a note from a friend and a plan for the evening

So I received an email from a dear friend that really brightened my day. I wish more people could be as creative in their chiding. I laughed a lot when I read this. I'm not sure that the final conclusion that is made is exactly correct, but it does not take away from the power of the note.

"John,
I think someone needs to put it to you straight.
Maybe they already have and I'm too late... :)
But you need to set a better schedule for yourself..eh?
Imagine this scenario:
Some guy spends four years of his life, (okay maybe not all four) but a LARGE amount of his life
staying up late nights, sometimes all night, finishing stuff he didn't do during the day...and then is a zombie during the daylight hours because of lack of sleep. He lives off of the small life that caffeine in coffee and other drinks provide.
He doesn't take advice from his good friend, or friends, when they tell him he really should plan better. He either procrastinates too much or he does too many things for other people and doesn't have enough time to study, thus the late night schedule.
And he graduates in '09, and completely falls apart because he's not used to a normal life schedule.
He decides that the only way he can be sane is to live in the way he has in the past four years.
But he realizes only too late...:) that his life style and sleeping habits have cause his body to want to stay up all night.He fails his job and decides the only place he can work is the train station where he can stay up late hours around the clock.
He is disappointed and discouraged.
WHO might he be??"

But really, who is to say that I would not enjoy the train station. I love my friends. At least if I realized it that late I would be able to work for change... because I work best late. (drum drum cymbal)

I finished all of my work this afternoon save for a couple of pages for education, so I am going to go get dinner and eat with my roommates. It is our last hurrah for the year. My roommate Josh is heading to Istanbul in the spring to study Byzantine history. He will be missed. The rest of us are about to enter into some of our busiest semesters yet so we will be dearly missed. So, to celebrate our last time together for a while we will eat wild wings and watch no country for old men. It is based on a book by one of Josh's favorite modern writers so that is fitting considering the circumstances.