December 19, 2010

The most beautiful moment of my life (thus far)

It was the day of my 8:00 a.m. Engineering final exam.  I was killing time in my dorm because I set my alarm to 6:30 out of fear of oversleeping.  I grabbed a pop tart and was about to take off at about 7:45 because I then decided I wanted to throw on a fleece and not freeze my ass off on the walk down the hill to the building where my exam took place.  I started listening to Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" not for any reason in particular other than that it's a good song and the title struck me as funny considering that it was 8 a.m.  I'm putting up the song just for the purpose of recreating the story as the song played out. 
Anyway, as I passed the east side of Bursley a bunch of deer came out of the woods right where I was standing, literally walking all around me, completely calm, presumably unspooked by college kids walking on their turf 24/7.  Right as they were walking in front of me the sun broke over the horizon right in time with the part of the song where it's all euphoric and epic sounding.  That was all that I really needed to assure me that I was going to utterly devastate my final exam (which I did), but to top it off, the exact second that I stepped into the building, the song reached the tempo change near the end (you know the part) and I literally skipped the rest of the way to my exam.

Never again will a moment as musical and magical and well-timed ever happen in my life.  Well, I hope it does, but that Thursday morning is going to be hard to beat. 

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