I'd like to Rest My Heavy Head Tonight on a Bed of California Stars

Well, 3 exams down with 1 more to go. Last night was great at the Waterball Championship game. Jake Roseberry and I discussed how waterball is the closest thing that we currently have to the Gladitorial Games. Everyone is standing up in the balcony and cheering as people attempt to pummel each other simply to stick a rubber ball on the edge of a pool. It is a lot more fun than it sounds, and it also helps that we defeated the moonies for a championship for the second time in 5 days.

Last Saturday night, we went to go see "I Heart Huckabees" at the Drive-In. It was a very interesting movie with Jude Law in a role that I really have never seen him in before. The film is very existential, and deals with a lot of questions concerning self, identity, and our relationship to those around us. One of the most interesting things about the movie was its talk about deconstruction of our reality. One of the most difficult things for humans to do is to step outside of our everyday routine and to evaluate the chief aims and concerns of our lives.

In the film, they put people in a body-bag to isolate them from everything else. I am not sure that I would recommend that, but the idea is interesting. During my time at Trek, I see this happen a lot with the adults who accompany the teens. They have constructed this life at home, and when they are finally taken away from their routine, they see things with a much clearer vision. The important things seem to rise to the surface, and those afflictions that were once nameless are identified and dealt with. One of the best things that we can do is to step back every so often and to escape from our routine, our comforts, and to simply think and listen.