Food, Words, and General Epicurean Digression

I hate it when things are exactly where they are "supposed" to be. I would never find anything that way.

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I'm at a complete loss as to what to write about; I could tell you all about how I went home for the weekend, and how that was pretty awesome, or about how I am way behind on my Paideia research and am going to be spending the whole night in the library, but I think that that would be really boring to read about. A picture of life at Luther right now? Waking up, finishing homework I really didn't want to do the night before, going to class, eating, going to more class, coming back, doing homework, eating, and then perhaps some hanging out with friends. Aha! I can tell you all about the caf, one of the things at Luther that provides a subtle yet powerful relief. For me, at least.

Whereas once in my life I saw eating as a task I had to get done before moving on to something else, in college my perspective has significantly shifted. Reversed, almost. This is something that a lot of college students experience, I think. Let's call it the College Caf Phenomenon (and yes, we call our cafeteria a caf, not a cafe. I've gotten flack at home for this. Is it a midwest college thing?). So the CCP is when going to eat becomes something you greatly look forward to--a refreshing refuge from studying and pretty much just a great place to hang out. It may be different at colleges that have A La Carte menu-ing, but being at a place where you can just sit and talk and have at your disposal more food and more variety of food than you could possibly exhaust is a pleasure that keeps me going through long classes.

Plus, caf oranges have been awe-mazing lately. And I like oranges. However, our room is beginning to smell like rotting fruit because I am too lazy to put out the trash.

Tonight I'm gonna go to the Philosophy Society meeting and philosophize it up. I am rather nervous, though, because my conversations in philosophy have hitherto been with very close friends, and have been really fun. I'm worried that this will be an awkward hit and miss discussion dominated by one or two philosophy majors puffed up with their extensive knowledge of codefied philosophy. We'll see, though. I don't want to be too pessimistic. It's pretty cool that a small liberal arts school in the midwest even has a Philosophy Society and that perhaps, I don't know yet, but perhaps has some students that question the assumptions of our societal ideology. I'd love to find someone with whom I could inveigh, invect, and just generally rant.

Weather is warming up by infinitesmal degress, but spring is definitely approaching. Get excited.

Take it easy,

Danny