butt freaken cold

I don't exactly know why but my room is freezing. Currently I think it is warmer outside which leads me to say that I hate NY. It is just a tease. It is 46 out currently and it will probably snow tomorrow. Last night was kinda a disappointment. I think I did more reading last night than I did all last semester. The racquetball courts were full with a line so I played ping-pong with my roommate. Another sport I suck at. HaHa. Dinner was awesome tho, and I woke up to a really sweet message. My intro to Christ proff isn't as scary as people made him out to be I think its going to be a great class.

Adam, Eve, and the Alien--How the fall makes you feel---Chapter 7

Donald Miller starts the chapter off with a compelling alien analogy. He points out what he thinks an alien would think if they came to our world and they didn't have the incompleteness from the fall. Would they be able to figure out our media clamoring for who is better? Don't we just understand humans are humans. Why do we need others to make us happy.

For the remainder of the chapter he talks about a dork from middle school named pete and the social classes in middle school. At one point he says this:

"A child learns early there is a fashionable and an unfashionable in the world, and ugly and a pretty, a valued and an unvalued. Where this system comes from, God only nows, but it is rarely questioned, and though completely illogical and agreed upon by a possession. It isn't something taught to us by our parents; it is something that comes naturally, as though a radioactive kinda of tragedy happened, screwing up our souls. Adulterated or policed, the system can grow to something more civilized, but no less dominant as a drive of nature. In youth the system is obvious. If you want to learn the operating system to which humans are subjected, step into a classroom of preteen students and listen to the dialogue."

That is so true. Just step into a high-school or a business at lunch time. That will tell you the social classes of this age, what people value and how they get there importance. For me, thank God it got better since middle school. There is still a clamoring for social status but I don't really care. I suppose I do but not as much as I used to. It is weird to think that the hell of middle school is caused by the fall and people needing to get there value from other people. Do you think the dorks in middle school would understand if it were explained to them? I wonder what the world would be like if everyone were created equal. What if there wasn't freak, geek, popular, prep, jock, nerd, Christian and so on? What is the cost of living in a fallen world? Just some thoughts.