“One Hour of Paradise!”

Major bonus of living on campus = extremely cool experiences with super cool college students.

Yesterday Mackey McKnight came up to our “dorm” and played basketball in the parking lot with Kyle and Owen. I had planned this with Mackey (he’s a student of mine), but waited until lunchtime yesterday to tell K & O of the plans (because I knew they’d be ecstatic and not be able to think about anything else once they knew). The looks on their faces were priceless when I casually said, “So, guys, today at four o’clock Mackey McKnight is going to come up an play basketball with you guys.” Kyle immediately said, “Four o’clock until when?” I said, “Four o’clock until five o’clock.” Kyle let that sink in for a minute and then looked me straight in the face and with the most sincere look ever said, “One hour of paradise!” From that moment on they were counting the minutes until Mackey’s arrival.

I wasn’t there to see it unfold because I had to go teach a grad seminar. But Braydon took some pics.