So I have a hard time getting my thoughts out of my head and down onto "paper," but I guess we'll see how this goes.  It's almost 2 in the morning, and although I should go to bed, I have no inclination to.

I feel a bit like a loser, sitting on my bed in my dorm room, all alone.  One of my roommates is out at a party with her gay best friend, and my other roommate is off god-knows-where with her theater friends and/or boyfriend.  I, on the other hand, have been the laziest person this weekend, lounging around on my bed in my little corner, immersing myself in Friday Night Lights and watching the weather outside my window.  Since I've indulged this laziness all weekend, tomorrow (a holiday, thank god) will be spent doing work.  Work such as taking out the mountains of garbage that have accumulated, sweeping our creepy laminate floor, cleaning off my beyond-cluttered desk, clearing out the ramen in our sink that's clogging the drain, and probably even cleaning the bathroom, including the toilet and shower that five of us share.  Along with these undesirable chores, I guess I'll force myself to work on my computer literacy project, seeing as it's due on thursday, and I basically have yet to begin it.

I've been reading the book The Divine Dramatist for Religion in the U.S., and it's really interesting.  It's about George Whitefield, the father of modern evangelicalism.  The book often quotes directly from letters to and from Whitefield, from his journals, from newspaper publications of the time, etc, and I love seeing the language they used 200 years ago.  The change from language such as "...the whole Congregation was immediately thrown into the utmost confusion and Disorder, and each one being desirous to save themselves some jump'd from the galleries into the pews and allies below" to the current vernacular.  If this pronounced change occured over just a couple hundred years, what change in speaking and writing will the next 200 years bring?  Are words such as the "f-bomb" going to go out of style, or lose meaning, and will other words take their place as vulgar?  Maybe words will continue to be shortened, and acronyms such as "lol" and other internet language will dominate.  I only wish I could stay around and see.

Only 1 more day until Bush isn't president anymore.  I don't even remember a time when he wasn't the leader of our country.  He was elected when I was 10, and what child under 10 pays attention to politics?  I'm so incredibly excited for this change in leadership, which will hopefully inspire change in our country's attitude and spirit.  

Anywayyy.  Maybe I'll watch another episode of FNL before I hit the sack.  What else do I have to do?