire time I’m here.
I think if people are going to put exceedingly personal and arguably unnecessary bits of information as their facebook statuses, they might as well just go the whole nine and open/link everyone to their blog. Sometimes people’s statuses just make me feel accidentally intrusive and wholly uncomfortable in a way that blogs do not.
For one, other peoples’ statuses pop up in the newsfeed and so you are inundated with all sorts of tidbits about someone’s personal life that you either don’t care to know or don’t want to know. But there it is, right at the top of your feed, that so and so is heartbroken and bitter or can’t believe that so and so did blank to him or her.
Personally, I have no great problem with such personal statuses. I’m just saying, link me to your blog and let me in on the whole story and don’t give me anything at all. At least when I’m reading your blog I want to know those pieces of information about you, I’m not just arbitrarily bombarded with them.
ps. I’m almost positive that I have, probably at numerous points in my life, been guilty of the exact same thing I am currently writing about. I wholeheartedly own up to it. However, I have not done so in recent memory and since we’re talking about the present and not the past, I feel completely absolved.