Having just read Jenn1's webjournal post, I sit down again to retry writing the post I gave up on this afternoon...

I got out of class today at noon, apparently just in time to catch the horde of elementary school kids visiting UT eating lunch on the South Mall lawn, and it made me think about how awesome it used to be to go on a field trip, esp. the lunch. Inevitably, it would be in some park, or grassy knoll, and you could just camp out with your best friends in a spot, and spread out your lunch that your mom had made you, which has been a pleasant thought in the back of your mind ever since the morning. And then when you were done, you could run around the park with no worries until the teacher called you back onto the bus, which was also fun b/c you got to sit next to a friend...

I mean, does it ever get better than that? And I stopped getting field trips in, what was it, 8th grade?? And the thing is, what will we ever get in return for losing all the fun things like that that we lose when we grow up--what is there to look forward to...sex and drinking???

I guess I just have to agree with Jenn1--maybe the sex and the drinking do it for some of you people out there, maybe you think it makes up for it--but I don't agree, and probably never will.