Peace!

Well. Uh. Joy to the World. I got an A on my civ "Pieces of Piece" project. Only one comment on the last page: "EXCELLENT! wonderful work A". Rock on. No other marks throughout the paper about grammar problems or the mercedes/peace symbol.. Just cuz it's Christmas, I'll attribute that to good will.

Tonight we had our final for that class. We were supposed to give a presentation on how to build a Zion community. I was impressed at some of the work of the other groups (although I won't concede that ours wasn't the funniest and most entertaining presentation). One group showed evidence of increasing selfishness in the world, showing debt-to-saving ratios over the past 15 years. I found the graph they showed in class here but I can't find where they are getting their statistics from. And at a second glance, I'm not convinced that this graph tells the whole story.. granted, savings rates may be down from the 80s, and debt rates are up. For example, the blue line seems to imply a connection between the GDP and household debt. In actuality, both of these are variable, so perhaps the GDP just went down from the 80s. Whatev.

Another group wanted to try to make campus a more Zion-like place, so they found an inspirational scripture to motivate students studying for finals and printed it out on slips of paper. They handed the slips of paper out with hershey's kisses to students studying in the library. Ironically, a security guard was not pleased with their distribution of things in the library and kicked them out. He didn't want a kiss either. The group concluded that the library doesn't want to be part of Zion. Seemed valid to me.