So this is weird - last week I was like the stress-maniac queen - but this week...... not at all!! Yesterday we had a 2:10 dismissal (yes that is the pathetic attempt of my school to have an "early" dismiss.... its sad). Anyway! I had an hour of homework! Woo!! Then today- I finished it all during school because I had enough time during school! WHOA! Its amazing - and its weird cause I had the nauseating feeling that I am totally forgetting some huge project -but wait - those were all last week! HAH!
On Sunday I read the entire book "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis (for a religion class). It was really interesting because this guy travels through hell and stops in heaven and like talks to all these people and its really cool because it presents some different ways of thinking about things. It was really interesting and I would suggest reading it if you have free time and feel like reading a book that you have to think about (the stories are thinking stories not just "oh that was nice, anyway on with my life" stories). It was also cool because heaven and hell aren't the typical places. Hell is always depicted as fiery and terrible, but it was really just this town where people hated each other so they all lived in their own crappy houses far from each other. It was also interesting because if they wanted something all they had to do was think about it and TADA! It would be there - but! It wasn't nice quality stuff. Also they were scared of the night and of certain things. So that was pretty cool. Heaven was this totally different place. It was just this huge field. When the people went there they were ghosts and they had to truly want to stay and believe in and love God to be able to become solid and therefore have it not be painful to walk around and stuff (since they were ghosts, the grass etc would penetrate their feet because it just went right through them etc). Also anyone who wanted could do this. There was a man that had murdered some people there, but he had a total revelation while there and stayed. The people that were famous on earth weren't famous in heaven - everyone was the same status etc.... It was really cool and I really liked some of the ideas presented. If you are too lazy to read it, go to sparknotes.com or something.
HAH! Another thing - did you know C.S. Lewis's real name was actually Clive Staples Lewis??? I mean how cruel can parents be!!!!! I would have signed C.S. too! I mean you can't go by your first name, "Hi! I'm Clive!!" and you can't go by your middle name, "Hi! My name is Staples!" People would just be like, "riiight!" and then give you funny looks.
So yeah, that is basically my life right now. :) I might go take a nap - cause I am pretty darn sleepy.
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