Happy Easter!

I hope everyone is having a lovely Easter! I myself have lots of homework planned... But I had fun with my family yesterday. So, anyway, post and tell me what is going on! I miss you guys!

Quote and Stuff

So, anyway, I am just kind of doing a random post. Today is Good Friday, in case any of you missed it. There is no way anyone could possibly not know here, since there are a ton of church thingies going on (it is an Episcopal school). Some people are fasting and wearing all black...

I am going to Illinois tomorrow, just for a night, with my sister and my dad, for a family reunion type thing. That means I have to pack...tonight...

Amanda, did you ever get back from Texas? I haven't heard from you in such a very long time. And Kenny, you also are seeming rather absent.

Well, I don't have anything super insightful to say tonight, as I have been going to bed at an average time of 2:20 am this week, but I will at least make an effort at something thought-provoking by ending with a quote:

"People often say that this person or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates."

-Thomas Szasz, essayist

Isn't that delightful and delicious? (twenty points if you get the reference)
I thought it was especially fitting given our current stage in life.

I'm Baaaack!

Hey, I'm home! Got back just in time for some chitchat with the family and then West Wing! It was exciting. Anyway, let me know what you guys wanna do over the break so I can work you into my jam-packed schedule (and I am only half joking).

Just wondering...

I was thinking just now - I don't know what brought it on, but I was thinking, do you think it is necessary to be really jaded and cynical in order to be successful in a career? I mean, not to be successful in the I-love-my-job and I-am-helping-people kind of way (which is good of course), but to be successful in the more conventional sense, measured by the standards of each particular career. Is callousness necessary just to deal with the immorality, the corner-cutting, and everything else that some people do to be successful? And if it is, is it worth it? And does that mean that everyone who has been highly successful in his or her career has done bad things? Does that mean that they are bad people, or at least not to be trusted? I would hope that in this society that values career success above many other things we have not made immorality and selfishness a prerequisite of that highly-prized goal. As you guys probably realize, I am particularly worried about this because, well, the main thing I have planned for my life right now is a career, and I would so hate to be disappointed.

On a lighter note, I just watched the movie Singing in the Rain at my suitemate Annie's urging. I had some doubts, but it actually turned out to be quite good. Cheery, funny... We should all watch it over spring break! Also Stigmata. Because it is cool. not cheery, or even funny. But definitely cool.

YAY!

Yay! Amanda finally came to her senses and changed her name! I hope it is not going to go right back when this whole writer-of-the-week thing ends. I have two reasons for this, one of which has been articulated before, and the other is that having two names that start with "Kenny" and another that starts with "Ken"(-dra) is just too freaking confusing.