Meh to being Sick

So my boss was just telling me how I should take time off because I have so much sick time stocked up its ridiculous. THEN on Friday night I get sick and it wipes me out for this whole weekend. I'm feeling a bit better now and am probably able to go to work tomorrow... oh the irony. Let's not forget its spring break so my workload on a college campus is extra light. Yet there's still that nagging but I still have stuff to get done doubt that tells me I'll probably go into work tomorrow. Unless its raining. Then screw that.

Throughout this week I was like hmm, that'd be a great thing to add to my blog. And now that its come time to write it I'm not sure what to say.

One thought that came to mind this week was about social justice conversations. We hosted a few dialogue session for students about the recent video posting, "Asians in the library". It was interesting to hear how people reacted and the call for action that follows it. In the end, I felt these sessions were important to allow students who were hurt seeing that to respond, vent, and have an outlet. However, that doesn't mean there was going to be action taken to prevent these things from happening again. Yet students seemed to want a reassurance that the administration would prevent something like this from occurring.

It made me think that no school is perfect, but we all expect it to be. These kind of issues bring the imperfections to light and yet didn't we all know it was there in the first place? Can we fault a university for being human? For making mistakes? For being unable to predict every misstep its students and administration might take? I think what is important is how the university reacts to problems, addresses the issues as best it can, and learns from them. As long as the schools sets its standards high, then there will always be something to strive for, even if its impossible for every person connected to the school to meet all those standards at all times. Again, we are only human. Hmm... I think all those things I just said apply to the Catholic Church too.

I wrote down a few notes to self while in the session. You can see how they directed this post:

"There's no place that's perfect or without racism. How we react separates us [from the racists?] and shows our true character"- I think this was in response to the angry, prejudiced comments that followed the racist video.

"It's not a 'we' vs 'them'. It's an 'us' vs 'us' "- This was in response to how in the dialogue people kept separating asians form other people or those who act with prejudice as compared to other people. Besides being a no no in "social justice speak," this also implies that some people are better than others and that we could never be like "those" people. Well news for everyone, we all make those stupid mistakes. Just not in the same ways.

Just some social justice/diversity/racism thoughts to start your week out.

On another note, I was on Facebook reading a note by a friend who I'm surprised I haven't mentioned yet in this blog. Sunshine Knives is one of the first friends I made in college and she wrote a very awesome Facebook note about power and how the true strength is knowing when NOT to use your power. It was really er... well powerful to read her post. I highly recommend you look it up. When ninjutsu meets God you know its gotta be interesting to say the least.

Lastly, I'm going to give you a short story about Brock. On Friday he didn't come home. Clark and I were surprised but didn't give it much thought until Saturday. Then Clark texted him to find that he was up North a bit. Sunday came and he still has not returned. We can only estimate that Brock is doing work things (as opposed to visiting family) and will return tomorrow. Its one of those moments where you aren't sure if you should be worried about the guy or give him his space. Oh Brock...

Speaking of, I know I don't talk about Clark nearly as much in this blog. He probably prefer it that way. But nevertheless, I offer him a special shout out as a thanks for having Netflix, which has helped me survive this bout of sickness. Also as an apology as I think I gave him my head cold. Sorry Clark! You can have my medicine :)

Goodday to you all!

-JTY

Currently Reading: Rediscovering Catholicism- everyday part of my Lenten duties

Currently listening to: Youtube Symphony Orchestra. They are pretty good!

Currently playing: Still Demon's Souls. Ask me again in a few weeks.