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Monday, 08 February 2010

  • Nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy

    This is what my weeks are coming down to. Nights spent in the library early into the morning, listening to whatever pops up on my iPod -or in my head.

    All day today I've been stuck with Fall Out Boy in my head and now I'm listening to Fall Out Boy ... ALL of the albums.
    Hanging out in the library with these kids is definitely what helps me remember why I came back. For these moments of discussing forgetting school and joining the circus, making fun of some person in the group, or whatever else happens.

    If my entire time here could be composed of moments like these, I would never regret coming back.
    I know life doesn't play out perfectly and you have to take the bad with the good, but for once I just want a whole lot of good bunched together, it will make the rest of what happens more bearable.

    Tomorrow should consist of more job searching, talking to advisors and government homework .... which I forgot about until now.

    It's been an hour and a half of hanging out in the library and all I've got to show for it is two sentences on this paper I have to write. I think I'll get back to working on that, maybe I'll actually make progress now.

    Can I just mention the fact that he's really cute? Oh boy.

Sunday, 07 February 2010

  • Reflecting

    I know I can't pinpoint it and say that my actions would have played out as such, but I can almost bet that had we been something more than just flirting, there would have been a difference in me leaving.

    Actually, scratch that. I don't think I can handle getting into that 'what-if' game. There are far too many 'what-ifs' for me to cover and stay sane.

    The reasons I left will always outweigh the reasons to stay in my head. And honestly, I had to leave to know that this is where I am supposed to be.

    Today is Superbowl Sunday. I'm in the library, done with math and avoiding journalism. My level of awake is probably about a 5 out of 10. I am listening to Sigur Ros and thinking of The Rescue and Invisible Children and when I will get to see all of my friends' faces again. When a slow song comes on my iPod, I start hearing Fall Out Boy in my head instead. I'm currently thinking about a boy that I can't get out of my head, and the fact that I think my lotion from the dollar store might actually dry my skin out more. I have my laptop in my lap because it gets warm fast and my legs are cold. After this is posted, I plan to return to Sudoku.

    This post may be random, but hey, it's a random kind of day.

Monday, 01 February 2010

  • 25 reasons why I'm "different"

    I stole this from http://breaking-expectations.xanga.com/. Well, I guess she wanted people to do it, so I am.
    I have nowhere near as many friends or subscribers as she does, but I kind of like it that way. I know my posts haven't gotten to the point where normal people might actually enjoy reading them, so I'll stick with my few regulars and be a happy camper.

    1. I'm working on forgetting my natural hair color.
    2. I want to make an impact on someone's life.
    3. I liked a boy for SEVEN YEARS before I told him about it.
    4. After that, I promised myself I'd never fall that hard for someone again...now I'm worried I may have broken my promise.
    5. I believe that there is good in everyone.
    6. But still I distrust many people's intentions.
    7. Both my decision to leave school and my reason to return to SLO were rash, and I regret them both for different reasons.
    8. I worry that people judge me every minute of my day.
    9. I am far too hard on my own writing, and that's why I can't be a journalist. I would never let anyone read it.
    10. I want to join the Peace Corps.
    11. I want to live a simplistic life ... the less STUFF that I have, the better I will feel.
    12. I'm glad I went vegan ... even if I break it every now and then and even if I did it for a boy.
    13. I want to build wells.
    14. I am anal about proper grammar in texts.
    15. I think sending 'okay' is a waste of a text.
    16. I feel like a fatty when I get to the end of the chip bag because I REALLY enjoy the crumbs.
    17. The only nicknames I've ever liked are 'Amz,' 'Amster' and 'Anderson.' Granted, the last one isn't much of a nickname, but it reminds me of field hockey.
    18. Even though I was basically broke, I would repeat last summer just for all of the bonding that happened.
    19. Minus the roots, my hair has not had any traces of normal colour for the past three months.
    20. I wish I knew how to change the world.
    21) Sometimes I can't decide whether to put parentheses or periods after my numbers.
    22. When I talk about starting a revolution, I am at least part-serious.
    23. I don't allow myself to sleep or eat enough.
    24. One day, I'll be jumping out of planes, off of cliffs, or into pools of water.
    25. I think that life is an adventure, you just have to pick how you want to spend yours.

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

  • Did I say that I settled?

    Ha!
    Today I got a text from my friend saying "Press conference tomorrow at 8am for the million dollar acceptance by chase. Local news will be there. We would love to have you there"
    Granted, it could have been a mass text sent to all of her friends who are crazy Invisible Children people. But the urge for me to get up and drive down to San Diego for an 8 AM conference is HUGE. I mean, all I've got tomorrow is class, it's not /that/ important ....
    I'll be at class, of course, the drive down to San Diego and back is not good on my car, and in the end it's not worth it.

    But I'm back to looking at photos from this summer, driving across the country, once in a bus, once in a car, and I just want to go back to that. Minus the money issue -which is always prevalent in my life- it was a great and simpler time.

    I can't believe I'm already on the page of needing an escape. It's been two weeks!

    Really this whole post is allowing me to procrastinate, so back to being a good student?

Saturday, 23 January 2010

  • I refuse, I refuse, I refuse

    For the past two hours this window has been sitting open, waiting for me to fill it with words. But with every flash of the line I feel like the words are gone.
    I'm tired of complaining. Really, life is pretty decent.

    The court case is still going in San Francisco, and I feel like until a decision is made, no one is talking about it.
    Granted, neither have I. I was focusing on things that could be solved immediately, as in getting my friends to sign up to support Invisible Children, and now making sure people are getting involved with helping Haiti.
    Still everyday I do my best to check up on the court case. I mean, having a trial over the legitimacy of proposition 8 is kind of a big deal. Every time I go to check I hold my breath. And the worst is that I feel like it is becoming more and more difficult to find good coverage of the court case since they decided not to publicize it anymore. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed.

    The other thing I keep worrying about is Haiti. I would love to travel down there and volunteer to help out in Haiti, but now that I've made the decision to go back to school, it's rather difficult to leave.

    I think I've settled. It's only been a week, but I think it's true. There's not a whole lot that I need at this point to settle, so it doesn't leave me surprised. But now that I've settled, I hope to have more in depth posts about things that matter a little bit more to me than some person. Or maybe all of my posts will be recalls of crazy dreams I've had, those are always hilarious to write down.

    Random, for whomever (whoever?) reads this, I want to expand my music library, what should I start listening to?

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  • I exist on this planet called Earth. I enjoy being random. [I have crazy colored hair to prove it]. And I'm just trying to stay sane while in college.

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