Law Essay Might Have Something To Do With It

I slept for eleven hours last night. How is it even possible that I am sleepy?

Last night Natasha (was in my French class last year, ran into her at Jeanne's Wildfire show) invited me to attend a dinner and lecture at her house. It turned out to be a rather interesting discussion put on by the Campus Association for Baha'i Studies, about mysticism, modernity, and humour. The "humour" bit was sort of shoehorned in at the end, but it was still rather interesting. A lot of the ideas seemed fairly common (work of the hands as worship rather than retreating into an extreme ascetic lifestyle, et c.) but it was neat to see them occurring in the writings of a religion I'm not familiar with. Baha'i is also interesting in that it is a faith with little apparent ideological cohesion: members seem quite free to interpret the texts however they choose. There was a girl there considering conversion to Baha'i, and she kept asking about the Baha'is' stance on homosexuality and getting panicked looks because nobody was really comfortable speaking for the entire faith. Though, in the end, I don't think she got the "correct" answer, so that's one religion to cross off the comparison-shopping list! Anyhow, there was delicious spaghetti, so I'm all for that.

We now return to our regularly scheduled law essay. The topic is incredibly vague. I think most of the class is having an aneurysm about it as we speak.