Ok I don't know if you guys remember this, but about three years ago, during October of my senior year in college, I wrote this blog post about my absurd pen and highlighter collection. You guys remember this? It went something to the tune I need to stop spending money on pens and highlighters when I see ones I want...I mean I probably had thousands of pens, hundreds of dollars worth I'm sure. It was the debater in me + the OCD in me. Basically how it would work, is that I would go to the store, see pens and think "Do I have a pen that color? No, ok well I guess I need THE WHOLE SET!" Or I'd be in class, and I would say to myself "Hmm...Middle Eastern Politics - this class is orange. Where is my orange pen?? IT'S GONE??? Ok well I can't write in my book with ANOTHER color so I guess I need another one. Whoops, I have to have pens that match so I guess I need a A WHOLE NEW SET of uniballs" [at$12 each , and no the thrill of using color-coded pens wasn't "priceless"]. So one day I said to myself, you my friend, are a consumer OUT OF CONTROL...so I vowed I would buy no more pens until I ran out.
So it has taken me about three years, that's right THREE YEARS to go through my bags of expensive pens and highlighters, and I've been able to roughly color-code law school anyway [hey, maybe remedies is Blue - baby blue to be exact - but not always the EXACT same shade of baby blue]. I had to buy a new set of pens at the beginning of this semester, and now today, the time has FINALLY come to buy new highlighters. I am at a loss.
Consumerism in check? - Now THAT'S priceless.
Remember Their Chains,
Miss Elizabeth Alvarez
SEEK JUSTICE
Isaiah 1:17
"Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment." Hebrews 13:3
Monday, October 15, 2007
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