my life

See the post below for an excerpt from the paper I've been working on all week.

While all that has been going on, I’ve still found time for a few more ‘new york’ moments. I got to be in the crowd for a tv show called The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and they basically take news stories from the previous couple of days and re-present them in humorous ways…. And it’s seriously funny! They had this warm-up guy come out, and do a bit of a stand up routine, making fun of people in the crowd to get us laughing and loosen us up, so that when Jon came out we would laugh at his jokes and the laughter would be picked up by the audience microphones and make viewers think he’s really funny. The irony, was that the warm-up dude was actually way funnier than Jon Stewart…. go figure. The only drawback was that we had to wait in line for almost 2 hours, and then when we finally got in, it took 22 mins to record, and we were out again. There’s a strange feeling that comes over one, when you’ve paid this price of time and physical pain to stand and wait… and then it’s all over so quickly! I felt cheated indeed.

Then the other night I had a pretty cool moment. Anyone remember John and Tammy Faye Bakker? They were really big televangelists, and he got put in prison for money swindling, and she died of cancer. Well, anyway, their life was pretty tough and totally alienated their son Jay Bakker. But through it all he has scraped through and now leads a small church in Brooklyn that meets in a bar, and he came to Union the other night to speak, and his mate came along and led worship with some sweet blues piano and ‘dirty gospel’ songs. It was a really interesting night, hearing his story, and what he’s up to now. Very refreshing.

Well, that’s it from me.. I’m typing this up at my regular coffee shop, and I’ve just finished about 10 pages on one of my essays. Its 7pm so I’m gonna walk home for some fresh air, cook myself pasta for dinner, and then head back out to the library and finish some more reading!! Woohoo!