Observations | Lying, Days Off, and the Donkeys.

BOYS’ DORM OFFICE – Finally…

After the better part of a month without being able to send emails, post to the blog, or do much of anything else, all has changed. Announcing:

CONSISTENT INTERNET!

Yahoo! And that’s not just me being excited; Yahoo!, and Google, and MSN, and ESPN! Horay!

Three Observations:

1. The most important thing Carlos taught me: Lying to kids isn’t bad, as long as you laugh about it later. Last Wednesday, for dorm worship, I told my guys the story about how when I was 8 years old, we found out that I had a hole in my lung, and my (older) sister decided to give her lung to me. She died in the surgery, and I was just flabbergasted how someone could give their life for someone else’s. I tied this into Jesus, and how God, a deity who really owes us nothing, sent His son to die for every one of us.
   
   Then I told them I didn’t have an older sister, and it was all just a joke.
   
   Yes, the dorm was furious with me. They couldn’t believe that I had made up a story – a story that left them wide-eyed and ready to group hug me at the end – and expected them to just go along with the worship. The illustration had worked, and they understood why I had done it, but they didn’t want to be the only ones to suffer. They begged me to tell the same story at the girls dorm the next week, “but make sure you do it way harder, and way more sad.”
   
   Well guys, you wish was my command. Last night, with Elvin covering my worship in Tegler Hall, I sauntered over to McKee to perform my act again. I made sure I added long, dramatic pauses, and filled my story with details, making my fictitious older sister come alive. Girls were crying, the room was deathly silent, and I had them in the palm of my hand.
   
   I opened my story by asking why girls cry at movies like The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, while some real stuff that happens won’t even phase us. My driving point was “Why do we listen to fiction more than fact?” The I told my entire hoax of the fake sister, ending it with “And again, why does fiction rule fact?”
   
   No one moved, and like the beginning quivers of an earthquake, the room began to get angry. Hatred swelled towards the speaker, and like an idiot, I felt I had to encourage it. “Yeah, you didn’t hear me wrong; I made up that whole story.”
   
   Seriously, there was close to 5 minutes straight of booing. After a while, they finally calmed down, and actually, they seemed to respond better to my point – that Jesus’ sacrifice shouldn’t be repetitive, it should be emotional – than my guys responded to it.
   
   And I only got 6 pieces of hate mail from the girls, so that’s a mild victory, too.


2. Days off are becoming less of a big deal. Stuff happened.
   
   No, but really, nothing much went on. Elvin dropped us off at Nakumatt Junction (which, I'm convinced, Heaven will look like) while he got a massage, and we just hung out there for an hour. Thankfully, I didn't fall victim to that incredible bookstore again. But it was close.
   
   Afterwards, we spent some time at the internet cafe, ate at Java, stopped at another Nakumatt to pick up some groceries, and came back home. With the exception that for the first time ever, the girls picked the post-town-trip movie ("How to lose a guy in 10 days," a movie that can lose a guy's attention in 10 minutes), the day was incredibly uneventful.
   


3. Broncos fans suck, pretty much on every continent. How is it that these idiots are allowed to cross the ocean? How is it that even though the students don't have internet access at all or email for the last 3 weeks, they still hear how we got our butts kicked? How is it that EVERY Broncos fan I know lives in the false reality that the game against us is more important than, you know, the whole season?
   
   To my Chiefs fans out there - don't worry, our time will come. Even though they handed our butts to us, it just sets us up to upset an actually good team in Philadelphia, and lets us get them back in a few weeks when they come to Arrowhead. And in case anyone wants to lose a bet desperately, bet me that Denver will be the AFC West leader in 4 weeks. I'll gladly take that; this team sucks, they're not the powerhouse they once were, and in one month from today, they'll be at least 2 games behind us.
   
   So there. Take that, Donkeys.
   

Ok, I’m off to lunch. Later!

-cw