Mega Day Mega Blog

I went through today basically thinking of lots of amazing things and how they need to be blogged for the benefit of my friends, no, America. Actually, for the benefit of the entire planet. So I titled this the Mega Blog, cause it's just that awesome. I apologize in advance for the flow of random thoughts that will have little if anything to do with each other. That's just how I roll. (That, and with a d20 in hand. lolz)

I began the day going to one of my personal favorite places on earth, Austin Community College (Wow, sarcasm! That's original!), where my little (little in age, not height) brother had to register to take a class for next semester. I looked through the course catalog and noticed how incredibly easy and low level all of the courses were there. I was one semester away from being finished with the highest level math class they even offer, and had finished the equivalent of every economics class they had in the two classes I had taken (yes, they just had two econ classes). It felt good to let my famous Rice ego roam free again, a feeling I hadn't felt since, well, I started going to Rice. Rice students do a really good job of making you feel stupid, constantly. Especially if you are friends with pre-meds. I have a love-hate relationship with pre-meds. I love all the pre-meds that I know very much, but hate how they ruined my chemistry grade through the entire last year.

So, then I went to band camp. The kind of band camp where you are working with level 1 Band Newbs all day long who haven't even held an instrument in their hands before. I had forgotten how squeaky clarinets sounded, but now I can remember the noise...quite well. This made me remember that just 8 years ago, I was in their shoes. Then I thought of how much has happened in the last 8 years. Everything relating to band, Brentwood, most of my major soccer memories, boy scouts, my faith, youth group, 98% of my friends... All of it in the last 8 years. Heck, everything from Rice was all in the last year alone, and that's huge! And, God willing, I'll have about 10 more sets of 8 years that may be filled with just as many memories, important events, things that have changed my life around, friends to be made...wow! How different will I be a year from now, or 8 years from now?

Speaking of knowing people for a long time, I ran into Nickel, a friend that I've sorta known off and on since elementary school, at Starbucks today while I was helping Andy with his college algebra homework. When I think about how long I've known her, Richard, and some of the other people from elementary that I still keep in tough with, and then I think about what I've gone through since I met them, and that they've had just as many life experiences as me. Each person in this world has a crazy cool story to tell. Life is such a sacred and beautiful thing.

Which leads me into another interesting topic that arose briefly in my life today, abortion. As a Catholic I believe that all life is sacred, and that abortion is completely wrong since it leads to the destruction of a life. But while I was talking with a friend on the way home from Taco Bell after soccer today, he mentioned that he wouldn't be alive if abortion was illegal/ didn't exist. He's Chinese, and his mom got an abortion sometime before he was conceived. Under Chinese law, if his parents had had that child, they wouldn't have been allowed to have another, and my friend wouldn't even be alive. It was kinda a weird thought. So does this mean that the Chinese government goes directly against the Catholic church (aside from the problems with Communism restricting religion in general) and what is a Chinese Catholic to do while living under that kind of government?

My mind does ramble a lot.