Just My Imagination

I forgot how waking up at 7:30 in the morning makes my body feel better throughout the day, as opposed to waking up at 9 or 10, which seems like a fantastic idea when I shut off my alarm and tell myself I'll only sleep another ten minutes, and which more often than not turns into another hour. It's an endless cycle. I think God is trying to tell me something.

It's December 19th and it still hasn't snowed. The funny thing about living in Oklahoma during the winter is that you almost always have to wait until January to get snow, whereas my friend Alyssa back home in Toronto feels the need to brag via Twitter, "It just keeps snowing and snowing and snowing. =)" Either way, snow is bound to come, at least that's what my friends and I keep telling ourselves. Our main concern, I think, is just having a couple snow days to get drunk and skate on the frozen road in front of our dorm.

"Black Swan" blew my mind. My friends and I didn't quite know what to make of it when the credits started rolling, our jaws still dropped. Natalie Portman was phenomenal, and Mila Kunis did a great job as well. What I liked most about the movie was the fact that you never quite know what's real and what isn't until you decide for yourself long after the movie has ended. No one can take you inside the mind of a crazy person quite like Darren Aronofsky.

I'm going to be the eight hundredth person to say that this semester has been Black Swan crazy. Well, maybe not as crazy as hallucinating the murder of your understudy in Swan Lake, but close. My cousin, always the source for information like this, told me that 2011 is a year of abundance in the Jewish calendar. I believe that abundance comes full circle. The pastor of my church this morning gave his sermon over joy and quoted something from John Wesley that stuck to my brain--"Make as much as you can, save as much as you can, and give as much as you can." The quote was regarding money, but in my opinion, it applies to every aspect of life. Everything is a circle.

What a joy it is to do what you don't want to do but know you have to.