Easter

As I was sitting in Church this morning, humoring my mother on Easter Sunday, I began wondering how the resurrection of Jesus came to be equated with cute bunnies, candy, and eggs. They seem somewhat contradictory. When I returned home from brunch and lapsed into mimosa/food coma, I googled the origins of Easter. Apparently, the bunny stuff comes from some sort of Germanic tradition called Osterhase (the Germans also invented Santa Claus). Thank you Germany. German settlers first brought the tradition to Pennsylvania in the 1500's. Jesus was conveniently crucified right around passover, so Christians that used to be Jews just made themselves a new holiday when they decided to begin the New Testament and stop being Jews. They didnt want to eat matza anymore I guess. The concept of lent seems to derive from Passover- except Catholics can give up whatever they want (not restricted to leavened bread). I think people decided to make the bunny holiday on Easter because the crucifixion thing is so morbid. Bunnies, bonnets, and candy are much better things to celebrate. Its hard to sell a holiday when the only image to put out there is the crucifix. By my estimation, by the year 2200, Passover and Easter will have re-evolved into the same holiday again, complete with an Easter Bunny, some other fictitious creature, and more stuff for consumers to buy.

History

This sums up ancient to recent history pretty well......

I think I would struggle in this scenario.....

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2DlCNd/yayeveryday.com/post/6547

Libraries

I am not particularly aware of the library culture on other college campuses, but on my campus it is very unique. For one, I would estimate that of all of the people in the library, only about 24 percent are actually studying or doing anything productive. I would say over half are on facebook, the rest are either on some other technology (yes probably their cell phone) or just staring blankly into space.

Copley Library is essentially a bar that does not serve food or alcohol, but im sure that has never stopped anyone from bringing the latter in. After all, the library is where everyone hangs out, debriefs, gets stressed out, and goes on crazy aderal and caffeine highs then crashes. Given this library culture, Copley Library took a big step and put up really threatening signs all over the library stating "Copley Library is a Quiet Space." They also established "quiet zones" where it is supposedly supposed to be quiet. Im pretty sure the most telephone conversations go on in this part of the library because the unquiet area is too loud to have phone conversations obviously. For awhile they had a man walking around shhhshing people that resembled Lord Voldermort-I think he got killed by Harry Potter, or just gave up trying to enforce quiet study spaces.

Most people do their homework early so they can come to club copley during dead hours (12-230) and sell sorority tshirts, flirt with the opposite sex, eat their smelly onion sandwich. I am always so thrilled when the clock strikes 220 because then everyone leaves and there is a possibility of finding a table somewhere close to an outlet (this way I dont have to crawl under someones cubicle with my ass stuck up in the air and hit my head to plug my computer in)

I wish i had worn a cuter outfit to sit in the library all day today........