Nov 9, 2007
Wasting Time: A How To
I turned nineteen today, which really only means that I turned eighteen one year ago and will turn twenty-one two years from now. Not that I'm sad about it--I actually really enjoy my birthdays--it just seems like they should let me do some other previously illegal thing today. I don't know what. Maybe nineteen should be the trespassing year. "When you turn nineteen, you can go wherever the hell you want," the law would read. I would enjoy that.
It being my birthday, I want to talk about what there is to do here in Knoxville, Tennessee. It's really just a ploy to get one of my friends to take me somewhere cool and pay for it, honestly, but I think it's useful information as well. I can only talk about what I like to do, so if you are a die-hard polo player or something, and won't go to any school that doesn't have a team, and I don't say anything about it, that doesn't mean the activity doesn't exist, it just means that I would fall off of the horse and break my neck, and I fancy walking.
I guess the most obvious and popular thing to do is go to the games--football, basketball, soccer, polo?, whatever. And they're all free, too, which is valuable when you're in college. It especially feels good to walk into, say the Georgia game, for free knowing that you would have otherwise had to pay fifty bucks to go. A lot of the school-sponsored things are cool like that. Really, go to all of them you can.
If you are more of the artistic type, and nothing is happening on campus (which is rare) then you'll probably just be really pissed at the game-day traffic as you are trying to get to Gay Street and Market Square. Gay Street is like the Broadway of Knoxville. It's lined with theaters and little shops and cafes. It's a beautiful sight. Any band or show that comes through will probably be playing on Gay Street or close to it. Market Square is this great little courtyard surrounded on all sides by amazing restaurants and art galleries. They have all kinds of performances and random open-air markets. These two areas of the city have changed my entire perspective on Eastern Tennessee's culture.
For this next one, I'll have to be rather general, as it is not completely legal until my suggestion on making nineteen the trespassing year goes through the state legislature. There are some
rather interesting places to swim around campus. I've heard legends of a few cliffs with a deep lake beneath them. I have never been, of course, but I hear it's one of the most freeing things in the world to push off as hard as you can, knowing, for the next few seconds of your life, nothing else matters but the fall and the cool water catching you in the end. In this same category, the mountains are right there. I mean, literally, right there. Go camping, go backpacking, relax, forget about life for a while. Be still; God reveals himself in creation.
I'm going to stop writing now and go play some raquetball in the gym across the street from Morrill, because it's my birthday, so I get to do what I want.
It being my birthday, I want to talk about what there is to do here in Knoxville, Tennessee. It's really just a ploy to get one of my friends to take me somewhere cool and pay for it, honestly, but I think it's useful information as well. I can only talk about what I like to do, so if you are a die-hard polo player or something, and won't go to any school that doesn't have a team, and I don't say anything about it, that doesn't mean the activity doesn't exist, it just means that I would fall off of the horse and break my neck, and I fancy walking.
I guess the most obvious and popular thing to do is go to the games--football, basketball, soccer, polo?, whatever. And they're all free, too, which is valuable when you're in college. It especially feels good to walk into, say the Georgia game, for free knowing that you would have otherwise had to pay fifty bucks to go. A lot of the school-sponsored things are cool like that. Really, go to all of them you can.
If you are more of the artistic type, and nothing is happening on campus (which is rare) then you'll probably just be really pissed at the game-day traffic as you are trying to get to Gay Street and Market Square. Gay Street is like the Broadway of Knoxville. It's lined with theaters and little shops and cafes. It's a beautiful sight. Any band or show that comes through will probably be playing on Gay Street or close to it. Market Square is this great little courtyard surrounded on all sides by amazing restaurants and art galleries. They have all kinds of performances and random open-air markets. These two areas of the city have changed my entire perspective on Eastern Tennessee's culture.For this next one, I'll have to be rather general, as it is not completely legal until my suggestion on making nineteen the trespassing year goes through the state legislature. There are some
rather interesting places to swim around campus. I've heard legends of a few cliffs with a deep lake beneath them. I have never been, of course, but I hear it's one of the most freeing things in the world to push off as hard as you can, knowing, for the next few seconds of your life, nothing else matters but the fall and the cool water catching you in the end. In this same category, the mountains are right there. I mean, literally, right there. Go camping, go backpacking, relax, forget about life for a while. Be still; God reveals himself in creation.I'm going to stop writing now and go play some raquetball in the gym across the street from Morrill, because it's my birthday, so I get to do what I want.
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1 Comments:
I really like this one, it's my favorite.
Thank you for writing it.
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