Late Night in the Computer Lab

Tonight I have discovered a new element to WWU's constant energy conservation efforts - sensor lights in the computer lab. It is the night of Halloween and I am sitting here, working on recreation homework and not at the same time. Silently sitting alone in a big, cold, empty communications building on the south end of campus I was reading an academic article when the lights all went out. For a few seconds I sat still, not moving out of fear of something jumping out to get me. However, when I reached for my phone (to call someone to save me through the glory that is text messaging) the lights came back on. I brushed it off, not thinking much of it after that. Then it happened again. Just as scared, I reached for my only hope of a text message when the lights, again, turned back on. The third time the lights went out on me I danced - they came on.

Sitting alone in the lab makes me think of how much I really do like it here. I complain about homework and being stuck in the computer lab researching and writing. I complain about having to much to do and not being able to manage the specific details of my life. Yet, here I am - privilaged to be in one of the most difficult recreation programs in the country, attending the most difficult public university to attend in Washington state. I have professors who know my name and favorite coffee, not just a student number on a computer screen. I have classmates to share inside jokes and the desire to serve. I get to write this silly 2am blog on one of hundreds of fully functioning computers on campus. I drank a coffee tonight that I had the bills in my pocket to purchase. I'm listening to music off of my little iPod shuffle from my dad. I am learning how to be a better recreation professional, citizen to the community, state, and country, and how to be a person who simply lives to live life with others.

That's cool. Remembering all that makes this late night in the computer lab all worth it.