Reasons I Love Living in a College Town (RILLIACT)

I have had so many wonderful experiences in the past couple days, and they were all possible because I live in a college town. So I thought, “Hmmm. I should start a series of posts on the benefits I derive from living in Berkeley. I’ll call the series, ‘Reasons I Love Living in a College Town,’ and I’ll tag each of those posts with RILLIACT.” This will allow me to talk about RILLIACT whenever things come up without having to rewrite another introduction like this. So without further ado…

1. Eating a ginormous fat corn dog while sitting on the curb of Telegraph Avenue, and feeling like I fit right in. It was also a beautiful day to be sitting on the sidewalk. The corn dog batter was muy delicioso, and the Louisiana hot link inside was a nice twist, though the actual quality of the sausage wasn’t all that. But did I mention how tasty the crispy batter was? Yummm.

2. Easily accessible freshly baked glazed donut at 11:30pm. Yes, this was King Pin, and yes, the oily dough tasted sooo good, even as I wondered how much fatter I would get and how much more my arteries would be clogged.

Hymn 728, stanzas 2 & 6-7

“As the earth needs the clouds and the rain with the sunshine,
Our souls need both sorrow and joy,
So He places us oft in the fire of affliction
The dross from the gold to destroy.

As we travel the pathway thru life’s shadowed valleys,
Fresh springs of His love ever rise;
And we learn that our troubles, our sorrows and losses,
Are blessings just sent in disguise.

So we’ll follow Him faithfully where’er He leadeth,
The pathway be dreary or bright;
For we’ve proved that our God is the ‘God of all comfort,’
The God who gives songs in the night.”

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of all comfort; who comforts us in all our affliction that we may be able to comfort those who are in every affliction through the comforting with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” — 1 Corinthians 1:3-4