Blogs are the Devil

i'm very excited about tonight. the high school students have tomorrow off. what is ridiculous about that, though, is that they don't have it off because of Good Friday, but because some company has donated free labor to the school. they're going to paint the high school, so everyone needs to be out. so not only does the school not help promote the following of the Christian calender, but it actually promotes people working on that day.

but this means that tonight i have no school work to do. it's nice not having the pressure of classes the next day. the only problem with a night off like that is that i feel this foolish need to fill that time with some activity. if i don't "do" something during my vactions, there's always this inner sense i feel that i've wasted the time. all week i experience the pressure of preparing for classes and all i long for is a night without responsibilities where i could do nothing, but then i'm given one of those nights and i feel i must do something.

matty and i always used to talk of that silly human tendency to put our hope for the day in something other than Christ. tonight i'm putting my hope in the red sox game.