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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
2:13 pm	I'm sitting in Ham running the slowest election in the world and listening to two first years reminiscing about high school and dumpster diving useless stuff from behind Kinkos and feeling awesome about it. It's funny to share memories with people who weren't actually there with you. It's like how every time you meet a band kid, they always have kind of the same experience and sense of humor. Oh man, winter break is so soon! I'm pumped. Ooooh and now lots of people are sending me old forum emails; this is super excellent. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
12:18 am	It is pretty lame that the walls are so thin here that I can count on not being able to fall asleep before 1 am, not from not being tired, and not from not being able to fall asleep, but because every time I do decide to turn in earlier, I can 100% count on being woken up by someone in the common room. There is a lot of stomping around and shouting out there right now, and I am really grumpy, because I got woken up after sleeping for like 2 hours, and now I am not going to be able to fall back asleep because I got a "nap". I shouldn't have to feel like if I fall asleep at 10 pm it will have to be for a nap. Especially with work in the morning and everyone getting sick around. This only happens like once a week so I don't know how to even go about trying to make a roommate policy for it. Most nights I'm awake and it's cool. But it would be nice to have the option. Grump grump grump grump grump. So I'll write this here instead of doing anything productive about it. I am waaay too unassertive. It really really really needs to be break. It is that time of the year again (the time where all livejournal posts get super super grumpy and upset). Ahh ahh ahh grumpy about everything oh no oh no. Current Mood: grumpy Current Music: I was afraid that you would not insist (Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
1:16 am	The midnight debates were awesome. All the real candidates were well spoken. All the joke candidates were funny. Kerem was a good moderator. Most of the hecklers were great (except when they said unfunny, unproductive shit over people-- but that happens every year and I thought it was mostly kept to a minimum). And now I want to just sit and talk about who to vote for for president instead of doing, as planned, all of my work for the upcoming week tonight so I don't have to worry about it during the election(s). I forgot that I am probz going to need to have a run-off when I was making plans for this week. PCP was awesome too. The decorations were SO well done, and it was just a really pleasant atmosphere. Was it more poorly attended than usual, though? Oh well, anyone who left really missed out. The people who threw it did a sick job. It is getting to that point in the semester where everything seems bad because I am so stressed out about the amount of work I have to do. Sundays are particularly bad because I get to spend most weekends totally blowing stuff off in favor of hanging out with this really cute guy I know, and that is just so awesome that on Sunday when it's over, the rest of the week seems even more depressing because a) now I haven't done any work and will have to do a ton to catch up with the week and b) the comparison between an awesome visit and a stressful week is super salient on Sundays (how's that for alliteration?). I guess the solution is to spend some key weekends doing work instead of having fun, but that is so lame. And it couldn't have happened this weekend anyway, because there is no way I skip PCP in favor of doing work. However, because I blow off work so much on weekends and therefore have to make up for it during the week and get super stressed out about it, I often don't have time to hang out with my friends and also sometimes associate New College with this grand oppressive feeling of always being just a little bit behind and out of it. There is no real solution to this. I don't even really know how to have fun on weekends here alone anymore in a lot of ways. Walls aren't as captivating anymore, even though I always think I'm going to enjoy them. Weekends are just this big expanse of empty time, and the only thing I know how to do with big expanses of empty time anymore is just do a lot of work, which again isn't fun and separates me from friends. I don't know. So many facets of life to juggle. Right now, though, I am going to do schoolwork until class. : ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 18th, 2009
1:40 am	Pictures are a graveyard. Of relationships, hairdos, places, lost clothes, inside jokes, something you were laughing at but could never remember now, people in the background whose names are on the tip of your tongue. My screen saver has been broken since a little after my power cord, and I just fixed it (it is one of the ones that plays your pictures randomly on loop) and it puts the weirdest stuff next to each other; one second it will be all of us with long, non dreadlocked or mohawked or anything hair in first year, and the next it will be Allison or Eliza, and I didn't even know that they existed until last year sometime. I have to have at least 8 billion pictures of Tom and I, which is weird for someone I barely know anymore; it always takes me aback. And then some are comfortable because they are closer to now; pictures from last January when I came home and we went to the Boat, Justin's room, active parts of life currently. It is a weird mix, and weirder still to think that at one point, all of these things were normal and ways that I partially used to define my personality (relationships, styles, homes, etc). We used to have very long hair and be all tiny. On another topic, this is going to be another one of those self-satisfied posts where I talk about how much I appreciate the support that I've had in life, but seriously, I am really lucky to have had so many friends and such good, supportive family and recently such a lovely fellow in my life. Seriously. Sometimes I try to go through and think about all of the people that I feel close enough to to talk to about real things, and the list is just so so extensive that I run out of memory before I can ever run out of people. I feel like I just keep meeting more, too. And that is just friends! Even if I didn't have a single one of them, my family is really cool and are people that I get along with and enjoy the company of. Nuclear and extended. While some parts of it have some conflict at times, there is still a lot of love there. And then dating Justin has been just entirely good, and that is a crazy stroke of luck-- I feel like romantic relationships are usually characterized by a good bit of conflict but we work out really well. All of that said, I really really appreciate the option to be alone this year and have been making probably more use of it than I should be. I like being able to sit on my bed in a bathrobe on the internet and not have to worry about people at all. Actually, I think that this is less self satisfied than just super appreciative. It is really nice sometimes to sit back and count your blessings. Haha. Apparently it is good for you emotionally too (makes sense). Probably as long as you don't associate any of them with guilt or personal unworthiness, then it might feel stressful. Seriously, though, I am so happy to be where I am right now, in most ways. I wonder what an analysis of my journal posts would turn up: I think that the positivity of them is very closely linked with the time of semester, with positive posts at the beginning and negative posts at the end mostly. That's all; I can ramble forever. Any of you guys feel particularly lucky for any reason lately? Current Music: I'm caught up in a storm that I don't need no shelter from (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
2:45 pm	I found a thesis article that I am excited to read! It makes me seriously way too excited when this happens. Not too excited, actually, I guess; it is just so rare to see something that directly addresses my issues that it is super satisfying when it does occur. As far as I can tell, though, my thesis concept is still a huge go-ahead, since the concept is pretty sound. I'm afraid that I'm going to find out that it's been done like right before it's time to start it. I need to go see Caroline Reed to get some strategies on looking up stuff related to my topic. I'm bad with keywords. It is very comfortable to be a fourth year student. I was looking through pictures from first year last night and that is always SO FUN. I feel a pretty strong bond to everyone from our class, which is weird. It is a very mildly family-esque sort of love. It is strange how meaningful everyone feels, and how it feels like all of these people here are an essential part of New College. But we'll all be gone next year and maybe some of us will be vague legends that upper years talk about around first years and then go "Oh my God I can't believe you don't know _______" or whatever, and that will be that. And then after that, nothing, until the archives from our time here are cool enough to seem so alluringly retro that people will go through them and be like "oh man, I saw pictures from this one time in like 2007 that all of palm court was filled with beach balls!" and everyone will think that that was super cool and crazy (it kind of was, let's be honest). I like to imagine that I've been involved with at least something meaningful to New College posterity, but prooobably not. Although I did make a completely sick guide for future Supervisors of Elections over the summer/yesterday. It will be awesome. So maybe that at least will be helpful for someone, if people remember to pass it on (they won't). It doesn't really matter though, because it will always be meaningful to me. Everything that I've experienced here, that is. It is a pretty powerful place. Not that I'm not going to be ready to leave. I think I will. I really do. But it has been (and will continue to be, this year) beautiful. But I should get ready to go to class! Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: all I want is to sleep around in hopes that I can catch back up (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
7:30 pm	first lj whine of the year! Grumble grumble grumble. The school year is off to a bad start. Financial aid and the registrar messed up my Bright Futures (after I called and they told me it was fine, fixed, and not to worry), so while I should have had enough money to cover my tuition for this semester, I am currently 3000 dollars behind. Plus a 200 dollar late fee, for their mistake. Hopefully I can get that waived. Plus, when I went to turn in my contract and talk to the registrar about this issue, they realized that I hadn't paid yet and canceled my registration, which kicked me out of all of my ansible sites for the classes I'm in, so now I have no access to the readings. OH plus the election's tomorrow! Great. But everyone should come out and vote! I had the Candidate Meet and Greet tonight, which was not widely attended, but which I enjoyed nonetheless. Now onto the five article summaries plus thesis abstract that are due tomorrow. Second week of school? Laaaame. On the bright side, I have never had all of my class and work both canceled for a national holiday, but for whatever reason, they are both canceled on Monday. So right after the election will be a nice long recovery period. Plus, the cabinet retreat next weekend should be prettttty snazzy. Although I need to get on the arrangements for it. I like the new cabinet members a lot. High hopes. This week has just been overwhelming. Not a good sign for the rest of the semester. And I'm only in three classes! I'm glad I'm not in a fourth, currently. I love listening to first years complain about how much work they have. Actually, I probably have less work right now than I did last year. But also I'm not in the groove yet. I need to get my groove. Hah. Also, need to get this semester paid for. When I went in to the registrar to ask why I am paying approximately $3000 more this year than I was last year, she was like "Oh, you moved into the apartment style dorms, that's probably it." An altogether frustrating experience. Oh also, for anyone who didn't see what Glenn Beck has to say about New College of Florida: http://books.google.com/books?id=vTUouErmu0YC&lpg=PA115&ots=5MVmTdKFkj&dq=glenn%20beck%20%22new%20college%22&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=&f=false Current Mood: bitchy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
7:18 pm	I got invited to a party, by someone from Gainesville, that Rio de la Muerte is playing at, that some people I know from Gulf Breeze were also invited to, that a New College alum is involved in hosting. Florida is so very small. This summer is really excellent. I haven't had time to be online much. It's not that there has been anything happening, aside from every day going over to tab's and playing video games and cooking and watching movies. I am really doing nothing with myself. But that is perfectly fine by me at the moment. I've been back to Gulf Breeze like three times already, which has been reasonably fun. It was really fun to have Justin visit. Got to go fishing with my dad, for the first time in a long time, and that was good. Spent a lot of time at Harrison's house. HB came to visit for a week, which was fantastic. I've spent a considerable amount of time this summer watching friends play video games. A few days of it was just watching Justin and Alex play Halo, and it struck me that that was a lot of what I did the summer before leaving for college. Same thing, different setting. It is really cool to have such close friends, and it is such a college thing. I really wonder when it will change from just being able to go over to a friend's house whenever, no problem, without calling or anything to being invited over for like dinner parties which last four hours or so and then calling it a night. I wonder if people miss the more carefree ways when they get older or whether it would be really obnoxious to have friends like that later in life. I also really wonder whether part of the seemingly stiltedness of, for instance, my parents' friendships would be different if they still lived in the same place with their friends that they had experienced this sort of laidback friendship with in college. Don't know! Probably living in apartments with friends instead of in houses with family units makes a huge difference. That's all for now! (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
11:13 pm	I want to die like my grandpa, I think, except for maybe ten years younger (he was 95). He told the nurse at breakfast that that day was going to be his day to die, then asked for help getting in bed and was found unresponsive at 11, then taken to the hospital. He got the chance to talk to my mom (who was present) and my uncle (by telephone) before drifting gradually off, fully unafraid. Nobody left fully stricken behind, just loving relatives who loved him but knew that it was time. The funeral (tomorrow) will be the first time that I've seen all of the McLeods together for a really long time, and I think honestly that it will be fun. We'll sing, and mom, Uncle Bob, and Leah will play their guitars, and that will be that. Then, on second thought, leaving nobody completely empty behind means probably dying after your spouse, and I don't want any of that noise (but still don't want anyone to be distraught when I go). Maybe I want to die in a very sudden explosion, aged 85, immediately post-coitus (possibly due to the coitus?). That sounds decent too. Current Music: like a bird from these prison walls I'll fly (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
1:01 pm	Tentative finals schedule: ( Read more... ) I hope that I start feeling well before all of this starts getting critical. I can't sleep for more than a few hours at a time before I have to wake up because my throat and head hurt too much. And then I just feel so so drained, like I can't move or stay awake at all and have no energy or motivation to complete anything. Bad timing for finals week. I really wish that I'd known we wouldn't just have a regular exam in environmental psych... I probably would have started my research paper a little earlier. She likes to change up her assignments too much, I think. Even though yes, we have known about the research project since the first day of class, there is a huge amount of difference in thinking that you are just going to have to take an exam the week it's due and knowing that you're going to have to complete a separate project/paper. : ( Also I find it really difficult to think in terms of pictures; we just have a very different frame of thinking about the world. In retrospect, I wish that I hadn't asked her to be on my thesis committee. I think she's good and I like certain elements of her style, but I don't like her expectations for output; they are just very strange to me. Graham probably would have been a better choice. Blaaaaaah. Presentation in about an hour. And a quiz. I really can't wait for these couple of weeks to be over. I might explode! (hopefully not at someone....) In happier news, we are going to be third to draw for a room! That's exciting. Also, I'm digging most of my final projects and have lots of the work for them done! already, so that is always a bonus. : ) This will be doable. Also, the election is over, almost completely. So that's nice. Current Mood: drained (Comment on this)
Friday, April 24th, 2009
2:10 am	Random thoughts: 1. I just found THE BEST ARTICLE EVER for my thesis topic! I got so excited after reading the results section that I actually had to stop and get up and be excited for a moment, and then sit back down. That was nice. I was reading the first part of the article, and they were setting up every question exactly in the way I had been wondering after reading all of the other articles, and then they did basically the exact same type of experimental design I thought would be useful for it, and then the results showed exactly what I hoped they would, and now I get to delve even deeper into the most interesting/probably the most fruitful possible question path that was available to me. Sweet. While I was reading the intro, I was all "oh shit, this is just basically going to answer all of my questions, isn't it, and leave me with nowhere to search", but instead, the answer was interesting enough to follow up on! Yeah! 2. I am trying to be less judgmental and more open to everything. Not that I'm doing a bad job of it. It's just that I've been noticing a lot of it all around, and I want nothing to do with it. I certainly don't know what is going through anyone's head. They don't know or care what is going through mine for the most part. So whatever. That's all. 3. I really hate clothes. I realized that this is a grand problem for me. I always feel actively bummed whenever I have to put clothes back on after not wearing any for awhile. I wish that they weren't a necessity in society, but that is a taboo that will never change. 4. I can't keep anything balanced. I'm not sure whether it's that there's too much, but I can't seem to keep all aspects of my life going solidly at once. Today was good. But I feel really exhausted just knowing that I'm going to have to keep all of these balls up in the air for another month. I think a good night's sleep will help. 5. Oh yeah, that brings me to desperately needing my own bed still and needing a functional computer so I don't feel like such a nomad all the time. This is why I can't travel; I get antsy when I can't have any control over my surroundings and just sort of flow around wherever there's a resource. Control or the illusion of control. We've talked about that a lot in environmental psych, how important it is to think that you have control over the things that happen (or at least being able to predict them). But I really haven't been able to. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: there's a boy who's a Krishna, and he thinks you look pretty (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
12:52 pm	So, my computer is broken. I need to write this psych paper before Tuesday, so I went to get the key to Bon House to use the computer lab there. The guy behind the desk at the cop shop said my ID was denied and that he would have to take my ID, that he couldn't give me the key, and that he would send my ID to the registrar and I could get it back there. Hey douchebag: the registrar doesn't open until Monday! Also, I don't understand what can be invalid about an ID that the library and Ham both accept, that has my name and picture on it. Isn't that the point of an ID? Especially when I'm on the key list? Also, what the fuck do you want me to do about food? He kept asking me where my other ID is, after I told him that it was lost and I didn't have it. Like I'm spitefully just hiding my other ID. If I had it, I would fucking be using it, and then maybe I could do my work and access all of the printing money that I have for the library and I would have eaten last week! I don't have anywhere to go. I don't have any space that's mine. I need some sort of sanctuary. It doesn't help that I'm sick and don't have my own quiet, clean bed to sleep in. I don't really want to deal with anyone who stresses me out, and right now, that's almost everyone in Sarasota, or at least, almost all of my close friends. I also don't want to be a burden on the people that aren't stressing me out. I think not having any safe place to sleep is the primary concern, right at this very moment. But. I'm actually going to start this paper, and maybe feel better. Current Mood: angry (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
3:49 pm	Back home. I am silly and left my computer at Biven's Cove. : ( It will be a nice week for being in the NCSA office! This week seems a little miserable. It's not that I have a ton that is due now, but it's a choice between doing all the stuff I have next week and this week in the next three days orrrr trying to write a ridiculous paper on my birthday. I'd rather do it now, but just thinking about the amount of stuff due this week makes me want to give up. I don't have the energy or the inclination to be entertaining and fun. Sorry. On the bright side, I realized that I could potentially spend the entire second mod of 3 of my classes focusing on pilots and research for my thesis. All I need to do is figure out my syllabus for the thesis tutorial, how to fit what I'm interested in into my comparative cognition lab, and what strategy to use for research methods. This could make next year a lot easier. Blah. Current Mood: depressed (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
1:35 am	This has been a really good semester so far. Super busy, but the reason it is so busy is that I have been able to set aside pretty much every weekend day (Saturday, Sunday, Monday day, Friday night) for hanging out and not thinking about work even one little bit, so that is a pretty good reason to work really really hard during the week. It has been a much more content semester as far as friendships and chilling and being able to study and feeling connected to the people around me goes (despite being away so much, it's still more of a connection than last semester). That is always a plus. Right now sort of blows, just due to midterms, but eh. The cabinet party today was fun and productive, I thought. The office looks sweet. Maybe over break I'll print out some supercool New College-y photographs and put them up and around in there. Speaking of the list of things to do over break: -organize all of my dolphin lab data, start that lit review/methods/data analysis -come up with a way to study my thesis idea that can be testable in heidi's lab -get a new phone -car stuff -figure out the whole yelverton port-drinkin tradition thing (I would like to drink mine with Leah and also with Harrison, but the two aren't going to be in the same place at the same time until maybe next Christmas) -get home brewing equipment/start mead -watch battlestar series finale -pick up job applications for the summer I was pretty sure there was more than this. I plan on just going to Et Cafe every day I'm home and camping out and working on that paper. Although I guess I won't even be home for all that long. I feel really hollowed out right now (like, this very moment; this hasn't usually been the case recently) and edgy about everything in my future. I would like to feel rosy and clear again, as soon as possible. I think break should help. But, I am going to try to figure out what fractals have in common with affordances (as far as I can tell: nothing? Help!), so I will go now. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
11:13 am	Randomness: -my computer charges again. This is awesome news! -I'm in environmental psych class, and we were talking about sense of place in books, and I've never really thought of it, but I think that's what I like most about fantasy books, or partial fantasy books, the new sense of place and culture and the fact that you can kind of explore it in your mind, even that parts that aren't really in the books. Cool! -We were also talking about how people want to get back to their roots, which reminded me how much I want to visit the Isle of Skye, so I looked at the MacLeod Clan website, and they are having a month-long whisky festival. So I guess the point is that I should get back to my roots RIGHT AWAY. -Also apparently Katie McAuley did her thesis on social networking differences between online friends and real friends. I initially wanted to do that from a psych perspective! I want to read that, next time I have free time (ha ha). -Furthermore, people should stop hatin' on friendships where you don't get to see each other in person that much. This happens in every social psych class that I've been in! Dudes: it doesn't actually matter than much. Common sense only gets you so far. Also, you're prejudiced and offending people. -OH MAN Callahan is starting to bring her puppy to class next week for help socializing him. I just want to love him. I will never miss this class again if there is a puppy. We are starting an anthropomorphism chapter: this should be quite illuminating for me. Callahan: "He's going to look... like... Chewbacca." I should put this up. Hah. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
2:19 am	I had an amazing PCP. It was really really fun seeing my friends from here and my friends from there actually talk to each other this time and be silly and bond and dance and go to taco bell and IHOP and all sorts of good things. It made me happy, because people said that they would come up with me in the future and Nic said he would come down more often in the future, and I really like it when people that I like like each other. This week is a little harsh, but at the end of it I am going back up there because the weekend that I was going to looks like it will probably be the weekend of the cabinet retreat (finally!), so that will be really excellent. I miss Gainesville. Also, it will be a long weekend. I really like all of my classes, but they are definitely a lot of work. It is really hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that no, there is still another year and a half here, and yes, I have to actually make it through this semester before it can be summer. I forget that there is still a ton of time left, even though we're towards the end of our third year. It is going to be SO WEIRD next year without all of the fourth years. I feel somewhat in limbo. But! It is time to go to sleep. Current Music: How can I give you the answers you need when all I possess is a melody? (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
4:40 pm	The beginning of the semester is so hectic. I like all of my classes. That is huge. In comparative cognition we are building dolphin toys/apparati that are going to be legitimately used at The Seas at Epcot. I haven't built anything with PVC for a really long time; it was so much fun to be measuring and cutting and clamping and hammering again. I have gone to everything but my developmental tutorial. I ordered the book for it, but it turns out the people were out of stock. Ugh. I hope it works out so that I can get one. Hah. I'm scheduled for A LOT of days this semester. Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon, and Friday morning, and she might put me as backup on Monday afternoons if she can't get someone else, although I really hope not, because I've been really looking forward to having a completely free Monday to make the most of my weekends. I got a thank-you card from the sophomore and freshman in high school that I gave a tour to the other day. The freshman said that she hoped that she would sometime be at New College and "be successful like you." They are Hallmark cards. I am totally charmed. I have short hair now! It's really fun. I need to get myself better organized. There is a jazz tutorial and I want to be in it so so so so bad but I don't think I have the time. But oh my God playing music would be AMAZING and I want to do it really badly. That is the biggest thing I have been unhappy with at New College. I am so out of practice. But I would get in shape, I think, if it meant being able to play again. I hope they do it again next semester, because I will have fewer classes and the ones I have will not be as hard, and it would be a perfect time to throw myself into some music. But we'll see; I emailed Izzy and if it's not going to continue next semester I will probably do the ill-advised thing and do it this semester. But I'm going to do a tiny bit of cabinet work and then go eat. : ) Current Mood: busy Current Music: I'll bet the bubbles exploded to tickle the bath (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
4:47 pm	I shouldn't have worried about coming home. Right now is perfect. Everyone is back (except Lydia and Jaclyn). Classes look pretty decent. I think it will be a more proactive semester. I don't have class on Mondays and might not have class on Thursday either. My classes will be hard, but rewarding, I think, and there just aren't many of them. : D I have a good feeling about this semester. Which is funny, because I was so down on it. Ham time. Current Mood: optimistic (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
5:15 pm	This has been the best month I've had in a really long time. Obviously, I guess. I mean, no school, wonderful friends, no real responsibilities. It has been great being here, and I'm going to miss everyone a lot, and miss just the way the days fall into place and the style of living that comes from staying here. The school year sounds so disheartening right now. I really want to go back and see everyone; I miss all of the people from school something fierce. But as soon as I'm there, I'm just going to miss everyone here. I apologize in advance if I am not the bubbliest for a few days; it's just that I have been really happy staying here and it will take a bit of time to adjust to Ham food and no privacy, ever, and having to actually go to classes and stuff. : \ I really wish I was looking forward to returning to school more. But I just really am not. Last semester was good but really difficult in a lot of ways, and this semester should only be harder. But seriously, a wonderful time. Anyway, I'm out; it is Taco Bell time (the best time, and also the best birthday dinner, hah!) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
4:34 pm	There is no place that I can be anymore where I don't feel a strong longing to be in another place as well. It's worse when I'm at home, wanting to be in Gainesville, but being here and seeing pictures of everyone at home having a good time and talking to Loren and Letitia on the phone makes me want to be there, too. It is really strange to feel so divided. It is going to be even stranger when we are all scattered around the country/globe and there aren't even two primary friend locations anymore, just dozens of different places that each contain a small quantity of home. This is an incredibly pleasant way to live, though, falling into comfortable patterns and having an entire apartment type space to exist in. It makes me want even more to possibly live off-campus next semester. Although I still think I might prefer to live in Dortstein. I'm sure we could make some sort of switch-up with someone who is moving offcampus to get Letitia into a room if she/we wanted (it'd be an awesome way for someone to forgo the whole off-campus application process). I wonder again what will happen after we graduate. Move somewhere. Probably with Loren. Hopefully with Letitia as well. Or maybe stay in Sarasota with said beauties. I've been thinking about it, and I honestly wouldn't mind staying on and working at New College and using that experience to try to get jobs in student affairs or admissions or really whatever at various colleges around the country until I'm either ready to go to grad school or commit to a different track. It seems like a lot of recent college grads are working at our school, so I bet it would be similar at other schools. Hmm. Still a year out from having to actually decide, but I am a compulsive planner lately. I've never really felt like being anything but young and reckless before. It is weird to realize that that is not so much my thing anymore (and weirder to not be that sad about it most of the time). Life is really good. Also, really really long. I've been alive for 20 years. I can live that length of time over again, and still be young. That blows my mind. Current Mood: pensive Current Music: tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 5th, 2009
1:48 am	I am explosively happy for no real reason, aside from that there is one more day to go and then the Pensacola portion of winter break will be over and the Gainesville/Sarasota portion of not-having-an-ISP will commence, and I am pretty excited about that. But it's more than that, really; I've been happy for days. I think it's because there has been a lot to look forward to coming up in my near future. New Years was fun, and then Epcot was also really fun, and then it was just a few days of downtime before I go back to central Florida for real. It'll be a better trip than usual too: one of my dad's clients gave him and mom an iPod, which they didn't want, which they gave to my sister, and she never used it, so she let me have it (it had been just lying under her bed-- she says she uses it for jogging, but I have not once ever seen her actually go jogging). So that will be nice. Went to dinner at the Payne's tonight. Emily and Mike (two New College alums, and Emily is an old family friend) were there, and they were making everyone sushi, which makes me want to make more sushi in the future. It is always fun being in a crowd of people who all know about New College; it makes it easier to make jokes and just talk about things in general. But there is no accounting for having the sunniest mood ever, really. Except that I guess life has been really good recently and will be mindblowingly awesome for the next month or so. Current Mood: excited Current Music: eating a dandelion would make me as strong as it takes to fight a vicious giant (2 Comments |Comment on this)