Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Bleary Eyes and Coffee Mugs


Copenhagen, Denmark

Another semester starts with library posters that say things like "Get lost in a library book" and entire class periods wasted going over sylibi. Everyone is walking around campus with that slightly glazed look on their face that says they tried unsuccsessfully to stay on their sleep schedule and ended up sleeping until noon most of the time.

Surprisingly I'm glad to be back, I'm ready to get back to my normal routine and start studying. I was getting ridiculously bored at home and am not looking forward to an entire spring with nothing to do. It sucks when your best friend is an entire ocean away. Its odd that her love interest is asking me for advice on what to do now that she's gone and is considering reconsiliating with her ex. Ryan (the love interest) is a really good guy, and deserves to be treated better, but then again so does Alexis. Now if they could just meet in the middle instead of just circling each other.

Its a little weird to think that I only have one more semester to go after this one before I graduate. I'll then have a degree under my belt and then its off to U of A to get my bachelors. Becky doesn't think I'm ever moving out, and thats fine really. I'm tired of arguing with her, trying to justify myself and prove myself to her. If she doesn't believe me now she will when I move out next spring. I'm not Katie, I don't make a habit of saying things and then forgetting I said them. My plans may seem grand in scale, but why is that a bad thing? I don't understand why I should want to work at Target for the rest of my life. Its not that I think Conway is a terrible place, its not. But I don't want to live here forever. I've always known I'd leave eventually, I've just never been in as big of a rush as Katie thats all. So once I graduate, I'll go to Fayetteville and then once I get my bachelors I'll probably go to Boston or maybe Seattle. After that who knows?

~M

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Very Sad Day Indeed


Vermont


I don't count myself among the many overly emotional women that I know. In fact a lot of people say that I'm to realistic and have a tendency to act like a cold fish.
Today I had to say good-bye to my best friend, and I found it harder than I expected.
She's only going to be gone for four months, so it isn't like she's leaving for an incredibly exteded period of time. But at the same time, we've never lived more than a couple of blocks away from each other since meeting. An entire ocean away is a pretty big deal to the both of us.
It also sucks because the only other friends I have here happen to be rather lacking in the conversation area, and are still stuck in high school mode. Maybe I'm boring, but I find intelligence more stimulating than fart jokes and bad movies.
I expect this semester will be filled with things like work and homework. Things last semester should have been filled with but weren't.
Jesus, this is a terrible post.

~M