What is Life?

What is life?

Life is finally finding the motivation to seriously start revising your 40-page senior honors thesis and getting halfway done, only to have your computer stolen when your house is broken into.

This has been my life over the past week.

Life is the closeness, love, and support that is born out of the ashes of such a tragedy. It is amazing how sympathetic people become when a catastrophe strikes. My parents have been very helpful, not expecting any reimbursment for the items of theirs that were stolen. At first, we had thought the thief(-ves) had stolen some tools I had borrowed from my parents to hang up our new TV and a picture my aunt painted for me. But it turns out they dumped the tools into a computer bag that we also thought was stolen and then hastily dropped it in our messy storage room where they escaped by breaking a window. So at least that is something we don't have to worry about anymore. But before we found the tools the other day, my parents had said they didn't expect any reimbursement for their stolen property, even though it was well over $200. It was just a really nice gesture. And my dad kindly paid to have our windows repaired.

Life is having your i-Pod stolen so you have a good excuse not to work out for a week or two until you get a new one. Of course, it might be longer than that because I will have to reassemble my music collection on my new computer. That is one thing I am very irritated about: losing my ENTIRE music library. It was all on my computer an i-Pod. Luckily, I can download what I purchased on i-tunes again. But the vast majority of my music was from CDs, so hopefully I still have them somewhere. Life is ripping a bunch of old music onto your new computer.

Life is getting new stuff that's even better than your old stuff because your old stuff was stolen. My new computer, even though it will be missing all my documents and music, will at least be even better than my old computer (which was really only 3 years old, but that's like 30 in computer years). Faster processer, more RAM, more graphics memory, that kind of stuff. Windows 7 instead of stupid Vista. Good riddance, Vista.

I have been saying for a while now that if anything ever happened to my i-Pod, I would get a better one. I have been wanting an i-Pod Touch for a while now, and it looks like I finally have the excuse I need to buy it. My old i-Pod was a nano and I loved it, except it only had 16GB of memory which I was quickly filling up, and I think I am going to get the 64GB touch, which will take me forever to fill up.

Life is your unemployed roommate being willing to stay home while you're at work because you're paranoid you're going to get broken into again. Mike is staying home this week until Thursday, when the alarm company is coming to install our new home security system. One time getting burglarized is all it took for us to learn...

Life is finding out it costs over $2000 to have your gigantic trees trimmed so that you can get satellite TV service. Craziness... We're getting another bid or two for sure.

Life is certainly interesting. I wouldn't trade it for anything.