this morning i actually felt homeless for the first time since unofficially becoming sorta homeless. i was awakened at 6 in the morning by the cleaning lady in the basement of one of the buildings (one of the safe ones :) where i had spent the night on the couch, lol. thankfully, for the last two years i have made it my business to get to know all of the fantastic cleaning people and safety services people (just because they're really cool) so it wasn't as strange as it could have been and it was actually decently entertaining. after deciding that i wasn't going to find any other safe place to snooze on campus i ate breakfast and went about statring my day (i've been told that brushing your teeth and getting ready for the day in public bathrooms gets old really quickly but to this point i'm ok with it :)
i'm on a mission to have no "just another day"s. it's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it right? i just hope that i'll switch places enough that tiredness won't be able to track me down until after the end of the semester...he hasn't caught me yet!
Monday, August 31, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
drivin' like Jesus
so...one of the things about being a vagrant is that i travel a lot. in fact, very often i have an hour long drive to school and back. so what do i do to entertain myself during those hours? well, lots of things that we won't get into now but lots of things that we will.
one of the decisions i made before i started this whole being a hobo thing was based on the fact that i like Jesus a lot (in fact i love Him more than anything) but before the pegs of judgment start to click into place in your brain i have to tell you that (though i'm not proud of this fact but sometimes it can't be avoided) i've fallen asleep in church several times and i often get really annoyed by church folk (we can be really ridiculous a lot of the time)...i'm not big on religiousness 'n' boring ritual.
anyway, the decision that i made was to drive like Jesus (i decided that that was the only way i'd be able to wear a Jesus sticker on my car and not be ashamed of myself). but before i tell you what trying to drive like Jesus has done let me tell you the type of driver i've been so far.
i think that when you're in a car and you think that no one can see or hear or know you, you do all kinds of things that you wouldn't otherwise do. most everything that i'll mention are things that i'm very much not proud of (you do the same stuff don't judge!) but i don't think that Jesus would speed constantly or do things just to spite people because they honked at Him and He's annoyed or get really angry at people for the slightest perceived offence or accidentally not acknowledge the other cars on the road or conform to the subtle demands of the cars around Him or most of what else i do while driving.
i think that Jesus would follow the speed limit (the only law that nearly everyone gets angry with you if you obey) and see the people in the other cars as people instead of cars and be respectful to those people but not obey the demands of the other drivers and lots of other...stuff (i'm still figuring all this out)
we'll see how this goes...wish me luck; i'll probably write to you about the results of this experiment.
one of the decisions i made before i started this whole being a hobo thing was based on the fact that i like Jesus a lot (in fact i love Him more than anything) but before the pegs of judgment start to click into place in your brain i have to tell you that (though i'm not proud of this fact but sometimes it can't be avoided) i've fallen asleep in church several times and i often get really annoyed by church folk (we can be really ridiculous a lot of the time)...i'm not big on religiousness 'n' boring ritual.
anyway, the decision that i made was to drive like Jesus (i decided that that was the only way i'd be able to wear a Jesus sticker on my car and not be ashamed of myself). but before i tell you what trying to drive like Jesus has done let me tell you the type of driver i've been so far.
i think that when you're in a car and you think that no one can see or hear or know you, you do all kinds of things that you wouldn't otherwise do. most everything that i'll mention are things that i'm very much not proud of (you do the same stuff don't judge!) but i don't think that Jesus would speed constantly or do things just to spite people because they honked at Him and He's annoyed or get really angry at people for the slightest perceived offence or accidentally not acknowledge the other cars on the road or conform to the subtle demands of the cars around Him or most of what else i do while driving.
i think that Jesus would follow the speed limit (the only law that nearly everyone gets angry with you if you obey) and see the people in the other cars as people instead of cars and be respectful to those people but not obey the demands of the other drivers and lots of other...stuff (i'm still figuring all this out)
we'll see how this goes...wish me luck; i'll probably write to you about the results of this experiment.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
the story begins...
when i was little i was a girl scout for one day,being readied for anything and everything that might happen never really interested me. now i get to learn to be a girlscout for two years. i'm not the most girly girl and most definitely not the most organized. i've spent the majority of my life not being prepared for anything, i've most certainly never made a concerted effort to be prepared for everything. but now i find myself having to do just that.
and i am doing just that because now, and most likely for the rest of my time at college (2 years) i'll be living quite a bit out of my car. you see i can't afford room and board at my university so i became a commuter...which means that i commute. but the drive is long so i'll be spending much of my time dorm hopping (though my primary residence still has to be my parent's house or i'll be breaking the law).
this blog is my story. i hope to keep you updated on the little quirks and big adventures of living as a hobo on a college campus. it'll be a fun ride, thanks for joining me!
and i am doing just that because now, and most likely for the rest of my time at college (2 years) i'll be living quite a bit out of my car. you see i can't afford room and board at my university so i became a commuter...which means that i commute. but the drive is long so i'll be spending much of my time dorm hopping (though my primary residence still has to be my parent's house or i'll be breaking the law).
this blog is my story. i hope to keep you updated on the little quirks and big adventures of living as a hobo on a college campus. it'll be a fun ride, thanks for joining me!
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