Corey Hokanson | January 27, 2009
"Relaxation (AKA Free Time AKA Rest)"
So I had finals last week. Stupid tests... Oh well they're over now. Honestly I came out better than I expected though. My grades are good and, more importantly, I had no homework over the three day weekend. So of course I had to find myself something else to do, right? I mean, who just relaxes anymore?
Friday night I worked. My parents owned a pizza restaurant here in our little town the last four years. I say owned because we sold it on January 2nd of this year. I still work there. It is a TON of fun. Every employee there is awesome, and I find myself looking forward to going to work.
Saturday I worked on that evil FAFSA / 2008 Income Taxes thing... Until I looked at the clock and realized I had to be to work in ten minutes. So I went to work again. That night my church was sponsoring a dance, so when I got off work at about seven thirty I headed over to it. I figured that since it started at 8 they'd have everything set up already... Or not. When I got there at 7:40 they had nothing set up for music. They were planning on running all of the sound from a laptop into a microphone and plugging into the overhead speakers. Which are meant for voices and hardly do that well.
I'm an audiophile. For those who don't know what that means, we're the ones who complain when the surround sound system treble setting is changed from where we put it because we can hear the difference. There was no way I was going to sit there for three hours listening to music reproduced through a microphone.... I drove home quickly and picked up my dad's sub-woofer, mini to rca cable, and amplifier and returned to set up an actual system. (For those who are wondering the speakers were already there. They just hadn't thought of bringing anything to hook them up with. >.< )
After spending twenty minutes calibrating the bass, treble, and volume settings and moving around all the speakers for the best sound, I proceeded to enjoy the dance.
Sunday was church and movies and books. I'm in the middle of Piers Anthony's "Incarnations of Immortality" series. For those into sci-fi / fantasy, read this series.
Monday was the best day of all. I woke up late. I went and bought donuts and ate them. Then I did nothing all day except read and occasionally switch over a load of laundry (unfortunately I have yet to find a day where I truly did nothing... Of course I'm not sure I'd enjoy it). There was no homework I was forgetting. No tests coming up. Nothing at all of school pressure to bother me*. Therefore, it was a glorious day.
The moral of this story is: Have fun and relax sometimes. I mean I know I have no authority to say this at all, but I highly doubt one day every now and then of pure relaxing fun will kill any of you. If it does, at least you die happy.
Corey.
* There is this one minor thing called senior project, but I successfully ignored it to the point of forgetting it existed. Which of course may have dire consequences this next few days as I rush to catch up. It was worth it.
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Well done and good luck.
Posted by: Oregon '11 Dad on February 11, 2009 02:02 PM
