Most times in life, our universe remains as it is...the only shifts being the expected ones, that may be of minor inconvenience, but ultimately do nothing to disrupt our proverbial groove. Yet, at times one may find a day, week, month or perhaps entire year holds an unforeseen disturbance; an anomaly that we never before encountered. Though such disturbance may be a trivial matter, their unexpected and unpredicted presence rocks us to our nervous core. Two such disturbances are interrupting my day. One is the onslaught of high school students that have descended upon SUU for the annual Shakespeare competition. Granted, I knew perfectly well this was coming, but the disturbance is not their presence, but rather my reaction to them. Did I look that young when I was in high school? Moreover, I see in their hopeful little eyes the same dreams and aspirations that I once had. Not to say my dreams have been shattered, but they certainly have been weighed and measured (ahhh...the cliche I feel I must use!!!) against the ruthless judge that is reality. The other disturbance would be at the SUU library, normally a quiet place, with only the gentle roar of quiet conversation or clicking keyboards. Today, pounding in our ears and at our nerves are the repeated notes of a piano, out of rhythm, out of harmony, by a tuner preparing the instrument for a celebration gala that will be at the library tonight. With each note, he drives each of us at our computers closer and closer and closer to insanity...I fear at any moment someone will break their composure and attack the defenseless man.
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