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This may be a blog I’ve written in the past, but I can’t remember and am unable to access my blog archives at the moment, so here goes …

July 2 ‘Sneed Side of Life’

From my column at the Kenly News …

Random ramblings on Christianity

Hey people.

This is going to be one of those reallyyyy late-night postings that I will probably go back and read in a few hours and wish I hadn’t posted, but I’m going to throw it up here anyway. Don’t take it too seriously or as me trying to change the world or your thinking or anything like that. It’s basically just a journal entry, except I put it up here because it’s worth mentioning.

Kutless

Christian rock band Kutless released their new album today, To Know That You’re Alive.

I recommend it.

Barton dollars 1 - Meal Plans

Ever wonder where all of your money you spend on Barton stuff goes?

The college not only offers, but REQUIRES, students to purchase a $3,600 meal plan if they are living on campus. The plans come in semester packages requiring you to spend $1,800 on one of the three options:

1. 19 meals per week and $85 Bully Bucks.
2. 14 meals per week and $115 Bully Bucks.
3. 10 meals per week and $218 Bully Bucks. (Only available to East Campus Suites residents.)

That is a crapload of money for meals that are not all that stellar. Let’s break it down, just for fun.

There are 14 weeks in a semester.

For Option 1, we subtract the $85 worth of Bully Bucks from the overall $1,802 meal plan cost, leaving us with $1,717 worth of food left. At 19 meals per week for 14 weeks, that comes to 266 meals (19×14=266). Find the cost per meal by dividing $1,717 by 266, and you find that each meal costs $6.45.

Not shabby.

Option 2 is a little more expensive. $1,802-$115=$1,687. $1,687 divided by 196 (14 meals x 14 weeks) equals $8.61.

Option 3 gets almost obscene. $1,802-$218=$1,584. $1,584 div. by 140 (10 meals x 14 weeks) equals $11.31.

What college kid pays $11 for one meal? Seriously?

Where does that money go?

Why do they charge us so much?

Why requires us to get on the meal plan?

the Learning

You know what sucks about caring so much about Christianity you post things on blogs for all to read, thinking you may help out?

Well, having discussions with people smarter than yourself who make you remember the basics of truth.

Cryptic I know. More on that tonight sometime.

No comprende (?)

God showed me last night the importance of understanding people’s language — not in the literal sense, as in Spanish or French or Zimbabwean. But in the spiritual sense.

In order to truly make an impact through writing, I have to be able to communicate to given audiences. My thoughts and writing style might have a zing right now — see All the Gayness 2.0. And that zing is not a bad thing. But not knowing how to use it can be.

the Baseball

Ever since baseball season ended, I have thoroughly enjoyed having zero obligation to anything related to baseball. In my mind, I was geared entirely toward my work as a writer — for Kenly News and for myself.

Kramer (my 19-year-old brother, a rising sophomore playing baseball in college with me) is spending about five days at my apartment since he is working the Barton baseball camp here in Wilson. Tonight we threw (first time I’ve thrown in three weeks) then went to a Tobs game. First time I’ve seen some of the guys on the team in even longer, feels like.

Reminded me why I am playing college baseball.

Novelization

One of the monumental drawbacks to being 21 years old at a small college is the lack of experience interacting with those in your field of choice.

Which, for me, is writing.

Not newspaper writing. I work full-time at a newspaper. But novel writing.

31,536,000 seconds

One year.

Three-hundred sixty-five days.

8,760 hours.

525,600 minutes.

31,536,000 seconds.