Power Outage

Power Outages are the best. They make me want to play murder in the dark, eat vanilla pudding, tell scary stories with flashlights, and talk to everyone in the room.

Power Outages are great/unifying because all of a sudden you can't really do anything productive. You have the perfect excuse to do nothing! And to eat pudding and yadda yadda. I think it's also great because everyone has something in common all at once. Today when it happened I was in the bathroom and struck up a great conversation with a complete stranger, simply because we felt the common bond of the outage. It's like how big disasters unite countries, just that this one is a fun/harmless one.

So bring on the snow days, the AC failures, and the power outages. They're great!

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Time Thought

My friend Eliza mentioned a great point the other day. Time is man-made. The fact that there are 24 hours in a day is not an eternal principle. Time was invented by mankind. Minutes, Seconds, Clocks, Weeks, Years, and Days are just made-up measurements. I know that the sun goes up and down and that seasons come and go, but time really is a stress that we’ve placed upon ourselves.

This “week”, with starting school, time seemed to slow way way down. Like, if time didn’t exist I would almost swear to the fact that the past “168 hour week” felt almost twice as long as the “168 hours” before that. Could it be that it really was longer? My time has been more busy and full and somehow it’s just felt different. Would a man in a log cabin without a watch or a calendar view each “day” so much differently? Probably. Things would happen when they happened without a schedule or a stressed forced time or a day and minute assignment.