well hello my fellow blog followers.
i join you today from a land far far away. a place where the mornings are chilly and foggy and 50. and the days are sunny and 95 and non air conditioned. a mysterious land called...Palo Alto, California.
as i write you, i am stealing Internet from someone named "eeo". To eeo I am eternally grateful, for at this ivy league institution, the Internet connection process is equivalent to rocket science. and, speaking of rocket science, I know my first rocket scientist. He is relatively...well...ordinary. anyhow. my computer failed the "safety test" to access the internet. Stanford tells me there is no virus protection software, which is peculiar because as i stare at the screen, it is actually running a virus scan. very odd. anyhow, so i failed the computer test and cannot access the very VERY expensive ivy league wireless. I guess it's like way better than, say, McDonald's wireless, which is why it is so expensive. I'm glad I have found eeo. I hope we will be long time friends (at least 6 weeks).
also, as i write you, i have a fan blowing air on my face. it's rather annoying because my eyes are getting all dried out...but, if it wasn't, it would be stiflingly hot. today it was 94. they tell us that once a year there is a "hot spell" tomorrow it will also be 94 degrees. I hope that ends the hot spell. because there is not one air conditioning on this campus. like...none. well i take that back. the construction modulars have it. i am considering getting an evening job with them just so that i can have access to the air conditioner. only, the hilarious thing is...in the morning, i will freeze when i get out of bed. it will be 50 degrees outside. and that fan that is now annoying me will be pumping 50 degree air into my ear. the weather channel promises me 80 degrees this week. if they let me down, ill be writing a letter to the governor. basically because the governor is Arnold swarzenegger and i just think it would be cool to write him a letter as a resident of his fine state.
right, so, there are some advantages to my rather obscure new life. first of all, i have listened to a ton of really great music in lieu of the television I would usually watch, and I have read some really great chapters out of some really great books. i have also not had to be tortured with every last detail of Michael Jackson's life. I know my friends in the "real world" (a.k.a. the non-CTY world) are getting rather sick of hearing about it. See, we didn't even know he was dead here until a good...5 hours after he was dead. And our lack of contact with the outside world has left us filling our hours with things such as conversations as to what things we would put inside fortune cookies if it was our job to write the fortunes.
to that note, someone shared with me a profound thought. it was from a Buddhist. that very wise man said that we should treasure our lives like an empty bowl. If a bowl is filled, the bowl is useless..it can't be used for anything else, because it is too full of "things". However, if the bowl is empty, it is open and receptive to all possibilities. I was profoundly struck by this statement, convicted by how often we confuse having a life full of "things" as a "full life". ahhh, how well i now know this is not true. my life in absence of the things I am used to filling my life with has enabled me to have a "full" life in the last several days. i am so excited to empty my bowl and allow myself to be open to all the possibilities that this summer brings.
so, from my room, which has cooled to ... well ... maybe 70 degrees now....to your nicely air-conditioned homes where you read this from (well most of you at least) i will sign off by encouraging you to empty your bowls and open your life to the possibility of the day.
aformerblonde.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment