I battled the Kansas City rain and traveled out to Lawrence on Wednesday night with a mission; it's finals time at the University of Kansas. I remember all too well what it was like slaving away at review packets and old tests for hours on end without stopping-- the rumbling in my stomach growing louder and louder, and my concentration waning with my gut writhing with hunger. Yet I could not leave. Leaving to get food would render my parking space obliterated within seconds, my study desk swept up by the vulturous crowd of fellow engineers studying on the floor, and my concentration left at the door for good. Not to mention my rear having to re-mold itself to the chair I've been confined to for half the day. No, leaving would have been the worst idea. So instead, I would get up, grab some water, and scour the almost empty vending machines for any morsel that would satisfy my hunger. Oh, I remember it well. My mission was simple. I was going to drive to Lawrence and buy food for all of my friends stuck in the engineering library like I would have been just a year ago so their studying could be as uninterrupted as possible.
Good deeds and good rewards go hand in hand. The rain I had experienced in my first half of the journey out to Lawrence had diminished by the time I reached my destination, but the clouds were still hanging in the sky like anvils full of water, burdened by their task. I made it to the library, took orders, and set out to continue on this epic quest when I noticed the brilliant, fiery orange from the sunset. I knew I had to find a way to photograph it and my lazy tendencies really paid of when I found my tripod still in the back of my car from the weekend shoot. It was perfect.
 | ||
