Lent

I was raised Catholic, but do not consider myself religious. My mom's family is particularly religious and I am overcome with guilt when we talk about church. When I was home for Easter I was prepared to share my Lenten sacrifice - blogging.

I last blogged on March 19, about two weeks after the beginning of the Lenten season. Some might say I really didn't sacrifice anything at all because I wasn't doing a good job on the blog int eh first place, and I did not make this sacrifice during the proper time period. Look people, I was following the spirit, not the letter of this Catholic tradition. In the same vein, I think my blogging vacation was a few days short of 40. I am ok with that.

A conversation about this blog might have provoked interesting conversation on a number of levels at Easter Brunch. The family elders, I'm sure, have never seen, or for that matter heard of blogging. The Nextel network commercial hits the nail on the head when they describe how many people are use Twitter on their network and then say something like 40 percent of you watching this commercial have never heard of Twitter. My brother would tell me that he presently manages 17 blogs: world of warcraft winners, snowboarding in northeast Ohio, dominating the wii fit, ect... In this hypothetical conversation I would later find out these are the blogs he looked at this morning - he doesn't actually manage any blogs. My mother and father would act interested and then tell me they will check the blog frequently. Mom would become the blog's biggest reader (not sure what she would be reading).

But none of this happened. No one asked what I gave up for lent.

Lent must have started all over again this weekend. But this time instead of giving up one part of our lives, Moritz expects us to give up everything for the next 16 days to prepare for finals. Really?!? 16 days!?! So here I am with many of my peers in our sweet library staring at the computer screen pretending to be productive. I should be outside enjoying the weather. But then I would feel guilty. My property outline is going nowhere, but I cannot bring myself to leave the library, so here I am blogging and watching the Cavs game on gamecast.

Lent take 2, I hate you.