(sigh.) I'm almost done with page 2. Look, some progress is better than none, okay?
You know your 20something years are slipping through your fingers like sand when you find yourself as big sister to another 20something.
I had every intention of making a big dent in my paper when I'm visited by an intense, uber-idealistic kid who's spearheading a Bible study group along with me and another young lady from church. The other young lady wasn't able to make it, but he still wanted to meet.
He whirs through roommate problems, spills ideas he has for the Bible study, and spouts his views that are scattered across the socio-political and theological spectrum. He's a human Energizer bunny, fidgety, teeming with ideas and plans and insight.
I want to pat him on the head. Pinch his cherubic cheeks. He reminds me of the old days when I wanted to save the world. When I wanted to be a vegetarian and join the PeaceCorps and thought Communism wasn't such a bad idea.
I pleaded with him . . . "I have a paper to write."
"When's it due?" he countered.
"Thursday."
He gasped. "You shouldn't even be started on it yet!"
I sighed a wise, world-weary sigh. "Graduate school is different. You'll learn one day."
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