We all die

For the past few months, all my co-workers have been playing our own version of the Hunger Games on Facebook.

We call it: Staff Hunger Games.

The way the game goes is this: the staff are divided into "districts" based on the building that they primarily work at and every couple a weeks, a person "dies" with a story released on how they died.  It sounds a little bit violent and maybe creepy, but I assure you it's a team bonding activity that has created many new jokes and as a result brought us all closer together.

After an entire semester of "staying alive," I was informed by the writer that my death was recently posted this morning. As morbid as I sound by saying that I am very pleased with my death, I assure you that if you were me, you would like it too.

Play this video while reading....

Carmen
District: Johnson Center

Death by Hair Flipping: Carmen was a sneaky little thing. She realized that the others thought she was dead, caught up in the mist that took the rest of her alliance, except Ashley. Since the game was coming down to the last few people, she understood that the time for allies was over; they would all have to kill each other at some point and she prefered not to have to kill someone who had once worked with her to survive. So, she played the Foxface card, being stealthy around the other's camps, stealing enough food to live, but not enough for the tributes to notice. She thought that she could do this long enough to wait until everyone else had killed each other off, not realizing that she was still around, hiding in the shadows. Then one day, she woke up to the sound of someone whistling, "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction. She followed the song, not being able to resist the catchy tune. When it got to the "the way you flip your way gets me overwhelmed" line, she started flipping her hair, as was her custom before she entered the arena. She was dancing along, flipping her hair crazily. Yulia took this moment of vulnerability and shot an arrow straight in Carmen's back. Carmen dropped dead, but her hair looked fantastic from all that flipping.

Ashley continued to whistle the song as she climbed through the trees.

And that, my friends, was how Cita died. Sneaky, betrayed, dancing/musically inclined, and hair always looking good.


~Esa Cita

Student opportunities

Eric Hutchinson is playing while I study for my International Law final, and for a day, everything stops while my coffee keeps me warm and I enjoy the social acceptability for me to wear shorts, sandals, and my comfy running t-shirt.

The simply things are the most attractive during the "simply a student" days.

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Romantic Samantha

You wanna know what's romantic?  When you don't know the future, when you don't know what's going to happen, when all you know is that the current reality makes perfect sense in every aspect of the word.  

You wanna know what makes a wonderful romance? The moment when you face God and realize that now, tomorrow, and even two years from now is uncertain; nothing is secure, and nothing is guaranteed.  

You wanna know what makes a wonderful romance?  Learning to fearlessly trust with your heart that The Lord knows what He is leading you towards, making every moment of that dance with Him completely, totally and Truly the romance that you were made to have.  It's where Happily Ever After is not a future thing to look forward to but is rather a perfect peace of today and this moment.  It's there, do not deny it; it's in that smile, it's in that joke, and it's in that little tear in the corner of your eye that you try so desperately to hide.

~Esa Cita

Boss

My paper is lacking an introductory paragraph, so I typed one up really quickly:

Super awesome intro sentence for a wonderfully perfect introduction paragraph because you’re really good looking.  Just write something that touches on everything yet says nothing at all so that you are forced to read the entire paper and make others think that they have to give you the time of day.  Earthquakes and the environmental health implications from it are in this paper.  People want to read this paper a lot, dangit.  Why? Because I’m a boss, and I’m ridiculously good-looking. 

I think I'm off to a great start.  It has come down to this.  After all these papers in college, you would think that it's all easy.  Nope, suddenly the environment is difficult to want to like anymore.

Senioritis.

~Esa Cita

Not another corny topic

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.  Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends; as for prophesies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.  For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.  For now we see in the mirror dimly, but then face to face.  Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.  So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
 -1 Corinthians 13-14:1

Love is the only perfect thing that exists.  No relationship, statistical analysis, person, final paper, or cause of greatness is more perfect than Love itself.  It stands alone on its own rating, its own standard, its own truth.  It is the only true and pure and perfect thing.  The Truth says so.

So as I write my health paper and study international law, I can have hope that there is perfection, there is beauty, there is something worth being joyful about without submitting to senioritis.  That perfection is called love, and today it stared me straight in the face through friends, loved ones, and those beautiful stars I gazed at when I returned home tonight from school.

~Esa Cita

Everything

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
- Pedro Arrupe, S.J.

hm,

In about a month, your entire world is going to change.

When told that this morning, I gave a little nod and a bit more thought.  Yes, yes.  This is true. It's one thing to come to terms with it, it's another to understand it as reality.  Like knowing that you have to buy clothes, change your home address, pay for rent,  find ways to pay the rent, make a move to two different locations throughout the summer, and meet lots of new friends.

Today, my best friend called me with stories of finals week down in Florida and to talk about her summer plans.  It's getting SO close, I'm getting so pumped for her! Six or seven years of best-friend-ship and now we are both heading off into similar journeys in which we get to share the our lives once again in a super awesome way.  God is pretty cool like that.

So here I am, three and a half hours later at work, talking to people about their thoughts on life, and it is now time to start doing work.  There are three weeks left of school and I need to do that thing called graduation.  From time to time, I like doing that.

~Esa Cita