Change

(post 23)

Things change way to quickly. It can be very hard to keep up some days. You live at home for 20 years, then you take off to go get some learning, then you move home for the summer and then move out again. Every time you change venues everything else changes: the people you're around, your sleep schedule, your degree of control over what you do (or maybe more specifically WHAT controls what you do - is it house rules, or the need for some $$$$), who you work for, your work hours, everything. It's hard to adjust to change, and it always seems that things are changing at exactly the same time you feel like you got used to the last change. I remember writing something poetic about this on my mission. Maybe I'll dig it up and make a post out of it.

-Schlange

When the World throws you Lemons...

(Post 3)

Today I've been astounded as I think of some of the great men and women who have taken the lemons the world has chucked at them and made not only lemonade and a variety of pies, but also industrial strength cleaning products and a decent shaving cream!

That's right, today I purchased "Foamy Lemon-Lime: Gillette Comfort Glide FORMULA."

It smells nice, but other than that I really can't tell a difference -- though I haven't shaved with a manual razor for over a year. Maybe my lack of amazement comes from my lack of use.

At any rate, my face is clean and my heart is pure. Hopefully when I arrive at the pearly gates they won't look too carefully under my fingernails...

Speaking of lemons, I was given an interesting statistic today in my Programming Class. Last semester my professor took a survey of all students in his classes (300 or so). He asked a broad range of questions, and statistically analyzed what characteristics belong to students of differing final grades. In the "A" range, nestled along with "Does every assignment" and "Turning lab assignments in on time" was "Being married."

How's that for a tart taste of citrus? I can only accomplish six sevenths of the listed attributes of "A" students... I hope that doesn't reflect on my grade. =P