FYI

So my story I have been working on for concepts of design is the previous post. But, PLEASE pay no mind to it. It's so not finished. It's due next Wed. I worked on it all day today and will post a cleaner revision on Wed. I just posted it on the blog because it's cheaper then a USB drive. ; )

On another note I saw THIS car on campus and around town. I originally thought it was a Shelby Cobra and was CLEARLY wrong. It's still way awesome because it's pretty rare.

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Tomorrow GALA opens. I don't know what it is, but it is something about Christmas that puts people in a sarcastic David Sadaris mood that I love to eat with a spoon. By that I mood I mean that everyone hates the holiday so much that they are simultaneously entranced and repulsed by it. We can't fathom how some individuals could possibly be so full of "cheer" and "joy". But, we can't help but get infected it by it as well. Even if it's just an instant. And you know that moment I am talking about. It's giving a loved one a gift because you love to give. It's buying a can of cranberry sauce because you can't make it home for Christmas dinner this year. It's secretly singing Christmas tunes while driving in your car. Or it's slipping your change into those Salvation Army people's container and not taking the tootsie roll.

It's the holiday you love to hate.

I posted an article awhile on my facebook from the AHA. (The American Humanist Association) It was saying how they are campaigning this Christmas with the slogan "No God. No Problem." They are reminding the 15% of people in America that they aren't alone. This group of people is known by Psychologists as the "Nones" is a growing population in America that subscribe to no religion when polled. There main message is that "Humanism is the idea that you can be good without the belief in God." Finally! Someone else said it. Sure I have friends that recognize this idea but no one ever really says it out loud. I get sick of the argument that only BAD people aren't religious. On the contrary some of the best people I have ever met aren't religious. They are instead very respectful and conscious individuals.

Now, even if you are religious and subscribe to a religion you shouldn't do good because GOD told you to. You shouldn't be Catholic because someone TOLD you to and someone said it was RIGHT. I think too many people get hung up on the concept of making the "right" choice. Life is a lot of mistakes. You wouldn't learn without those mistakes. Religion is all about free will. Exercise your free will and discover what you really believe.

This was a huge debate in my World Theatre Studies in class today. Typical to my fashion I threw my two cents into the mix and as my friend Nick says, caused a LOT of trouble. My teacher got a little flustered at first but after class came up to me an thanked me for starting an intellectual discussion in class. This teacher really wants me to "not waste my mind" and go to Graduate school at LSU.

Maybe I am supposed to be an academic the rest of my life? I don't know about that but I know I do love learning and if I could I'd spend the rest of my days in school or just educating myself about things that interest me I'd be pretty happy.

I guess the post comes down to reminding everyone this holiday season that it's not really about just ourselves this time of year. It's about humanity.

It's pretty awesome to consider with all the evil out there in the BIG BAD WORLD. That there is a pretty universal holiday based solely on good will toward fellow men and starting over around the new year. This is a magical season of possibilities. There is something other worldly about being in this town of lights. You get caught up in the beauty of the neon and crayon colored orbs glowing against the pitch black night sky.

It's where people congregate and create a living breathing organism, a moment in time captured every year. It is unbelievably fantastic.

Song of the Moment: Blow Away by: A Fine Frenzy
Play of the Moment: A Number by: Carol Churchill