A Drinking Song - W.B. Yeats
A perfect place to end.
Tomorrow, my parents and I shall go to breakfast and I shall demolish a plate of the best corned beef hash, eggs and home fries in Central NJ at this place right here:
They make fresh corned beef hash. It’s unreal and damn near impossible to find.
Look at that menu, savages:
I think my strongest argument for why women should sleep with me is the fact that I make incredible breakfasts.
My New Years resolution is to try harder not to instantly hate happy couples.
I’m enjoying all this stuff from my childhood wayyyy too much. Here’s an original story I wrote at age 7. I think we had to underline vocab words and use them all in a story, so here we go.
One day someone met their friend at the park. There was a museum at the park. They saw famous paintings. (My teacher wrote a note that said “by what artists?” I was 7 years old, how the hell should I know?) On the way home they passed a snack bar. (I’ve always loved bars) They stepped inside. (As opposed to some other entrance, like rolling or barreling). When they got inside they saw hamburgers, hot dogs and ice cream. They got hamburgers (bonus points, two uses) and went home happy. They were good friends.
I felt that I needed to collect these in one place so that I can exude more natural confidence. Here we go:
1. I look excellent in white t shirts.
2. Sometimes, at night, my feet will smell. This should make you feel better about your own.
3. My nickname in High School was “Jesse”.
4. I drink 4 cups of tea a day on average.
5. My taste in music is diverse enough that I can pull of pretending to like your favorite band.
6. I have average to slightly above average fashion sense, enough that I won’t embarrass or frustrate you but not too much, so you’ll feel like you have a fun little project to do each time we go out on the town.
7. I have a driver’s license.
8. I can cook 6 impressive dishes, and will do my best to spread them out over our relationship.
9. Dogs love me.
10. Parents love me.
11. I already like your family, and I haven’t even met them.
12. I know 3 decent card tricks, so yes, I’d love to hang out with your siblings.
13. I emit 0 flatulence.
14. In a dimly lit room if you look at me very quickly, I look like Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
15. I landscape.
16. I wait until the second class of the semester to buy my textbooks, so obviously, I don’t rush into things. Let’s take it slow.
17. I make the best lists since Oskar Schindler.
18. I am excellent in bed. I never crowd the mattress or steal the sheets.
19. I will try my hardest to hit 20 items on a list that I make because I know how much you love rounded numbers.
20. I will read the Terms and Agreements for you.
I love religion.
You heard me, I love it. As a historical topic, as a point of conversation, as a part of our society and history. To me, nothing is more fascinating, frightening and thought provoking.
“We do not know if there is a God.” That statement right there should be the first thing we are told when we are born and it should be hammered into us throughout life. If you start with that baseline, your justification for why you believe in a higher power or not will always stem from one logical certainty, and you’re therefore off to a good start.
Recently, I’ve given a lot of thought to the ways in which the public view of Christianity has distorted over time. I have come to the conclusion that since religion is a construct of society and is run by men and women, it has been prone, like anything else, to corruption, distortion and misrepresentation. I have learned that the most useful thing in life is to take everything with a grain of salt and strip things down to the bare bones. In this case, look at what the fundamental ideals behind a religion are rather than judging the religion based on those currently active in it.
Organizations like the Westboro Baptist Church, extremist Muslims, militant Christians and others give religion a biased image as something from yesterday that just won’t go away. Religion has provided patronage for the arts, inspiration for countless individuals, hope during crises and has spearheaded pushes for education.
We need to remember religion, like anything else, is a complex phenomenon that we cannot afford to discredit and push to the back burner. I am not in any way recommending that we all jump back into a religion dominated society or start worshiping, just give religious history the careful consideration and respect it deserves. Rant over.
