Monday Mornings

You didn't really sleep on time so you're not really on top of your game. But really, it's the morning, and it's a Monday, are you really ever on top of your game? That's true, you nod to yourself, you can stand in the generously hot shower for a little while longer. It's Monday morning, it's okay.

You're getting out and you hear your third alarm, you sigh. 15 minutes left to leave home before you're late; yeah, there is no way you're making it to class on time. That's okay, it's Monday morning.


The smell of coffee gives you some hope, there is that to look forward to while driving to campus at least. You try to make it on time, throw on some jeans and a top. See that you're hair is not too shabby, it's wet, it will get shabby later. No time for make-up. Is it raining? Nope... don't have to think about appropriate shoes. Ooh, stomach growling? Really? Go back to the kitchen to grab a granola bar. Coffee, oh right. Coffee. You smile. You can make it, this Monday morning will be different.


Phone, keys, bag, coffee, bar, jacket, gloves.You wait for the elevator impatiently. Might as well start eating. Elevator bell rings, down you go. Did you lock the door? Must've locked it. Meh, it's not like anyone will actually try to enter. You rush to your car. Monday or no, you will make it to class on time today.


Mental note: need to take that thing to a car wash. As you sit in it, your dashboard makes a noise. right, time for an oil change too. Okay, noted. Still making a noise? You check more closely. It's the low fuel warning. Dammit. Going to be late to class, just another Monday morning.

cough syrup and prayers

Prayer: Oh please God. Let me pass this exam. I promise to be a good person.

Response: *gasp* How dare you attempt to bribe me. Shame on you! *strikes lightening*

Prayer: Oh please God. Let my friend get better soon! He's a really good person.

Response: seriously. I had no idea this person was a good person. Thank you for taking care of that for me.  Also, it makes my job a whole lot easier when you tell me what to do. /sarcasm *strikes lightening*

Prayer: Oh please God. Help the poor victims of so-and-so disaster in so-and-so country!

Response: why don't you get off your ass and help them yourself. I didn’t put you on Earth for nothing. *refrains from striking lightening* *person doesn't get off the couch* *strikes lightening*

Prayer: Oh please God. I hope that murderer rots in hell!

Response: you really wouldn't like that smell. *smirk* *strikes lightening out of boredom*

Prayer: Oh please God. Don't strike lightening on me today!

Response: Fyyne. You little whiner bitch. *strikes lightening* GOTCHA! Maybe you should ground yourself better.

Perplexed Question: Are we supposed to believe Science?

Response: Build yourself a lightening rod and let's see who wins. *waits to strike lightening* *slowly starts to flood the plane* 

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Questions to audience: So, what is the point of prayer if God is omniscient? Are we audacious enough to try and persuade this God figure to change the course of action because WE asked? Isn't that a little bit ambitious?

The New Age

It's not a new concept that we live in the New Age. But do we ever stop to think about what that actually means? Do we pause at times and wonder how much the world changes with the passing day?

It is an amazing thought, for example, to realize that everything we see around us today--from shacks to skyscrapers, from skateboards to airbuses, from pencils to computers--comes from nature. Every atom we see transformed into giants of technology existed once as a molecule in the ground, the water, or the air. We are, quite literally, a remixed version of history.

While humans are the lords of evolution, do we realize that we have caused the evolution of our species to stop? We have stopped before we can reach the pinnacle. Will we start to evolve again in the face of a new stress? Will we adapt to, say, global warming? What would have happened if we never started food-production and never created medicine? What if only the fittest survived? Would I be here today then? Would you?

The society that is now ruled by institutions--by laws and documents, by science and invention, by education and jobs--is the descendant of a society of hunters and gatherers. I wonder, were they happier then us? Did they have, in the true sense, innocent's bliss? Once our goal was survival, what is our goal now?

Anyway, what started off my pondering on the subject was this amazing Youtube video someone shared on Facebook. Researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman, The Progression of Information Technology (2008):