First Senate meeting of the quarter, and aren’t I thrilled to be back. It was fairly standard as senate meetings go. We did shoot down some controversial legislation about the change of the bookstore from cash rebates to in store credit. The ASUW seems to be getting more efficient while going through legislation, granted it doesn’t actually do anything, but still, it’s better than not doing anything inefficiently.

For a while during the meeting, and this disturbed me somewhat, I got very caught up in the debate. I started acting like it would make a difference whether we passed this resolution or not. It shook the very foundation of my beliefs as an ASUW senator: that the ASUW Senate has no actual bearing on reality. I had to remind myself that passing this bill would not change the bookstore’s policy, that few people out of the senate would care or even know that this bill had been passed or not. So my faith in the pointlessness of senate was restored. But I have a greater understanding of my fellow senators, who actually *care* about what happens. Power is a drug; even when it isn’t real it is still psychologically addicting. No wonder they expend so much energy thinking they have great influence when really they don’t.

quote of the week: “We cannot do great things, only small things with great love.” —Mother Teresa

Jill