Hi guys, long time no see. I just wanted to let you know, that I no longer use LJ for journal type purposes. I'm on facebook now (ALL the time) and I use lj only when I need to go on my communities to get info on whatever. So I won't be posting, I haven't been reading, if you wanna chat, or see what's up in my life, add Laura Lawson to your facebook. So long LJ.
so I missed my first class and have 40 mins til my next one. I shall use this time to regale you with a story.
Once upon a time there was an eigth grade named Laura. It was summer and she was enjoying it with her friends Julie, Angela, and others she can't remember. Along come three boys from a small town in Ontario. Laura used to go to school with one of them. They were Jon, his friend Steve, and Jon's brother Anthony. Somehow, Laura ended up dating Jon. Jon was wierd. Not wierd cool like Laura is but wierd scary like good ol' Charlie Manson. This relationship of mystifying purportions lasted about a month before Jon went back to the land of snobs and Laura felt safe enough to break it off. Anthony stayed in NS to go to school and reside forever. Upon breaking up with Jon, Anthony told him that Laura had broken up with him to be with Anthony. This is not true, no matter how huge of a crush Laura had an the delectable (sp?) specimen that was Anthony. Jon threatened to return to NS and kill Anthony in various violent ways. Laura was freaked out and put aside all connection to either of them. The strange summer ended, Laura put all memories of it aside and returned the land of reality. Fast forward about a decade, and Laura is a beautiful and charmng (haha) university student, searching for the meaning of life. To pay for this search she slaves away at a soulless mall 4 days a week for very little pay. One day, on her break at the soulless mall, she ventures into a drug store. A tall, dark and handsome man walks by and she feels a strange sense that she knows him. Upon closer examination it's Anthony! Well, well. Laura's instinct is to run, pretend she doesn't know him, and forget it happened. This is precisely what she did. She managed to avoid Lawtons and it's beautiful manager for a full 3 weeks. But then, at work again, Laura ventures across the food court for much needed sustenance. A small, quiet 'hello' comes at her. She looks down. Sitting at the table is none other than JON! All the memories come rushing back. 'Run!' her gut tells her, but her polite country ways force her to stay and talk. Before she knows it, she is duped into weekend coffee with the wierd guy whose brother she wants to do unspeakably raunchy things to. To Be Continued...?
That's not as bad as I thought, I thought it was waaaaay longer. But this post is gonna be kinda lame, no updates, just a dream I had last night that freaked the shit outta me....and proved that there is no end to my keenerness:
I'm at SMU, but for some reasong I am being required to write a provincial. (Remember those godawful things?) Apparently I had forgotten to write a major one, so technically I never graduated from HS. This provincial had a math half and an english half. Stacy and Lauren were writing too. I decided not to study for the math half, even though I knew that I remembered NOTHING from HS math. The exam was being administered by Mr. Fitz, who for some reason let me keep leaving and coming back, but I didn't leave to look at a math book, no, I left to walk down the hallway, cough, and go back. I had five minutes to finish the exam, hadn't gotten past the first question, and suddenly I realized that I didn't need to do the math half because you only need two maths to graduate. I was elated! And then I realized I had 5 mins to do the entire english half. Mr. Fitz laughed at me and I woke up in a cold sweat, struggling for breath.....cuz I'm a nerd.
Hindu class is really blowing my mind. Hinduism seems so close to what I've always believed, and it's so rich and colorful and magical....here goes Laura and her obsession with finding a religion again, lol. Anyway, I was reading my text and I came across a poem that I really love, that really hits on my idea of god. I'm gonna share it, even tho no one cares, lol.
i eat god i drink god i sleep on god i buy god i count god i deal with god god is here god is there void is not devoid of god jani says: god is within god is without and moreover, there's god to spare
This was written by Janabai, a maidservant who transcended class/caste distinctions through her devotion to god. Yup, I'm a loser. :D
An amusing convo between myself and a hardcore country guy:
Me: I'm hungry Ralph: Eat something Me: There's nothing here I wanna eat David: I have a couple cans of stew in my truck. Want one? Me: No I can't eat stew. I'm a vegetarian David: Is that some religion you're studying? Me: No, it means I don't eat no meat. (said like the chick in My Big Fat Greek Wedding) David: Oh........I think one of them is chicken stew Me: Um....chicken is meat David: Oh. *brief pause* David: Ralph's cooking up some bacon and eggs, have some of that Me: Bacon is made from pigs. Pigs is meat David: Oh....well I better get going, I have to go to Porter's Lake. Want me to pick you up some fish and chips? Me: *blank stare*
So's I hung out with Lauren most of yesterday and it was big fun. When Lauren is working all the time and not able to chill, I sometimes forget how hilariously witty she is. :D She introduced me to the fabulousness of Planet Organic. I may even be able to get used to soy pudding...part-time veganism, here I come?
Anyhoo, a couple points I thought I'd like to mention. To my real-life friends who read this lj, the first one should not be ignored as most things I say on here are :) 1) Sunday, February 4, 2:30 pm at the Spring Garden Memorial Library A FREE showing of the movie Wal-town. They will show the movie FREE of charge about 6 protesters making their way across Canada to spread awareness for FREE of the evils of Wal-mart. Did I mention it was free? Now, I know that the things I generally want to do rarely involve alcohol, or......drinking alcohol or.....whatever else usually gets you guys out into the public domain....but I REALLY want to see this and I REALLY don't want to go alone. So someone please volunteer to go with me. 2) I find it incredibly odd that, having grown up in a strictly Christian, predominantly Catholic area, I seem to have developed ideas, beliefs, morals and questions that follow along the Hindu/Buddhist/Jainist (teehee) way of thinking. Perhaps I should reevaluate my understanding of enculturation... 3) I'm thinking of honoring...probably in religion...I seem to be continuously leaning more toward the religious side of my major. May have something to do with my experiences within the anthropology department. 4) I think I'm in love with India...
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