two thousand eight

01.10.08

So, a long long time ago, Orion reviewed my site. I was so young, and helplessly entranced with a terrible person. Now, I'm older, and I still get helplessly entranced with terrible people. (Read: Mexican men.)

Regardless, I think things are getting better. I'm overall happier, and while I still tend to find that sharp bitterness for my mother, she and I have been getting along swimmingly since she nursed me back to health for two weeks over the Christmas holiday. I see a shiny new optimism in our relationship, and I can finally share an opinion without fearing the A-bomb of backlash. I also have a invariable pride in myself and my family, which was relatively non-existent as a teenager.

This year brings new, wonderful things. I'm entering my fourth spring semester of college, and though I have an entire year left to go (Hello, Super Senior!) I'm not at all in a hurry to graduate. I'm looking forward to some new classes, and my freshly declared Philosophy minor. I'm also going to be writing my senior thesis, a fifty page potential masterpiece that I have high goals for. Here I come, Christian Science Monitor. School is going to go really well (whether I like it or not, I have to get at least a 3.6 to keep my scholarships..).

Yeah, I'm completely out of money. But I've got a $5000 student loan coming in, and a Sam's Club Box o' Ramen. I think I'll be okay working 12 hours a week in the basement of the Administrative building as a print shop peon (which really isn't all that bad, although my boss is a little eccentric) and living off the loan money for the rest of the semester. This summer brings an exciting symposium on peace and capability held in Tanzania, and hopefully an internship that will lead to gainful employment.

I also want to do more for you. I want to write more, especially as I get into harder and crazier months. Maybe if I do so, Johnny will too. I miss him so, and GalaxyRabbit. They've gone away and I can't find them. The community that existed before I came to college was so cool, and I desperately wish that I could see it again. Which reminds me, I miss the coffee shop back home just as much.

Look forward to a new layout in the coming weeks. Salvador Dalí has made an impact on my concept of art recently, and he's been inspiring me to do some awfully surreal things.

Turning over leaves,
a revision of the Path,
All roads lead to peace

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